Hey let's catch up on some video gaming in the sandbox

almost every boss i encountered in re4, i would sell everything just before and buy a rocket launcher. then spend the next level suffering with no basic weapons. yeah i was bad at it.

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/

Continued Game Updates – This week we released update 1.2 across all platforms, and we’ll be releasing an incremental update next week. We anticipate it will be up on PC first, and then hit PS3 and Xbox 360 later in the week. Among other things, the update will fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon. Once the update is released, we’ll share the full release notes.

After the holidays, we’ll continue to release regular updates for the game — through full title updates, as well as incremental “gameplay updates” to fix whatever issues come up along with rebalancing portions of the game for difficulty or exploits. We plan on having a lot of these, not just a few. Overall, you should expect updates to be hitting the PC and Steam earlier and more often, as that’s a process we control. Console updates will follow, as they must be certified and processed by those manufacturers.

We all know this is a huge game, and everyone has a different experience. We’ll continue to do everything we can to make the game better and better for as many people as possible every day. We’ve also realized that with the millions upon millions of people playing Skyrim, we need to treat our updates with greater care. If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this. To be safe, we are prioritizing code side fixes right now over data fixes. Quest and balance issues are usually data, and those will start rolling in a large way with the January updates.

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I had probably my most satisfying Skyrim session last night. Can't wait to go home. Why do we have to have a dumb office party tonight, argh.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPtVdK7OzpE
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you are one of the best posters

why do people do things like that

why because of

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Back on RDR. Fucking sick of load screens.

Finished the latest Assassin's Creed and it wasn't very good. Easily the worst since the first (somewhat fitting that the first game is a free bonus on the PS3 version). Hopeful ACIII will have some more interesting ideas and less bullshit additions that clutter up the core gameplay. If you stripped it down and refined the good parts it could be an amazing game (though you can say that about most any game).

(i am pretty awesome btw)

Bought Deus Ex. Waiting for it to d/l from Amazon which is bleah FOREVER.

Played Junk Jack and Oh! Edo Towns on my phones over the holiday. Good times.

So if I go ahead and get Skyrim should I care what platform I get it on? And can I download it or will I have to go to a fucking shop! Of all places!

Mario Kart 7 has some good online features. anyone else gonna get this so we can set up an ILG Community invite code thing?

looks like console is nice and 360 is best image.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4z9TdDCWN7g

ughh stop mugging for the camera

as much as i love video game faux english folk music this is like pomplamoose level smdh

truth

"Female Cover"

usually stupid shit posted on IGN's news page is easily ignorable but just seeing the headline for this was enraging

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/immediately-ban-deadly-videogame-known-skyrim-safety-americas-youths/YmY1bLQ5?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

loooooool

would love for that hit 25K signatures and get an official white house response

omg lol

def signing that

vital legislation imo

some of the names on that list...

VagMuncher V
CHEESEFOREVERYONE
Jimi Hendrix, Seattle , WA
ZoosmellPooplor D (possibly the title of the next Tenacious D movie)
Hue G Boner

it is kinda weird to me how pervasive skyrim is---I have friends who were non-gamers who are nuts for it

my favorite signature on that petition is:

Matt Bowman needs to slob on my nob biznitch

Also, as a note for future petition signers, Hugh G. Rection is much funnier.

"1) To enact an immediate ban on the videogame known as "SkyRim" produced by Blizzard Entertainment."

Finished downloading Deus Ex, finally. Makes me wanna read more cyberpunk. And I already caught the first pop culture ref of the game

DID YOU TAKE THE CROSSBOW OR THE GEP GUN OR THE SNIPER RIFLE

space miner for ios is free for the weekend; got some coint and plick love if anyone's into it
getting it now

Guys when is GTAV due out?

not soon

BTW guys: EA made Tetis on the iOS a subscription based system
http://toucharcade.com/2011/12/02/the-new-tetris-boldly-takes-iap-to-heights-few-dream-of/
it would be funny if it weren't fucking nuts

EA would turn breathing into a subscription based service if they could.

I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns

Got skyrim, level 6 after about 8 hours. Keep on forgetting to save, dying, having to retrace 1000s of steps. Keep on stumbling upon and attempting quests that I really should be a much higher level for, like labyrinthian. Fuck a multi frost troll attack.

Also, i'm a thane, and dragonborn, and I don't even have a house yet! I can't afford 5000 cash, don't they have mortgages?

I just want a house! I've got all this kitchen equipment!

How are skyrim mods coming? Has anybody put out anything good yet?

Don't worry man 5k won't seem like much septims to worry yourself about by even level 10 or do.

This game has many more Septims than it has things to buy with them.

I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns

― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i have taken the crossbow in all but one of my 839257238942042 playthroughs of this game but the way it makes anyone it hits run around frantically going "OOG!" for a minute before falling down leaves some stealthiness to be desired

Oh no Tom I was going to tell you not to buy skyrim cos it's great but to love it you need to turn a blind eye to lots of exactly the kind of stuff you hate. But I was too late. At least tell us you got it on 360 not ps3?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-ps3-skyrim-lag

What stuff do I hate? I mean there's so much - what in particular? :)

Got it on 360 yeah. Gonna spend some time tomorrow just tooling around, pickin' some herbs, doin' some alchemy, chattin' to folk. Dialogue may be cloth-eared but it's such a rich world I think you have try and immerse yourself in it or you'll miss out. E.g. Empire vs. Stormcloaks, what's that about? Whose side should I be on? I figure I won't really find out without talking to people.

Haha I was thinking "you'll hate picking herbs and doing alchemy and stuff" so maybe I'm just wrong. To be fair it's a game where you can mostly ignore any bits you don't like and still get by just fine (like I do with shields and blocking and armour and stuff).

Stormcloaks and imperials both seem like dicks to me, been refusing to join either. I'm a werewolf now though. And I'm considering the thieves guild.

(actually the stuff I thought you'd hate would be the actual role playing. I think you're right that it's a world you do have to immerse yourself in cos it's also one where the illusion's easily shattered if you don't force yourself to play along with it).