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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/13 22:29:03
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Well there already appears to be some confusion... It was claimed that all quests were fetch quests and then claimed that you had to either gather a crap load of X or kill a slew of Y... Obviously kill quests are fetch quests. And so are the ones where you have to kill something for its drops. Though I'd call that a drop quest.
I haven't played the game but I'm assuming if you've ever been asked to kill something, certainly the game is not solely fetch quests.
Not to be jumping on the hate train but it just seems really unlikely.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/13 23:18:12
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I personally tend to expand Fetch Quests to include any basic, "Go to X to fetch Y and bring it back to me" style quests.
Generally there's no further story to the quest, no complications or diversions, or plot hooks of any time.
EG: Most of Skyrim and Fallout 3-4's content runs entirely off of these. - "Oh no, raiders stole my locket and are hiding a case, go get it back and I'll pay you money."
Or, "Go to Hardware town and retrieve the Flux Sensor."
The Fetch Quest would also tend to overlap with the traditional definition of "Macguffin."
"In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. The specific nature of a MacGuffin is typically unimportant to the overall plot."
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 00:43:08
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Liche Priest Hierophant
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So an example of a not-a-fetch-quest in, say, Skyrim would be "There's Bandits at Halted Stream Camp- kill their leader"- right? Because you're not actually getting anything from the bandits, and could even just sneak in, slit the leader's throat in the night and sneak out without taking anything, and still succeed in the quest. But then, you have to go back to the Jarl to get your payment and complete the quest....
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 00:48:53
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Anvildude wrote:So an example of a not-a-fetch-quest in, say, Skyrim would be "There's Bandits at Halted Stream Camp- kill their leader"- right? Because you're not actually getting anything from the bandits, and could even just sneak in, slit the leader's throat in the night and sneak out without taking anything, and still succeed in the quest. But then, you have to go back to the Jarl to get your payment and complete the quest....
But in general, I'd put that in the same exact category as the "fetch quest" because it literally has no bearing on the story and is there purely to give me XP and bore me
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 00:51:12
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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It depends, it's all up to personal definitions. But yeah, I guess yup, that'd be fair to say it's not a fetch quest.
Still doesn't make it an interesting quest of course.
On another note, I've been watching some people play a game tonight, " That Dragon, Cancer."
When I say words cannot express it, they honestly can't.
If there's ever a debate about how games are important, or if they have meaning, or if they have no artism, it just blows it out of the water.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 15:37:57
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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I dunno, if you aren't fetching anything I don't see how it could be called a fetch quest.
If you wanted to call it a filler quest, or a plotless quest, or something... I guess I could follow the reasoning... but to me fetch quest really stops after they ask you to do anything but go and get something and return it to them.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 18:39:05
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Terrifying Doombull
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Its one different name for the same dull things anyway. Anyhow i gave the game away today and deleted it from my Ps4 so it wont cause me any more irritation anyhow
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 18:41:38
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
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Trondheim wrote:Its one different name for the same dull things anyway. Anyhow i gave the game away today and deleted it from my Ps4 so it wont cause me any more irritation anyhow
Are you sure you're not hating the game because you want to hate it, rather than for what it is?
Most quests, no matter how minor, have some interesting stories or things happening in them.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/14 19:55:17
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Terrifying Doombull
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No, seeing how the two other Witcher games are some of my all time favoritt games. Its a mixture of the utter mindless quests and lack of a immersive story for me at least.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/15 16:29:50
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Pustulating Plague Priest
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Testing out characters in MK9 to see which I should use as my main. Are there any glass cannon characters in MK9?
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Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/15 19:07:35
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Powerful Spawning Champion
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Playing Crusader Kings 2.
There needs to be a medieval contraception event.
Too many babies.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/15 22:22:20
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Looking to take a break from WoW tonight... the level 80 starting area... the underwater one... has got me kind of soured from wanting to play any of it tonight. Surely, if Cataclysm's class changes hadn't encouraged me to take a break... going through these last 4 levels surely would have... there is something clumsy about the underwater area... even right from the get go the quest that takes you there seems kind of awkward. I abandoned the quest and restarted it multiple times thinking it had bugged on me... I finally checked wowhead.com and read up on the quest... turns out its a sort of timed thing. You just have to sit through listening to voiced dialogue between some background npcs... then wait in silence for a minute or two... then this boat that you're supposed to ride eventually shows up. This is one of the examples... I ended up having to go to wowhead.com some more times as I got through certain parts of the underwater area... in fact, one of the system requirements for this expansion should have been 'Bookmark wowhead.com and run game in windowed mode because you're going to be referring a lot to this website'.
