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This time, I am recycling a concept (right down to the name) but choosing to diverge right at the beginning. On my last run-through with this character, she began with the main quest. This time, she's doing the Companions quest first (which she did not do at all last time). I am interested to see how this impacts the character.
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Anvildude wrote: I think Skyrim (and most Sandbox games these days) are most fun when you give yourself a couple limits.
True! I like how your paladin does not use certain kinds of weapons. I wish I had thought of that during my paladin (sword & board Imperial) playthrough but to be honest he didn't make it very far down the path of chivalry.
He was corrupted by the Cult of Namira and became an anti-paladin. He willfully became infected with sanguinare vampiris, cultivated the infection to fruition, then sought out the Volkihar Clan only to betray them. From there, he forged a pact to serve Boethiah and undertook a pilgrimage to Solstheim to worship at the Reclamation Shrine. Fortunately for Man and Mer alike, he vanished from history at that point.
For me, Elder Scrolls is about roleplaying. I like the idea of limitations because it demonstrates the autonomy of the character. I have used a variation on the weapons limitation technique. My shield maiden character, Freyja, does not use any Imperial armor or weapons. Freyja also worships Kynareth and so always wears her amulet.
I try other techniques, too. One is ritual -- the idea of ceremonially doing something in the game that has no in-game effect. For example: before Freyja enters the Whiterun temple, she takes off her boots. She walks barefoot through the water around the central image counter clockwise three times, prays at the shrine, the walks through the water three times clockwise before leaving.
Another technique involves NPC interaction. Freyja does not tolerate insults. If an adult NPC of roughly equal status to her insults her, she hits them. If they draw a weapon, she draws hers. As you can imagine, this could end with death(s). Freyja does not dispute that her actions are illegal, however, and patiently serves her time in prison.
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Wolfenstein, incredibly polished game but boy there have been two major difficulty spikes so far. I would relish fighting the larger, tougher, enemies more if you didn't have to go back 10+ minutes if they defeat you.
It is a little jarring that the regular grunts are shredded to gristle after a few rounds yet a Man wearing hefty body armour and a ricocheting shotgun can take more than 20 shells and more than a full magazine of assault rifle rounds.
All in All though it is a very enjoyable game with an incredibly well told story. Also i have amassed a couple more tools that may even the odds for the latter part of the Story.
EDIT: Also Wolfenstein wins the award for the most Opaque video settings i've ever seen, they sound like a programmer's debug tools.
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Mary Sue wrote: Perkustin is even more awesome than me!
I started playing Icewind Dale 2 again today, and so far all has gone well. Well if you count a few hundred Goblinoids , heaps and heaps of Bugbears & Ogres poiling in on you and the odd dragon attempting to roast you alive. But thankfully my all Drow party has so far slaugtherd them all in a dazzeling show of wanton slaugther. But as I draw nearer the first of the major laberyints and the ensuing attempts to find a way outI find myself regretting not bringing an second Cleric as the additional healing and such will come in handy.
Still horribly addicted to Mario Kart 8. I'm busting my ass to get as many unlockables as I can. Currently it seems to be the Gold Kart I'm going for. Nearly there too
I always liked being able to use a dagger to sneak attack one-shot giants, now that's just comedy gold.
All drow party, huh? I've thought about that but getting my spell levels late gives me fits. I usually build some kind of AWESOME PARTY CONCEPT, but then I think up something EVEN BETTER before they get to level 10
Anvildude wrote: I think Skyrim (and most Sandbox games these days) are most fun when you give yourself a couple limits.
True! I like how your paladin does not use certain kinds of weapons. I wish I had thought of that during my paladin (sword & board Imperial) playthrough but to be honest he didn't make it very far down the path of chivalry.
He was corrupted by the Cult of Namira and became an anti-paladin. He willfully became infected with sanguinare vampiris, cultivated the infection to fruition, then sought out the Volkihar Clan only to betray them. From there, he forged a pact to serve Boethiah and undertook a pilgrimage to Solstheim to worship at the Reclamation Shrine. Fortunately for Man and Mer alike, he vanished from history at that point.
For me, Elder Scrolls is about roleplaying. I like the idea of limitations because it demonstrates the autonomy of the character. I have used a variation on the weapons limitation technique. My shield maiden character, Freyja, does not use any Imperial armor or weapons. Freyja also worships Kynareth and so always wears her amulet.
I try other techniques, too. One is ritual -- the idea of ceremonially doing something in the game that has no in-game effect. For example: before Freyja enters the Whiterun temple, she takes off her boots. She walks barefoot through the water around the central image counter clockwise three times, prays at the shrine, the walks through the water three times clockwise before leaving.
