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General Category => Video Games => Topic started by: bigbaldben on October 15, 2015, 11:13:05 PM
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We are less than a month away.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_YHgo_HN4[/yt]
I cannot remember the last time I was this excited for a video game. Seriously, I find myself daydreaming about it. Anyone else feel this way, or is this something that I should have kept to myself? :idk:
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YEEEESHH! PRECIOUS! SOOON! :obeisance:
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My planned character Mr. E. (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Mr. E.&str=4&per=1&end=4&cha=8&int=9&agl=1&lck=1)
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This looks pretty cool! :clap:
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I'm excited and cautiously optimistic. Hopefully the ratio of murder to exploration isn't too skewed towards the former. I don't know where I'll find time to play it though.
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I'm excited and cautiously optimistic. Hopefully the ratio of murder to exploration isn't too skewed towards the former. I don't know where I'll find time to play it though.
What Wast? You don't like those random encounters of a draugr and feral ghouls? YOU DONT LIKE THAT
HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THAT
A WHOLE WORLD TO EXPLORE OF LAZY WRITING
15 SQUARE MILES OF DRAUGR!
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there are bandits in this cave
heres a map marker
gogogogogogogogogogogogogogo
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My planned character Mr. E. (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Mr. E.&str=4&per=1&end=4&cha=8&int=9&agl=1&lck=1)
I AM APPALLED AT YOUR LACK OF RESPECT FOR AGILITY!!!!!!111
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I have never played Fallout games and I'm seriously considering this last one. Should I buy the number 3 to make an assertion on buying the new one?
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Better go with Fallout New Vegas, I think it has a better feel than F3. Also F1 & 2 are good enough to play just for the story though the graphics are far from modern or smooth and needs a special patch to not look like a bad LSD trip at a '70ies disco... (it was made for 16 colours Before stand-alone Graphics card arrived...)
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My planned character Mr. E. (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Mr. E.&str=4&per=1&end=4&cha=8&int=9&agl=1&lck=1)
I AM APPALLED AT YOUR LACK OF RESPECT FOR AGILITY!!!!!!111
Well I tend to build characters with flaws to enhance my own enjoyment of the game but if you wish to call that lack of respect sure :P
I have never played Fallout games and I'm seriously considering this last one. Should I buy the number 3 to make an assertion on buying the new one?
Loved that game, get the game of the year edition and enjoy the sandbox/culture. I still play 3, never ceases to interest me (unlike skyrim which I grew bored with).
I'm excited and cautiously optimistic. Hopefully the ratio of murder to exploration isn't too skewed towards the former. I don't know where I'll find time to play it though.
What Wast? You don't like those random encounters of a draugr and feral ghouls? YOU DONT LIKE THAT
HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THAT
A WHOLE WORLD TO EXPLORE OF LAZY WRITING
15 SQUARE MILES OF DRAUGR!
A map twice the size of Skyrims with a new engine/crafting system. Honestly makes me excited for what the engine will do for the next elders scrolls installation. Though it seems random encounters are going to be prevalent they at least appear to be more varied with enemies coming at you from both above and below. Additionally very excited for the nuclear weather patterns, nor'eastuhs n' such. Kind of hoping with the Boston location that somewhere in my state might come up as a DLC area.
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I have never played Fallout games and I'm seriously considering this last one. Should I buy the number 3 to make an assertion on buying the new one?
Loved that game, get the game of the year edition and enjoy the sandbox/culture. I still play 3, never ceases to interest me (unlike skyrim which I grew bored with).
Yeah, I got bored ot skyrim too and never finished it...
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I have never played Fallout games and I'm seriously considering this last one. Should I buy the number 3 to make an assertion on buying the new one?
Loved that game, get the game of the year edition and enjoy the sandbox/culture. I still play 3, never ceases to interest me (unlike skyrim which I grew bored with).
Yeah, I got bored ot skyrim too and never finished it...
Finished it and gathered all the items, many times. Just eventually becomes tedious.
