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Played it for a good three hours now. Pretty good.
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.
"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
I picked up the PC nuke pack edition of Fallout 4 from EB earlier today, haven't had a chance to play it yet since I've had to spend the past 2 hours downloading the rest of the game.
Just a warning to anyone who pre-ordered the physical copy Fallout 4 on PC and hasn't received it yet, the disk only contains 5 gigs of the actual game and you will need to download a further 19 gigs through steam. I know Bethesda announced in advance that they took out a portion of the game to combat piracy, but i just assumed it would only be a few important gigs at the most and not almost the entire goddamn game.
I wasn't that badly affected, but if you have slower internet speed don't expect to be able to boot up and play the game as soon as you get home.
I've been downloading for about 7 hours, and I'm 49% of the way through the download.
Maybe it'll be ready for the weekend......
If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it. item 87, skippys list
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Just about to hit the three hour mark. I will say, pay attention to the tutorials. Nothing is crazy different from Skyrim or Fallout 3, but it's just different enough to need to read it.
Mine's coming in the post unfortunately, so I may have it for like seven tonight. Its a pity then that they've cut the files from the disc, because I only bought I on disc at all because I don't trust my internet connection. I would have been better pre-installing it for a day before hand come to think of it. :(
Realised too late that I made a mistake of going for the physical copy. Didn't know when I ordered it that it was not a complete game and I'd need to download stuff just to be able to play it. (Nor how much of it I would need to download!)
So my copy should arrive at work today, I can then start to install it as soon as I get home. Unfortunately, with my shonky connection, I may just be downloading until, maybe Thursday if I'm lucky. Trouble is, I'm heading home for the weekend Thursday night and won't be back to my digs where my computer is until late on Sunday.
Hopefully by then the main rush on their servers will be over and I should be able to complete the installation and actually play it.
:(
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.
Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology.
- Wake up at 5am to play a decent enough bit before work
- Despair as there was yet another thing I had to download to be able to play. Several Gigs worth of something, even though the game was pre-loaded. Read more of the "Only War" rulebook as I did my best to wait for the download to finish ...
- 35 mns later, ready to start. At this point I was guffawing.
- 2 hours later, I'm throwing a mini tantrum in my head, thinking how I don't want to go to work, I want to stay home and play all damn week because this IS THE GAK. I haven't done much (in 2 hours!) but what I did, convinced me of the absurd quality of this Fallout. This Fallout 4 is to Fallout 3 what Skyrim was to Oblivion: Massive improvement of EVERYTHING.
Also, Dogmeat is the cutest thing ever.
So, here I am, at work, waiting for the day to end so I can return to the Commonwealth.
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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
- 2 hours later, I'm throwing a mini tantrum in my head, thinking how I don't want to go to work, I want to stay home and play all damn week because this IS THE GAK. I haven't done much (in 2 hours!) but what I did, convinced me of the absurd quality of this Fallout. This Fallout 4 is to Fallout 3 what Skyrim was to Oblivion: Massive improvement of EVERYTHING.
That doesnt actually fill me with hope. Skyrim was style over the substance of Oblivion, just like Oblivion was style over the substance of Morrowind. Each iteration has got more hand-holdy and less RPG. Sure it looks a lot better but its got no crunch to it. So as I say, my hope drained a little there.
- 2 hours later, I'm throwing a mini tantrum in my head, thinking how I don't want to go to work, I want to stay home and play all damn week because this IS THE GAK. I haven't done much (in 2 hours!) but what I did, convinced me of the absurd quality of this Fallout. This Fallout 4 is to Fallout 3 what Skyrim was to Oblivion: Massive improvement of EVERYTHING.
That doesnt actually fill me with hope. Skyrim was style over the substance of Oblivion, just like Oblivion was style over the substance of Morrowind. Each iteration has got more hand-holdy and less RPG. Sure it looks a lot better but its got no crunch to it. So as I say, my hope drained a little there.
I guess this is a case of YMMV because I didn't enjoy Oblivion that much. It felt boring after a short while (except for the Thieve's and Black Hand quest lines. Those were awesome) but Skyrim felt so much better. It helps how every nook and cranny in Skyrim is a completely new experience, unlike Oblivion. I swear, every damn cave was the same as another cave on the other side of Tamriel. Morrowind I can't say, I never played it.
If you want crunch, wait until you see the Perk tree. Each perk has ranks, so, do you want a shiny new perk for that precious point you just got or are you improving a perk you already have? And damn, are there a lot of perks!
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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
I love how after talking about Fallout 4 and my morning with fellow co-workers they always suggest "You know you could have taken the day-off, right?" - I love working in a place filled with fellow gamers
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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
I've heard that some keys are hard-coded, e.g. "e" is bound to looting and cannot be properly changed. Is that really the case? And what other keys are hard-bound to a specific task?
Left bumper looks like it's hard coded to VATS. See, that's funny because it's on an Xbox and doesn't help one bit.
Eight hours in now, give or take, and it's a good game. Time just flies by. The map really is small though, but very crowded. You can't go five minutes without finding something, whether it's an actual location with a radar blip or some dude in a shack full of cats. The Wasteland isn't desolate, so take that how you will. Plenty to do, but pretty close to everything else.
How is it compered to skyrim's map, size wise? Because I quite liked skyrim's map, big enough so you can do trekking, but detailed enough so you could always find something to do.
Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
It doesn't even compare. I'd say about a quarter of the size? The time it takes from Whiterun to Solitude. But there are so many buildings that are accessible, not all of them but a lot of them, that you only notice when you're actually trying to get to a set point without distractions.
Not getting a Fallout / Skyrim-esque game on PC as a gamer should make you feel bad.
Well I'm getting it on console as that's what my wife prefers. Also means while she's on the console, I can play something on the PC.
Pity that some folks have such a narrow minded view that they cannot accept that other people have preferences that work better for them, and have to resort to derogatory comments about other people's choice of platform.
I thought that gak ended with Sega and Nintendo in the 90's
Not getting a Fallout / Skyrim-esque game on PC as a gamer should make you feel bad. Why, because of mods?
99% of mods are useless trash to begin with. The 1% that are actually good will likely be making their way to the consoles.
Since y'know, consoles are getting mods vetted by Bethesda as an option.
I'm hopeful (the more people who can enjoy modding the better, IMO), but without the script extender, most of the mods, especially the high end ones, won't work, It will probably end up being something like the steam workshop, which isn't bad in it'self, but won't be as good as the nexus. OTOH, if they can figure out how to install the script extender on the xbone (doubtful, but not impossible), then at least there will be more mods available, but probably just those with an easily to slot in BSA file, so limited, just not as limited.
Edit: Also, it's far more than 1% that are good. Check out the skyrim nexus for an example of what can be done. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/?
Press the "files" tab up top to browse mods.
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Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
I hear a lot about the "poor performance" on console, but I've been watching Screw Attack's 72-hour stream on PS4 and I haven't seen any problems there.
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99% of mods are useless trash to begin with. The 1% that are actually good will likely be making their way to the consoles.
Incorrect. Fully incorrect. To begin with, PC will have vastly superior graphics compared to consoles due to mods and better hardware. Secondly, a huge part of the essential FNV/FO3 mods cannot be used on consoles due to requiring a script extender that cannot be realized on consoles. Thirdly, you don't seem to have any experience when it comes to FO3/FNV mods, else you wouldn't come up with a stupid number of 99% of the mods being trash. Oh, guess which mods /will/ make it to console though
Now back to your place, console peasant!
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