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

[Manfred Belheim]

I'm thinking I might redo ME2's suicide mission. I installed the Kasumi DLC and some others after the fact, and it struck me that she seems like she was always meant to be a part of the complete crew but the devs left her out so they could charge more for the DLC. So I'll redo it with her in the squad. I'm just not sure who the most important characters for ME3 will be- I know Legion is critical- and whom to put in what positions during the mission, but oh well.

Without wanting to spoil anything, the story plays out pretty much exactly the same no matter what you do. Any people you don't recruit, or who don't make it through the Suicide mission, have their plot holes filled by convenient stand-in characters who do pretty much exactly the same things and say the same lines. You'll get some minor differences and some little extra scenes, but nothing of any real consequence whatsoever.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You do recognize that you started with 'without wanting to spoil anything' and then proceeded to spoil everything, right?

Not a complaint, since it basically saves playing all the way through the same thing twice only to find 'wow, that was the same all the way through'...just sayin'.

 

[bhsup]

Wow, Bioware really does deserve better fans.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

You do recognize that you started with 'without wanting to spoil anything' and then proceeded to spoil everything, right?

Yes I spoilt everything. Well... apart from any single detail about any of the plot whatsoever.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

That said, my playthrough where I whacked almost everyone in ME2 was really interesting because they had different people take their roles and you get new dialogue.

Oh and everything I said had already just been said on the last page too...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Yes I spoilt everything. Well... apart from any single detail about any of the plot whatsoever.

Easy killer...I meant for the guy who was talking about doing a second play only different that wouldn't really turn out to be different...and as I said, you did him a favor. I've done plenty of those 'play it through a different way' only to find that what I did differently turned out to be a small detail in an otherwise repetitious time burn.

 

[cybrxkhan]

So dicking around in Oblivion again I discovered some locations I haven't encountered yet, namely a small settlement and a chapel. Guess even after nearly a thousand hours there's still stuff I haven't found.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

So dicking around in Oblivion again I discovered some locations I haven't encountered yet, namely a small settlement and a chapel. Guess even after nearly a thousand hours there's still stuff I haven't found.

I was hit with insomnia last night and installed Skyrim again. I think that's one of the very rare games that I'll play for about a decade.
I think it is abut time I seriously tackle the main quest.


edit: 'seriously tackle the man quest'. One of my more amusing typos.'

 

[bhsup]

May the Master Bard of Tamriel inspire you, Dovahkiin!


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[gay_Aleks]

So dicking around in Oblivion again I discovered some locations I haven't encountered yet, namely a small settlement and a chapel. Guess even after nearly a thousand hours there's still stuff I haven't found.

Man, I played Oblivion once, and when I saw where I had to go, and how much empty space there was, I said "screw it, I'm uninstalling this".

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Man, I played Oblivion once, and when I saw where I had to go, and how much empty space there was, I said "screw it, I'm uninstalling this".

You don't really have to go anywhere. I just passed the 300 hours threshold in Skyrim and I feel half of that time was spent picking flowers and chasing butterflies and being rudely interrupted by dragons.
Real quality time.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Exactly! That's my problem. It's so huge. You can go anywhere you please.

The freedom is petrifying.

 

[Arakhor]

You'll hate its predecessor, Morrowind, then. It had a slightly smaller world, but it had no instant fast-travel, unlike TES III & IV.

 

[Ajidica]

You'll hate its predecessor, Morrowind, then. It had a slightly smaller world, but it had no instant fast-travel, unlike TES III & IV.

And the plot(s) were far more detached from the world. I mean, just trying to figure out what happened at Red Mountain and the fate of Hortator Indoril Nerevar is a plot in and of itself.
I remember my first time playing Morrowind. Just walking to Vivec by night with that soundtrack playing, the Emperor Mushrooms towering over me, I felt like I was in a completely different world. After I arrived in Balmora I was completely lost, asking random NPCs for directions to find Caius, wandering around, those two moments made me fall in love with Morrowind.

Spoiler will only make sense if you have played more Morrowind than is healthy :

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Link to video.

 

[bhsup]

I think you mean IV and V. Morrowind is III.

 

[Arakhor]

I did mean IV and V, yes. The Morrowind Strut was hilarious, but all through the Mary Poppins clip, I was just thinking how abominable Dick van Dyke's accent was!

 

[gay_Aleks]

I did play Morrowind at one point. However, memories still lie of jumping around like an idiot to improve your "Jump" skill..

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I did play Morrowind at one point. However, memories still lie of jumping around like an idiot to improve your "Jump" skill..

That's exactly the kind of stupid crap that was removed in the new TES games. Running and jumping/faling aren't any longer skills.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Beyond the things mentioned above, Morrowind still remains a great game.

 

[cybrxkhan]

The overwhelming freedom, of course, is what I like about TES. Or, at the least, the fact that I can choose what crappy story lines to follow, rather than go through another crappy storyline against my will.


Also, I got Morrowind after Skyrim came out (though I started playing it before Skyrim), and though it's kinda outdated I could still enjoy it (though probably not as much as if I'd bought it when it first came out). Due to the no fast travel it feels way bigger. A tip: don't use any method of transportation in any TES game, just walk/run everywhere, it'll make the world much huger.

Exactly! That's my problem. It's so huge. You can go anywhere you please.

The freedom is petrifying.

TES is the kinda game my favorite cousin would like, and he's kinda a hardcore gamer, but it's for this exact reason he doesn't play it. He prefers to watch me play instead, finds that less daunting.