Zero Punctuation: Red Dead Redemption
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Haha, I had a feeling Yahtzee wouldn't echo all the praise that I've heard about this game. I still badly want a copy, so I'll be picking it up when money lets me, but that review made me laugh.
I'd love to get a horse-stuck-in-a-wall for Christmas. I'd especially love mounting it onto a unicycle and riding it around the desert for a while.
I'd love to get a horse-stuck-in-a-wall for Christmas. I'd especially love mounting it onto a unicycle and riding it around the desert for a while.
Hehe very funny. He was right about it all - but most of those reasons are why I love the game; I love a game where I can spend countless hours faffing about and get to the story when I'm done being distracted by shiny things I can either skin or shoot.Yahtzee Croshaw said:
I was wondering this as well, when I got the game. Obviously not literally, since there are no cellphones in the 100-year-old Wild West, but if the "friends" would require me to attend weird social activites.Kanima423 said:
I was thoroughly disappointed when I found that Bonnie McFarlane(First real friendly NPC you meet, and important character in first chapter of the game) suddenly wanted me to go play horseshoe behind her shack. John Marston(the player-controlled character)made some rather sexual remarks but then agreed... Even though I hadn't even pressed a button! It was auto-agree, or something like that!!
Horseshoe is also damn boring, and that didn't make it any better!
Then you encounter this man on Fort Mercer (important location in first chapter) with a rifle. The guy constantly wants me to go hunting, and AGAIN there is no way to say NO! Christ so incredibly annoying when the guy asks me to even KILL WILD HORSES. I have the lasso, and can break them instead, SO I DON'T WANT TO! Then there's the mountain lions (cougars), the bears, even the damn birds... He constantly propositioned me after I had rested in either of my "safehouses". Same with Bonnie.
Your character wakes up (saving advances ingame-time 6 hours) and then as soon as you walk out the door some seemingly random NPC will ask you to do something, and you can't really turn it down. As a bonus you recieve "Fame" (Useless, in essence, ingame) and "Honor" (equally useless).
And it just continues throughout the game! Chapter 2 you can look forward to seeing Diego Maradona(Some fucking poncho-wearing mexican) ask you to help him distilling tequila, using a cactus... It makes for one of the most boring minigames I've ever played.
Also in chapter 2 is Sampaio de Souza Vieira(OR whatever. Also Mexican) asking you to shoot up towns and smaller settlements.
God it's so annoying!!!
Say all of those in one and you have the most hilarious end-game villain of all time.Zombie Nixon said:
Interesting review, I'm glad he didn't tear it a new arse though, he has a habit of doing it, even for the games he likes. At least he complimented its writing and graphics.
I've heard it in an episode of the Simpsons before. I laughed hard when I realized that it was from there.SharPhoe said:
Yet another fine week, Yahtzee. I'm quite looking forward to the game once summer rolls around and I have all the time that I want with it.
As others have mentioned in this thread, criticizing this game for its auto aim and long travel times seems disingenuous at best, seeing as how both problems can be remedied by the start menu. Criticizing RDR's controls and then complaining how there's no "game" in this video game is also patently ridiculous. That is tantamount to stating that a guitar is too difficult to play and using that as evidence to claim there's no "music" in that musical instrument. The "game" part of RDR is learning how to shoot/ride/use the controls. The same is true of any other game since the days of Pac-man.
He was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for this one. RDR is a well-executed game, in spite of the few minor bugs it may have. Whether you like it or not all depends on personal preference; objectively it is a good game.
He was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for this one. RDR is a well-executed game, in spite of the few minor bugs it may have. Whether you like it or not all depends on personal preference; objectively it is a good game.
Alright, i'm confused...i keep hearin' people go on and on about "bugs" and how "shoddy" the controls are, and i just don't see any of that! I'm playin' th'game right now, and with the exception of one mission (i was supposed to stop a couple of carts and the guards, then take said carts and ride 'em to the mexican/american border) which made everybody i was supposed to fight either just stand in place, (including the carts which wouldn't move once i cleared all th'baddies out and went to drive 'em m'self), or go shooting straight up in the air (that was weird), i've run into ZERO of the bugs everybody else is yakkin' about...and even that one cleared up once i reboot it...i guess i just hit th'lottery or somethin' if i'm actually enjoyin' this game that so many people are all up in arms about...*shrug*
Well golly gee whiz Yahtzee, again I agree with the majority of your points but I'm surprised you enjoyed the story, as this is a game which seems to approach the storytelling techniques closer to a film than a game, i.e overused exposition of better/more violent times in the same setting, anticlimactic confrontations (such as the guy who fled to mexico only to recieve a by the way style death) and a lackluster ending which forces you to make errands for 6 missions, a scene which removes your control followed by yet more errands.
I'm happy to know I wasn't the only person who loved the sailing in Wind Waker.
And yes, the prairie may be a bit void of human life in RDR, but damn if I don't enjoy looking at the scenery anyway. The only time I fast travel is when I literally have to get from one side of the map to the other.
And yes, the prairie may be a bit void of human life in RDR, but damn if I don't enjoy looking at the scenery anyway. The only time I fast travel is when I literally have to get from one side of the map to the other.
