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BropolloCreed79
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I have shot my share of fellow gamblers and dealers in the game. It's... therapeutic.
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25 minutes ago, Truth said:
I've never had either one...
If you're in the continental US, I'll send you some after I go Bambi Blasting the Monday after Thanksgiving.
Some of us have impeccable aim IRL. Of course, an red dot scope on a picatinny rail with a bolt action Mossberg (with a rifled barrel) tend to make it easier than taking a photo, but still...
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Just now, Truth said:
How is that only worth twice as much as a rabbit...? lol
Because improperly harvested venison tastes terrible, while rabbit is succulent and delicious. It's like duck, but a tad less fatty.
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8 minutes ago, rick249kdr said:
Is it sad and pathetic that I know that's supposed to be Barry Bonds?
Also, Hank Scorpio is the greatest Simpsons character ever, and I have his action figure as proof.
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34 minutes ago, Truth said:
I bet they appreciate this one too, I know I did!
They do. Which reminds me: I need to do more of those "suicide by horse" videos.
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1 hour ago, Truth said:
I'm dying laughing at that!
Mrs. Creed came downstairs to see what I was laughing at when it happened.
And now that it's immortalized on YT, my kids find it utterly hilarious.
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13 hours ago, VampireKrush said:
I rushed through the story as I intended on playing it a second time much slower to do all the little things. I can see why people prefer GTA's style over this one but you have to be able to appreciate what Rockstar did here.
Great post btw.
Thanks. I'm a crusty old fart who doesn't have the time or skill that these young 14-year old whippersnappers hooped up on Adderall and Redbull do to devote to "git gud".
I've also come to appreciate craftsmanship as I age: 16-uear aged single malt scotch, charcuterie based pizza, RDR2...
When a person or group of people throw their passion fully into a project, it often creates something beautiful that should be cherished and recognized. Anyone could have taken GTA and just reskinned it with cowboys and horses, and nobody would have batted an eye.
Instead, we have been given the culmination of a decade's worth of tireless devotion to creating a unique experience that couldn't be a bigger departure from GTA if they had tried. And it is absolutely stunning. There's nothing wrong with GTA or the people who prefer the experience it offers. But this? This is an achievement in storytelling and world building that I haven't experienced in gaming in at least a decade.
I was never over excited for this game. It was a simple curiosity that led me to preorder; and the promise that the single player story would be focus at launch. GTA was never my cup of tea, but I can appreciate it for what it is. RDR2 isn't the best game I've ever played (it may be soon, but I can't assess half a game and need to play online to make a fully formed opinion), but it's eclipsed everything else from this current console generation.
5 hours ago, houseofcantor said:All the complaints about the pacing was actually a selling point for me.
It may not have been a selling point for me, bit I can't ignore how the pace allows me to just take EVERYTHING in. And the attention to detail can't be overlooked. I've expounded upon this at length previously, but this game has literally left NOTHING to chance; each and every aesthetic choice feels deliberately calculated, and thus far has created a unique experience (for me at least) that is unlikely to be matched by any game for the foreseeable future.
I am simply awestruck by this game. Were I capable of cying, it would have reduced me to tears multiple times already in it's splendor and majesty.
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28 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:
I never count my drinks. ....probably why I'm always surprised when the beer runs out in the fridge. Luckily my wife takes care of that for me.
Lucky you. If I let Mrs. Creed control the alcohol stock in Casa de Creed, we'd have nothing but gin and Whiteclaw.
A far cry from the days of our courtship when her fridge was magical and never seemed to run out of Guinness...
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2 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:
Yeah, I don't know how to tell with PS4 either. .....if there is even a way. The R* Social Club should have this information but it doesn't.
I go by how much alcohol I've consumed.
Right now, I'm at about 35 drinks since the game launched three weeks ago.
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2 minutes ago, sLLiMM said:
"cantankerous" had to look that one up lmao..
3 minutes ago, Truth said:Challenge ACCEPTED.
I offer, as a humble suggestion, something Arthur himself probably would have consumed on his journey (and it's dirt cheap too!)
Noted enthusiasts include:
Gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday
Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo
Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant
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2 hours ago, sLLiMM said:
First, thanks for using the Spoiler Tool!
I randomly encountered the same thing on one of my lazy exploration excursions. I even tried to be humane and blow it up with dynamite. Sadly, the interaction with it seems locked for me, but I'm only on Chapter 2, so it may come up again later in the story.
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Just now, Truth said:
I've grown attached to My Horse (that's his name).
Oh, I'm attached to Arnold (as in Schwarzenegger) my Dutch Drafthorse, but the thrill of chasing down that horse, and the atmosphere, the visuals.... I'm getting chills just thinking about it again.
