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General => Reviews => Topic started by: kv on August 24, 2010, 11:42:59 AM
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What games is everyone playing? Anything new? Like it, love it, hate it?
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I'm playing 2 games right now. First one is Borderlands. I just got around to getting it and it's alot of fun. No deathmatching but the co-op experiance is cool. The second one is a closed beta for World of Tanks. It's a team based shooter where you drive around in WW2 tanks blasting the other guys. Right now we can use Russian and German tanks. They are about to add american tanks in the next patch. When it comes out, not sure when, you will be able to form clans. And clans the clans will be able to fight for teritory in europe. And one of the best parts about the whole thing is it will be a micro transaction game. So the overall game itself will be free to play. That's what I'm playing right now :)
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Actually , I recently rediscovered a copy of Baldur's Gate II at the bottom of a box and although I beat it once upon a time, I decided to run it again using only the female characters - the Go-gos goMedieval if you will ;)
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I'm playing a whole lot of Battlefield Bad Company 2. On off days I'm going through Mass Effect 2 as well ;)
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I'm a huge STARCRAFT fan so been playing STARCRAFT II. What more can I say besides it's a blast. It only took over ten years for them to finish it.
Also, been playing through Final Fantasy Tactics A2 on my Nintendo DS as well as using my Wii Fit.
@Zone: Baldur's Gate II was a blast. I used to have it but got rid of it a long time ago.
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My wife and I are living with Ruski at the moment, so we have access to his entire library of games and movies, as well as our own. I haven't been playing a lot of video games, because I try and skimp on them when I should be doing something important.
Last full game I played was Mass Effect 2. Afterward, I started another play-through of the first game, to see how decisions differed. I also wanted to set up for the third game, so there would be a way to see the good and bad endings.
My wife played through Red Dead Redemption, and that was pretty awesome (I played it, didn't finish it), and I've resolved to go back and beat Fallout 3 (and all the expansions), as well as Dragon Age (and all the expansions) before their sequels come out.
My wife just started Saboteur, which she put in the topless code for! I was so shocked!
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Saboteur was really fun, and there's plenty of stuff to do if you're one of those completionist people.
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I am a completionist, which is usually annoying, and even moreso now that they can tack on DLC to my favorite games, meaning I haven't finished all of it (I'm currently trying to finish the expansion for Dragon Age and re-playing Fallout 3 with all the expansions).
Ruski picked up Metal Gear Solid 4, but the only thing I know about it is that Otacon's voice shouting "Snake??!? SNAKE!!!!!" is seriously getting on my nerves.
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Not generally a big console gamer but got a bunch of 'em, and a big old box of untouched old games, so just finished Fallout New Vegas on my tryout run. Liked it well enough that now I have to go back in, create a new character, and find all the story lines. I'm like that, gotta do it all or I'm not done. Much like KV above, I tend toward completionism.
The companion options are certainly a mixed bag. I found Raul and Veronica annoying to various degrees. Lily was fine but her voice was grating and she also tended to run into the line of fire, Boone was good and his quest was decent, but way less than expected, Arcade was so good I found myself making character decisions based on his stated preferences, but the best of the bunch were Ed-E and Rex. Wish I could have run them together. Barely touched on Rose of Sharon, so she's going to get preference on the full dress run. Companions are very important to me in these things, gotta have someone to hide behind ;)
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Hahah, oh, good ole New Vegas. Not sure if someones still working on a fallout 4 update version thing. basicly ALL of fallout new vegas brought into fallout 4 with things updated and fixed.. Id love that.
As for me, I enjoy stealthy fun in Fall games, and always went the insane route of sneaking straight north through the death claws, bandits, geckos and other insanely dangerous things to get to vegas right away and collect a good rifle, and if possible the big 50. Never even heard the shot that killed them.
would especially love it with some of fall 4s mods, like battle for the wastelands, mobile groups of enemies patrolling around to liven things up (just not in their masses of 10+ guys..) and option to build your bases where you want...
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Battletech and the old Shadowrun games by Harebrained Schemes.
Also pulled Stellaris out again.
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They're trying to get me to play Metal Gear Solid, it doesn't sound like my niche (which is pretty much strictly fantasy/scifi) should I give it a go or continue to nod and sneer, muttering 'maybe someday.'
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Been drifting between
No Man's Sky, for fun kinda flying around, gathering stuff to build base, and blowing things up. fairly fun and interesting as trying to find cool gear and such.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker for mindless kinda fun work stuff. take time dissecting a ship and tossing the parts away to their bins. great to just kinda zone out and plan then implement.
