Red Dead Redemption Thread

jamief · 25 May 2010 at 10:35

Can you actually do much with the wild horses? I've captured one, but it doesn't seem much better than the horse I had. Can I sell it in town or anything?

antijoke · 25 May 2010 at 10:38

Nope you can't sell them, if they are worse than your current horse, kill it. It's the right thing to do.

I had a right blast on this last night. It was fun picking up the Desert Sage for the explorer challange.

Once I get the other places unlocked I will spend hours going round doing pointless stuff and helping strangers.

I also love using my bandana to protect my honour whilst doing bad things and taking down the law.

ic1male · 25 May 2010 at 10:42

How do you know what kind of horse you are currently riding is? I had to laugh yesterday when my niece who's into such things saw me playing and said you've got a "blah blah". I couldn't verify if she was right.

CliffyBiro · 25 May 2010 at 10:43

anticonscience said:
I also love using my bandana to protect my honour whilst doing bad things and taking down the law.

Oh, it has a purpose? Nice.

Does it affect earning honor though?

Nymins · 25 May 2010 at 10:48

ScarySquirrel said:
In 12 months time if you asked me if I wanted to play GTA IV or Red Dead Redemption for 6 hours straight; I would pick GTA IV.

I'm loving RDR, but once the story is finished I think the baron landscapes will bore me very quickly. At least in GTA there is a bit more variety due to the vehicles, car chases, urban environments etc.

I agree. RDR is brilliant, however it just feels like GTAIV has more going on and more things to "improvise" with if you know what I mean. GTAIV you could set stunts up and do crazy things and spawn stuff with cheats, in RDR it seems more confined to what you can do once the game ends.

PiKe · 25 May 2010 at 10:53

When you see a whore being attacked, do you get anything extra for not killing the guy?

antijoke · 25 May 2010 at 10:58

skippi90 said:
Oh, it has a purpose? Nice.

Does it affect earning honor though?

I believe it does stop honour being earnt as well.

I did a good deed last night with it on and got no honour.

UKDTweak · 25 May 2010 at 11:00

With the bandana on, you wont lose honour, but you also wont gain any either, so only wear it if doing bad things is iminent!

Nexus · 25 May 2010 at 11:04

Nymins said:
I agree. RDR is brilliant, however it just feels like GTAIV has more going on and more things to "improvise" with if you know what I mean. GTAIV you could set stunts up and do crazy things and spawn stuff with cheats, in RDR it seems more confined to what you can do once the game ends.

Personally I'd disagree, that's why I got so fed up with GTA 4 and the same reason a number of my friends did.

If you had been talking about the likes of San Andreas and earlier games, I could understand it. That was fun because you had things like Jetpacks and mountains with a ramp and bmx at the top of it, which you could launch off and then open a parachute. The game was over the top, but it made it really good fun. GTA 4 had an amazing looking game world, but by making it a more serious game and removing a lot of what made it wacky, it just wasn't as fun.

antijoke · 25 May 2010 at 11:08

No you don't.

The first crime I tried to stop I hogtied him and took him to the Sheriff expecting to be able to dump him there and lock him up, but they weren't interested, so I picked him up, took him out back and shot him.

It's my mission tonight to get the Dastardly achievement tonight.

TriedandTested · 25 May 2010 at 11:11

Unless I've become numb to violence, I can't see much in this game that would make it an 18. No sex, not a lot of bad language, not overly bloody/gory.

Haven't played for a couple of days but have I missed something?

PiKe · 25 May 2010 at 11:14

WeOwnTheSky said:
Unless I've become numb to violence, I can't see much in this game that would make it an 18. No sex, not a lot of bad language, not overly bloody/gory.

Haven't played for a couple of days but have I missed something?

Being run over by a train might do it.

ticklemebougy · 25 May 2010 at 11:16

anticonscience said:
It's my mission tonight to get the Dastardly achievement tonight.

I tried to do it last night but it didnt work. do you have to unlock the achievement first? if so how?

PiKe · 25 May 2010 at 11:18

ticklemebougy said:
I tried to do it last night but it didnt work. do you have to unlock the achievement first? if so how?

You place a hogtied women on the train tracks and wait for the train to come.

antijoke · 25 May 2010 at 11:19

Huh?

You have to lasso a woman, hogtie her, dump on the train track and watch the train run her over. The key part is watching it I think, you cant dump her there and go off and wait for the train to run her over. You need to witness it.

UKDTweak · 25 May 2010 at 11:21

Make sure you get a girl from thieves landing, otherwise you will lose honour when you lasso her in public, unless you wear a bandana?

antijoke · 25 May 2010 at 11:28

Do it anywhere you want whilst wearing the bandana, I did it in Armadillo last night and lost no honour.

Baplad · 25 May 2010 at 11:43

WeOwnTheSky said:
Unless I've become numb to violence, I can't see much in this game that would make it an 18. No sex, not a lot of bad language, not overly bloody/gory.

Haven't played for a couple of days but have I missed something?

Have you shotgun tapped the back of someones skull yet?

On a side note, how do you buy the bandana, whenever i go into the tailor in thieves landing hes never there?

Or do i have to get to mexico first?

UKDTweak · 25 May 2010 at 11:46

No need for mexico, you are going during opening hours right?

Baplad · 25 May 2010 at 11:51

Yeah, i have been during the day and night time its just below the doctor isnt it?

I walk in and you can see clothes rails and stuff but theres never anyone at the counter?