entrerix Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 yeah, i wasn't saying that bethsoft wasn't selling before. but if its true that they've nearly doubled sales since their last game... that still seems like a big deal. thats like what happened between cod 3 and cod modern warfare, and we all know what happened after that. anyway, it doesnt really matter, im glad the game sold well enough that bethsoft will make more, maybe hire obsidian to make one too... Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.
Raithe Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Hm, one of the reasons that I'm avoiding Skyrim at the moment is that I got suckered into pre-ordering Oblivion due to my love of Morrowind. Then I found it to be a game that while brilliant on many technical aspects, actually was incredibly lacking in soul and fairly uninteresting to actually play... I take it that people are finding Skyrim to actually be an enjoyable game? "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Tigranes Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Skyrim is a lot better and closer to Morrowind. Don't bother with Oblivion. Or if you really want, do some research and stock up on a lot of mods. Let's Play: Icewind Dale Ironman (Complete) Let's Play: Icewind Dale II Ironman (Complete) Let's Play: Divinity II (Complete) Let's Play: Baldur's Gate Trilogy Ironman - BG1 (Complete) Let's Play: Baldur's Gate Trilogy Ironman - BG2 (In Progress)
Hurlshort Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 I was impressed at how many of my middle school students were playing Skyrim. It still isn't close to the boys blathering on about MW3, but it was good to see the younger gamers are recognizing it.
Calax Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Revelations Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Cantousent Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Hey Cal, you still doing the raid circuit in WoW? Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends!
LadyCrimson Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Path of Exile's new beta version came out yesterday, so I just checked it out for a few minutes. Holy Carp, the new skill tree is ginormous!! It was big and spider-webby before, but now...it's like 2, 2.5 times as big. It's totally nuts. Nodes within nodes that shoot to new nodes within nodes. It's so huge it's almost too intimidating to even bother trying to figure out. Jeez...just jeez... I take it that people are finding Skyrim to actually be an enjoyable game? I'm one of those who liked (but didn't worship) Morrwind and did not like Oblvion at all...but now I'm liking Skyrim. Not that I'm far in, but Skyrim isn't, imo, as entertaining (to me) as MW was, but it's a vast improvement over Oblivion. Kind of depends what you like/want out of such a game tho. I'm not finding the story or characters very interesting, for example. They're not bad or anything, just not feeling it. But ES games for me are almost too big to ever be that involving character wise. The size tends to leave me in a state of disconnect that way. Still, it's a fun game. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Malcador Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Tempted to play Skyrim, but never played a TES game, never like jumping into the middle of a series for some reason. But apparently the games aren't linked so it shouldn't be an issue, so maybe. Right now though, I have to punch through the list of half completed games I have - DD, HoMM 3, Arcanum, Ground Control. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hurlshort Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 I wouldn't worry about not playing previous ES games, the story is generic enough to sound familiar to anyone who has read a fantasy book series.
Calax Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Hey Cal, you still doing the raid circuit in WoW? A little bit... not as much any more. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
entrerix Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 im finding myself not super interested in the main story of skyrim, but i've barely touched it so thats probably normal. i do find the dungeon and wilderness exploration to be very satisfying though, there have been several moments where i really felt like an adventurer, tackling dungeons filled with monsters and traps, which is a feeling i never felt in oblivions horribly designed dungeons. Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.
Tale Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Well that's neat. Assassin's Creed Revelations arrived today. Apparently the PS3 version includes the original Assassin's Creed, so I now have two copies of that. It also came with a pair of red/green 3D glasses. I'll try it out, but I don't expect the 3D to be good. This is a good month. I don't have time for this game yet, but I'll get right to it when I take a lull in Skyrim. Then it's on to Metal Gear Solid HD Collection's Peace Walker. Never finished that on PSP. I'll say this for Konami, they do their LE packaging well. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater."
