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Yeah it released without much fanfare, don't even know much about any of the mechanics (base building, skill development, etc.) compared to the previous three games -_-

I don't know what the Northman is but I do know John Wick 2 is better than the first one so if you liked the first one you'll definitely enjoy this.

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

fwiw i'm playing a stealth build and never felt the need to remove suit or helmet to make myself sneakier...

granted splinter cell is one of my favorite games of all time and it's far more punishing than anything bethesda has ever made and i play everything with a stealth aspect as if it was sooooo

Yeah it's not like stealth is hard in a bethesda game. But I had maxed out stealth skill (it's easy when you just kill innocent people for an hour in New Atlantis as soon as you get there) and enemies would still catch me in certain missions for seemingly no reason.

I have not, I have started one up a few times and maybe got past the first level... don't know why it seems like it would be a fun series to play through.

Oh one thing I learned the hard way, if you want to do stealth, you kinda need to take your space suit and helmet off... at least in environments with breathable atmosphere.

I spent 12 hours just doing side quests and ended up really hating the game at first because a lot of those inconsequential "Activities" didn't really do anything for me and there wasn't a lot of action to them.

But I'm level 26 now and shit is actually pretty fun.

I do wish it explained more. I barely know how to begin building a ship and that's just because I was randomly clicking in the shipbuilding screen, and I can't even really build a ship because I don't have the skills for it. And my outpost is just sitting there with a full thing of lead and I guess I can't even land at it even though I built a landing pad there.

Probably the Witchcraft movies, though there are 16 of them so obv not a trilogy. Or Evil Bong.

Tons of hours, my account is over 20 years old and I have played RS3 for a while now. Well, I haven't played in several months unfortunately...

Embarrassingly still behind on a lot of shit. I took a really long hiatus and all the new content and new dead content and new new content that made new old dead content obsolete is all really overwhelming to learn, so I did a lot of my skilling the old school way for a lot of things. Haven't even done any bosses or anything.

I haven't forgotten to take things with me. I did almost forget to pay at a self-checkout register though that was embarrassing.

I played it when it came out, was 12 or 13 at the time.

OriginalPlain2 posted...

Idunno

seems like im destined for this kind of things

have you had similar experiences?

I've never really believed in "destiny" but when stuff like this happens it makes you question things.

This shit keeps happening to me and it's wearing me out.

A few years ago I started online college courses through a state university. Very first class I run into someone I hadn't worked with in over ten years. We were both in the military back then, but she got out and was working as a contractor. Had zero relation to the state university (it is my home state), was just taking courses because they offer a specific program there that's rare. We have different Majors and she was at a different point in her degree, and I was taken aback by the exceedingly limited likelihood of running into someone like that in an online class of like 30 people.

Fast forward to last night... there's a lady I went to job training with nearly 15 years ago (for the military). We worked together for a couple of years after completing the training, I had a crush on her and we were both fresh out of high school but she always seemed to bounce around between relationships and I was too timid/passive to just come out and make a move. She ended up marrying some guy, moving to Japan, getting divorced, dating some other guy and that's the last I ever really heard about her. Then I'm at this exclusive dinner party with maybe forty people total at it, and my wife recognizes this lady instantly and I'm like "no friggin' way". She is now married to someone at a local command that was attending this party.

There are even dumber examples like ordering a snack out of a vending machine only to see it's the last one of its kind - there's something different behind it in the machine... twice in one day at two different institutions when I don't even normally buy from vending machines.

It feels like these life circumstances happen just to mock me or make me question reality or something. Anyone else experience random shit like this?

I did, and I *think* it was on PS1 but now I don't remember for certain.

Pretty sure a big issue with the game was that it was shallow as shit regardless of gameplay mechanics and bugs.

Anyway I already played through it at launch and I'm not too interested in revisiting it even for the DLC.

17, after graduation, invited a girl to a movie (Nacho Libre). Don't really think I advertised it as a date and I doubt she interpreted it as that, so I guess that was my first "attempt" and we did go, but it was moreso just hanging out at the end of the day I think.

I was wondering what they were trying to impeach him on, was it seriously something he did as *vice president* several years ago and which has been reported on extensively already and is public knowledge? Like ... really?

all the pronoun controversy on the Steam forums just pissed me off.

First off, it's dumb. There's no political agenda or secret pro LGBT conspiracy in the game. You make your character, it asks you to choose your pronouns and that's it. It's like five seconds into the game. These asshats turned it into some war on straight people and even started bringing race into it (complaining there were too many minorities).

Secondly the game doesn't even use pronouns like ever, at least not in reference to your character. I think they've said it maybe once or twice if that, it's a first person game so most people are just calling you "you" anyway.

And all the "outrage" about it made the forums completely unusable.

Was it ever entertaining? I just saw some dumb internet outrage over "wokeness" in the game and then the release date came and went and I didn't see anything else about it ever again.

Only ever played the big ticket PC game, it was a fun world to be in. Curious how the actual tabletop experience is.

