Red Dead Redemption

[Lt_Red]

Counter says about 45 hours I think. I was not rushing in particular.

I still have quite a bit to do for 100% completion (if I can be arsed), but the story has finished - and it was great

[Lt_Red]

Extra Punctuation; Yahtzee writes on RDR.

Some good shouts in there, couldn't agree more.

On another note (without spoilers) since completing the main story I've been spending my time in RDR killing everyone who looks at me funny. I rarely have pitty or remorse, and actually this fits into the plot quite well as you will discover.

I cleaned out an entire town in mexico yesterday. Every living person - shot, every dog and every horse - shot and skinned.

I'm racking up a bounty - at about $3,400 now, killing any posse who tries to track me down, and now the army is after me. They occasionally catch up with me an I have to leg it.

I had a wonderfully timed escape on the train yesterday. I had just shot a story character from earlier in the game, hopped on a train which was just pulling out of the station as the army found my trail.

I sat and waited for the train to pull away before shooting everyone on the train, robbing their measly earnings, knifing the driver in the face then disapearing into the wilderness like a ghost.

The main story is over but I'm having alot of fun writing my own.

Theres not many games you can say that about.

[TALON]

Sounds like Red has gone over the edge, we'd best hunt him down like the rabid animal he is.

[Lt_Red]

Get in the mood with arguably the best western ever made on ITV4 tonight at 9pm.

Radio Times says;

"Unforgiven

5 stars!

Thursday 15 July
9:00pm - 11:45pm
ITV4

Winner of four Oscars, including best picture and director, this is, quite simply, one of the finest films ever made in the genre. Exploring the harsh realities of frontier life, Clint Eastwood depicts the west as an unforgiving place where tragedy strikes every time somebody draws a gun. It's clear from the fevered manner in which Saul Rubinek's dime novelist character gathers his Wild West stories from the last eyewitnesses that an era is about to pass into legend. Screenwriter David Webb Peoples reinforces this shift in attitudes through the film's understated feminism and its assertion that what once passed for law and order often had little to do with justice. Eastwood's own world-weary performance as William Munny, a retired gunslinger forced to strap on the six-shooters one last time to feed his children, is exemplary, cleverly drawing on our familiarity with his "Man with No Name" persona to convey the magnitude of the disgust that he now feels at the prospect of killing. The support playing of Morgan Freeman as his former partner, Richard Harris as vain killer English Bob and Oscar-winning Gene Hackman as the vicious Sheriff Daggett is unsurpassable. It's easy to see why Eastwood dedicated the film to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel - this is both a testament and a riposte to his work with them. Gone is the efficient, detached bloodletting of Leone's Dollars trilogy and Siegel's Dirty Harry and in its place comes the greater emphasis on character and cause and effect that ranks Eastwood alongside his two mentors, at the same time redefining the genre. You won't forgive yourself if you miss it."