Zero Punctuation: Red Dead Redemption
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Ok, I have a question Mr.Croshaw: what system did you play it on? I have on 360 (I'm proud to say I was the first one in Vancouver to have it) and I don't get any of those buggy issues. I've never had to restart it, and I've never had graphical glitches...
Should have shot the bear twice with a repeater, then knifed it. You'll get the mission completed.Kungfu_Teddybear said:
Um, you do realize that this is a 'review' in only the most distant sense, right? It's as much a comedy send-up as a review. Yes he does mean it about the problems he names in very funny ways, but this is much more for entertainment.Duhad said:
Lots of game companies look forward to Yahtzee doing a send up of their game. It's quite an event and much valued.
You might want to check a few other sources in addition to Extra Punctuation for 'reviews' to argue with.
Just sayin'.
I'll still get it. I liked Red Dead Revolver (though it wasn't as sandboxy as I wanted it to be) and have wanted a "sequel" to since completing it oh so many years ago. I have yet to play GTA4, I know, I know...I'm only now trying out Dead Rising, I'm behind the gaming-times...and was thinking I'd finally get to it but being a cowboy sounds more appealing to me right now instead of an urban-based thug.
Maybe I'll give Call of Juarez a go at some point, too. I'll have to scour the bins at Gamestop next trip to the mall.
Maybe I'll give Call of Juarez a go at some point, too. I'll have to scour the bins at Gamestop next trip to the mall.
I agree with everything he has to say on this game. Apart from that i'd go one step further.
See for me, I completed fully - but take away the 30 minute cut scenes each mission, and the 30 minutes of traveling to the mission location each mission, and you have in total probably 30 minutes of total game in the whole thing!
Now look at the games individually without the cutscenes and traveling - and Red Dead Redemption just is a collection of okay-ish mini-games.
If you took all the "gameplay" elements of this game, and removed the fluff - you'd get something much more akin to Carnival Games, which you can complete in under half an hour - and everyone would be moaning about it.
See for me, I completed fully - but take away the 30 minute cut scenes each mission, and the 30 minutes of traveling to the mission location each mission, and you have in total probably 30 minutes of total game in the whole thing!
Now look at the games individually without the cutscenes and traveling - and Red Dead Redemption just is a collection of okay-ish mini-games.
If you took all the "gameplay" elements of this game, and removed the fluff - you'd get something much more akin to Carnival Games, which you can complete in under half an hour - and everyone would be moaning about it.
Oh that poor nervous fawn. At least getting run over by a horse spared it from getting savaged by a catamount.
The game has some glitches. Being patched.
You have to travel. It's a sandbox game... hello? But then again, outside of escorting an NPC, you can fast travel.. so 80% of the time, you don't have to. I don't use fast travel because I enjoy the sandbox they've made.
It's a time sink. What fucking video game in existence isn't?
Lame review. I understand it's your "thing" to be negative, but if you can't say anything negative with some substance behind it, don't say anything at all.
You have to travel. It's a sandbox game... hello? But then again, outside of escorting an NPC, you can fast travel.. so 80% of the time, you don't have to. I don't use fast travel because I enjoy the sandbox they've made.
It's a time sink. What fucking video game in existence isn't?
Lame review. I understand it's your "thing" to be negative, but if you can't say anything negative with some substance behind it, don't say anything at all.
Groin grabbingly hilarious, even though half of the gripes either seemed to be aimed at bugs which I haven't experienced yet and the fact he was a bit crap at it (Hint: In all Rockstar games, save as much as possible, plan round trip skip features and (Red Dead specifically) try to react to animal roars in a different way to sitting on your horse and wondering 'what the fuck was that?' (which is still mostly how I handle them)
The rest I'd agree with but I enjoy, I'm crap at using dual shock controllers for shooters, it's like someone put my mouse in treacle. And I enjoy games such as existentialist nightmare Football Manager 2010, so it feels quite structured to me.
