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Sprocket Floss
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Up until I downloaded keys to the city for Crackdown recently, I had only ever (as well as I can remember) played games in their vanilla versions. But I can say that Crackdown became one of my favourite games rather than one I just enjoyed very much. This led me to wondering what the best games of all time are if you take into consideration everything you can add in the way of mods, downloads and even gameshark codes. You may not like Oblivion normally, say, but love it with a very specific set of additions.
Since I'm totally new to mods or downloads or changes of virtually any kind, I'd be interested to hear about some of these additions and your long-winded justifications for those minute balance changes. Hopefully we can find out if the typical list of "traditional" best games is radically different to the one with all of these alterations taken into account.
Also it probably goes without saying but legal is what we're going for here. I'm sorry if that makes things less comprehensive.
My contribution is obviously garbage, but Crackdown is one of my top 5 games ever with the download taken into account because I thought the constant waves of enemies in the normal game made it difficult to piss about in a sandboxy way. Keys is almost perfect like that.
Since I'm totally new to mods or downloads or changes of virtually any kind, I'd be interested to hear about some of these additions and your long-winded justifications for those minute balance changes. Hopefully we can find out if the typical list of "traditional" best games is radically different to the one with all of these alterations taken into account.
Also it probably goes without saying but legal is what we're going for here. I'm sorry if that makes things less comprehensive.
My contribution is obviously garbage, but Crackdown is one of my top 5 games ever with the download taken into account because I thought the constant waves of enemies in the normal game made it difficult to piss about in a sandboxy way. Keys is almost perfect like that.
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We'd play "Ironman" Diablo, which means that it would be four of us, and the rules were
You can never go into town unless absolutely required for a quest.
You can never talk to any NPCs unless required by a quest.
You can never get services from Griswold the Blacksmith, Pepin the Healer, or Adria the Witch
If you die, you have to restart in town, and that is the only time you are allowed to use Pepin's healing
If you die and no one has a TP, you're walking duder.
This makes the game hard as/fun as hell if you're playing with the right group of people. We'd play LAN (or more accurately daisy-chained serial... old school) so we could talk to each other and figure out strategies while playing. We usually had one Mage, one Rogue, and two Warriors, but we'd mix it up every so often.
Most fun I ever had playing a dungeon crawl.
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Honestly, I was the drunk one and even I couldn't sleep for fear of my head falling off and reciting Shakespeare.
On a similar note. Rez High is fantastic. Like moreso than normal.
It's funny as hell to see this big badass Chris go through a cutscene with Jill's voice. And it makes the "Jill sandwhich" scene pretty homoerotic as well.
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So yes, health cheats in the GTA games.
Don't have anything shocking to add, like playing Guitar Hero with a regular controller while wearing a pink tutu and a cat on your head.
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After I got bored with the missions in GTA3 (like, 3 hours into the game), and then I got bored with random fucking around (about 6 hours in), I started putting in codes for crazy pedestrians and pedestrians with guns. I referred to it as "Riot Mode," and its the most fun I ever had in a GTA game. The carnage! I think I need to reinstall that shit now.
I wonder if a game like GTA would work if you couldn't die at all. There would be plenty of ways to fail a mission even if your own death was taken out as an option. But I bet there would be shitloads of escort missions.
And a tactical cover system.
Basically, they should make it Uncharted in a city. With cars and whores.
Well, GTA has infinite lives too. I think they were talking about simply not dying to begin with.
I would actually be very happy with this. I mean, it's basically the way I play anyway, but still.
What are the codes for no traffic and no police?
That and you lost your weapons and armor, which can suck toward the beginning of the game when you don't have the funds to replace them easily, or haven't found many packages.
Zombie mode GTA sounds awesome, but it would be better if it was co-op.
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And can you still do missions with all of that off? Because if so...wow.
Doing missions isn't the point of zombie mod. :P
Also I'm an idiot because I haven't played GTA for so long, it's more like angry civilians + lighter traffic + no wanted level.
When I first got GH2 (for 360, my first GH) I played sitting down for a couple weeks until a friend told me to get my ass off the couch, and I've never looked back. So much better.
We never get sick of that.
I think its funnier when you have bloody mess and use brass knuckles or a crowbar. A smile always forms on my face when I see a rat explode after contact from a blunt weapon.
Screw that. Bloody mess+unarmed+power fist and just splatter people's torsos across the wasteland with a single punch.
I prefer playing without bloody mess, since there are just so many death animations, and some of the coolest ones don't come up if you have bloody mess. But IMO, if you're going to go with bloody mess, the pure awesome factor demands unarmed.
Edit: Beat'd:(