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Post by Dominick on Jan 22, 2014 8:46:44 GMT -5
I've finally gotten around to playing Fallout New Vegas, really wish Fallout 4 would be here soon. I also got Braid earlier since it's Steam's weekend sale for 2 bucks, and honestly that's as much as I'd pay for it. Game is incredibly short and relies on tough puzzles to make you play longer. For New Vegas I highly recommend Gopher on Youtube (just look up Gopher and either New Vegas or Skyrim and he'll come up) - if there is anything keeping me from New Vegas it's the promise of Fallout 4 sooner or later and that I can't afford to get caught up in another modding endeavor like that ha ha! Speaking of which, I'm just going over everything with my Skyrim mod list (it's better to have that all sorted out and just play it rather than try to figure things out later if you can avoid it). I'm thinking my first character will be an ode of sorts to the first character I made in Morrowind - a multi-skilled, slightly morally ambiguous Orc Knight named Wyre. I found a cool Breaking Bad mod where you can cook blue meth for caps. There's also a Doctor Who mod that has the TARDIS and sonic screwdriver but whenever I try launching the TARDIS it doesn't work. As for Fallout 4, I get the feeling late 2015 will be the earliest we see it, and why Bethesda has yet to announce anything is beyond me.
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Post by Dominick on Jan 22, 2014 8:47:21 GMT -5
For those playing New Vegas but haven't played previous Fallout games, I cannot recommend Fallout 1 & 2 enough. While Fallout NV certainly feels like a Fallout game, it still lacks some of the charm of the originals, and those who haven't tried the original out to seek them out and give them a go, because they're fantastic. Yeah, one of these days I need to play the first two since I started the series with 3.
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Post by slendermaschine on Jan 22, 2014 9:58:18 GMT -5
For New Vegas I highly recommend Gopher on Youtube (just look up Gopher and either New Vegas or Skyrim and he'll come up) - if there is anything keeping me from New Vegas it's the promise of Fallout 4 sooner or later and that I can't afford to get caught up in another modding endeavor like that ha ha! Speaking of which, I'm just going over everything with my Skyrim mod list (it's better to have that all sorted out and just play it rather than try to figure things out later if you can avoid it). I'm thinking my first character will be an ode of sorts to the first character I made in Morrowind - a multi-skilled, slightly morally ambiguous Orc Knight named Wyre. I found a cool Breaking Bad mod where you can cook blue meth for caps. There's also a Doctor Who mod that has the TARDIS and sonic screwdriver but whenever I try launching the TARDIS it doesn't work. As for Fallout 4, I get the feeling late 2015 will be the earliest we see it, and why Bethesda has yet to announce anything is beyond me. I hate to be cynical, but here's my speculation as to the reason for Bethesda staying quiet about a new Fallout game: All these indie games? All the arma mod this and greenlight that? It's turned the entire post-apocalyptic game genre on its ass with all the titles coming out these days. Want zombies? We've got a mess of zombies. Want a social post apocalypse? We've got that left and right. Want strict survival? We got it any flavor you want, including badger. Including. Badger. There is literally a badger survival game; from a marketing perspective this is a fucking nightmare to approach now if you have a game like Fallout that not only has to compete with the little nooks and nannies these smaller and/or indie games offer, they have to give a full package, AAA post-apocalypse. Why is it a problem though for a big budget title from a AAA studio? Well now we need to code properly, and let's be honest, we're talking Bethesda who needs to sharpen the tools in their kit for the next project or it will explode with the amount of content they'll have to offer to compete with features that games a third of the cost offer. But also that means higher performance, better graphical fidelity, and a presentation that indie games can't offer with the post apocalypse norms they've established to become norms for the genre. The best example to illustrate this obstacle is simple: You know how we mod games like Elder Scrolls and Fallout to insane levels, in some part to add in all the little details that would take another 3 years of dev time? Bethesda pretty much has to make a game and then mod the shit out of their own game!From a marketing perspective, they're dealing with a flooded market full of FuckoBurgers who can afford to sell games on the cheap that look like piss compared to current console and PC capabilities, and they need to make the best bloody filet Mignon sprinkled with gold leaf to compete as a full blown, full priced game. Otherwise the risk running into the problem so many MMOs have discovered trying to compete with Warcraft: If you lose momentum in a tight race, it can kill you. I'm sure they're trying to make a game that offers a unique take on crafting, camping, survival, ect. without giving the player the feeling of "Well I can do this in Minecraft... on my phone!" And let's say we're talking 2015; those indie Mincraft-wannabes and post apocalypse games don't seem to be slowing down much so that means more competition to out-do in terms of presentation, gameplay, and value. What will be troublesome is that people are fine playing games like Minecraft that can offer such an expansive experience because, frankly, it looks like shit compared to the real-life fidelity games could be. That doesn't make a game shit, per se, but it's like Legos vs a realistic sculpture. You can build worlds with Legos... except everyone has liver problems and looks like they had a stroke in a blocky reality. And for Fallout 5, they obviously are in no position to half-ass anything.
