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DontMockMySmock posted:Nothing else gets my grognard impulses firing like Fallout. I wish other people gave a poo poo about Fallout 1 and 2, two of my favorite games of all time, instead of garbage games like 3/4/NV. I'm imagining a hiss as the entire thread goes hostile and your combat panel opens, and you go off and get a coffee while waiting for everyone to post I liked the first two but I'm not sure i could handle how slow the combat was these days
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i quite liked fallout tactics e: oh, what about that generic ps2 arpg 
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I recently watched Noah Caldwell Gervais's 9-hour Fallout series retrospective, and wow did he ever hate Fallout: Tactics. I was a huge Fallout 1/2 nerd and followed Tactics from its first announcement all the way through, but I also haven't played it since I was a teenager. I don't remember it being very juvenile or gross but I guess it is. I remember being really angry about the talking furry Deathclaws (yes Fallout 2 had talking deathclaws but it was its own thing) and anime-robots but I thought it was a great game and something that would hold me over until Van Buren babyyyyy I got Fallout 2 for my 14th or 15th birthday or something. I still have the box. The back of it says you can pimp out your wife for some extra "chump change" but that's not a feature in the game  Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel gets way too much hate. Yeah it's a real dumb ARPG, but it advertises itself as such and seems to succeed at everything it set out to do so, I dunno, everyone who hates that game I feel like had weird expectations. I recently played through Fallout 1 and it held up really well. The worst part of it was the extremely inconsistent writing -- literally the writing, as in the way sentences are formed. Different people clearly wrote different parts of the game and had very different narrative styles, and it clashes hard, when you're reading one thing written like someone trying to convey hopelessness and loss and then the next thing feels like it was written by a 15 year-old trying to get himself sent to the principal's office. credburn fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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sebmojo posted:I'm imagining a hiss as the entire thread goes hostile and your combat panel opens, and you go off and get a coffee while waiting for everyone to post *hits you with a super sledgehammer and watches you slide slooooooooooooowly across the room until you finally hit a wall*
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let larian do a fallout game. gotd
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DontMockMySmock posted:*hits you with a super sledgehammer and watches you slide slooooooooooooowly across the room until you finally hit a wall* If there is no wall there is a not unlikely chance he will continue sliding and go off screen and go on forever sliding and you'll have to ctrl+alt+del.
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credburn posted:I recently watched a 9-hour Fallout series retrospective, and wow did I ever have no life Jesus Christ.
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I loved Fallout 1 but played an unpatched broken Fallout 2 and wasn't a big fan, and don't really want to revisit it with the patches that fix everything. That game was busted, and it seems like they spent all their programming time on lame joke encounters instead of making sure any of the quests worked. I mean there were definitly cool bits like the gangster town, I get why it's popular.
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I like the OG xbox fallout game that was like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance but with guns, mostly because it was co-op. New Vegas was pretty good after a few patches too because it was completely unplayable at launch. I remember a main-quest critical NPC spawning 100ft in the air about an hour in.
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R.L. Stine posted:let larian do a fallout game. gotd https://twitter.com/NewBlood/status/1537228975906627585 New Blood is doing one instead.
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Its old AF but if you like Fallout 1/2 then you should check out Dark Suns: Shattered Lands (I know I've shilled this game itt before, sorry) its d&d on crack in a wasteland world. The gold box version is on Steam, although it runs through Dosbox so the controls get a little weird sometimes also the end game is a giant battle where you slaughter a ton of dudes, no big boss or gimmick fight.  If you find the magic lamp, you can wish a Genie to fight it for you and it stomps the gently caress outta them ishikabibble posted:New Blood is doing one instead. the bottom screen looks cool AF. I like 3rd person isometric games Vampire Panties fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Yeah, sorry New Blood, those are both games I dont see myself ever playing but thats a me not a you problem.
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sebmojo posted:Panting and sweating as u run thru my corridors I saw a grenade for sale in a type of vending machine that usually only sells chips and soda and it made me worried that other vending machines sold useful stuff like that and I hadn't noticed and might have to backtrack to see what I'd missed. I bought the grenade and SHODAN said "Enjoy your purchase, hacker," and I'm so used to her making snarky comments that I didn't even consider it might be a live grenade and I blew up 
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I wonder if Final Fantasy VIII will click for me now that my hormonal levels are equivalent of that to a high school girl.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I saw a grenade for sale in a type of vending machine that usually only sells chips and soda and it made me worried that other vending machines sold useful stuff like that and I hadn't noticed and might have to backtrack to see what I'd missed. I bought the grenade and SHODAN said "Enjoy your purchase, hacker," and I'm so used to her making snarky comments that I didn't even consider it might be a live grenade and I blew up kids are callin' it getting SHODAN'd
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Quote-Unquote posted:I like the OG xbox fallout game that was like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance but with guns, mostly because it was I never played that one, I liked Tactics overall, though. 1 is my favorite, followed by NV, followed by 2.