I just found "harvested organs" on the floor of some director guy's office at a research facility that is researching plants. what

also pronoun debate on the steam forum is escalating into fullblown racist rants about hidden agendas to have black characters outnumber white characters. meanwhile I can't get my questions answered there because the second I post a topic it's flooded out by about 50 others complaining about wokeness.

Also one thing that bugs the heck out of me is the structure of the skill trees. Like why is Persuasion a Tier 1 skill you can get right off the bat, but other types of speech are not? Maybe that's how the pen and paper version is but it just makes for weird video game design when every other game I've played lets you choose one or more styles from the getgo so you can be a smooth talker or total threatening A Hole or any combination thereof to resolve situations as you want without forcing you to play for hours upon hours upon hours to get to those different speech styles.

Punished_Blinx posted...

It's one of those RPG's where you need to earn a lot of QOL stuff through leveling. For a modern game it has a steep curve to overcome before you find your groove.

I don't think this makes it a bad game personally. AAA games like this aren't usually designed like this anymore for reasons that are kinda obvious.

I wouldn't say it's bad because there's a lot of stuff you need to unlock through leveling. I think it has a rough start because it doesn't play like other Bethesda games and it's not quite compelling enough to make it as an open world survival title, either.

I am enjoying it more after getting ... over 10 hours in, but I was trying to play it like Fallout 4 or Skyrim and it just doesn't have the same flow at all. Too many mundane boring side quests to get caught up in which are good for variety but not great when they're the first things you encounter if you try to stray from the main mission.

Also the game doesn't explain like ANY of its systems. Still learning who the factions are, I started building an outpost but I don't even know how everything all works (like apparently power just automatically feeds to other buildings without the need to build cabling or anything). I am excited to learn how to build outposts but right now feel like I don't have enough resources to really delve into it.

Well that's cool, just had a mission go completely missing on me. Did the tasks, was told to wait a certain amount of time then return to the NPC to discuss it, got a pop-up later that the results were ready to discuss but the mission is just gone entirely from my mission list... great.

Also the Steam forums are a shit show, everyone is just complaining and arguing about pronouns.

I don't know if it was ever fully explored and explained, but there are hints of this to The Filth in The Secret World.

More like Blarfield

bluezero posted...

You're not far enough in the main story yet :)

Maybe. I am eager to finish this Old ... Whatever quest and shed this Sarah person from the Constellation Club so I can go back to just playing how I want. Maybe I will return to New Atlantis and just explore building by building for quests... that FOMO is real.

Does this game have a stronghold or town you can develop and upgrade? I am a sucker for features like this.

Played it some more today. It is obnoxious trying to scavenge for things since the scenes are all so detailed and there is an overwhelming amount of just trash to avoid.

But I finally did get into some combat encounters and had fun knocking out some pirates and mercs and completing a couple more research projects. I just wish stealth were a little more viable, these guys were spotting me seemingly out of nowhere as soon as they turned a corner -_-.

tripleh213 posted...

Just not your game man

That's fine, but that does not really invalidate my experience with the game and my subsequent opinion based on that experience.

And I am trying to play it just like how I would have played any other Bethesda game. Except with other Bethesda games the desire to explore just feels more natural - yeah maybe you're delivering cookies to grandma's house, but on the way you risk getting attacked by some bandits and you might discover a little haunted outpost and fight some ghosts.

In Starfield I have not had that experience yet... at all. People say there are pirate outposts on the planets and all that but I haven't really had any desire to explore out there and the game has given me zero reason to explore out there.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/5/AAcMR7AAE0xB.jpg

More than happy to show you my quest log, too.

Admittedly my fast travel technique was not the most efficient for a while so I could have saved maybe ten minutes total going from city to starship and back but the rest of it... Unless there's a way to fast travel from planet to planet without going through the launch animation, fast travel screen and then docking/landing animation. Even then, it's just a boring experience.

omg I played the game for four more hours and this is the most boring shit.

The main story so far is boring generic sci-fi crap. The characters are boring. The lore is boring. We're miners on Mars and the company we work for treats us bad! Certainly haven't seen that one before, like, EVER, am I right?

So I decide to branch out, do some side missions. 10% of my time is spent in loading screens. A little girl wants me to hang up her drawings of a space frog on the walls. Cool. Three loading screens later I got 12 credits and have unlocked space frog drawings for my outposts, which I imagine I'm about 100 hours away from ever unlocking at this rate. This other guy wants me to mine iron for him so I mine iron then he wants me to fudge a job application so I go through a million loading screens to get to a space station to interact with a computer for three seconds so I can go back through a million loading screens so he can say "good job".

The only shooting I've seen outside of the initial tutorial area(s) is the shooting I've done of innocent people to max my stealth skill, that's it.

I only ever played 8, I was like five years old and I'll always remember that opening execution scene. Also remember something about space in some guy's attic or something. Didn't get too far -_-

That movie was such a disappointment. Started off really promising then nothing happens. People praise it for its depth and commentary on parenthood and adulthood but I thought those themes to be way too on-the-nose and if they are the central theme of the movie then it's even shallower than I would have hoped.

