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    Red Dead Redemption

    Game » consists of 23 releases. Released May 18, 2010

    Red Dead Redemption is the spiritual successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, featuring a vibrant, open world set in the decline of the American Wild West. Players take on the role of former outlaw John Marston, who is forced to hunt down his former gang to regain his family.

    Why doesn`t anyone play this online?

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    #1  Edited By blazerx9x

    My friends sold their copy, so i`m stuck here on free roam by myself, and no one play`s any of the matches
     
    please don`t tell me that online for RDR is dead
     
    EDIT:
     
    I use psn... darn

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    #2  Edited By BraveToaster

    I played free roam as soon as I bought the game, then I shelfed it for a few weeks. I'm playing through the story now, and I plan in going back to the multiplayer once I finish.

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    #3  Edited By blazerx9x
    @Axxol: wooooot
     
    PSN?
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    ...because the online kind of sucks.

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    #5  Edited By BraveToaster
    @blazerx9x said:
    " @Axxol: wooooot  PSN? "
    Damn, I have a PS3 but..... I have RDR on Xbox.
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    #6  Edited By ISuperGamerI

    I haven't played in a long time so I don't know if people still play on XBL but the online was fun, even if it was a bit disappointing. Plus, I still need to beat the story mode.

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    #7  Edited By Toxin066
    @InfamousBIG said:
    " ...because the online kind of sucks. "
    I agree with this. It just doesn't offer a quality experience.
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    #8  Edited By blazerx9x
    @Axxol said:
    " @blazerx9x said:
    " @Axxol: wooooot  PSN? "
    Damn, I have a PS3 but..... I have RDR on Xbox. "
    ffaawwwwk
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    #9  Edited By The_Laughing_Man

    I play online once and a wile 
     
    Cyberneticzero 

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    #10  Edited By shivermetimbers

    I kept running into hackers that made themselves invisible while doing a free for all match. The spawns and the amount of camping are even worse than MW2. Free roam is generally empty unless you have a group of friends bullying on the loners. That's why I stopped playing.
     
    Edit: They need to take out auto aim, it really is a game breaker when it comes to multiplayer. The only defense against it is to hide (which is why there's so many campers.

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    #11  Edited By joeybagad0nutz

    I play online all the time. I don't see a lot of gang matches or free-for-all (Actually I see like none) but, I always see people on free roam.
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    #12  Edited By WinterSnowblind
    @InfamousBIG said:
    " ...because the online kind of sucks. "
    Exactly.
     
    The single player was great.  One of the best games of the year, easily.
    But multiplayer was not particularly fun.  Free roam had the potiential to be good, but the community use it just as a death match, making it near impossible to play the way it was intended.
     
    Hopefully we see more single player content added.
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    #13  Edited By luce

    Plenty of Jerks online and half the time it has trouble keeping me connected to a Free roam session
     
    The online in this game is shitty

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    #14  Edited By Illmatic

    I felt the same way about Red Dead's multiplayer as I did about GTA's. It was fun at first to goof around and play a little deathmatch here and there but as a whole, it was kinda bad. The gunplay was fun against A.I. opponents but not as satisfying when going up against actual humans. I'm beginning to give up on free roam multiplayer as an option.

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    #15  Edited By zidane_24

    The online isn't that great unless you work to make it fun.  
     
    Example: A couple of guys decided to chase us around and start killing us for no reason. So, we went to the Presidio and proceeded to have a 10-12 person battle for the fort. It was probably the best fun I've had in RDR's multiplayer, but sometimes you need to get creative.
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    #16  Edited By Jayross

    Because the mutliplayer portion doesn't even come close to the polish of the singleplayer part of the game. After playing the singleplayer, going to multiplayer feels dry.

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    #17  Edited By FireBurger

    Just like GTA IV, the gunplay and mechanics of Rockstar games just don't translate to multiplayer. It's just not on par with the better competitive TPSs such as Gears, GRAW, SOCOM, etc.

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    #18  Edited By apoptosis61

    cause is kinda boring ?

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    #19  Edited By dillonwerner

    The online has its fun moments, nothing that wants me to keep on returning to it though.

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    #20  Edited By peepeepoopoo696

    Because its not that fun online?

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    #21  Edited By PSUDude66

    IT seems Rockstar wants to combine and MMO with multiplayer.  It's Unique, but I focus more on the story mode when I play it 
     
    May spend the weekens finishing the game, and maybe play multiplayer.  Add me if you're on 360-PSUDude66

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    #22  Edited By mesklinite

    Because watching paint dry on insects is more fun ?
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    #23  Edited By bed

    it's not fun. it's kind of gameplay just doesn't translate well to a multiplayer experience. 

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    #24  Edited By guiseppe

    Because the online multiplayer isn't that great.

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    #25  Edited By Noodles

     Because the online is absolutely broken garbage. Would be decent if it actually worked most of the time. Granted, I haven't played since close to launch, so they could have patched the issues/fixed servers. But first impressions are make or break for a multiplayer game, especially on consoles.

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    #26  Edited By Dom

    because there's always some jackass that will randomly pop my head off and continue to do so for 10 minutes

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    #27  Edited By ProfessorEss

    I just have too many games that I want to play to spend a lot of time messing around with multi-player.
     
    ...plus, I have it for 360 so it wouldn't help ya even if I did play it.

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    #28  Edited By BlackJedi

    boring really.. i wish RDR will come out with alot of SP DLC (besides the zomebie dlc).  Like GTA did.

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    @InfamousBIG said:
    " ...because the online is kind of great. "
    fixed.
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    #30  Edited By Alphawolfy

    The multiplayer is fun if you have a bunch of friends to run around with in a private free roam; in public you just get shot randomly by people with superior weapons and horses because they're higher level. I guess that's why not many people play anymore.

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    #31  Edited By Turtlefuzz

    The Co-Op for Red Dead Redemption is in my opinion outstanding. It's really fun to group up with friends and take down fortress'. But the Competitive side of things is still fun, but not really mind blowing in anyway, it's just kind of standard.

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    #32  Edited By TwoOneFive
    @blazerx9x: because theres plenty of better and more addictive multiplayer games to play instead. 
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    #33  Edited By TwoOneFive
    @John7doe said:
    " I use the PSN on RDR and I feel like this game has surpriseingly held up its online players.It does help that two of my friends also play the game but regardless the numbers seem to have held up.  If you wanna play a game my PSN is John7doe_ "
    i agree. the amount of people playing still is great.  
     
    but seriously, like i said before, when you've got Uncharted 2, Bad Company 2, Modern Warfare 2, Killzone 2 etc on ps3 why play RDR? its awesome but not addictive. 
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    #34  Edited By DerekDanahy

    RDR online for me was something to spend about 5 minutes, get killed about 20 times in that time by the same group of people.  Then be done with it.

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    #35  Edited By RobotHamster

    Didn't really play the online much just free roam with friends and the co op missions.

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    #36  Edited By Deusoma

    Whenever I play online and it's not just with a group of friends, nobody ever tries to group together and complete the challenges like clearing out the outlaw hideouts and such, they just ride around shooting everyone in the face over and over, like they find it more fun to tediously grind minor experience from that than to get into ridiculous situations* with their friends.  
     
    *I am reminded of a session where instead of shooting at anything, me and my buds found a canyon and competed to see who could get their body to go the furthest by leaping off the cliff atop their horse.

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