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Alitare 
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 Posted: December 05 2011 at 17:18 |
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I have 65 hours in Skyrim, a full-time job, college, AND a family/3 year old son. And no, I don't neglect any of them. I don't watch any tv. It's freed me from the bonds of pain and anguish,
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 05 2011 at 17:35 |
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...do you really? I never f**kin know with you Dusty, and these days alot of kids have kids
 Although that was 2 days ago so he's probably thrown a few more hours on. What really frightened me was the 900+ hours he logged into WoW. In a year. While also doing full time school and some work. I don't think he ever slept. But yeah, games are great to escape reality. Granted, I do carry a warhammer with me and randomly encounter dragons in my daily life. |
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KoS
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Posted: December 05 2011 at 17:39 |
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I've seen people on WoW during classes...
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Alitare
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Posted: December 05 2011 at 18:40 |
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I do have a child, and he does make me want to crack my skull over a brick, sometimes. He's just turned three and, apparently, he's supposed to have a full grasp of writing letters by now, so I spent some time working on alphabet work books with him before building what he called a 'boat out of Duplo blocks'. It looked more to me like a big bunch of blocks stacked together without any coherent form, but that's just me. I'm not one to argue with a three year old.
I'm just now finishing the last of the Dark Brotherhood questline. I've played this game intensely, and have more than a couple characters with interesting builds, but I've yet to even set foot in the Bard's College. Is it a guild-type quest line similar to The Companions and the College of Magic? I've almost finished restoring the Thieves guild, all I gotta do is a few more odd jobs in a couple holds and I'm set. I also want to become a vampire. I've gotten the disease that leads into vampirism, but that was on my werewolf-fighter-smithy character. I cured it with a potion. I wonder if you can be both a Werewolf AND a vampire in Skyrim. That's one of my new goals. And even if I have two characters above level thirty (one badass Khajit dagger assassin well on his way to 50), I've yet to join a faction (Stormcloak/Imperial). Hell, I've beaten the main quest line and have yet to even begin one of the faction quests. I haven't discovered a single daedric artifact. I haven't gotten married. I have only become the Thane of ONE (Dragonsreach, of course) Jarl. I haven't bought a house. If it wasn't for Shadowmere, the mount you receive from the Dark Brotherhood, I wouldn't have even had a horse yet. I've maxed a few skills with my assassin (100 pickpocket, smithing, and sneak), but I've left (very unfortunately) alchemy and enchanting alone, despite them both having been revamped to be much more fun. I used to screw my mage characters over in Oblivion. I'd get to 100 alchemy, be level 15+, but still possess myself of a pitiable 25-30 destruction, which is impossible to effectively utilize on medium difficulty or beyond. Damn Clannfears would unceremoniously beat my characters into pulps. I love how they made alchemy and enchanting a much more 'involving' aspect. The monsters are no longer 'awkwardly placed.' There won't be random minotaur masters strolling down main roadways just 'cause you're level 33. I also do a bit of book collecting in the game. It's interesting that, in literature, 4's events are referred to as 'The Oblivion Crisis', and there's a book within the game detailing all the major plot events. I've yet to finish Oblivion's primary quest line, by the way.
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 07:26 |
He'd play while studying, not sure how. One day he put in 13 hours. What's sad is 937 hours in one year, I know others in WoW have easily topped that and those that have been around from the start. Seriously, it must be 5000+ hours! Well goodness Dusty, and the Bards College was a let down for me. It exemplifies one beef I have with TES and that is it's all questing. Retarded I know....but I had slight hope you could actually learn stuff there, like play a lute around bars for money. Shoulda known better, just more random questing. I havn't pursued it at all yet. Actually I've not touched Skyrim in days now. My TV is small and sh*tty quality (have to sit in front of it to barely read anything and can't even see my radar at top) but I got a free, large good quality monitor from Craig's list  Gunna hook it up today and play on something that isn't horrid. I would restart my game to savor it's full glory if I wasn't already at level 28 and put in 50 hours. edit: Technically I'm on the last thieves guild mission, but it gives you an item to return and....I dont wanna return it yet  I got vampirism, early on, and my n00bness didnt allow me to know. I started seeing weird things (like a burning going outside) and some clues from people. I dicked around and it got too late, people started attacking me. I guess you can only be out at night? Can you even be around people if they all attack? Being a vampire seems sucky Edited by JJLehto - December 06 2011 at 07:34 |
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Alitare
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 12:52 |
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I'll experiment with it.
