I'm still very happy with DOOM2 - loads of new WADS to download.  FOR FREE!

1 hour ago, Mod Stark said:

I'm about 25% in on RDR2 and still finding it incredibly slow. It seems it's only me as I keep reading just how amazing it is. Yes, it's a good game but I feel people are going a bit over the top about it. I'm hoping online will be better but I still think the slowness will play a part again. Galloping over the map on a nag doesn't quite have the same speed to it as a Hydra or a modified T20, so I'm guessing this could get annoying. 

I find myself playing for a little while then getting bored and putting Black Ops 4 back in.

 

I'm the opposite.

I like the travelling as you encounter countless little random scenarios on the way to missions etc which side track you in a good way. I much prefer it than GTA and I always have since RRD.

I suppose if travelling is an issue there is the speed map unlock which transports you to certain areas instantly.

I find it extremely hard to get into games these days and it's been a good few years since a game has drew me in quite like this,. It's a masterpiece in my eyes.

On 30/10/2018 at 10:19, Blueblur said:

If you follow me on Twitter you'll have already read this story but...

 

Met a Mexican by the side of the road. He challenged me to a shooting exercise, aiming at jars along a cliff wall. We wagered $5 as to who could shoot more, and I beat him.

He upped the stakes and said let's play again, this time for $10. I accepted, but little did I know the next challenge was to shoot as many birds out of the sky as possible. I failed miserably.

He demanded the money I owed him but instead I pulled out my repeater and blasted him to kingdom come. Looted his corpse. Stay south of the border next time, friend, you burrito-chomping shyster. 

Love.This.Game.

 

On 30/10/2018 at 12:29, dkw said:

Ha ha, I did exactly the same thing. Little sod beat me in the birds challenge, demanded money so I told him to get stuffed. Then he shot at me, I killed him and robbed him.

I met him early on when I wasn’t used to the controls and accidentally pulled my gun on him, he fired on me and I killed him anyway. Glad that a) I didn’t waste my time and b) he comes back 

I’m loving being an asshole in this game, normally I go for the good guy routine in things because the rewards are better. Not here!

I don't want to sound uppity but f**k it I'm going to anyway, but I think this game separates the casuals from the gamers. I've seen a few times on this thread and on YT comments that people turned it off to play Call Of Duty and that's just the thing, if Call Of Duty is more your type of game you aren't going to like this. This game is forcing you to invest a lot of time into it, it's not something you can really spend an hour or two on per night to get a joyful experience out of. 

Personally, I'm very thankful that this game has come out as single player games are of a dying breed, I love RPG's, especially games you can really immerse yourself into. Because I think the gaming market today is just dumbed down online games where you go out on a map and just kill each other, a lot of casual gamers who like to turn on their console after work for a bit enjoy that. The online game market is absolutely saturated and almost every game company is crying out for Fortnite copies, EA are desperately trying to mimic that and now this new Black Ops, and I don't even want to get into Fallout 76 and a total U-turn Bethesda took on that after #SavePlayer1 campaign. 

I think if you love single player games with good storytelling and cinematics you'll love this game, if you're more of a Call of Duty player or into online games you probably won't, because the game starts off very very slow and requires you to have a lot of interest in it. For example, the Journals give you a lot of information and backstory that the game doesn't feed you, and if you're not really into storytelling games I doubt you'll read the Journals. 

Although don't get me wrong, I don't think RDRII is the best game ever, I'm actually pretty disappointed with it after Chapter 5 (kinda rushed through the story), but other than that I think it's the best thing to come out since The Witcher 3. 

17 hours ago, yorkleyblue said:

I'm still very happy with DOOM2 - loads of new WADS to download.  FOR FREE!