1 minute ago, Kormath said:i thought that was fairly easy.
It may depend on the terrain where you make the attempt. I know it can spawn in multiple areas, and I (foolishly) tried mine in the far north where the snow came up to my knees, and the damn thing was running a picket fence through trees. That white on white is pretty tough to track when you've been roleplaying Arthur IRL as a cantankerous middle aged man with borderline alcoholism.
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4 minutes ago, Truth said:
Yeah that was my first few attempts... The panther was the most difficult, but the most fulfilling. I really enjoyed that hunt.
The real question is, was it harder than
Spoilercapturing the Arabian
which was one of the most exhaustive things I've encountered in a game in YEARS.
Edit: it's 12 days to gun season on deer in Ohio, and I'm ready to roll. FYI, skinning a deer is not as easy as Arthur makes it look.
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12 minutes ago, dropkickennedy said:
but would it kill Pearson's to say, "Hey, you know that moose that took you a week to find? Well those antlers look top notch. Thank you Arthur" haha
The only person I care about less than Pearson is Micah.
The only ones I value at all are Charles and Josiah.
Oh, and my drinking buddy, Lenny.
There's times I just want to slap Dutch in the face. He's such a manipulative tool, it makes me want to torch his tent and stick that pipe in an uncomfortable place (like the back of a Volkswagen?)
Strauss just gives me the creeps.
Javier seems like an opportunistic scumbag, but what do I know, I'm only on Chapter 2.
Uncle Bill is a lazy bum. The only person lazier is Dutch.
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2 minutes ago, Truth said:
I can't really see an issue in this one... Maybe it's just me.
You also have to consider how many textures there are. Plants and grass are a lot more difficult to display than a parking lot and flat surfaces.
It's not just you. The dynamic lighting in the second picture is far superior. Everything in the first one is flat light.
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On 11/12/2018 at 2:35 PM, Truth said:
Happy belated birthday!
I still can (kind of)!
Feels like just a couple years ago, but it's been a decade... Now I feel like an old man... Where's @Kean_1 to make me feel young again?!?!
Alcohol can do that for you, too.
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2 hours ago, dropkickennedy said:
Oh 100%. I am a little perturb however that upgrading your satchel and everything at the camp gives you nothing. No achievement, no in game reward from what I can tell. Nothing.
Not even the satisfaction of a job well done?
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On 11/6/2018 at 9:31 AM, Zchu said:
Now what stinks is he is Male and I already had a female name picked out.
If I run across him, I'll call him "Pony Boy" and repeatedly tell him to "Stay Golden".
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The same holds true of using hair growth tonics. I've been in Chapter 2 for over two weeks now, and no matter how much hair tonic I take, my beard is stuck at a solid 7. I tried 6 tonics a day for a week in-game, with no further results (Dutch turned into a real A-hole when I did that, complaining about not "tithing the box" and all that jazz--really wanted to slit his belly over his insolence).
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Pacing in this game is a sensitive and divisive topic. Some folks find the game irreparably slow, seemingly preferring the reckless and wild abandon of GTA or FPS games.
Others, like myself, are fully immersed in what R* and Take Two have done here. The pacing is glorious; and what happened to me last night was a perfect example of how this game manages to continually surprise, delight, and keep me on the edge of sleep deprivation despite all efforts to put the controller down at a reasonable hour.
Riding down out of the mountains last night after finishing up the third leg of
SpoilerThe Noblest of Men, and a Woman, and engaging Flaco Hernandez
I was heading south out of the snow covered peaks towards Lake Isabella, girding myself for the long, arduous (and somewhat boring) ride back to Valentine, when heavy fog rolled in (taking a moment aside here to acknowledge the amazing job done with the randomized weather patterns in this game--absolutely phenomenal). I was trotting along with a newer horse that I was leveling up to sell off to the farrier, when a large, fleeting shadow flickered off to my left. Still needing perfect elk pelts and having seen a few wandering about in the area, I paused momentarily to draw my rifle when I saw her, the elusive
SpoilerWhite Arabian.
Having not actively sought her out before, I was stunned. Like a ghost in the mist, she appeared and dashed off into the vapor--I quickly dismounted and pursued on foot (again, the tooltips here did an excellent job guiding me through the process). Continually, my exuberance got the best of me and I plunged ahead in the deep snow, regardless of the potential of scaring her off yet again. Finally, after several missteps and repeated spooks, I settled into a slow rhythm and made my way ever so closer to her.
And then I mounted. A minor gripe is that the experience of taming the horse is poorly explained in the tooltips, and should have been better worded for clarity. Having not had to previously tame a horse in the game, the experience was incredibly frustrating and defeating as she bucked me off and tore into the trees with wild abandon (if there's one criticism about the experience, it's that they probably should have had this be a side job or quest somewhat early in the game--to break horses for the farrier in Valentine for money).
