Funny Screenshots: Part Deux

[AdamCrock]

Well at least they're slow, and not too bright. Their pincers are sharp though...

And that's why the dark elves from swampy regions of Morrowind smuggle those mudcrabs to Skyrim

 

[UnforcedError]

And that's why the dark elves from swampy regions of Morrowind smuggle those mudcrabs to Skyrim

Making them pretty common in both Skyrim and Morrwind

 

[Doctor Phibes]

Unit: Mudcrab
Strength: 0.01
Move: 0.01
Cost: 0.01
Requires: Anything
Upgrades to: Giant Mudcrab
Abilities: +25% defence on coastal and river tiles
2 first strikes against tanks [1]

[1] Tank commander is too busy watching out for deadly killer spearmen. Two sharp pincers close in unnoticed and presto - scratched paintwork.

 

[Gzz]

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I don' t get the joke of crab !

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Me neither, although apparently it has to do with Skyrim. I avoid Skyrim, as it would inevitably take away from my precious Civ4 time. I view it as kinda similar to having too much GA pollution in your GP farm.

As far as the crabs, perhaps my kids watch too much TV, 'cuz when I saw Toku scream "CRAAABS!" I heard it in Plankton's voice...

 

[UnforcedError]

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I don' t get the joke of crab !

Mudcrabs in the Elder Scroll series are lovely aggressive crab-like creatures you can farm for weapon skills / blocking skills / armor skills / magic skills even at very low levels (e.g. level 1). Although in Skyrim you may easily meet the first mudcrab after you defeated your first dragon.

 

[Doshin]

The Lonely Elephant:

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[Doctor Phibes]

The Lonely Elephant:

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Poor thing just froze to death some time before 400AD, like mammoths. Game engine must not be programmed to remove frozen elephant corpses. Too heavy probably.

 

[UnforcedError]

^^ Yes, had the same thought as I saw that picture It's a statue, a unique terrain feature now

 

[vincentz]

After careful consideration, we could come up with two explanations for the placement of Tokyo.

1) Tokugawa supposes, incorrectly, that we are amongst those Civ players who are congenitally incapable of razing a city. This is part of a devilish plan to cripple us with maintenance costs as a series of useless cities flip to us.

2) Tokugawa is demented.

(Yes, I know there's a lot of unimproved tiles around St Petersburg.)

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3) Crabs!

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I don' t get the joke of crab !

Me neither, although apparently it has to do with Skyrim. I avoid Skyrim, as it would inevitably take away from my precious Civ4 time. I view it as kinda similar to having too much GA pollution in your GP farm.

As far as the crabs, perhaps my kids watch too much TV, 'cuz when I saw Toku scream "CRAAABS!" I heard it in Plankton's voice...

I hope you get it now ?

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There was only a crab for resources for the city Toku built.
As the OP'er put 2 choices, and none of them was that he wanted the crab, I put a 3rd with my homemade demotional poster. It is not uncommon to build a "outpost" city to gain important rare resources in Civ4, though crabs is not really one of those "need to get" resources.

 

[The7Sins]

Mudcrabs in the Elder Scroll series are lovely aggressive crab-like creatures you can farm for weapon skills / blocking skills / armor skills / magic skills even at very low levels (e.g. level 1). Although in Skyrim you may easily meet the first mudcrab after you defeated your first dragon.

Or like me your first death on your first character comes after you kills a Giant and 2 Mammoths near a river. Your seriously hurt but feeling victorious. A Mudcrab comes up behind you and in 1 hit does what the Giant and his 2 wooly friends could not.

 

[UnforcedError]

@Vincentz: I think Damerell was referring to the fact that he could have settled the little island for a bonus trade route instead of his city being culture pressed severely in the middle of the desert.

@The7Sins: Kudos for killing those giants and mammoths I learned early to avoid that little campfire for a while and came back for them much later

 

[Doctor Phibes]

Or like me your first death on your first character comes after you kills a Giant and 2 Mammoths near a river. Your seriously hurt but feeling victorious. A Mudcrab comes up behind you and in 1 hit does what the Giant and his 2 wooly friends could not.

Always gets me, tho, in Oblivion, when the big dramatic battle music starts up. There you are, waiting in fear for a bear or ogre to leap out at you. You look about and, gosh, yes, it's a mudcrab inching gingerly towards an attack position.

 

[UnforcedError]

Always gets me, tho, in Oblivion, when the big dramatic battle music starts up. There you are, waiting in fear for a bear or ogre to leap out at you. You look about and, gosh, yes, it's a mudcrab inching gingerly towards an attack position.

Yes, all those random encounters in Oblivion I normally didn't even noticed the mudcrabs until they started scrubbing the mud off my armor with their little pincers

 

[Doctor Phibes]

Me neither, although apparently it has to do with Skyrim. I avoid Skyrim, as it would inevitably take away from my precious Civ4 time. I view it as kinda similar to having too much GA pollution in your GP farm.

You do have a point, Elder Scrolls RPGs like Skyrim and Oblivion are very 'right brain' (GA). I always have to get back to Civ4 and the like to feed the left hemisphere (GS).

 

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You do have a point, Elder Scrolls RPGs like Skyrim and Oblivion are very 'right brain' (GA). I always have to get back to Civ4 and the like to feed the left hemisphere (GS).

Depends on what CRPGs we're talking about. Sadly nothing gets close to Planescape. Torment or the BG series these days.

 

[Doctor Phibes]

Depends on what CRPGs we're talking about. Sadly nothing gets close to Planescape. Torment or the BG series these days.

Agreed, that's why I specified TES, especially in 1st person view. Though even with those things get very geeky in a hurry when you start modding them up, optimising the graphics etc etc.

Getting horribly OT here tho, my fault too, should give the screenshots a chance...

 

[Archid]

Sadly nothing gets close to Planescape. Torment or the BG series these days.

Yeah, game houses seem to think flashy graphics are more important than solid storylines and gameplay these days

 

[AdamCrock]

Agreed, that's why I specified TES, especially in 1st person view. Though even with those things get very geeky in a hurry when you start modding them up, optimising the graphics etc etc.

Getting horribly OT here tho, my fault too, should give the screenshots a chance...

Not without my 2

I found that unmoded Oblivion is much like unmoded Civ 4. It's superb and excellent but lacking that "something" that (after hours and hours of gameplay) You wish to add (realism, graphics, etc.)

That is why there are hundreds (thousands even) of ingenious mods for those two really great games.

P.S Civ 4 being the master game of course. One to rule them all so to speak (quoting LOTR series )

"Righty 'O mates" I've had my 2 cents in now for the screenshots .....

 

[Doctor Phibes]

Not without my 2

I found that unmoded Oblivion is much like unmoded Civ 4. It's superb and excellent but lacking that "something" that (after hours and hours of gameplay) You wish to add (realism, graphics, etc.)

That is why there are hundreds (thousands even) of ingenious mods for those two really great games.

P.S Civ 4 being the master game of course. One to rule them all so to speak (quoting LOTR series )

"Righty 'O mates" I've had my 2 cents in now for the screenshots .....

Interesting that Oblivion and Civ4 are both the 4th in their series and that very similar complaints are being made by the respective fanbases about the 5th games in both series. One common factor, of course, is the rise of the console market affecting old-established PC game franchises. Though - and I haven't played it yet - I get the feeling that Skyrim isn't anywhere near as disastrous as Civ5.

Having said that, I'm happy to play straight BtS with just BAT/BUG, though I do like the odd modded game. On the other hand, no way can I imagine playing vanilla TES4 without heaps and heaps of mods, IMO you can't turn the clock back once you've gone that route with Oblivion.