Can I get that Splinter Cell Conviction? We're already friends on steam (ViolentMist)
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Can I get that Splinter Cell Conviction? We're already friends on steam (ViolentMist)
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000325988
lol i had no idea he's on Pacman. that shit goes hard as fuck. although if he wasnt signed i can see why Ross aint waste resources pushing him.
One Splinter Cell for me please sir, just in case you're saying you have 2.
We're already friends (K.Jack 2.0)
Tokubetsu
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I have 50 hours in skyrim. Haven't played in weeks though.
Well after my first character I went on a rampage of new ones starting new characters trying to get an ideal playstyle. Thief characters make the game a cakewalk, so i scrapped that, tanks/pure melee is just boring as fuck, and pure mages are a hassle or just plain weak without armor(fuck alteration) and a heavy conjuration emphasis.
I'm doing a battlemage, altmer with emphasis on conjuration, destruction, 1H, heavy armor, enchanting, and restoration... And it's working out pretty well actually. Lots of fun. No smithing though, can't stop myself from abusing the shit out of it.
In total I got about 50 hrs logged, but that's by playing only around 5 hrs per week. Game never grabbed me like it did others.
Currently going through one of the most boring dungeons yet, 30 minutes in and no end in sight. Takes motivation just to start up the game.
Tokubetsu
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Idk man, my sneak character was pretty squishy early game. I almost always had to have a companion just in case. I'm at like lvl 31 now, only six missions into the main quest and everything dies in 1 hit if I get that sneak arrow off, or 3ish otherwise.
God help you if I get in close with daggers for sneak that way though. 30x stealth dmg bonus. It's a wrap.
Ya until you really abuse sneak, light armor, and 1h up to a really high level, get some enchanted shit and good arrows, a thief is appropriately vulnerable. But you can really make a pretty downright invincible character with the right combination of smithing, sneak, archery and/or 1h, and pretty much anything else you wanna roll. Sneak characters require less perks to be effective... Which is a reason why magic characters struggle a lot more. Too many perks, not enough offensive capability, enchanting downright necessary to give you the magicka pool you need to be self sufficient.
IDK man i love it. Core gameplay could have used playtesting and some pretty obvious tweaks, and there is some familiar repetition(Kill X, Gather X of X, Find X, etc), but the world and style of the game rubs my brain the right way. When modders really get down to it it'll look like fantasy Crysis, too.
Kid and his grandma dance to Rack City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cFmqMe0pQ5A#!
I wish my grandma had some of that old hag swag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cFmqMe0pQ5A#!
I wish my grandma had some of that old hag swag
stupidest shit ive seen in a long time. wtf kind shit do u watch
ShinobiFist
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I need to get on that Skyrim.....But I don't drugs. Do I need to play the previous Elder Scrolls to play this game?
No not at all, but they're some aspects of Oblivion that I find better.
Edit: Also how the hell did I miss this...
Every Elder Scrolls game is its own self-contained story with only hints of older games. I believe this game takes place several hundred years after Oblivion. Plus, Oblivion was pretty mediocre, Skyrim is amazing.
ShinobiFist
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Thanks, I'll cop it next week. And oh snap at that HighRes link. Good looks.
If you didn't like Oblivion, I don't know why'd you pick up Skyrim at all.
Depends, Skyrim is just a much better game than Oblivion. It is more atmospheric and has better quests, for the most part. Also, Skyrim doesnt have Oblivion gates, so it already has a huge advantage.
Net_Wrecker
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Natti EP coming, didn't know that. NOICE.
Doesn't seem all that different to me, just more fleshed out and a little more intuitive.
The basics are the same: Combat, Open world, Tons of quests. But it improves up everything Oblivion did. Walking up the 7,000 steps to the top of that mountain just had me amazed at how great the game looked and how real it felt.
It's a Bethesda game, they are all kinda janky at launch, although I only have encountered one crash and no other bugs. Combat could use some improvements, but still feels great, IMO.
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Tokubetsu
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Oblivion is literally the worst TES game in the series. Maybe Arena is below it but just barely.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
People were talking about Oblivion being bad well before skyrim came out. Maybe it wasnt bad for you, but plenty of people did not like it.
