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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: December 21, 2011, 11:14:40 pm »
I think its funny that after the Dark Brotherhood quests (if you have done this, you know what I mean) that I am now swearing loyalty to the Emperor and joining the fight against Ulfric and his racist rabble. So delicious.

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Other Games / Re: Age of Wonders
« on: December 19, 2011, 11:30:46 pm »
Holy smokin' buh-jeezus. Was that OP my first post on this forum? weird. I dont even remember when I started playing DF but it must have been some time before I actually wandered into this dark corner of the internet and I have prowled here since. The Other Games section is part of my daily grind. Found some great games here and undoubtedly saved hundreds of dollars by not buying crappy games (since most of us tend to agree on what AWESOME really means...sometimes).

Anyway, I personally liked AoW the first better. It's been a while but I loved downloading the mods and playing through the custom campaigns. I think I have said this before, either here or in other threads but for some reason I have always wished Wesnoth was more like AoW. Not sure why I think that, but I do.

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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: December 17, 2011, 08:33:04 pm »
anyone have any idea whats the best UI mod I can get? I am so tired of enchanting and having to move through the 7 clicks for each single item. The silly font sizes, having to scrolll all the time, YUCK!

just want a sane UI mod i can easily get my inventory stuff done.

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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: December 15, 2011, 11:51:09 pm »
Quote from: Neyvn on December 15, 2011, 10:58:54 pm
I was on my way to Bleak Falls Barrow (FINALLY) and was level 20. I stumbled across a Frost Troll blocking my way, Being WAY WAY WAY underpowered due to leveling non combat skills, he was to be Yo'yoed as I dashed up and down the mountain rocks into and out of his Pathing where he couldn't reach me, after tickling him down with a few hundred arrows I pull out some magics which have never been used, showering him with flames. Finally the beast falls and I find an item on him that looks weird, its graphic didn't line straight and it had a damage amount as a sword. I equip it and I discovered I had found a Mini Artifact weapon added by this mod.
Needless to say that this is going up on my wall when I get a home (currently Twohanding.)

How can that mod do all that it claims? I thought we needed the kit to have anything good.

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Other Games / Re: X Universe
« on: December 13, 2011, 11:40:43 pm »
i might want to try X3:TC out again because when i played, i just couldnt see why people liked this so much. The missions and story seemed pretty boring, and the sandbox side of things seems a bit like Eve Online, without the online.

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Other Games / Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« on: December 13, 2011, 02:21:27 am »
I've been getting Into this! It's fun and totally makes me flash back to the old starsiege days. I unlocked the sniper which I sucked at of course, way underpowered. Then I unlocked the Juggernaut and rocked it out. On my first run with him I got 5 kills, 2 assists, 1 death.

Great time with this so far. I don't like Team Fortress, too cramped and it always dealt like everyone was spam spawning kamikaze madness. Still some of that here but much less. Maybe I just like the big open spaces, more room to maneuver and get tactical.

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Other Games / Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« on: December 12, 2011, 01:09:22 pm »
I really want in on this beta, i want to preorder, but I think this is coming out on Steam and I just would rather have it on Steam. Too many games out there, Steam helps me keep my shit organized.

I wonder if you can activate it on Steam later?

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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: December 05, 2011, 02:30:57 pm »
Quote from: eggrock on December 05, 2011, 02:14:05 pm
Quote from: nenjin on December 04, 2011, 07:47:34 pm
snip wall of text ;)

Yep, I read it, and I think it's exactly as you say. In the end, Skyrim is Oblivion with slightly different leveled lists. The scaling plays out pretty well with the build I'm playing (mage using Destruction) and the environment is very immersive, but I fear I'm going to hit the same, I've-done-enough wall that I hit in Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3. I definitely get my money's worth with Bethesda games and Skyrim is already my favorite, but they still need some improvement to become truly epic.

Now I'm sitting here, wondering how I think the game *should* work. Not the time or place to discuss that, I think, so on to a different topic:

I visited the mage in Dragonsreach to offload some junk, and was happy to see a filled Grand Soul gem. I like to snap those up since I always have more crap to sell than vendors have money, but then I realized I didn't have my haggling gear on. I broke convo, equipped my gear and went back to the buy/sell screen--and the Grand Soul gem was gone! Switched back to normal gear--still gone.

