Glad you're enjoying it Aaron. The bounties in the first town are an extended introduction and a mere taste of what's to come. It really does just get better and better.

I'm not gonna say too much, but it's all about the bounties for now. The areas continue to get larger and more impressive as you get further in, giving you room to explore and approach situations as you wish. 

I'm going to crack on with the second town's missions tomorrow, it's hard to stay away.

Okay then, I have reached the first milestone for the game club. When do I give my thoughts?

Where does it say what chapter you're on?  I may have played past this week's segment. 

Ah OK, then I guess I've just saved a few minutes before that.  A few years on and the quicksave feature is still unusual (and great, imo).

I must confess, due to my brother not giving me any games for the PS3 apart from what was loaded onto it already, plus my fiance wanting to watch TV in the lounge (meaning it was either PS3 or Strictly) I am now much further ahead from the deadline. I am absolutely loving this game.

For any interested:

Checkpoint / chat so far deadline tomorrow - ill get there during my all dayathon. Next deadline will go up Sat probs.

Yay, just hit the checkpoint.

I haven't reached the first checkpoint yet, mainly to being extremely tired the whole week (I really should go on a wintersleep, this weather doesn't go well with me), and not really liking the game for the first part. 

Was kinda set back by that, I always thought I'd love this game. The graphics are lovely, but the gameplay doesn't really grab me, find the switching between first and third person kinda confusing, text was quite hard to read (but that might be because I was tired), and setting the subtitles on only enables them on cutscenes, not all the other talking that's done. A shame, cause English ain't my main language and I feel I miss something. Even when the voices of the village people really annoy me.

Anyway, was just on my way to my first hunt, did some tutorial jumping and shooting (jumping animation is quite bad) and then arrived in a village where I could turn in the bounty he captured during the tutorial. Did some looking around, smashed all the wooden gates and boxes I could find, secretly hoping there would be some hidden chickens I could smash. Didn't find any, so went on with the next bounty. World so far feels quite empty, and it all feels a bit "created".

Will probably give it another go tomorrow morning, after a hot shower and with some strong coffee by my side.

It's still very early in the game, the first town and it's missions are just one big tutorial to prepare you for what's to come. The game certainly opens up and becomes much more dynamic as you get further in. 

personally I love the way the switch in perspective is handled, fast and fluid, can't say it's ever given me any problems.

Lol, I can tell you're biased such that you can't see any flaws, which is a drastic failure on your part! I guess if its the tutorial stages, it's gonna feel a bit contrived, tutorial levels usually do. Looking forward to the better stages then. 

Switch between views is fluid, yes, by why is it even there? My problem with it so far is when you are in first person and turn after a cutscene or something the game puts you in 3rd person for some reason. Happened on second boss/bounty fight with the guy having a Gatling gun in my face. I was expecting to be in first person, but wasn't.

Jumping is rubbish, no matter what you say, dude. So floaty and forced.

Don't get the jumping criticism.  It might look floaty in 3rd person mode but nobody jumps in 3rd person mode anyway (apart from when legging it and jumping gaps , buildings, etc).  For controlled jumping, jJust look down at your feet in 1st person mode and you can time things perfectly. 

1st person mode is for fighting, and 3rd person mode is for getting a better view, fast travelling, and attacking mobs

I've always loved the ability to switch between 1st and 3rd person modes.

It would be interesting to see if you have the same comments by the end of the game, or forgive it nearly everything, like me.

@mrsmr2: You wouldn't have to switch to 1st person for precision jumping if the 3rd person jumping was more accurate.

Not that it's a big deal, because like you I can happily forgive this game its really quite small faults in exchange for providing (on multiple occasions) one of the most enjoyable and memorable gaming experiences I've ever had.

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@mrsmr2: You wouldn't have to switch to 1st person for precision jumping if the 3rd person jumping was more accurate. Not that it's a big deal, because like you I can happily forgive this game its really quite small faults in exchange for providing (on multiple occasions) one of the most enjoyable and memorable gaming experiences I've ever had.

Sure, but once you realise 3rd person is for fast moving, and 1st person is for the main action parts of the game then it doesn't matter.  You'll be in 1st person most of the time anyway.

3rd person is too clunky (the camera being the main culprit) to be used for the majority of the game.

One of the things that I have really liked about this game is the mixture between stealthy gameplay and action. I love how I can start off lureing people into my high grass and then zapping them but when it all goes tits up, I can just as easily wade into them and take them all out. I really like the health system and the different ammo types are excellent.

I also agree that the jumping is a bit crap but I can live with that.