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Its on the east side of the river. Around the spring is a pretty good area too. And the roads coming from east that lead to that trail. As long as there are a few Murfree sisters and aunts around, they should respawn pretty quickly.

I usually have pretty good luck on the trail along the Kamassa river north of Elysian spring.

Would your pigs be pets, eaters or affordable transportation?

Dave. You certainly have a better plan than anything I could ever have come with. If those are the parameters you are comfortable with.....go for it. But if you try to step in on my dope business......I am afraid I might have to send Charles over to your spread and have serious discussion about ethics.

Red Dead can get pretty damn immersive. When I was out being an outlaw, I sometimes would just say, "screw it", abandon missions, hunting for rewards and just leave the gang to fend for themselves. I would wander around and check things out and soak up the scenery. Let my imagination do its thing. I know that a lot of players really enjoy building their characters. Just the right outfit, perfect beard trims and great hats. The game encourages an active imagination and most gamers that I know are pretty imaginative people. So I don't mind putting this out there. What part of the map would settle in? If the game would allow you to purchase property, construct things, grow crops, etc. Where would you homestead? Buy an existing property and renovate? Rent a room in Blackwater and hustle pool for a living? Start a horse farm down south? I would buy land near Emerald Ranch. The soil looks dark and rich, good for growing quality cannabis and hemp. It's pretty centrally located with a train depot on the edge of town. I could ship my product, via rail, to all parts of the map. If I had a warehouse in St. Denis, overseas shipping would be feasible. If I franchised dispensaries in Annesburg, St. Denis and Armadillo I would let Josiah run them. I think he could really sell product. Lenny could oversee the grows. I would keep Dutch in constant couchlock. A gram of hash oil would easily keep him from extorting money from me and shut him the hell up. (I would just blast Micah in the face and be done with him.) Charles could handle security or any other position he wanted. Pot was legal in 1890, Pinkertons wouldn't be a concern. I would pay my taxes, employ local people and do what I could to be an asset to the community. It wouldn't be all about work either. I enjoy the fine arts and theater. St. Denis looks like they have might have some good restaurants, but they never seem to be open. I would front them money to get up and running. There are also some good hunting and fishing areas north of my farm and I have no problem whacking Murfrees for sport. That sure would beat working for that clown Van der Lind. Forget Jamaica. To many damn bugs. I think I have a pretty solid plan.

If you are a Florida resident, I don't see a problem. If you're not, then just look out for Pinkertons.

As long as you had pants on, you should be ok.

Ashamed? Quit using those fancy European words that Americans don't understand!

Sorry to take you offsite and watch out for spoilers. Just a fun story involving RDR and the Pinkertons. https://kotaku.com/the-pinkertons-are-still-around-suing-over-red-dead-re-1831750643

Grim Fandango: I liked puzzle games and I could play it all night without fear of waking up the kids. Half Life: First game where NPCs acted like they had minds of their own. Great graphics that could be played on a 486 computer. Bioshock: Character building mattered. All weapons weren't just handed out in chapter one. In game choices had some weight to them.

Pizza toppings? That's always an hour shot in the a$$. "Alexa.....order a pizza." "What would you like on it" "Pepperoni"

I have been married to the same woman for 48 years. If I ask her what the weather is like her answer will be: "It's........(20 minutes later)....... and we need to take the dog to the vet." If she asks me the same question my answer is: "75 degrees." I am a "lets get to the point" kinda guy.....and she is not.🙂

But when you are playing the game for the first time and you dont know what the results will be of your actions, you kind of need to play the stranger quests. I love the game and didnt want to just blow thru it and miss anything. The games length isnt a real problem for me. Its just that another 5 hrs, before Chapter 6, seems like it would have not helped the story. A game like Fallout gets so big that one can forget that there is any real story to it. It turns into clearing the map and building tunnels. And I dont hate the Fallout series. I think that RD strongest attraction is its solid story line. Its more about the story than it is about the sandbox. It is a balanced blend of the two. Again, when you are playing a game for the first run thru you dont have the benefit of hindsight. You just try to do what you think the game wants you to do. Its the story tellers job to tell the story and the editors job to make sure it doesnt go off of the rails with details. Dont get things so convoluted with side quests as to loose the flow of the story for the sake of extending game play. You can extend game play with epilogues, add ons or a new game. But.....this is what keeps gamers gaming and forums foruming. if this game was a flop nobody would give two hoots who Mary was. In 7 years a bunch of people will be discussing Jacks relationship with Emma, the little flapper girl from Blackwater. Nobody will clearly remember the minutia from RD1 or RD2 but everyone will remember the story of Arthur Morgan. I love this game because I think the game is almost perfect just the way it is. Not one thing less or one thing more. But that, is just one mans opinion.🙂

I dont know if I could have handled another 5 hrs. of game play. After chapter 5, I pretty much knew which way things were heading and got tired of doing things that I had done 5 times before. I just wanted to find a certain person and jam shorty up his butt. It may have been that r* felt they had to make a cut because the story was starting to drag. How many times can a person listen to Dutch and not think, "ya know, I think its past time to dust this a$$hole". Maybe they felt it was time to make a cut and that was the best way to do it. You can only tug on the heart strings so many times before people numb up and lose interest in the story. Since Arthur already had a love interest in Mary, why bother? Arthur was no spring chicken. He wasn't a 17 year old love struck kid. Why add more stress to his life? If you played "honorable" Arthur was already a friggen saint. A man that appreciated the arts, communed with nature, helped the poor and downtrodden, loved his horse and would have built an orphanage for the poor children of St. Denis with just one more train robbery. Give the poor guy a break.

