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xhonzi
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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4-Aug-2011, 3:34 PM

CP3S said:

Actually, you've probably "done" somethings WITH the DLC you just don't know about. It added quite a few new perks to the game, and some other changes/additions, likely you've taken advantage of some of those already without realizing. I'd just leave good enough alone, and youtube the ending if you feel you need that authentic experience.

Yeah, I thought that might be the case.  Hence the "'" around "done".  I deleted the Oblivion DLC from my harddrive since I needed the space and could reinstall when I wanted to... and then I wanted to see/show something so I loaded up Oblivion and it was... wonky.  Still worked, but basically said "Here be monsters, procede at your own risk."

How many endings will I have to youtube to see the one I should have gotten?  I heard there were 200 possible endings, but I have to assume it's a matrix of maybe 5 or 6 totally different endings.

I managed to finish all the main New Vegas achievements just a few days after it came out, and I really felt the need to go for 100% after putting all that hard work in (plus I have always been curious if they take away your 100% status for games that have DLC released after you got 100% on them, and it felt like a good opportunity to experiment. Turns out they don't, New Vegas still appears in my list of 100% games).

I thought I'd had one of my 100%ers redacted after the release of some DLC.  I have no proof however... so I'll have to accept your word on it.

But 100%- that means you played the "realistic mode", eh?  How did you find it? 

There's a part of me that really thinks I want to play these games that way.  I already mentioned my dislike of abusing fast travel, and I think the idea that I don't have to sleep for months on end is absurd.  And I only have to eat if I've been damaged in battle?  Do I ever shower?  I don't think I want to have to empty my bladder and bowels 4 times in the game's 24 hours... but I think I would welcome the extra layer of reality.  On the other hand, I think I'm carrying ~300 lbs of armor, guns, empty nuka bottles, tin cans, and steam works.  But I'm probably, if I'm honest, carrying about 3,000 lbs of bottle caps (jingle jangle) pre-war money, stimpacks, and ammo which all weighs an ingame weight of exactly 0 lbs.  Heck, I have ~50 bobby pins.  That's probably a full pocket right there.  Where am I carrying these 100 rockets?  And the 15 mini nukes?  And several boxes of 10 and 5mm?

Don't get me wrong- I exploit the crap out of the system.  But only because I can.  Having to do a better job of managing my ammo sounds like fun.

Maybe once the game gets to be $15 used for the GOTY edition, I'll grab it to check out the rest of the DLC.

Well, I'll let you know once it hits $15.  Assuming they make a GotY edition, that is.  ;)

Did you see the Game Informer cover art for Borderlands 2?