And I know, man! I daydreamed of luting it up in some bedraggled ol' horse-stop joint in the midst of Tamriel, hopping from drunken den to carousing coven, all in hopes of being the greatest lute-maestro in the kingdom. I was severely disappointed. Some of the game's aspects absolutely envelop me, and the combat has become such a visceral, heated aspect. My TV's pretty good quality, but it still cuts off my radar. This also happens in Red Dead Redemption. I think I'll be taking a break from Skyrim. I finished the Stormcloak Rebellion quests, which were very disappointing. It's literlly just one extended, blurry swordight against enemies that are awfully easy to kill. Maybe it's in my equipment, though. I have a necklace of extreme wielding which confers a bonus of 35% to one-handed. I have a legendary glass dagger, with the nightingale gloves which add another 25% to one-handed. Add that to my base one-handed score of 60, and you've got some vicious damage. It's probably over 100 with the ring I have (Adding 15% I think). If 25% is 15, that's 60 + 20 (gloves) + 9 (ring) + 15 (necklace) = 104. I have an ebony dagger, but I don't have the smithing perk that allows for double ebony upgrading. When I do, though, I have gauntlets, a ring, and a necklace that all increase smithing abilities by 12-17 % each. And it's extreme, anyway. Given this game's level system, what happens when your character maximizes all of his primary abilities? I think I'll have stopped playing the game for a vast period of time before I had 100s in seven or eight abilities. As soon as I buy another copy of Mass Effect I'll be playing through both it and the sequel again (have the sequel sitting in my games box, but I'm neurotic enough to force myself into playing through the games in chronological order. I may be getting Batman Asylum and the sequel for Christmas, but I dunno. I don't know if I'd rather have that or...? I have a small, but formidable list of games I want to get. I finally got the Rock Band 3 keyboard not too long ago and have been playing on pro keys (only played regular stye on expert one time when I first opened it before I was bored). Oh, lordy, it's difficult. But I can play John Lennon's Jealous Guy over and over and over again. I was feeling insecure, she might not love me, anymore. I'm just a jealous gu-uy! Come on! *whistles* So anyway, I decided to take a break from Skyrim to hop back into Grand Theft Auto 4, which has steadily become my favorite in the series. I've realized something, though. I could never play a couple GTA games in seamless succession. It's the kind of game I can play for hours on end, but I can only fully appreciate by taking half-year breaks after mass gaming sessions. What I really wish is to get some free time together with a few of my friends so we can play some D&D. It's been ages and I'm itchin', somewhat. I have some great ideas and I love DMing. I miss it, haven't played an actual, consistent campaign (either PC or DM) in a couple years. Goshdamn it! I'd play some good PC games but my laptop no longer has functioning sound (I was angry with my son and job and other things so, out of anger I whacked a fist against it and dislodged the sound card.) That, and PC gaming has become so frustrating for me I only use it to play old PSX, SNES, and N64 roms. I hate not having maximum graphical settings on new games, buying a new laptop is not affordable, I hate system crashes and not being able to just pause, drop the controller, and go wipe a 3-year old's ass when duty calls. PC gaming for parents is wretched. You have to actually waste time installing and uninstalling games, where with my 360 it's pop in and go. Skyrim on two systems: PC: Buy the game, put it in, install the game (featuring: running the installer, inputting the obnoxious cd keys/security codes), configure settings, configure controls, spend an hour in depressed anguish trying to balance how nice the game looks with how choppy and broken it runs, hate yourself for not having 2,500 dollars on a new laptop, finally accept the muddy, murky state as long as it runs at least 40 FPS. And hey, if you lose the cd key/security code information, you're screwed. 360: Buy the game, put it in, play immediately. (Or, if you have Live) Buy, put in, have a 3 minute update, play almost immediately. It'll be on high (maybe not highest, but it'll run more smoothly on a higher setting than most laptops) Not to mention ya got other considerations: Xbox 360 and Skyrim? $300. Skyrim and PC with specifications for a comparable playing experience? 1,050+. My $1,700 laptop couldn't even run it on medium settings. So what the hell? What do these c**ksuckers expect me to do, starve my kid and work triple-overtime just to get a machine that can run the newer games? Then, with a PC, there are system crashes, security codes, viruses (my 30 never got a virus, dammit), and all other manner of balderdash. I'm no Xbox 360 fanboy. I'm also not a hardcore gamer, not on the surface (always will be at heart). I can't sit up until 3 in the morning playing Final Fantasy and listening to Pink Floyd anymore. Skyrim is the only new game I've bought since Mass Effect 2 over a year ago (Red Dead Redemption was borrowed, GTA 4 is a gift, and I returned my copy of Final Fantasy 13 to help pay for Mass Effect 2). I'm merely assessing my experiences with each gaming platform. Now, I love the ability to play practically any NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, and N64 game imaginable at a few clicks, and with being able to plug in my wired USB 360 controller, but for games released in the past six years or so, I can't handle it. It's so frustrating it makes me want to rip out my hair. I'm rambling. Lord I was born a rambling man!
