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nkcyborg
Joined: 27 May 2012
Location: Texas
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 Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:56 pm |
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| Mikey wrote: |
This is good to know. In the meantime, I haven't slaughtered The Kings yet because one of them delivered some soup to me because I'm a doing great things. That's... just quirky enough to keep me interested in them for now.
Also I invested all my damn points in all the wrong stuff, who am I kidding, I really prefer using Speech, Barter, Lockpick and Science to get around instead of straight gunplay. |
You can do the DLCs up to the point of no return (the game has a conclusive ending and does an okay job of communicating it to you) because they have no faction requirements. Dead Money and Lonesome Road can be difficult for characters without a combat focus.
The sub-faction questlines are more organic than the NCR/House/Legion ones, and if you're in a rut you can probably find other people to help out.
Is anyone here playing Broken Age? I beat Act 1 today. It has more in common mechanically with later, "streamlined" games from Humongous Entertainment than the LucasArts games in that every action is a click with context-sensitive verbs rather than distinct verb selections. The story has potential to be interesting in Act 2, but I saw the twist (and cliffhanger) coming because I played Shay's section before Vella's. (I would recommend the opposite.)
It's a little weird after The Walking Dead and Kentucky Route Zero (two extreme possibilities for contemporary adventure games) to return to what is explicitly a 1990s Vintage Adventure Game Experience. I like it, but Putt-Putt Joins the Parade was my first computer game and Broken Age is a mechanically identical experience. It feels like watching Toy Story 3 the summer before I started college, i.e., nostalgically manipulative. |
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nkcyborg
Joined: 27 May 2012
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:18 am |
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| Mikey wrote: |
| Yeah, I finished Old World Blues, and then a few other sidequests. But I burned out. I'm crossing this off the backlog. I have no idea how I spent 110 hours on the previous game. I guess being unemployed helped. I need something snappy to wash this game out of my system. |
Huh, yeah I was unemployed and only taking three classes when I got really into New Vegas. I played Super Meat Boy as my palate cleanser - came out about the same time.
In hindsight the expansions aren't entertaining as a set of quests and environments, but give brief glimmers of Van Buren worked into the main game's lore. Big MT, Joshua Graham, etc. were all very mysterious and exciting before those expansions came out and... well, they were more interesting as wiki stubs. |
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nkcyborg
Joined: 27 May 2012
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:19 am |
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| I went out to Main Event with my girlfriend's coworkers and was delighted to find a bunch of Sega arcade cabinets. They had Outrun 2 SP, Time Crisis 4, F355 Challenge 2, a JAL-branded flight sim, and a Japanese-language F-Zero AX that I'm pretty sure was deluxe. I'm not sure how or why this particular main event got them but I now know that Mondays have unlimited play cards. |
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