Down, but not defeated, I pursued her. Two more times I got close enough to mount before she took off as I prepared to try and mount again. I was thirty minutes in--over a day had passed in-game tracking this elusive creature by foot, being taunted and teased the whole way, but I would not be dissuaded. I was in it to win it, no matter how long it took.
Finally, I had a revelation--instead of waiting for the tooltip to tell me when to attempt a mount, I was going to just "go for it". I approached slowly and cautiously (yet again, for what seemed like the tenth or eleventh time), and as I got within reach, as she reared up and prepared to take off, I leaped and was met with success!
Throwing caution to the wind I trusted my gut and rode out the maelstrom as she fought to be free of me--for what seemed to be an eternity, I was locked in a contest of wills; me, or this wild, untamed horse.
And in a flash, it was over. She settled into an amicable trot as we continued to bond back down the mountain to where I had left my other horse cold, tired, and alone for two days (I felt a little guilty about that part of it, because now that horse was "old and busted"--unlikely to be ridden again, and my recen acquisition was "the new hotness") . Forty-five minutes of effort culminated in the capture of this beautiful, elusive creature.
It was exhilarating. A purely random encounter that I was unprepared for turned into the most engaging and rewarding experience I've had in the game after almost three weeks of playing on a daily basis. An experience that was more fulfilling than ENTIRE GAMES by other studios and publishers--curiously enough, an event devoid of violence or mayhem (in a game stuffed full of it), which in and of itself is a testament to the design of the game and the level of thought and detail that underpin the many and varied systems on display.
Oh, and as an added bonus, on my way back to Valentine, I also encountered
SpoilerThe Legendary White Buffalo, who was almost impossible to miss, given his size
As if the day couldn't get any better.
Once I returned to Valentine, I immediately rode to the stables to sell my "old and busted" horse, and rechristen my newest acquisition "Ghost".
After all, I've always wanted to be a "Ghost Rider".TL: DR:
SpoilerI randomly encountered the White Arabian at Lake Isabella last night, and chasing her down and taming her was the most fun I've had in a game in over a decade.
Epilogue to the story. After handling the horse issue, I rode to the Trapper to sell off the Legendary Hide I had acquired on my journey. As I closed in, the
SpoilerTwo idiots, some dynamite, and a safe
Stranger Mission popped up on my radar. I had the benefit of having some foliage between us, so I approached them from behind. When I got close enough, i just listened to them for a bit. What happened next was nothing short of high comedy as
SpoilerI entered Dead Eye with my shotgun to take them out. While in DE, the dynamite they had put on the safe exploded, throwing them (and assorted limbs) into the air in slow motion, for a comedic ballet of hilarious misfortune. Arthur literally called them idiots, and I had free money.
I also remembered to capture the video of this, so once I have the time later, I'll trim it down and upload it, because it was damn hilarious!
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1 hour ago, Bonzai said:
Drunken bar brawls
I would play this mode exclusively.
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52 minutes ago, Jmuir said:
By far Xbox-1 people may say the controllers are fat and bulky personally I think Ps4 controllers as too skinny and the thumb sticks don't feel natural maybe that's just because im not used to it. As well xbox has the better graphics and a better older community, just ignore the fortnite 12 year olds.
I miss the original Xbox Fat Controllers.
No, not this Fat Controller:
THIS Fat Controller:
LOOK AT THIS THING. IT'S MAGNIFICENT!!!
I miss that beauty every day. I'm a big dude with abnormally large hands, and this was, by far, the best controller ever designed for freaks like me.
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1 hour ago, MN32410 Red_&_Dead said:
Sorry, guy I´m using a Pal System and my tv is not ntsc compatible. I have the same issues.
That was my point. PAL is only 50 fps. NTSC is 60. Because Take Two and R* are NA based, I'm wondering if the native systems being in NTSC are part of the problem with the graphical issues when the signal is ported to PAL.
I'm not experiencing the issues others are, but I don't have a PS Pro. I'm on a 4K HDR set that upscales the native image from the standard PS4, and it looks amazing--all without the pixelating issues that are being reported when the "fake" 4K is being pumped out by the PS Pro.
Without running the tests myself, I can't be certain. But you indicated you were in Spain, so the first thought in my mind was "PAL/NTSC". 10 fps on an output signal may not be distinguishable to the human eye in most contexts, but that doesn't mean it can't cause issues with processing if it's not planned for in development.
How to get the best animal pelts?
in Red Dead Redemption 2
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I have found this to be the most efficient method, especially on small-game critters. The elevation from horseback makes it easier to pick them up as they move through the grass/underbrush when your Eagle Eye is on cooldown.