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Redeemed, officially!

Posted on Friday, July 9 @ 17:03:30 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

I had never reached a 100% completion statistics in a Rockstar Game... until last week!

Unfortunately, I never had the stomach to go all the way to the end in any Grand Theft Auto game, what with the massive amounts of collecting that entails. In Grand Theft Auto IV, I couldn't even summon the patience to find and complete all of the unique stunt jumps. In that sense, I've never reached a 100% completion statistic in a Grand Theft Auto game, but last week, over my vacation, I summoned the energy and conviction to reach that point in Red Dead Redemption.

I loved everything about RDR from start to finish, so it certainly made it easier to head back in and complete the rest of the game as that one character no one likes. I had already played through the story, completed about 90% of the stranger missions, and a handful of the minigames and odd jobs. Having no Xbox Live connection and a desire to saddle up and ride again had me stick the disk in the tray and never look back.

I wrangled up the rest of the outfits, completed all of the hideouts, and found every location and gun in the game, but there was still the daunting task of the ambient challenges left. If you haven't played Red Dead Redemption, what's wrong with you? The ambient challenges are persistent objectives that are always being measured as you play the game. I think my favorites were the hunting challenges, while survivalist challenges that have the player searching for flowers (so manly!) were my least liked aspect of the game. PROTIP: Use a survivalist map. They're available at all the general stores and they vastly increase the radius in which flower markers will pop up on your mini-map.

Anyways, after a lot of hard work but a TON of enjoyment, I've got 100% on Red Dead Redemption. How far along are you?

Tags: Red Dead Redemption, Xbox 360

Comments

schimmel
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jul 9th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
About 90%. The treasure hunting is too much of a pain to bring me back at the moment

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Jul 9th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
98.7... and i have no idea what to do

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jul 9th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
@Lien

There are plenty of good guides to 100% out there. Some of them even break down what each task is worth in percentage. Try bounties... seems like you could be missing some of those.

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Odbarc
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Jul 10th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
How did you manage to hogtie a woman?

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Kijan
Joined: Aug 2008

Posted: Jul 11th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Odbarc: I used a woman which I needed to save in a random stranger task when she screams after being kidnapped. Killed the criminal, saddled her up on my horse, put her on the train tracks and waited whilst I played with my mustache for the train. :)

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UglykitteN
Joined: Mar 2006

Posted: Jul 11th, 2010 at 9:43 am
0%. I don't have the game.

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TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Jul 11th, 2010 at 10:12 am
I haven't played it yet. Honestly, games cost more than I like to spend, so I tend to wait a few months on most new releases and get them when the price drops down to around 35 or so. The last game I bought new was Assassin's Creed 2, which by the way is the only game that I have ever gotten the 100% on.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jul 12th, 2010 at 4:32 am
I'm even not done yet, and at about 75% last time I checked.

Getting 100% in this is easy as hell. Now San Andreas, THAT was a 100% worth getting. Took me an additional 15 hours but it was worth it!

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jul 12th, 2010 at 11:09 am
@Longo_2_guns I know I'm kind of a wuss in never having 100%-ed a GTA game, but a Rockstar game is still a rockstar game

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Daddio
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jul 12th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I love the game as well, but I have yet to kill all the animal types apparently and that's a little frusterating, donno if there's a way to find out which ones you need to kill or not.

Oh and that disarm 6 ppl in a row w/o reloading I can't seem to master.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jul 12th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Don't worry about it. The one thing the GTA games required you to do that you for 100% was the damn secret item collecting. 100-200 hidden items everywhere. Shit was a pain in the ass to do. I'm glad they didn't have it in RDR.

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