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creativerealms posted...

Bethesda's plots are never that good. At least not for the last couple decades. Especially not their fallout games.

They are very fun games, with great moments and some good lore and side quests but the main stories tend to never be that good.

Obsidian and Bethesda are two separate things.

Smackems posted...

I feel like he never liked him. Idk tho

I know regular right wingers don't like him

From what I remember Lindsey Graham was a huge anti-Trumper until Trump got elected then he started deepthroating the guy's boots. Guy has no principles or integrity. Neither does Trump though. Match made in purgatory

wackyteen posted...

Hesitant about this game and not because Ubisoft.

I'm hesitant about the game but specifically because it's Ubisoft. The premise and gameplay look fun. But I'm afraid it's going to be another soulless Ubi game.

watched wrestling back in the late 90s / early 2000s since kids in school thought it was cool and I had fun with it. Didn't watch it religiously though, just occasionally.

Bethesda haven't made a good (or even decent) game since Oblivion. Their games have been massive but shallow action adventure titles since Skyrim. i really expect TES6 to be more of the same.

Actually I thought Elder Scrolls Online was pretty decent but that was Zenimax. And the combat gets so fucking repetitive.

you know what I do really miss are java and Yahoo! Games, pool and chess and pyramid solitaire were the shit

this was my main board before I hopped ship to a spin-off community

ViewtifulJoe posted...

What'd the 2023 list look like?

Somehow even worse... Though there were a lot of life circumstances precluding more.

Two Point Campus: Space Academy - 3 January
Max Payne 2 - 4 January
Two Point Campus - Ghost DLC - 25 March
Starship Troopers: Terran Command - 4 July
Two Point Campus: Medical School
Vampire Survivors - 21 October (100% achievements on this day).
World Keepers: Last Resort - 22 October
Ready or Not: - 28 December
(the) Gnorp Apologue - 30 December

This log goes back to 2021. 2020 was my "fun" year IIRC, that's when I played through all the Assassin's Creed games that had been released (minus the side scrolling ones) and Control. Not sure where that log is though, maybe on my desktop...

you get old and have a family and priorities change

also the boards got dumb for a while, about the time i started to come back there were a handful of far right trolls who just kept getting banned and making new accounts and getting banned again, and the topics were pretty awful and inflammatory.

i asked it to create an image of the love of my life billie lourd as a gamefaqs moderator and it said there was blocked content in my request

rip my life can't wait for the fbi to come breaking down my door later

ViewtifulJoe posted...

What'd you do that for?

I have way too many games and I have a bad habit of not completing the ones I start (usually) and I just wanted to finish this one and probably put it to rest. Starting a few years ago I started keeping a log of games I've completed each year, wish I had done that sooner.

Back_Stabbath posted...

I'm bummed that the alternate NG+ starts are just random chance. If they were sequential and expanded on the plot each time that would have been sick.

It also sounds like only the setting of the Lodge and the people within actually changes, everything else is the same... I wish they had opted to make the universe a little smaller and instead put more time into giving us something more like Sliders.

chaos_knight posted...

Was tempted to get PC game pass to try it for $1 but it sounds so mediocre

It does... well, shooting really well. Compared to any other Bethesda game and even some other first person shooter x RPGs, this is a really solid experience. It is almost as clean as Cyberpunk imo, though melee combat leaves a lot to be desired and you don't get cyberhacking/magic like in Cyberpunk so combat remains pretty one dimensional.

The rest of it is just ... lame. Like there's this MASSIVE fucking universe they built but if you stick to the main story content and faction quests you will only ever really visit maybe... seven or so different star systems and within those even just one or two planets or moons.

And there's a ton of shit they just barely even touch on. Maybe with some exploration there's more to be discovered, but for instance there's this House Va'Ruun, a group of humans who left the rest of humanity for distant star systems, and they are portrayed as these sort of cold-blooded "giant snake worshipers". You encounter them like once or twice in the main game but there's barely any lore to it and it's mostly a short two minute dialogue. You get more exposure when you do one of the faction questlines but even then it's limited to one of the central plot planets... Like I wanted to know more about them, maybe even join them, but I don't even know where to begin and I'm not about to visit a gazillion different systems just to figure it out.

Also so many damned copy-pasted assets. There is No Man's Sky-style exploration where you're scanning resources, plants and animal life on planets. There's not a big amount of variation between the shit though so have fun scanning the same "herding four-legged thing" five hundred times if you want to fully survey out a star system. Most of the "unknown" locations on each planet are just copy-pasted research outposts and mining outposts, too, without much unique loot to uncover (most unique thing you tend to find is a skill magazine, even those start to repeat after a while).

