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Yeah, AFAIK, the stone hatchet is the only unattainable one. In fact, I don't think it even has a slot in the compendum unless you actually have it.

I would have loved to see that.

Interesting, never noticed this. I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, they aren't going to change this just because you don't want to start the Compendium over again.

Have to go with the original God of War.

Well, USSOCOM had recently adopted the Remington MSR as their Precision Sniper Rifle and promptly dropped the entire platform after only receiving the first shipment of rifles due to accuracy being piss poor compared to the test units. For the average joe, Remington might be fine, but I tend to judge quality on the platform being used hard. Still, if I were in the market for a shotgun, I'd favor Mossberg, or if I had cash to splurge a Benelli, right now. But each to their own. If you're confident in a Remington, I hope it serves you long and well. 😊 On the topic of old west firearms, am I the only one bothered by the fact that both RDR and RDR2 treat the Henry repeater as an upgrade over the Winchester? IRL, it was very much the opposite with the first prototype Winchester repeater being a modified Henry. 😕

The guide says you can only get them when killing the gunslinger. It doesn't mention anything about if you can do it by replaying the mission. Might be something to try and report back on. I can't because I already have all of them. The only special guns that I'm aware can be acquired after the fact are Micah's revolver and the angry hermit's double barrel shotgun, the latter because he seems to respawn after being killed as I specifically remember killing him and leaving the shotgun only to come back again later and have him come charging out at me again in my most recent playthrough.

Haven't tried with RDR2, but have with other games in the past and it never worked.

Who says we're friends? I don't know you. But we can be if you send me a $50 PSN currency code via PM. How about it, wanna be friends?😐

Don't worry, we won't haze you too cruelly.

The war horse I got as a pre-order with the standard edition had such low stats that I named it Uncle the Horse in my first playthrough (in my second and current "main" game, I never bothered redeeming it from the stable). I named the horse I got from the Valentine stable on the mission with Hosea, Silver, which I admit is kind of lame but I couldn't come up with anything else. I named my Missouri Foxtrotter (I think it's called) I bought with John, Arthur as a tribute to him. I had another horse in one playthrough that I named Nell, but changed it after I found out Uncle's horse was named Nell II. My other two horses, Rachel and Buell, still have their default names, and I currently have one empty stable slot that I haven't filled. I'm trying to find that tiger-striped wild mustang in Rio Bravo, but have had no luck.

I was replying to the suggestion that one needs to use an "exploit" to go to New Austin as Arthur, which AFAIK is simply not true. I'm not trying to change the subject, just replying to something that came up during the discussion.

... which is exactly what The Walking Dead does while struggling with too large a cast.

Well, he mentioned the name H&R. I just thought I'd elaborate a bit on who they are, that's all.

I'm curious to know exactly which encounter this is, too. I've been ambushed on the road numerous times, but nothing to the intensity described here.

I'm talking about in reference to A Test of Faith, where you have to find the dinosaur bones. Three (I think) of them are in New Austin.

AFAIK, there's nothing actually preventing Arthur from going into the southern portion of West Elizabeth and New Austin. Doing so results in bounty hunters hounding him at practically every second, but otherwise both areas are open for exploration beginning in Chapter 2. So if the player knows where the bones are, they shouldn't have any issues completing A Test of Faith as Arthur.

Remington QC has actually gone downhill quite a bit in the past several years. H&R is Harrington & Richardson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%26R_Firearms

I would definitely watch a series based on TD (post-apocalyptic is by far my favorite genre of fiction), but I think the number of factions and the pool of characters they would require would be a bit prohibitive, requiring it to be cut down to one "hero" faction facing one "villain" faction per season. The Walking Dead started to struggle once the cast increased significantly beginning in the third season with the prison and Woodbury and that struggle only became worse when Hilltop, the Kingdom, and the Sanctuary were added to the mix. They did away with the Sanctuary and disappeared or killed off most of the former Saviors in the most recent season, but the pool is still too large, IMO. I don't watch Game of Thrones, but I've heard it struggles with a too large cast as well.

Especially these days with even supposed low budget games having production budgets that rival some films, which in turn has resulted in the consumer price almost doubling. I remember back in the day I could go into GameStop with a $100 bill and walk out with at least three brand new games and change to spare, but these days I can barely afford to buy three new games a year. And I honestly think another drastic price increase is inevitable once the next gen systems come around, it's just a question of how much. No wonder some are predicting a major video game industry crash. And here I was about to sit down and watch the amazing Green Lantern movie. 😝

Well, Xbox players have State of Decay 2, which is pretty similar and something I was annoyed I couldn't play until I found out about Days Gone. IMO, though, I think platform exclusives (maybe excepting certain PC games like ArmA that give you so many control options that you'd need six controllers and twice as many hands to actually play it) are an outdated concept that should be done away with. Anyone thinking of getting Days Gone might want to hold off or at least shelve it for a bit, though. The 1.06 update that was released for it the other day is causing some consoles to crash, with yours truly being one of those affected. As much as I want to fire it up and play right now, I'd rather not risk my PS4's hardware or hard drive being damaged in some way.

Honestly, there are already a number of westerns that are "RDR-worthy," IMO. True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, The Quick and the Dead, to name a few.

I'm liking it a lot. Being a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, Days Gone checks off the most boxes on the list of features I look for in that ideal third-person, open-world post-apocalyptic survival horror game I've been searching for. I've seen a few reviews criticizing it for not being revolutionary or groundbreaking in some way, but I honestly don't see why it even needs to. Seems like reviewers these days want every game to include some new, never-before-seen mechanic that blows everyone's minds, but yet will give CoD's most recent facelift a 1,000,000/10 for doing absolutely nothing the previous title didn't already do. But I digress. Any proper review of the game I try to compose would be laughably incoherent (believe me, I tried three times in this post to make a short one and all three times it came off as the random ravings of a madman lol), so if there are any specific aspects of the game that are holding you back, tell me what they are and I'll give you an honest opinion on how the game fairs in respect to them.

Has anyone else here played it?

Have you start using cheats since you last saved? This time around, using them disables the save feature.