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Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:58:33

Glad you enjoyed.  Did you enjoy the ending as me as Leo and I did?

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Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:05:43
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Glad you enjoyed.  Did you enjoy the ending as me as Leo and I did?

Oh definitely, that's the way westerns should end. On a sour note.

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Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:55:44
This game is amazing. I have only gotten to the mission where you get the lasso but I have been messing around exploring the world, doing bounties and hunting. I love the setting, its exactly what this genre needed, something new, something different.
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Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:45:27

Woo!

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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:17:53

Hey, just got here! Only two years late.

****SPOILERS****

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So I just got to Mexico.  It was spoilt for me of course, a long time ago.

Can you imagine how much it would have sucked if it all ended at Fort Mercer and then they wrapped up the game with a "Well that's all folks, join us in Mexico for Red Dead Redemption 2: Hunt for Curly's Gold.

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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:18:49
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Red Dead Redemption 2:  Red Deader!
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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:36:58

I am getting a bit worn out on Mexico. I've killed everyone, got people out of the country, ended executions, killed coronels and still the endless masses of whining crybabies continue to come to me to ask me to do their shit for them.  I want to punch Luisa in the face at this point.

Ferfucksake, enough already!

I am guessing I have less than 5 missions left in Mexico, I assume they'll be taking me back to the state soon to wrap this game up.

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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:50:43
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I am getting a bit worn out on Mexico. I've killed everyone, got people out of the country, ended executions, killed coronels and still the endless masses of whining crybabies continue to come to me to ask me to do their shit for them.  I want to punch Luisa in the face at this point.

Ferfucksake, enough already!

I am guessing I have less than 5 missions left in Mexico, I assume they'll be taking me back to the state soon to wrap this game up.

Hmm, seems to me that the first statement isn't true, but would make for a fine solution to your problems, patna.

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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:58:54

I am out of Mexico now and find myself in a more foreign place.  The direction on this game is splendid, you feel as the protagonist must, completely alien in a country that is changing before your eyes.

I took in the Aunt Samantha Anti-Suffragette movie while I was in town.

Ultimately, I thought Mexico was a much needed addition to the game, but it dragged on for way too long.

Anyhoo, no story spoilers from this point on please, I have some theories about how this will all end.

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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:59:54
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Yep I agree, I remember feeling that Mexico went too long. Still it really was a masterful change of direction for the game. I remember getting lost immediately after crossing the border and eventually finding myself in some Mexican town where I got frustrated and just wanted a place to save my game. I ended up playing poker there for about 2 hours.

The pacing for the remainder of the game shouldn't be a problem though. If anything I think it'll go too quickly.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:36:41

****SPOILERS****

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The Good: The herding in this game is UNCANNY in its accuracy. I mean UNCANNY. Too bad they think all cattle are female, but, you know, that's small detail. If they had just released the herding aspect of the game in Germany they would have had a blockbuster. Also, the sound design on this game is incredible.

The Bad: The Anthropologist characater needed to be left on the cutting room floor. The mission were fine (he was incidental) but the cahracter was terrible. I appreciate it was a comment on the "know-it-all" society of today, but we don't need that at this point in the game.

The Ugly: Okay. I just killed Williamson EDIT: Dutch. Great. Game Over right? Nope? Oh okay, I get it, all right going to my ranch to see my wife and kid. Sweet.  I expected this game to end with them sending me to a gravesite to see thier tombstones but whatever. END SCENE.

But no, happy ending, who doesn't enjoy those? Okay, get to see my wife, my kid, Game Over right? Nope? NOPE?!

WTF?! Now I have to go get cattle, shoot crows off my silo (even though I don't appear to be in arable country) and god knows whatever else will come after this because they now have me doing missions for my son, my wife and some other loser. WTF happened to this game?

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Doesn't this game realize I was *this close* to dethroning SMG2 from GOTY2010?

That's all for now.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:42:35

Should be on PC with a tricked out graphics mod like GTA4.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:03:05

Aspro shut up and keep playing. Nyaa

Seriously the ending is one of the all time greatest.

BTW I think Mexico was handled by a different team and that is why it was so different in terms of quality to the other half. I heard the development of this game was an utter disaster, its a miracle it turned out so well.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:16:16

The ending sealed the deal for me. Truly in western fashion.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:52:41
RDR has the best video game ending I have ever seen.  Stick with it.
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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:12:17
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RDR has the best video game ending I have ever seen.  Stick with it.

Did the main guy shoot himself in the head from bordem?  Seriously hated this game soooo slow so unfun.

You guys can take this game and LA bore and well stuff them up some horses ass.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:35:16

^When I play today I'm going to shoot an extra bear for that comment Hrm WinkWink

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Yeah, I figured that these missions are setting me up to care about these folks before the indians come back to rape and kill and burn down my ranch (leaving me open to get hitched to the MacFarlane spinster in the next game).

My faux outrage was just exasperation at having finally killed Dutch and then being given Harvest Moon to play for another couple of hours.

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:37:29
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Aspro shut up and keep playing. Nyaa

Seriously the ending is one of the all time greatest.

BTW I think Mexico was handled by a different team and that is why it was so different in terms of quality to the other half. I heard the development of this game was an utter disaster, its a miracle it turned out so well.



I did not kind the actual missions in Mexico to be any lesser thatn the ones in the states, there were just too many incidental characters giving me missions that I did not care about.  I guess in some sense I also did not help the locals the way I did in the states (because I was jsut a tourist, I was not invested in the community).

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:28:44
*sigh*. Bonnie
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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:01:16

Fuckkkkk Travo!  That was way too much of a spoiler and I saw it on the front page.  Great. So now I know Bonnie is the one to get raped and killed.

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