AAnndd.. Dead Effect 2. Cause sometimes you wanna just get a big fucking gun and FUCK SHIT UP!
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They're trying to get me to play Metal Gear Solid,
It's a stealth game I believe? Never played it myself.
At least one of my original SR-group was a fan though.
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I enjoy stealthy fun in Fall games, and always went the insane route of sneaking straight north through the death claws, bandits, geckos and other insanely dangerous things to get to vegas right away and collect a good rifle, and if possible the big 50.
Tried this, managed to stealth my way past all the deathclaws up to Crimson Caravan, discovering new locations along the way. Having issues finding enough ammo, always running out, but I snuck about Nipton, came at the Legion pisswits from the back and took them and their dogs down with three frag mines, a couple sticks of dynamite, and a 10mm pistol all by my own little self, no companions. Admittedly got a little bloody, but finished with half my HP, and did it in one go.
Anybody know a game called Castlevania? It was at the very bottom of the box and I was wondering if that was a review. I generally hate vampire stuff, but if it's about destroying them, I might be persuaded.
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Well. As a professional vampire hunter (and unwilling vampire) I approve of Castlevania. 3 of them in particular:
Symphony of the Night: you play alucard, draculas son trying to stop his resurrection and rampage. Originally on the PS1, but you can find it on EVERYTHING now, mobile, pretty sure on PC, xbox, ps4, switch, ect. Excellent action RPG exploration.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: you play Soma Cruz, Teenager who finds he has a strange occult power to absorb demon and monster souls then manifest their powers, and is trapped in Draculas castle on the full moon and must work to stop his resurrection. Follows Symphony of the night, your character levels up as you fight and explore, get new weapons and equipment, and special abilities from the monsters you kill. Out on GBA and mobile.
And Castlevania Dawn of sorrow, sequel to Aria of sorrow. Your in a strange new town that harbors a cult attempting to resurrect dracula and must stop them. Much more refined game play, and your controlling soma again.
I have both for my 3ds just cause they are fun to play with TONS of little secrets and combos and such. Easy to snag an emulator to run them, or like i did, get a 3ds or 2ds and pick up the cartridges. though prices seem to vary wildly where you look..
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Haven't tried it yet. Still slomo through New Vegas, finding lots of new shite beyond the run through, but the new season of Umbrella Academy got dropped so have been slomo through that instead of, recently. What a good show.
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but the new season of Umbrella Academy got dropped so have been slomo through that instead of, recently. What a good show.
's not half bad. We're watching it too.
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Moved on to Fallout 3. What difference, can tell there was a different writing team on this one, not quite as there.
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New writing team - is that good or bad?
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Well, I have to say that the New Vegas team were better at story and character. For instance, take the companions, good or bad they were memorable. Raul was so frickin' irritating to me, his personality was like a passive aggressive cheese grater, but he was a real character, fully formed, likewise Arcade was such a toe in the sand introvert who was nevertheless a well armed sidekick that you wanted to run his quest, do him that favor. And if you pissed these guys off for any reason, they let you know about it. I love that. In Fallout 3, Dogmeat, though a nice throwback, is a simple recycle, and the one companion I've managed to recruit is just a cardboard cutout with a combat shotgun. Nice to have the extra fire power, but if he gets blown up, oh well. He offers no quest, no pithy comments, no real backstory, and does that 'hominahomina' grumble under his breath rather than talk. The fact that I can't recruit certain companions because of karma also annoys. Granted I haven't finished 3, but I have to give the nod to New Vegas just on points for right now.
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That ... does sound like a downgrade.
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yeah, new vegas was done by bunch of the original fallout guys, you can see it in other spots.
like old world things, 3 & 4 they act like the old world was some alien civilization and completely misunderstand it, seeing sports like baseball and hockey as major gladiatorial events where people would try and kill each other, and there is no possible way they could have figured otherwise.
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:P, the finale for Fallout3 sucks, and really makes no sense. Don't want to do spoilers, but they make certain options impossible for the PC even though they are utilized by NPCs earlier. I understand there are later updates that change that, but when you're working from the bottom of a box of old games that really doesn't come into play....moving on to the next Bethesda option, something called Skyrim. Apparently, I'm the only person on the planet that knows nothing about this world.
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Apparently, I'm the only person on the planet that knows nothing about this world.
Not... quite the only person who knows nothing about it...
