I loved Dead Money and I really was not expecting to. I was a sucker for the story's twists and turns and the "stealth" didn't annoy too terribly.
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I loved Dead Money and I really was not expecting to. I was a sucker for the story's twists and turns and the "stealth" didn't annoy too terribly.
SS-18 ICBM
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I used to hate Dead Money, but I learned to like it after playing it stealthily and deliberately. Just move cautiously and be aware of your surroundings, and you will do well. I still don't like the Sierra Madre that much, though I do note that it shows the proper atmosphere for a city of the dead. Characters are interesting too.
Spidernova
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I liked dead money from a atmospheric perspective, and the limited resources thing was brilliant. Writing was good also.
My biggest beef with it was the forced platforming.
In my opinion, OWB> Lonesome road = Dead money> Honest hearts. Not that HH is bad, just not as good as the others.
My biggest beef with it was the forced platforming.
In my opinion, OWB> Lonesome road = Dead money> Honest hearts. Not that HH is bad, just not as good as the others.
Darth Caesar
Might be a Wizard
Got and played Spec Ops: The Line. A disturbing and nightmarish descent into the horror and madness of war. To put it simply it was the most visceral and emotionally intense gaming experience of my life.
Zack
99% hot gas
Once you get into the Sierra Madre, it becomes ridiculously easy.
Dead Money was my favorite DLC out of both the Fallout's. It was the only time out of the two games where survival actually mattered.
Although I never got a chance to play OWB or Lonesome Road.
Surprisingly not that much reading in FTL. It's rogue like in its abusiveness.
Although I never got a chance to play OWB or Lonesome Road.
Surprisingly not that much reading in FTL. It's rogue like in its abusiveness.
Zack
99% hot gas
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That's like saying Fellowship of the Ring is your favorite LOTR movie/book, but you've never seen/read Two Towers or Return of the King!
Yeah, I had to count the DLC from Fallout 3 when saying that
I used my brother's account to play New Vegas before the last two DLC came out, and I've been too lazy to buy it for a game I don't technically own.
Phrossack
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Yeah, I had to count the DLC from Fallout 3 when saying that
I used my brother's account to play New Vegas before the last two DLC came out, and I've been too lazy to buy it for a game I don't technically own.
I finally finished New Vegas after playing it almost exclusively for almost a year. Wasted so much time starting a million new character builds.
I started off hating Dead Money because of the last part when there are a ton of the speakers everywhere and they're hard to find. Plus the magical holograms. Later on I tolerated it.
Honest Hearts was short, not especially original, and had that annoying companion Waking Cloud who was either saying stupid things or getting stung to death by giant cazadores. But the setting was decent, and that Survivalist's Rifle is to die for.
Old World Blues might be the best DLC, but I don't particularly like it. Too silly. That was its goal; the designers deliberately made it emulate the cheesiest and most ridiculous 1950s sci-fi, but that's not to my tastes. Made me laugh a few times, at least. There's plenty to explore, and lots of nice toys to play with.
Lonesome Road was good in some ways and not in others. Some decent weapons added, ED-E becomes an absolute powerhouse when indispensable when fully upgraded, and there is nothing more badass in the game than the Elite Riot Gear. And due to a glitch, you can even wear certain hats on top of the helmet; Elite Riot Gear plus Daniel's hat was so awesome to see that I burst out laughing. But it was extremely linear; combined with New Vegas's outdated graphics, it almost seemed like a PS2 game. The plot and villain were a bit of a frustrating let-down, too.
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SuperBeaverInc.
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I loved Old World Blues and Dead Money. Honest Hearts was alright, though I actually found it better when played in hardcore mode. Didn't like Lonesome Road, since I disliked Ulysses for pretty well the same reason as Phrossack. Courier delivers package, containing something he doesn't know about. Thing does something after the Courier leaves, unknown to the Courier. The thing that the Courier has no idea exists causes things to go wrong, causing the Divide, unknown to the Courier. And somehow this means that the Courier is at fault. Sure.
Phrossack
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And Ulysses prattles on about symbolism and messages and bears and bulls, and is generally a pseudophilosophical wannabe mass-murderer. He blames the Courier for the Divide, and when I said I had no way of knowing what was in the package, he says, "Ignorance is a choice." Because a mailman is totally expected to rip open, inspect, and analyze every package before shipping it.
