I want Rockstar to release a Firefly game that utilizes the best of both worlds!
What other games are we all playing?
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In the original RDR, multiplayer time was spent with my wife and a few close mates on an invite only free roam server...we used to hijack a cart, I drove around whilst we did drive bys through Armadilldo, raided gang hideouts or just fulfilled her achievments list picking flowers, chasing bears around with a knife (with me as bait)...similarly me getting mauled to death multiple times while she attempted to kill a cougar with a knife...in fact...most of our play time consisted of me being live bait for whatever she had to kill 
During our many, many forays into RDR multiplayer, the sheer pain from laughing, crying and screaming like a girl whilst being chased by cougars...and we laughed a whole lot...you know, the kind of side splitting laughter that makes your face hurt. Unfortunately, RDR2 is nothing like that...it's more like being stuck in a phone box with a load of angry and ill mannered little pre-teen ferrets.
Original RDR multiplayer still counts as one of the best ever multiplayer experiences in my many years as a gamer...the only one that ever topped it was Jumpgate which we both played from the early beginnings of that game to the sad end of it when the devs shut the servers off.
Perhaps Tom Clancy's R6 Rogue Spear or XVT on the Microsoft gaming zone.... or Tribes 2 Division 1 competitions on Barry's world servers at the time come close...those games with my wife and some good mates were pretty awesome too.
All in all...I still mourn the passing of LAN parties at my house...or meeting up with regular and proper gamers on BBS before hitting the gaming servers. This new fangled gaming on t'interweb with a load of random, anonymous and mostly socially toxic yoof just does my nut in
During our many, many forays into RDR multiplayer, the sheer pain from laughing, crying and screaming like a girl whilst being chased by cougars...and we laughed a whole lot...you know, the kind of side splitting laughter that makes your face hurt. Unfortunately, RDR2 is nothing like that...it's more like being stuck in a phone box with a load of angry and ill mannered little pre-teen ferrets.
Original RDR multiplayer still counts as one of the best ever multiplayer experiences in my many years as a gamer...the only one that ever topped it was Jumpgate which we both played from the early beginnings of that game to the sad end of it when the devs shut the servers off.
Perhaps Tom Clancy's R6 Rogue Spear or XVT on the Microsoft gaming zone.... or Tribes 2 Division 1 competitions on Barry's world servers at the time come close...those games with my wife and some good mates were pretty awesome too.
All in all...I still mourn the passing of LAN parties at my house...or meeting up with regular and proper gamers on BBS before hitting the gaming servers. This new fangled gaming on t'interweb with a load of random, anonymous and mostly socially toxic yoof just does my nut in
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Ditto that! I remember lugging my huge gaming PC to a friend's house where we'd play Command & Conqueror Generals all day long. He'd make the rest of us pizza, and while we were eating it he'd launch his attack. Sneaky dog!
And then there was 4-way split-screen COD as we all squinted at TV and yelled at each other, "No screen peeking!" Ah, them were the days
Ditto that! I remember lugging my huge gaming PC to a friend's house where we'd play Command & Conqueror Generals all day long. He'd make the rest of us pizza, and while we were eating it he'd launch his attack. Sneaky dog!
And then there was 4-way split-screen COD as we all squinted at TV and yelled at each other, "No screen peeking!" Ah, them were the days
Ugh, lugging the whole shebang to your friend's house, set things up and find out you forgot one of the power cords.
It was fun though.i
Split screen on a 65" flatscreen isn't to bad, compared to those old 21" pc crt tubes I mean, and those things weight a ton to move around for a lan party.
Good old days? right
Currently, got Anthem on the go, still playing Borderlands 2, Monster Hunter, Sea of Theives and of course, Elder Scrolls Skyrim
YOu can wait for another month or so. According to the latest leak, there's something coming. Mainly a rework of the loot system, new javelin type and finally some new content as well. Hopefully some time during June, but no official word, yet
I dont want to ruin the ending for anyone, but the end of RDR will always stay with me.
1 or 2? They both have cracking endings
1 or 2? They both have cracking endings
One, I stopped two around 30% a few months ago.