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<3 the Fallout series. I've played most the games in the series and I can tell you the writing was way better in the first 2 games. After that, business things happened and Bethesda ended up owning the title/brand/license or whatever. Bethesda makes decent games, but Fallout 3 definitely lost the charm from the first 2 games. I guess you could say Bethesda made the game more mainstream to bring in a new audience... which undoubtedly worked well. I personally do not hold it in high regard, kind of a forgettable entry in the series.
Fallout 4 is definitely better story-wise, and each companion has a story questline that will unlock special perks once you complete them. According to Steam I've spend 270 hours in Fallout 4, and I while I did complete the main quest and many of the companion quests, I didn't complete them all or get all of the Steam achievements for the game.
Skyrim is pretty great IMO. It's the 5th game in the series of which I've played 3 (#3 Morrowind, #4 Oblivion, and #5 Skyrim) and I've messed around in 1 (#2 Daggerfall) but never played it with any seriousness. My favorite in the series is #3, because it didn't have quest markers or important NPC markers at all. Really forced immersion! Tongue-in-cheek example: https://imgur.com/oNprBo4 (https://imgur.com/oNprBo4)
Skyrim and Fallout 4 are built on the same game engine, so effects and physics are very similar.
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According to Steam I've spend 270 hours in Fallout 4
They count your time in? Wow, that so wouldn't work accurately with me, I tend to wander off to go finish the laundry, go to the store, to make supper, all while leaving the game on, only to pop in and clear a quest target during the rinse cycle. Yes, my weekends are that exciting. The game could be running for 5 or 6 hours and I only actually played less than half of that.
I played Fallout 1 and 2 on PC a long time ago and when was recently bored had someone tempt me to New Vegas with the tease that one of my fave actors was a voice therein, so now I'm deep in Bethesdaland.
I'm not sure if the Morrowind method of navigation would work for me, Ingo, I have a notoriously poor sense of direction that seems to translate into game worlds, too.
So I started two characters in Skyrim to run different paths, one is the noble warrior type, and the other has a moral compass that seems to have lost it's needle. I wish I could rewrite some of the dialogue because what I really want to have Type 2 do is off the Dragon Lady of Riften and take over, especially since the silly cow doesn't know the proper use of a thieves guild.
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Fallout 4 is definitely better story-wise, and each companion has a story questline that will unlock special perks once you complete them.
By the way, is Fallout 4 New Vegas? Or is New Vegas 4.5 or something...
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By the way, is Fallout 4 New Vegas? Or is New Vegas 4.5 or something...
New Vegas was released between 3 and 4, but isn't really "3.5" in that respect. It is a "spin off" game but is canon as far as story goes... though all the games happen in different areas of the US so I guess it doesn't really matter. It didn't get a # because it was made by someone other than the primary IP owner/developer.
Summary:
FO1 (1997) = Dev Interplay, publisher Interplay, in game year 2161
FO2 (1998) = Dev Black Isle, publisher Interplay, in game year 2241
FO3 (2008) = Dev Bethesda, publisher Bethesda, in game year 2277
FO:NV (2010) = Dev Obsidian, publisher Bethesda, in game year 2281
FO4 (2015) = Dev Bethesda, publisher Bethesda, in game year 2287
FO76 (2018) = Dev Bethesda, publisher Bethesda, in game year 2102
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Interplay dev house became Black Isle Studios which became Obsidian Entertainment. So New Vegas was made by some of the same folks who made Fallout 1 and 2.
Note 2:
FO76 is the latest but it is an online/multiplayer game with instanced quests so many don't consider it in the same vein as the rest of the FO games. It also happen way earlier than even FO1. It has a rough release but I've heard it's much better now, though I haven't played it.
Note 3:
There's a couple of other spin offs but they aren't considered canon so I didn't list them.
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I have since been informed by more gamey times than I (yes, that's a double entendre) that 76 apparently sucked industrial. Don't know if this is a pervasive opinion, and since it's online only I'll never find out, but it doesn't matter since apparently Skyrim never ends! so I'll be busy for a while yet. Seriously, this thing just keep going on, and on. I suppose that you could just do the main story quest and be done, but that isn't me. I have a tendency to have to dig out all the little minor crap and all the locations, and with this world, there's a vast array - though I did give up the thief quest since the third or fourth quest was a straight up assassination, not a thief's job. Yeah, the PC kills literally hundreds before the story is done, but when you're just starting out, it's better to be known for other things - I know, I think too much.
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76 sucked in terms of black hole gravity wells.
