What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog?

[PhroX]

Definitely go with your decisions. So much more fun than doing a "perfect" playthrough.

Spoiler :

Not that it makes any difference. In the end, all you do is choose a colour

 

[bhsup]

I intentionally did a horrible ME1>2>3 playthrough once where I ensured only two people (plus Shep) survived ME2. Morinth and Tali. In ME1 I didn't help the Salarians at all on Virmine. Things like that. Really makes for some different dialogues in ME3 with different 3rd parties stepping up in their place... or none at all.

Spoiler :

No Kasumi? Oh well, STUPID F'ING JELLYFISH...

 

[Takhisis]

Is that the one where you had Verhisis as your character?

We could always have a CFC LoL group.

 

[bhsup]

Naw man, Verhisis wasn't that brutal.

 

[Takhisis]

Why did you play him/her so out of character?

Anyway, I should install this LoL on the Windows partition.

 

[Zack]

Success in the game is based on war-score. Not only is your score reduced (up to 50%!) if you don't take part in regular MP matches, said matches also provide healthy boosts to your war score.

Just to clarify, when I played I got plenty of war score from SP-only, and I skipped a lot of sidequests. Your warscore isn't very important, anyways.

That said, I've heard that the MP is actually really good, but I've never played it.

 

[PhroX]

Just to clarify, when I played I got plenty of war score from SP-only, and I skipped a lot of sidequests. Your warscore isn't very important, anyways.

That said, I've heard that the MP is actually really good, but I've never played it.

If I remember correctly, the only thing that requires MP levels of war score to achieve is

Spoiler :

that final scene at the end which implies Shep survives

But even that might have changed since release

 

[Arakhor]

Previously you needed 4,000 war score (8,000 if dividing by half) to get the "best" ending. With the Expanded Cut, they dropped that to 3,100 (or 6,200). My first run-through was sufficient to garner me 7,000 war score, but then that was with a legacy character who had been fairly successful in the previous games.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I got FTL and thought I'd just try it out for a moment, and now it's 1 am. Not even the new XCOM managed to entertain and infuriate me this much at the same time.

 

[Hygro]

Played some 20-odd games in a row of SC2 with friends. The matching algo makes this all possible, though a problem is that it over and under shoots a lot. We ran into this Korean dude two games in a row who gets over 200 apm . Even if he's spamming clicks that's still insane.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I dicked around a bit in Oblivion today.

Also, Glarthir's corpse is still lying on the side of the street in Skingrad after 13518580 years, his cold, soulless, blank eyes staring at me.

 

[cardgame]

Getting back into MC.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Downloaded the Planetfall mod for Civ4. Having a hard time getting going though. Things that my Civ4 knowledge tells me should work...don't. Things that my SMAX knowledge tells me should work...don't. Of course the modder says this will happen unless you 'play it like a brand new game', but it's still hard to put existing experience aside and keep it aside. Every time it creeps in I get scorched.

 

[bhsup]

I've started up a new Dragon Age character to run through Origins and II in anticipation of Inquisition which gets released in October. Not that I really need a new character as I already have several imports ready, but this way the plots are all fresh in my mind.

 

[Arakhor]

I dicked around a bit in Oblivion today.

Strangely, I feel much more nostalgic for Oblivion (modded to hell and back, of course!) than I do for (similar) Skyrim.

 

[Oruc]

I've started up a new Dragon Age character to run through Origins and II in anticipation of Inquisition which gets released in October. Not that I really need a new character as I already have several imports ready, but this way the plots are all fresh in my mind.

Inquistion? more like CISquistion

 

[Tahuti]

I had preordered the Witcher 3 so I got to pick several free games on GOG.com, one of them being Caesar III. I also got Neverwinter Nights!

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Strangely, I feel much more nostalgic for Oblivion (modded to hell and back, of course!) than I do for (similar) Skyrim.

My heavily modded Oblivion pretty much is Skyrim, as far as gameplay. If I had thought I would have to work that hard to get another decent game BethSoft wouldn't have gotten my money, but Skyrim is fine for me with minimal modding. At the end of the day since the gameplay is now about the same and modded Oblivion has a lot more variety of setting I generally go back to that as well.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Strangely, I feel much more nostalgic for Oblivion (modded to hell and back, of course!) than I do for (similar) Skyrim.

I'm guessing you played Oblivion before Skyrim?


As my first TES game, Oblivion is nostalgic to me as well, even though I discovered it a little after Skyrim came out; regardless it helped bring me into a renaissance of video game playing of sorts, so I have to give it credit for that.

 

[bhsup]

My heavily modded Oblivion pretty much is Skyrim, as far as gameplay. If I had thought I would have to work that hard to get another decent game BethSoft wouldn't have gotten my money, but Skyrim is fine for me with minimal modding. At the end of the day since the gameplay is now about the same and modded Oblivion has a lot more variety of setting I generally go back to that as well.

Would you be so kind as to PM me your mod list for Oblivion? I have an account on Nexus, so hopefully most are coming from there. I just cannot get into oblivion as I came to TES with Skyrim and Oblivion and Morrowind just seem backwards to me. I try and try and just can't get into them.

(Bioware is still be best, though! Well, for RPG-ish games)