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Anvildude wrote:
Even after watching a ton of Purge, I'm still confused by some of the terms.

I know what a Tank is. I know what a Support is. They're pretty self-descriptive. I even understand what a Carry is, and the differences between the lanes. But what does AP stand for? (Or AD in DOTA2, I think).

AP = Ability Power. This refers to the damage that abilities do when used. Especially used by mages and such.

AD = Attack Damage. This refers to the damage that auto-attacks do when used. This is where ADC, "attack damage carry", came from-- someone whom is built to do a ton of sustained auto-attack damage.

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I'll stick with xcom..........
speaking if which, I'm still broke in that game. Hopefully when I get more satellites up I can do well

Finally I'm being able to play Resident Evil 6 for a decent amount of time (don't ask me why, while playing half of Leon's campaign's I'd get very nauseous but after chapter 2 it seems I got used to it).

It's being quite a fun game IF you remember the "main" RE games are not survival horrors anymore. Lots of cool action and explosions and daring escapes worthy of a 90's action movie. Or Michael Bay.

The "Get on a bike, escape from a tank, enemy bikes throwing molotov cocktails and an attack helicopter while blowing gak up" was one hell of a cool scene.

Sniper Elite V2, it was free on LIVE. It isn't terrible so far. I was expecting more stealth to the game, so I got killed a lot trying to sneak where sneak was impossible

Yay, more New Vegas bugs.

Trying the Dead Money DLC, and apparently there's a bug where the Ghost People (normally Perception 0-1) suddenly become impossibly perceptive, and can spot you from a mile off. There doesn't seem to be a fix, and it's buggered up my entire stealth-melee (yeah, another new stealth character) run. Killing one whilst detected is fine, two is a challenge, and three is impossible. I'm considering turning on God Mode for the rest of the DLC.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Yay, more New Vegas bugs.

Trying the Dead Money DLC, and apparently there's a bug where the Ghost People (normally Perception 0-1) suddenly become impossibly perceptive, and can spot you from a mile off. There doesn't seem to be a fix, and it's buggered up my entire stealth-melee (yeah, another new stealth character) run. Killing one whilst detected is fine, two is a challenge, and three is impossible. I'm considering turning on God Mode for the rest of the DLC.

The solution to Ghost People is headshots. Which you can't do on melee, so that doesn't help you at all. But for any future playthroughs, headshots with anything drop them pretty reliably (especially if you take the perks that boost crit chance).

I've got an annoying bug in Attila that causes the screen to go black at some random point immediately following a mouse click on the strategic map (and the click doesn't have to be anything important; it can occur while trying to open a panel, or it can occur because I clicked on an empty spot on the map). I've been running the game in full screen mode, and I'm forced to log out to fix the issue. I might try again in Windowed mode, and see whether that solves the problem, or at least makes it easier to shut the game down to resolve the problem.

I've also been playing Tropico 4. All hail El Presidente!

Or else!

Skyrim, as a skellington.

I do not like most of the race mods, but I do like the one that lets you play as a skeleton.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Finally I'm being able to play Resident Evil 6 for a decent amount of time (don't ask me why, while playing half of Leon's campaign's I'd get very nauseous but after chapter 2 it seems I got used to it).

It's being quite a fun game IF you remember the "main" RE games are not survival horrors anymore. Lots of cool action and explosions and daring escapes worthy of a 90's action movie. Or Michael Bay.

The "Get on a bike, escape from a tank, enemy bikes throwing molotov cocktails and an attack helicopter while blowing gak up" was one hell of a cool scene.

You know, if they had just changed the evil corporation, some of the names, and called it ANYTHING other than Resident Evil, it would be a decent game.

 jreilly89 wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Finally I'm being able to play Resident Evil 6 for a decent amount of time (don't ask me why, while playing half of Leon's campaign's I'd get very nauseous but after chapter 2 it seems I got used to it).

It's being quite a fun game IF you remember the "main" RE games are not survival horrors anymore. Lots of cool action and explosions and daring escapes worthy of a 90's action movie. Or Michael Bay.

The "Get on a bike, escape from a tank, enemy bikes throwing molotov cocktails and an attack helicopter while blowing gak up" was one hell of a cool scene.

You know, if they had just changed the evil corporation, some of the names, and called it ANYTHING other than Resident Evil, it would be a decent game.

