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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I've been playing fallout off and on. I'm level 15 and I can't decide where to put my remaining skills and perks.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited June 2010
    Is there a mod to make the "Oblivion" part of Oblivion, with the gates and what not, fun/interesting/not annoying? Or is the trick just to never do anything with the main quest, ever?

    Or any mods that fix my other issues with that game:
    [On Oblivion]
    BaconAngel: I'm still ticked that Oblivion and Fable both did not, in fact, turn out to be GTA with swords
    or rather Grand Theft Horse
    because that's really how I wanted those games to play out
    I want to put a horse in a catapult, then get on the horse, get catapulted, do a horse flip in the air and maybe land it, but more likely see the horse break all its legs on impact
    BaconAngel: I mean they could just take GTA and replace the car models with horses and that'd be good
    they could still make car noises with the crashes, I don't care
    James: hahah
    get some "realistic" damage on the horses?
    like, you bump the wall, your horse's face gets all fucked up?
    BaconAngel: just replace the car names with like "Shadowfax"
    yeah
    or like a bumper flys off and you're like "what the fuck?"

    BaconAngel: also you know what else sucked about Oblivion, it was supposed to be epic as shit and you're supposed to fight the hell (but not really lol) army or whatever but I've seen ren-fest battles involving more people at any given time
    James: oh, i hated oblivion
    BaconAngel: yeah it was overrated
    I got to the last main story mission and I was like ffffffffff this
    because I just didn't care
    I wanted GTA with horses and swords...and sword horses
    oh man how awesome would that be
    you just strap a bunch of swords to a horse so it's like a motherfucking death porcupine and then you just send it out racing into the enemy lines
    man they'd be all WHAT THE FUCKETHHHHHHHHHH
    James: hahaha

    For all that bitching it's pretty fun, I just....it could be more fun, I think.

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Bacon, I got a few good, hearty belly laughs out of that.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Yeah, I think the trick is not to do the main quest until you get up really high in level

    also, death porcupine

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    death porcupine

    blood everywhere


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6GdvwzYlTw

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    man I love that song

    lyrics are nonsense, but the music is a distillation of a certain kind of "badass"

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  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    Yeah, I think the trick is not to do the main quest until you get up really high in level

    also, death porcupine

    No the point isn't that the Oblivion gates were difficult, Bethesda did their best to make sure that no part of the game ever feel like a challenge

    The point is that they are dimensions of pure red and black boredom

    And there was one every 5 feet and if you didn't kill them they would just keep throwing monsters at you

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    well that sounds annoying

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  • m3nacem3nace Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I bought oblivion so I could play merp. It's exciting whenever there's a patch, it might be a bit slow progressing but damn it looks gorgeous!

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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The most dangerous enemies in oblivion are the goblins, after you reach about 25th level or so. They go from being scraggly little runts to being 8-foot tall trolls in silver armor using magic and high-grade weapons.

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  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    That was always my biggest problem with oblivion. All the coolest gear and magic abilities/enchantments were only available at higher levels, but in that game whenever you level up it's an arms race with the scaling enemies and unless you run a fucking spreadsheet for your character to boost your stats optimally you will end up losing.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    man, you guys are doing it way wrong.

    Just play like normal. If the enemies are starting to kick your ass, turn the difficulty down a notch or two. Things start getting easy? Turn it back up. Fuck, I don't know why people do all this planning and meta-gaming in order to avoid touching that fucking difficulty slider.

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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I usually keep the difficulty at 50%, but I spend the first 10-15 hours of the game only leveling up skills. I beat on the frozen people at that one shrine, then come into town wearing heavy armor, pickpocket some guard, and let them beat on me until my heavy armor levels up 10 times, rinse and repeat.

    I do things like that until I'm maxed out, more or less, and then I build a suit of armor. I use clothing and enchant it with sigil stones (fire shield, frost shield, shock shield), which creates no-weight unbreakable armor with higher armor values than anything else in the game.

    Go and grab a unique weapon or two, and then slide the difficulty all the way to max and start exploring.