Gorth Posted November 15, 2011 Author Posted November 15, 2011 Thanks to my new hardware, I could now play through Vault 22 without having to hard reset my PC every 60-120 seconds of play time. After so much grief an almost surreal experience just playing through it without rebooting Then I fell asleep across the keyboard and decided it was time to find a proper bed to crash for the night. Work interferes quite a bit with life these days “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Calax Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 I gotta say, Ezio looks like an old alien in this. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Gorgon Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 Assassins Creed feels too samey for me. Not enough different quality core mechanics. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
Cantousent Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 Yeah, I'm not yet to the point of anti-MMORPG crazy yet, but I have been WoW free for months and I'm quite happy. I didn't have time for it which meant that all my playing time came the at the expense of interpersonal relationships or sleep. I'm slowly but surely getting back to where we were in PST and some of the things I forgot in the more recent run came back to me now, such as helping some mage who needs a ruby in Ragpickers' Square. PS:T is the only game to date where I hacked it to find out more stuff and then went in with a dialogue editor to read what I didn't get in the game. I honestly don't think there's anything in the lawful/neutral/chaotic good line I haven't seen already. Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends!
WDeranged Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 Tempted to play Skyrim, but never played a TES game, never like jumping into the middle of a series for some reason. But apparently the games aren't linked so it shouldn't be an issue, so maybe. Right now though, I have to punch through the list of half completed games I have - DD, HoMM 3, Arcanum, Ground Control. You'd have no trouble at all getting into it, they've done a good job balancing the dialogue so newcomers can get the basics but plot veterans can dig deeper and pore over the details, it's a really damn impressive comeback for Bethesda.
LadyCrimson Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 Path of Exile's new beta changes equal a much improved arpg game. I like it quite a bit better. Still has issues of course, but much better. The skill tree is still very intimidating. lol So I'm bouncing between PoE & Skyrim a bit. Still not much in the mood for long gaming sessions so it's going slow for both. But I'm having fun. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Delegat Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 (edited) Having a blast with LotR: War in the North, great action RPG with amazing enviroments and pretty nice combat system Slicing through orcs and goblins with my loremaster is great fun Edited November 16, 2011 by Delegat In Obsidian we trust !!!
Mamoulian War Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 Started to play TES: Arena for 7th time, I have never got past Labyrinthian... For some reason, every time, I start the game, I end up there, and then shelve the game for a year or two... and then again I start it from scratch... Always playing Nightblade... Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours
Gorth Posted November 16, 2011 Author Posted November 16, 2011 I seriously hate Deathclaws... just about everything else I can reasonably deal with. In a dazzling display of testicular exuberance I pulled out my Pew Pew and ran at them, yelling obscenities! One Deathclaw went down to the Alpha Predator of the wastelands that is Gorth, two Deathclaws, the third and the fourth one too. I was pretty sure I might even have survived the fifth if I hadn't run out of sacrificial companions and the Deathclaw had more friends left, like number six and seven. There has to be a trick to get into that Quarry and back out again. Maybe a combination of Archimedes II and mini Nukes “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Guest Slinky Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 I seriously hate Deathclaws... just about everything else I can reasonably deal with. Silenced Sniper Rifle + Better Criticals + Head shots = Haaahaha, come get some!
Flouride Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 A lot of Battlefield 3. Don't think I've played any other shooter this much since Counter Strike. Hate the living, love the dead.
Gorth Posted November 16, 2011 Author Posted November 16, 2011 I seriously hate Deathclaws... just about everything else I can reasonably deal with. Silenced Sniper Rifle + Better Criticals + Head shots = Haaahaha, come get some! I suck at gun skills as I went the energy weapon way. I've got some decent explosives skills too, but the darn critters seems to ignore most stuff I can set up as traps for them (C4 and plasma mines). I don't know their stats, but I suspect they have a fairly high damage resistance. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
HoonDing Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 I suck at gun skills as I went the energy weapon way. Well, aside from Gauss rifle and some DLC weapons all energy weapons are useless. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
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