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I hated Fallout 4 because it was like Skyrim - an Action Adventure game without any role playing elements. Also stealth was broken for me (even maxed out enemies instantly locked on to my location), and the world was boring with too many copy-paste elements. And a lot of the mechanics were just bad. Crafting was mostly pointless, settlements were 98% pointless except for farming free bottle caps.

3 wasn't bad, but it didn't have a very tight story, either. It was very much an homage to classic sci-fi radio and movie shows.

New Vegas *did* have a coherent and focused story to get invested in.

if anyone cares my motivation for this topic is a combination of feeling over the past year as if I am somehow experiencing a sister universe, as well as hearing this Muse song on the radio with the lines "My life, you electrify my life / let's conspire to ignite" and very, very firmly believing I had heard that in a different song. And a hint of the New Twilight Zone episode where the guy wakes up to a world where people speak English but certain words have different meanings (like "dinosaur" instead of "lunch").

I loved it, but I was just a high school student so my standards were maybe lower? I had never played Silent Hill, just read a lot about it, but I thought for a video game movie it did a rather killer job.

Irony posted...

That squeaky fence door not so squeaky huh

I forgot to mention that I like the Sliders reference

New Vegas was a blast, but I couldn't bring myself to actually end it so my last save was just in New Vegas about to start the final mission.

Side note that for some reason I can't 100% the Fallout games, though I had no problem doing it with Oblivion and Skyrim. I did get 100% in the base FO4 but lost it with the release of new DLC.

There's something endearing about classic post-apocalyptic movies that modern movies tend to completely miss the mark on. Maybe it's the fact that a lot of older movies feel like they are focused on broad social commentary.

Anyway, topic reminded me of Soylent Green and now I want to rewatch that (don't have the stomach for another Planet of the Apes rewatch)

Kradek posted...

Also, if my favorite x doesn't exist, that means I have the opportunity to create it myself in this new universe with this money and make even more money.

Everyone's tastes are different. The references you make in that X won't make sense, it won't appeal to their sense of humor or emotions the way that the thing did in our universe.

slightly.

Your favorite X (breakfast, lunch and dinner food, color, movie, book, video game) does not exist.

Everything else exists, but it's just off. Music you've heard for decades sounds simultaneously fresh but also confusing, the lyrics are a little different and the key isn't what you're used to, and maybe a guitar solo is a little shorter and more radical than it used to be. Things aren't colored what they used to be, either - there are far fewer white and black cars on the road and more pink and green ones, for instance. Tree leaves are just a tinge bluer, and they stay orange when they fall off the trees. Cats have a gruffer meow and dogs have a more meowy bark.

That kind of stuff.

Would you take it

BDSMKane posted...

If Trump gets pardoned of any convictions, Ill actually find it hilarious. So much of his rhetoric perpetuates a narrative that hes a political pariah simply because they are colluding against him. So current (and hopefully future) convictions can prove through the judiciary that hes guilty, and pardons can prove that there was no political motivation.

Thats only if the convictions dont stop him though. If he was serving a year without parole or something and got pardoned, Id be pissed.

The absolutely antagonizing thing about it all is that no matter what happens, Trump and his supporters just come out with even stronger constitutions.

Like, say he was pardoned. Now they just say "Look, we told you it was all a political game the whole time and they had no evidence to do it and they're afraid of us which is why they're backing down".

I don't know why but I thought about one of those big creepy ass zombie x mothman x whatever it was things from the first stage of Nightmare Creatures.

BuzzKilljoy posted...

I looked it up and most websites are just reporting those same facts. No context about why so many people were in the street.

Yeah, and a few just say the police didn't respond to requests for additional information.

This site says it was a block party - https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/akron/breaking-news-akron-shooting/95-455addb9-0ba5-4e24-8361-2a5eef773bd0

I just find it really disturbing that there'd be this massive event like this and the only information is "it happened over midnight in Akron!".

