Cantousent

I've lived within 300 miles of Las Vegas for the vast majority of my life. I was born in the City and lived there many years. There's a lot more to the city than any tourist could ever see from the outside. Having said that, I don't feel a particular need to flame people about it. I don't intend to return to Las Vegas/Henderson any time. If home is where the heart is, then hell is certainly any place my family resides. Still, I miss the desert, the basin, and the ring of mountains from time to time. The Strip is certainly something to see, but I'm like Bruce. I visited infrequently, but I didn't live there and never wanted to live there. In fact, I haven't been to the Strip just to visit in years. Hell, I don't even tend to gamble, although I will plop quarters infrequently in a machine and get free drinks for it from time to time. ...Or at least I did years ago when I had business to attend on the Strip. Otherwise, no dice. Anyhow, I'm getting ready to fire up another New Vegas run, but I'm thinking about starting a new game instead. Come 7pm, I'll open up a bottle of... whatever... chard or cab probably, and start drinking. Maybe I'll do something I should do more often and pop open a cab and let it breath while I drink the chard. Of course, does it really matter if I've decanted the cab if I've had a bottle of chardonnay already? So, New Vegas, wine, and maybe some tv with the wife.

I actually have had a positive view of Blizzard. WoW has long had problems with account hackers, but I tend to blame the hackers rather than Blizzard. I don't like Diablo 3 as much as I thought I would, which accounts for much of my current views. Nonetheless, it takes a real history, and a long one, before I'll write off a company. Blizzard comes up with a I game I simply lurve again, and we're good as gold. I don't really have a horse in the Zynga race. I hope they get jobs and do good work.

Yeah, but think about that for a sec, Gorth. You don't have any Blizzard games, so you know it's spam. My wife reads that stuff and asks me about it because I *do* have Blizzard games. See, it's worse inasmuch as I could conceivably get email from Blizzard. In fact, since I change my passwords regularly, I *have* received official emails. I mean, it's pretty damned easy to see the difference, but it's still a pain in my backside.

I don't know the specifics, but I'm a bit leary of Blizzard since Diablo 3. I don't begrudge folks enjoying the game and having fun, but there are so many things I don't like. First of all, being forced to play the game on a server just plain sucks, especially since it's billed just as much as a single player game as a multiplayer one. Also, the way it's become so openly MMORPGrified, complete with auction house, simply strikes me as weird and unwelcome. Finally, because it's on a server, I get the same crappy spam emails regarding my account. I'm frankly very close to canceling all of my games with Blizzard. I canceled my WoW account years ago and I haven't played Diablo 3 in months and I still get spam emails regarding shady account sales, cheating, and other breaches of the ToS. If I hadn't loved Diablo and Diablo 2 as much as I did, I would probably just write off Blizzard altogether. People complain about STEAM, but I have never had any problems with any one of my many many STEAM purchases as I've had with Blizzard's last two.

Huzzah! I'm amazed. I might actually join in this game at some point if there's a slot. Until then, I will watch silently praying for your demi... success!

The sad fact is that there really wasn't something substantial to announce in the latest update. That's not a slam on Obsidian. I think they need to do these updates, even if they have nothing more to say than here is how we are logistically moving the ball forward. I also agree with ctwo about some word regarding budgeting. It's ridiculous to demand that Obsidian air every bit of laundry in public, but a small overview of how they're budgeting the project, speaking in general terms, could be interesting to some members of the community. It's a tight line, to be sure, and I'm sure Obsidian can think of nightmare scenarios where the backers start huge flamewars over budget minutiae, but it could be a good faith gesture if done delicately. As for the current flap over 'Good Morning America,' I also though it was a bit silly. I guess, to put it a different way, I was bemused, but I also think it would have run its course but for two things. First of all, it's a sign of how little we have to discuss in the latest update that we've spent at least a few of the eight pages I see in this thread discussing such a picayune subject. Second of all, whether I think it's a silly or petty point, I also know that folks want to feel included and appreciated. I don't want to get into a spiral of complaining about people complaining about someone complaining, but maybe we could just let folks who's honor and dignity smarts a little for feeling left out express their irritation and then leave it at that. After all, we're all backers, whether we come from Nevada or Nice, St. Louis or Seoul, Madrid or Moscow. Then again, mabye bickering about the number of backers each region has contributed to the project might take our minds off of how little there is to talk about the project at present. :Cant's guffawing icon: I'm looking forward to these weekly updates because, even if feelings can sometimes be a little raw, I enjoy discussing the tid bits of info with you guys.

