I often catch myself trying to scroll web pages with WASD... :/

Red Dead Redemption is like playing GTA in the mountains.

Of course it is. That's almost the equivalent of saying Modern Warfare is Call of Duty set in modern times. Too bad they used up all the Grand Theft Horse jokes when Gun came out.

But seriously, RDR is the one current game I really want to play, but probably won't be able to for some time. A sandbox western with Rockstar's production values is pretty much a direct injection into my fanboy vein. Considering I only just started playing GTA IV (and I'm digging it) a whole year after getting the game, I guess I can wait.

Killzone 2 feels like the PS3's answer to Halo, and on a single-player level I guess it works pretty good. The looks are quite awesome, and the scale gets decently large some time into the game, though they have the same endless enemy respawn as most scripted games and a fairly unimpressive boss battle midway through. Plus, their transition between a silent first-person protagonist and a chatty third-person one is pretty sloppy.

Hmm not exactly. But sorta agree with you as well. I am one of the biggest fans of Rockstar but the monotony is too much to handle at times. Heck I even played Bully, which felt like a borefest when it began. GTA at least gives you a lot of room to mess around. Crash your Car, Train Suicides, Bike Accidents, Blow up Boats, here in RDR you are just freaking riding your stupid horse around. Too less to do, same format of riding from one end of the city to the other for missions, side missions, optional missions, it's the same.

Ditto on waiting for a year after buying GTA4 I was caught up with work/exams etc. How far along are you? It's an awesome game, just missed having a helipad at home. Won't spoil much, do update

Try one thing, once the map opens up, get on a bike and drive down the bridge from the area where you started the game at towards the newly opened area. Keep full throttle and hope to hit a car at the crossing at 90degrees, doesn't always work but if it does, he flies off, hits a vehicle(preferably a truck/bus), hits the traffic light post which sends him sky rocketting upwards almost to the builings top and comes crashing down to his death Feeel

I'm not a gamer (unless you count playing Angry Birds on your phone gaming), but Castlevania's Vampire Killer on the NES is the greatest videogame song I've ever heard. It's actually one of the best songs I've ever heard.

I suspect that's an unavoidable design feature. The thing with all the GTA titles is that they're set in bustling cities, so it's only natural that you have a zillion things to do at any given point in time. You can't use that mechanic in a western, lest you kill that sense of solitude and melancholy that comes with a frontier setting. I can imagine players that aren't fans of westerns might not like this, but I think I might get off on it. I know that in Oblivion, I was riding around on Shadowmere across the land, even though there was a quick travel option most times. The whole wanderer feel I got from just doing that was quite fulfilling, and so were the chance encounters and sidequests that I stumbled upon during the ride.

The thing with sandbox games is that they have a central narrative, but let you fill in the blanks in between plot points yourself. Usually during my first playthrough (up till the central narrative is done), I usually find myself staying in character in a GTA game. Meaning, I don't go around shooting random people, I drive sort of decently (ok, I still blow red lights, cut lanes and handbrake into turns, but I try do it with style). I also WALK in most places even though running is more efficient simply because the player looks cooler when he's walking around like a big dog. Of course, this doesn't apply to other sandbox games like Just Cause 2, Saint's Row 2 and Crackdown, where you're actively encouraged to do crazy shit. Only GTA.

So yeah, bottom line - I'd probably dig riding around on a horse all lonesome-like, if the world was well realised enough. Hell, I've played Call of Juarez, Gun and even absolute horseshit like Dead Man's Hand; I bet RDR smokes them all to kingdom come.


Not too far, man. Roman's place just burned down a little while back, and I've got a couple of missions from Playboy X and Dwayne. I suspect I've got a hell of a lot left to do in the main story itself. I wasn't digging the car handling, so I downloaded this 'realistic handling' mod which seems to have made control even more sensitive, but driving around with the trigger half-cocked is pretty fun, I'll admit. Also have a bunch of car mods that replace the cars with their real-world counterparts, but I guess that can wait till I finish the story.

(Ha! Your move sounds bonkers - I shall give it a go sometime.)



My poverty (or at least my parents' refusal to splurge) during the NES era has resulted in me missing out on a lot of classics. So this is the first time I'm hearing the theme, and it's great.

Currently playing Army of Two. Much like Gears of War minus the Locust Horde with missions only on Earth

Yea I guess so. I'm not a big fan of the West. Be it books, games or even movies. There is a quick travel option here too but I somehow prefer riding even after all the complaining. BTW when you start the game don't bother buying property. I fucking spent most of the money buying houses so that I can save easily, turns out that I can save anywhere in the wild (map). And after the main objective, I'm moving to Mexico :/

GTA

Oh I was pretty upset when they burned down Roman's place. Anyway the story just gets better. Except for one annoying guy's missions, I forgot his name. One gangsta fellow

Adip - You mean the power metallish song with a gothic touch with a superb guitar solo? That one?

What about the Postal series? Do you complete the mission objectives (fetch milk, deposit cheque) without any drama?

Has anyone of you tried Gran Turismo 5? If yes, do you think it deserves a rating of 8.5 it's got everywhere?

I've played the postal 2 which came out in 2003 I guess, but got bored withing an hour or 2 of the gameplay.

As fat as GT series is concerned, only those would like the game who actually loathe arcade racing games.

BTW any idea when is I Am Alive going to release. It's going to be awesome! Here's the trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6Aely9YrQ