Another technique involves NPC interaction. Freyja does not tolerate insults. If an adult NPC of roughly equal status to her insults her, she hits them. If they draw a weapon, she draws hers. As you can imagine, this could end with death(s). Freyja does not dispute that her actions are illegal, however, and patiently serves her time in prison.
Sounds great. I like the idea of the temple rituals and the responding to insults, although being a werewolf and having that policy could lead to a monstrously high body count (I swear, one more guard makes a comment about hair coming out of my ears and it's game over )
For my own characters, there are a few things I always do. I always make a point of carring a basic, unenchanted steel or iron sword, no matter my level, for when you meet characters that challenge you (like the Old Orc that wants a good death); I fight them in a duel, helmet off, basic sword and maybe a shield, no magic.
I also tend to have a companion that I will put as much effort into as my own character; I try and make sure that if there's a weapon or piece of equipment a character can use more than mine, I give it to them. For example, my non-magic fighter gives Serana any staffs or magic-buffing amulets ect.
Character backgrounds! Yay!
Ok, my character was born in cyrodil, but was kidnapped by a cult of molag bal worshippers as a baby.
A daedra hunter saved him before the worshippers could perform a sacrifice. The daedra hunter raised my character, but shortly after my character reached manhood, the daedra hunter was murdered. My character decided to leave skyrim, and try to find his real parents, when he was captured at the border. Having grown in the daedra hunter's cabin, he had no knowledge of the war, and initially appreciated the stormcloaks. After coming to the defence of a dark elf woman on his first entrance of windhelm, he realised how wring he was. He spoke to the jarl of whiterun, and soon slayer a dragon. He didn't care about being dragonborn, and ignored the greybeards' summons. He would complete his father's work. He set off to capture every daedric artefact in skyrim. Eventually, he succeeded. But the power of malag bal's mace controlled him. Daedric armour grew over his skin. And he was led to commit ever bloodier acts of violence. Culminating in joining the dark brother hood, and murdering the emperor. It was at this point that the influence of meridea and azure cleansed the dragonborn's soul of bal's influence. He joined the collage of winterhold, seeking guidance. But once he became arch-mags, he realised he would never find redemption. He crafted dragon bone armour, and threw off the daedric plate. But he kept the helmet. He obtained a daedric battle axe, and it became his weapon of choice. When he heard of a group of vampire hunters, it was ireesistable. He ended up helping serana, refusing the curse of vampiric powers. After all of this, he finally travelled to high hrothgar. He met with the grey beards.
But soon joined the companions, having witnessed members of the group killing cultists. And soon he was gifted the powers of the wolf.
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Unfortunately, not playing much of anything right now, because two obnoxious brats have been over the past two weeks -.-
So I've had to play some stupid zombie mode in call of duty games a lot, and listen to the older brat rant about his ugly, lame minecraft project (when they aren't constantly fighting with each other even though I put them in different rooms just to avoid the fighting).
A child can be a joy to play with, but children are just plain obnoxious
Though I did reinstall Orcs Must Die 2. Going to try to complete its nightmare story run.
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GrimDork wrote: I always liked being able to use a dagger to sneak attack one-shot giants, now that's just comedy gold.
All drow party, huh? I've thought about that but getting my spell levels late gives me fits. I usually build some kind of AWESOME PARTY CONCEPT, but then I think up something EVEN BETTER before they get to level 10
Yes, I prefer to run all my parties in these games United by race. And well its worth it. Due to the sheer power Drow get to play with, same goes for a pure Duregar party
This game is utterly ridiculous... between the wife and I we're trying to do the same, but only because once we have people over, we'd rather have the full table unlocked for "drink drive mario kart"
Uff, massive, massive game, I'm happy I finished the trilogy but I sure as heck felt there was way too much padding sometimes
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Played it non-stop from the moment you enter the Cerberus base right till the end, ufff, this was intense. I was not expecting that ending, all alone with only a pistol
but heck, I felt most Cerberus stuff felt like padding. Kai Leng? The dude almost didn't even show up, this awesome villain shows up outta nowhere, does a few things and bam, dead.
Ah well, they did explain but I was still in "WTF?!" mode.
At least the ending was beautiful and I managed to see a Quarian without the mask
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
This game is utterly ridiculous... between the wife and I we're trying to do the same, but only because once we have people over, we'd rather have the full table unlocked for "drink drive mario kart"
Who just unlocked the Golden kart? This guy, that's who. It wasn't easy, now I'm looking forward to beating all the devs times so I get the golden tires as well.
