Shadowrun
Off-topic => General Gaming => Topic started by: Kontact on <10-20-10/0105:03>
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Fallout New Vegas is so nice. Blessed be Obsidian for taking Bethesda's tech and using it to actually create a world that feels like you're interacting with it and is filled with actual characters.
Also, thank you ED-E for being the best companion yet. Your carrying capacity is great and you don't just keep saying the same 3 things over and over as I play the game for what might be 160 hours.
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Yeah, yeah, just rub it in :( My copy ships tomorrow... damn you, amazon.co.uk :'(
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I picked it up yesterday as well it's good fun.
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Yeah, yeah, just rub it in :( My copy ships tomorrow... damn you, amazon.co.uk :'(
Mine didn't ship out until yesterday, so I went to the store and bought another copy. ;D
I'll just e-bay it when the collector's edition arrives in the mail and maybe lose 5 bucks on the deal.
TOTALLY WORTH IT. I REGRET NOTHING.
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I want it very badly.
I have, however, made a conscious decision not to purchase it, for two reasons. (1) It leaves my wife a very, very, "easy button" sort of target for Christmas shopping, which I know she appreciates. (2) If I don't get it until Christmas, it means it won't eat my whole life when I'm supposed to be reading and writing for school, or reading and writing for Shadowrun.
I'm being mature, thoughtful, and responsible, and I hate it.
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Amazingly, it's a lot easier to wait for the games when I have a broken HD on my Xbox. Gotta get a new one before I play anything, so it's easier to be patient when I know a game I want will cost me $160 instead of $60.
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I was up WAY too late working on it, and I have a few observations:
1) Geckos can go to hell.
2) Despite all of the doom-and-gloom I kept reading about glitches, so far I've only encountered a few minor ones, like an NCR soldier who was able to walk on thin air ten feet off the ground. Knock on wood, of course.
3) It doesn't do much damage, mind you, but I sure am enjoying the familiar feel of the 9mm pistol.
4) Geckos can go to hell.
5) The gunsights are a nice touch, but don't seem to be all that well-tuned. Maybe it's just the condition of the weapons, but I sure am finding my shots traveling a little wide, even shooting at bottles on a fence.
Looking forward to another long night of it after I get off work!
P.S.- Geckos can go to hell!!!
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I'm enjoying the non-bethesda stylings of enemies that aren't leveled with you. Like, you try to cut through Primm pass to Novac, and there's a Blind Deathclaw that will tear your head off... unless you want to blow all the Powder Charges you skimmed off the Powder Gangers just to kill that ridiculous hellbeast. It's not directly railroading you, just causing you to work hard to move quickly.
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I'm having graphics card issues right now so I'm holding off on getting it. How is it compared to Fallout 3?
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Considering we haven't heard from since that post, I'd say it's faring pretty well. :P
HEY! Kontact! B.B.'s moping about the bar in the Road to Redmond!
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I'm having graphics card issues right now so I'm holding off on getting it. How is it compared to Fallout 3?
More of the same- and I mean that being honest, not as a put-down. Whatever you thought of FO3, you'll probably feel the same way about this. Since I loved it, I'm enjoying the hell out of it so far.
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I'm having graphics card issues right now so I'm holding off on getting it. How is it compared to Fallout 3?
More of the same- and I mean that being honest, not as a put-down. Whatever you thought of FO3, you'll probably feel the same way about this. Since I loved it, I'm enjoying the hell out of it so far.
I couldn't disagree more.
New Vegas is an actual Fallout game, 3 was very good past apocalyptic FSPRPG but it wasn't really a fallout game.
Feel in this one is so much closer to the original fallouts that i mosly want to forget 3 ever existed ;)
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So is it like 3 or like the originals with pretty graphics?
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Its like 3.