And so much fast travel. Everywhere. I am spoiled by Freelancer 2 and the X games but there's no reason at all to fly your ship between locations, it's all empty and takes forever. So you end up just fast traveling everywhere.

I don't know what I should explore next. I am not too excited about the Dragon Age expansion packs, but that would be logical... I also have DA2 and DA: I.

Deathloop, Disco Elysium, Weird West, Wasteland 2 or Wasteland 3 (never played the series), Evil Genius 2 or Ghostwire: Tokyo are on the list as well. Though I imagine Disco Elysium is one of those games you need to play through several times to fully enjoy and I rarely have the time to even complete a game let alone play through it multiple times.

Maybe if it was like 2005 and I cared about Flash games any more.

Though I suppose other Flash multimedia is probably gone, like all those Stick Figure Death Theater videos.

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Metal Gear Solid 3 - don't know how I ever finished this as a teenager, I tried it again like ten years later and was fucking terrible at it. But also one of my favorite games.

Resident Evil 4 - Played the remastered version within the past decade but I have a really hard time grasping survival horror in general so I didn't even make it past the opening town scene fml.

myztikrice posted...

How bad are your eyes that you didn't notice HDR was on?

I didn't realize "HDR" was a thing for *Operating Systems*. I'm used to the concept in video games, sure, but didn't think it would be a thing for your standard desktop environment. And mileage varies, for some people the image quality is fine or even better with HDR on but for others, myself included, it can make the image quality much worse.

DarthAragorn posted...

How old is your PC that HDR has a noticeable effect on performance?

It's a really new laptop, actually. Also my issue wasn't just with the performance hit, but also with the fact that the image quality was really off when HDR was enabled. If you look around you'll see many other people had a similar experience.

LonelyStoner posted...

Episodic games have been so overdone, though. Especially through companies like TellTale

Life is Strange is better than most anything TellTale has put out though. It's a different game where you have chances to explore the world and talk to people and learn more about them rather than just playing through the equivalent of a graphic novel in video game form

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Tomb Raider II
Pokemon Snap
Duke Nukem 3D
Donkey Kong Country

So many fond memories of these, too. Like printing out my Pokmon Snap pictures into stickers at Blockbuster and the N64 Easter egg in DKC

DuneMan posted...

The main draw of NG+ is changing some of the late game story quests.

You might also want to download a mod to upgrade all the powers to X right away, just to mess with them for a bit before putting the game down. Otherwise you have to grind out catching 1,000 sparklies in zero-g in all the temples... -_-

Also, if you haven't tried it yet, mod the Mantis' ship into a C-Class vessel with 14 particle beams on it and attack The Key with it.

I am more curious about the first and third points... like can you completely destroy the Key?

I doubt I will have enough time to fully enjoy and explore with NG+, gonna do some searching and see if anyone journals their experiences with it.

SicSlayer posted...

how much do you hate yourself

A lot, actually.

Crimsoness posted...

Good job

Thank you <3

I'm just realizing how underwhelming the choices and narration in the game are lol. I played 83 hours and there were only like half a dozen "universe altering" choices reflected and those were mostly the main faction stories. And even then the "consequences" were really underwhelming.

Just one bump, posted it kind of late

is special agent dana scully AB

rexcrk posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5777b419.jpg

Louder for the people in the back

biased but like if you join the military, especially out of high school, it's really easy to support a family, though depending on your job and your spouse's tolerance it may be hard to maintain that family. They give you housing, free medical and dental, and a relatively decent salary with practical job experience and training. My daughter will nearly have a free full ride through university, and that includes a housing allowance.

of course it's going to be more difficult if you decide to go the strictly academic route with not a lot of financial support upfront, and even more difficult if you go further for post-graduate education.

Yeah higher education is *way* too expensive and the cost of living in general in too many places is becoming unreal but like this guy's post isn't a great example of that.

Well, all the faction missions and main story. Actually kind of like the philosophy and metacommentary about life in the story, just a shame the whole game feels very bland and empty for the most part.

Also explored a little bit in New Game +, (major game spoilers): it is interesting how things have changed, though honestly I don't... remember the characters in the beginning like Helene Chambers or that kid and his situation with his parents dying lol. I actually only remember the kid himself because I used him and his family in the first playthrough to cheese upgrading my sneaking skill.