It had some good, the plush mountians with weird mutant critters was a nice change fron usual blasted wastes, and a few things were good, but in general.. Suck.
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FO76 is the latest but it is an online/multiplayer game with instanced quests so many don't consider it in the same vein as the rest of the FO games. It also happen way earlier than even FO1. It has a rough release but I've heard it's much better now, though I haven't played it.
If that's the case I'll never see it. And with the above review, it appears I ain't missing much.
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So... tried the demo for outrider by square enix. Its... meh? Its not bad, but its not good. Its very average. The most i can say is it feels like awkward gears of war clone with "Rpg elements" stapled on in form of equipment to cash in on looter shooter, and very mediocre class power stuff.
The graphics are meh, everybody blocky and lumpy. Controls are meh, its an unrefined gears of war cover shooter. No regen health, but you heal by following your classes power rules. And the classes seem.. meh. Nothing really special that truely helps you in combat. Using the fireclass they might as well have given me grenades.
The story is.. well. Weak. Earth be fucked yo, people jumped ship, and now on new planet thats green and vibrant with weird aliens. Then fu ky shit happens. People are cunts, you kill some of the cunts, and then are put in stasis. Then you wake up 30 years later and everything is fucked up and brown and standard wasteland bullshit.
Old friend characters react like you shit in their families coffins before throwing in angry dogs, when youve done absolutely nothing wrong cept almost die and they stuffed you in cryo. And then you decide to help them despite the fact they do nothing but heap abuse on you and dont even give you gear to help.
The enemy side is "insurrectionists" or something. They are evil cannibal raiders. Less wacky version of raiders from borderlands. Thats bout it. No valid point, redeeming qualities, or anything far as i can tell by the hundreds of people they are shown hanging and setting on fire and just randomly murdering.
The game is so not worth its listed 60 dollars.. or 50 dollars... or 40. Or even really 30. Maybe 25. And then id wait for it to go on sale for 20.
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Tried The Last of Us. Got all the way through to what I assume is the endgame, but have not finished. Left Joel standing in the hospital. I am disappointed that the goal the protags have worked for all game turns out to be just another bunch of targets. And all my clicker killing skills are more or less for naught here. I'm a demon with the tossed brick/molotov combo. Ah, well.
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Was it fun 'till that endgame?
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It was and it wasn't. It's very different from the open world stuff that I've been playing, and the controls were wildly different, so that took some getting used to. But once past all those frustration, yeah, it was kinda fun once I got the hang of it. I'll wrap it up one of these days, but right now just not to make others crazy who don't understand how I can just leave it hanging. Because I'm cruel, that how :D
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It's a game. If it doesn't work for you anymore, ditch it.
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Have you guys looked at the Diablo rebfurb?
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I have not. And don't plan to.
Diablo II was bad enough for my wrists/hands.
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Nah, i played 3 some, and kinda was done with that. Nothing they have talked about recently have done a thing to get my attention.
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Yeah. I have to agree. Basically after the first one then I had enough. I was more of a StarCraft fan. However, Blizzard is not slick so well recently with all the bad news.
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I haven't even kept up with Blizzard news recently?
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Basically they fired a few dozens employees including management over sexual harassment issues.
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Really, there are so many ad hoc weapons available in the average office, no one should ever have to feel victimized when a steel penda-flex hanger can be so efficiently and brutally adapted.
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Basically they fired a few dozens employees including management over sexual harassment issues.
Ouch.
Probably needed doing though.
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Okay, gone back to finish Skyrim, if that's even possible in the game with no end. I did go back to the thief quest, and again, would definitely offered a few more dialog choices than they do, hate feeling herded even in a gaming scenario, but must say the dwarven ruin you can see only if you do the quest was pretty cool. Gotta give Bathesda props for their art department because the scenery is absolutely fabulous. The coders, however should be slapped about for the buggy quests, some of which can be bad enough so you are never going to be able to finish said quest if the bug bites. I had to ditch my original fighter type and restart because of crashed quests.
Once I have the last of the magic words, I'll go for the end game, and since now my tank character is 100% with swords, I think she's gonna do okay in a fight.
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Good luck!
I'm just about done with Hitman: World of Assassination.
For a relevant value of 'done'. ;)
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My nostalgic self has been doing the Lego Batman?s. I finished 100% on the first two and almost done with the third then will move on to Marvel Lego.
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My nostalgic self has been doing the Lego Batman?s. I finished 100% on the first two and almost done with the third then will move on to Marvel Lego.
Shiny!
Pictures?
