Video Games

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:27 am

I've been playing a ton of Fallout:New Vegas over the past couple of days, and done Old World Blues and Dead Money, plus started on Lonesome Road.

On the main game: I'm not terribly fond of the "disguise" mechanic, mostly because T-51b power armor counts as a Brotherhood of Steel disguise. Otherwise, it's fairly good aside from the intermittent crash bugs. I'm currently going NCR, and plan on doing a Legion character to see if they have any redeeming features aside from Roman aesthetics and gratuitous Latin

Old World Blues: This was pretty '50s Sci-Fi even for fallout. It was also nice to have a place positively overflowing with energy weapon ammo, plus special anti-robot weapons for all the weapon types. I had an awful lot of fun with it.

Dead Money: Fuck the collar-detonating speakers, fuck the excessively limited supply of limb-repair items, fuck the near-uselessness of energy weapons due to limited ammo, and fuck the life draining clouds. Also fuck the holograms. Basically, fuck the entire DLC. Except the companion characters, they were fine.

How bad was it? About halfway through, I got completely pissed off because there were a number of enemies and a good chunk of life-draining cloud between me and the nearest source of healing items and added 90 stimpacks to my inventory via console commands. This was something like 60 more stimpacks than were supposed to be avaliable within the DLC period. By the end, I had zero stimpacks. On the other hand, I did extract over 60K caps worth of gold, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.

Lonesome Road: So, the main problem I have with it so far is that the dialogue trees seem convinced that I'm working for House and not the NCR. Also, I cannot seem to avoid dying when using the Fat Man I purchased with my Dead Money gold. Also, there's this new melee enemy type that is introduced by Cuisinarting a Deathclaw but completely failed to live up to the hype once I figured out that they're cripplingly vulnerable to the Thermic Lance. Though I pity anyone foolish enough to depend on melee weapons, because they're not so good on Deathclaw Overpass. But it is a level 25 DLC, which is plenty of time to outright cap two skills.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:00 am

Fallout3 and especially Fallout New Vegas were so surprisingly good people are still replaying them again and again . .
As soon as i have redone my computer, i am instaling my 3rd FNV Version with all the DLCs and doing so too . .

Guyr Adamantine · Post by **Guyr Adamantine** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:06 am

Tell me about it. I got 24 mods on FNV, including Requiem For A Capital Wasteland, which gives Fallout 3 as playing ground. Its fucking awesome.

Duke Flauros · Post by **Duke Flauros** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:30 am

D2: Median
Castlevania (various)
Metroid: Zero Mission

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:31 am

I've been playing a lot of VVVVVV lately, which is basically a retro-styled 2D platformer, and it's a lot of fun, and obscenely cheap for the amount of content.

I've been screwing around in a game called Kerbal Space Program, too. The idea behind the game is that you build a rocket out of various modules that snap together, and you then launch that rocket into space. That's pretty much it; there's no management, no constraints, and no goals beyond those that you set for yourself. Even so, figuring out the optimal rocket design and figuring out how to do a transfer orbit properly is actually a lot of fun. It's also free, which is a major perk.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:13 pm

So, thank god there is a talky option for getting out of the final lonesome road bossfight, because while having a boss with a source of health regeneration that can bring him back to full in under a minute is kosher, and having a boss with enough hit points to tank two mini-nukes is kosher, having a boss who can do BOTH is so not cool.

Also, there was a massive post-bossfight brawl and I had depleted my healing item stocks earlier.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:40 pm

Guyr Adamantine wrote:Tell me about it. I got 24 mods on FNV, including Requiem For A Capital Wasteland, which gives Fallout 3 as playing ground. Its fucking awesome.

Thank you for telling me about that mod.

Guyr Adamantine · Post by **Guyr Adamantine** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 4:26 am

My pleasure! May I also suggest:

A World of Pain
Nevada Skies
Project Nevada
Weapon Mods Expanded
The various patches that make all those mods interact with each other correctly.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:29 am

Yes you may.
I may just try them all out once i got my computer a bit closer to what i want this piece of junk to be in some days . .

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:32 pm

Prject Nevada is fucking great. Been using it for months.

Old World Blues is easily the best DLC in New Vegas. Honest Hearts was pretty cool, but didn't exactly blow me away. Looked really pretty, though, and The Survivalist was a cool quest (as is his rifle).

Dead Money was a bitch and a half. I ended up cheating and taking ALL OF THE GOLD after I found out that they patched the old exploit of taking it all. So now my character has a massive pile of gold bullion sitting in the Follower's safehouse, next to a massive pile of Pre-War cash.

Lonesome Road was disappointing. So much buildup for what was pretty good, but nothing amazing.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:52 pm

The developers at Mechwarrior online did something very clever. They convinced people to pay for the privilege of beta testing their game. I'm still looking for the first leaks from the average Joe gamer, the game looks good but I wonder if it is actually any good.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:43 am

Every Founder is now in the Beta.
Yes, me too. No, we still had to sign the NDA to not tell more than is already known . .

