LadyCrimson

So last week I forgot a small soup/ramen sized metal pot on the stove and burned it into uselessness. This made me sad because I've had the pot a long time and considered it to be a pretty good one (not expensive or anything, but I liked it). I didn't feel like dealing with Xmas shoppers in order to look for a new quality pot, so in the meantime I bought one of those ultra-cheapies at the grocery store. And it turns out, it's the best little pot ever, at least for soups/ramen. Boils faster, simmers better, etc. Go figure!

Well I'm always vilified by the Legion, haha, so that can't be it. But I didn't try the stealthboy in previous versions of the game, this was on patch 1.2. Maybe they changed something.

Oh? *fires up game to test* ... ....well, I can stealthboy into the inner tent and stand right next to Caesar no problem. He stands up but does nothing, the guards don't see me/do nothing. Were you still neutral with them vs. vilified/hostile, maybe that makes a difference? Or maybe you have to have that quest active/it's the action of actually stealing the book that triggers an anti-stealthboy script (don't have that quest active in my savegame). Interesting.

Today on a whim I cleared out The Fort again. The 2 times before, Caesar's tent was a pain with all those guards and their ballistic fists. I don't carry/use mines, so no traps for me...just enter tent, leave tent (they chase you out the door), then a lot of backpedaling, firing, stimpacks etc. One of the few very specific fights where I use stimpacks in mid-combat - 4 or 5 Fists trying to wail on you at once, you take a lot of damage very fast, especially on VeryHard. But tonight I remembered stealthboys. I always forget I have the things and I had 10 of them sitting in my inventory. So this time I popped one. Entered tent, started taking sneak-crit pot-shots at the Guards with my 12.7 pistol. They all ran around like chickens - so funny! Killed a few, and Vulpes run away...he literally ran away and disappeared from the tent, never to be seen again. I don't know if that was a glitch or he's scripted to lose Nerve and run when faced with invisible enemies. lol Anyway, when all but a couple guards and Caesar were left, I exited tent, grabbed a Waiting Boone, went back in & let him have his jollies killing Caesar. Thumbs down you son of a ...! ...stealthboys. Yes, I must remember that. Makes the Fort/tent my new fave save/re-load killing-pen - along with the deathclaw area near the Dam - for those 10-20 minutes of daily NV fun. W00t.

I woke up early, spent time cleaning out & backing up a couple hard drives. Ate, showered, fed pets & squirrels, watched the rain, watched an hour of TV, made a few sorta-new outfits in NV for giggles, ate again, and now...hmm. Think I'll rent a flick.

I'm back to playing....pretty much nothing. Oh sure I fool with the NV GECK and do silly things for an hour or two a day, but mostly...I play nothing. May be time for a Fry's run on Monday, see what I can find...

For myself, I still don't know that much about the game...not enough to make a hard decision about whether to get it or not. I liked the first two quite a bit, so it's pretty likely I'll get the 3rd, especially if it has a bit more story flavor to it or whatnot, but too early for that decision.

I continue to not really "play" the game, but the GECK/mods still makes me giggle for a few minutes at a time. Especially during long holidays. My new hat! ...a new career path for you-know-who?...

Diablo3, because I must have it, even if it turns out I don't play it much.... Probably Dungeon Siege3. Probably Grim Dawn, assuming they finish it in 2011, which I'm unsure about. That's it for my known list. If I buy anything else it'll be on impulse or because I read on forums how awesome a game is/sounds like it might be a game I'd like.

Merry New Vegas Xmas.

I'm a well-known Xmas Grinch...although this mostly has to do with how I can't go anywhere for 2 weeks without being driven insane by crazed traffic/shoppers, rather than an actual dislike of the holiday itself. But we're not a couple who celebrates it/gives gifts etc. Just another day. However, I do like eggnog.

Yeah, I'm willing to do that too...especially if it's a sequel to an old game where I probably don't want to play the older game anyway, but the newer version I might. I mostly just meant if I didn't like a game I won't buy a sequel just because it's a sequel & everyone says it's great. There's also very few series that I'll buy only because of that, even if I did like the previous games. Diablo3 will fit into that category at this point tho....but if for some reason I don't like D3 all that much, I won't buy Diablo4 when (you know it'll happen) it comes out 15 years later.