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In the original RDR, multiplayer time was spent with my wife and a few close mates on an invite only free roam server...we used to hijack a cart, I drove around whilst we did drive bys through Armadilldo, raided gang hideouts or just fulfilled her achievments list picking flowers, chasing bears around with a knife (with me as bait)...similarly me getting mauled to death multiple times while she attempted to kill a cougar with a knife...in fact...most of our play time consisted of me being live bait for whatever she had to kill
During our many, many forays into RDR multiplayer, the sheer pain from laughing, crying and screaming like a girl whilst being chased by cougars...and we laughed a whole lot...you know, the kind of side splitting laughter that makes your face hurt. Unfortunately, RDR2 is nothing like that...it's more like being stuck in a phone box with a load of angry and ill mannered little pre-teen ferrets.
Original RDR multiplayer still counts as one of the best ever multiplayer experiences in my many years as a gamer...the only one that ever topped it was Jumpgate which we both played from the early beginnings of that game to the sad end of it when the devs shut the servers off.
Perhaps Tom Clancy's R6 Rogue Spear or XVT on the Microsoft gaming zone.... or Tribes 2 Division 1 competitions on Barry's world servers at the time come close...those games with my wife and some good mates were pretty awesome too.
All in all...I still mourn the passing of LAN parties at my house...or meeting up with regular and proper gamers on BBS before hitting the gaming servers. This new fangled gaming on t'interweb with a load of random, anonymous and mostly socially toxic yoof just does my nut in
On the same note, GTA IV online racing was far better than the over-the-top racing modes of GTAV.
Simple lobby, great tracks and the sheer hilariousness of the races, especially when both traffic and weapons were on. I never forget when I blew up half of the racers after I turned first into a very slow corner and left a hand grenade in the middle of it.
I think GTA III and GTA IV had superb picks of tracks. And I mean music tracks. How is that doing in GTA V? Haven't looked at it.
I encountered my first major bug, or maybe it's a design flaw, or maybe I'm just a noob. I was collecting a bounty in the sheriff's office, and he was waxing poetic about law and order as I just stood there and listened. All of the sudden he goes all hostile-like, pulls his gun on me, and I've got a bounty on my head! For.... LISTENING TO HIS STORY.
Thankfully I escaped and paid off the bounty, but it was a jarring what experience that ruined the moment and now has me walking on pins and needles, as I don't know what I did to trigger this, and I don't want to do it again.
Speaking of, people holding rifles tend to shoot at you mighty quick in this game, often without any explanation. I'm not sure what that's all about. I suspect part of the problem is I like to free-roam, and I'm sure I'm arriving in towns that normally I would not find until much later if I was following the story "on rails".
On a final note, the game almost feels a bit more glitchy after I downloaded the patches.. Funny that, since patches are supposed to fix bugs, not introduce new ones. It's ED all over again! For this reason I recommend buying the game on disc if you don't mind owning physical media, as we can always roll the game back to the original version if an update borks it. You also get a pretty paper map!
I've heard of problems with the game such as you describe. Getting a bounty for no apparent reason. Even getting a bounty for bumping into an NPC while walking around. Also for defending yourself in town when someone picks a fight with you.
I was hoping these problems were fixed by now. Oh well, it still is a good game on the flip side.
Again, thanks for the update.
It's an amazing game, and now that I know what to look for, I can manually save before entering a potential "situation" like this. It's also still a relatively new game, and I'm more forgiving of bugs in new games than older games.
1 or 2? They both have cracking endings
This, they both left me with a gutted feeling afterwards.
I don't get emotionally involved that easy, games or movies, but both endings of rdr touched a certain snare.
Now that you mention it, a sheriff turned hostile on me too when I collected a bounty.
All of a sudden I was the hunted....
Still, considering the scope of the game I'm quite content with how smooth it runs.
I think there's a "no loitering" mechanism that kicks in way too quickly and doesn't recognize when an NPC is actually saying something useful. Another time when I went into the Sheriff's Office, it didn't take long for the deputy to tell me to get lost. I suspect if I hung out 2 seconds longer, he'd turn hostile too.
For now on I'll be saving before collecting my bounties!