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I have never played Fallout games and I'm seriously considering this last one. Should I buy the number 3 to make an assertion on buying the new one?
Loved that game, get the game of the year edition and enjoy the sandbox/culture. I still play 3, never ceases to interest me (unlike skyrim which I grew bored with).
Yeah, I got bored ot skyrim too and never finished it...
Finished it and gathered all the items, many times. Just eventually becomes tedious.
#freetimeftw
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I have never played Fallout games and I'm seriously considering this last one. Should I buy the number 3 to make an assertion on buying the new one?
Loved that game, get the game of the year edition and enjoy the sandbox/culture. I still play 3, never ceases to interest me (unlike skyrim which I grew bored with).
Yeah, I got bored ot skyrim too and never finished it...
Finished it and gathered all the items, many times. Just eventually becomes tedious.
I retract my agility condemnation and hail you as a kindred completion-ist spirit!
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Resurrection Larry (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Resurrection Larry&str=8&per=2&end=6&cha=2&int=4&agl=5&lck=1)
Might modify this setup when I get the game. But the idea is to make a character that punches peoples heads in if I want to.
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Vic Rattlehead (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Vic Rattlehead&str=6&per=2&end=4&cha=6&int=6&agl=2&lck=2)
I have to go higher on endurance since I tend towards loooong drawn out battles against enemies I'm not supposed to be fighting yet. ;D
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You people value competence far too highly.
Ichabod Netherwallop III (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Ichabod%20Netherwallop%20III&str=1&per=1&end=1&cha=10&int=1&agl=1&lck=10)
I hope the character creator doesn't make me use all of my points.
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I'll make my character on the fly but I usually invest heavily into intelligence, perception and sometimes luck
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You people value competence far too highly.
Ichabod Netherwallop III (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Ichabod%20Netherwallop%20III&str=1&per=1&end=1&cha=10&int=1&agl=1&lck=10)
I hope the character creator doesn't make me use all of my points.
Unfortunately I believe it will.
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You people value competence far too highly.
Ichabod Netherwallop III (http://vault111.com/character/share/?char=Ichabod%20Netherwallop%20III&str=1&per=1&end=1&cha=10&int=1&agl=1&lck=10)
I hope the character creator doesn't make me use all of my points.
lol, why?
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I've been trying Fallout 3. Meh...it's TES4 Oblivion with lots of bugs (insects and otherwise). This girl in Megaton keeps saying I killed the entire population of some town when in reality I was caught in the middle of some creature attack, 2 or 3 residents died against probably Mole Rats...yet it's my fault? fu
I also witnessed one of those mobile vendors being killed by dogs while he was running away from Super Mutants and kinda ran into dogs while the mercenary and I was busy killing a couple of Super Mutants. If he hadn't stressed the fck out he'd still be alive.
There's so much of the game that looks unfinished/unpolished, so much that was overlooked. Why bother making rocket-looking cars when they are so unreal, oh yeah it looked like vehicles from Unreal Tournament (1st gen).
Reviewed the video and seems the cars are much more "realistic", I have high hopes for this new fallout but I am not that excited and Fallout 3 didn't make me sympathetic with the franchise. It's a very good time burner.
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I've been trying Fallout 3. Meh...it's TES4 Oblivion with lots of bugs (insects and otherwise). This girl in Megaton keeps saying I killed the entire population of some town when in reality I was caught in the middle of some creature attack, 2 or 3 residents died against probably Mole Rats...yet it's my fault? fu
I also witnessed one of those mobile vendors being killed by dogs while he was running away from Super Mutants and kinda ran into dogs while the mercenary and I was busy killing a couple of Super Mutants. If he hadn't stressed the fck out he'd still be alive.
There's so much of the game that looks unfinished/unpolished, so much that was overlooked. Why bother making rocket-looking cars when they are so unreal, oh yeah it looked like vehicles from Unreal Tournament (1st gen).