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Post by woundedcycad on Jan 23, 2014 15:21:42 GMT -5
I found a cool Breaking Bad mod where you can cook blue meth for caps. There's also a Doctor Who mod that has the TARDIS and sonic screwdriver but whenever I try launching the TARDIS it doesn't work. As for Fallout 4, I get the feeling late 2015 will be the earliest we see it, and why Bethesda has yet to announce anything is beyond me. I hate to be cynical, but here's my speculation as to the reason for Bethesda staying quiet about a new Fallout game: I hate to be simplistic about this but Bethesda is being quiet about a new fallout game because they are releasing Elder Scrolls Online and with all of the negative feedback they are getting on it, they are in full damage control mode. They are probobly going to wait to see how much of a bomb ESO is before announcing anything. Also they are not going to try to release two huge titles right on top of one another, where one may hurt the other. AAA developers with IPs as big as fallout don't give a shit about a flooded indie market because the name and pedigree sells the game anyway to the general public more then anything.
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Post by HaikenEdge on Jan 23, 2014 16:01:42 GMT -5
ESO is bad. It's like, 4 years out from release bad, and it's currently in beta.
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Post by woundedcycad on Jan 23, 2014 16:36:54 GMT -5
ESO is bad. It's like, 4 years out from release bad, and it's currently in beta. yep that's what I hear and that's what it's looked like since they announced it, but they have sunk too much time and money into it to not focus marketing exclusively on that.
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Post by HaikenEdge on Jan 23, 2014 19:09:18 GMT -5
ESO is bad. It's like, 4 years out from release bad, and it's currently in beta. yep that's what I hear and that's what it's looked like since they announced it, but they have sunk too much time and money into it to not focus marketing exclusively on that. Well, if it wasn't for the NDA...
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Post by slendermaschine on Jan 25, 2014 6:07:17 GMT -5
I took a chance and downloaded Skyrim as well as some of its most popular and highly recommended mods. Still not feeling it. I think the problem is that no matter how pretty people can make the game look, the combat and animations are irreparable. No mod I've come across can fix them and I'm not sure my PC could even handle a mod that would so drastically overhaul the game. Still gonna give it a go intermittently throughout this Chrimbus break. Take a mod here, leave a mod there. I refuse to give up on this game for some reason. Bethesda really needs to work on their character animations and voice acting and writing and holy shit those weapon designs look like something GothicKingCobra would scribble on his arm though.
Then look up Dual Sheaths Redux; It has requirements for some mods that 1) change the skeletons and 2) allow you to change the animations. The work people did is absolutely stunning just on Youtube with how great the new animations look. Also, I highly recommend looking up "Gopher" + "Skyrim Sanctuary" on Youtube. He gives excellent overviews of various mods, details how to mod Skyrim in a very easy to understand fashion, and overall just helps a ton with installing some of the more involved mods out there like Skyre.
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Post by George Knight on Jan 29, 2014 13:14:45 GMT -5
I'm planning on picking up a copy of Dragon's Crown this weekend.
[Misogyny intensifies]
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Post by slendermaschine on Jan 29, 2014 23:44:12 GMT -5
I'm planning on picking up a copy of Dragon's Crown this weekend. [Misogyny intensifies]As much as that probably isn't my thing, unless it's a deceptive anti-women campaign disguised under over-exaggerated T&A it's just possibly sexually exploitative. I'll never get the stance that "celebrating a woman's body" is a load of crock when you could take out the "wo-" just as easily to swap the subject's gender and it still is just a summary of humanity's inherent sexuality... because reproduction, y'know? And I only bring that up because having not played Dragon's Crown I don't want to just blindly label it sexually exploitative when it is completely possible that it is simply sexual. So anyway, I finally finished up my Skyrim mod load over. It's around 250 ha ha! And just when I finally do my last bash patch and reproccer script... I see that Dawn of Riften came out. This has me wondering what city mods came out for Morrowind that are worth looking at...
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Post by minasa on Jan 30, 2014 0:32:18 GMT -5
I'm planning on picking up a copy of Dragon's Crown this weekend. [Misogyny intensifies]
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Post by HaikenEdge on Jan 30, 2014 16:56:15 GMT -5
I'm planning on picking up a copy of Dragon's Crown this weekend. [Misogyny intensifies]To be fair, it's Patricia Hernandez on Kotaku. I mean, even if it's legit (can't tell), she's pretty much a blight upon Kotaku, and blogging in general.
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Post by Dominick on Feb 1, 2014 19:13:27 GMT -5
Finished Octodad: Dadliest Catch today, what a pain in the ass to play. Fortunately there's some cool courses on the Steam Workshop so it's not all that bad, plus there's some Steam trading cards to sell.
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Post by HaikenEdge on Feb 2, 2014 12:41:05 GMT -5
Been playing Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 recently; it's really frustrating because the mouse movement isn't always smooth, which can make the difference between a headshot and missing entirely.
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Post by tonio31 on Feb 2, 2014 18:56:47 GMT -5
I'm planning on picking up a copy of Dragon's Crown this weekend. [Misogyny intensifies]Is this real?
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