So, what's with Gamespot's love fest with RDR?

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

starwarsgeek112

I got the game a week ago and i can see why it gets all this praise. It's an awesome game the world feels alive and it doesnt get boring like GTA4 and the controls are actually good unlike GTA IV. Having played 12hrs of the game i can say that i'm not angry i got GOTY

It's the first western classic in the videogame medium. Now we're only 49 away from matching Hollywood :P (maybe 50 if you want to count the True Grit remake).moose_knuckler

[QUOTE="moose_knuckler"]It's the first western classic in the videogame medium. Now we're only 49 away from matching Hollywood :P (maybe 50 if you want to count the True Grit remake).iammason

None of those deserving the word "classic", like RDR (going solely by critics and....everybody else).moose_knuckler

[QUOTE="moose_knuckler"]None of those deserving the word "classic", like RDR (going solely by critics and....everybody else).foxhound_fox

Do you see any other western game coming out that could dethrone RDR of the status it will recieve? You don't need to wait years down the road to know RDR will still leave the deepest impression on westerns (counting only videogames). You can certainly have your opinion about the game (I don't find it to be a 95, personally), but I don't seehow it won't fit into your definition of "****c", which is the correct definition I might add, given what it has already accomplished, reception-wise.

[QUOTE="iammason"][QUOTE="moose_knuckler"]It's the first western classic in the videogame medium. Now we're only 49 away from matching Hollywood :P (maybe 50 if you want to count the True Grit remake).moose_knuckler

[QUOTE="moose_knuckler"][QUOTE="iammason"] There have been other Western games.... Like the first Red Dead. And Call of Juarez. And Gun.iammason

It was a pretty good game imo but I don't think it should have won best 360/PS3 game.

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[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"]

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

emorainbo

Wait GS didn't pick SMG2? but both Kev and Tom had praised the game to no extent i've seen a gs editor praise a game this year.

Did GS cover in a podcast or something why they chose RDR over SMG2? I havne't had access to a PC for a few days so don't really know the current state of things in SW :)

[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"]

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

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it was the best ps3 game. RDR is 100 times better than Heavy Rain or MAG or whatever other crap i havent mentioned

I have no idea. I was bored with it from the start, honestly. It's like "oh, do this cattle-herding stuff for a while and then we'll let you get to the really neat stuff".

**** you Rockstar, I have better things to do.

Even when the game got going it was still an incredible bore. The combat was so easy as to be insulting (hurr durr, I durst lock-on to the bad guys), and the vast majority of the missions were the usual Rockstar bull ****,, i.e., go here, kill some dudez, listen to some insipid dialog whilst riding to your destination, etc.

There's nothing brilliant about it; it's the GTA formula copy-pasted to the west with some admittedly great graphics, but ****ing hell, what isn't pretty these days?

Rockstar has a good game in them somewhere, but they continually assume that everyone has the time and/or the desire to play through their overlong, filler-stuffed storylines, and I don't, I really don't, not when there's so many other games that offer so much more without asking for you to bend over and be ****ed by idiot tutorials and blatant padding missions.

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

starwarsgeek112

Personally I thought it was boring as hell.

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I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

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it was the best ps3 game. RDR is 100 times better than Heavy Rain or MAG or whatever other crap i havent mentioned

I don't get how any rockstar games win awards. They all control terribly, which is sort of a no no when it comes to videogames. That's like giving a film of the year award to a movie that was shot out of focus.

I'm not sure myself. I thought it was probably one of the most poorly executed stories in a game... ever.

[QUOTE="ColdP1zza"]And trust me, RDR blows anything on the Wii or DS out of the water and I know because I own all of those consoles as well.foxhound_fox

SMG2 doesn't even come close IMO, but I'm reasonable and I can understand how you could argue that, so that one may just come down to opinion, although there's no denying RDR blows it out of the water in terms of narrative and scale.

But DKC, really? The 8.5? The game that could have easily been passed off as a 1200MSP game on XBLA? The thing is, I'm not sure if you have played it, but if you have I don't even see how you could even think that. DKC is just a simple platformer, really nothing to special and nothing people are going to remember for long. RDR is simply amazing, and there's a reason why it sweeping so many awards and won so many GOTY's whereas no popular gaming sites are putting up DKC for even a nomination.

i thought there are better games then RDR.

Its a pretty amazing game. Hogtie a nun to a train track and you will see why it won GOTY!!!

ated

Wait GS didn't pick SMG2? but both Kev and Tom had praised the game to no extent i've seen a gs editor praise a game this year.

Did GS cover in a podcast or something why they chose RDR over SMG2? I havne't had access to a PC for a few days so don't really know the current state of things in SW :)

blahzor

Also SMG2 didn't have any negatives while RDR did in the review.

Wait GS didn't pick SMG2? but both Kev and Tom had praised the game to no extent i've seen a gs editor praise a game this year.

Did GS cover in a podcast or something why they chose RDR over SMG2? I havne't had access to a PC for a few days so don't really know the current state of things in SW :)

blahzor

Yeah that happends when everybody votes for their personal favorite instead of the one game that truly deserves it, Kevin and Tom where a minority but they where right, and I think it was great of them to not show up in the goty video.