Anyway... tonight it will be all about starting a Monk for Diablo III Season 5.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/15 22:29:44
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Vash was the weakest area in Cataclysm in my opinion. All my characters level in Mount Hyjal, then move on to Deepholm until 85. Doesn't really take all that long with Heirlooms. Without them, Hyjal>Deepholm>Twilight Highlands might be the better bet.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/15 22:34:49
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Avatar 720 wrote:Vash was the weakest area in Cataclysm in my opinion. All my characters level in Mount Hyjal, then move on to Deepholm until 85. Doesn't really take all that long with Heirlooms. Without them, Hyjal>Deepholm>Twilight Highlands might be the better bet.
That's probably what I'll do next character I level up from scratch. For the meantime, maybe I'll stick my heirlooms back on again to speed things up as they are now. I stopped using them at about 78 because I got bored with the look of the stuff... also I kind of wanted to slow things down a bit to enjoy the Cataclysm stuff since I never went through it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/16 00:38:45
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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I thought seeing Vash'jir or w/e was interesting... *once*. Water levels suck, in every game. Snow levels are lame, but water levels are the pits.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/16 00:45:33
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Vash's experience for me was ruined further when the day after I killed the rare seahorse mob, a patch was implemented that made a mount of itself a guaranteed drop from it. This came close to being one of the most irritating moments of the game, surpassed only by hunting down the Time-Lost Proto Drake in the Storm Peaks of Northrend and being ninja'd to to the tag by the same player twice in a row. You can't even pick the mount up if you already own it. There is literally no other point to killing it twice than to just be a dick to everyone else. I haven't bothered with it since.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
My deviantART Profile - Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Madness
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/16 04:23:17
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Executing Exarch
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Vash gets even more annoying because there's a bug in the final (possibly Alliance version only) quest that causes it to bug out during the long trip at the end of the quest. Last I'd heard, Blizzard never bothered to fix it, because by the time the bug popped up (it wasn't there originally), the content was "old".
I liked the zone when I ran it. It has a much better storyline than Hyjal, imo, and it has some neat stuff going on in the zone. But the three-dimensional stuff just gets stupidly annoying at times. And then there are the occasional moments when you find yourself sitting there wondering, "Okay, where am I supposed to go now?"
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/16 14:46:24
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Huh, I actually liked Vash back in cataclysm days. It's better then fething pandas.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/16 21:22:39
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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I got my goblin glider thing and exited pandaria as quickly as possible. And honestly the glider is only situationally useful vs the flexweave underlay. I basically only ever played that game because the engineering was so fun/game breaking, and they kept fixing the cute little things you could do with it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 03:17:22
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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So as soon as I hit 85 I jumped ship from Vash and started the Pandaren stuff... I'm loving it so far... but I'm a nasty Furry in my heart
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 08:25:45
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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I'm currently doing my part to reduce the Orc population of Mordor in Shadows of Mordor.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 09:05:37
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Terrifying Doombull
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H.B.M.C. wrote:I'm currently doing my part to reduce the Orc population of Mordor in Shadows of Mordor.
 good man! Replayed that game and realized that i enjoyed it much more this time around
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 09:30:26
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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Consortium is free this weekend, but it's.. Not that great.
Omikron the Nomad Soul is also free, so I'll give it a shot later today.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 10:12:17
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Does being overhyped for new D&D campaign count?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 10:13:12
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
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I got Consortium as well, but haven't even installed it yet.
Playing some Borderlands 2, as well as the Pre-Sequel.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 13:03:10
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Norn Queen
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Got a whole bunch of mods for Skyrim and rerolled a sneaky archer type dark elf. Darn fun, had forgotten how many quests the game had and how expansive it was.
Fun times.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 13:04:42
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Pustulating Plague Priest
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After finishing the Enter the Dominatrix DLC, I think Saint's Row IV, while it doesn't have the greatest story, probably has my favorite writing in pretty much any game ever. Now I'm off to save Christmas.
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Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 13:50:54
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.
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SkavenLord wrote:After finishing the Enter the Dominatrix DLC, I think Saint's Row IV, while it doesn't have the greatest story, probably has my favorite writing in pretty much any game ever. Now I'm off to save Christmas. 
Everybody get down on the floor everybody do the dinosaur
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 20:18:23
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Terminator with Assault Cannon
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My will is weak. Getting toward the end of my KOTOR2 sith lord game and bought the Amazon bundle for TOR. Really pissed I had to rename my character. But oh well.
Fumbled around on my lvl15 sith inquisitor for about an hour this morning. Have no idea what I am doing lol. Died like 8 times before I realized I had a companion. And all my gear is broke now. So next session will be spent on re-learning the games UI amd how things work.
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SickSix's Silver Skull WIP thread
My Youtube Channel
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking. = Epic First Post.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/01/17 21:26:30
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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I've been playing a lot of Hearthstone lately. My Murloc Paladin deck has proven to be surprisingly effective.
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