Should have done that with so many games lately

Latest hitman
Splinter cell conviction onwards
Thief 4
Resident evil 6 (and arguably 5) 4 was pretty great

 carlos13th wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Finally I'm being able to play Resident Evil 6 for a decent amount of time (don't ask me why, while playing half of Leon's campaign's I'd get very nauseous but after chapter 2 it seems I got used to it).

It's being quite a fun game IF you remember the "main" RE games are not survival horrors anymore. Lots of cool action and explosions and daring escapes worthy of a 90's action movie. Or Michael Bay.

The "Get on a bike, escape from a tank, enemy bikes throwing molotov cocktails and an attack helicopter while blowing gak up" was one hell of a cool scene.

You know, if they had just changed the evil corporation, some of the names, and called it ANYTHING other than Resident Evil, it would be a decent game.

Should have done that with so many games lately

Latest hitman
Splinter cell conviction onwards
Thief 4
Resident evil 6 (and arguably 5) 4 was pretty great

I only played the first 4 splinter cell games but so far of what i played i'd say 'chaos theory' was the best. I have no idea what the games beyond 4 changed.

I've also only played the latest hitman game which is probably a bad place to start. Total biscuit (the cynical brit) said that blood money was the best hitman game so far even with absolution.

I played part of Splinter Cell Conviction. Didn't finish it, but it was a somewhat okay attempt to make the series more morally ambiguous. Fair enough.

What bugged me, though, was when I played through the demo of the next game. The games up until then had emphasized stealth, with bonuses if you could get through levels without killing anyone, or even getting noticed. Instead, the demo now emphasized Sam's ability to "mark" a bunch of target's and then shoot all of them at once. I saw that, and realized that the Splinter Cell I'd enjoyed was gone.

Blood money was easily the best hitman game. Open levels where you could make deaths look like accidents and had several way of doing things. It was part stealth game part puzzle game.

Chaos Theory was probably the best Splinter cell game. Conviction onwards are closer to action stealth games than the pure stealth games of the older titles. Stealth games generally force you to take guys out one at a time because otherwise you will get outnumbered and shot to death but mark and execute from conviction onwards unlocked essentially three instant kills as long as you take out one guy with hand to hand. It allowed for some really cool room clearing kills and the like but didnt feel like the same kind of stealth game were were used to from the splinter cell series.

Yeah, I always thought it was kind of cool that you had to quietly take dudes out in splintercell. Even on missions with the silenced assault rifle (or carbine, or w/e it was) you only got one or two magazines and so trying to Rambo stuff would see you out of ammo if you didn't get shot down running around like a n00b.

Eventually, stashing bodies gets kind of tedious, but I do it on sneaky Skyrim characters by default sometimes, kind immerses you in the whole sneaking around part.


I may have to install hitman Blood Money then... if you guys all like it so much. I couldn't get into the first one, the graphics gap turned me off, but for superior gameplay I may try Blood Money, especially since I own it from a square enix pack.

Re-downloaded AirMech, seeing if it's any good with the updates it's had.

Eumerin wrote:
I played part of Splinter Cell Conviction. Didn't finish it, but it was a somewhat okay attempt to make the series more morally ambiguous. Fair enough.

What bugged me, though, was when I played through the demo of the next game. The games up until then had emphasized stealth, with bonuses if you could get through levels without killing anyone, or even getting noticed. Instead, the demo now emphasized Sam's ability to "mark" a bunch of target's and then shoot all of them at once. I saw that, and realized that the Splinter Cell I'd enjoyed was gone.

Whoops! The last Splinter Cell I played was Double Agent. The Conviction demo was the one that made me realize that the game franchise had gone into something else.

Double Agent was an interesting twist with all the broad daylight levels. Didn't play Conviction.

Blacklist was a LOT of a fun, probably my favourite in the series.

Just played impossible ironman in xcom: enemy within. A whole nice of restarting the game because of a bad round of shooting. This game can be really unforgiving. Doesn't help your guys can die so easy even with the nano fibre vests early on. It's so true that beginning to mid-game is the toughest part of the game. End game is mostly a cake walk. Once you have the momentum at that point it's hard to lose it even with plenty of wiped out A-teams.

Out of curiosity, has anyone played RE Revelations 2? It looks interesting and I kind of want to give it a try.

