LadyCrimson

The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Nothing special, but a watchable fantasy/magic adventure with nerd flavor. If you like Nick Cage cheesing it up in his good way, it's kind of a small delight. The effects were pleasant and it didn't take itself seriously. Plus the "bad" guys, there's this one tiny bit where they're poking fun at (or doing homage to, take your pick) a famous scene from Star Wars, that had me ROFL. Being a Disney movie, another scene that was ripped from one of their famous old cartoon films was also rather priceless, at least to me.

Yesterday bought a 2nd internal 1TB hard-drive to contain all my video stuff, which I've been getting more and more into, now that I have a PC that can handle them (not just game vids, but home vid stuff too)...don't like it all on the main drive and my 1TB external is good for weekly backups but too slow (thru the USB) for media stuff. At the moment, after some housework, sitting on my arse feeling chilly and a bit bored. Tonight going to get some Hawaiian BBQ and watch Cage ham it up in the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

The parts have no other quest for them...they're just the parts that you find for him during the quest. I think it's just a bug that you can loot some of them after.

I don't think a market for this sort of thing would be very available in any near future. I know I wouldn't be very interested. A movie is too short and limited a format to make altering the bits & pieces I don't like to feel worth the probable time it would take to do it and have it come out well when played back. I mean, I might not like a character in a movie, but the effort to scrub them out of the film and replace the role they fill with some other cgi-creation of my own....no, too much work for the payoff. But then, I'm lazy.

HBO's been playing a lot of films, lately, that I sorta wanted to check out but was unwilling to pay for (even rental price). So I watched The Fourth Kind. On the one hand, it does have a nice creepy atmosphere on several occasions & has Will Patton hamming it up as the town Sheriff. On the other hand, it's a terrible movie with some really annoying split screen tactics. Then I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox. Sure it got rave reviews but I still wasn't sure I'd like it. It was cute/charming. I might have liked it more if George Clooney wasn't the voice actor. Too recognizable and for me didn't fit Mr. Fox's animation/chr.

I liked Searchlight the first time I did it, because it's one of those few places that felt dangerous (at least at lower levels) because of the radiation+enemies. I also loved the But on subsequent playthroughs it's not as fun and starts to feel tedious. Walk around, press radaway hotkey every few minutes. Plus the undroppable looted items one of those npc's has (that I'm careful to not pick up, now). I try to rush through it as fast as possible these days...don't remember having any trouble finding the axe, tho. What I did have trouble was finding all the parts they guys wanted in the one room filled with desks/computers. Confuzzled me for a bit.

I should probably mention that my 12.7 pistol had a silencer on it, which I believe is why I could shoot & remain undetected. I think if you use a non-silenced weapon they're supposed to be able to locate you from that. Wearing heavy armor increases the odds of being detected too, I think (makes more noise). Since I was in 1st person I couldn't really tell if any of them technically touched me while they were chicken-running around, but supposedly if you connect with someone while stealth-boyed that breaks it as well. You'd think one of them would have run into me since two are almost on top of me when I enter, but I guess not... (edit)my Sneak was around 80 w/out the Stealthboy, but it alone did not suffice).

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*