Mak0rz posted:

The New Vegas songs are so good. Johnny Guitar's more depressing tone gives me whiplash whenever it comes on though.

The game still could have used a way bigger playlist, but licensing songs is expensive I guess.

Bicyclops posted:

I beat the first boss of Bloodborne and now I'm good enough with the blunderbuss that I keep getting the BOOM! and then doing the critical hit thing on the huge sewer people. I'm starting to have trouble keeping track of directions, though. I'm not very good at drawing maps. I'm mostly pumping vitality and strength at the moment when I level? I dunno.

Bicyclops posted:

I beat the first boss of Bloodborne and now I'm good enough with the blunderbuss that I keep getting the BOOM! and then doing the critical hit thing on the huge sewer people. I'm starting to have trouble keeping track of directions, though. I'm not very good at drawing maps. I'm mostly pumping vitality and strength at the moment when I level? I dunno.

tap my mountain posted:

I had no clue that New Vegas added many new songs, I thought they blew their budget on Sinatra.

Harrow posted:

I'd go Vitality and Endurance first--you want more Stamina as well as more HP. Leveling Strength is also a good idea, but your weapon isn't going to start getting serious bonuses from Strength until you upgrade it a little, so you can afford to focus on Vitality and Endurance for now. Don't stress too much about what you level, either. As long as you don't try to level everything up and spread yourself way too thin you'll be fine.

I never really draw maps for Souls/Bloodborne. Usually it's possible to learn your way around just based on landmarks. And really, Central Yharnam is one of the more complex areas to navigate, just because of how many directions you can go.

FirstAidKite posted:

There is a local theater whose showtime sign says "it's too cold to change the sign, check our website"

haveblue posted:

The trick in Bloodborne (and to a lesser extent the other Souls games) is that most of the stats are just investments in unlocking the weapon you want to use. Upgrading said weapon is how you really boost your damage output.

Lurdiak posted:

That's cute.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

This will always be my absolute favorite New Vegas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DD_NCM_RJs

God, I want to go play New Vegas again now but my Xbox is in storage until I move into a new house in a few weeks. I hope the world isn't a REAL wasteland before I get a chance to play it again.

FirstAidKite posted:

Back when dr strange was first released, the same sign said something along the lines of "We don't need to list the showtimes, you're going to come here for the great food" because it's a little sorta restaurant place where you can order a meal with your movie ticket and they'll bring you the meal while you watch.

Lurdiak posted:

If only New Vegas didn't have the Bethesda-faces, it'd be the best game ever made.

oddium posted:

FirstAidKite posted:

Back when dr strange was first released, the same sign said something along the lines of "We don't need to list the showtimes, you're going to come here for the great food" because it's a little sorta restaurant place where you can order a meal with your movie ticket and they'll bring you the meal while you watch.

Lurdiak posted:

Can you believe some people play without Wild Wasteland.

Harrow posted:

I never really draw maps for Souls/Bloodborne. Usually it's possible to learn your way around just based on landmarks. And really, Central Yharnam is one of the more complex areas to navigate, just because of how many directions you can go.

Jay Rust posted:

Woo boy, just saw Moonlight.

There's a feeling you get, after seeing a great movie or finishing a great novel (or beating a great video game I guess, but not really) and you wander around your town or neighbourhood and you get kinda bitter because why isn't everyone talking about this piece of media I just consumed?! What are you doing with your lives?!

Might just be me

Help Im Alive posted:

This exact thing happened to me when I played the horse solitaire game on 3DS

Bicyclops posted:

Yeah, like I sort of have the upper part of it figured out, but all the layers in the aqueduct are a little tricky. Vit and End are what I've been doing so far. There is a weapon in the shop I need more strength to use, but it's a lot more strength, so maybe I'll lay off it for now.

Harrow posted:

So one thing about weapons you might not know yet if this is your first game in this series:

There's not really a weapon progression. Every weapon in the game is viable from start to finish--what's more important is finding a weapon with moves you like, then upgrading it with blood stone at the workbench in the Hunter's Dream workshop. If you haven't upgraded your current weapon at all, you might have enough blood stone shards to get it to +1, which you should definitely do. So when you get a new weapon, don't feel like you definitely need to start using it even if you don't like its moves as much as the weapon you're already using. If you like what you have, stick with it; otherwise, switch.

Harrow posted:

Yeah, the stats definitely matter for damage scaling--like, the difference between 25 and 50 Strength is definitely worth the investment--but damage scaling bonuses only really kick in once you get the weapon upgraded a good amount. So when it comes to Strength, Skill, Arcane, and Bloodtinge, the priority is first to just be able to wield the weapon(s) you want, then come back to them when you feel comfortable with Vitality/Endurance.

oddium posted:

does wild wasteland enable the ycs gun i forget

Jay Rust posted:

I never took Wild Wasteland because it seemed dumb. My assumption was that it just threw in lolrandom 80s references to certain encounters, what does it actually do?

Harrow posted:

So one thing about weapons you might not know yet if this is your first game in this series:

There's not really a weapon progression. Every weapon in the game is viable from start to finish--what's more important is finding a weapon with moves you like, then upgrading it with blood stone at the workbench in the Hunter's Dream workshop. If you haven't upgraded your current weapon at all, you might have enough blood stone shards to get it to +1, which you should definitely do. So when you get a new weapon, don't feel like you definitely need to start using it even if you don't like its moves as much as the weapon you're already using. If you like what you have, stick with it; otherwise, switch.

Jay Rust posted:

I never took Wild Wasteland because it seemed dumb. My assumption was that it just threw in lolrandom 80s references to certain encounters, what does it actually do?

Bicyclops posted:

Ah, okay, that's helpful, thanks! I sort of thought it was an axe upgrade. I've upgraded the axe once, but I might wait to upgrade the blunderbuss to see if I can replace it with something a little quicker.

Snak posted:

The hunter pistol is better than the blunderbuss, in my opinion, because it doesn't havr as ling of a recovery. You're never gonna get much dps out of a gun no matter what, so don't worry about that.

Bicyclops posted:

Ah, okay, that's helpful, thanks! I sort of thought it was an axe upgrade. I've upgraded the axe once, but I might wait to upgrade the blunderbuss to see if I can replace it with something a little quicker.

Harrow posted:

Don't bother upgrading guns unless you plan to level Bloodtinge (which is something of a niche build, but really fun if you commit to it). Guns don't do much damage and their parrying ability is unrelated to how much damage they do. You'll parry just as well with a +0 gun as you will with a +10 gun, so that's your lowest upgrade priority.

TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:

Was Fallout 4 half-assed or was that really the best Bethesda could do?

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

I think the world of Fallout 4 is cool but everything else is standard Bethesda dullness.