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[StephenFulford]

Since we've got no real discussions going, I thought I'd start us off with one off-topic thread. By being a Bun Minion of the Grew, I'm guessing that most of us like Mass Effect and we'll have many threads dedicated to discussing aspects of Mass Effect alone.

 

In this thread feel free to discuss other games, your favourites, new titles, titles you're hyped for, etc. We all have different tastes to varying degrees, and it's fun to share.

 

I'll start us out by sharing some of my favourite series. I consider Mass Effect to be my favourite, but I also love Dark Souls, XCOM, the Elder Scrolls and Fallout (especially hardcore mode in NV). I pick up a lot of varying genres but find I have the most fun with RPGs,  strategy games and management games. I generally only play multiplayer games with friends and family, and I own way more games than I have time for.

[The Most Sneaky Of Foxes]

Dead Space, man. It's a joint favourite of mine, alongside ME >_> 85% of the terror I have experienced in my life is a direct result of playing that game. Plus Isaac is so very loveable and has great muscle tone >_>

 

Hmm, what else. Zelda is awesome - favourite is a mash-up between Twilight Princess and Wind Waker. Pokemon is also the bomb. And I agree on Elder Scrolls and Fallout; you can't beat open-world RPGs.

 

Favourite game style is RPG. I am generally a loner when I play games to help with immersion, but when I want to goof off I bother my friends to help me with achievements >_>

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

"Plus Isaac is so very loveable and has great muscle tone >_>"

 

dem ladder camera angles <_<

 

ATM I'd like a Poke'mon Z, making my first team for combat today with all the IVs/EVs/Hidden Ability/Egg Move/BP Item nonsense.  (Nothing else to do, now that I completed the Poke'dex.)

 

Also Stephen I need your FC again I accidentally deleted it when I got to 100 Friends (do way too many trades >_>)

 

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[StephenFulford]

No problem: 0748-3253-8444

I cannot devote that much time to pokemon. I've avoided getting sucked back in for some time, and you won't convince me to return until I graduate... That's a lie. I'll probably be playing again in no time. I'm too weak-willed.

 

Do you have any mods for Skyrim? I run a bunch that add realism.

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

I only played Skyrim like once, unfortunately. Unless you were speaking to Sneaky. Who is of course a master of all things modding, with her tablet. <_<

 

Also I'll have you added by like tomorrow morning, in E4 so I can get enough money to grind at Rest. Le Wow

[Derpy]

I only played Skyrim like once, unfortunately. Unless you were speaking to Sneaky. Who is of course a master of all things modding, with her tablet.

 

Also I'll have you added by like tomorrow morning, in E4 so I can get enough money to grind at Rest. Le Wow

 

You ONLY played Skyrim once?

 

This one does not understand. I have spent well over 600+ hours across Skyrim PS3 and PC.

 

Did any of you get into the ESO betas? They removed the rule that stated I couldn't share screenshots or videos and I can get some next test Friday.

[StephenFulford]

Unfortunately, I'm not all that excited about ESO. I've never really enjoyed MMOs, and though I could probably enjoy it by taking it slow and just exploring all of Tamriel, I can't justify the fee. If I were ever going to give an MMO a go, it would be that one though. I'll wait for the next singleplayer RPG Bethesda releases.

[Derpy]

Unfortunately, I'm not all that excited about ESO. I've never really enjoyed MMOs, and though I could probably enjoy it by taking it slow and just exploring all of Tamriel, I can't justify the fee. If I were ever going to give an MMO a go, it would be that one though. I'll wait for the next singleplayer RPG Bethesda releases.

I am basically a TES fanboy. I already bought Oblivion and Skyrim for both PS3 and PC + I got the anthology for PC so I have all 5 games for PC and I got ESO beta and will most likely play that too.

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

You ONLY played Skyrim once?

 

This one does not understand. I have spent well over 600+ hours across Skyrim PS3 and PC.

 

Did any of you get into the ESO betas? They removed the rule that stated I couldn't share screenshots or videos and I can get some next test Friday.

It was fun, but once I finished the main quest, I lost interest. There weren't many mods when I started (played near release) so once I hit the point where I had mainly radial quests left, I was done with it.

[Derpy]

It was fun, but once I finished the main quest, I lost interest. There weren't many mods when I started (played near release) so once I hit the point where I had mainly radial quests left, I was done with it.

Only the main quests?

 

My current character is 99 hours in and I only did Mages Guild and 3 quests for the story.

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

I did all the guilds minus mage quests and the vast majority of the random story quests. I also did the main story line at the very end.

 

It was a fun game, I just feel it's got a lot of content that's not very deep - it's as big and varied as the Atlantic Ocean, but has the depth of a puddle. I got bored with the environment and dungeons (so many dragur) and it begins to get repetitive once a lot of quests become either fetch 5 things or go into the same-looking dragur dungeon, get a thing, return, with very little other story. I liked Oblivion's quests a lot better, especially the assassin's guild - they were really out there.

 

It's a great game, I just wouldn't say the greatest. The graphics and game mechanics are far better than Oblivion's (leveling that punishes you, dear god), but I enjoyed the story content more there.

[StephenFulford]

My fun was in turning off the compass, not using the map, and exploring the world for all its worth. The game has a lot of combat. I bought my first Xbox when I heard about oblivion. Since then I've moved to PC and have the games back to Morrowind because I prefer more difficulty in my RPGs. The abilty to get lost is very important to me.

 

I can see where you're coming from, PK. The best part about the game is that it lets you create a story, not because it has any fantastic stories on its own. I like to make characters with specific goals in the world and I've never been past level 35, though I have many different characters each with their own story.