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Let try to remember to do so. ;D
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Looking forward to it :)
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Officially down with all three Lego Batman?s. Deciding if should do Lord of the Rings Lego or Marvel Lego. Thoughts?
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Gotta admit, either's good for me
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Still slogging away on the skyrim endgame, they keep throwing minor quests at me as we get toward the end and I don't think I'm capable of ignoring all those side quests - ALL MUST BE COMPLETE! Still that seems like my issue, but I just did manage to find the bloody elder scroll and am toting this fantasy medieval version of a tac nuke about in my back pocket now. I finally figured out who my character avatar reminds me of though, Carrie Anne Moss. I suppose that's kick ass enough for an video game.
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Not bad indeed.
And it's my understanding that you're supposed to be tempted by all of those side quests!
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Not a question of temptation, I may not be 100% completionist, but very nearly, to the point where if I know there is a pointless quest dished out at encounter Q, I will do my level best to avoid encounter Q rather than go there get the quest and then just ignore it. If I get it gotta do it.
There is one quest I accidentally picked up where one has to collect 20 odd random stones, and there is no map marking for it, they are just randomly scattered, but I had to find all of them; and then when I did, the reward was the continuing discovery of so many gems on quests that I can't sell them all. There is a dresser in each house that is chock full of superfluous gems, yet I finished the damn quest!
Right now I'm going around and pissing off Daedric (immortals from the abyss) princes by not becoming a follower and just wiping out those that are - probably not going to be any consequences for this either, other than picking up some cool weaponry to put on display. I can finish quest my own way, ignoring the predetermined path occasionally, especially when I know I could have written the story better ;)
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Joy!
Actually, that seems a bit silly.
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Actually, that seems a bit silly.
Ummmm-
which part, or is that an all inclusive condemnation?
Finally got the the time shift bit completed, why is there always a time shift/jump/tear in these things? I think I may be on the end game now, but knowing Bethesda, the end game may meander for quite some time. The first major speed bump is going out and capturing a dragon...the premise is, of course, dragons and my character don't really get along, what with the whole killing each other thing, so this should be a piece of cake.
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Actually, that seems a bit silly.
Ummmm-
which part, or is that an all inclusive condemnation?
Putting all of the rewards at a point where they are irrelevant.
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Agreed. Not only irrelevant but vaguely annoying. 45 diamonds, 36 rubies, 27 sapphires, and countless garnets and amethysts in your pocket tend to add up weight wise.
So finished the main quest in Skyrim, finally. Bit of an anti climax really, not one bit of good loot - the body just disintegrated and you go nothing but a dead dragon in a spirit realm you also got no good loot from. You'd think offing something called devourer of worlds would net you a cool sling shot or maybe a pack of gum - something. You can just go on back to doing quests after and that's fine, but I think it's time to learn a new game.
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I will say that would be a great reward as a pack of gum. Might taste like those jelly beans from Harry Potter.
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Time to learn a new game indeed!
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Tried and rejected Castlevania, too restricted and too inconsistently designed. Back to the box for another game, guess I'm more an open world kind of gamer.
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Have you tried Hitman?
Each environment is fairly small, but the freedom within is ... pleasant.
Plot's kinda so-so though.
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What I've perhaps foolishly done is pick up New Vegas Ultimate for cheap, it has all the DLC content added which is about 4 new arenas in which to shoot new things with various handicaps. Just finished a wander through Zion National Park and the brewing tribal war therein. Needless to say there were not a lot of merchants available, but I did get a rather nice .45 smg. They had mutated bears rather than deathclaws, and some great art in recreating the vistas of Zion. Was amused to see that they depicted the evil invader tribe as a bunch of litterbugs, the locals camps were nice and tidy. The option was to help the locals abandon Zion and flee leaving the field to the invaders, or fight back and keep Zion. Guess which one I picked. Got to get a few more levels under my belt before I try the other three new areas, one ominously taking place at the long lost Sierra Madre Casino. If you ever saw Treasure of the Sierra Madre, you'll know that it can't end well.
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Sounds fun so far - enjoy!
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What I've perhaps foolishly done is pick up New Vegas Ultimate for cheap, it has all the DLC content added which is about 4 new arenas in which to shoot new things with various handicaps. Just finished a wander through Zion National Park and the brewing tribal war therein. Needless to say there were not a lot of merchants available, but I did get a rather nice .45 smg. They had mutated bears rather than deathclaws, and some great art in recreating the vistas of Zion. Was amused to see that they depicted the evil invader tribe as a bunch of litterbugs, the locals camps were nice and tidy. The option was to help the locals abandon Zion and flee leaving the field to the invaders, or fight back and keep Zion. Guess which one I picked. Got to get a few more levels under my belt before I try the other three new areas, one ominously taking place at the long lost Sierra Madre Casino. If you ever saw Treasure of the Sierra Madre, you'll know that it can't end well.
