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I currently have 154 games installed on my secondary 1TB hard drive on my computer. Should I post the specifications for it sometime? I built it myself.

Pre-builts, including Macs, can go fuck theirselves.

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Ziggy Stardust said:

Uhh...welcome to the forum!

lol

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FremenDar said:

I currently have 154 games installed on my secondary 1TB hard drive on my computer. Should I post the specifications for it sometime? I built it myself.

Pre-builts, including Macs, can go fuck theirselves.

For some reason this post makes me want to respond with a picture of a very large black dildo... Don't ask me why.

 

Someone is embarrassingly proud of their computer building skills.

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I think we should all post our specifications... like, in our signatures. So we know at all times who has the best rig and therefore whose opinions matter the most.

EDIT: When I said "specifications, I meant, of course, computer specifications... ;)

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"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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I have a Honda Accord...is that what you mean by "rig?" :p

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Frink, you don't have an awesome gaming computer, so your arguments (and jokes) are invalid.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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xhonzi said:

Frink, you don't have an awesome gaming computer

Prove it.

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Fallout 3 Ending Spoilers herein.

CP3S said:



xhonzi said:


The "ending" video was pretty clunky. I don't think it was any different for having the DLC installed...


If the DLC isn't installed, the game ends with you dying in the chamber. Unless you made the Brotherhood of Steel girl go in there to take care of it for you.

Actually I forgot to mention this. As I have mentioned, I've been rolling the Wasteland with my gang- my obnoxiously talkative Mute Ghoul Servant Charon, and my faithful dog(s) Dog Meat's Puppy(ies). When I went to vault 88, we were friendly to Fawkes because that's how my gang rolls. (We be bein' kind to evry foo' who cross our path!)

When I got near the end of Raven Rock... I'd realized I had passed through a one way door without grabbing the bobble head. So I had to reload and play it again. While looking for said bobble head, I accidentally passed through the one way door again- reload, try again. Eventually I got it, got out of Raven Rock and found Fawkes waiting for me, accepted him as a new companion (I'd lost Dog Meat's Puppy and Charon when they captured me). I figured I'd go look for Charon and DM's Puppy after I dropped off the last 2 bobble heads at my Megaton appartment. But then I had go to bed. To save time, I googled "Where are my companions after Raven Rock" and found out that the game wouldn't let me keep both Fawkens and Charon. I was really torn... because I have (in my mind) an awesome relationship with my mute ghoul servant Charon and we have a lot of history, but Fawkes has a gatling laser. Luckily I saw that you can cheat and get both if you fast travel away from Fawkes before he joins your gang (I call it the "Nice to Everyone Friendship Gang of Death") go get Charon (or whomever) and then come back to Fawkes. I didn't have a save right there, so I had to play Raven Rock. Again! Get the bobble head, defeat President Eden, blow up a lot of soldiers, and the rest.

But I have a 4 person (alright- 1 person, 1 mutant supermutant, 1 mute ghoul, and 1 puppy) gang now and I'm pretty stoked about that.

But the point of all of this- I didn't die nor did I have the chick die at the end. I just sent my mutant supermutant in to handle it. He was glad to do it and the radiation didn't hurt him any.


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If you have the Broken Steel DLC installed, then as you saw, they retcon the ending and have you wake up from a coma. If you beat the game without any DLC installed the first time like I did, then once you install Broken Steel you have to load a save right before the end of the game (which I had), or play back up to that point to access the DLC which automatically starts right after the ending.

They rolled the "end video" then came up with the 2 week's later card. Apparently Sarah and I were still in bad shape, but neither of us died. Can I assume the "have Fawkes do it" option was open before the DLC? Or did they add that so that neither of us had to die?

What did you do with the modified FEV? I didn't think it sounded like such a bad idea, but I sort of accidentally didn't mean to give it to Elder Lyons. And I would have totally forgotten to do anything with it at the end, despite having looked at the injection point a couple of times earlier in the game. Kill all of the feral ghouls and supermutants whilst purifying the water? Sounds good to me! Feeling like maybe I should play Raven Rock (again!) I turned to google again to see what I was missing. If you didn't use the FEV or haven't read about it, I recommend you do the same. I'm glad I didn't do it, but I was impressed with the ramifications.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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TV's Frink said:



xhonzi said:

Frink, you don't have an awesome gaming computer


Prove it.


You are old.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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QED.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:

But the point of all of this- I didn't die nor did I have the chick die at the end. I just sent my mutant supermutant in to handle it. He was glad to do it and the radiation didn't hurt him any.

Weird. I had Fawkes with me at that point in the game, and it gave me the option to ask him to go in for me... and he gave me some speech about how this is my story and that it was something I had to do on my own. I figured they made him say that to negate a super mutant companion being the perfect solution to having a good karma ending without the self sacrifice.

I wonder if certain conditions determine whether Fawkes will go in and take care of it for you rather than just pontificate about character development, or if when they released the Broken Steel DLC they decided they ruined the dramatic ending already anyway, and changed things to allow the reasonable solution of Fawkes going into the chamber for you.

 

Just out of curiosity, with the ending you got, what happened after the ending narration? As I said, for me with my character "dying" at the end, it has him wake up from a coma at the Brotherhood of Steel's base. You said they rolled the two week later card, so do they have you starting off with the Bro. Hood of Steel base still?

