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Took a while for me to get into the controls (still struggling a bit with gunfights) but damn I'm loving this game. I've barely done any missions, constantly getting sidetracked by random encounters with people and animals. Some highlights so far:


- The drunken mission with Lenny was genuinely very, very funny. Had me laughing out loud.
- Anytime I'd ride into Valentine, I'd accidentally commit a crime and have to scarper. Accidentally ran a guy over, mouthed off at the sheriff, gave a horse a kick, shot a chicken (that last one was on purpose)
- Read in the newspaper that dinosaur bones had been found in the area, and then later ran into the paleontologist who has enlisted me to help her find more
- Found a decrepit building that was the site of a suicide cult with the skeletons all over the place. Very creepy.
- Ambushed some O'Driscolls, killed a guy via headshot with the shotgun and whatever way he landed (there was a box behind his back) his body ended up sitting up straight with half his head missing. Incredibly gruesome. To add to that, the wind started picking up and black clouds rolled in as I rode off. Was quite a dark, atmospheric few minutes.
- A glitch where there was a random beer bottle floating mid air at the camp. The reverend shows up drunkenly singing and the bottle transfers to his hand. I follow him and he eventually walks off leaving the bottle again floating in the air.
- I play the game as an honourable character, but the debt collector missions are quite mean spirited. There's no way to let them off the hook (so far) and the game encourages you to beat these poor civilians. I think Morgan feels it too because after the last one, the music became melancholic and it turned to cinematic mode as I rode off.
- The one intentionally dishonourable thing I've chosen to do was after killing a hog farmer, I figured why let his hogs starve to death so I killed and skinned them. Wasn't sure if I'd lose honour for that but I did. They weren't clean kills and the hogs squealed and squealed until I put them out of their misery. Wasn't nice.


All of that and I've barely gone further north than Valentine and not much further south than my camp. What a game.