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  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus

    Obsidian,  games with great writing, great dialogue but fucking buggy as shit :/



    Pretty much, Though Alpha Protocol wasn't as buggy as I thought it would be.


    Anyway, they're usually pretty good about patching problems.

  • DYREDYRE

    Speaking of writing and games, I played the trial of Bastion yesterday after feeling like an indiefag after trying to play Fez (though since I didn't think it was the best and most artistic video game ever I guess I'm not indie enough).  Holy shit that was the worst thing ever.  It's like... the developers heard people talking about how stories in games are communicated by the gameplay and not solely by cutscenes and the like... and then decided to make a game that completely disregards that in favor of having someone narrate everything you do in the game, as if somehow storytelling isn't legitimate unless you present it in a way that resembles prose.  The fact that the actual gameplay was just a mediocre Gauntlet-like didn't really help things either.

  • MacDuffyMacDuffy
    edited 2012-04-14 14:42:15
    We have reviewed your resume' and we find you delicious.

    Alex: I use two-handers, and I find that shouts make an effective defense. It's less about defending/evading an opponent's attacks and more about keeping them from attacking period when using the two-handed weapons.


    But your reasons for not liking it are valid, and I definitely see your point. I think it's mostly a matter of how we enjoy playing.


    Crake: but


    if the world is the box


    and i smash it


    i'd be destroying the world

  • DYREDYRE

    Nah, you'll just be revolutionizing the world.


     


    Or something. 

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    edited 2012-04-14 14:53:36
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I play an archer, the only problem I have is that arrows don't always fly like I want them to. But then, arrows flying like I want them to is the very idea of archery.

  • LaiLai
    Birthday is getting a boring start right now, hopefully that will change.



    Being 21 doesn't feel any different at all. Except now I can legally drink.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2012-04-14 14:49:57

    Happy birthday!


     


    But yeah, birthday being just another day happens at one point or another.

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person

    Nope. Lai, it's time for you to accept that from now on your own birthday will solely be an excuse for you to eat some cake. 

  • IronweaverIronweaver
    if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    Happy birthday!


    I always found it stupid how the drinking age in the US is as high as 21. I mean, at 18 you are legally able to fight in a goddamn war but not drink a single beer. It's dumb.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Happy birthday, Lai!

  • LaiLai
    @Crake: I can live with that.



    And thanks guys.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Happy birthday, Lai. If all goes well, you'll have your first proper hangover tomorrow morning. 

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Joinin' in with the wishes.

  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales
    Joinin' in with the wishes.
  • LaiLai
    No thanks, Alex. I'm trying to avoid the hangovers. I don't really feel compelled to drink alcohol. [/Boring]
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    lemme put it this way


    you can either drink yourself into a hangover


    or i can write a ten paragraph essay on why you should drink yourself into a hangover

  • LaiLai
    You can write that essay. I just won't read it. :p
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    @Juan:

    am i not enough :<

    > 1v1 EDH

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.

    Though Alpha Protocol wasn't as buggy as I thought it would be.



    The same Alpha Protocol where saving and loading in one of the first missions makes all the enemies in that mission disappear? That Alpha Protocol?

  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus

    The same Alpha Protocol where saving and loading in one of the first missions makes all the enemies in that mission disappear? That Alpha Protocol?



    By Obsidian standards, no, that's not that bad.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    > 1v1 EDH



    i do it with haven


    it's funner than you'd think

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    i do it with haven

    Well that explains some things.

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!

    So I was on /v/ the other day and saw this posted. It's a forum thread where the OP asks what game system should he get next. The cool part is that the thread was made in 1989 and the game systems up to debate are the NES and the Sega Genesis Megadrive

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    I feel it really isolating I prefer Fallout 3 to New Vegas, New Vegas might have a more complex plotline, but I much prefer the denizens of the Capital Wasteland.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Well that explains some things.



    ...


    :|

  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales

    I feel it really isolating I prefer Fallout 3 to New Vegas, New Vegas might have a more complex plotline, but I much prefer the denizens of the Capital Wasteland.


     



    Wut, you drunk man?


     


    The difference that I have found is like comparing Fallout and Fallout 2

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2012-04-14 15:23:45
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    So I was on /v/ the other day and saw this posted. It's a forum thread where the OP asks what game system should he get next. The cool part is that the thread was made in 1989 and the game systems up to debate are the NES and the Sega Genesis Megadrive



    This is a very interesting read. Thanks for that. 

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    Whale, can you expand on the thought? And you can always assume I am sober, I despise alcohol and shit.

  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales

    Whale, can you expand on the thought


     



    Well, Fallout had a basic karma system and the main quest was to find a water chip for the vault. The quests were self contained into an area and there wasn't any breadcrumb quests to new areas except from the main quest. Also what happened in one place tended to stay there


     


    Fallout 2 had both a Karma system and Rep system, and the Rep System took precedent over what your karma rating was. Quests in Fallout 2 tended to a mixture of both self contained and breadcrumbed. The main quest of stopping the Enclave didn't appear straight away so you had to play the game to figure that out.


     


    Fallout 3 is essentially fallout in 3D and has the same main quest which is annoying


     


    New Vegas has the same design as Fallout 2

  • vandrovandro
    edited 2012-04-14 15:41:26
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    Haven't played either of the first two. But thanks for the explanation.

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