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

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).

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

THIS. I have mixed (if mostly positive) feelings about the rest of the game, but the dart gun in Human Revolution is a huge, necessary improvement.

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

― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (Yesterday)

The toolset's not coming out until January.

OK, duh, of course there are modders who haven't waited and there was a nudie mod on day 2 after release (please). Child killing took a couple of weeks longer.

On the upside, there are lots of nice looking texture packs out.

I'm waiting until I've finished a vanilla play-through and made my own wishlist before I check out mods though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=93W6mB0ZqCM#!

http://i.imgur.com/1iKvl.jpg

lol

idgi is there spoiler-free explanation

nb i am already tight with lydia

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. Underwhelmed with Angry Birds, is thus really what people were going apeshit for?

Yay. Amazon delivered Skyward Sword to me on release day, even though I chose the cheapest shipping option. Unfortunately it was a present for my girlfriend and I had to wait til her birthday! Finally got to (mostly just watch her) play it yesterday and really liking it so far. It managed to distract me from Skyrim for the whole day, which is no small feat.

ledge, no spoilers really: you can use enchantments from captured souls to create magical rings and name those rings. lydia is a pain in the butt; constantly running head on into battles or falling off cliffs or ruining stealth attacks but you can't really ditch her because she's a de facto mule who doubles your carrying capacity. She also whines "I am SWORN to carry your BURDENS" every time you use her this way. Basically, killing her and turning her into a ring would generally make life a lot easier, especially when you're later into the game.

is it a ring that can carry half of your shit, because that would be WORTH IT ZOMG

I have taken to using Lydia and my horse as bait/distractions so I can run up behind mobs and flamechop them in the back of the head. Oh, also I discovered that my horse can outrun the ice troll on the 7000 steps ^_^

holy crap lydia will carry stuff for me?! not that carrying capacity is a major bottleneck for me any more.

also her running head on into battles is probably an asset, she's saved my skin multiple times. and then i accidentally burn her up with my FLAME ON. i don't really do stealth tho.

lydia > lydia ring since that ring takes up a spot you could use for other excellent ring abilities

I just found some leather boots of lifting so that's all good.
Yeah ledge: your companions will pack mule and you can use them to carry stuff. Talk to them.
Companions only die for real if you accidentally administer the killing blow; if they're being attacked from outside sources, they fight till they're almost dead and invariably the outside attacker stops with them and goes after you. So be careful with the FLAME ON cuz you can kill her really really dead.