I did not get 100% achievements, so I might try to work on that in this playthrough. Or I might just load an old save where I have a gazillion credits and it'll just be easier to build everything I need for 100%.

My games completed this year:

Alan Wake 2 - 1 January
Saints Row (2022) - 19 February
Dragon Age: Origins - 24 February
Starfield - 7 April

Not a great pace lol, especially considering I had started Starfield at launch but I got burned out several times.

A few times at various hotel bars.

Usually talking to the bartender if it is slow or just drinking.

But hey, at least you can finally ungroup windows in the Taskbar (that literally wasn't a thing until like last year lol).

Yawn_Master2 posted...

I dont get why people think hes smart, if not only for his ability to manipulate people into thinking hes smart

Because his followers are dumb, and he repeats what their favorite pundits say, so his followers think he is smart.

The reboot or the originals?

With reboot, lmao no 3 sucks compared to 1 and 2.

With originals idk I liked the 2nd one a lot and never played the 3rd one

i'm a dessert

ButteryMales posted...

It sure took balls to pass something so stupid off as a good thing. You just said

Israel is deliberately killing aid workers and shutting down anti-genocide protests yet when it comes to protests of Gaza aid the right to protest is suddenly sacred.

I didn't say anything about protesting Gaza aid?
My first point was that US support of Israel did not start with Biden or this Congress and Senate. It's been a thing for decades. So to claim that magically Biden is responsible for this is ridiculous. My other point is that Biden did something that realistically most other presidents would not have done, which is start delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. A third point would be that I doubt most other presidents would have allowed the UN to pass a resolution demanding a ceasefire - yes we used the veto power three times, but allowed a resolution on the fourth.

with just one drop of blood from your fingertip amazon can predict all your future purchases and charge you in monthly installments before you even step foot in a store!

amazon dash cart is just gonna be midgets hiding under mirrors pulling out a scanner gun when you're going to open the fridge for that gallon of milk

DarthAragorn posted...

Is Biden not for the last 6 months actively financially supporting the deaths of thousands of Palestinians

The US has provided more financial support to Israel than any other country since it was established.

I doubt many other presidents would have had the balls to send military aircraft to drop humanitarian aid and cooperate with building ports for delivering even more aid to Gaza.

But the moral of the story here, it's a reflection of greater US foreign policy, not a singular individual.

DarthAragorn posted...

Cool

You're still voting for genocide if you vote for either of them

This is a naive understanding of the American political system, though I do think it is a real shame this is where we are at. It really is just two candidates, though, and one actively wants to demolish basic democratic principles for personal gain and fame and the other is a more traditional politician.

DarthAragorn posted...

And voting for Biden is a vote for genocide

Good job America

I would bet a year's paycheck that this whole situation would be significantly worse if Trump were in charge.

I personally have not had much of an issue with Windows updates, except for the time when it activated HDR for Windows (why the fuck is that a thing) which dropped my performance in a ton of games until I figured out what it was.

was expecting carl cucker and greg gutfeld

I would have said yes but if it has to be a cordial/jovial photograph like that then fuck no. Maybe if it were me flipping him off with my finger to his dumb forehead then yeah I'd do it.

I hate the interface more than 10, and it has a lot of features that impact performance by default.

11 also periodically has update issues and then Microsoft tells everyone a week later how to do some voodoo workaround so your mouse will right-click again until they hotfix it (exaggeration about some of that...).

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

Be honest: how far did you get in the article before you figured it out?

Shouldn't have been any later than saying the series was "proof of concept".

To be COMPLETELY HONEST I just saw the headline and the line below that about it being on Netflix. The picture was too hard to read so I tried to search for it online and couldn't find it, then I double-checked the date and realized...

Posted by Misha Collins. Although I did do some digging and it seems like as recently as December there have been talks about doing another season

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c354a3fc.jpg

Oh yeah I loved doing that and reading the manuals in the car on the way home. So many awesome Toys R US memories. Also my dad spoiled the shit out of me and we got a new game practically every month

Ar0ge posted...

Guys.... How are you all forgetting about the actual best star wars character of all time.

Pablo-Jill

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c9fda2c1.jpg

when did star wars have cenobytes in it

I saw two Canada Gooses mount a Swan one time and you know she probably told her friends about it.

I've seen a couple.

Even saw a road prototype thing with the stickers on it just before launch.

ellis123 posted...

That doesn't mean that they are not the best part. The rest could be worse.

lol yeah but the fact that they *are* the best part says a lot about the rest of the game.