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Never used horses in Oblivion and Skyrim for long, with fast travel and the worlds never being big enough to really need a mount, I've never really liked them much.
Generally I dismount way too many times to pick flowers, fight random encounters or get a better sense of awareness.
I'll probably never use cars myself if the world space styles stay the same and you can get around on foot pretty quickly and it feels better to wander the wastes that way but if you can put guns and battering rams on them, hell, I'll use them every now and then for the hell of it.
Now we're getting somewhere.
Why, in the year of our lord two thousand and fourteen, do I have to mod in Hoverchair? That shit should come standard with the game.
Now playing: Teardown and Baldur's Gate 3 (co-op)
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Best thing about horses in Skyrim; they allow fast travel while overburdened.
the Fallout BOS game by microforte had the midwest brotherhood basically being a morally grey Caesar's legion
they used brutal tactics and slave labor of tribes that refused to assimilate, so they were bad, but they were also educating settlements that joined of their own accord and had an apprenticeship system so that a few people dying would never lead to things being lost. They were devoted not just to finding and protecting technology but inventing and creating it
I wish the legion was like them. In fact I wish instead of the legion we had gotten the midwest brotherhood, they're a much more compelling faction (basically what the brotherhood would be if they allowed new members and started claiming territory)
I mean sure most of the writing in that game was childish as shit but I really like where the brotherhood went in it
I should really get around to playing it for longer then the intro movie.
The highwayman came riding
Up to the old inn door
Was anyone else disappointed with the Potomac River in Fallout 3? It only had a presence in a quarter of the map and dried up further inland, felt like a waste.
Yeah, it makes sense the area would just be a giant crater but seems ripe for Enclave shenanigans.
I think I must have put in over 500 hours between my PS3 and 360 versions of Fallout 3.
Still going on PC.
Have you played Beyond Boulder Dome? Plays like a new DLC, it's a new world space with a whole new questline, armor weapons, etc.
I'm guessing you already played that along with the rest of the big ones but still, always worth mentioning. Probably still my favorite quest mod along with everything Someguy has put out (New Vegas Bounties, Russel, Inheritance).
The Big Dam Battle is barely an afterthought if you've finished the DLC with at least one maxed combat skill, what are you finding difficult? Heck, even armed companions will likely make it a cake walk.
oh.
Hold on, I believe I have a satellite canon to hack.
Got a good idea for a ghoul scientist build. A nice energy weapon alternative to my Raider set in my NV playthrough.
It mostly was, yeah. But I had the same thought about the Midwestern BOS when playing.
And no nonsense about sexism, racism, or the like. If you were willing and able to be of use, they'd deploy you.
Did an LP of it on the forums a bit back. It's not a great game, but it's good fun.
And it has the single most obscenely overpowered weapon in the series.
Why I fear the ocean.
The .50 MG with DU rounds? I still remember that monster. Ammo was so heavy I had everybody packing extra rounds for it.
Ma Deuce?
She was a fine lady, and no mistake, but that's not what I was thinking of.
Gauss. Minigun.
Why I fear the ocean.
Well yeah, but when was the last time something like how heavy a weapon "really" is stop game developers from making in available to a player? You REALLY want to go in and take out all those M134 miniguns out of FPS games inspired by Predator? Cause that would be pretty anti-fun.
Same thing applies here, nuclear bazookas and rapid fire explosive death for everyone!
They would basically have to go the Skyrim route and make mounts not that much faster than walking.
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As for animations:
Some of the reason why Bethesda has had such terrible animations is that there is just so much for them to take into account when animating. Its the freedom, variety and the fact that NPCs behave by all the same rulesets as the PC. Like its also just that theyre not good at it. But theres a difference between programming animations for something like Ryse vs Skyrim.
Also Skyrim's faces and bodies looked fantastic for how many there were, and the animations largely held up given how many you could do, and how many contexts they found themselves in.
Like if you were to take a random NPC from another game and put it in the world of Skyrim, it would end up looking wrong, unless you had access to Rockstar's euphoria money.
Theres just a lot to consider, from landscape variation to movement in first and third persons, to being able to wield and wear so many different items in a huge variety of contexts. I was playing wolfenstien recently and the amount of shenanigans enemies got into with their animations (from stretching too far around corners, to holding guns out dead straight and sort of moving like their legs are independent of their bodies, like Cylons), I feel like Bethesda gets a lot of the flak when yes their aniamtions arent the best, but they do so much else to immerse you in the game, whereas other games just have shit animations and nothing else for you to fall back on.
I think Skyrim was a huge step up, so like if you still think Skyrim is awful, I'd say youre going to be dissapointed by the next Bethesda rpg. I mean you put Skyrim next to Fallout 3 and theres enormous improvement in faces, bodies and animations. Especially since its fuck hard to make First person medieval combat look right outside of games which are basically dedicated to it and nothing else, and which also dont have third person combat and a variety of enemies types.
The Khans are surprisingly shitty drug dealers compared to the NCR.
the gauss minigun was a conical enemy/ally/vehicle/small structure/tree/even-the-goddamn-roaches deletion tool
Truly this universe is my porn.
Couple reloads later I fell in love with that gauss rifle.
*lost in flashback to when his Rain, with her kung fu skills, crushed the eye sockets of an Enclave soldier*
Feels like something Macgyver would come up with armed only with broken rifle parts and a pinball machine.
Dudes care about their hair too, modders.
It escalates quickly.
I wish I could make it in New Vegas. The nail gun just isn't as good.