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

I liked Morrowind, but I would get lost all the time. (Of course, I was a lot younger when I played it.) 

 

I enjoyed Kingdoms of Amalur for that reason, actually - just checking out the world. Unfortunately the lore of it I found very boring and uninteresting, but it was fun to fight the unique and interesting monsters and traverse the land doing random quests.

 

Skyrim has a lot of quests without directions so it becomes difficult to continue things you're interested in without using the compass. I did a lot of those radial thief's guild quests and it would be literally impossible to finish them without a map. Part of me also just likes to finish a game and complete everything as I go along - in my "canon" playthrough of ME1, I got all the little resource quests completed, despite knowing it did nothing. I also depleted every planet in ME2 (not to completion, but still...that was a bad idea. >_>)

 

In Skyrim that's lost a bit because the same blacksmith will ask you to get 5 frost teeth or fire ashes or w/e forever and that feels more fake to me than if I brought him a hammer once and his life was better for the moment.

 

My dad plays Skyrim all the time (it's the only game he plays) and he loves replaying it as you're talking about, making your own story and such. I think I just enjoy a more narrative approach. Even games like Red Dead Redemption or GTAV I lose interest in after I finish the story.

 

(Perhaps it makes me less hardcore but in ME, for example, I loved the navigator button. I often used it as a way not to go so I could explore every nook and cranny for lore/items.)

 

EDIT: I tend to focus on what captured my attention in a game, so whenever I get a quest and get lost, it tends to frustrate me more than say, "oh look new things to do." I often groan when you're doing something in a game like a collection quest or a multi-parter and then the next part is blocked behind a giant "cannot traverse" there blockade.

[Tankobite]

Does anyone play guns of Icarus online? I bought it when it was on sale and it's a blast

[Derpy]

Im kinda a TES *****...

 

When there isn't any ESO beta going on its Skyrim and like ME3MP once a month now lol.

[StephenFulford]

I gotcha. I did a completionist play of ME1, but never the others. I tend not to get frustrated when I play games unless I have to hear the same dialogue over and over again because of a dumb checkpoint before a cutscene that I die after.

 

I find I enjoy both narrative and more personal RPGs. The Elder Scrolls are just games that let you play your own story really well. I'm surprised people just accept every quest offered, because the game has so much content you'd get tired of just doing lackluster collection missions. I created a thief, never putting any points into health, never using magic, never putting perks into any combat abilities and playing on Master. I put a mod on that increased carraige prices to around 350 septims, and tried living the life of a thief. The restrictions didn't really change the way the game was meant to be played, but played towards a character I wanted to experience. I would get those misc thief jobs and have to decide when the profit was worth the price of a carraige, and when I wanted to risk walking (no fast travel).

 

My favourite character was my hunter character though. She was afraid of combat with bandits, and only used a bow and dagger. It was difficult having to buy arrows and having enough to get food three times a day, especially early on. I stayed in Falkreath area until I made enough money for a better bow, and I would go on hunting trips to the Pale.

 

I love narratives, as evidenced by my love of Mass Effect, but in those game I don't usually do many weaker side quests either. I played RDR and hardly did more than the story, and I played Tomb Raider in the summer and stopped after the main portion. I guess it just depends on the type of game. I think I just know what I like and what I want out of any particular game. I don't expect games to appeal to me for the same reasons, and I enjoy them the way I want to.

[The Most Sneaky Of Foxes]

Skyrim's open-worldness was the initial draw for me - I really enjoyed the campaign and thieves' guild side quests. However the story didn't do anything for me; it still always felt like I was playing a game and not participating in a story like I did in Mass Effect. I actually enjoy Fallout more, simply because of the backdrop - I've always loved apocalypse-based universes for some reason.

 

At times though it felt quite tedious, and the sheer amount of side quests was a tad overwhelming for me. So although Skyrim is fun, I never had that awe-inspiring narrative experience it sounds like some other players had - there was always an immersion barrier that never went away.

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

But you didn't finish New Vegas

 

For shame >_>

[Khelish]

I fell in love with Morrowind when I was younger. When Oblivion came around my PC could barely run it. By the time Skyrim was here, I made sure I could play Skyrim smoothly.

 

Elder Scrolls is is probably my 2nd favorite franchise. I love knowing the lore in TES

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

Also I like Khajit because they are funny and steal all the things

 

Nowhere near enough Khajit in Skyrim

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

No problem: 0748-3253-8444

I cannot devote that much time to pokemon. I've avoided getting sucked back in for some time, and you won't convince me to return until I graduate... That's a lie. I'll probably be playing again in no time. I'm too weak-willed.

 

Do you have any mods for Skyrim? I run a bunch that add realism.

 

Hey Stephen! <_<

 

I have added you again. I also have a credible Poke'mon team now with all the bells and whistles.

 

I challenge you to a battle! >_>

 

If you want. I guess.

 

I wouldn't want to screw up your school.

 

BUT ANYWAY I SORT OF CHALLENGE YOU

[StephenFulford]

I accept. But know this! I have not finished EV training my first pokemon for online use. It's a growlithe

[ElectronicPostingInterface]

I accept. But know this! I have not finished EV training my first pokemon for online use. It's a growlithe

 

That's cool. I'm actually playing in a tournament (no prize or anything) on another site so I need to do tune ups anyway.

 

You don't have to play my team though if you don't want to face a fully EV'd team. It wouldn't be fair, really.

[StephenFulford]

Wait! I need to switch my pokemon!

[StephenFulford]

I'll use my team that took out the elite four. Expect some starters.