Spending the next several days pretending there's no such thing as Xmas holidays. I become more Grinch-like every year. I think my hair is starting to turn green. But Happy Holidays anyway.

While I've had minor bursts of 'game shame', mainly related to not wanting to tell family/friends exactly how much time I sometimes have spent playing - altho in the past few years not so much because I don't play as much (until FNV that is) - I also have general problems in obsessive-task orientation even outside of games, so it's not a unique thing to gaming. I don't think I've ever had any issue akin to the OP's problem. Sometimes I do think "I should really try that game again/give it another shot" ... but then the thought fades a few minutes later and I forget all about it. I have no guilt in that regard, nor do I buy sequels to games I don't like/didn't play.

I don't really care, since by the time/if I get the DLC, I'll have forgotten any minor tidbits I've read on forums....it's the one advantage of having a bad/aging memory....but one could always make a FNV:DLC thread.

A rare white Xmas in Australia sounds like fun, actually. Take pictures, and tell the grandkids!

I'm not much a fan of the Bethsoft board, because sadly, most of the time I read there, my brain dies a bit. You could still post the link to your mod there tho...you don't have to converse with/read the rest of the board. I've met a few very nice people there, which I PM with semi-frequently....but I do get your point, and 98% of the time it's true enough. P.S. I've now progressed to altering rooms in the game via the editor. It's all coming back to me now, slowly. Scripting new stuff is still way beyond me, tho.

*errand time* *shower/dress* *get in car, turn the key* *dead battery...again* *sigh* *wait for hubby to get home*

I came to dislike his Perk because whenever I wanted to take a screenshot/vid while 'zoomed in', I had to make sure all the stuff was picked up/cleared or there would be all this glowing green stuff in the scene.

You should post this in the FNV Mods section at the Beth forums if you haven't already. Probably see more feedback that way. Agree w/Tig about the voice-overs too...unless you're talking about re-using/editing some of the recorded voices from the actual game files to fit your mod.

A kind modder soul managed to find the solution to Boone's constant holstering issue...which also fixed the head-tracking as a byproduct. Apparently they were related. Commenting out 2 lines in one of his dialogue scripts that were causing the AI to recheck some status every 5 seconds or so made him holster. I never, ever would have figured that out. Kudos to him. He uploaded it to newvegasnexus. Also, I gave one more desperate measure to make patch 1.2 workable for me by completely uninstalling (deleting any leftovers as well) and redownloading/installing the game from Steam yet again. Once installed I put back in all my simple little mods/dance mod/save game files etc. and fired it up. So far, no frozen enemies and Nipton is back to normal. I haven't played too long, but it's hopeful. So for me at least, it appears that just updating the game is bad, and a reinstall is better. Shouldn't be like that, but there it is. I may be able to play 1.2 now. Yay. (edit)changed 1.3 to 1.2...we're not on 1.3 yet, I'm senile.

Boone-love never truly dies. I fixed his head-tracking but the patch was also giving me frozen enemies that I couldn't touch/harm, Nipton with no powder gangers and a missing Vulpes, and all kind of weird little other things. Plus more CTD's after a long period of them being not very frequent. Buggy Boone is one thing but buggy whole game is another so I gave up on 1.2 and went back to patch 1.1

I still am, kind of. Just not in any quest/story progression fashion. An hour or so a day of running companions around in combat while I giggle at their foolish AI. Raul's a very good companion. He has great guns skills and a nice storyline. He's in the first building in a room behind a door that opens with a password found on a terminal, no hacking needed. Arcade's still my 2nd fave tho. He makes a good energy counterpoint to my love of bullet-guns and his snarky attitude cracks me up. Raul & Cass are tied for 3rd.

Saw the 1st two, so I watched Twilight:Eclipse. At the 1 hour mark I paused the movie to get some water and thought "omg there's still another hour left to go?" Toughed it out and even the big fight at the end had me snoring....the first film was ok for a teen-romance-angst story, the 2nd was silly, but the 3rd is neither ok or particularly silly, just boring. But the actor who plays Bella's father - Billy Burke - is a riot. I like him.

Can't sleep, so I'm here. Next on the agenda...re-read some Sherlock Holmes stories. They never become old.