Sadies' dating profile: Turn ons include hog tying and jailing the males she meets. Pall Malls and Rye Whiskey for brunch. Turn offs are frilly dresses, shaved legs and riding side saddle. I never saw her in or near a bath house.

Another love interest for Arthur would have turned Red Dead Redemption into an episode of the Bold and the Beautiful.

I speaked to Dutch about using proper verb tenses. Now I live above the bar in Armadillo writing dialogue boxes for Rock*. (Chapter 11)

The second method is the way to go. Very slick! The first method worked great for my first few trips over the border. Two bottles of gin and I would pass out and be in Canada. As my trips progressed, I found that I needed more and more liquor to catch a buzz. I wound up killing 7-8 bottles of brandy (the expensive stuff) plus a couple of jugs of moonshine. I started running out of money and had to do bounties just to pay my tab. I would be so hungover when I finally did get across the border that I couldn't tame a horse and walked for miles until I sobered up. My quest has been to circumnavigate the known map and take pictures of landmarks from the other side. Cougars are one problem but WD-40 coated shores are the worst! Trips to Guarma are a piece of cake.

I have used cheats on games that I found boring and just wanted to blow through and be done with. This game is very story intensive and I think that you would do yourself and the game a disservice with cheats. Like speed reading a great novel or fast forwarding though a good movie. There is plenty too do after completing the main story. It does have somewhat of a slow pace, but, in the end, its well worth the wait.

Has anyone played the original game after they have finished the second version? Its been at least 6 years since I last played RD1,

Or....this could be a case changing taste. If you loved a Harry Potter movie when you were 12 years old that doesnt mean that you will love a Harry Potter sequel when you are 19. We cant assume that everyone is over 30. I'm close to 70 and if anybody here tries to tell me that "A Star is Born 2018" with Lady GaGa is better than "A Star is Born 1937" with Janet Gaynor, I am going to tell you all to suck it and I'm not going to stick around to argue about it!

You are correct. I use this glitch as add-on content. It uses this game as the most beautiful platform game ever. When my young nephews visit for Christmas, it will also give them access to the game that is G-rated. There is no foul language or gratuitous violence on this side of the map. Maybe another controller for PVP action. (Nah....they would start shooting each other the minute they landed on the map.) Auntie buttlint would also hang my ornaments from the christmas tree if I did that. The only problem I have with RDO is that I would have to pay Sony $25 to join their network. Perhaps later, when the bugs are worked out in beta. My Polish / Italian DNA does not allow me to spend money on something that I wont use. I am pretty sure that DLC and add-ons are on the way. Until then, my next goal is to reach Flatiron Lake. The only reward will be to take pictures of Thieves Landing, from the other side, to prove to myself that it is possible. Seem to me, that goal is in the spirit of the old west.

I think that beta testicle might be a more apt description. Actually, its a tougher challenge than it sounds. One screw up and its back to the main map......you lose! There is no saving, no sleeping, no crafting or cooking. Any of those things will send you back and you have to start again. You have to find a horse and break it. If he throws you and kicks you in the head.....please start over. Horses exist on the other side but they scarcer than on the main land. There are refugee animals, from the map, but you cant eat them because you cant cook them. No or very slow travel at night. If you go over a cliff because you dont see it.....to bad. Get to close the water and slide in....your cooked. There are no roads or road maps. The topographical map is garbage. Lots of back tracking to find a path around obstructions. No bridges. Getting around the northwest corner of the map alone takes 2-3 gamedays. Snow blizzards are blinding and depth perception is difficult for an old guy. I find that you need to pack everything you will need before you leave. There are no stores and nobody to rob. You have no saddle so most of your guns get left behind. (not that you need a full arsenal) There is no "full galloping" for any long stretches. No fast travel or cinematic view. I have made it as far as Roca de Medera (on the old map) then I broke the"stay away from water and dont travel at night" rule. I slipped on a small incline and that was that. No platinum trophy for me! Just go back to the ranch and raise some more money for supplies....just like real life.

That's because we are outlaws and we play by our own rules! My own personal quest is to circumnavigate the entire map from outside its borders. That may sound like a easy task but it has many pitfalls that can bite you on the ass and send you back to square one. I start at the exit glitch (in a previous thread) north of Fairvale Shanty and I have made it to a place across the San Luis River, due south of Fort Mercer. My adopted horse, Buddy, still waits for me on the shore of the San Luis, as a fall into the river sent me back into the main map. But fear not Buddy! I stopped at the market and filled up my satchel with fresh oat cakes and liquor and I will return to complete our journey. Once you make it to the uncharted map, there are other potential quests, but you are going to have to make up your own rules because the No. 1 rule of glitch club is that there are no stinking rules!

I didn't realize that Detroit had fallen so far on the leaderboard. Maybe a few weapons upgrades and a poverty card would put us up on top again. St. Louis might be tough to catch. They have a very strong PVP game and their griefers are second to none.