He rambles about how bad the Courier is for the Divide, but he himself
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Anyway, I've rediscovered how fun the Mount & Blade: Warband mod Brytenwalda can be, especially when you're the kingdom's marshal and are conquering two or three kingdoms at once. I'm fighting for Dumnonia (modern Cornwall) and helped it take over almost everything south of the line between the sources of the Severn and the Thames, plus a lot of the Midlands. The Welsh kingdom of Dyfed ruled a lot of England just east of Wales plus all of East Anglia, so they were on either side of us. Then my stupid king declared war on the Ui Neill (O'Neill) kingdom, which owns about a third of Ireland plus nearly all of Scotland, and since the Ui Neill were allied with Dyfed and what was left of Powys, we were at war with them, too.
Luckily, I was able to rally the army and wipe out much of Dyfed's field army plus the entire kingdom of Powys, and conquered all of East Anglia. I'm letting the lords take a break from campaigning, and once winter arrives, sieges will become more costly in lives for me because of the cold and wet killing troops. Dyfed's cut in half and the Ui Neill are still busy fighting the Pictish remnants and the Anglian kingdom of Lindisware, and besides they're pretty far away, so we haven't seen them.
Expanding at such a breakneck pace might weaken the kingdom, since there's a lot of unallocated land, which attracts landless lords to join us. Whenever the king distributes fiefs, those who don't get them get disgruntled, and so there's probably going to be a lot of internal tension. That's fine by me, though. I now own the towns of Lundenwic (London), Ægelesburh (Aylesbury), and Grantebrycge (Cambridge), plus a bunch of scattered villages. My towns are very close together, I'm popular with many lords and a patron saint of the peasants, and I'm very rich and have a large, high-quality army. Ultimately I intend to rebel, gather lords to my cause, and unite Brittania, Caledonia, and Hibernia under a sort of Northern Roman Empire.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
Can't decide. Should I play Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, or Spec Ops:The Line?
Zack
99% hot gas
Spec Ops is pretty short, and the other two are ridiculously long, so I'd start with that one.
Phrossack
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Let me put it this way. I wasted a year on New Vegas, mainly because I got all the DLC in my edition and because I started like ten different character builds. But you might not want to waste that much time.
I'm considering getting Skyrim just so I can play the Badass Normal who hunts down and exterminates all magic-wielders and fantasy creatures with skill and cunning, but that's a kinda limited reason.
I know nothing about Spec Ops, besides that it doesn't seem like your dime-a-dozen modern military shooter.
Hmm... Bought Chivalry on steam sale a week or two ago and I really like it. I didn't know if it was possible, but who else thinks someone should make like a mod where when you attack another unit in Civilization, it launches chivalry and you play a round of that, and then the winner of the round is the winner of the battle? I think that would be so cool. Otherwise, Just Cause 2 (picture the coolest action movie ever and you control the main character), Far Cry 3 (really enjoyed it but the second I completed the campaign I just didn't enjoy it anymore), Age of Empires 2 is a cheap game to get and is fun to play with friends (it's still a good rts), Portal (1&2) was the only puzzle game I've played and I loved it (liked the first one better, but haven't completed the second yet). Had a lot of fun with DayZ, but I would rather have waited until it was finished because I've played so much it's gotten sort of boring. Hopefully when it's done and has all the content in it, I can get back into it!
Have to say though, Motocross Arctic something for the PSP will always have a place in my gamer inside's heart. Same with the old SOCOM and Monster Hunter games. Haha and NBA 2006 or something. Bought a PS Vita and it's great but still not as good as my old PSP was, at least in its time.
Have to say though, Motocross Arctic something for the PSP will always have a place in my gamer inside's heart. Same with the old SOCOM and Monster Hunter games. Haha and NBA 2006 or something. Bought a PS Vita and it's great but still not as good as my old PSP was, at least in its time.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
I bought Supreme Commander Yesterday.
EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE OH MY GODS YES
EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE OH MY GODS YES
cybrxkhan
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My preference would be Skyrim, but that's more because of the setting and lore I guess.
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Dug through my pile of "old games I never actually played" and started Devil May Cry 3.
I didn't get these bruises from the game beating the crap out of me, I just fell down some stairs okay?
Although really it was just the first boss that stomped me badly.
I didn't get these bruises from the game beating the crap out of me, I just fell down some stairs okay?
Although really it was just the first boss that stomped me badly.
I just suffered a horrible humiliation conga playing as the Warrior in Talisman Digital. I spent 7 out of 8 turns as a Toad, had all my equipment taken and lost something 4 Lives in the process. It was not fun.
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