Yes folks, you've heard me talking about it - rumours like the wind rushing over dead branches - but today is the day. Today is the day of fools and madmen and of legends. Today is the day when we, the mighty people of Sparta, rise up and say enough is enough! When we say we WILL have our bread and feast on it! We shall look upon our foes and laugh for we know, oh we know, that today is the day that we go forth into the unknown and ring the bell of truth! For all know this is the day that the bell knells for you. This is the day we buy Red Dead Redemption. 
 
Or something like that... *Shuffles feet* 
 
Well on that note, I'll change topic completely and talk about my time so far with AC2. Still not convinced! Damn! I wanna bloody like the game, seriously I do! But I still have my reservations! Sure you go around looking for chests in other games, but it just feels so repetitive this time around! Maybe because it shows you on the map "You must go here and here and here" instead of just letting you find things on your own. You see a big tower, you have to go up it. And they all have the same outcome. It's boring. 
 
Combat is average. Not impressed by it. Man oh man I just want to like the stupid game! I don't want to have to return it! I've probably got my poster up in the game store with "Do not serve this repeat-returner" underneath it. I mean I've returned Assassin's Creed, Borderlands, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Dragon Age: Origins, Gears of War 2, Halo 3: ODST (twice!), The Movies and Worms 4: Mayhem! That's a whopping 8 games! Assassin's Creed 2 will be nine and if I don't like Red Dead Redemption or Fallout 3 that will be into double figures! Maybe I can write a book? "Confessions of a bad game returner". 
 
I'll play the game through and give it a good chance. If I return it I guess I shouldn't feel bad - I mean if I could return games I had when I was younger I probably would have too. But I guess I wouldn't have found the good points in those games. But maybe I was too easily pleased? Man I'm definitely over-thinking this.

I'll be honest... I have played most of those games you just mentioned and enjoyed them.  While I strongly feel you will enjoy Red Dead Redemption... I have to say... your taste in games is baffling to my palette.  Perhaps... you would enjoy a good game of Pong? 
 
- Marc

I was a lover of the Dragon Age... took me back to my old days playing Baldurs Gate.  Also I thought the plot was pretty damn good.  However like my opinion, yours and mine are our own. ODST, I will agree with you on, only reason I kept it was because my Halo disc was scratched pretty bad and i wanted to give it a break so as to save the chance of being able to replay the single player campaign again for nostalgia.  Plus, the map packs were nice.  Gears of War 1-2 ... love the campaign... hate the multiplayer because of bad experiences at LAN conventions.  Condemned 2... was a good game.  You should check it out again now that your wearing big boy pants.  Borderlands was a great game, and had replay value in my opinion because you had different classes that provided different experiences.  The First assassins creed was a marvel, but at the same a bit repetitive.  The sequel remedied this quite a bit.  To be honest... repetition to some degree is part of gaming in general and the sequel did a good job of keeping it fairly minimal.  Giving a player the ability to do something and the methodology of an action, merits repetition so that a player can make use of the training provided.  The fact that the sequel offers at least four different ways to succeed in most of its missions if a improvement over its predecessor.   As for pong, your missing out... it is the father of gaming.  Shame the movies didn't work for you.  I enjoyed that sim quite a bit and its community. 
 
Cheers
 
- Marc

You do know you aren't supposed to return games because you disliked them right? Completely playing through entire games and deciding you don't like them isn't a reason to return them to the store.