I heard the ending slides as pretty much the same except that I would like to give it a try doing it Daniel's way. I disagree with it in principle because I think it's a failing policy in real-life, but it could be interesting to see how the ending plays.

You know, I've only done one run of Honest Hearts, so I don't know any other endings. I'll spoiler how I approached it just in case some folks haven't played it but I will say, from the main title, I was always interested in the burning man myth. Granted, my ending was quite sad for the tribes and for Daniel, but Graham was, in my mind, redeemed. That's why I view it as a story of redemption, even if it didn't start out that way. Combined with the journals, which were kinda cool at first and became absolutely riveting by the end, I place the Honest Hearts story as my favorite of the four. Dead Money was probably a stronger story, but Honest Hearts hit me more.

Well, I'm a bit leery of doing another Kickstarted, but I seem to remember playing a Quest for Glory I really enjoyed a while back. Damn, that must have been around 20 years ago. I didn't even realize there were other titles in the series until I saw some folks talking about it on this forum. I'll keep an eye on it and if I can through in twenty to fifty bucks to help it succeed later, I will. Still over twenty days to go, though.

You should try living there. :Cant's checking over his shoulder icon: I've worked on the Strip, and it's an experience for ya. I had this office in the Rio. I was only there maybe twice a week as I worked in various other places. Anyhow, in the Rio, there was a cute young ****tail waitress who would walk by the office and smile at me. She did that pretty regularly, and I never spoke to her. For all I know she was blind and it just happened her face was pointed at me every time, but it's always been a guilty pleasure to remember. I think I like the memory better than I would have if I actually struck up a conversation with her. Anyhow, I feel like hell. I need to take a nap the first chance I get.

Ouch, Raithe. Sounds like 12 kinds of ugly. Just perusing the forum, making myself late getting out the door.

Playing my regular run of New Vegas. This time I've been on hard, but next time I'm going to run very hard on hardcore and maybe use this Sawyer made combat mod. I wonder where I can it. Also, watching a rerun of Frasier. Huzzah! Good times!

Laserdiscs? Didn't I have one of those in, like, the 1970s?

lol I can't see the fifteen levels either. I've tried refresh and the like, but no dice. Anyhow, nothing really new in this one, but it's still good to get an update, even if there's not a ton of stuff to share at this time. Like Red, I'd like to have that dungeon graphic on a t-shirt or something. I would definitely buy one. All in all, very exciting. I'm really looking forward to getting into the thick of things in the game world. Now I just need to wait a year and a half or so. :Cant's wry grin icon:

Yeah, I have to say that I think MotB is a most excellent game. I, myself, am enjoying a hefty cab now that the merlot is gone. Can I really taste the fine points in a cab after a fifth of merlot? It's a trick question. I can taste the difference, but I just. don't. care. Now, back to my regular run of New Vegas.

I finished Dead Money and thus the last of my dlc runs. I'm about 3/4 of the way through a nice mellow merlot. I'm happy that the dragon found someone as nice as his wife to take his scaly hide. Congrats man! ...And, I just noticed that the Giants are heading to the world series. I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I congratulate the Giants fans.

I really got into Dead Money. I think it was the most complex of all the DLC. I probably rank it as my third. HH and OWB were my favorites for the reasons that I've already stated. DM is peculiar in that I think the story in many ways surpasses HH. However, if Honest Hearts is simpler than Dead Money, it is also a more personal story deeply intertwined, at least in my run, with the burning man's redemption. On the other hand, where Honest Hearts was more personal to me, Dead Money was all about your companions. You, as the PC, are simply a blank slate. Did you go for greed? Did you go for glory? Curiousity? Adventure? Did you have some desire to see if there were people in need or distress? The player gets to decide those things, and that judgment remains with the player from beginning to end, and that was the lynchpin to Dead Money's excellent story. The companions were the story. The PC was almost just a reflection of them. Even the backstory, unrelated to the companions' personal goals, had good twists and turns. At one point, I achieved something for learning about my companions and at another point by learning about the Sierra Madre. For that reason, I thought the story was most excellent and, just as I feel about New Vegas as a whole, this dlc, along with Honest Hearts, rises to the level of literature. I don't claim to be an expert on literature, but years of reading and enjoying and, many times, even doing my own translations of various works of classical works, I do know what I enjoy, and I enjoyed these two dlc greatly. Honest Hearts nudges out Dead Money, but not by much. OWB is about equivalent with HH, but not because of the story. It's a game in the glorious tradition of games. It had enough backstory to be coherent. It had enough NPC interaction to be engaging. It had tons of new items. Finally, it had awesome exploration in the sort of zany atmosphere that I've loved in the Fallout games since the very first one hit the shelves many years ago. I guess I probably don't have anything more to say about New Vegas that I haven't already said in other threads or reiterated in this one. The DLC added to my gaming experience. I only wonder who was responsible for Dead Money. Anyone know the top dog on the project?