That was kind of a fun thing for me as whenit came out i was working in zion, and was cool to see a couple spots, though not many real matches, though can dig that. NV is still my game, and will run it on my laptop as desk dont quite like it. though i am jazzed to see if the remake using the fall 4 engine works. would love to build my own little dust townn in the wastes hiding advanced underground bunker.
in my own gaming thing, as i get more motion back in my hand im playing aliens fire team with friends, hopefully back into Deep Rock Galactic soon, other wise dinking in escape from tarkov modded for single player, sifting about to find mods and bits for guns cause its fun, hoping they might work out like private lobbies for people, and revisiting resident evil games due to some outside inspiration...
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Since my long silence, I have also completed Lonesome Road which is freaky plot wise, and you really can't wait to blow up the bad guy who is three of four sandwiches short of a picnic. The Lassie of a eye-bot actually is more noble than most of the people you run across, props for giving a beeping ball some actual personality. Got some nice armor and a bedroll, though, and that's the main thing - stuff :)
Old World Blues I kinda loved, once beaten it is the absolute best base with your own personal doc, merchant, food and weird companions, albeit mechanical. I have found myself going back there from time to time just because - and bringing stuff for the neurotic mini-securitron and megalomaniac toaster to process.
Last up is the Sierra Madre Casino run called Dead Money, probably get to that this week.
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Keep us posted :)
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Im hoping the fallout 4 conversion of 3 actually gets done. Would love to build my own little base by an oasis in there..
Also, small heads up, becareful with quick saves and autosaves as they can cause in game complications...
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That's for sure Captain, the game was glitching so bad at the end, I actually just skipped some of the side quests so I could get to the close which I finally did. I think I'll uninstall the thing and do a general cleanup, I'm guessing the multiple saves got a little top heavy for a glitch prone game/
So Dead Money, okay concept, not real fun in execution. You are stripped of all your hard won gear and basically have to start at square one, resupply and all while wearing a bomb collar that could kill you at any time. So that kinda sucked. The worst part was the bg music, such as it was, and the never changing atmosphere - no night, no day, just monochrome... with toxic pockets of mist. And the ghost people carry spears, so not great goodies wise. The funny thing is, the gold you can take at the end, there is no real need. Gold is no big deal in the wasteland, even with all 32 bars, you can get just as rich by beating the casino and leaving with all the prewar money from there and found in the casino environs that weighs nothing in inventory and you can trade for up to 10 caps each back in the Mojave. I was actually kinda glad to be done with that add on. wrapped the whole game yesterday - been busy doing rl and all.
I would love to see Fallout 3 with the ending that makes sense, rather than just throw a 19 year old kid into the suicide machine, that has a real bad taste. And I did read they were doing something called New Vegas Project Mojave or some such that is supposed to take place about a decade after New Vegas. Don't know any details except that it will be quite a while.
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Yeah. Thats been an issue for a while:T
And im with you on dead money. It went heavy on story, and might have served better as a more early game thing as the gear you get is better suited for early on then the mid or late point they programed it as. The gold is a trap as well, but one that doesnt matter much by the time your normally reaching it. Where as early game it makes it more insidious as that injection of caps would be so tempting to weigh oneself down with... in the end it was... meh.
The others are bit better, like big MT is my fave with its weird science the the characters, and an actual feeling of choice in how you go about things. Not to mention all dem nice flashy gubbins ta loot..
Honest hearts was.. disappointing to me with how it felt railroaded in things, but gave some nice kit. Personally i liked the original version of joshua graham, "The Hangedman" who was a monster of all things. Here it just kinda came as.. meh. Overly preachy and pushy.
Lonesome road is tough, but interesting if also frustrating in things.
I did like one of the F3 dlcs did let your character survive, or you could ask the ghoul or supermutant immune to radiation to go do the thing. Cause that original ending. Cripes was that stupid in its hamhanded attempt to push some stupid message of self sacrifice.
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One of my boyz wants me to try LA Noir next. He says I will like it, but I know nothing, except that it's apparently a period piece with a nod to noir film - see how I cleverly deduced that from the title?
