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. . . and remember: it's Bro-POLLO, like A-pollo. . . . not Bro-POYO, like Spanish for chicken. ????

Sounds good. Now I just need to find a special on external hard drives!

Way I see it, Stranger . . . . . . I'd say you owe @Truth here a cold one! ????

You bring up a good point, and a question (which will likely make me sound even more stupid than usual) - but I heard someone mention you could buy a regular old external hard drive and plug it into one of the USB ports on either the PS4 or XBox. True? If so, that would solve all my drive space problems. I'm constantly having to delete crap to do new things on my PS4.

Ahh, dumb ol' nephews . . .

I'm strictly PlayStation. I've tried playing DrekBox several times before and my mind is just not wired that way. You, however, would make a perfect addition to the PS family! (On another note, I know an 11-year-old boy who would be your biggest fan AND would pay shipping if you were to send him that Nintendo Switch you're unhappy with. ???? )

I'm right there with ya, brother. "Gosh, it sure would be nice if DADDY would come spend some family time with us instead of spending all his time on his cowboy game . . . " Ughhhh . . .

I love all genres. And I adored RDR. So adding a "nightmare" / "elseworlds"-type game mode to it made it all the better to me. It was actually a ton of fun, and they were brilliant to release it around Halloween time when everyone was in the mood for something like that. I recommend you both give it another chance. Hell, think of it as an RDR adventure you still haven't yet taken, but can RIGHT NOW instead of having to wait 'til October. Don't approach it as "zombie crap," approach it as -- what would Marston do if he woke up one morning, and the world were like this? Immerse yourself in the character and handle things the way he would. Help people. Put some awful creatures out of their misery. See where life takes you. That's what I did, and I loved it. I hope you do, too.

Just make sure it has Undead Nightmare. You're enormously missing out if you don't have it.

???? There. If you don't still have it, it should be crazy cheap now. Just look on eBay or Amazon. I think it'll be the best prep for the release. And as soon as you're done with it, release time will be right around the corner. ????

Eh, not really. I just looked it up. It's roughly the equivalent of $375 in today's dollars. Sure, nice to have. But noting worth dying over.

As I understand it, gameplay mechanics will still be relatively similar to the original game. I actually kept my PS3 JUST so I could keep RDR and play it again to prepare for release. I used to be good at multiplayer. I mean really good. But I have so much rust on me from not playing for the past five years, I don't know how much of that ability is salvageable. Me? I just started the RDR single player campaign over again. I'm not about to go back into multiplayer cold. I figure going through the single player campaign will be the best training I can have. Then when I've completed that, I'll venture out into multiplayer again to try to gain back some of the skill I had in 2013. Then -- if so, then I'll be ready to go when RDR2 releases. (Well, at least when I get it for a Christmas present in December, I will be.) What about you? Are you rusty from lack of play over the years? Or have you been playing consistently since 2010?

LIFE!!!!!!!!!

Yes. What I am disputing is @D3x's claim that Sony does not want to do cross-platform play on the basis that IF gamers have BOTH a PS4 AND and XBox, if there is cross-platform play, those users will not buy both an XBox AND a PS4 version. I was just saying -- if a random gamer has friends who are playing the same game cross-platform and he only has one console, he'll be much more highly motivated to purchase the game BECAUSE it's cross-platform. If it were not, I very highly doubt it would encourage him to purchase the OTHER console AND a 2nd version of the game so he could play with SOME friends on one, and SOME friends on the other. I certainly don't think a PS4 game would work in an XBox, or vice versa. Apologies for the confusion.

Sorry to exhume this thread, but I've been thinking about this a bit lately and wanted to address your thinking on this. You're kind of basing the entire "no cross-play" suggestion on the idea that a very large number of gamers own both an Xbox and a PlayStation. I think that number is smaller than you would think. And I hardly think it's Sony's basis for a decision. Let's look at it another way. Say you have a PS4. You have 4 friends playing on PS4 and 3 friends playing on Xbox. If there's no cross-platform play, you can never play with all of them at once. But if it were cross-platform, and ALL SEVEN of your friends were playing together, wouldn't that make your decision to buy the PS4 version a no-brainer? Wouldn't that give you MORE incentive to buy the game? I really can't wrap my head around the logic of saying NO to cross-play because they think, "They won't buy TWO versions, then!!" Again, I know LOTS of people, and only one of them have both platforms. This is likely a quite small demographic. I have a strong feeling Sony's now leaning toward cross-platform play with XBox. They're getting a ton of pressure to do it, so they really can't hold out much longer and stay successful. After a while of completely ignoring your customers, they start going elsewhere.

Still getting a vibe on that. @lonestar/@Benjo - I couldn't find an "official forum rules" anywhere. Do they exist? Would like to review just to familiarize how things go 'round these parts.

Well, THERE goes the neighborhood . . . ???? Welcome, compadre.

Tibi Ignoscitur. ????

Okay, so I'm glad I'm not the only one left in the dark. ????

I did say, "Nothing even remotely similar to Hot Coffee." That incident was in San Andreas. In GTA V, they had plenty of relationships and "suggestions". I'm just hoping for something similar to that. (Obviously not on the "hook-up" side -- more along the lines of something a bit more romantic than you'd ever see in GTA.) I highly doubt that because the "dating feature" was where the "Hot Coffee" issue sprung from that Rockstar would never allow in-game dating again. That would be like removing the money-accrual system because hackers found a way to give themselves unlimited in-game funds. Annihilation of an entire function because of one incident is not the answer. The answer is fixing the game mechanics so that similar incidents cannot happen again.

My mind is not blown. I guess I'm missing something. All this aside, I really would like to see one of my favorites from the original -- Nigel West Dickens. But as this is a prequel, and Marston never met Dickens before the first game, I figure his inclusion is highly doubtful.

Yes, that's pretty much it. It might be fun to have Marston date a few other women before meeting Abigail. The first ladies could be rather obviously "flawed" for him, then when he meets Abigail, we see why she was right for him. I just think it would make the immersive experience all the better. Life isn't all about missions and money -- John Marston has a wife and child in the first game. As this is the prequel, I'd love to go through that courtship experience with him. I think it'd make it an epic game. Oh now wait, I'm not suggesting we get to play mini-games on their wedding night or anything! Nothing even remotely similar to "Hot Coffee." But they can certainly have a tasteful suggestion of "nighttime activity." Even Assassin's Creed has done that, and quite well. I just think it would deepen the players' connection to the characters. That's why I'm hoping for it.

Yep, we're still quite a ways out. I have a feeling this forum (and by proxy, the clubs) will pop come October. Everything should fall into place then. I prefer "Skunk", if'n ya don't mind, Chief. ???? Gratias In Antecessum.

This is exactly what I'm looking for, as well. I joined your PS4 club, @Kean_1. See you in . . . well, several months. ????