OMG I am soo hooked... they brought back so much stuff! Geckos, man, GECKOS! GOT TO HELL GECKOS!!! And super stim packs and healing powder and... and... Yeah, and despite its many drawbacks I spend hours and hours on it. I mean, I dont remember how many rooms with "hard" locks I broke in, just to find like 20 caps and nothing else in them. And there are tons of notes and tapes that would make AWESOME story hooks, if they only gave you a quest or even a hint on where a quest might be :/
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I am making a killing off of making a bunch of Weapon Repair Kits, grabbing a bunch of junky rifles & such and fixing them up, and then selling them for like ten times what I paid for them.
-k
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So is it like 3 or like the originals with pretty graphics?
Honestly? It's the best of both worlds, it uses 3's GUI and mechanics (with some significant and appreciated tweaks) to give you a game with a story, difficulty and feel of 1 & 2.
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I'm holding off until I get a theatrical production out of the way. Can't afford to lose days to a game. I am, however, looking forward to my inevitable hunt for the Alien Blaster and Dogmeat. I still remember in Fallout one thinking "oh crap, a random encounter" then "A crashed UFO? You're kidding?" I might have never thought of it again except for the appearance of both in Arcanum, a sort of Steampunk Shadowrun. I've enjoyed the hunt for the two signature pieces ever since. Granted, the original ran on the same power cells as a laser pistol and I could sneak up to point blank range in full power armor and cap a baddie in the eye. Its not as much of a game breaker anymore but its still nice to have.
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I'm still waiting to get Metro 2033 first. A good, russian FPP game, post-apocalyptic, but in a dungeon-like stalker-ish way. Seems nice, i hope to get the book it was based on.
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love this game. have about 200 hours in(still haven't finished main quest) had to quit for a week or so when the wife threatened divorce, but got a couple of hours in tonite. There is just so many side quests. and Its a loot whores heaven...( pack rat perk, hight barter, and long haul perk makes kanis a happy man)*grin*
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The Dead Money DLC is apparently available for purchase now.
Spoiler, highlight to read:
Small hint: Save all your gear somewhere safe before you start the DLC. You'll know when it starts, you get a message where to go.
Pay attention to the game sounds. They're important.
Oh, and be prepared to yell at the screen in rage more than a few times. And not just because of the difficulty.
-k
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Not in Steam it isn't :(
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Honestly? You aren't missing much. I got it on it's first day, worked on it sporadically for a couple of days, and haven't gone back since- it wasn't just 'eh', it was actually boring to me. Some neat twists and ideas, but I never could find myself enjoying it at all.
Then there's the great treasure itself... ugh.
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First i was struggling to play at all, as it crashed a dozen times after the intro. Then when i managed to play the game, it was all glitchy, stuttering and crashing all the time, usually taking my system with it, and even killing the Task Manager (on xp). And when i managed to find a few fixes and tricks, it started to be annoying, even though playable. Almost every time i tried to loot a corpse, it glitched so i couldn't, and had to reload the game. And every time I've reloaded, VATS and zoom became unavailable.
So long, New Vegas.
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It's weird, some folks seem to have zero problems with FNV, others have crashes and glitches constantly.
I for one have the PC version and have had not a single problem. Running Windows 7 and installed via Steam.
(No, I don't have the DLC, that's X-box 360 exclusive for now, apparently)
But I hear reports of other PC users with nothing but problems.
-k
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That's why i deleted steam right afterwards. I hate that crap.
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Anybody get the new download for it?
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Anybody get the new download for it?
PC and PS3 get the DLC on Tuesday, I'll grab it sometime soon after that.
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Have fun with it. It's kind of a pain in the ass
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Have fun with it. It's kind of a pain in the ass
So was Broken Steel. But I still enjoyed it.
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Just my two Nuyen, but it's a damned fine game that has a lot of depth to it, especially with the companions.
My family watches me play, and a few cried about Raul's Quest. It gets even more interesting when you realize he's Danny Trejo (http://gosp.deviantart.com/art/AZTECH-WETWORK-WIP-189849953)! Man can voice act!
Also, a return of the "True" Brotherhood of Steel (Buncha jerks!), and an explanation as to why there's issues between the East and West Coast branches of them.