Is this even real? They just said a couple of numbers and gave zero context. Where did it happen, what time of day, whow were the victims wtf

Pretty sure over half the budget for that game was contracting Liam Neeson even though he only had like five lines in the whole thing.

I found a player-made patch that adds a difficulty slider. Now you still end up with a ton of enemy ships being spawned in the beginning of the level but the amount they produce afterwards can be adjusted at least.

"AI Revolution slowing down" is exactly what the AI wants you to think.

I naively and stupidly gave 98% of my SNES games to my uncle's girlfriend, and no one stopped me and I thought that was really annoying that I don't have them any more. I had some great ones, and some of the dumb ones (like that unicycle racing game).

Proton has a great VPN *and* you can use it for free with restrictions (you don't get access to the fastest servers and you're limited to servers in the US and IIRC Japan and the Netherlands). It is a legitimate company though.

Apparently at least part of my problem is a scaling difficulty mechanic - the larger your fleet, the larger the enemy feet, but sometimes it's a little *too* large and aggressive. Some people say if you sell all your ships at the end of a mission you'll be in a better spot...

Also found a mod that lets you just adjust the difficulty so I'm going to try that. I do want to beat the game, but can't really do it with infinite fighters and ships shrekking my stuff.

SHRlKE posted...

I love the idea of Honeworld but I never really got on with the 3D control.

It really seems broken, I don't think I've encountered a mission yet that *really* required using it though it is helpful for setting up multi-pronged surprise attacks which is... great for an initial surprise but then it becomes pointless

I had some struggles with Homeworld 1 Remastered but this takes the cake. On the third mission the enemy was just pumping out fighters non-stop from its one carrier to the point where I could barely keep up.

The AI is also pretty trash and likes to chase enemies really far away from everything else.

Was that the one about the friends who gather for dinner and some funky shit happens where they're like trapped in a twilight zone-esque hell with their doppelgaengers presumably from parallel universes?

Always looks like a dope video game until I realize it has... what's her face in it

HOON posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b9f76af1.jpg

Literally the type of dumb shit "clever" people in my 9th grade Social Studies class were thinking up 22 years ago.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Our school did have a clothing policy but it wasnt too enforced. A lot of girls wore exposed G-strings and they would get in trouble but that was the extent

There was one girl in my middle school who got in trouble every day for bate midriff because she wore those like tube tops that were too short. Every single day.

I remember in PE in high school she told the teacher she couldn't run because she got her nipples pierced and they were too sore and he started gasping for a split second then said "Well that's a new one, never heard that before but yeah you can sit it out". She was also crushing and snorting something before class because the guy was always 20 minutes late anyway.

Yeah there was a guy who wore a Tanuki hat every day and some people wore pajamas. Well pajama pants specifically

I can't get it to appear consistently. But the one time I did get it to work, it gave me this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dbdb8bd7.jpg

Sad to see one of the OGs go like this. I have no idea what it was like in its final days, probably sucked just like Netscape after getting subsumed by AOL. But it was still a pioneer in the instant messaging era and I will miss it for that.

thronedfire2 posted...

my steam account is worth over $4000, so it's very concerning to me that I would not be allowed to transfer it upon my death. especially since it's all digitial, so steam would not be losing anything other than hypothetical potential future sales.

I just checked and mine is $4581 with everything at its lowest possible value, $19,397 if everything were purchased today.

idk I just want to be able to pass my *possessions* down to my child, seems weird having something like this or for example a 22+ year old RS account and not being able to let her share that.

that radioactive song by that dragon band

I have like 1300+ games in my account and 150+ steam level they damn better let me transfer this to my kid.

I don't think I got 100% in any AC game and I've played through them all

Was able to beat it, following the tip that in the Remastered version apparently nothing matters except high HP on your ships so most of the corvettes and fighters are completely useless.

Pretty sure the following mission was glitched out too, basically didn't get attacked at all by anything.

Now I'm in this stupid dust cloud attacking a research station for some reason.