Reviewed the video and seems the cars are much more "realistic", I have high hopes for this new fallout but I am not that excited and Fallout 3 didn't make me sympathetic with the franchise. It's a very good time burner.
Yep, fallout 3 felt much like oblivion with guns, the vaults in 3 have some pretty funny stories to them though, also lots of elements don't make sense to me in fallout 3, such as a post apocalyptic grocery store still having some food items on the shelves. I'm pretty sure it'd be amongst the first things to get ransacked and picked down to the bone. Also, like you said, the atmosphere feels unfinished. New Vegas has the opposite effect, they finished it so to speak but there's less area to explore, and the setting feels a lot more linear.
The biggest complaint I have is that fallout doesn't have much in the armor and weapons department and there's not much flexibility in the type of character you can make. Everyone just gets super plasma gun shit plus power armor. Fuck power armor, I don't even care about the jetpack shit. It feels like they set it up to have everyone be a different kind of character but they want everyone in late game to be the same.
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Yep, fallout 3 felt much like oblivion with guns, the vaults in 3 have some pretty funny stories to them though, also lots of elements don't make sense to me in fallout 3, such as a post apocalyptic grocery store still having some food items on the shelves. I'm pretty sure it'd be amongst the first things to get ransacked and picked down to the bone. Also, like you said, the atmosphere feels unfinished. New Vegas has the opposite effect, they finished it so to speak but there's less area to explore, and the setting feels a lot more linear.
The biggest complaint I have is that fallout doesn't have much in the armor and weapons department and there's not much flexibility in the type of character you can make. Everyone just gets super plasma gun shit plus power armor. Fuck power armor, I don't even care about the jetpack shit. It feels like they set it up to have everyone be a different kind of character but they want everyone in late game to be the same.
RP also feels quite limited together with what you said about equipment, I wanted to have an awesome "raider" armor but they sck big time, you're quite forced into end-game crap, it's not as "mess around" as the Grand Theft Auto series but maybe it should. After all, it's the post-Apocalypse and you just came out of a hole in the ground, time to seriously fornicate some feces up. Yeah the...groceries...some crap surviving the Apocalypse but then vast urban areas almost leveled, then other areas almost fine...and mini-nukes... and eating and drinking and swimming in radioactive material and there's no long-term crap effect. I mean, even Z for Zacharia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxw4KFxPcoY) was more polished than that.
I mean, if it can level a building, why would cars survive, Are cars made from titanium? Why are there nuclear-powered buses? Why do the Chinese keep getting referred but there aren't any Chinese there? Why are there no vehicles? So many spared parts and all I've seen so far in terms of "technology" was a steam boat, doesn't make much sense, every post-apocalyptic franchise focus on the importance of vehicles, I don't care if I had to mount a 2 headed cow of sorts.
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Not to mention, it's found from the Chernobyl/other radioactive disaster areas that radioactivity first disappears in the bodies of water, so it doesn't make much sense that there's radioactive water. Though, if they went with realism, a lot of other shit wouldn't be true either, and there's some artistic license that can be made. Having an evil group not want to purify the water though, like in Fallout 3, is fucking stupid. Who would be that against something like that? I'll believe a nuclear powered car sure but not that.
Fallout seems to take on this sort of post-Nukepunk/50spunk world, like where steampunk everything is powered by steam, fallout's pre-apocalypse seems to have everything powered by nuclear energy. It assumes the 1950s naive view of the future and twists the fuck out of it.
I'm not a big fan of other parts of the lore though either, like how every setting is basically desert/wasteland, I hope the Boston setting has more green, it seems dumb to think all agriculture/landscape has turned EXTINCT/ARID WASTELAND.
Things I like about the lore though, the people who invented the Vaults liked to experiment with the people inside them and sort them all by occupation, some specific census set, or with different sets of rules or conditions. It's fun to explore these vaults and find out what was the special condition of this particular vault. For example there's one vault that only had musicians in it, but little known to the people inside the vault they put in white-noise aggression-inducing subliminal message generators inside the vault. Eventually all the musicians got violent and killed each other.