And, finally, a legitimate and honest portrayal of Homosexual and Bisexual characters is pretty much ANY media. They're shown to be just like everyone else, which, frankly, is the truth.
As for Dead Money. The first conversation in the game was the creepiest, weirdest, scariest thing I've seen in a long, long time. It goes downhill from there.
Can't wait for the next DLC, and happy that it's going out on all systems at the same time.
Now, if only I knew how to gamble in a way that I didn't lose my shirt every time at the casinos!
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heh
I met only a few glitches in that game...but the last one is killing me
Ive played for free independent vegas, and after I made a final converstion done and strted to relax an watch the final outro, game quits. Ive started this agaiin and again many times, I still never get past future of jacobson, nad then it fails again and again. Ive got a steam version, did anyone of you heard of this problem???
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I discovered I hate the console. I decided on a replay to munch out. L30 character before I left Doc. Tigh's house (this was prior to the DLC). Not surprisingly I didn't get the achievements that I hadn't gotten at that time. This is due to the game flagging your playthrough as a cheat (which I will be the first to admit it was).
So I'm doing a serious playthrough, I popped up the Pip-Boy to make a change, then hit the tilde key instead of the Tab key to go back to the game...and was staring at the console again. Pissed. Me. Off. So it was back to square zero after getting to L12-13. Not pleased, not pleased at all. So annoyed that I went into the game's .INI files and turned off access to the console.
Listen, programmers, I understand that people go to the console to cheat. But seriously? You're going to say simply bringing it up is cheating?
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As a Hoarder and Explorer, I reached L30 way before even getting to New Vegas, so have zero customisation available on my character.....
As a PC Gamer, I can't get the DLC Dead Money, and still get a few glitches/corruptions on scene changes (requiring a reload to previous save)
And with all this I still say:
I love this game!
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Dead Money is now available for PC and PS3.
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Dead Money is now available for PC and PS3.
.... :o
</leaves work>
</flags down cab>
</goes home>
</ignores spouse birthday and toddler swimming lessons>
</initiated DLC installation>
</places Come Back in a WEEK sign on study door>
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I break more families...
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I discovered I hate the console. I decided on a replay to munch out. L30 character before I left Doc. Tigh's house (this was prior to the DLC). Not surprisingly I didn't get the achievements that I hadn't gotten at that time. This is due to the game flagging your playthrough as a cheat (which I will be the first to admit it was).
So I'm doing a serious playthrough, I popped up the Pip-Boy to make a change, then hit the tilde key instead of the Tab key to go back to the game...and was staring at the console again. Pissed. Me. Off. So it was back to square zero after getting to L12-13. Not pleased, not pleased at all. So annoyed that I went into the game's .INI files and turned off access to the console.
Listen, programmers, I understand that people go to the console to cheat. But seriously? You're going to say simply bringing it up is cheating?
You know if you quit out of the game and restart it "forgets" that you opened up the console?
Just make sure you do a restart before achievement hunting.
-k
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You know if you quit out of the game and restart it "forgets" that you opened up the console?
I did as of twenty minutes before reading your post. However, due to the asynchronous nature of this conversation, I will tell my friend that he came in second. ^_^
Thanks!
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Well, a few more DLCs in, and the last one due next Tuesday... How are folks still liking the game?
Me, I loved Honest Hearts, and the total "About Face" Joshua Graham appeared to make, made for a much more interesting character. Old World Blues is very... Surreal. I liked it, but I can see how not everyone does, it doesn't take itself seriously and is very obvious about it. (A conversation with my own brain?).
The gear DLCs also intrigue me. Too bad they didn't come out earlier, I think...
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I like the idea of having the various pre-order promos released with/after the last DLC.
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This is worthy of revival of this thread:
http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/45138//?
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It just so happens I'm running through another playthrough of F:NV right now...
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Wow, ironic...just re-installed...in queue following Borderlands 2. ;)
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Alanis irony isn't irony. ^_^