Playing through the Destiny demo now.
Trying out the three classes.
So far Titan has been the easietst.
Hunter has suited my playstyle the best.
Starting a Warlock now.

Apparently Sid Meier's starships is out on the 12. It looks interesting.

Bah, airmech is such a sellout game now. Half the pilots are famous internet celebs.


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 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Apparently Sid Meier's starships is out on the 12. It looks interesting.

Yep . There was a thread about it, I think.

Eventually managed to finish the Dead Money DLC, after turning on God Mode, and redoing the final part of the last quest several times because it bugged.

At least OWB was fairly consistent in how it played (super-perceptive enemies everywhere, etc.), and I only encountered one bug in it that was simple enough to fix. Dead Money was a fairly sloppy mess; a rather unsatisfying introduction to what had the potential to be an interesting character, complete with an extremely unfulfilling ending; and was buggy as all hell.

I'm going to move on to Honest Hearts next, then Lonesome Road, and finally clean up the main game's side quests and main quest.

Do the DLCs have some sort of story-line between them (i.e. should you play certain ones first?).

Sorta yes. It's not an overt storyline, but there's hints about what's going on that you won't quite follow if you haven't played them in order. - I think Dead Money is important to do first?

Yeah, there are only really hints, like Compel said. Dead Money has links to OWB, and Lonesome Road at the end depending on what ending you get, but it's nothing close to game-breaking. Oddly enough, the Bethesda level recommendations don't follow the DLC play-order (Dead Money>Honest Hearts>Old World Blues>Lonesome Road), because Honest Hearts is completable at fairly low levels, OWB is recommended for level 15+, Dead Money 20+, and Lonesome Road 25+. You end up generally being able to play them in the order HH>OWB>DM>LR, which can make some of the character mentions and references a little screwy.

It's made more difficult by the fact that Dead Money is very much stats-based. If you're a pacifist character, or not very heavy on combat stats, you WILL struggle, since you bring nothing with you into the Sierra Madre from the Mojave, not even stimpacks. You have to use the gear that you find, and if you don't have the stat requirements to use them effectively, then you'll have a bad time.

To make matters worse, the main enemies in Dead Money are bullet sponges, and take no extra damage from headshots. Crippling limbs will instagib them, but reducing their health to 0 does nothing except make them unconscious. Using a melee weapon to bash a limb in when they're down is best, but otherwise you're stuck targeting a specific limb in VATS--they jump around and are fairly quick; hip-shooting = wasted ammo in most fights against them--or stealth-meleeing them with the bear-trap claw weapon they drop and hoping the Bloody Mess perk (which is practically mandatory in DM) takes care of a limb. In packs, you'll have an exceptionally hard time.

Honest Hearts has a weight limit of gear you can take with you, and Old World Blues allows you to bring everything, as does Lonesome Road, making them significantly easier. You also can't leave any of the DLC areas until you complete them, with the exception of Lonesome Road, and none of them allows you to bring companions along.

Having Dead Money be the 'first' DLC in order of following the plot was a huge mistake.

Avatar, did you play through any of the DLC's in fallout 3? I've gone through the Alien one, (Headshots for DAYZ!) and tried then quit the Riverboat one (loaded up a older save to get out of it. It was just to hard for my level) and just started operation Anchorage. Which do to lack of health stuff I'm finding difficult to say the least. The good news is my companion can do most of the work for me, and failing that headshots do me good

I once played Skylanders. Now I don't play anything, but I do like listening to video game music.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Avatar, did you play through any of the DLC's in fallout 3? I've gone through the Alien one, (Headshots for DAYZ!) and tried then quit the Riverboat one (loaded up a older save to get out of it. It was just to hard for my level) and just started operation Anchorage. Which do to lack of health stuff I'm finding difficult to say the least. The good news is my companion can do most of the work for me, and failing that headshots do me good

I didn't, no. I don't think I ever made it far past Megaton in F3; I wasn't very capable at RPGs in any sense when I played it. I wouldn't mind having another go at it, but I don't want to spend £15 on a game as old as it is, or have to jump through the hoops required to get it working on my machine.

Operation Anchorage is good fun.

The one with the hillbilly mutants is pretty neat.

I didn't play the one that extends the main campaign but I think its got that liberty prime robot in it.

Thought there was one more I'd played but can't think of it...