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By Jove Holmes!!!
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so, tried darktide on its beta, and rather enjoyed it. some of the guns and stuff felt a bit.. Meh, but in general was a pretty good and enjoyable game! Very much vermintide in 40k, but still felt like its own thing more or less and was quite enjoyable and had a good time with the lore and just Feel of it.
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Gad! I so hate trying to drive in video games!!! If there hadn't been a work around in Noir I'd have given it up, as it is I'm only still playing 'cause I told the boyz I would. It is not all that and a bag of chips, but it's playable.
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Yeah, driving in games aren't really my bag either
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i like it in some games, but it tends to be very hard to get right, with steering being either very slack or way to stiff. Couple of the GTA games i liked, and Saints row 2. ... and i admit i have a small guilty pleasure for driving in mass effect and rather enjoyed the mako zipping around like an insane wasp with a broken wing.
That said the warthog in Halo is also bomb.
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...zipping around like an insane wasp with a broken wing.
This I can relate to.
I've switched over to Civilization for the time being.
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Thar ya be:3
Im switching between darktide and valheim with its new update. Nice and relaxing to just go out and build.
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I've switched over to Civilization for the time being.
Always a win ;)
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One of da boyz gave me the Ultimate Edition for Fallout 3, so now we can get the ending we should have had from the beginning and not an early grave for a 19 year old - who, okay, had probably killed 740 people by then.
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That's good news :)
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Heheh, im hopingbthe remakes of FO3 and New Vegas in the fallout 4 engine work out. Hell, id like to see 76 mde into a proper solo game with the 3 style, or 4s. Rather then its own trash one.
Games, been playing lots of sons of the forest with a friend. Lots of deforestation and cannibal killing. Good times.
Other is escape from tarkov with single player mods. Its actually kinda fun to just creep around slow and quiet, scavving the bits you can find, occasionally hunting down pmcs for gear and goods. Really love the weapon customization in it.
Was enjoying darktide, but.. its kinda meh nowm same handful of missions and such, slim weapon pool, no real story which is a pisser with how they went on about havin dan abbnett as a writer. Just to repetative for its own good.
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FO3 DLCs are a mixed bag. Didn't like that Pitt. There is no good resolution, nothing can be made better, and everybody sucks, there are no characters you can like. That's a big drawback for me. Could have been so much better with a little effort/talent on the writers parts.
The Out of this World is okay, you do get lots of useful stuff and quite bit of useless stuff you can sell for caps. The commentary on humans isn't great, I tend to think we can be pretty stellar if required to cowboy up, but the game thinks we can pollute even a space ship with random crap. And you do get a space ship as a base if you want, but the New Vegas Big MT is still so much better.
In the middle of Point Lookout - a trip to Deliverance dystopia version. It's a tough nut, do not do this scenario at anything less than level 18 or 20. I'm 20 and some of the new ghouls and swamp people are still incredibly hard to kill, and there is no easy repair of your gear, almost no one drops comparable weapons so you can affect repairs. You have to rely on others to repair your stuff so its never above 1/2 condition wise. The available weapons are just too slow to use effectively against the ultra-ghouls, and even with the sniper perk and complete surprise, I have yet to kill one from ambush yet, so rapid fire is a must. It's also never a sunny day, always overcast, makes you really appreciate the Wasteland, at least it doesn't have depressing weather. Super mutants you can dispose of, nothing you can do about the weather.
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thoughts on broken steel? Its the one i never actually really got to play... Well. that and Pitt. it just sounded like ass honestly.
and yeah, lot of fall3 dlc stuff felt like it was written by someone in the middle of a breakup or something, just generally fairly negative and all.
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just completed part one of Broken steel - they destroyed Liberty Prime from a orbital platform, so the iron giant's idiot cousin is now dead - in its wake during the showdown with the Enclave, one of the bodies I ran across was the caravan drug dealer, Doc Hoff, now if ever there was a capitalist....I assume his bodyguard and brahmin are still walking the route since their bodies weren't there, so maybe I can loot it later since I got his key. Kinda of a bummer but at least it wasn't the arms dealer - him I invested in.
Right now gotta get encrypted files to the Brotherhood to get on to the next part. So far just another slug fest, and since I'm topped out in almost everything by now, I'm doing pretty well in that. I wish they added options to fix stuff... like Big Town - get it on the merchant route, send settlers there, teach them more than just robot maintenance. Or set the Wanderer up as a caravan king/queen and run Uncle Roe out of business - or better, absorb his routes. Canterbury Commons would be a nice place to retire from wandering....don't know how hard that kind of addition would be.
