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 mega_bassist wrote:
The SAW was pretty meh in the campaign, but it's brutal online. With the high ROF, it tears down shields pretty quickly.

Last I played my wife and I stuck to SWAT where I could use my beloved DMR

I'm doing yet another play through of Xcom: Enemy Unknown. This one based out of Africa. I'm trying to get the achievement for beating it from each continent and this should be the last one.

My shiny new (!) sealed (!!) copy of Ar Tonelico has arrived. It has been ripped open, that brand new PS2 game smell that is so rare nowadays has been sniffed, it's gaming time!

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
I thought the shotgun was TERRIBLY underpowered in this game. I preferred the Battle Rifle to kill the Watchers and to knock down/weaken their shields, and the Assault Rifle to finish them off. The Light Rifle does a great job too, in my opinion (but only in campaign ).

The shotgun really isn't great, but it does do wonders up close against Elites and Knights. When my wife and I were playing one of us would agitate them from afar, the other would get close with a shotgun (or if we were really lucky an assassination).

 Perkustin wrote:
One word, Suppressor. You can kill the knights with one mag. The suppressor is USELESS in ANY other scenario though. Killing the watchers is obvious, i just found the knights a little too bullet spongey in general. I always play with 'tough luck' on (ever since ODST) and the plasma pistol usually gets dodged, or they do that cheap teleport thing.

I never thought to try them, good tip. The Suppressor and SAW always struck me as inferior Assault Rifles that were less powerful, more inaccurate, but had a larger magazine.

Wat.

Supressor is gak in both IMO. Saw on the other hand.. one clip can kill two knights on legendary. That said, the easiest way to kill knights is assasination in my experience. SAW is better then the assault rifle in every way, if you burst fire it, the accuracy and damage are much better.

 Manchu wrote:
I don't need to spend X/2 googling unofficial patches and fixes...

Always start here.

BYE

Fable3. Its a really good game at times.......and at others....I REALLY see why it was so hated. Shame really.

 KingCracker wrote:
Fable3. Its a really good game at times.......and at others....I REALLY see why it was so hated. Shame really.

Once you are about 50% through it turns into a different game(which is terrible).

 Soladrin wrote:
Wat.

Supressor is gak in both IMO. Saw on the other hand.. one clip can kill two knights on legendary. That said, the easiest way to kill knights is assasination in my experience. SAW is better then the assault rifle in every way, if you burst fire it, the accuracy and damage are much better.

I have just never had any luck using the SAW in the campaign, the rounds just seemed to bounce off Grunts so it got relegated (along with the Suppressor) to "Use only when the last bullet of every other gun has been fired, and you've thrown the empty firearm at the enemy"

 KingCracker wrote:
Fable3. Its a really good game at times.......and at others....I REALLY see why it was so hated. Shame really.

I forgot I had that, thanks to Microsoft giving it away free. I think it's Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed 2 in July

Forced myself to finish 'old world blues' on Fallout new vegas. Lets just say i'm glad i bought the ultimate edition and that the piece of trash was a freebie. If anyone is wanting to purchase Fallout New Vegas DLC do not buy Old world blues, its awful. Sure it's zany and raised a few chuckles but it is just combat combat combat, which i've always hated in the Modern Fallouts.

Just started Honest Hearts and am finding it way better. The premise and atmosphere is immediately more appealing to me.

 Perkustin wrote:
but it is just combat combat combat, which i've always hated in the Modern Fallouts.

you do realise that old world blues probably has more dialogue than all the other DLCs combined, right?
It has so much fighting because the whole idea of it is that you've been taken to an area with no escape in which the bad guy controls basically everything. Of course there's going to be lots of fighting when almost everything is trying to kill you on sight, as well as it being the longest DLC anyway.

You could say that the other DLCs were all combat too... Mind that its made by the same developers as the first two games. I've wondered why nobody's made a mod that decreases enemy spawns, rather than increasing them, but that's maybe just for my linking of travelling sparsely populated locals.

