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Shame that playing skyrim and then fallout 4 (and the outer worlds) killed my motivation to ever play a bethesda game ever again so I'll probably never get to experience new Vegas properly lol
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Glad I'm not doing something wrong in Sea of Stars. I wiped twice to a four zombie fight--way harder than any boss so far--until I changed up strategies and used Lunar Shield or whatever to help one of the team survive a round (it really feels like they are programmed to hit the person with the lowest HP). I don't mind having infrequent but difficult encounters, as I find it a bit more entertaining than stomping every single random encounter by mashing attack, but some of these random battles just feel randomly put together, rather than planned, if that makes sense. I thought the text claiming that timed hits and blocks don't actually matter was bullshit, but after playing for a while, it feels like an outright lie. Anyway, I'll probably beat it.
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fridge corn posted:Shame that playing skyrim and then fallout 4 (and the outer worlds) killed my motivation to ever play a bethesda game ever again so I'll probably never get to experience new Vegas properly lol Obsidian did a remarkable job making a same engine sequel to Fallout 3 feel almost nothing like a Bethesda game
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The only other thing that sticks in my mind about New Vegas is that I once worked with a girl who had a big line of sanskrit text tattooed all down her spine and when I asked what it said she quoted the thing that the burned man says about the flames making him stronger or whatever and I said lol that's from a video game and lol why is it written in sanskrit
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fridge corn posted:The only other thing that sticks in my mind about New Vegas is that I once worked with a girl who had a big line of sanskrit text tattooed all down her spine and when I asked what it said she quoted the thing that the burned man says about the flames making him stronger or whatever and I said lol that's from a video game and lol why is it written in sanskrit yeah that specific quote spread a lot in religous jesusy online circles from people who dont know the origin
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Sep 6, 2023 14:59
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I see it constantly on bad tattoo compilations and it makes me laugh a lot every single time.
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Stexils posted:yeah that specific quote spread a lot in religous jesusy online circles from people who dont know the origin It was also really big with firefighters
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Sep 6, 2023 15:06
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remembering when right wing guys started spreading around a line from a warhammer x avatar fanfic
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Sep 6, 2023 15:17
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talking with people there are a couple reasons I think NV gets considered a queer game and most of them have to do with role play, like in the sense of imagining living as a particular character in the world - you get shot in the head and a doctor patches you up with the implication that it's possible you could be different than when you dropped into the grave. some have told me this premise gives a lot of narrative leeway for role playing as trans. - there were new perks added for NV that explicitly, mechanically supported role playing as a gay, lesbian, or bisexual courier, interacting with the world in more ways than just forming relationships with companions, at a time where this was still kinda rare.
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Sep 6, 2023 15:19
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again my personal disconnect here is that i think the way new vegas writes all its lesbian characters and interactions is intensely fail. in a vacuum as like your first experience with that kinda thing i guess i can see it but i really feel none of it myself
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Sep 6, 2023 15:21
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For the record what I meant by 'queer memes' is the insanely tiresome stuff about how playing new vegas makes you trans.
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Sep 6, 2023 15:22
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I decided to use one of the relics in Sea of Stars. It's not that the game is hard without them, it's just more tedious since you have to use more MP on healing and less on aoe spells. I initially liked the combat but it does very little to keep things from getting very repetitive. I've slightly warmed to the game overall. I still don't really think it's particularly good, but the art has kept me interested and the plot has become slightly more engaging as the game's gone on.
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Sep 6, 2023 15:22
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i consider new vegas a queer game... i find it queer that people like it so much
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The Colonel posted:again my personal disconnect here is that i think the way new vegas writes all its lesbian characters and interactions is intensely fail. in a vacuum as like your first experience with that kinda thing i guess i can see it but i really feel none of it myself
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Sep 6, 2023 15:26
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anyway in 2007 i saw the soul nomad official art where the female protag is giving the dancer girl an oil massage. apologies to everyone who received the much inferior representation found in new vegas. some people were just born in regressive places i guess
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The Colonel posted:again my personal disconnect here is that i think the way new vegas writes all its lesbian characters and interactions is intensely fail. in a vacuum as like your first experience with that kinda thing i guess i can see it but i really feel none of it myself yeah i think of it kinda in the same way as legend of korra. i respect what it was trying but feel like it stopped short of actually doing it well
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Sep 6, 2023 15:28
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Anyways I think it's fine if someone on an individual level has a special place in their heart with X or Y game or show or w/e cuz it helped them awaken as trans or gay or whatever...I just find it odd to assign universal experiences/importance to an extremely mainstream popular thing as ACTUALLY being about that.
