I was pretty much ignoring this game until I saw this video. I'm not a huge fan of the whole Wild West thing, but this actually looks like good, crazy fun. I think I'll rent this at the very least, anyone else been keeping tabs on this one? It's coming out on 360 and PS3 next month.
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Dark Sage ZTO
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I've been keeping tabs on it and it looks amazing. My perfect type of game - free roam with plenty of things to do. It's like GTA but in a setting I like an also the shooting graphics look much better. Like on gta shooting someone was like just little speed lines out the gun followed by some
crap blood effects. But this game looks like people get holes in them and shit when they're shot. defo buy for me next month with splinter ce a buy this month
Here's a video showcasing the online multiplayer. It looks pretty badass on video, hopefully it'll be just as enjoyable when you're actually playing it. :]
DiabloCableGuy
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Ok, thats sold it for me. Complete free roam freedom in multiplayer? Dynamic looking structred game mode joining? Up to 8 of your mates? That looks like one of the best thought out multiplayer modes for a sandbox game ever.
Edit: Preorderd via game now, I do love the 20% cashback I get thanks to Mcd.
I doubt I'll play the MP religiously like COD4, but it seems like it'll be a blast messing about on it from time to time. I was surprised at how fast I moved away from GTA4's MP, as it just felt so basic and got boring too fast.
GrimTalos
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Looks awesome. Will have to watch that video on MP, as it sounds good.
I thought GTAIV MP would be good but it was not, like nemp said it seemed really basic.
I did like some of the racing modes and it was pretty fun at the start just drive bying people but it got old fast.
The only good thing about GTA4's MP was playing that Free Roam mode with your mates and doing really stupid shit like jumping out of a helicopter and landing in a swimming pool.
Yeah, I plan on picking it up in-store, thought whether or not I'll be playing it straight away isn't something I'm certain of just yet. Trying to finish Uncharted at the moment, and trying not to get side-tracked. My recently purchased copy of Alan Wake hasn't been opened yet either...
Dark Sage ZTO
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I'll be going to the shop in woodgreen that sells games 1/2 days early (didnt try today because i have an exam tommorow) and playing it tommorow night.
However after reading how amazing this game is (got a metacritic of 96/100 at the moment) i don't think i'll be playing the MP for a long while - want to do as much as i can having fun with the SP as people have been saying it's a bit like GTA meets Oblivion with the amount of side quests there are to do including 'random encounters' that oblivion made so awesome out in the wilderness of the wild west. Not to mention the fact that you can sit down and play POKER for real in the game! I fucking love Poker!
So yeah i might pop on for some free roam at 9pm assuming i get a solid 5 hours on the SP beforehand.
If things go as planned, I'll have a copy tomorrow after work.
Got my copy after work, not really liking the horse controls though.
GrimTalos
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It took me a while to get use to them, Killed my first horse by falling off a cliff. But now I am pretty good on the horse and dont have any problems.
Shooting people when on horseback is really hard I found when I first played. Trying to keep speed up while go straight and shooting people.
Have not done many main missions yet just been messing around trying to win all my money back at poker. Got into a mass Bar fight and had to run from Town due to a large bounty on my head. Stole a stage coach and had a massive chase was really fun.
This is one openworld game where I dont actually want to be a bad guy. When I was being chased by the sheriff I just kill there horses so it does not add to my bounty much.
Yeah, I'm also finding it hard to be a bad guy since thus far it doesn't seem to be worth the hassle. Your character acts all nice in cutscenes so it feels odd playing like a mass-murdering lunatic.
I just don't see any major profit in being evil in this game so far, if you save a damsel in distress you get good money, if you let her die you get nothing but the $4 you loot from her corpse - so why not save her?
Also found it annoying how you capture a 'wanted' person alive and put them on the back of the horse. Then as you're riding back to town, some bandits attack and instead of killing you, they end up shooting the guy tied up on your saddle. Rage.
GrimTalos
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Yea that is annoying as you only get half the reward for them dead.
I have only been "evil" in one mission. I needed to get the deeds to someguys house. He wanted $200 for it but I only have around $100 so I had to kill him. Also my reward for when I gave the deed to the guy was alot less than $200 so I would have lost money doing it the nice way.
When riding back to town and bandits are chasing me I just use the dead eye thing and shoot out there horses. This means they are stuck chasing me on foot and it takes longer for new ones to respawn than just killing them.
Yeah, Dead Eye is extremely useful when riding and shooting at the same time. I may need to put this game on hold for a few weeks though, as I want to complete a few projects before the upcoming London Expo.
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GrimTalos
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I much prefer the older version of dead eye. Dead eye is awesome though. I had 6 bandits riding at me. I just used dead eye and killed the lot in one go.
The old version is alot better for when you are trying to take someone alive. With the manuel version its easy to shoot the gun out of there hands, with the automatic one I find that sometimes by mistake I put to many bullets in them.
I also wish changing gun paused the game. I had my lasso out and got off my horse as there was a cart on the side of the road with some women shouting for help.
So I went over to see if it was a mission, well it was a trap and 3 guys ran out of the cart, I could not change weapon in time and I was right in the open so died in about 4 shots.
I also wish changing gun paused the game. I had my lasso out and got off my horse as there was a cart on the side of the road with some women shouting for help.
So I went over to see if it was a mission, well it was a trap and 3 guys ran out of the cart, I could not change weapon in time and I was right in the open so died in about 4 shots.
Sounds like their ambush worked perfectly.
Dark Sage ZTO
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Fucking love it, lol. Reading your comments made me lol and thats enough said about this games awesomeness. I'm doing pretty well at poker but it's a patient mans game.
And yeah i'm kinda not looking forward to getting the automatic dead eye thing cause the normal slow mo is pretty cool.
Oh, and btw, the reason you guys are finding aiming difficult is maybe because you're using expert targetting? well you all seem to have gotten the achievement for it. Never really saw the point in making a game harder for myself when its one like this.
So, when are we all gonna form a Posse together and rape some towns?
I swear expert targeting is on as default, because I never even changed anything in options yet. Also, there's no description for what changes in options when you switch it to Normal, so does anyone know exactly how it changes targeting?
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