This discussion is going nowhere, people didn't like it sure (that goes for every game), but a great majority did...And it scored well with pretty much all of the critics. It just seems like it was popular to hate because it kind of simplified many aspects from Morrowind into a more streamlined game, people weren't ready for it. Skyrim is definitely more akin to Oblivion than to Morrowind. It took the foreground laid by Oblivion and added a greater variety to its areas and to its quests, but the core is very much the same, just even more watered down and streamlined. Oblivion+Shivering Isles+Mods = Skyrim.
you said it.. sucks to be wrong
I'm a much bigger fan of Germanic medieval than Scandinavian Medieval. I just don't see how you can like one, but hate the other. Skyrim is basically a more refined Oblivion, which is expected after 5 years of dev time.
I tend to agree with a lot of your points, but Oblivion never hooked me in. I played about 20 hours of Oblivion and then got bored. I have around 50 hours into Skyrim( Until I reformatted my PC and lost my save..) and I havnt felt bored. The atmosphere and the world just seem a lot better than Oblivion. Oblivion felt very sterile and boring.
I can understand why console players would feel Oblivion was complete ass, because they couldn't escape things like the enemy level scaling.
There's no way I've actually played that much though; I fall asleep with the game running all the time.
How is that possible, when my Steam profile says I have 160.9 hours all by myself?
There's no way I've actually played that much though; I fall asleep with the game running all the time.
Magic is now overpowered...For example, being able to summon two Dremora Lords as a conjurer really makes absolutely everything a cakewalk.
Yeah it's really easy to become OP in skyrim. I'm playing a weapon dealer (blacksmith) so all my gear is Legendary and enchanted and I've got pretty much infinite gold. Just give me some ingots and soul gems and I'll have an entire city packing heat.
As far as combat goes, I'm a battle mage I guess. Always keep a weapon in one hand and a spell in the other. Heavy armor. All hand crafted to legendary status and enchanted.
I'd love to see Skyrim get the balance differential that New Vegas got vs Fallout 3. Now that would be sweet, but it seems there's a rift between Bethesda and Obsidian now for some reason.
Tokubetsu
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Oblivion is the only game where it takes 3 gigs worth of mods to make it an average game.
Ghost_Protocol
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I'm actually hearing people say "dat shit cray" in the real world........I could not fucking believe it. Grown women....
I dumped like 300 hours into oblivion. It was my first xbox360 game and I played it to death. I hated Morrowind and it took me a while to get into it but next thing I knew I was jumping up and down in one spot for an hour to get my stats up. I'm going through skyrim withdrawals right now, haven't played in almost 3 weeks, wont be able to play till the weekend. I got saints row 3 and code veronica HD to play as well (only resident evil I never played, gotta rectify that).
Also been playing civ 5 again, don't know why but it just doesn't click the way civ 4 did. It feels like every time I play I end up doing the same exact thing.
Also been playing civ 5 again, don't know why but it just doesn't click the way civ 4 did. It feels like every time I play I end up doing the same exact thing.
Hearing you guys talk about video games musts reminds me of how little I play games anymore... Im at the point where I prefer to listen to the bombcast than play videogames... I even have skyrim, bf, etc... Just doesn't engage me like it used to... The only game I still love is nhl
The only 2011 games i have played are Skyrim and the BF3 beta. I beat Arkham Asylum a few months back, and own Arkham City, but have no desire to go back. I barely play games anymore, and I listen to the Bombcast every week too, i rather hear people talk about games then play them nowadays.
Yeah I was a video game addict ever since I first walked across the street in Japan and watched my neighbor (a high japanese high school student) play super mario bros. on his famicom in 1985). I sat there in fucking awe watching the most incredible thing ever. But a few years ago after video games contributed to the end of a relationship I scaled down severely, sold most of my consoles, and stopped buying new games. It wasn't until I moved to the shithole that is Indiana and I needed something to take my mind off the fact I was living in Indiana that I started playing again. When I moved to Seattle I stopped playing again because I was too busy working, fucking, and drinking. And now that im back in cold ass bumfuck nowhere maine, I've picked it up again. I only buy the big releases though, I gamefly everything else.
Oh and fuck halo and COD
Shit im babbling, im fucked up right now, excuse me.
Gaming keeps me out of trouble. Bought a Dreamcast with a bunch of shit. Gamestop sent me some Game Informers. I took a few shits and read the game informers over time and went back and actually bought good games. After that it's all history. I gamed as a kid. Probably up to like, Sega Genesis. But when I got to Jr. High I was too cool for video games. That continued til I bought the Dreamcast to play NBA2K in my 20s.
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