My first girlfriend was a French foreign exchange student and she loved cheese. She was a little bit of a snob about it, but otherwise she was quite nice. That was in 198... 4? 5? Something like that, so I don't know how our cheese stacks up against others' these days.

I agree that the devs should keep folks informed, but I also don't begrudge them taking some time to regroup and assess their situation after the whirlwind Kickstarter campaign. I'm sure they're already working on things and I think they'll be served pretty well by taking the past few days to come up with a plan not only for development but also how they plan on approaching the updates as a well-structured holistic part of the project.

Yeah, I basically only check this Project Eternity forum now and that will probably be true for the rest of the project. I want to hear actual news, since I figure anything I read here will be common knowledge and therefore won't spoil the game. ...And it's a practical place to find out what's going on. I might even stop checking here after I get everything squared away with Obsidz. I'll probably post the updates on my facebook page, but other than that, I trust Obsidian to get it right whether I'm here blowing hot air or not. EDIT: nothing like leaving off half a sentence.

Yeah, the wife and I go in for the Dubliner cheese. She also goes for the ancient British cheddars, which is a little to crunchy for my tastes. I mean, a little every now and then, but too strong for a whimp like me.

My goodness. Blank, you glorious bastard, where the hell have you been, you putz! All we needed to do to get you to pop out of the woodwork is mention cheese? Cheese CHEESE CHEESE!

Spider and Zoraptor. :Cant's nodding icon: The one thing I would say is that combat will only be as difficult as you want to make it. I don't think it's all that hard in PS:T ever, but if you find that the combat gets in the way of your enjoyment, just set the difficulty to easy. You don't lose anything in terms of story or dialogue no matter what difficulty you use, as far as I remember, and I've played the game on every difficulty level, gone through every dialogue as best I could, and then downloaded the editor and read the dialogue options I missed in my many many runs. Every stat can effect dialogue if I remember it right, although the ones spider mentioned are king for getting dialogue options. There are a couple of places where you can visit repeatedly with new party members or after finishing more areas to get additional story. A couple of examples would be the Story-teller (Yves I think) at the brothel and the cursed story-teller in the hive. Those are relatively early examples, so I don't think mentioning them will be too spoilery for you. My favorite is to play either a thief or a mage, but you can actually play every class if you want, and there's good dialogue and good experience either way. Like Zora say, you start as a fighter, but you open up the other two options early. Don't worry too much about eeking out every experience point during your run. If you're playing for the story and atmosphere, the various side-quests and story lines will bump your experience quite a bit. While I tend to avoid them, you can find a lot of random encounters, especially in the mid-game, so if you want to get a couple of levels later, you can go hunting for some tough but high experience monsters. Really, nothing is all that tough and you shouldn't need to worry about your level at all. Keep coming back and letting us know how you're enjoying the game. I hope you love it as much as I have over the years, but it's not perfect. It has its flaws like everything else, so I'm curious to hear what you like and dislike most about PS:T. Happy hunting, man!

Except for the goodie bag, I think all of the higher physical tiers receive everything included in the previous tiers. That was my understanding.

I finished Lonesome Road yesterday and I found the end quite moving. While I tended to get tired of Ulysses' dialogue, the various journals I found were interesting and explained a lot of his character. I finally ended up I've now gotten into Dead Money. I seem to recall starting it a long time ago and then I had to take a break and never got far. The beginning is a bit tedious, but I enjoy the weird gameplay now. It's not really Fallout so much as a puzzle game set in the Fallout universe. The companions are interesting. I've got them all now and it's fun. I hate the red cloud stuff because I'm always tempted to go in and try to find loot. Truth is, I've gone in and looted quite a bit, but it's always a race. I made a bunch of the ghost sight stuff, and now I wonder if I wasted the cloud residue in doing so. I haven't found a use for the ghost sight yet, but I have found some kickass recipes I can make using that residue. They can call it a Sierra Madre Martini, but I prefer to think it tastes like a dirty martini. mmm MMM MMMM