Jesus Christ Kev, I've got DOOM 3 and I think that's ancient, I remember playing that when I was a kid, I snuck on my dads PC when I was about 9 or 10 and it put the absolute sh*ts up for me days, ran out of the room and wouldn't go back on, didn't even care about the consequences of leaving my dads PC on and going on it without his permission 

2 hours ago, Slojo said:

Jesus Christ Kev, I've got DOOM 3 and I think that's ancient, I remember playing that when I was a kid, I snuck on my dads PC when I was about 9 or 10 and it put the absolute sh*ts up for me days, ran out of the room and wouldn't go back on, didn't even care about the consequences of leaving my dads PC on and going on it without his permission 

I play mine through a 125watt keyboard amp - VERYVERY loud!  It keeps an old man very happy, and off the streets.

6 hours ago, Slojo said:

I don't want to sound uppity but f**k it I'm going to anyway, but I think this game separates the casuals from the gamers. I've seen a few times on this thread and on YT comments that people turned it off to play Call Of Duty and that's just the thing, if Call Of Duty is more your type of game you aren't going to like this.

There was only one cod comment in the topic and that was me. I'm far from a casual and I didn't say I didn't like it. The mechanics are slow compared to other games. I'm spending more time trying to stagger through camp like I've sh*t myself and whistling and waiting for a day for the horse to get to me.

I agree, the story takes patience, but for me, the movement within the game, takes just as much.

My only regret is...after finishing Spider-Man, I delved into my Steam library....a magical wilderness of games I don't remember buying, but seemingly did at some point during one of the many sales.

I picked one. Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. I heard it was good. I'd played AC1 and AC2 already. So I started.....and once again, I'm sucked into the process of finding every damn collectible the game has to offer. It's taking too damn long haha. I can't stop now, or I'll never come back to it.

One day...one day Red Dead, I will get back to you.

17 minutes ago, Cam said:

My only regret is...after finishing Spider-Man, I delved into my Steam library....a magical wilderness of games I don't remember buying, but seemingly did at some point during one of the many sales.

I picked one. Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. I heard it was good. I'd played AC1 and AC2 already. So I started.....and once again, I'm sucked into the process of finding every damn collectible the game has to offer. It's taking too damn long haha. I can't stop now, or I'll never come back to it.

One day...one day Red Dead, I will get back to you.

Black Flag is a smashing AC game- mainly because it has nothing to do with AC and you're just a pirate, boarding ships, fighting and swashbuckling, hopping from Nassau to Kingston, coves to islands. Enjoy!  

1 hour ago, Mod Stark said:

There was only one cod comment in the topic and that was me. I'm far from a casual and I didn't say I didn't like it. The mechanics are slow compared to other games. I'm spending more time trying to stagger through camp like I've sh*t myself and whistling and waiting for a day for the horse to get to me.

I agree, the story takes patience, but for me, the movement within the game, takes just as much.

No you and @RIP Mourinho also mentioned it. But I do agree with you on the movement, I actually like being in the camp but it's pretty tedious. 

Again sorry to sound uppity, (that apology only counts towards you not RIP Mourinho because you're an Admin) 

I've just seen in personal experience that people who like to play online shooters won't necessarily like Red Dead, and everyone is buying this game, even people who don't play these types of games because the hype is that big. So there is bound to be people who can't see the appeal or it takes them a long time to get into it. I've seen complaints about this being too much of a movie and long horse riding scenes but I love every time I'm on a horse with someone on a big journey, I don't think a Mass Effect game would be up your street if that's how you feel. 

I also think it starts slow (it ain't an issue with me) but I think the game should've started in New Austin, just before the Blackwater incident. Starting after that was a big mistake IMO, we could've got much better character development and an instant impactful storyline, rather than just starting in the Grizzlies where a lot of people won't understand why they're even there and what happened. 

6 hours ago, yorkleyblue said:

I play mine through a 125watt keyboard amp - VERYVERY loud!  It keeps an old man very happy, and off the streets.

Anything to keep you off the streets 

and not within 500 metres of any school,  apparently.

On 31/10/2018 at 14:02, yorkleyblue said:

I'm still very happy with DOOM2 - loads of new WADS to download.  FOR FREE!