But you know, you don't have to explore it. Some people just go in and grab the loot rather than uncovering the funny story. However you want to play the game.
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Yep, fallout 3 felt much like oblivion with guns, the vaults in 3 have some pretty funny stories to them though, also lots of elements don't make sense to me in fallout 3, such as a post apocalyptic grocery store still having some food items on the shelves. I'm pretty sure it'd be amongst the first things to get ransacked and picked down to the bone. Also, like you said, the atmosphere feels unfinished. New Vegas has the opposite effect, they finished it so to speak but there's less area to explore, and the setting feels a lot more linear.
The biggest complaint I have is that fallout doesn't have much in the armor and weapons department and there's not much flexibility in the type of character you can make. Everyone just gets super plasma gun shit plus power armor. Fuck power armor, I don't even care about the jetpack shit. It feels like they set it up to have everyone be a different kind of character but they want everyone in late game to be the same.
RP also feels quite limited together with what you said about equipment, I wanted to have an awesome "raider" armor but they sck big time, you're quite forced into end-game crap, it's not as "mess around" as the Grand Theft Auto series but maybe it should. After all, it's the post-Apocalypse and you just came out of a hole in the ground, time to seriously fornicate some feces up. Yeah the...groceries...some crap surviving the Apocalypse but then vast urban areas almost leveled, then other areas almost fine...and mini-nukes... and eating and drinking and swimming in radioactive material and there's no long-term crap effect. I mean, even Z for Zacharia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxw4KFxPcoY) was more polished than that.
I mean, if it can level a building, why would cars survive, Are cars made from titanium? Why are there nuclear-powered buses? Why do the Chinese keep getting referred but there aren't any Chinese there? Why are there no vehicles? So many spared parts and all I've seen so far in terms of "technology" was a steam boat, doesn't make much sense, every post-apocalyptic franchise focus on the importance of vehicles, I don't care if I had to mount a 2 headed cow of sorts.
There actually are chinese in F3... They are ghouls in a food factory near Arlington cem. dressed in chinese army jumpsuits and using chinese assault rifles and pistols.
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There actually are chinese in F3... They are ghouls in a food factory near Arlington cem. dressed in chinese army jumpsuits and using chinese assault rifles and pistols.
Makes less sense but ok.
concerning stories, I do read the Notes tab ;)
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There actually are chinese in F3... They are ghouls in a food factory near Arlington cem. dressed in chinese army jumpsuits and using chinese assault rifles and pistols.
Makes less sense but ok.
concerning stories, I do read the Notes tab ;)
There's also a bunch of hidden bunkers with chinese spies (long dead), random encounters with chinese pilot corpses (found via radio again), the chinese stealth armor (from operation anchorage) and the deus machina robot Liberty Prime is programmed to be anti-chinese/commie.
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Leaked details of perks (http://nerdist.com/newest-fallout-4-leak-details-perks-for-special-attributes/) have come forth. Will this information affect your builds at all? Personally it is making me want to go high Endurance.
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Some things makes sense but I'm not sure it's a genuine leak.
Either way, the part about fusion cores is interesting as it relates to a mission in Fallout Tactics where the player's squad is dispatched to a tribal village over a pre-war army depot in order to retrive "Fusion batteries" quest items that the BoS use to Power their more advanced Equipment such as Power armour.
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UPDATE: Pip boy app for fallout 4 android and Iphone is out but one has to type Bethesda in the search tab to find it.
Och and my pre-ordered copy was mailed by my online store yesterday (5/11) So it should arrive today so I will be able to pre-release download it and play as soon as it's unlocked at 00:01 Tuesday :drunks: :happy: :congrats: :poke:
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UPDATE: Pip boy app for fallout 4 android and Iphone is out but one has to type Bethesda in the search tab to find it.
Och and my pre-ordered copy was mailed by my online store yesterday (5/11) So it should arrive today so I will be able to pre-release download it and play as soon as it's unlocked at 00:01 Tuesday :drunks: :happy: :congrats: :poke:
Pre-ordered mine from the Playstation store this morning.
