 Originally Posted by AcesandEights
Spare us your personal annotations about your tingles, MZ 
But, but, they're so interesting! 
Originally Posted by ProfessorChaos
as a huge fan of the show mad men, i gotta say that they picked a great actor to play the lead in this game. his work with "ken! cosgrove. accounts...." is awesome. rockstar's rendition of staton and his mannerisms and facial animations is spot-on and i'm willing to bet the woman at 1:47 is another actor from mad men who plays peggy olsen's mother.
the level of detail and attention put into this game continue to impress the hell out of me. gta4 was good, but needed to be improved, and TLaD and TBoGT dlc's (say that 3x fast) did just that. then came rdr, which i found to be a big step-up from gta and its expansions. hopefully the trend continues with this.
i'm let down that multiplayer hasn't been announced, as i can't believe that they would leave that out. if that's the case, then i'm really hoping the single player has tons of side missions and activities or a high replay value for the story. either way, this is my most eagerly anticipated game due out this year.
Not every game needs multiplayer though. Indeed, it's pointless them all having it, as most will stop playing the MP relatively soon ... it's only the sorts who play Halo and CoD like a religion who keep it properly going long after release ... ... plus it probably wouldn't have worked out in this particular title. It makes sense in RDR because it's cowboys shooting at each other, and posses, and all that jazz ... but detectives looking for clues and reading facial expressions? Nothing in that screams multiplayer to me at all.
It's good to see focus on singleplayer though, I hate all this fascination and jizzing over multiplayer - like preview videos of shooters always focus on the goddamned MP rather than the SP, and it pisses me off ... but that's a rant I've done before.
Anyway, this looks genuinely kick ass, and I can't wait to play it. As for replay value, we'll see, but the fact that you can shut down avenues of investigation by asking the wrong question is intriguing - perhaps that'll lead to more replay value, although on the other hand if you already know the outcome then that could be an issue - but at the same time, there could be multiple endings, or you know, you might just want to replay it because it ends up being a spiffing game worthy of another bash.
I too am hoping there'll be plenty of side missions - and hopefully random events - I loved the random events in RDR, although some were more common than others, so it'd be cool to have some random events in this game - crimes that suddenly happen as you're driving/walking by (robberies, speeders, etc), so that'd be pretty damn cool. That would be pretty neat, just walking down the street and then suddenly there's a diner getting held up and you have to leap into action - that'd be cool.
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