I'm playing Earthbound on my HTC Hero using Snesoid. It's pretty awesome, never played it before. Good for under-duvet before bed gaming.

It was interesting from the respect that I can see how it influenced a load of RM games I played on here a few years ago.

I am grateful for the save state feature ;D

almost finished the new vegas DLC honest hearts. the new location was fairly interesting, but it's not otherwise that noteworthy. it's not unpleasant to get through or anything, and it's a good environment to just wander around, but i didn't feel like they really filled the environment up particularly well, nor did they make the story interesting. there's a SPOILER character in there that they built up throughout the game to be interesting and dynamic that doesn't manage to be even a little stimulating. the story is just boring. profound disappointment considering how much effort had gone into dead money.

i'd suggest staying away unless you really want more shit to do in new vegas, or can get it for free/discounted or something.

I'm playing it now. I didn't play Dead Money because it didn't sound interesting to me, but you're saying it's good/better?

I expected the DLC to be like new vegas, but more cohesive and complete. dunno if that's the case so far. Bowel Movement sure is chatty

edit that's not supposed to be a joke I'm just avoiding spoilers

yes, terraria is a really good game. ive been playing the heck out of it!!

we're working on getting a server up, and right now ren has a hamachi server available. i think he posted it somewhere here on the forums, but join IRC and lets play together!

where

did they raise the level cap on either of the DLCs? Cus I'm already on lvl 24 at the game itself and I dunno if I wanna keep playing when I max out I'm hoping I can get through the main story before getting too far past 30 not lvling up is boring as fuck.

yeah they each raise the cap by 5

they need to raise it by fifty I lvl up really fast. I even stopped getting all the perks which make you lvl faster. I just really like shooting and unlocking shit. I'm a ncr sharpshooter guy this time I think next time I play it I'll be a boxer/melee dude that seconds in pistols that'd be cool.

IF YOU DON'T FINISH FALLOUT FROM START TO FINISH WEARING JUST A LEATHER JACKET AND KNUCKLE-DUSTER IT'S NOT A FUCKING FALLOUT!!

I'm playing it now. I didn't play Dead Money because it didn't sound interesting to me, but you're saying it's good/better?

dead money can be pretty irritating at times, but i think it's a lot better than honest hearts. in dead money they really tried to make something that kinda tangentially fits into fallout but doesn't really feel much like fallout. it's pure survival horror, basically, but done better than pretty much anyone has done it for a long time.

although i don't really know if i want to say GO OUT AND BUY DEAD MONEY because a lot of people seem to dislike it. and i'm actually kinda inclined to say that the survivor horror works TOO WELL where the game kinda borders on UNPLEASANT TO PLAY despite being a remarkably well thought out experience. i feel like i look back on it more fondly than i felt about it when i first played it. i checked back and apparently i wrote a vaguely sizable post in this topic talking about how not so great it is, but i have apparently changed my mind on this. it's good stuff, just a lot more unnerving than the sort of experience you expect to get from fallout. this rubbed me the wrong way, but i think that's the idea.

either way, it's a lot more engrossing and carefully developed than honest hearts. you know pretty much all you want to know about honest hearts within the first few minutes of the DLC, and there's really no noteworthy moments throughout the whole thing. very colorless. you could tell that the guy who designed it was significantly more concerned with biblical references than how interesting or dynamic the story would be. good location though, but they didn't do a whole lot with it. the most fun you'll have in it is getting lost and just wandering around, which probably wasn't worth ten bucks.

I expected the DLC to be like new vegas, but more cohesive and complete. dunno if that's the case so far.

the two out are pretty cohesive and complete, but neither are really like new vegas. both go in wildly different thematic directions and present locations that are fundamentally different than what's in the rest of the game(particularly dead money). i have appreciated that about the dlcs thus far, though. shows that they're actually thinking about this and not just copy/pasting the same shit from the main game.

Bowel Movement sure is chatty

edit that's not supposed to be a joke I'm just avoiding spoilers

if you're talking about who i think you're talking about, the characters later get worse/more uninteresting.

sorry bowel movement is as good as it gets

did they raise the level cap on either of the DLCs? Cus I'm already on lvl 24 at the game itself and I dunno if I wanna keep playing when I max out I'm hoping I can get through the main story before getting too far past 30 not lvling up is boring as fuck.

i don't know if i'm just fiercely pragmatic but i found that i hit the dlc level cap pretty much just as i finished the dlc itself. they do a pretty good job of giving you lots of room to screw around before you reach the cap, so as long as you're not spending hours upon hours trying to genocide the local gecko populations, you should be good.

