differences becomes* apparent
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
in most respects i'm a stat whoring powergamer type but i just don't like rolling with a companion, even for the extra baggage carry.
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I cant handle npc fucking my shit up.. and they die all the time and makes me sad. I got the conjure dremora lord before I finished the game and that was the shit right there.. dude pops up in full bad ass armor and flaming double handed sword and will kick the shit out of anyone in his way,. then disappears after a minute or two.
― mayor jingleberriez, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
i really wanted to get bound bow spell but apparently you need conjuring 50 to get it and i have like conjuring 21
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
i've run with bound sword every now and again, if i don't feel like wasting charges. the wikis say it's equiv to a pretty nice sword but it takes a couple seconds to pull up. also i don't think casting is silent w/o perks so backstabbing with it is tougher.
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I used the bound sword a ton of times because I usually rolled with a magic sword of some sort and would use the bound sword on things I didnt want to waste charges on and didnt want to add weight
― mayor jingleberriez, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
oblivion w/spells
― cccccc, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
four?!?
Yeah, I've killed Lydia, that image of the fendahl guy, some dude whose ancestral shield I'd recovered, and a beefy woman who agreed to join me after I beat her in a fistfight in a pub in whiterun. Game seems to be full of potential companions though, I've turned down a lot more than I've taken on.
― JimD, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
You don't know the meaning of annoying companion until you've spent some quality time with jzargo or whatever from the mages guild
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
i prefer to go at it alone!
Todd
― realness, just realness, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
Todd?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
That's my name!
― realness, just realness, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
Can anyone rec a decent first person ps3 shooter with a good deathmatch feature? Specifically for irl players - not online. I don't play by myself much anymore, but plan to host a monthly get together w/some friends so we can chase each other around with flamethrowers and whatnot. This seemed to be a staple with all first person shooters on ps2 games, but not so much anymore.
― Darin, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
I gots an iPhone 3GS, can anyone recommend some good games for it? Preferably free, just because I can't be bothered dicking about with credit cards.
Its hard to find good game apps that are free, unless yer ok with stuff thats either a single demo level or is covered in ads. I'm really enjoying Helsings Fire, but not sure if there is a free version of that (its only 99c but you do need to set up an account with a card. In fact I think you have to do that regardless dont you?)
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
Whoohoo first full on console lockup in skyrim! Now I finally feel like I am playing a Bethesda game.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
Also fuck a sightless pit.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
I've just enrolled by sorceress/archer into that magical college up north. Looking forward to smiting.
Since I want to be a magic+archer person, do I need to train up with a sword/dagger/whatever? Or can I just rely on my bow and some kind of awesome fire spell?
― NotEnough, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
Film Crit Hulk expands into games crit:
http://badassdigest.com/2011/11/29/film-crit-hulk-smash-hulk-vs-the-bat-shit-evolution-of-the-modern-warfare/
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
Playing LA Noire and I'm sort of bored by it.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
totally fucked up by destroying my necromancer/regain magicka 75% faster robes for enchantment; my new character build was predicated on fast regenerating magic for healing/firebolts. I gotta find and kill a new mage pronto.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
I've settled into a nice pattern of shooting a target with my bow to pull it, setting it on fire then smacking it in the face with my two-handed axe. I think I need to learn fast healing tho.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing faster than drinking a potion.
I got into a bit of trouble with some mercenaries, half a dozen of them and their leader all at once was a bit too much for me. Afer three or four attempts I remembered I had some scrolls, paralyze and frost damage - job done.
― ledge, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
haha true, but I kind of keep chugging them all at once, making me okay for wave one but not so much for wave two
I guess I should be incorporating scrolls and some form of blocking into my combat patterns
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
I love stopping in the middle of a frenzied battle to change weapons, drink some potions and eat a whole wheel of cheese, and sort through my scroll collection.
― ledge, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit, FOOD
I forgot I have food
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
WoW has totally screwed up my expectations re: what is and isn't feasible during combat
taking a time out to carefully apply a dose of poison to a weapon is very handy.
― slandblox goole, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Better yet: Planetfall allowed you to take a nap in the middle of a fight.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm hesitant to ask but is the ps3 much better than the 360 or about the same?
― CaptainBurlapSax, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
i have wondered the same thing
― river wolf, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
with certain games, the graphics are tighterin general, the only reason you'd need both is if you're into console exclusives.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
I was 100% convinced that the voice actor for Paarthurnax was Peter Cullen, the optimus prime dude. But I finally remembered to look it up just now and...it's-a bloody mario!
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Voice_Actors
― JimD, Thursday, 8 December 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, and it turns out Cullen was the original mario anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cullen
― JimD, Thursday, 8 December 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
so skyrim is half price in gamestation in the uk? should i? i fear i'll never have the time it apparently deserves, though if it was really good maybe i'd make the time!
― SandboxGarda (HI IT'S RONAN), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's very good indeed and I can totally see how it could take over someone's life, but it doesn't need to be that way. I've been playing it in hour chunks in the evening, and the dungeons seem designed for that kind of play. It'll definitely give you twenty quid's worth of fun.
― NotEnough, Thursday, 8 December 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
btw can I just say the Companions are AWESOME so far and I will be crushed when I discover they are secretly evil bastards bent on eating the world
also I just bought a house! squeee!
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Was holding off from the companion missions, they seemed a bit suspicious in a libertarian kind of way, but ok I'll try and bro down with them. Got into the Thieves Guild but only 'cause I want to improve my lock-picking. And maybe I can take them down from the inside...
― ledge, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
I love the Companions and their Warren Zevon ways.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I intend to marry Mjoll the Lioness.
― JimD, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
preeeety sure i just stumbled into a dungeon that is some sort of main storyline quest thing by accident and am now worried that i am going to throw some game breaking wrench in the gears. its the one with the various skulls as keys. if anybody can confirm/deny that i am about to bungle the storyline plz speak up.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
looked up "skull keys" and i don't think so
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
cool, it just kept popping up those text captions "YOU HAVE FOUND THE KEY OF WAFATHURIA" that only seem to happen when you are doing some big deal sorta thing, and considering i just sorta stumbled across a cave or whatever i figured i was on the verge of screwing something up.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
i went thru a whole dwarven ruin (i was sent there to assassinate someone) and when i finished it there was a mechanism that required a piece to start it up. i didn't have the piece tho, and when i looked online it seemed like you got it from a different quest. i have yet to break a quest from doing something out of order.
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
altho tbf some of my favorite rpg moments are always the *cue dramatic music as lord whatever walks towards you* "I seek a champion and stalwart fighter! Long have I hungered to once again grab my ancestral sword and stride into..." "Oh that thing yeah I got it in my backpack just a second."
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
xpost goole and i were talking last weekend about some supposed game-breaking bugs to do with the whole civil war thing happening out of turn so now i am paranoid i think.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
also i just finished the big write up in game informer on this south park rpg they are doing and there is just absolutely no way that it will not be an epic clusterfuck of hilariously bad proportions. i mean when you have a show that is built around fairly wonky aspect ratio and foreshortening and perspective uh do you not see where that is going to be a problem. without even getting into the impossibility of sustained funny in video games.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes that is a sensibility i want to spend 80+ hours in
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Oh that thing yeah I got it in my backpack just a second."
lol, they saw that coming with the dragonstone, huh
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
nothing like picking up an undroppable quest item that weighs like 12 pounds when you have no idea what to do with it. i guess that's what the internet is for...
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
that's what your house is for!
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link