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Looks like you're having fun! :)
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Yeah, it's okay, but really have more fun trying to come up with what they should have done to amuse me better. And really I have got to get over this must get the companions through alive thing I have going, had to run the Enclave base invasion about 7 times before I told the Star Paladin just to wait while I cleared out the baddies and then went back and got her - after which, she, of course, just vanished. Goodness knows if I'll ever see her again now, but not going back now...
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Even better!
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thoughts on broken steel? Its the one i never actually really got to play... Well. that and Pitt
Finished. But then you don't really, although the orbital strike you initiate to take out the Enclave is very cool - I recommend finishing in the evening hours for a better view. Once the main base is gone, you just fly back (yes, you get to to ride in a vertibird) and report, and things go back to what they were, but with no real goals. You are free to wander and shoot stuff, but the only goals are very minor. Once you are done, you're pretty much at loose ends - which is where the what should be available stuff, like establishing a home base of your own somewhere (I'd opt for the barber shop in Cantebury Commons) where the Wasteland's scariest merc can go to retire, should come in. And just for visuals, my character took small frame and agility so basically a tiny, quick woman - with enhanced strength - took out all the raiders, half the death claws, and the big bad paramilitary group, with just a dog, some pulse grenades, and a tesla cannon.
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Woo! Happy ending!!!
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So what are your plans now?
Gotta.admit there is a part of me tempted to try 76 again some...
Though really wish they would clean up the grind and fix that stupid "everything jumps to your level exactly" as it screws you over when you need to go scav older places for junk to build new weapons and armor come level up.
Should have done it so each area has a max level cap.
Starter area the highest level gribblies and such will hit is like 10-15, so when you go back its not just full of overpowered beasts your old gear is now underleveled to fight..
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I haven't heard much good about the mechanics of 76, and I recently gifted #4 to someone who actually has a PS4 (I don't) and told him I want reviews - the guy at the shop with whom I have a very good relationship and who considers himself my gaming guru, told me its the most 1st-persony of all the Fallout franchise, something I'm only just now getting used to in small doses.
Oh, and your attached video is freaking me out :D
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Hahaha, randowis, makes some great comics and little animations, though slowed down recent years.
And 76 is... problematic.
Its a big part Fall4 in style and engine, but leveling is... meh.
When you level up you dont get to pick perks from a list, you get a bunch of random "perk cards" you can equip about. And they sre given randomly. So while you want to play a tech heavy gunner with light armor, you might get cards that are only useful for trading. Its... annoying.
Further add in gear.
Rather then crafting one gun and a set of armor, then slowly upgrading it as you level, you make a gun at level 5. And at level 10. And 15, 20, 25...
And each level the gun costs more anf more to make, and when recycling your old gun you get almost nothing back. And the mods and attachments have to be recrafted as well.
So your ALWAYS struggling to find parts to do building with, most places are picked clean and your just praying you catch it on the respawn.
But a new thing they did is make it so enemies are always your level. So you hit level 30 and need to renew all your gear, cept there are no easy scav spots as everything is matching your level, but your weapons are underpowered...
This is an improvement as it used to be the game would spawn slightly lower enemies in earlier areas while you scaved...
Which sucked for everybody else as while your level 5, you might get swarmed by 6-7 level 90 ghouls because a level 90 guy was in the area. So youd be screwwed.
Now its "scaled" so the deathclaw that spawns in shows as level 5 for you, but for the level 90 it shows as level 90. You can both fight it, and do about the same damage roughly.
There are ways it could be fixed, but last i played it screwwed balance a lot.
Thst said, actual gameplay, story, enemies, all of that, were excellent and would have made an awesome single player game. Which is were it gets fucky again.
You can buynthe game and not have to pay a subscription....
Unless you want your own solo world where only you and your friends can explore about. That costs about 12 bucks a month.
Thats right. In the mmorpg , you only pay once to play online... but have to have a paid subscription to play solo.
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Gotta find something else to play while the laundry is in - could go back a do a really thorough skyrim run...or not. I'll go through the box of misfit games and see what's there.
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Yeah, im currently trying to find something thats piqued my interest...
Was trying just a randorun of fall4 with the realistic weapons mod...
Cept the weapons are only realistic on me. And by realistoc i mean their effect on me. Usually killed in one 9mm shot, even if wearing heavy combat armor. Where as the enemies in junk raider armor can tank 7.62x51 like its airsoft.