Maybe they patched that in at some point? My first character seemed to get the same amount of XP regardless of what I made.
They did, it was added in a later patch.
I actually played Skyrim today. Did you know that you can pirate the DLCs and just plug them into a legit version of the game?
Quake II with the berserker mod and a few custom sounds. I can’t get the super shotty sound replaced right no matter what :C
I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite for some time and finished it today. All I can say us: my minds fucked. I don’t even know if I understand what just happened.
Here’s a timeline that should help.
One thing about the game I find particularly neat is the subplot that [[color=’#171717’]Fink and his brother were using the tears to duplicate and market stuff from the future, including from Rapture.] Did you notice how all the diagetic music pieces are covers of famous songs?
Took a peak at the timeline, just for shits and giggles…
HOLY HELL, IS THAT A MINDFUCK. I think I couldn’t enjoy Bioshock, just because the storyline is THIS bounce-all-around-the-place… (And I look for storylines. Bad storyline? Can’t understand the plot? Well good bye, game!)
It makes a fair amount of sense in the game, really. It’s only after the very end that you just have to lean back and sit for half an hour thinking about it. And then you go back and replay the entire game just to see all the foreshadowing you missed.
I finally gave Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl a chance. The first two times I tried to play it, I got scared off by the trader’s “you have to remember ALL THIS SHIT” tutorial spiel. Third time’s the charm, I guess. I just got the “I want to be rich” ending; a bit underwhelming, but it was a fun journey. Maybe I’ll mod it up and play again. Maybe I’ll move onto Call of Pripyat.
You got one of the “false” endings. Play it again :ninja: .
Yeah, that un-fucked my mind a little. And I noticed that blacked out part as well. I was pretty fine following it up until the end, then I was like .___. Wtf just happened?
I kind of figured, given that the whole Strelok thing went unresolved. The game really seemed to funnel me right to that monolith, though.
When you play again make sure you pay attention really closely to your list of missions around the time you return from Yantar.
I am also playing SoC, and I’m in the Red Forest. The radiation is really making me mad though. I can’t get near anything to use as cover without getting heavy radiation poisoning.
I loved Shadows, hated Clear Skies, and still haven’t gotten more than five minutes into Call of Pripyat. One of these days…
I’ve been playing the half life series all the way through since yesterday (I’ve had a stretch of days off with nothing better to do than video games and guitar) and I just realized that the citadel is a big ass thumper that keeps ant lions away from city 17.
Edit: also, I need to stop playing these…everytime I do, I want a new game T_T
And Edit: It just occurred to me that nihalanth could be a fully matured advisor.
Playing SoC again. Just fished the documents out of Lab X16 and was ordered by the Barkeep to head to the Brain Scorcher. And lo and behold - a task to meet a “guide” showed up magically in my PDA that I didn’t notice last time I played. Must have to do with the main story progression.
This game has done that several times: randomly assigned me a goal without my having interacted with any sort of NPC or really done anything to receive the goal. Barkeep told me to go the brain scorcher. Nobody told me to meet the guide. What the hell? Meeting the Duty general is the other major example I can think of. He apparently has a task for you and wants to meet you, but absolutely nobody told me that; it just shows up in your PDA when you get to the Bar.
Does the game fuck with your mission list or something?
The barkeeper should tell you to go see the Duty leader. I don’t know where the guide one comes from but that’s the one that I was talking about earlier. That starts the quest line to get the “true” set of endings.
And I tried playing SoC today but my saves are deciding they don’t want to load.
Edit: Also just found out that the Metal Slug collection was released for PC. Wish there was a way to get infinite continues though.
It doesn’t fuck with it, really. I think what I discovered is that the missions I missed the first time showed up in the “Diary” section of my PDA. I thought that the Diary was basically an area that archived all the information you were told so you don’t get fucked later if you forget the code to a door, or something, but it’s also a place where your character records his impressions and occasionally drops really important plot-related info. It’s just that… there’s no notice when that happens. You basically have to have the presence of mind to check the diary any time you accomplish anything relevant to the main quest so you don’t miss something important. It’s kind of a wonky way to deliver the game’s story, but it’s still a great game.
It could also be that the localization is kind of bad, and a lot of the dialogue is really dense, so I may have missed stuff. Often you’ll have a written dialogue piece in the dialogue window, and then that character’s voiceover is saying the same thing, but in different words, so it doesn’t match the written dialogue, which makes it surprisingly hard to understand.
Stalker: Shadows Of Chernobyl gives this one very important story mission as if it were an unimportant side mission, while at the same time giving you another very important side mission that if you finish the wrong one first you can’t go back to the other one. They do this intentionally to make you miss it, so that the “good” endings of the game are difficult to find, and make them even more rewarding than they already are. It actually works in a weird sort of way.
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I started playing Doom 3 Lost Missions and Saints Row the 3rd. I might Fraps SR3 side missions for the hell of it. Could be entertaining. But that means waiting until after breakfast in two hours when everyone is awake in the house…
So I restarted water hazard on HL2 because I missed the vorticough achievement, and I decided to just listen to him and talk to him. And he said something interesting concerning Nihilanth, something that makes me believe what I put in my post earlier: he refers to Nihilanth as the lesser master, and refers to a greater master.