I would note that Old World Blues is also meant to be a late game DLC. If you're wanting to play them in order of difficulty I would say that it goes Honest Hearts, Dead Money, Old World Blues/Lonesome Road. ...Though I found Lonesome Road to be too easy as by that point in the game I had silly SPECIAL and skills stats.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
...Though I found Lonesome Road to be too easy as by that point in the game I had silly SPECIAL and skills stats.

yeah, you can do it barely taking any damage with stealth armour and a silenced sniper, at least until you go into the tunnels...

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
Wat.

Supressor is gak in both IMO. Saw on the other hand.. one clip can kill two knights on legendary. That said, the easiest way to kill knights is assasination in my experience. SAW is better then the assault rifle in every way, if you burst fire it, the accuracy and damage are much better.

I have just never had any luck using the SAW in the campaign, the rounds just seemed to bounce off Grunts so it got relegated (along with the Suppressor) to "Use only when the last bullet of every other gun has been fired, and you've thrown the empty firearm at the enemy"

 KingCracker wrote:
Fable3. Its a really good game at times.......and at others....I REALLY see why it was so hated. Shame really.

I forgot I had that, thanks to Microsoft giving it away free. I think it's Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed 2 in July

Clearly you were doing it wrong , who the hell uses the automatic weapons on grunts? xD Just headshot or melee those little bastard. SAW is one of the best weapons in the game to take down elites, knights, or just about anything that's shielded. (more reliable then plasma pistol head shot in Close quarters)

 Soladrin wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Fable3. Its a really good game at times.......and at others....I REALLY see why it was so hated. Shame really.

Once you are about 50% through it turns into a different game(which is terrible).

Yea Im past the 50% part. I still think it has qualities that could have easily made it a really good to great game. But....the problem is, I swear every good thing it has going for it, theres a bad part right behind it that screws it up Its really odd playing a game that was made this way. How can some of it be really good, and then the others be so bad it ruins the good?!? Thats friggin weird

Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece. Quite complex, but I'm really enjoying it. Got it for 15 aussie bucks as well!

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep.

I got to this part in CoC Dark Corners of the Earth last night where you have to ride in the back of a truck while shooting at bad guys. Except doing so will definitely get you killed considering the bad guys are far better shots than you with much better bullets PLUS you take damage because the guy driving is gak. So your only real option is to duck the whole time ... I hate it when games don't let you play them. I understand wanting a challenge but there are parts of this game that feel like you simply MUST do them in exactly one way, which doesn't leave much room for the thousands of customers who would really like to play the game because of the interesting story and compelling atmosphere ...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Always start here.

Thanks. Looking it over, it wouldn't have helped this time but I'll be sure to look there first when other PC games (inevitably) won't work properly ...

Stuck looking for a third dwarf rune and had to leave for work. . .oh, the humanity!

Already my favorite DLC.

 shrike wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
but it is just combat combat combat, which i've always hated in the Modern Fallouts.

you do realise that old world blues probably has more dialogue than all the other DLCs combined, right?

Yeah but talking to one zany machine is much like talking to another, that's assuming you aren't just making a claim with no basis. As i said earlier the instances were fine but the overworld was just torturous. Actually for the record although you're right Wyrmylla that Honest hearts has no level cap and thus should be attempted first OldWorldBlues does suggest a mere 15, DeadMoney 20 and LoneRoad 25. I was only going on the recommended settings.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
The SAW was pretty meh in the campaign, but it's brutal online. With the high ROF, it tears down shields pretty quickly.

Last I played my wife and I stuck to SWAT where I could use my beloved DMR

Oh man, SWAT drives me crazy...I'm no good at it I stick to normal Slayer, or the team-based modes (Team Regicide, Domination, ect.).

Was watching my nephew play League of Legends.

Looks fun.

I'm playing Animal Crossing New Leaf and New Vegas.

 Iur_tae_mont wrote:
I'm playing Animal Crossing New Leaf and New Vegas.

How's AC: New Leaf? As good as the original? I was checking it out, but it hasn't received the greatest reviews.

 Perkustin wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
but it is just combat combat combat, which i've always hated in the Modern Fallouts.

you do realise that old world blues probably has more dialogue than all the other DLCs combined, right?

