Red Dead Redemption

[Yeargdribble]

I hate westerns. I've always just despised them. I don't like the setting or characters or any cowboy BS. It just doesn't sit well with me. I literally get a nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach when watching anything with a western theme.

That said, Red Dead Redemption has piqued my curiosity. My wife feels the same way I do about westerns and when I told her how this made me interested despite my distaste for westerns she was quite skeptical.

Then we watched some videos (part II) over on Gametrailers and she was pretty much instantly sold.

Normally I probably would've given this one some time, especially because it's multi-plat and those make me nervous about choosing early. But Amazon has quite a deal on pre-order with a $20 gift card which essentially makes the game $40 instead of $60 (not to mention no tax on Amazon whereas a 60 dollar game is closer to $65 with tax at a retailer). To make it even nicer, with Amazon Prime I'm getting release-day delivery for free.


Anyone else pretty excited about this game? And if you're not because you hate westerns I suggest you at least give it a look.

[Bolivar]

I actually am, it has been looking really good, but my girl'll probably be playing it more than I am, she actually wrote a preview about it on Gaming Target

Red Dead Redemption Xbox 360 Hands-On Preview @ Gaming Target

She got to play it at PAX East and had a great time with it, hopefully there'll be a demo so we can check out some more for ourselves.

[Meat Puppet]

Probably being one of the few people that enjoyed Red Dead Revolver (I don’t know how popular or unpopular it was), I have been excited since Red Dead Redemption was announced... and it has started to look more and more awesome with each passing day. I got this preordered.

Free Mode is one of my favorite parts of GTA IV, and it looks like RDR improves on this mode greatly. First perk: no bloody helicopters!

[Quindiana Jones]

I like Western stuff a bit. This seems pretty good. I haven't really looked into it much, because I was no huge fan of RDR and didn't think this would be that great. Though I'll say it actually looks pretty good.

[Pheesh]

Up until about 5 days ago there was no way I was buying this, then they released this huge batch of trailers and now I'm definitely sold on it. I'll be getting it as soon as it comes out.

[Meat Puppet]

Up until about 5 days ago there was no way I was buying this, then they released this huge batch of trailers and now I'm definitely sold on it. I'll be getting it as soon as it comes out.

That’s sort of what my friend was like. He was saying how much it sucked and couldn’t understand why I was looking forward to it—saying how it looked like boring riding around on horses and stuff—then I showed him a couple of the trailers and he preordered it then and there. xD

[Quindiana Jones]

The more I look into it, the more I like the look of it. First off, I like old guns. They pure clockwork mechanics and I love it. More importantly, however, is that lasso. Any game that features anything even remotely resembling Rico's grappling hook in Just Cause 2 is insta-win for me. If you can drag a man behind your horse, you've basically just sold me the game.

[Yeargdribble]

I'm already thinking of riding a horse (or driving a stage coach) off of a tall cliff. Sometimes, like in GTA, it's just fun to see what kind of mischief you can get into and see what kind of damage you can cause.

[Quindiana Jones]

Step 1: Tie man to horse.
Step 2: Run horse off cliff.
-------Event A: You leap off your horse just in time and it plummets to its death, taking that poor bastard mercilessly tied to it to his undeserved doom.
-------Event B: You end up going over the cliff too, but get to watch it all in a magnificent ragdoll jizzfest.
-------Event C: You end up going over the cliff too, and some lame ass death scene thing happens and you don't get to watch any of the fun.
-------Event D: Nothing can fall off cliffs.
Step 3: Depending on the Event that occurs, either roll around screaming with joy, scream with joy, scream in annoyance or scream with rage.

[Depression Moon]

Western GTA, I'm sold on it.

[Quindiana Jones]

Anyone thought much on the pre-order benefits? I've never really been one to pre-order, and I don't really care much for it. But it seems Rockstar are offering some pretty cool stuff for anyone with Live.

Pre-order bonus list.

Also, what does everyone think of the multiplayer stuff? Videos are up on YouTube. I'm loving the sound of the free roam thing. I'm not really sure what it'll actually be like though. Is it like the GTA4 thing? Because I've never actually played that online. I'd love to be able to just come across random strangers in free roam, but I can't imagine that being very possible.

[Depression Moon]

GameInformer just gave this a 9.75. This is officially serious business

[LunarWeaver]

I paid some attention to this game, but now that they are releasing co-op missions for free [1], I am totally in. I don't do competitive multiplayer, so I'm always on the prowl for a little buddy-buddy action. Unfortunately, all my closer bumpfist friends are on the 360 and I'm not, but ah well. It will keep my interest for a long time all the same.

Of course, the bad part of playing with strangers is they tend to be vastly superior to me Needless to say, they view me as the weak link and are, ahem, not happy with me on their side. Well, smurf 'em.

[Quindiana Jones]

It is weird that I've already been thinking about all the custom games I want to have in free roam?

[Psychotic]

I am definitely 100% smurfing getting this god damn game and it is going to be the best thing.

I am going to get drunk and try to punch a bear to death.

Also I am going to kidnap old ladies and tie them to train tracks.