Game releases Tuesday.
Work is closed on Wednesday. Because Fallout, I took a vacation day Thursday. I work 9 hour days so I have every other Friday (next Friday) off. I have informed the wife that I will not be participating in family type things on Saturday or Sunday. Purchased loads of hard cider and tortilla chips. Will be moving the couch directly in front of the TV.
I plan on playing 5 straight days, and have planned ahead to do so.
Therefore, it is almost certain that the PS4 version will contain glitches and freezes that will make the game all but unplayable for the first week. With a patch that clears it all up the following week.
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Pre-ordered mine from the Playstation store this morning.
Game releases Tuesday.
Work is closed on Wednesday. Because Fallout, I took a vacation day Thursday. I work 9 hour days so I have every other Friday (next Friday) off. I have informed the wife that I will not be participating in family type things on Saturday or Sunday. Purchased loads of hard cider and tortilla chips. Will be moving the couch directly in front of the TV.
I plan on playing 5 straight days, and have planned ahead to do so.
Therefore, it is almost certain that the PS4 version will contain glitches and freezes that will make the game all but unplayable for the first week. With a patch that clears it all up the following week.
The trailer for Fallout 4 really got my attention, and after playing Fallout 3 the games seem similar but man, building houses, having a dog, much better graphics and all that seem to be pretty good.
In the end, are you satisfied when you end this type of marathons? Was it worth it?
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In the end, are you satisfied when you end this type of marathons? Was it worth it?
Ooo, good question. I can't remember a multi-day gaming spree within my recent past - lots from college and post-college. Shortly after I got married, for instance, my wife went with a friend to run a marathon in Las Vegas. The three days she was gone, one of my best friends and I played Perfect Dark on the N64 nonstop - three days. Pizza deliveries, slept on couches when needed - so much fun.
So this will be a relatively new thing for me. If there are games released that I'm looking forward to, I usually just play as much as I can and wish I had more time - like I imagine normal people do. :D With this game release falling on the calendar like it did, I had to give it a shot.
For all my planning, though, I wonder if I will stick to the plan to play all waking hours. I am already planning on taking a break and working out at strategic points. At my age I can still do all the things I used to do, I just can't do them as long - at least not without breaking it up physically. :wine:
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In the end, are you satisfied when you end this type of marathons? Was it worth it?
Ooo, good question. I can't remember a multi-day gaming spree within my recent past - lots from college and post-college. Shortly after I got married, for instance, my wife went with a friend to run a marathon in Las Vegas. The three days she was gone, one of my best friends and I played Perfect Dark on the N64 nonstop - three days. Pizza deliveries, slept on couches when needed - so much fun.
So this will be a relatively new thing for me. If there are games released that I'm looking forward to, I usually just play as much as I can and wish I had more time - like I imagine normal people do. :D With this game release falling on the calendar like it did, I had to give it a shot.
For all my planning, though, I wonder if I will stick to the plan to play all waking hours. I am already planning on taking a break and working out at strategic points. At my age I can still do all the things I used to do, I just can't do them as long - at least not without breaking it up physically. :wine:
Breaking up gaming marathons (or even movie ones) with exercise is a great way to prevent the common physical issues associated with such. When I would do my 48 hr skyrim binges, yoga and calisthenics were crucial for not having a back that hated me.
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When I would do my 48 hr skyrim binges
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Breaking up gaming marathons (or even movie ones) with exercise is a great way to prevent the common physical issues associated with such. When I would do my 48 hr skyrim binges, yoga and calisthenics were crucial for not having a back that hated me.
I was trying to decide if I want to test my stamina with a how-long-can-I-stay-awake-binge, but I think I'll just see how it goes.
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Aaaaaand of course when Everything is looking great and the game will arrive in the mail in less than 24h...
My headset just decides to give up by stop communicating with it's wireless dongle and refuse to re-charge the battery AND refuse to respond to button imput...
