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gnfnrhead

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I've been playing Red Dead Redemption this week. 2 years later! Any fans? Please don't spoil it for me now!

I want it but they never have it when I go looking. I suppose I could look more than once every two or three months :pac:

CMpunked

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I've been playing Red Dead Redemption this week. 2 years later! Any fans? Please don't spoil it for me now!

It's amazing!

How far into it are you?

GTR63

gnfnrhead wrote: »

I want it but they never have it when I go looking. I suppose I could look more than once every two or three months :pac:

I always see it going 2nd hand, really enjoyed Red Dead but didn't like the Undead Nightmare expansion. 5-3 win over Young Boys this week shows that a game can have many goals but still not be a great game to watch. Enrique put in the worst performance from a left back since Pancaro for Milan vs Deportivo 8 years ago.

Lord TSC

I bought it blind a few months back, thinking it was just a wild west game, not realising it was GTA: Wild West. Got deep into it but then stopped playing it one day and never went back to it...

Angron

I kinda want to play RDR some time, just to try and find a few of the notorious glitches.

Stereomaniac

I'm not very far into it at all. I rescued some old guy who was shot by bandits, drove his wagon.

CMpunked

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I'm not very far into it at all. I rescued some old guy who was shot by bandits, drove his wagon.

It takes a good while to get fully into it. But when it does, oh man.

Hashtag_HEEL

While we're on the subject of video games, anybody know if portal 2 is any good? It's a toss up between Portal 2 or BTTF the game!

Lord TSC

Loved Portal 2. Short game, but really, really fun. Even better if you have someone to play the co-op campaign with.

GTR63

Hashtag_HEEL wrote: »

While we're on the subject of video games, anybody know if portal 2 is any good? It's a toss up between Portal 2 or BTTF the game!

Have both BTTF is ok enough but if its a pick em i'd go with Portal 2.
Anyone buying Borderlands 2 tomorrow or waiting to pick up FIFA 13

Lord TSC

I have to wait till Halloween to get Borderlands, since me and my brother play it together.

Plus not only is Fifa out next Friday, WoW: Mists of Pandoria is out on Tuesday. NINJA PANDAS!

Reganio 2

lockie1983 wrote: »

How bad was it here? I'm new enough to the PW forum as you can tell by my joined date and every so often I see a comment talking about the dark old days or the bad times, they sound biblical!

Ahh it was fine . I think at one stage their was a kind of old guard then a lot of people like Rovert and others all basically started posting at the same time so their was a bit of an originals vs new breed vibe going on. Then the people like myself who really didn't give a crap.... Good times

The only person who ever argued with me was ShawnRaven and that was for not talking enough on the podcast.

gnfnrhead

FIFA is out next week? Thats my birthday present sorted so. Only the other day my mam asked what I wanted. I dont want anything but she wont take that as an answer.

Just thinking, might ask for RDR instead so I dont have to keep looking for it! :pac:

GTR63

gnfnrhead wrote: »

FIFA is out next week? Thats my birthday present sorted so. Only the other day my mam asked what I wanted. I dont want anything but she wont take that as an answer.

Just thinking, might ask for RDR instead so I dont have to keep looking for it! :pac:

FIFA is out next Friday, what day is your Birthday?
Just thinking I barely played FIFA 12 after Christmas cause Milan and Liverpool have died on their arse since what a petty excuse not to play it but thats it.

D.Q

Awful lot of pointless driving about in RDR iirc. Starting to play it again but it really put me off.

DEFTLEFTHAND

RDR got me interested in gaming again after a long layoff. For me its the greatest game purchase I've ever made, no exaggeration there..

Penn

I loved RDR too but it was a hard game to get into. I bought it pre-owned because a friend recommended it. Played for a few hours, didn't like it. Ended up trading it in a few weeks later. Few months after that, I said I'd give it another try. Still didn't like it. Traded it in again. Few months after that, due to friend's endless persistence that it was a great game, I bought it one more time and said no matter what, I'm going to finish this game.

Really glad I did. Slow to start off and hard to understand at times in the beginning, but once you get into it, it's amazing. One of the best games ever.

Lord TSC

I got why RDR was popular, but the huge amounts of dead space annoyed the hell out of me, and all the traveling wasn't my cup of tea. I think games went that direction for a while where they were expanding and expanding, and then started to shrink down or at least fill the space.

Speaking of games, anyone try Black Mesa yet? Just reading about it now. A full remake of Half Life. Loved HL back in the day (though never got round to HL2).

Getting an xbox next week (i usually play at a mates) what is the first game i should play

Penn

connemara man wrote: »

Getting an xbox next week (i usually play at a mates) what is the first game i should play

What kind of games do you like? Do you have a PS3 or anything?

Penn

Penn wrote: »

What kind of games do you like? Do you have a PS3 or anything?

No i don't. I just kinda never bought a console a mate always had one or housemate so I didn't need one. I like the assassins creed series and stuff I like stories within the game.

CMpunked

connemara man wrote: »

No i don't. I just kinda never bought a console a mate always had one or housemate so I didn't need one. I like the assassins creed series and stuff I like stories within the game.

Get that then. Start with number 2. The first was unnecessarily frustrating and can be skipped.
Do you like batman? Arkham asylum/city is pretty excellent.
If you like good story games don't bother going near COD or battlefield games.

CMpunked

CMpunked wrote: »

Get that then. Start with number 2. The first was unnecessarily frustrating and can be skipped.
Do you like batman? Arkham asylum/city is pretty excellent.
If you like good story games don't bother going near COD or battlefield games.

I've heard good things about batman so i'll be hitting them up I have played a lot of the AC series just not the latest so that's my first go to then Batman, I'm getting GOW because mates of mine play it together online from all around the place. Red Dead will be on the list because what I have read here

Penn

GOW is a great series too. First one isn't anything major (but still worth playing), but the second and third games are great. Other than that, like CMpunked said, the Batman games are great. Portal 2 is a lot of fun (but pretty short). A lot of people really liked Bayonetta (I only thought it was alright) which is more of a slash-em-up action game (there's also Devil May Cry 4 which is along the same lines which I preferred). And even though the new Hitman game is coming out soon, the last game, Hitman: Blood Money is still a great game and could be picked up really cheaply (if you can find it).

Lord TSC

Skyrim might be of interest as well; pretty friendly to new players, a massive story and a lot of personalisation involved.

CMpunked

Speaking of portal:

GTR63

Buy Mass Effect 1-3 Conn Man great game with a great story about choices pity the ending is a letdown but couldn't recommend it enough.

Bounty Hunter

buy all the old consoles (PS2, N64 etc) for less than the price of a new one then get all the classics like GTA: San Andreas, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda: Ocarina of time, Mario Kart, Metal Gear Solid 2, Tekken 3 etc as cheap previously owned games and your laughing... or maybe that would just be me.

:cool:

Bounty Hunter

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

buy all the old consoles (PS2, N64 etc) for less than the price of a new one then get all the classics like GTA: San Andreas, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda: Ocarina of time, Mario Kart, Metal Gear Solid 2, Tekken 3 etc as cheap previously owned games and your laughing... or maybe that would just be me.

:cool:

I have my old mega drive and streets of rage I'm sorted on that front

Bounty Hunter

connemara man wrote: »

I have my old mega drive and streets of rage I'm sorted on that front

ahh good old Streets of Rage and just like Proust's madeleine so many memories come flooding back.

Sonic the hedgehog cheat = up, down, left, right, A + start together while on the options screen... can't remember for the life of me what it got you though :pac: