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No she just has this wilful hatred of computer games. To the point where she won't even entertain the notion that anyone who considered themself to be an adult would ever want to amuse themselves with such a silly, juvenile pastime. When it comes to everything else I'm interested in (motorsports, films, music, even snooker) she seems to share my enthusiasm. It's just on this one specific issue that she has a bizarre kind of seething disdain. I'm not sure where it comes from to be honest.
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Must be quite difficult to live with that. Someone chipping away at you every evening. "Silly", "Juvenile". Must get under your skin, right? The constant putdowns, the unwillingness to share in something that makes you happy. Doesn't it just needle away at you?
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Or you could just realise that you're an adult now and you should give up the childish pursuit of computer games. I mean ffs. You've got your own place and cats and a job and a girlfriend. You're not 13 now Ringo, computer games shouldn't be part of your life.
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Oh apparently the patch and DLC breaks parts of DA:O particularly specializations which would explain why even though Morrigan liked me 100% she wouldn't teach me shapeshifter last night
I don't want to be a shapeshifter but I'd like her to teach it to me. I killed her mum for her FFS.
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louise told me last night that she finds it 'cute' that I will sometimes spend two days assembling a gundam model, which seemed almost demeaning enough to make me reconsider.
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When Carolyn says that, I always choose to assume 'cute' in the American TV sense. eg, totally ripped with an absurdly handsome face.
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I mean, I say that, but the truth is, I've abandoned any attempt at retaining dignity when it comes to Warhammer 40k, and at the end of a painting session I'll always eagerly present what I've done for approval and compliments. It's quite pathetic really, and I'm grateful to Octavia that she resists the temptation to say things like "Wow! Did you do all that yourself?"
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Look at that. This is how I spent the Monday after Christmas. A game of Warhammer played against the deputy head of corporate PR for British Gas.
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Well sometimes you just have to accept that your partner is unlikely to be basically a female version of yourself. It's not like she's constantly sat beside me making comments the whole time I'm playing a game. That really would be a dealbreaker.
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when i lived with herbs i would walk along the kingsland road to get the train to my 'job' of clicking a mouse button. Every morning a **** would cycle past me on a unicycle.
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quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: you're right, warhammer is pretty tragic.
Let's not get into which is 'cooler' out of Gundam and Warhammer 40k. I don't think ayone's coming out of that argument covered in glory. I don't think H1ppychick and Scrawny would watch that argument unfold and go "Wow, Benway's totall proven why his Gundam hobby is cooler than Thorn's Warhammer hobby. I feel a powerful urge to mate with him now". Although it sometimes feels like the internet was built so that grown men could bicker about whether one power-armour oriented modelling hobby is 'better' than another power-armour modelling hobby, I don't think I'm ready to get into it. Worst of all, it would mean that someone like Black Mask would look up from reading a comic about a demon that fights crime and sleeps with supermodels and go "Wow, those guys are geeky". Think about it.
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I completed just about all there is to do in Fallout 3 (PC, all DLCs) just before Christmas.
I loved F3. Even more so than the MMOs I spent time on. I normally dislike FPS games, but F3 really hit all the buttons (pun intended) for me. I enjoyed the 50s look & feel of F3 world, the gameplay, the "stuff to do" and the characters. Heck, I even enjoyed the rather weak main storyline.
Now I've done everything, though (apart from walking naked through Deathclaw Sanctuary holding nowt but a shitty stick), I need something new and involving. Still searching. Might have a squizz at Star Trek Online, though I don't want to get hooked on another MMO... we'll see.
I also downloaded a smashing "tower defense" (sic.) game from D2D called "Defense Grid: The Awakening" which provided me with a few hours of fun - highly recommended, if you like that sort of thing.
A couple of other worthies I've played of late:
Machinarium: Lovely looking indie game with lots of frustrating point-and-click puzzles.
The Path: Bizarre mindfuck of a game based vaguely on Little Red Riding Hood with strange and disturbing themes. Not sure if I actually liked it, but I definitely wanted to play more, just to find out WHAT THE FUCK was going on. I never did.
I'm still a big fan of the elderly "Starships Unlimited" from Apezone, and that regularly gets playtime.
Oh, and yeah, I still regularly do pen-and-paper RPGs and wargames on "boys night". Currently we're doing a couple of RPGs: Solomon Kane and Dark Heresy (WH40k RPG). We have a laugh. Most of us even have girlfriends!
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you should have a listen to the controllerthrow.com podcast. I believe that they talk about The Path in that. It's a funny podcast! Never. Never funny.
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I've been looking at Eldar Scrolls IV: Oblivion today... might treat meself to that at a mere £12 (including Bioshock, which I've looked at but never played) whilst I'm waiting for Mass Effect 2.
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I'm not sure that you're going to get through Oblivion and Bioshock before mass effect 2 comes out.
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I hated Oblivion. DragonAge:Origins was way better.
I'm desperately trying to finish a fourth Mass Effect playthrough before Friday and ME2, which has had reviews that have got me damping my pants with excitement. The first three were all with the same character, and it was before I really understood RPGs. I just liked getting the Extreme Power Gamer achievement when Thorn didn't have it. I now realise that I don't want to take that character through to ME2, so I need to really put in some hours before Friday. :determinedface:
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: I hated Oblivion. DragonAge:Origins was way better.
I'm desperately trying to finish a fourth Mass Effect playthrough before Friday and ME2, which has had reviews that have got me damping my pants with excitement. The first three were all with the same character, and it was before I really understood RPGs. I just liked getting the Extreme Power Gamer achievement when Thorn didn't have it. I now realise that I don't want to take that character through to ME2, so I need to really put in some hours before Friday. :determinedface:
...and people say maternity leave is hard work...
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I think Oblivion was better than DA:O in a lot of ways. There was a lot more freedom to go and do what you wanted which you really don't get in DA. DA is very very linear so far and the side quests seem mostly irrelevant and tacked on.
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I bought Bioshock about a year ago and still haven't even bothered installing it on my PC. It may even still be in its original celophane packaging. Maybe I should keep it like that. Give it to the Grandkids so one say it can show up on an episode of Antiques Roadshow.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Give it to the Grandkids so one say it can show up on an episode of Antiques Roadshow.
"Oh how wonderful - It's still in the original packaging! And you say your grandfather handed it down to you?"
"Aye"
"Well it's got to be worth €500 for insurance purposes. It's only a shame that your grandpa didn't spend the extra ten pounds for the limited edition version that came with the collectable Big Daddy figurine. I hate to have to tell you this, but I've seen the figurine fetch over three billion Euros on eBay."
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I think Oblivion was better than DA:O in a lot of ways. There was a lot more freedom to go and do what you wanted which you really don't get in DA.
I'm not such a big fan of the open world rpg style. I quite liked Fallout 3, although even that felt a lot more focussed than Oblivion. I liked the sense in Dragon Age that you're being swept along in bigger events. It's hard to get that atmosphere, when the 'hero' can spend 50 hours buying property and hanging out without ever dealing with the apparent crisis threatening the land. So it's fair to say that they're radically different in their approach.
What really turned me off Oblivion was the awful dialogue, the terrible voice acting and the fact that every conversation involved the character staring straight out of the screen at you. God that was tedious. One of the great things about the Bioware games is the way they make conversations cinematic, and how that feeds into you caring about the characters - face and body animations make such a huge different to how involved you can get in the stories, and that doesn't come across in the Bethesda games.
So I suppose it just comes down to where your priorities lie. DA is definitely a game that's less about 'what do you want to do' and more about the interactions and decisions that a group of characters make, set against the backdrop of cataclysmic events, in order to heighten the tension.
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