Calling it a "great" game is kind of an exaggeration imo. It's just like the issue I had with Skyrim and Fallout 4 - it's a *unique* game that fills a niche virtually no other game can fill, but it also doesn't do anything spectacularly.

The most blatant and annoying thing to me is the non-existent writing. Some examples of missions follow. But like when you make your character you have the ability to choose up to 3 starting traits. Some of these align you with a certain religious faction, some with certain political factions, some are more self-explanatory (start with a huge mansion but have to pay off a mortgage to maintain access, start with your parents alive and you paying them 2% of your credits each week but you get to visit them). But I have ZERO IDEA who the eff all these factions are. The game does nothing to explain what their ideology or history is, just that if I choose the Hungry Hungry Hippos then I'll get some sort of reward from them later on but then I can't get a reward from the Crouching Tigers or the Hidden Dragons. Or, maybe I *can* get a reward, I just have to work for it? There's ZERO explanation.

The world building is very crap. So far everything feels like generic space opera nonsense. For instance, a very early mission has you investigating an electrical "brownout" in the slums of a city. You end up working with a city employee who guides you to electrical boxes where you just flip a switch. The electricity overload is traced back to an organization called "the Trade Authority". Then you investigate further and find out that basically someone was using a lot of electricity to hack a bank's transactions to get money. You can either sell this information to the Trade Authority or give it to the person that you've been working for. And that's it. A couple other missions in this part of the city have you doing very basic stuff like listening to a conversation and then telling the mission giver you listened to the conversation, or talking to a doctor about a very generic health concern and getting medical notes from a colleague that will help the doctor working in the slums.

It's all a lot of just... *busy work*, except it doesn't really do anything to build the world up like at all. After doing all these missions I don't really feel like I understand anything about this universe any more than I did going into the game. And the mission log doesn't tell you *shit*, so heaven forbid you miss some dialogue or take on several missions and then want context for each one later on.

Also the lockpicking is dumb beyond belief. Every hack or lockpick *attempt*, successful or not, consumes one "digipick". And the minigame is just time consuming. It stopped being fun after the first few times I did it.

ALSO the AI sucks trash - I found a VERY great "sniping" spot for my silenced pistol, killed 7 completely innocent people in rapid succession (trying to upgrade my stealth perk and that's the fastest way and there's zero repercussion since no one saw me). Went to loot the bodies afterwards, realized there were several guards just hanging out, didn't respond a single time to people dying in front of them or to me looting dead bodies.

Space flight... I haven't done too much of it, but it really seems like mostly just getting in your ship, leaving the planet, loading up the map of where you want to go, and then fast traveling there. Maybe you can fly between planets in a single system but I haven't attempted this yet.

Maybe outpost building will be fun and worth it, I definitely am not that far yet.

It feels like a Bethesda game except with even more pointless items to pick up. I have played a few hours now, so far I really only got into one serious combat situation in the "tutorial" area (if you can call it that), rest of the time has been just doing busy work for random ass hats with like no payoff.

On the flip side you level up individual skills by completing "challenges" for them. For the Stealth skill you have to get more and more stealth hits with silenced weapons, so I'm just going around tagging random civilians on the first planet so I can level it up (each skill has like four ranks).

damn haven't seen one of these in a few years now, just caught the tail end of it

s0nicfan posted...

Which pope? The Eastern Orthodox one who's a literal Putin stooge or the Roman Catholic one that lives in the Vatican?

the eastern orthodox head is the patriarch, not the pope.

Russia has been spreading disinformation for years around many, many countries now.

Pope is a real piece of shit, more at 11.

Last ones I really played were Pearl/Diamond and I can't even comprehend how time has flown by so much since then.

I probably should. I assumed it might have been due to my switch to Sensodyne for toothpaste (it's what the dentist recommended a few months ago, just only recently did it since I had other stuff to finish up).

I also noticed that I can actually articulate in a different way and then it feels 100% normal.

It did start during a particularly stressful (albeit for absolutely no reason other than my own fault) event in my life that is now resolved.

and I've noticed when I listen to other people talk it also kind of sounds like they aren't articulating 100% clearly.

Shit is weird.

I saw a Twilight Zone 1985 episode recently where this guy wakes up one day and everyone is using the wrong words for things (like "dinosaur" instead of "lunch") and after a few days it's like a completely different language and he has to relearn everything. That's how I feel. I don't *think* my mouth always felt this way but it does and I don't *think* everyone always spoke like that but maybe they did.

It looks beautiful but I suck at Armored Core and I would never touch it.

yeah went there a few times. I say I'd never go back, but I probably would go back at least once or twice more just to see what it's all about.

guy is such an asshole and now he's corrupting real American heroes who actually did something for our country instead of harass minorities to the point that civil rights groups are giving florida the same kind of "do not travel" advisories the state department issues for countries like iran.

makes my blood boil for real

I feel ridiculously old right now. That's nearly 2/3 of my life.

I have a set of at least 50 of the books. My mom used to take me to a small local book shop and would buy the latest release. I can open like half of them and a bookmark from that store falls out. The store closed down though apparently :(