BropolloCreed79

I do one before every quest I start. Too many early screwups that were painful.

Dynamite works.

You can. Although getting the horse turned over to get to the second saddlebag is a CHORE, but it can be done. Yes, it lowers your honor. No, I don't care about that now that I've unlocked the trophy for maximum "honor". Kill a horse, do some chores in camp, and it all works out.

I seem to recall reading that when "The Law" kills you or arrests you, you only lose a portion of your money (it's usually about 10%, iirc), but if a Bounty Hunter takes you down, they rifle through your pockets and take all your money.

Some arrogant Frenchie was sitting next to me, and he ALWAYS beat me. So I turned his head into a canoe.

I've seen the videos. It's almost like trying to watch certain channels on cable back in the 90's that you didn't pay for.

Shoot the horse. A dead horse won't kick you. Christopher Reeves would disagree with you. Oh, wait, he can't....

And I have the liver of a septic 95-year old man. Quantity does not equal quality. You're joking, right? This game has ONE linear main quest, and about eleventy billion side quests, most of which are optional. I have almost 30 hours in, and I'm not even out of Chapter 2 yet. If you dislike what you refer to as "linearity" so much, you may want to wait for RDR2 Online.

It's nice to see I"m not the only one who gets sucked in by the gambling. I spent two in-game days playing poker in Valentine after unlocking it.

When I start playing at 9pm after my kids are in bed, and glance at my phone at 3AM, the game has officially sucked me in.

Candygram for Mongo!

I do have a stick of dynamite just laying around.... maybe I'll try punching THEN the dynamite on a cow....

Part of me wonders how playthrough speed relates to folks' rating of the game. I'm still on Chapter 2, but I've literally done EVERYTHING I could quest-wise, apart from talking to Dutch (because I know he's going to trigger a chapter shift) and I'm still finding strangers here and there (I refuse to look for help online). If you had asked me last week, my score would have been lower while I was still fumbling about with the controls and clunky interface, but now that I've given it time to breathe, and applied myself a bit, the game is starting to shine. It's languid storytelling pace is a motif for the entire game design as far as I can tell, one which is a breath of fresh air in an era dominated by fast paced multiplayer FPS games that give you cybernetic enhancements and jetpacks. With RDR2, it's just me and my horse doing our thing. For me that means exploring the world at my own pace and enjoying the thrill of discovering things--like It's little touches like that which make the game fascinating and immersive on a level that few games are able to recreate or replicate successfully. For my horse, it means taking MASSIVE dumps every time I stop somewhere to investigate things. Oh, and he's fond of this too.

I hope so, because I blew the head off of a certain individual in the Saloon in Valentine, and I really wanted his hat.

The cycle should be eased back a bit, imo. There's nothing worse than being on a mission or side quest and losing daylight when you actually want it to spot threats. By the same token, it sucks when you're using the cover of darkness and you lose it as the sun comes up as quickly as it does.

So glad I knocked that Trophy out already (I did a LOT of camp chores and said "Howdy" more than an extra on the "Howdy Doodie Show". Now, I can let my innate a-holeness shine through.

I was looting some O'Driscolls after an ambush, and I accidentally punched my horse right in the ribs. I don't have the video to upload to show what happens when you do this, but: Which I found both surprising and hilarious after I recalled earlier in the game: We should turn this into a "I punched my horse" GIF thread. Punch your horse, record what happens, and post it here!

I help them by ending their suffering. Usually by shooting them. In the face. With a shotgun. Then I unburden them of additional weight by helping myself to the contents of their pockets.

True. Then again, I'm going for the "Nicholas Cage at the end of The WIcker Man" look, so my hat isn't going to be in stores anyways.

I'm jealous. I tried that in Valentine at the physician's office, and all I got was a corpse carpet.

Sadly, only hats that "glow" while on the ground are "saveable". While you can pick up and don almost any hat, only certain ones are able to be retained once you save your game. @Skysaw, I was in the same boat when collecting Strauss' money. I beat someone up and liked their hat, but I wasn't allowed to keep it. Thankfully, I'm flush with cash now from doing every single mission I can find, and now if I want a hat, I just buy it.

Lol, I'm still in Chapter 2 because I keep getting sidetracked with little "experiments" like this. Looks like Chapter 3 is going to have to wait one more night. I already feel the beginnings of a plan taking shape that involves a wagon, some O'Driscolls, maybe a few of those jerks from the oil fields, and a train track.

I wouldn't say "outlaw", but I'm a big believer in the axiom, "work smarter, not harder". If people want to play the game blundering around like a bull in a china shop, be my guest--just don't come in here whining about how "unfair" the wanted system is when you get attention for standing over a dead body, rifling through the pockets like some Neanderthal. To be fair, I'm "White Hatting" this until I unlock the PS Trophy for "Maximum Goodness". After that, I'm going to turn into the biggest jackass this side of the Rio Grande.

Do you smell that? Smells like a class-action lawsuit to me....