Dinostar77 wrote:

So have so far found it pointless to get a new horse, they're all the same as far as i can tell. Minor differences, plus once you get a bond with your horse maxed you can't be arsed breaking a new one in.

Gun shop is abit pointless, never ran out of ammo or had to buy a gun or modify one.

There is a magnificent horse up in the snowy area of the map in the North. If you can capture and tame that it's definitely worth it.

The gun shop is good for buying the "better" versions of ammo iirc rather than crafting them. Plus it's always nice to spruce up your shooters. What kind of outlaw are you if you don't take pride in your tools of the trade?

Yes a great game to chill and play though the occasional fecked up mechanics do pull you out if the illusion.

@goober i will go have a look for the horse next im in that area. I love the snow area especially at night. So peaceful.

As for guns other than cleaning them i havent found the need to buy them. I've not used the modified ammo either or partaken in dominoes or blackjack or poker. Guess im a poor imitation of an outlaw.

Jesus playing this game I can only imagine the amount of crunch put in; I've crunched, I've crunched hard, but this is something else. I can taste the broken relationships with every bit of dappled sunlight.

The thought had occurred to me, am trying to play as I would act irl tho. Knocked some cunt out in a fist fight mind so it's not all that realistic.

It's a slow start but some of that rings true for the whole experience imo.  I liked it on the whole and I finished it (all 50 f'ing hours of the main missions), but I might've got more enjoyment from playing 25 other games instead.  Definitely not for everyone.

Just loaded this up after upgrading to Xbox One X. Wow it looks nice, i played it all through on S

afgavinstan wrote:

So I finally starts this via GamePass. Couple hours, yeah it's doing its thing, all very well presented. Wow moments mainly coming from the cinematic camera and the class score. It's just... The act of doing things with your fingers to the pad and seeing a character move and do things you want it to in game... Is not a good experience, at all. There's something not clicking with me. I'm not itching to go back. It's like I've been given War & Peace and have to read it for class. I know it's good, it clearly is, it just feels so dense and unenjoyable so far. I dunno. I'll go back.

I've started cos GamePass and Gav's post absolutely nails the niggling, 'I'm not sure I'm really enjoying this even though it is clearly a very well put together thing'.

I think i get what Gav's saying. Playing it, it's like you're guiding a character through a film/story, it's quite removed from a more 'twitch' gameplay.
as such i have periods where i play it and enjoy the experience, but rarely feel like i'm having a lot of 'fun/excitement' doing it. so i don't feel much urge to go back.
I generally prefer games with that '30 seconds of fun' on loop type experience, and don't like down time pottering about in between.
RDR2 is heavy on the pottering about - it's probably the absolute best most incredible pottering about in games, with it's scope and variety and beauty etc...but for me it's too easy for a play session to end up as nothing but pottering about, which for me (personally, with my own time availability etc) always feels like a waste.

Tried another couple hours there. Hunted a legendary bear. But again - good thing buried under a mass of slow/confusing/not fun things. Gah. I just feel overwhelmed by it? And bored?

Should know myself to just step back and let the cheerleaders crack on. Maybe another time it'll grab me. My time off work... I dunno... I have an innate pressure I put on myself to make the most of it, and if it is just chilling playing games, I'd better really enjoy it. If I don't All Of The Time, I get antsy and annoyed.

tl;Dr - maybe not the game for me right now. Apologies for the ramble like anyones bothered.

MW is filling that hole spectacularly well. That and Fifa and SOR4 is doing it, with a blast here and there on Grid. Proper switch-off stuff. Is what it is.

Can I play through disc one before installing disc 2?

So this game apparently had some of the most insane anti-piracy around. 

Some mentalists have finally cracked it and leaked. Fair fucks.

Played this online for a few hours the weekend. Had a bit of fun on it, bumped into some other groups and no one got shot. Sort of amazed how friendly the players were. I was expecting a shit show full of morons killing you on sight. Quite the opposite actually.

Playing poker in the online in Saint Denis is my current go to late evening / nighttime thing, usually with some Willie, or now Sturgill on. What a game.

There's a mission or two you do at the start that has a cutscene and bit of story, quite liked that tbh. Then you're on the map and have stuff on the map to go that are either standard PvP matches or mini stories like the stranger icons from the sp (steal this horse and bring it back etc). Or just roam around and do activities. I haven't explored a lot at all tbh, but there are roles you can do like trapper, bandit etc that presumably have their own mission sets.

RDR1 I played pretty much exclusively online riding around with a posse of mates ranging from two or three to 8 or so I think, just riding around looking to bandit it up / grief (never been a griefer in any game before or since but it felt thematically sound in that, spying two lads picking flowers for a quest and galloping towards them to fuck them over).

Will update as I go, atm I'm just playing poker and doing the odd horse theft.