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I was enjoying Fallout 3 to the maximum until recently I've found a shit load of weapons and am blowing the fuck out of Super Mutant Brutes. I don't know what's happened, but I went from being terrified of raiders to just running up to people who should be tough as fuck and sticking a shotgun in their face. Oh look, it's Two Brutes and a couple of Super Mutants fighting off five talon mercs. Shall I wait for them to kill each other? Nah, have a nuka-grenade in your FACES. I'll finish you off with the 700 gallons of flamer. Maybe the enemies will level enough shortly to put me back to the Level 3 Vs Fire Ants shit-pants scary.
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I do agree with NWOD. That mission with the boy in the fire ant town. I did that quite early and that was really tough (until I discovered that I could turn a lot quicker than they could so could just dance around them hitting with them a nailboard without getting hurt).
However, now everything is quite easy. I should turn up the difficulty as I'm on normal at the moment, but I've only seen one Deathclaw, which i'd heard were rock hard, and it took two shots.
I am definitely going to play through this game again afterwards as I'm playing as a good character at the moment, and I definitely want to see what it is like being evil.
The music in this game is amazing. I absolutely love the 50s theme, just wish they had more than seven songs.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Or just change the difficulty up.
That's not going to work. You get more XP for kills so I'd continue to rocket up in levels, except even quicker. I'm already shooting people in the face five times wth a magnum, so I don't know...I mean, I'm still enjoying it, but Bethesda are just so very close on the learning curve on this one that I think their next big release might just be so awesome I'll shit blood.
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Yes! New Elder Scrolls! Now they've got the engine working properly, they'll have more time to make the game bigger than Oblivion.
I've not played Morrowind, but apparently there was just so much stuff you could do outside of the main game that you could spend hundreds of hours without actually bothering to do the mission. That will be great.
I pretty much love Bethseda, and I may well get Morrowind when I've finished Fallout. And Fable 2. And Lost Odyssey. And Eternal Sonata.
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There's a fancy plugin for Oblivion to play Morrowind, so it's the old game, with the modern graphics effectively. That's not available for the XB360 though. Also not available is a wooly mammoth mount, guar pack riders, dragon mounts, nightmare mounts and a dremora companion. I'm tempted to play Oblivion again as a Dremora or a snow Khajiit, but Fallout has a few decent mods being tested on it so far so maybe I won't get time to go back to Oblivion.
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Is there some way to display your radness in a numeric value that is displayed to everyone so that they can see how rad you are? I don't play games for enjoyment any more, I just play them so other people can see that I play them.
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mm, sadly not, but it could be made up to suit the purpose with friends. Decide on a structure and how many points are awarded. I suppose you could buy a badge making machine and then update the points status or decide when you reach a particularly large number, hire a plane and fly past people like your colleagues or an ex-girlfriends wedding. Would you care to share some ideas with me Cherry? I reckon stuf like:
Good hair + 20 points New shoes + points Banged a hot chick + 50 points Made excellent joke until people laughed +20 points Bellend + 20 Circum + 10 (+30 jew points)
Good Hair + 20 points, is that good hair is subjective. You need definite goals that nobody can question whether you have achieved.
Banging a hot chick would I guess work, but to get the award, she'd have to score at least an 8.6 on hotornot over a minimum of 500 votes.
Also, a lot of your goals seem to alienate women from being able to display their radness. Now, obviously we all know that women just aren't genetically designed to be as rad as men, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to play!
Possible points.
+10 for every person who tells you your hair looks good. (Your mother doesn't count)
+10 for every pint of lager you drink over six in an evening without being ill. (Because drinking is cool obviously)
I'm out of ideas already, so probably -20 to me.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I've only seen one Deathclaw, which i'd heard were rock hard, and it took two shots.
Gah! I ran into five of them in Old Olney and they soaked up five blasts in the face with a combat shotgun without breaking stride! And I'm playing on easy! I love this game. Thorn and I are having to apportion time on the XBox.
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Gah! I ran into five of them in Old Olney and they soaked up five blasts in the face with a combat shotgun without breaking stride!
Ah, but was this when you were trying to snipe things with the shotgun from a quarter mile away?
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Gah! I ran into five of them in Old Olney and they soaked up five blasts in the face with a combat shotgun without breaking stride!
Get the Terrible Shotgun! It's much better damage than Combat Shotgun. Has a wider spread though, so you have to be up close, but it's awesome.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I've not played Morrowind, but apparently there was just so much stuff you could do outside of the main game that you could spend hundreds of hours without actually bothering to do the mission. That will be great.
Morrowind was absolutely amazing in terms of the size of the world and the amount you could do, unfortunately the combat system sucked rather badly and let the game as a whole down, not to mention the fact that the Xbox version was buggy as hell, I'm guessing the PC version has patches available though. Oh and being able to fly in it is awesome, especially with the whole world basically being one big thing including cities, rather than cities being separate, sealed off areas as in Oblivion.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Also, a lot of your goals seem to alienate women from being able to display their radness. Now, obviously we all know that women just aren't genetically designed to be as rad as men, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to play!
That wasn't purposeful, I just don't have any experience of being a woman yet.
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