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  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I couldn't get into Oblivion in the slightest. Fallout though, thats my shit.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Scosglen wrote: »
    That was always my biggest problem with oblivion. All the coolest gear and magic abilities/enchantments were only available at higher levels, but in that game whenever you level up it's an arms race with the scaling enemies and unless you run a fucking spreadsheet for your character to boost your stats optimally you will end up losing.

    hence the modding

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    what bugged me the most about oblivion was that they took everything that made Morrowind intersting or fun and threw it away. The environment was sterilized of its alien nature, there were no areas to accidently stumble into and get yourself killed. Even the rare artifact laying on a table in a dungeon has been replaced with the lowest grade knockoff. The game was changed in such a way that it took most of the fun out of exploration, one of the things that make a game like the Elder Scrolls series so interesting.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Whatever, I'm going to play this shit and it's going to be fun

    Tam on
  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    what bugged me the most about oblivion was that they took everything that made Morrowind intersting or fun and threw it away. The environment was sterilized of its alien nature, there were no areas to accidently stumble into and get yourself killed. Even the rare artifact laying on a table in a dungeon has been replaced with the lowest grade knockoff. The game was changed in such a way that it took most of the fun out of exploration, one of the things that make a game like the Elder Scrolls series so interesting.

    Couldn't agree more.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    Whatever, I'm going to play this shit and it's going to be fun

    That's it. Drink the Kool-Aid.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • VeritasVeritas Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    oh godshitdamnit

    I just kicked in my power button by mistake and I haven't saved any of this work in at least 2 hours

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Damn man... that sucks.... autosave didn't catch anything?

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2010
    Is anyone playing red dead redemption? I kinda want in on that shit, but I have no xbox anymore.

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  • VeritasVeritas Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Not that I know of, does Photoshop do that?

    e: Found some photoshop temp files from about the same time I turned it off.

    I guess those are scratch discs though and you can't recover files out of them.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Veritas wrote: »
    Not that I know of, does Photoshop do that?

    I've no idea... I just assumed that since my old Microsoft Word could be set up to save as often as every min. That photoshop could do something like that too.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Iruka wrote: »
    Is anyone playing red dead redemption? I kinda want in on that shit, but I have no xbox anymore.

    Yeah, although its' not one of the games I want to play online.

    Awesome game, though. Indiscriminately killing and skinning animals is one of my favorite activities.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Iruka wrote: »
    Is anyone playing red dead redemption? I kinda want in on that shit, but I have no xbox anymore.

    It's awesome. Got it on Ps3. Recommend 100%.

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2010
    When I get a job and a console, that and fallout will be the first things I buy. That should cover a few months of gaming.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    To all you guys that are just about to go into the work force, save $100 from every check. By the end of the year you'll have $2,400 to blow on what ever you want.

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  • Agent ColemanAgent Coleman Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Just picked up some india ink, WooO!

    ...I can wash the pen off in the sink, and it won't stain the sink or anything yes?

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  • Agent ColemanAgent Coleman Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    To all you guys that are just about to go into the work force, save $100 from every check. By the end of the year you'll have $2,400 to blow on what ever you want.

    Like a retirement savings plan!

    *is an old man apparently*

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    To all you guys that are just about to go into the work force, save $100 from every check. By the end of the year you'll have $2,400 to blow on what ever you want.

    i do this!

    but the stuff i typically end up blowing it on = bills.

    mully on
  • Nineteen HundredNineteen Hundred Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    So, hey, Autodesk has a program for students that lets you download free software. Anyone who's a current student and wants a free 13-month trial of Maya, send me a PM with your email and I'll send you an invite.

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  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Oblivion was kind of underwhelming for me, but this mod makes me want to pick it up again.

    Flay on
  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    What it would look like if [someone with hair like Nick Jonas] got a mohawk?

    Seriously, can anyone procure a picture (pictures?) of that?

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I spent my whole weekend sanding a coat of stain from a piece of furniture.
    It's now in my top ten list of things I don't reccommend you spend your weekend doing.

    Mustang on
  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2010
    this forum just reached 2500 threads, even.

    thought you all should know

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    this forum just reached 2500 threads, even.

    thought you all should know

    party time

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mully wrote: »
    To all you guys that are just about to go into the work force, save $100 from every check. By the end of the year you'll have $2,400 to blow on what ever you want.

    i do this!

    but the stuff i typically end up blowing it on = bills.

    I have a bills payment plan, but sometimes I end up spending a little more than I was expecting and I need to funnel some money from my Travel Funds.

    Travel is what I spend my savings on.

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  • ProspicienceProspicience The Raven King DenvemoloradoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mully wrote: »
    To all you guys that are just about to go into the work force, save $100 from every check. By the end of the year you'll have $2,400 to blow on what ever you want.

    i do this!

    but the stuff i typically end up blowing it on = bills.

    I have a bills payment plan, but sometimes I end up spending a little more than I was expecting and I need to funnel some money from my Travel Funds.

    Travel is what I spend my savings on.

    This was exactly what I've been trying to do for the last 3 years. But I only end up saving $100 every few months because I live very much paycheck to paycheck unfortunately.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Ugh... my phone bill is usually $60... today it came back as $213 Looks like I'm gonna have to funnel some money from my Travel fund!

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