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 15:31 |
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Holy Christwagons what a post. When it comes to verbosity you even put me to shame friend.
IDK why I was expecting something different like that, Oblivon was nothing but questing and never had anything like that. Game is epic enough anyway. oh and nevermind that TV stuff, turns out I would be unable to have sound so screw it. I dont need a big TV with perfect specs like my bro and friends do. I did but Dark Souls today. Nowhere near ready to play but was tough to find Demon's Souls, so it was a pre-emptive strike. Uncharted 3 will be easy to find so no rush there. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 16:36 |
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That was tl;dr
From what I gather from my mate, you cannot be both a vampire and a werewolf as I think werewolves are immune to vampirism. As I said in a previous post, the whole Steam requirement for installing and playing Skyrim on PC is a bit sucky. Edited by James - December 06 2011 at 16:39 |
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Alitare
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 19:47 |
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Maybe I hold these forums to the same standard as a typical conversation, thus reacting as such. I type in much the same way as I would speak. If it's a topic I'm very interested in, I can blabber on incessantly. Usually, though, I keep quiet, as made notable by my infinitesimal post-to-time as a member ratio. I've been a member for three years and have yet to crack the 3,000 mark. That's barely a couple posts a day.
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progkidjoel
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 21:37 |
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One of the devs from Obsidian (who worked on Fallout: New Vegas [a game running on Bethesda's horrible Gamebryo engine {Which Skyrim still runs on a heavily modified version of, despite Bethesda saying it was a new engine}]) has weighed in on the lag issue, and there's a ton of Xbox users reporting the same issue now. This is just getting more and more interesting.
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Epignosis
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 21:40 |
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Replaying Secret of Evermore.
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Alitare
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 23:47 |
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Secret of Evermore? You Old-School Rob. I used to play Secret of Mana all the time in my high school computer repair class, along with Super Metroid, E.V.O the Search for Eden, Mega Man X, Link to the Past, Final Fantasies IV - VI, and Chrono Trigger.
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 11:36 |
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SO much tech talk Joelsy.
It'd be terrible if I just said Im gunna stick my head in the sand and long as it functions I wont think about it? Also Dark Souls, know anything of it/have it? edit: I guess might as well note, I have noticed the "freeze step" a bit more often, as well as pretty heavy lag but only in a crowded part of Whiterun, usually. Still though that happens infrequently and can't say I've seen a progression, just intermittent. Overall running fine. Hopefully it's just what it is and not giving up the ghost. Hasn't gotten any worse since. Yet. edit edit: ah ok, yeah that was over my head Joel but reading the comments pretty much sums it up. Well, sounds like it is just an issue with the workings of PS3 itself (thus why nothing has fixed it for you) and possibly, it's inevitable it'll get worse? Sure hope not  especially since I HAD this for 360 but couldn't find my controller so I traded it for the PS3 version!!!Edited by JJLehto - December 07 2011 at 11:47 |
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tamijo
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 11:48 |
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SC2
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Horizons
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 12:52 |
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Yea anyone here have Dark Souls?
Could you gimme your opinion on it, i didn't play it's predecessor.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:00 |
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Well I played and loved Demon's Souls, I bought Dark Souls just to have it ready, curious if its just like the same thing or not.
Like Demon's Souls... I think probably no one knows of it |
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:01 |
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I love Morrowind. But I can't understand Oblivion. I just started and I can't join the Mages Guild.
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:02 |
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It looks really slow paced, and for some reason it reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:09 |
Damn, never did play that.... It is slow, takes time to get into. Demon's Souls was punishingly difficult, like literally mistakes are costly. It's intense but oh so rewarding and deff not a game for everyone. My bro and friend were WAY into it, me I just liked it. Was a bit too intense for me <_< Also my beef with the game was there was NO info, like it gave you nothing. Reliant completely on the wiki I bought Dark Souls though so lol |
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:17 |
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SotC is a dark and beautiful game. If you don't know anything about it - the game consists of only bosses, 2 weapons, and a horse. That's it.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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