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Yeah I heartily recommend pushing on with the MQ a bit more, if only to get your mind blown by the amount of options you have for resolving the conflict and seeing how the side quests weave into it at the end, I can't think of another game with so much choice on so many levels, on a repeat playthrough it feels like there is no main quest, just go at the whole thing and see what happens. Dead Money is my first DLC and I'm divided over it, I really liked the characters and setting, plot holes and all, but I hated how the environment worked against the limitations of the engine, I got quite pissed off a few times I thought Dean rigging the auto-doc to change Christine's vocal cords was pretty cool, for some reason I loved the bit where you can eavesdrop on her while she tries out her new voice, I get what you mean though, the mute stuff was inventive. Sound design was great too, I don't often see people talking about Obsidian's audio skills but they really are brilliant

Didn't notice this, 82 years old though, well played.

I completed Dead Money last night, it took me ten hours in total which I suppose is excellent value for money but a fair portion was spent cursing bear traps and grinding through to the gala opening. The visual design of the streets was mind numbingly dull and claustrophobic but at least the layout was thoughtful, it felt like an early 2000's shooter level with RPG bits bolted on, things perked up considerably inside the casino and I had a good time stitching together the plot, even if it has a few holes in it. On the whole I admire what a ballsy move it was to create such a punishing DLC, I was happy beyond reason when I got out of that ****hole with three gold bars to blow on GRA toys, I just wish more time could have been spent polishing the experience.

Played through a good chunk of Dead Money tonight, the characters and plot are all engaging and it's nice to be forced into a survival situation but the mechanics feel contrived, I'll be hugely glad to get back out into the Mojave, I suppose that's the idea really. Christine is probably the most interesting character, it's cool how descriptive writing can make for a deeper connection...though I wondered what the hell was going on until I enabled subtitiles

Bah, ZX Spectrum was just a ZX 81 with slightly more memory and 6 additional colours And it was GLORIOUS! In other news, How Sam & Max Hit The Road Taught Me To Love Words

The cat ate my ****ing steak, raw, sneaky bitch...

It seems Sawyer's mod has turned me into such a thieving little packrat that my karma is down the toilet and the rebalanced karma for killing fiends means I'm going to have to slaughter about 50 of the buggers to be "good" again

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee." What the hell?

The only sane thing to do is put the game away for a very long time and come back when the modders have worn themselves out, that's my plan anyway.

I think lots of us were sceptical about the "traditional Muslim burial...at sea!" schtick so I'm mildly curious about what really happened, I won't be losing sleep over it though.

Nah, I'm a bit of a completionist, I'll do the grind eventually

Put NWN2 on the backburner for New Vegas, I just find it really difficult to give a toss about elves and dwarves compared to humanity rebuilding, I'll pick the game straight back up when I'm done in NV though, if only to get at the chewy philosophical centre I'm told exists within it.

Whoops, almost missed that, pretty epic.

Agreed, I watch a fair amount of foreign news, you can get a lot of good info if you stay sceptical.

I watched Justice League: Doom a few weeks ago and enjoyed it, especially the attempt to break Bruce Wayne

Now that I think about it, back when Fallout 3 came out there were quite a few arguments involving pro Enclave members...apple pie and genocide AMERICUHHHH!!!

I noticed something quite interesting over on Bethesda's forums last night, I've never really spent much time in the New Vegas section but it seems that some people there have heavily identified with the ideologies in the game and split off into factions themselves, the arguments are amusingly heated. I even saw people trying to push their ideology on new players who'd only signed up to ask a few simple questions about starting the game

Been playing a few days with Sawyer's mod and it rocks, it kind of brings all the systems into perspective, makes stuff like crafting and obsessive stockpiling a bit more necessary rather than a guilty OCD pleasure. On the subject of the game, I'm still floored by the thoughtfulness and logic on display, I was awake for a good hour longer than I should have been last night, not because I was playing the game but because I was lying in bed pondering Caesar's whole Hegelian Dialectic speel, I think Morrowind is the only other game that has had this effect on me. I'm also loving the Gun Runner's Arsenal but with Josh's mod installed buying that stuff is going to totally molest me, I did notice some Jackals using GRA guns though, I grinned lots when looting. Good fun.

Yeah I usually reach that point too, though with Skyrim it was around the 150 hour mark in my first playthrough At some point you have to just ditch all those quests in your journal and push towards the endgame, the MQ isn't that long anyway, you don't have to explore the whole of Blackreach.

Yeah that's just a bit of bad quest coding, it's a shame because this quest would actually be one of the better ones if it was fixed, the UESP walkthrough should help you to finish it.

following the trail from the scene will lead you to a house, if you walk up to the front door you should trigger a quest update.

My experience is similar, I'm sure plenty of people had a disastrous time with New Vegas but apart from the odd crash I found it to be solid, Skyrim has way more outright broken quests but thankfully the engine itself was rock solid for me, no crashes at all over 150 hours last time I played.

That Windhelm murder is notoriously buggy, I identified the killer before I'd even activated the quest, Bethesda shouldn't have put his diaries in a chest with a pickpocketable key Have you followed the trail of blood or talked to the embalming lady yet? *edit* As for the other miscellaneous quests that are stuck in your journal, you can find console commands to remove them if you google around.

I hate menial tasks but I do enjoy the feeling I get after I've cleaned the house, done the dishes, washed my clothes, cooked dead animal and finally collapsed into my chair at the end of the day, pretty much like now

Yeah the DLC is still waiting for me, I've heard good things from people on here but I'm resisting the urge to install till I've seen how far Sawyer takes his mod