Melissia wrote: Unfortunately, not playing much of anything right now, because two obnoxious brats have been over the past two weeks -.-
So I've had to play some stupid zombie mode in call of duty games a lot, and listen to the older brat rant about his ugly, lame minecraft project (when they aren't constantly fighting with each other even though I put them in different rooms just to avoid the fighting).
A child can be a joy to play with, but children are just plain obnoxious
Though I did reinstall Orcs Must Die 2. Going to try to complete its nightmare story run.
Wanna 2-player it? None of my usual gaming buddies quite appreciate that series like I do, so I haven't gotten to do anything with the multiplayer.
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With the final outcome? No. But you start with half the Mana and may split mana rewards for kills. However, you get a second player that is able to cover a second route and access to twice as many traps/weapons. plus, you know, hijinks.
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To be fair I think the first modern warfare game's zombie mode included one of the most ridiculous scenario's ever including castro, kennedy, Nixon and some other guy fighting off a zombie apocalypse. It was really surreal and hilarious. If only Marilyn Monroe popped out with machine gun boobs or something I would've lost it even more.
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Played some more 'Wargame: Red Dragon' with an online friend. I did alright with Denmark which is a serious test of skill but it is possible even if hard to play. Then I played with the Scandinavian deck which including Denmark, Sweden and Norway and they do pretty well together. Of all things I think denmark's planes are ok but not great. Norway has better scouts which are snipers and have exceptional stealth considering they're 2 man teams. The AT and AA infantry of the swedes is also not to be trifled with. The tanks are still fairly weak and the helos are almost non-existent (I think it's just 2 helos with 4 anti-tank missiles each) but they do well enough that you can handle most problems. The air units are also decent enough. There's one from Sweden or Norway that does 10 AP damage with cluster bombs and can take out vehicle columns pretty handily. I even managed to take out 3 t-80s with one.
With Denmark you pretty much have to rely on throwing your anti-tank vehicles in trees and relying on them for most of your anti-tank needs. They have some decent vehicles but nothing too great. The air power is a bit lacking. Everything else is pretty much crap. Even the AA infantry is weak (the 'hamlets') and they lack any long ranged anti-tank infantry. So basically unless you can stun your enemies with artillery or airplanes and move in with anti-tank infantry it's mostly just your crappy helicopters of one type and your anti-vehicle of another. Even then you're better off stunning enemy vehicles with airstikes and similar just so that the enemy vehicles remain at long range while being shot at by anti-tank missiles instead of closing in and taking out your anti-tank vehicles. I am thinking of possibilities though. Perhaps dropping short ranged anti-tank infantry by helicopter would work against some enemy's tanks but there will probably be AA nearby or something annoying. Denmark's lack of options leaves their army's players at a struggle to figure out what to even do.
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The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer
flamingkillamajig wrote: To be fair I think the first modern warfare game's zombie mode included one of the most ridiculous scenario's ever including castro, kennedy, Nixon and some other guy fighting off a zombie apocalypse. It was really surreal and hilarious. If only Marilyn Monroe popped out with machine gun boobs or something I would've lost it even more.
I purchased it back when I noticed that the new XCOM had sacrificed a lot of the original's concepts - but truth be told, I'm jaded by the remake's fancy 3D graphics and the cinematic action shots. Visually, the game is absolutely stunning. And I'd kind of miss the IP's own "fluff".
But you know what, I'll patch it and see how it goes. I'm sure I can schedule a bit of testing either in-between my current XCOM sessions (for when I ragequit some extraction mission with ridiculously OP EXALT operatives again) or when I'm done with the Long War.
I just saw xenonauts and I'm actually planning to buy it. It looks pretty good though it seems to lack the graphics of xcom. It seems more complicated too. I'll have to see.
Tried playing Smite and while I really like the game and love the new perspective, I just uninstalled again. It's just baffling how after YEARS of MOBAs, there isn't a SINGLE ONE that offers a solo queue. Sigh. Seems like some very basic approaches to balance are rocket science to a lot of people :(
Got back to playing Dwarf Fortress. A dwarf broke his leg while dealing with an insane dwarf so I sent him to the hospital. I guess they decided to amputate his leg. Went something a bit like this:
Me: Alright, sure! I think I have a crutch or two somewhere.
Game: (Whatever the Dwarf's name was)'s leg has become attached to a bronze crossbow!
Me: WHAT?!?
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Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!
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And if you're drinkin' well, you know that you're my friend and I say "I think I'll have myself a beer" 
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! 