I didn't bother trying to reproduce it from saves but found it curious.
He must have used it to recharge his enchanted Hood of Arrogance.


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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: December 04, 2011, 11:41:49 pm »
I decided to level enchanting WHILE leveling my combat skills, so I went and got Azura's Star, went with the BLACK version. I enchanted a Falmer bow with Soul Trap and went on out and went about my business as usual, making sure that I have no empty soul gems in my pocket, just the star. I enchanted it with the maximum I duration I could, 6 seconds. Less charges but that wont matter...

I kill my enemies, one at a time. After each kill (yes, even when there are multiple foes) I TAB and use the soul just trapped in the star to recharge the bow. Rinse and repeat. I also level archery at the same time, hopefully to balance out the leveling issues. I know I am probably kidding myself but this is more fun for me than making a bunch of gloves and selling them.

I dont want to make the game too easy or try to break it because I can, but I have it set to expert difficulty (there is one harder setting) and as an archery focused character, I still have challenges. There are times when it takes 10 arrows to kill a baddie, and by then they are on my ass. If there are more than one, I better have a good plan or lots of potions if I get in a bad spot.

I will probably try to avoid smithing for a while and getting to 'game breaky" with the enchant, smith, alchemy trio.

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Other Games / Re: [Giveaway] Towns x3
« on: December 04, 2011, 11:45:55 am »
well butter my toast too! (that means i'm in, I think)

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Other Games / Re: Height-Map generator that I made
« on: December 03, 2011, 11:47:01 pm »
Yes that section would be better than this one.

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Other Games / Re: Distant Worlds (4x RTS)
« on: December 01, 2011, 11:33:12 am »
I dunno, I got a little tired of Matrix and their software download delivery. I started with the original DW and if I want to get this game, I will have to DL the software from at least 2 different places, probably 3 by now. I wish they would just pu tthe damn downloads on their own website.

Maybe this expansion will be different, but the last one felt to me like a lot of bug and balance fixes. The original game was fun but clunky too, especially after a few hours of playing.

Has anyone tried it yet? The features listed are not enough for me to buy this and download the game again from all over the internet, not to mention the error I tend to get when installing the second expansion.

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Other Games / Re: [Giveaways (Plural)] 25 Days of Christmas: Looking for donations, as well
« on: November 29, 2011, 01:01:56 am »
Neat idea, but a week of Half Life variants leading up to X-Mas is a little less than exciting. Who am I to complain though? Just seems like more people might have offered up other more intersting items than all those Halved Lives and such and so forth.

nevermind me.

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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: November 28, 2011, 01:34:03 am »
Quote from: scriver on November 28, 2011, 01:24:48 am
Quote from: Cthulhu on November 27, 2011, 11:24:39 pm
I don't have a problem with the linearity of it, most of the quest lines are pretty linear.

And that is probably my biggest issue with Skyrim. It's supposed to be a non-linear, open world game, yet almost none of the writing seem to be done with that concept in mind. Questwise, it's just walled-in railroads to run down. For example, not only can't I tell the old man what they are doing - I can't even keep doing small jobs for them as the game forces that quest on you.

In some lines thats true, but I cant agree 100% there. Some quest lines have a few options, sometimes they are interesting.

For example,
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Other Games / Re: Discussion on TES V: Skyrim
« on: November 17, 2011, 12:59:55 pm »
Quote from: PTTG?? on November 17, 2011, 12:24:02 pm
A hardcore mode that changes the whole food system would be great. Make it so that you need to eat, and so that most foods also restore stamina. Of course, it would include non-regenerating health.
I want to see a Survival Mod where you need to eat of course. Also, no fast travel, disable that shit. You must also sleep and such, why are there even beds now? I just run around like a cranked out tweeker. The only reason to sleep is to pass the night so I can get into the shops. Have movement and tied to stamina, and sleep also tied to stamina.

No sleepy? No walky. K?

Also, COLD. Like why the hell do i see people in a blizzard at altitude with short sleeves on? Why can I go for a nice swim in the ICE RIVER and be fine with running around on the tundra for days on end with now food or sleep?

I want to feel like this shit is COLD. I want to need to wear warm furs. I want to need to get dry and warm if I get wet. We need camps and camp fires to go with them. And gatherable wood. A dry and wet state for clothing. Also tie this to stamina. Also have the possibility to freeze to death, maybe make frostbite a disease?

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