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Mission: Seth's parents have crossed the gang by talking to "the law". You and members of the gang visit the Briars homestead, and one of the outcomes is killing Seth's parents and burying him alive with their corpses.

It'd make a fantastic heist mission: steal a car for someone jealous of a rival. Hell, that'd make a nice little global event in the online portion. Stealing cars and racing them for a limited time (maybe a week or 10 days), and you could unlock one as a mission reward.

The beauty of living in a fairly large city is that Gamestop will reopen at 23:30. Everyone who wants to pick up their copy at midnight has to get there before 23:50, pay in full, and line up in front of the store, so they can send in five at a time. You show them your receipt, they hand you your copy of the game, and you're out the door. I've seen them hand out over 300 copies of a game this way and be done by 00:05. It's a good system, and the best part is, I live three blocks away from the store, so I can be playing by 00:30. I've already taken the next day off of work, so it'll be on like Donkey Kong!

Back before Friday the 13th: The Game went off the rails, my wife would sit there for hours and watch me play, audibly groaning every time I picked Lachappa for my counselor. But she loved it. Never played any game other than Rock Band (which more often than not reduced her to a pile of F-bombs), but she thought F13 was hilarious.

At the end of a long week at work, there's only one song that can get me back to where I need to be, the last song I want to hear when I'm on my deathbed:

"The Pocket Posse". That's what I'm calling mine.

This would be a great candidate for a global event that could be rotated on a temporary basis.

True. I plan on being an incorrigible jackass when I play this online.

According to Buford Tannen, the cost of a Horse is $75:

Neither am I. I'm just here for moms. Boo! Booooooo! MicroSith is the devil! Now it's just starting to feel like peer pressure to join XBL... I swear if @Cokeyskunk pushes me towards XBL, I'm going to start feeling more confused than the first time I saw Juwanna Mann There's only one beer you need.

You never know. There may be a way to progress through the story while playing online. It certainly works for other games/titles. Then again, R* has usually kept GTA in similar game play constructs ever since GTA III, so it stands to reason that the storyline mode for RDR2 will closely mimic the structure of RDR.

Customization is a big part of online play for me personally. I look at a game like The Division, which had a handful of preset faces and hair styles to choose from, but a preposterous amount of cosmetic clothing options (95% of which were lore-appropriate), and think "that's the way to go on RDR2". Minimal customization for the face and features, focus on the clothing for diversity of character. Sure, R* could have a more robust customization suite, but I think that a feature like that is a time sink when most people just want to get in the game and play. I've spent entire days customizing a character in other games (if not longer). Removing the illusion of choice is a better option, imho, but I certainly understand why others may disagree.

Then they'll have to release a Killer Queen pack. I hear she's dynamite with a laser beam. Edit: @Cokeyskunk, the only issue with editing a post is that I'm unable to quote new material when editing a post. Of course, I could just be a dullard who doesn't know how to do it properly... No, it's the software that is to blame!

The difference being, I have to drink heavily to play Minecraft with my son. He's fun to play games with, but Minecraft is just... the WORST.

It could be worse. You could have the theme song from "Small Wonder" in your head: "La, lalala, lalala, lalalala. La, lalala, lalala, lalalala!"

Meh, I'm passing on BFV, but that's more due to the fact that I'm a "one game at at time" kind of guy, two at the most. These days, I'm still grinding out The Division and goofing around with Friday the 13th. Once RDR2 hits, Friday will drop out of the rotation completely and The Division will become the diversion until TD2 drops in March. RDR2 basically has five months of my undivided gaming attention.

There's so many great parts in that film, but the one that always makes me crack up is when Taggart and the raiders are slowed down by the William J. Le Petomane Thuway. "Somebody's gotta go back and get a s---load of dimes!" I die laughing every time. That, and when Bart shows up at the labor camp again,: Charlie: "They said you was hung." Bart: "And they was right". They'd never make that film nowadays. Hell, I'm surprised it hasn't been banned outright.

I see what you did there 🤣 Thankfully, my "third leg" can rise to the occasion when called upon, even in my advanced age. If that's the plan for R*, then I'd imagine they'll launch the online component on or just before Black Friday, so that the "full game" is available on the biggest shopping day of the year in the US. From a strategy standpoint, this makes the most sense; early adopters and fans will have an opportunity to explore the game's open world and finish the main story for nearly a month before the online portion becomes active. Without a putative system for progression, leveling in an online game is definitely not indicative of player ability.

The Blu Ray of The Quiet Man gets a lot of airings in Casa de Creed. So much so, that my kids know there's a problem when I tell them, "you just made the list!". Pro tip: Blazing Saddles is available to stream as part of the Amazon Prime package right now.

I miss the old-school gargantuan Xbox controllers that came out with the original console. My fingers are disturbingly long, and when Microsoft went to those smaller controllers, there was nothing holding me back. All my friends had PS4, and while I miss Halo and Gears of War, PS Vue makes up for it. One of these days I'll pull the trigger on an XB1X, but I barely have time to play one console, let alone two.

I hadn't considered that. Looks like I'm stopping at aredbox on the way home.

Off the top of my head? I like to keep things grounded in reality with games like this (my desire for Bone Tomahawk influenced dlc notwithstanding), so things like an event over the course of a week whereby there's a chance to rob a stagecoach with real life outlaw Pearl Hart, and complete a questline for a unique reward. There could also be faction-based events: choosing the side of the law or outlaws in skirmishes in specific locations, or even seasonal events. There's a lot of options, but the rewards would have to be tailored to be in-line with whatever system is imolemented for the game. I'd be a bigger fan, personally, of cosmetic rewards over rewards that could tip the balance of power in the game. Making the rich richer isn't going to help player retention. Not everyone has multiple hours a day to devote to playing this game.

I'd love that tomahawk, but I can't justify $27.99 on GTA V (used) for an item in RDR2.

It's funny, but I always view Bone Tomahawk as a spiritual successor to The 13th Warrior (the original book, Eaters of the Dead, Crichton based off of Beowulf). The villains are remarkably similar, and the two make for a fantastic double feature. BT is one of those films where you sit down and have a completely different theory of where the story is going as opposed to how it ends up. I know @Cokeyskunk would rather have more supernatural elements to potential DLC, ala RDR's Undead expansion, but based on the growth of GTAV post launch through content updates, there's certainly room for multiple options once the release cycle ramps up for DLC on RDR2. I do think they should keep some of the more outlandish ideas for later in the cycle: focus more on expanding the narrative and world building through the initial DLC offerings and sprinkle in hints of what is coming down the line, but keep it under wraps. I also wouldn't mind seeing limited time events occur in-world. Several games do this, and it'd be cool to see R* explore this option.