Brilliant review as usual though.
The rest I'd agree with but I enjoy, I'm crap at using dual shock controllers for shooters, it's like someone put my mouse in treacle. And I enjoy games such as existentialist nightmare Football Manager 2010, so it feels quite structured to me.
Brilliant review as usual though.
Oh, and the vast majority of people either ask you to defend their weak arses, or stare at you like yokels. The 'maiden in distress' type missions are the unprovoked attacks I get in the game.
And he completely missed (justifiably, obviously, as it would have made the review a bit boring) how the soundtrack, plot and just about every other aspect of the game was a meticulously planned and loving homage to Spaghetti westerns, which for me makes it ten times better then most games I've played this year.
And he completely missed (justifiably, obviously, as it would have made the review a bit boring) how the soundtrack, plot and just about every other aspect of the game was a meticulously planned and loving homage to Spaghetti westerns, which for me makes it ten times better then most games I've played this year.
This is one of the rare occasions where I've not just played a game Yahtzee has reviewed but I've played it before he reviewed it. Although I haven't experienced the same glitches he has, the game does have a few of them but, as Yahtzee said, the writing and setting is spot-on.
All in all, it's great fun to play but it feels like it's lacking something. I'd still recommend it to people, though.
All in all, it's great fun to play but it feels like it's lacking something. I'd still recommend it to people, though.
The negatives he brought up are justified. There's fast travel but setting up camp or skipping through a stagecoach isn't exactly more fun the watching yourself ride a horse and a game being released with insane glitches (Yahtzee mentioned the walking animation not working, I've personally seen a wagon needed for a mission spawn with rockets on the wheels, fly up in the air then get told I failed the mission) is a justifiable thing to mention in a negative sense. Besides, it's not as if he didn't say anything good about the game. In fact, his summary basically says that it's a good game but with some odd glitches.The Walkin Dude said:
Why is it that at this moment I'm reminded of the Zero Punctuation mailbag special...
So far no glitches with anything, turned off the auto aim, riding a horse and traveling is actually fun and listening to the conversations are great, very thankful for dead aim otherwise killing some stuff would be a bit more harder than it already is.
People keep talking about how the games is so glitchy. I haven't run into a single glitch, maybe I'm just lucky.
Wow Yatzee nailed it right on the head with that review. Grand Theft Horsie is still fun to play and it plays good on line but he right about the charater humping the moutain part and part of the controls. However I wish he could of metioned how you can kill every single animal including a dog and sell the meat, heart and whatever else is attached to earn a profit, the fact that you can throw anybody on the train track tied up and watch them get run over, some other glitches with the wagon that you can ride in getting hit by a train and be indrustable,
I do like the auto gun lock feature. Makes it easier to kill something or someone. However if you want to ail manual just hold the button down and move the sight with your joystick.
Why the hell do you have to pick flowers anyhow to increase your survival. I know flowers and plants were REALLY important back then but it was the end of the era. I would of have the charater cook what he had over a open fire. Hunt your own damn food etc. Christ surving back then was just enough.
Nice review still.
And yes I'm planning on buying the book shortly. Not bescause Yatzee metioned it. It actually looks intresting enough to actually get a good read out of it.
Sure beats those fucking Twiglight novel series that any knob can watch in theaters and go all gushy over a vampire.
I do like the auto gun lock feature. Makes it easier to kill something or someone. However if you want to ail manual just hold the button down and move the sight with your joystick.
Why the hell do you have to pick flowers anyhow to increase your survival. I know flowers and plants were REALLY important back then but it was the end of the era. I would of have the charater cook what he had over a open fire. Hunt your own damn food etc. Christ surving back then was just enough.
Nice review still.
And yes I'm planning on buying the book shortly. Not bescause Yatzee metioned it. It actually looks intresting enough to actually get a good read out of it.
Sure beats those fucking Twiglight novel series that any knob can watch in theaters and go all gushy over a vampire.