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credburn posted:I recently watched Noah Caldwell Gervais's 9-hour Fallout series retrospective, and wow did he ever hate Fallout: Tactics. I was a huge Fallout 1/2 nerd and followed Tactics from its first announcement all the way through, but I also haven't played it since I was a teenager. I don't remember it being very juvenile or gross but I guess it is. I remember being really angry about the talking furry Deathclaws (yes Fallout 2 had talking deathclaws but it was its own thing) and anime-robots but I thought it was a great game and something that would hold me over until Van Buren babyyyyy As I recall his experiment with inducing stockholme syndrome on himself ended with him playing Fallout 4 so many times he became convinced it was good actually.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Overheard some non-gamer coworkers talking about fallout 4 today and I learned some things about it: this is what happen when non internet forum people play a game and its gotta be way better, leave them in their bliss
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I don't acknowledge that I play games IRL because the only people I know who talk about games are people like that so I'm well aware I'm the ultra nerd At my last job where I only stayed for a week there was a daily conversation between 3 people about how Gotham Knights was the best game they had ever played 
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Whenever I accidentally let it slip that I play video games people ask me what I play and I awkwardly change the subject so I don't have to explain traditional roguelikes to them
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Nice Van My Man posted:Did they make Fallout 4 good or are people just playing it because of the TV show? just the tv show but they did recently release a "next gen" patch that comes with 0 graphics improvements (i guess it's all under-the-hood stuff?) and breaks every single mod
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i mean it's all right. i've had some fun. no way i'm completing it though.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Whenever I accidentally let it slip that I play video games people ask me what I play and I awkwardly change the subject so I don't have to explain traditional roguelikes to them it's a game about exploring a dungeon. there you're done. everyone knows what dungeons are you don't have to explain what elbereth means or how to identify a ring
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talking about video games is a touchy subject, you need to pay close attention to whatever response you expect your audience will have. if they like video games, pretend like you don't play them and then start listing off sports teams that you've heard of so that they'll go away and leave you alone. if they don't like video games, start talking about how much you love disco elysium and offer to show them your collection of sonic the hedgehog impregnation pictures so that they'll go away and leave you alone. if your initial interpretation of your audience was wrong, then you'll know right away because they'll suddenly have an erection; remain calm, immediately switch to the other tactic so that they'll go away and leave you alone
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:it's a game about exploring a dungeon. "oh i know all about dungeons, my wife mary and i go to a dungeon together on the second thursday of the month. have you heard of pegging, fellow coworker? let me describe how my wife pegs me in explicit detail" see that's the situation you just set yourself up for, like an idiot. a real pro neatly sidesteps that pitfall and instead pulls out the wallet-sized picture of goatse that they keep on their person to easily escape from awkward conversations like this one. they'll either never talk to you again or they'll assume you want to go meet them in the nearest bathroom, either way they leave and that means you win
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:everyone knows what dungeons are you don't have to explain what elbereth means or how to identify a ring The goddess that Frodo invokes on Weathertop to drive away the Nazgûl? That's in Chapter 11, A Knife in the Dark; the ring got identified way back in Chapter 2, The Shadow of the Past. And it's hardly a dungeon; it's just the foundation of a long-ruined watchtower.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:it's a game about exploring a dungeon. I'm pretty sure most people can intuit that invoking Varda's epithet forms a powerful rune of protection
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The Moon Monster posted:I'm pretty sure most people can intuit that invoking Varda's epithet forms a powerful rune of protection it's basically trolling to insinuate otherwise
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Here's one: In Fallout New Vegas, Joshua Graham has shown no redemptive attitude or remorse of what he has done in the past and is completely untrustworthy. The only reason I didn't kill him was because I was sure doing so wouldn't be allowed.
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Samovar posted:Here's one: Which guy is that, theres like a thousand people in the game
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Which guy is that, theres like a thousand people in the game The cool bandage guy that sits around and loads 1911s all day after Caesar lit him on fire and threw him in the Grand Canyon
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i didn't know until now there was no way to play a game you buy on steam without updating it. that's really poo poo. i was going to play fallout 4 just now but it's got a 16gb update. what if i don't want it? which i don't.
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roomtone posted:i didn't know until now there was no way to play a game you buy on steam without updating it. that's almost everything that you buy a game on now
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yeah i suppose i just never tried to play a game without updating it before and realising you can't do that they shouldn't be allowed to force change your games after you've bought them
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at least I can still install games you aren't allowed to buy anymore on steam (currently) that reminds me, I've been meaning to replay Deadpool
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MrQwerty posted:that's almost everything that you buy a game on now not GOG, you can still play the older version of Fallout 4 there. (Actually you have no choice, GOG hasn't been updated with the next gen patch yet)
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roomtone posted:i didn't know until now there was no way to play a game you buy on steam without updating it. Lesson learned, should have bought from GOG What if you set the game to only update when launched, and then place Steam in Offline mode? Does that work?
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Unless it's always-online garbage, you should be able to specify a previous version in the game's steam properties, check the updates tab
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Devils Affricate posted:Unless it's always-online garbage, you should be able to specify a previous version in the game's steam properties, check the updates tab That's only if the dev actively allows it and keeps older versions in sync. Most games require you to update to the latest version it knows about.
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roomtone posted:i didn't know until now there was no way to play a game you buy on steam without updating it. if it doesn't use steamworks drm you can just run the .exe directly instead of clicking the play button in steam
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