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:yeah i think of it kinda in the same way as legend of korra. i respect what it was trying but feel like it stopped short of actually doing it well
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yeah idk something like korra's in a weird spot where it's not like i can blame the show staff for management coming down hard on them for having an idea. with new vegas i just feel like, they did not know how to write some of the things they were touching on and did a really clumsy and annoying job with it
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Sep 6, 2023 15:34
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oh yeah i wasn't trying to draw a direct comparison or anything so much as explain how i feel about it
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My prevailing memory of New Vegas is playing it at launch on 360 and getting hit by a bug that made it so I couldn't play the game for months until they patched it (unless I started over). People talk a lot of poo poo about F3's bugs, and Bethesda in general (for good reason), but I think it's funny how often Obsidian gets credit for the sequel being better about that when it's the most broken one I played, and also the one when I realized Bethesda makes one game. Granted F3 was the first of their games I played, but still.
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Zoomer trans memes are the worst
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new vegas was better about it, post-patches. i dont think anyone was praising the game for being bug-free on release, it was in fact the most criticized part of it
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you know i think what sticks out weirdest about starfield to me is how laborious the lockpicking minigame is. like it's not hard or anything but it's weird that every single lock you pick just makes you pause for like 30 seconds to play a full puzzle game level, i actually kinda prefer it when the minigame is mildly annoying but guaranteed to only take a few seconds
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Sep 6, 2023 16:09
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new vegas was a mess on release but it got a ton of patch support in a way bethesda games rarely do, I think that is kind of an important sticking point with people that separates the two
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Sep 6, 2023 16:10
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True pro gamers install mods to auto clear the lovely lockpicking minigames
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On mouse and keyboard, it doesn’t actually tell you how to turn the digipicks in the minigame, and it took me quite a while to stumble into the mouse wheel.
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Meowywitch posted:True pro gamers install mods to auto clear the lovely lockpicking minigames Does it just skip the mini-game or solve it really fast automatically? Because the latter would be cooler.
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The Colonel posted:you know i think what sticks out weirdest about starfield to me is how laborious the lockpicking minigame is. like it's not hard or anything but it's weird that every single lock you pick just makes you pause for like 30 seconds to play a full puzzle game level, i actually kinda prefer it when the minigame is mildly annoying but guaranteed to only take a few seconds You would hate the Starfield one. God I wish Starfield had the old-school locking minigame instead of the new one which is boring and yet takes twice as long.
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FireWorksWell posted:It was also really big with firefighters I think firefighters get a pass on that quote, considering their profession
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ImpAtom posted:You would hate the Starfield one. God I wish Starfield had the old-school locking minigame instead of the new one which is boring and yet takes twice as long. good reading skills btw
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goblin week posted:good reading skills btw What are you talking about, my leading pills am fantastic?
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Endorph posted:remembering when right wing guys started spreading around a line from a warhammer x avatar fanfic Explain, please? I really, really do not want to try searching that up myself.
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Sep 6, 2023 16:45
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Having Security 2 in Starfield makes the lock blue if your currently selected ring can be slotted. It really speeds up the easier locks and prevents the most advanced ones from becoming 15 minute puzzles (but they still might take a while). The lock changes when you quit out without completing it, so there's a RNG element to it too. Even one with 5 layers can be quite straight-forward or just really prone to mistakes based on what you're getting. So yeah, I see the mod to skip them becoming real popular.
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Alpha Protocol's lockpicking minigame with a controller is the best lockpicking minigame I've played.
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disposablewords posted:Explain, please? I really, really do not want to try searching that up myself.
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I like the Starfield lockpicking game.
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Is there a lockpicking minigame that takes advantage of the haptic stuff on PS5 because that'd be really neat being able to 'feel' the correct position rather than tapping a button and having the lockpick snap in half instantly.
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Endorph posted:there was an avatar (to be clear blue elves not airbender) x warhammer fanfic. it was about the warhammer empire (space nazis) coming to invade and industrialize the blue space elf planet. they fought a bunch. one of the warhammer imperials gave a big speech about how the blue elves had no culture and were simply resisting out of fear and they were the actual xenophobes and they were being elevated yadayadayada. this excerpt somehow got spread around to rightwing circles and they proceeded to post it a bunch about how actually america's founding wasn't racist. God drat. It's somehow dumber even than the people who unironically spread some of the propaganda from Columbia in Bioshock: Infinite around.
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Lockpicking and hacking minigames have become a giant pet peeve of mine because even if they're amusing or interesting the first couple of times you do them(which is exceedingly rare), they inevitably become boring garbage chores that you have to do ten billion times over the course of a playthrough.
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