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Aaaaaand of course when Everything is looking great and the game will arrive in the mail in less than 24h...
My headset just decides to give up by stop communicating with it's wireless dongle and refuse to re-charge the battery AND refuse to respond to button imput...
:keke:
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Aaaaaand of course when Everything is looking great and the game will arrive in the mail in less than 24h...
My headset just decides to give up by stop communicating with it's wireless dongle and refuse to re-charge the battery AND refuse to respond to button imput...
:keke:
:keke: indeed...
The headset was replaced through warranty :) But I had miscalculated the speed of the post service... apparently, sending a package as a private person is far quicker than if a company sends one regardless of size. I sent a brand new headset the exact same type that broke on me to a friend a week before my compy of fallout 4 left the sales Company and the headset arrived at my friend the very next day even though it had to go half way across the Baltic sea to get to him and the game has only over-land travel.
Ah well, it should arrive today at least. I'm pretty sure the extra wait and hassle will be worth it.
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Ah well, it should arrive today at least. I'm pretty sure the extra wait and hassle will be worth it.
What is the need for a headset to play Fallout?
Also, I played this for about an hour or so thus morning before work. I am not a graphics guy, for some reason. Being able to tell the difference between Xbox and PS is always a game of spot the differences for me. But these graphics are amazing! Really nice quality and detail and textures.
Mind you, this was all pre-war and then in vault 111. So I wonder if it will carry through to the dystopian future.
It's weird having your character SAY stuff, but I like the Mass Effect like dialogue system. So far, am not a fan of characters not locking into place when you start a dialogue. Hard to know which NPCs are important without it. More realistic though I suppose... we'll see.
As I saved, the Vault door was in the process of opening. Excited to get put there!
Say. would anyone be interested in a thread where I "narrate" my experiences? If so, I'd be happy to do it, if only to have a reason to get off the couch, lol.
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Say. would anyone be interested in a thread where I "narrate" my experiences? If so, I'd be happy to do it, if only to have a reason to get off the couch, lol.
DO IT!
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Well, the need for the headset is mainly for other games like Armored Warfare and such but the thing is, a pair of old desktop multimedia speakers from the mid 90'ies is NOT acceptable to me for playing an adventure game where things like deathclaws or even mole rats or raiders could attack from any direction.
Thus once I started playing with a 3D surround headset that shuts out real world sounds in addition to providing an accurate spatial sound awareness has become my desired standard.
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RESURRECTION LARRY, planned brawler? NOW DUSTER-HERO RANGER-SNIPER LADY. It's funny how you can plan something in the game but then some style takes over you did not expect. So now I'm updating my agility and perception like my character has some GOD DAMNED STORY ARC OR SOMETHING. Seriously this game is great.
So fuck the main story, I can't wait for a randomized start mod or something, because this game would be so much more fun if you just started out as a prisoner in Boston or something, who knows, I just love exploring this game. Everything has meaning now. Every single item can be salvaged, it's no longer about staring at the caps value of everything, fuck that, build your settlement, feed the people, be like mayor-bro of the tiny village you're creating. I LOVE THAT WHEN I GO FORAGING IN THE SAME AREA DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE THERE IN DIFFERENT SETTLED POSITIONS AND I CAN GET INTO FIREFIGHTS (https://youtu.be/MsuH1msEkvM?t=42)
Seriously I started out kinda bleh about the game, like okay here we go, what am I going to hate. Then I picked up some guns, was going through the motion, FOUND OUT I COULD MODIFY ALL THESE GUNS INTO A SNIPER RIFLE RIGHT OFF THE BAT?! WHAT? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I now run around the woods in a duster and cowboy hat and sniper and just go all the stranger everywhere I go. :| This game let's you be whoever you want to be, this probably isn't how most people play but I'm so glad they have it as an option.
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You are super excited.
This "beginners" guide seems quite good:
http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-guide/
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Yep, it really is a game that I've been waiting for, for a long time