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    Fallout: New Vegas

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    The more they throw at us right now, the less we'll have on our plate come dinner time. :-

    My view exactly, near the end of Dragon Age I realised that I'd learnt practically nothing from the game that Bioware didn't give away in the years leading up to the release, thankfully Obsidian haven't spilled quite so many beans but I still know more than I'd like.

     

    It's hard to resist the temptation to read every preview :-

    Fallout: New Vegas

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    The gas mask/glowing eyes guy is a bit overdone lately but he showed up months ago now; and we can see he's going to be all over the merchandise so I'm thinking we will just have to live with it...hopefully scat munching teenagers will think it looks cool and buy it, which means more cash and more Obsidian games.

     

    I really can't find much to dislike about the actual game features I've read about so far, my main concern (and it may seem tiny) is the that the Oblivion engine uses a nonstandard refresh rate; which is why even if you have the beastliest computer in the world you won't ever get a smooth vsync'd framerate. A guy called Skyranger over on the Bethesda forums has made a Fallout/Oblivion script extender mod which forces the game into whatever refresh rate you like and he'll probably do the same for New Vegas so maybe I'm worrying over nothing but it'd be nice if they've sorted that one.

     

    I hate stuttering framerates. :sorcerer:

    Killian is Dead.

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    Keep an eye on it though, losing weight too quickly can leave you with excess skin,

     

    "I have a bit of excess skin though, and unfortunately my neck does look like a vagina."

     

    I'd be constantly stroking my chin... :verymad:

    Killian is Dead.

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    I used to weigh myself quite obsessively and I remember there'd often be a few lbs difference on a daily basis, I put it down to water retention and various other things I don't understand.

     

    Keep an eye on it though, losing weight too quickly can leave you with excess skin, though apparently this is greatly reduced by properly exercising the areas where you're losing the weight.

     

    Hope you manage to get the bike sorted out, it will be agony for the first few weeks but it's worth it.

    Killian is Dead.

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    I'm working on improving my own life at the moment as well, whatever the causes of your downfall it's incredibly hard to pick up the pieces but you need to stick with it and understand that no one is really going to help you (or rather, can truly help you) except yourself.

     

    I turned 30 recently and events in my life shocked me into seeing that I'd barely left the house or spoken to my friends in well over a year (two?)...weight gain, sleeping problems, cabin fever, the whole package. I got a bike just after Christmas and started using it constantly, I cut a **** load of unhealthy food out of my life and went back to basic stuff like egg on (granary) toast, chilli, cheese and crackers, malt loaf and weetabix, the result has impressed me enough to start the gym.

     

    Getting new (smaller) clothes and cleaning up helps a lot but I can't overstress the importance of fresh air and sunlight, you'll quickly stop feeling like a mole man if you're lucky enough to live in a warm country, the weather here in England makes it hard to stay positive but it gives me a kick in the arse to get out and enjoy the good days.

     

    It really is a long hard road out of hell, self respect doesn't come cheap and some days I struggle to see where I'm trying to go; though other times all I need to do is look in the mirror to realise what I'm doing is working.

     

    Anyway, enough of my rambling, keep up the inspiring work.

    Fallout: New Vegas

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    I've been replaying Oblivion recently, trying to finally exorcise the demon and put that game to bed once and for all, anyway, it's striking me how believable the fantasy world of Cyrodil is compared to the quasi-realistic wasteland of Fallout 3. There's farms all over the place, hunters gathering meat, people regularly moving between settlements and generally more of the things you would expect to see in the real world.

     

    Fallout 3 as it has been noted really doesn't make a jot of sense when you look at it from a logical point of view, practically everything about the game was chosen for the fun or coolness factor, which isn't necessarily bad, I enjoy Fallout 3 as a game far more than Oblivion but after several playthroughs these bubble encapsulated communities start to grate on my nerves...though, I saw a mudcrab the other day, nasty little blighters.

    Fallout: New Vegas

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    "The intent is that the world lives even when the player is not around to witness it. In addition to the main factions, there are villages and gangs in the desert that will grow and diminish in power as the story progresses. A bandit group that seems insignificant might find an abandoned armory and become the rulers of the wasteland."

     

    I like the sound of this, it kind of harks back to the Van Buren idea of other adventurers out in the world doing their own thing, my fingers are crossed that it turns out to be accurate.

    Fallout

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    +1 for a sprint feature, when I was playing Fallout 3 I found a sprint mod that used your AP to give you a short speed boost, complete with slight motion blurring around the edges and perks to improve performance, it absolutely adds a ton of adrenalin to battles. :lol:

    Dragon Age Discussion

    in Computer and Console

    Posted · Edited by WDeranged

    Anyone else think they should have called the game Dragon Age : Orzammar?

     

     

    I just got there after doing the circle and the dalish...it's sodding huge, huge like how I expected Denerim City to be.

     

    Up until this point I've been quite underwhelmed with the locations but impressed with the quests, Orzammar however is kicking well rounded arse.

     

     

    On the subject of Denerim,

    does the city open up more after the landsmeet?, being stuck in the market, brothel and backstreets is pretty dull.

     

    Dragon Age story/plot discussion

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    I just did the whole Redcliffe shebang.

     

     

    The defense part was really hard and somewhat poorly designed IMO. Rounding up all the misfits was pretty fun and Redcliffe has the nicest barmaid ever, too bad she doesn't keep her promises...

     

    The castle part was better, but that damn Reverend was really annoying. The demon dilemma was an interesting twist, good thing the kid conveniently forgot everything, otherwise he'd have psychological trauma up the wazoo. The Fade was very well done, it had a nice Lovecraftian feel to it and Bioware did a good job with all the crazy filters.

     

    I did that bit last night, same opinion too,

    I chose the blood sacrifice, good times

    :down:

     

    I've thrown a good five or six hours into the game tonight, 33% explored and 28 hours in, which brings me to a question, this world explored statistic, I'm guessing it means locations found and not general progress, anyone know for sure? Either way this bodes well for a mammoth game by my standards, easily over 100 hours I'd guess.

     

    Also, keeping in mind I've not visited the elves, dwarves or mages, how do I keep stocked up on health potions? The shops seem to take ages to restock and there's only so many elfroots around.

    Dragon Age story/plot discussion

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    ^Ive read its supposed to be unobtrusive but yes, there are microtransactions you can make to purchase DLC from in-game NPC's.

     

    I dunno, the NPC for Warden's Keep turns up in your camp pretty much right away, and he had me going with his tale of betrayal and a potential journey to Soldier's Peak, I didn't know this was the location of the DLC so I decided to agree to help and bang, do I want to purchase the DLC? :ermm:

     

    To be fair I do want to purchase the DLC, and I will...but I hated the way it's introduced.

    MW2 cotroversy (spoilers)

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    I don't rate call of duty's single player, it's literally about as linear as a game could be.

     

     

    It is, but as far as I'm concerned non-linearity is not really correlated with fun.

     

    Yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed the original COD and MOH games before they started overusing the setting, linearity isn't a problem at all if the game is fun.

    MW2 cotroversy (spoilers)

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    Though that's just reminded me of a mental oddity, I stopped playing Syndicate after my granddad died, I was playing it a lot the day afterwards and every time since it just reminded me of being miserable.

     

    So the emotion of one real life death easily trumped the hundreds of innocent people I gauss gunned into the pavement of a game, hmm :shrugz:

     

    Still I don't know how I feel about this game without knowing more about the context, I'm generally suspicious of the **** YEAH!! type games where giving hand relief to anyone in a uniform gets you an achievement.

     

    Peace.

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