Forget about SMG1 ever existing, put the same game on PS3/360, swap whatever there is that makes it "Mario" with something identical and you have the game of the decade from every site. 90% of System Wars would have praised this game to death and calling it the Mario killer etc. It's the same game we are talking about here and the sad part is that all of this is true lol.

I wouldn't mind if they'd pick StarCraft 2 or maybe ME2 (haven't played this one) because those games can be justified a GOTY, Red Dead is a GTA clone in the desert. Story, atmosphere and such aspects that RDR captured well shouldn't matter in gaming as much as gameplay.

I dunno, I thought it was a great game, but not THAT great. I liked Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Starcraft II best, followed by Mass Effect 2.

SMG2 doesn't even come close IMO, but I'm reasonable and I can understand how you could argue that, so that one may just come down to opinion, although there's no denying RDR blows it out of the water in terms of narrative and scale.

But DKC, really? The 8.5? The game that could have easily been passed off as a 1200MSP game on XBLA? The thing is, I'm not sure if you have played it, but if you have I don't even see how you could even think that. DKC is just a simple platformer, really nothing to special and nothing people are going to remember for long. RDR is simply amazing, and there's a reason why it sweeping so many awards and won so many GOTY's whereas no popular gaming sites are putting up DKC for even a nomination.

ColdP1zza

[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"]

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

ColdP1zza

First of all you haven't even played it. And trust me, RDR blows anything on the Wii or DS out of the water and I know because I own all of those consoles as well.

Here's the thing, you can't compare any Wii game to RDR because no Wii game comes close to the scale of Red Dead nor can any game on Wii even touch the narrative.

So IMO RDR most definately deserves all the awards its getting, and there's no mandatory mission that requires you to get beaver pelts, that's just one of the optional hunting challenges.

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

starwarsgeek112

[QUOTE="starwarsgeek112"]

I mean is this game really THAT good? In my opinion it won so many rewards that it was just ridiculous. I mean best PS3 and 360 game?? With all of the good exclusives that came out this year for each platform and they ended up picking the same multiplat?? I'm sorry but I can't see this game being that good. I haven't played it but that's mostly because it looked boring when I watched my friend play for a couple hours. Sorry but no GOTY should have simplistic "fetch x number of beaver hides" quests.

_Cadbury_

its the only game i regretted buying this year. 100% over rated - i dont see why all gaming sites bend over and take it from rockstar. i find all their games really boring and poorly madejoel_c17

If you find all of R*'s games poorly made and boring why would you buy Red Dead Redemption?

I would think after

Bully

Grand Theft Auto 3

Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto IV

and

Red Dead Revolver you would have learned your lesson. What made you buy the game? Is the answers reviews? Because all of their games get really amazing reviews.

Mo' money, no problems.

Money runs everything in this world - I wouldn't be surprised if MULTIPLE devs and publishers lined some peoples' pockets. It's the way the world works.

People still madabout ME2?

Without the story the game would be rubbish.

Mediocre graphics with repetetive shooting in levels designed practically as tunnels, with mediocre controls.

[QUOTE="joel_c17"]its the only game i regretted buying this year. 100% over rated - i dont see why all gaming sites bend over and take it from rockstar. i find all their games really boring and poorly madeRyanShazam

If you find all of R*'s games poorly made and boring why would you buy Red Dead Redemption?

I would think after

Bully

Grand Theft Auto 3

Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto IV

and

Red Dead Revolver you would have learned your lesson. What made you buy the game? Is the answers reviews? Because all of their games get really amazing reviews.

Red Dead was a great game, but IMO ME2 was much better

[QUOTE="ColdP1zza"]

SMG2 doesn't even come close IMO, but I'm reasonable and I can understand how you could argue that, so that one may just come down to opinion, although there's no denying RDR blows it out of the water in terms of narrative and scale.

But DKC, really? The 8.5? The game that could have easily been passed off as a 1200MSP game on XBLA? The thing is, I'm not sure if you have played it, but if you have I don't even see how you could even think that. DKC is just a simple platformer, really nothing to special and nothing people are going to remember for long. RDR is simply amazing, and there's a reason why it sweeping so many awards and won so many GOTY's whereas no popular gaming sites are putting up DKC for even a nomination.

foxhound_fox

I own SMG2 and its good, but not even close to RDR. Also, you basically ignored everything I said and just clung to the fact that I don't think DKC is anything special.

People still madabout ME2?

Without the story the game would be rubbish.

Mediocre graphics with repetetive shooting in levels designed practically as tunnels, with mediocre controls.

lucky_star

Mediocre graphics? Have you even played the game?

You really shouldn't have said you hadn't played it, it just makes you look like an schmuck. If it's not your thing, that's fine, but at least play the game with an open mind and carve an opinion through experience rather than dismissing it straight away.

That said, RDR was a good game, but it shouldn't have sweeped the awards. I had to force myself to finish it, and that's never a good sign. On the contrary, I loved every moment of ME2. But hey, different strokes.

Red Dead was a great game, but IMO ME2 was much better

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