IF YOU DON'T FINISH FALLOUT FROM START TO FINISH WEARING JUST A LEATHER JACKET AND KNUCKLE-DUSTER IT'S NOT A FUCKING FALLOUT!!

truth.

fallout is different now. these days it's all about beating the game wearing grimy pre-war businesswear and a 9mm. that's a different cool though. back in the day you kinda had to create STRAPPING YOUNG LAD/LASS but my new vegas character was a creepy old man that nobody liked, complete with gray hair and a combover. not as cool as being able to play through the game as FULL RETARD though

IF YOU DON'T FINISH FALLOUT FROM START TO FINISH WEARING JUST A LEATHER JACKET AND KNUCKLE-DUSTER IT'S NOT A FUCKING FALLOUT!!

heck yea kings4life

yeah, the more I've played new vegas the more I've realized you really don't want a perfect character. all the advice you can find about tweaking stats at character generation is pretty dumb. I'm playing a knucklehead character (int 4) for the first time and it's working out just fine! apparently if your int is even lower you get a lot of different dialogue options, so maybe I'll try that next

they need to raise it by fifty I lvl up really fast. I even stopped getting all the perks which make you lvl faster. I just really like shooting and unlocking shit. I'm a ncr sharpshooter guy this time I think next time I play it I'll be a boxer/melee dude that seconds in pistols that'd be cool.

never take any of the level up or experience perks!! stay weak and destitute

apparently if your int is even lower you get a lot of different dialogue options, so maybe I'll try that next

woah i didn't know that.  i'm gonna try this.

fallout is different now. these days it's all about beating the game wearing grimy pre-war businesswear and a 9mm. that's a different cool though. back in the day you kinda had to create STRAPPING YOUNG LAD/LASS but my new vegas character was a creepy old man that nobody liked, complete with gray hair and a combover. not as cool as being able to play through the game as FULL RETARD though

ORRRRR a chinaman wearing a pyjama (vault suit), a red baseball cap and a baseball bat (cork gun or whatever it's called as alternative) with the blessed birthname HIDEO KOJIMA. Finish. THE. GAAAAAME!!!! / Will you finish the game ... or the game finish YOU?


EDIT aaa the full retard would be fun, looks like i'm not even being creative or funny. i just like the idea of BARELY making it alive for most of the time and possibly SOMEHOW leveling up and finally kicking everyone's ass with just a duster (just possibly, good alternative is just being beaten by and running from everyone in every turn). 


Just pick all the hazardous, random/useless, bizarre perks (WILDLAND ROVER!! MYSTUNE!! (A DOG APPEARS AND GRANTS 10 or -10 LUCK DEPENDING ON UNKNOWN FACTORS!) MR. X (mysterouge man clad in trenchcoat helps you time to time?!)!!)

Hmm, Rhetorics... or Erotics? Mumble mumble, tough, TOUGH choice...

went to hell with sarevok with a fuck load of ocean water made a base under water on the bottom left edge of the map just to get a glitch that made the map unplayable in network mode and only the first 2 steps of the building processes are saved

I think if they tweaked the difficulty and xp rate a bit more it would be spot on. I'm some sniper recon baret wearin' long blonde combed back dark shade wearin' badass and I got my dude all tricked out and I really like that playing on hardcore mode makes the game a little more involving and difficult. I have to count on loading my companions up with shit instead of carrying everything on my own and you can actually try wearing diff kinds of apparel instead of gettin the fuckin powersuit at the beginning of the game making everything else obsolete. The part where you have to get into the mine fields near sloan and kill the deathclaws was insane hard and I barely beat it after like fifteen tries cus them things kept kicking my ass. And where you run through the artillery fire to get to the boomers was fun, I had some trouble keepin my robo dog and that ghoul dude alive but it was actually entertaining.

I like this one way more than fallout three, fallout three was too much like oblivion fucking dungeon crawling shit with shallow stories and characters this one it seems like I'm hardly ever crawling through a place that doesn't have something atleast remotely interesting going on around it.

also I hated how in fallout threee you'd get to the point to where you could just one hit everything I thought it made that game incredibly boring. does the wild wasteland perk really make a difference? I picked that when I started so I dunno what its like to play it standard but it seems a lil goofier than the original fallout at times but I really like it.

apparently if your int is even lower you get a lot of different dialogue options, so maybe I'll try that next

woah i didn't know that.  i'm gonna try this.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS IN NEW VEGAS

seriously, i played as a 1 intelligence character for like five hours and noticed only TWO LOCATIONS - helios one & the new vegas medical clinic - that actually had intelligence-specific dialogue, and it only spanned three or four NPCs. i'd imagine there may be more than three npcs that actually factor in intelligence when talking to you, but it's probably not too much more than a very small handful. i went to a lot of the dialogue-heavy locations and found no difference in dialogue. i guess it wasn't too much of a surprise considering how much unique dialogue they'd need to record, but it is a shame that they started doing it for some locations but didn't go all the way. what they did was pretty cool. asking doctor usanagi SO YOU SELL PLANTS and actually being less intelligent than fantastic were two pretty cool moments. it's just not worth making a low intelligence character to do it. i think you can get the same effect by drinking a couple of the different wasteland tequilas to lower your intelligence temporarily, so it may just be worth it to find out which npcs have unique dialogue, drink all the tequila, and then talk to them. won't be as big of a time-waster.

but if this idea intrigues either of you, i suggest you DEFINITELY load up either fallout 1 or 2 and play with a 1 intelligence character if you've never done it before. both games have(afaik) a full game script for a mentally handicapped main character. all of your dialogue options will be unintelligible grunts and mumbles and everyone in the game will be dismissive of you. you actually can't do most of the quests in the game, as most people won't even talk to you.

i've actually played through most of the first fallout this way, and it turns an already odd experience into something totally ridiculous. it's my understanding that they did more with the idea in fallout 2, but i haven't played any serious amount of time in it with a 1 intelligence character. need to do that sometime.

only dumb people can be made slaves? interesting thesis, black isle studios.