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:31 am

So I've been playing the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, off and on, ever since it came out. I've downloaded the free multiplayer expansions, and it's a decent way to pass the time. I've met some cool folks who also play some of the same games I do.

So, today, the results of a Multiplayer Weekend event came through--it was a success. I got the class I wanted--one of the new ones. Pretty much a Cerberus Phantom. With Kasumi's Shadow Strike, from Mass Effect 2. I can't PLAY THE DAMN THING YET since my Xbox is in the shop and I loaned my hard drive to someone who said they'd play a few things for me, in exchange for getting to play Jade Empire and Symphony of the Night and other XBL games I've downloaded over the past couple of years.

So I took a look at the info on the class--and put together a melee-intensive build that should be able to one-shot most stuff. Seriously, the Shadow Strike can do upwards of 1200 damage, enough to one-shot pretty much anything that isn't a bigass bruiser. And I can score 245% of a damage increase on top of that. And there's a couple of damage increases I haven't bothered factoring into there.

I wouldn't normally mention this, except I owe this board a thank-you. I would like to thank the Gaming Den for providing an environment which sharpened my sense of optimization and tactics, which comes in handy on video games, and also on occasional bits of writing I do It's not a world-shaking skill, but it makes the world a little richer for me.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:24 am

The current Indie Royale is a pretty nice deal. I'm having more fun than I expected with Oniken.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:28 pm

Any idea where I can get " Requiem For A Capital Wasteland" now? The nexus link is gone.

Hadanelith · Post by **Hadanelith** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:11 pm

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20489040 ... eland_v_9b

Present for you.

crasskris · Post by **crasskris** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:39 pm

Thank to Forbes (which has a surprisingly good online games section) I've stumbled upon Inquisitor (http://inquisitor-rpg.com/). It's a CRPG currently in beta that seems to resolve fights in a Diablo-esque action mechanic (judging from the trailer) and features a 5000 pages thick story in three acts.

If your hobbies are Diablo and/or reading lengthy medieval mystery dramas, that might be enough. The trailer seems content to stop, right there.

What caught my attention, however, is that there is actually a torture mechanic. If you have identified a suspect, you can basically send him to the torture chamber. If he's innocent, however, your social standing takes a huge hit. Even if he's guilty: torturing always affects your alignment negatively (although the website doesn't describe what that entails).
The only way to avoid torturing is to find evidence, although the website ominously promises that to be not always possible.
Towards that end, the three character classes have, aside from combat-oriented abilities, a few abilities that seem (hopefully) to affect your ways you can obtain evidence - e.g. Authority for the Priest, or Eloquence, Stealth and Stealing for the Thief.

I'm not sure how the final game will hold up, but it might be worth following.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:14 am

I'm having problems with part of Arkham asylum.

It's the first predator sequence after Poison Ivy messes up the island, where they put bombs on the gargoyles.

I'm having a motherfuck of a time getting past that. Other than the gargoyles being trapped, I haven't found any floor grates or AC ducts to hide in, so if I get spotted ONCE I can't shake people shooting at me. Also, there seems to be no corner takedowns like in City, and it seems that the bad guys count as being "aware" of me so batarangs don't seem to stun anyone (to aid in a quick stun/ground takedown/explosive gel trap for the next asshole that comes to investigate)

Anyone have any tips other than turning the difficulty to Easy?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:19 am

Can you check the map and share the exact room name?

In general, there's always something other than gargoyles

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:39 am

"Intensive Treatment Lobby"

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:02 am

Oh. Yeah. There's floor grates inside the structure thing in the middle.

One thug passes under the vent you enter from. Take him out quickly.

You can also stand on top of that building in the middle. In the right spot, they won't see you.

If I remember right, a couple of the glass ceiling panels can be exploded with the gel to take out someone under them.

There's a lot of nooks and crannies and pretty no place is safe from all approaches, so it's possible to sneak up behind guys once you get their pattern.

If you have the proximity explosive gel, put it at the tops of ladders. Also put gel by anyone you knockout, so you can stun the people who come to investigate and follow up with a ground takedown.

You can also use it--or batarangs--as a distraction. They'll come investigate the sound.

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:24 pm

Seeing as how we were talking about how poor blizzard security is a couple of pages back, this seems relevant:

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html

Blizzard got hacked into and if you're on the north-america servers (which apparently include countries like Australia) they might have your password (encrypted) and secret question etc.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:18 pm

The big question is, are the passwords protected by good hashes or bad hashes?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:10 pm

So I got my Xbox back.

Microsoft included a month of XBL Gold. I'm paid up for a year.

I'm going to ask a couple of friends if they want the code first, but if they don't it's up for grabs here, first-come first serve. If you want the code, I'll send it via PM tonight, because I'm about to leave for work.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:33 pm

Maxus wrote:So I got my Xbox back.

Microsoft included a month of XBL Gold. I'm paid up for a year.

I'm going to ask a couple of friends if they want the code first, but if they don't it's up for grabs here, first-come first serve. If you want the code, I'll send it via PM tonight, because I'm about to leave for work.

Dibs if your friends don't want it.