WingsOfGood posted...

better video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgjnAxD6-k

I just see "MAGA = Socialist" in the thumbnail

what

ib4 some prison joke

Just saw this in a movie and I can't even remember the last time, must have been like 25 years ago now.

funny people are mentioning 1984 so much itt, i have a friend who is posting a ton of memes lately about liberal snowflakes banning free speech and there's a lot of 1984 references in the posts.

it is crazy how clueless a person can be.

I got to the Cathedral of Kadesh mission, number 8, and I think that's about as far as I can get... There are way too many enemies and I don't have the resources or production to keep up.

my wife watched it, i did not.

I guess there's no need to even build multiple research ships in the SP campaign so I probably won't.

I also hate the achievements are bugged so it says I did the tutorial for 2 when I actually did the tutorial for 1 >_>

I just remember her slogan "Love Trumps Hate". Who came up with that lmao

Last time I only got through mission 4 according to my achievements.

I think I'm about to that point again.

Was only able to save one of the cryo trays in the mission where you see your homeworld totally bombed out.

Have like a dozen salvaging corvettes to hijack enemy stuff let's see how this goes >_>

Also do I need to build a new research vessel for more research options? I still have one but it's only giving me like one or two research options per mission and nothing to upgrade existing vehicles.

I always hated TFA as soon as I saw it, never had any interest in any of the movies that came out afterwards.

TFA was a combination of forced fan service and terrible writing that failed to bridge, for me, an emotional connection between pretty much every character and event in the story. The entire movie was a rehash of previous stories, with 80% of it being characters running from one place to another place just to get attacked just to run away again. Even when major events happened, with the exception of one specific event, I had zero f's to give (such as when they destroyed the planet of the new republic. I didn't care, because I didn't even know the new republic was a thing because they didn't explain it at all in the movie. And the reason a planet being destroyed in the original was shocking was because they were showing just how extremely evil the Empire was. We already know that the Empire is capable of atrocious stuff so it doesn't hit the same here. Especially when we've already seen the same exact thing in previous movies.

gl, hf

I loved the game and watched some good strategy videos by a guy called... TotalBiscuit or something? He made it look so easy. I tried to emulate that... and failed miserably.

Doesn't seem to affect Whole Foods though? That place is still so stupidly expensive.

It is DXP on RS3 (is it the same on OSRS?). Up 1 level in Constitution (80) and 2 in Ranged (69) so far.

A few times, even spent a Thanksgiving there with my wife once (she had just moved to the country and we didn't have anything planned).

I don't know if y'all already knew this, but I never noticed there is an RSC Wiki on the official Wiki - https://classic.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape_Classic_Wiki

talk about nostalgia.

tired and depressed

burns112233 posted...

The Goosebumps covers were amazing.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/63e3050d.jpg

Yeah I still have a lot of them (at least 40), used to go with my mom to a book store in a small town to pick up the newest release and I was a member of the Goosebumps fan club and had some fun knickknacks like a hat, wallet and reading light. Loved those things.

I want to say thank you to everyone who opened up and shared your personal stories, too, I shouldn't be surprised but I am sad so many of you also endured this.

Throughout the week I went through a whole range of emotions. We thought she was going to be gone by the weekend but despite all odds she lived through it. I learned a lot about her partner's background that I never knew and I even learned a ton of cool stuff about my aunt when she came to visit. My uncle stopped by for one day and that just drained my brain though, he tells these inappropriate stories.

Anyway, I am glad I went and strongly recommend anyone who will face this situation in the future to go too and say everything you have put off saying. I regret not spending more time over the years with my mom but I feel good that I went and got a lot of things off my chest and thanked her for a lot of things I don't think anyone in the family has thanked her for.

I had to leave yesterday after being there 8 days, it was hard to say goodbye and I hope she finds peace soon. I don't think I would have the strength to survive as long as she has and as weird as it sounds it is almost inspirational, she is a tough woman to the end.