I remember playing the original doom on a Lan at work back in the mysts if time, it was mind blowing..... 

Hoping you guys can help me. I got a rifle on Red Dead with the scope on it. I have previously used to scop but when I try to use it now, it doesn’t come use the scope where you look through it, just the normal shooting view. I can see the scope on the gun but it doesn’t use it.  Any ideas on how I can use the scope? Previously I had just pressed L2 and it worked. 

I’ve tried removing the scope and re-adding - nothing seems to be working. 

Any ideas?

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Hoping you guys can help me. I got a rifle on Red Dead with the scope on it. I have previously used to scop but when I try to use it now, it doesn’t come use the scope where you look through it, just the normal shooting view. I can see the scope on the gun but it doesn’t use it.  Any ideas on how I can use the scope? Previously I had just pressed L2 and it worked. 

I’ve tried removing the scope and re-adding - nothing seems to be working. 

Any ideas?

Hold L2 and press R3 I believe. Then potentially press R3 again for dead eye but I’ve not done that, release L2 to exit the scope. 

7 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Hold L2 and press R3 I believe. Then potentially press R3 again for dead eye but I’ve not done that, release L2 to exit the scope. 

Cheers, will try that. 

Do you guys manually save or use the auto save?

On 01/11/2018 at 07:19, Slojo said:

I don't want to sound uppity but f**k it I'm going to anyway, but I think this game separates the casuals from the gamers. I've seen a few times on this thread and on YT comments that people turned it off to play Call Of Duty and that's just the thing, if Call Of Duty is more your type of game you aren't going to like this. This game is forcing you to invest a lot of time into it, it's not something you can really spend an hour or two on per night to get a joyful experience out of. 

I agree, casuals that can't handle the fast pace of online shooters and real people to play against will enjoy the easy ride of RDR2. Elite gamers that enjoy a challenge and not just shooting a couple of AI's will opt for something like Call Of Duty to actually offer them a challenge. 

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Cheers, will try that. 

Do you guys manually save or use the auto save?

I manual save because I like the sense of control and reassurance that gives me. I can never see when the damn game autosaves, so I don't trust it.

2 hours ago, JM7 said:

Cheers, will try that. 

Do you guys manually save or use the auto save?

Both! Auto save while playing, manual when I quit. 

37 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

I agree, casuals that can't handle the fast pace of online shooters and real people to play against will enjoy the easy ride of RDR2. Elite gamers that enjoy a challenge and not just shooting a couple of AI's will opt for something like Call Of Duty to actually offer them a challenge. 

I always thought you had a good sense of humour but that ones on another level  

Next you’ll be telling us how the pay to win games are superior!

Single player games are the cowards way out. 

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

I agree, casuals that can't handle the fast pace of online shooters and real people to play against will enjoy the easy ride of RDR2. Elite gamers that enjoy a challenge and not just shooting a couple of AI's will opt for something like Call Of Duty to actually offer them a challenge. 

Single player games are challenging enough.

The problem with online games for me is having to rely on having a good internet connection. Getting booted out of games, 'elastic-banding', waiting rooms, it's all stuff I don't have time for. Not to mention the age of the twats who play games such as COD etc. 

#SavePlayer1

 

10 minutes ago, Blueblur said:

Single player games are challenging enough.

The problem with online games for me is having to rely on having a good internet connection. Getting booted out of games, 'elastic-banding', waiting rooms, it's all stuff I don't have time for. Not to mention the age of the twats elite gamers who play games such as COD etc. 

#SavePlayer1

 

 

^ @RIP Mourinho hahaha I don't think so.

Back to Red Dead, check out this sad story about a guy losing his horse. I'm terrified it will happen to me at one point in-game. I love my horse.

Still can’t get the scope on my rifle to work. So frustrating 

36 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Still can’t get the scope on my rifle to work. So frustrating 

Don’t think you can.