Evening Reading

by Brian Leahy, Nov 22, 2010 5:00pm PST

It's a holiday week here in the United States as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with copious amounts of eating, football watching, and gaming. It will be interesting to see if Rock Band 3 or Kinect wins out with the group coming over to my place to the feast. I'm guessing Kinect will start up first so people that haven't seen it can check it out, but then we'll transition to Rock Band as per usual.

Meanwhile, I'm off to record this Friday's podcast early and will be out Wednesday through Friday. Be nice to those left on duty. Oh, and due to some technical difficulties, Xav's comparison of 2D vs. 3D in CoD: Black Ops multiplayer will hit tomorrow.

Gaming News o'the Day

Donkey Kong Country Returns review.

Halo: Reach DLC Preview - Noble Map Pack.

Apache: Air Assault review.

More details on the first Fallout: New Vegas DLC.

Links from Morning Discussion

Netflix finally launches streaming-only subscription.

iOS 4.2 is finally available for iPad.

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Just thought I'd reintroduce you all to what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest scenes in gaming history. We're talking about the intro to Mexico in Red Dead Redemption.

The moment the beautiful song starts, you see the vast landscape and mountains in the distance.

The overall presentation was perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IonrlZp74

Nov 22, 2010 6:31pm PST

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Just thought I'd reintroduce you all to what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest scenes in gaming hist : foo
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  I feel bad for people who got off their horse at the wrong time and screwed up that whole part and missed... : NastyJack
  - Yes. Those poor souls have no idea what they've missed. : foo
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    Happened to me. I was upset. : at0micgarden
    - Its practically an easteregg the way it is. Stupid. : KxRook
  - I missed it :( : trelain
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  Oh no I am playing through the game right now and I turned off the music. I couldn't stand the song that ... : negativepower
  - If you haven't yet come to the part where you're on a raft, crossing the river into Mexico, then I sugges... : foo
- That was awesome. The atmosphere of that game was amazing. : airrob
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  i liked it better when i was playing because it was daylight and much easier to see the environment. : Korban
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    Yeah, like I said above, I was lucky enough to get it just as the sun was rising. : foo
    - Mine hit just as the sun finished setting, and then there was this huge-ass thunderstorm. It gave it an ... : kallanta
- Wow, I didn't know it played music there, the only one I knew and was even more awesome was when you fina : DM7
- one of those gaming moments i will always remeber. it gave me chills. : theWhite
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  I thought it was a pretty lame on rails shooter segment. : Boxelder
  - I'm not talking about the segment before it. I'm talking about IT : foo
- <3 Best moment of the game : locater16
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  I don't want to seem hatery, because that specific moment was great, but man was I ever pulled out of the... : HockeyJohnston
  - Yeah, that was definitely when it finally veered into Rockstar's usual astronomical bodycount absurdity. ... : Happy Doodle Muffin
- Seems I missed this whole thing... : BulletPro
- Too bad the rest of Mexico didn't live up to lofty standard presented by that wonderful bit. : sevogajre
- If only the rest of the game was as good as that. : damageundone
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  i got pretty far into mexico but i never heard that song play. weird : wtf242
  - its only when you arrive fresh off the boat : Alpha Class Android
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  I still think the best part of that game was the ending. I smoked that motherfucker by the river to high : pgharavi
  - yeah, the ending song was really cool. : burning eye
- I didn't understand why that annoying jangling song was there at all. Is it a reference to a movie or som... : Dave-A
- fawk i dont know why but i got bored playing to the game and barely got past 5 hours. i sure as hell nev... : smacknca
- yeap.. definitely missed that part. either that, or i don't remember it =\ : dopeman
- God I love that music. Clint Eastwood's old movies are the best. Man with No Name trilogy is so good. : duffman03
- I really liked that part. The music changeup was a bit of a suprise, but it was al good! : MacemanInTW
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  Yeah that really was a great moment. I loved that game from start to finish though.
  
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  Yeah that really was a great moment. I loved that game from start to finish though. : Haku-Jin
- Agreed. I got to that part during a thunderstorm too, it was so perfect : AlexXdude

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