Yeah but talking to one zany machine is much like talking to another, that's assuming you aren't just making a claim with no basis. As i said earlier the instances were fine but the overworld was just torturous.

I remember old world blues having far more dialogue than Honest hearts or lonesome road- personal experience isn't "a claim with no basis".
Yes, it has a lot of combat in the overworld, probably more than the other two, but it is also the biggest/longest, so it's all proportional- of course a smaller DLC would have less combat.

and I've already covered their reasons behind putting lots of combat in, even if it was a disproportional amount compared to the others.

In other news, I tried getting GTA: IV to work, but I'm getting some error messages repeatedly, despite trying several "fixes".
No real problem though, I was only going to boot it up for messing around in anyway.

GTA: IV is terribly optimized for the PC. I think I have something like four hours play time with it on steam and yet have barely gotten past the fifth mission due to how unplayable it is. =/

 KingCracker wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Fable3. Its a really good game at times.......and at others....I REALLY see why it was so hated. Shame really.

Once you are about 50% through it turns into a different game(which is terrible).

Yea Im past the 50% part. I still think it has qualities that could have easily made it a really good to great game. But....the problem is, I swear every good thing it has going for it, theres a bad part right behind it that screws it up Its really odd playing a game that was made this way. How can some of it be really good, and then the others be so bad it ruins the good?!? Thats friggin weird

Oh, that's simple. Peter Molyneux was involved.

 shrike wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
but it is just combat combat combat, which i've always hated in the Modern Fallouts.

you do realise that old world blues probably has more dialogue than all the other DLCs combined, right?

Yeah but talking to one zany machine is much like talking to another, that's assuming you aren't just making a claim with no basis. As i said earlier the instances were fine but the overworld was just torturous.

I remember old world blues having far more dialogue than Honest hearts or lonesome road

Yeah thought so........ Admittedly 'basis' was the wrong word, evidence is what i meant to say.

I've already covered their reasons behind putting lots of combat in.

Not satisfactorily, not by a long shot.

I've been playing New Vegas some more, Unfortunately i've got re-roll fever. Think i'll just keep the high-level guy for the DLCs and use the new character to do all the core quests. I am hoping this will do me till GTA 5, haven't been gaming alot as of late so it should last, i only picked up FNV because i've been feeling completely un-creative.

Started playing Tomb Raider. It's currently on sale on gamersgate.co.uk for about $15, so I just had to grab it.
Very immersive experience so far, and holy gak, poor Lara. It almost hurts just to watch. I do like how she seems to grow tougher with every ordeal she survives, tho.

<obligatory screenshot>

TheDraconicLord wrote:My shiny new (!) sealed (!!) copy of Ar Tonelico has arrived. It has been ripped open, that brand new PS2 game smell that is so rare nowadays has been sniffed, it's gaming time!

Never played it myself, but I was impressed by the language they created just for it, as well as by the very beautiful songs themselves. Also, the idea to interface with machines using song is fairly unique.

Wyrmalla wrote:GTA: IV is terribly optimized for the PC. I think I have something like four hours play time with it on steam and yet have barely gotten past the fifth mission due to how unplayable it is. =/

+1
And I had such high hopes for it, too. I'm not sure how many hours I ended up actually playing, but I'm pretty sure a single hand would have sufficed to count them. Shame. :(

Tomb Raider is a good game, but there is WAY too much shooting. Thanks, CoD crowd.

 Perkustin wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
but it is just combat combat combat, which i've always hated in the Modern Fallouts.

you do realise that old world blues probably has more dialogue than all the other DLCs combined, right?

Yeah but talking to one zany machine is much like talking to another, that's assuming you aren't just making a claim with no basis. As i said earlier the instances were fine but the overworld was just torturous.

I remember old world blues having far more dialogue than Honest hearts or lonesome road

Yeah thought so........ Admittedly 'basis' was the wrong word, evidence is what i meant to say.

That's a double edged sword, you have no evidence for it being "just combat combat combat" either, and if we were being all technical here, it isn't just combat, because even 5 seconds of dialogue out of 10 hour's play time would still make it not entirely fighting.