Be Excellent To Each Other

Just had another great online session, done another gang hideout quest. Private matches is the way to go though free roam online and you encounter too many gung-ho idiots. My multiplayer game of choice now I was beginning to get bored with modern combat shooters.

Apologies to Pundy for repeatedly shooting him in the head and not responding...I was in a party and couldn't hear. Bloody gun fun though.

No apologies for shooting Morte in the head. He deserved it.

Its quite good in multiplayer, isn't it, though it can be a bit of a pain... see Fort Mercer, where you respawn roughly in the same place each time. Which is fun when you keep popping up right next to Morte's party and them shooting the crap out of you, when you only really want to help them to do the hideout, buttheycan'tresistshootingatyou,soYOUendUPshootingATthem,BECAUSEWHATELSEAREYOUSUPPOSEDTODO!?

Saw the credits roll last night.

Damn.

What a game.

I could have sworn Craster promised to post his copy to me this week....

Is it £20 yet?

Not even remotely. The shops here have only just got it back in stock.

I'll wait.

Got loads of shit games to play in the mean time.

The (Free roam) multiplayer in this surely is quite fun. Rides across the country on hoss back, holding forts against waves of mens, trying to stop dirty cow rustlers...

But my favourite part was me and an Dimrill running after a goat. Me waving my finger at it telling it that I knew it's mother was a whore, and the Dimrill telling it that he wanted to get in his pants.

*is now interested*

Don't you do that in every game though?

Want this game like a Sunday morning piss.

Yes, but not in game. That's what made it so excellent.


I'm not so sure about the longevity, because it is mainly making your own fun, but I do believe they have more coming.

How long is the main game?

Quite long. I've been playing for about 20+ hours so far, I reckon, and I'm 59% through.

Had an ace moment last night where I had to chase down and capture/kill a main story guy, but my horse refused to come to me. Cue a short pursuit on foot while I triggered DeadEye and shot all his horse's legs off. Scrambling desperately to pick himself off the ground, I approached the guy, lasso swinging around my head, ready to hogtie the fucker. As I get right up next to him, the excellent Horse AI™ kicks in, and he fucks off with my steed.

I wanted to take this guy alive, I certainly didn't want to shoot my own horse, and now I had nothing to chase him with. Oh well. So I shot him. Lots. In the back of the head.

My timer was on almost exactly fifty hours when I hit the end credits.

Surely one leg would have done the trick?

All legs is significantly funnier though.

The same reason why I ensure every duel consists of a shot in the hat, a shot in the gun-hand, and a shot in the nuts.

I'm a cowboy. What the fuck is 'enough'?

A real cowboy would have shot him in the head straight away.

The feds told me to bring him back alive

Can you spit on dogs heads?

You can certainly shoot dogs heads.

It is quite a buggy game, mind. Yesterday, I suddenly grew a woman , and then couldn't control the horse.

I just want to spit baccy on a growling dogs head on a porch.

So far my main disappointment is the lack of a lasso in multiplayer. I can see why they might've removed it, but still, how am I meant to drag a Dimrill behind me on horseback while telling him that his mothers a whore.

Is this difficult to play (single player)? Is there a wuss mode?

I might have a go of this game now Craig's finished it, but sometimes I get a bit stressed out when I die or people chase me.

There should be a 'turn off coyotes' option.

If you think they're bad, wait 'til you run into a cougar

Bears are a one-hit dead horse, which is annoying.

I guess that's why they didn't call it the Tame West.

I don't find them too difficult to deal with, given they're large and fairly slow. However! There isn't a challenge to take out bears with a knife, as far as I'm aware, while there certainly is for cougars.

Sounds too stressful

I might start a new Viva Pinata garden instead.

Ticky Ticky Tame Tame West.
Jim West, Tax Advisor.

Etc.

Maybe there is a way of playing it where you can avoid conflict and resolve situations passively.

By having a sit-down conference with wild dogs?

Well, I don't know, maybe one could pacify the wild dogs by feeding them something, or keep them at a distance by building a fence or something. I haven't played this game yet to be honest though.

Spit baccy on them.

I hate to tell you this... but there is.

I've got the multiplayer version done and dusted.

It's not actually that hard, unless, say there's two bears. Or four - which is how I ennded up getting it. It was like a really bad Benny Hill chase scene.

I really, really need to get into the habit of changing out of my Elegant Suit before combat.

Blood is a nightmare to get out of good wool.

Dipped my first toe into multiplayer last night. Was highly entertaining, especially shooting your mates' horses out from under them. Was a bit distressed that it insisted on putting me on a donkey, and did get shot in the head by Pundy a ludicrous amount of times, but it was a lot of fun.

I wish you would all just shut up.

At least now you have a nearly dead horse instead.

Oooh, today is going to be a whole day of rootin' tootin' wild west chicanery as I finally get a big session on Red Dead Redemption on this, me day off. Just about to do me first treasure map.

I do think I adore this game.

But first a fried breakfast at AJ's down the street and a read of a good ol' dime pulp western.

Right.

I'm getting this tomorrow.

Eep!

Soon, ma friend, soon!

Where can I get this for a rootin' tootin' less than 35 quid, pardner?

You can't.

I'm going to have to trade in ME2 (finished it anyway) and some other old dross.

Good lord, I reckon this is the most atmospheric game I've ever played. It feels right.

Them hookers ought to get themselves some sort of organizin', though - ah saved the same lady thrice from being all cut up on.

You should be able to lasso people together in this. Leaving people hogtied in the middle of the road is entertaining, but watching two people tied together attempt to walk in opposite directions would be funnier.