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xhonzi said:

What did you do with the modified FEV? I didn't think it sounded like such a bad idea...

Kill all of the feral ghouls and supermutants whilst purifying the water? Sounds good to me! Feeling like maybe I should play Raven Rock (again!) I turned to google again to see what I was missing. If you didn't use the FEV or haven't read about it, I recommend you do the same. I'm glad I didn't do it, but I was impressed with the ramifications.

Weird hearing the guy who is proud of having a super mutant and a ghoul as a companion thinks killing all the ghouls and super mutants would be a good idea.

The first time I beat it, I kept replaying the ending while trying different things, using the modified FEV was one of the things I did. Unfortunately, at that time the only difference it could make was in the mix 'n match ending narration.

Does it actually effect the world in the DLC? I can't imagine they'd really remove all the super mutants and feral ghouls from the game. I guess I'll have to google it. Seems like I actually googled it once before, and pretty much read that there is no difference. Maybe I read a bad source.

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From the Fallout Wikia under the entry for Fawkes:

When the player is faced with the climactic decision at the conclusion of the game, Fawkes politely declines to enter the radioactive room in lieu of the player (even though he is immune to radioactivity), stating that the decision is the player's destiny and not his. However, if the player has the Broken Steel add-on installed, the option to send Fawkes in will appear, allowing the player to opt out of entering themselves or Sentinel Sarah Lyons. When this option is used, he states that although he was going to tell the player that the player's destiny lies in that chamber, he has already altered his own.

 

Yeah, so prior to Broken Steel, this option wasn't available. Phew! I was starting to thinks my character and Fawkes just weren't as tight as Xhonzi's character and Fawkes... and that made me sad.

Also googled the FEV stuff, wow, didn't realize it did all of that. That is really cool, kind of wish I would have now.

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CP3S said:


Weird. I had Fawkes with me at that point in the game, and it gave me the option to ask him to go in for me... and he gave me some speech about how this is my story and that it was something I had to do on my own. I figured they made him say that to negate a super mutant companion being the perfect solution to having a good karma ending without the self sacrifice.

I wonder if certain conditions determine whether Fawkes will go in and take care of it for you rather than just pontificate about character development, or if when they released the Broken Steel DLC they decided they ruined the dramatic ending already anyway, and changed things to allow the reasonable solution of Fawkes going into the chamber for you.

Interestning! I'd bet it was Broken Steel. I didn't do much with Fawkes one way or the other before going to Project Purity.


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Just out of curiosity, with the ending you got, what happened after the ending narration? As I said, for me with my character "dying" at the end, it has him wake up from a coma at the Brotherhood of Steel's base. You said they rolled the two week later card, so do they have you starting off with the Bro. Hood of Steel base still?

Project Purity faded to white when Fawkes was doing his thing. Then I got the video. Then I got fade to black, with the 2 weeks later card. The doc at the base said that Sarah and I both absorbed a lot of radiation and that I had been in a coma. She's still in one.

Now that I think about it, the end narration said something about how I followed in my father's footsteps- except that I didn't learn self-sacrifice from him and I let "the true hero" do it for me. But he's fine, so it's not like he actually sacrificed much.


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xhonzi said:

What did you do with the modified FEV? I didn't think it sounded like such a bad idea...

Kill all of the feral ghouls and supermutants whilst purifying the water? Sounds good to me!


Weird hearing the guy who is proud of having a super mutant and a ghoul as a companion thinks killing all the ghouls and super mutants would be a good idea.

Hey! I said FERAL ghouls, FERAL! And I wasn't thinking about my mutant supermutant. I was mostly thinking about all of the ones I kill on sight. But the hitch is that it will also kill/make sick anyone suffering from any small amount of radiation sickness... I.e. basically everyone.

From the wiki:

In the DLC Broken Steel, if the player had chosen to contaminate the purifier with the Modified FEV, the medical facility of every city is filled with new patients dying from FEV poisoning. The new patients hold their stomachs and repeat dialogue along the lines of, "it burns on the inside." When the player speaks with the doctor at any given town, they state that the condition is not contagious. In Rivet City, Dr. Preston comments that they are burning the corpses just to be safe. In Megaton, Doc Church comments along the lines of, "it would be ironic if we were so used to the crap we had been drinking that pure water is killing us."

I also read that drinking the water will kill you... because you've obviously soaked up a lot or rads in your time.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:

 

Hey! I said FERAL ghouls, FERAL! And I wasn't thinking about my mutant supermutant. I was mostly thinking about all of the ones I kill on sight. But the hitch is that it will also kill/make sick anyone suffering from any small amount of radiation sickness... I.e. basically everyone.

From the wiki:

In the DLC Broken Steel, if the player had chosen to contaminate the purifier with the Modified FEV, the medical facility of every city is filled with new patients dying from FEV poisoning. The new patients hold their stomachs and repeat dialogue along the lines of, "it burns on the inside." When the player speaks with the doctor at any given town, they state that the condition is not contagious. In Rivet City, Dr. Preston comments that they are burning the corpses just to be safe. In Megaton, Doc Church comments along the lines of, "it would be ironic if we were so used to the crap we had been drinking that pure water is killing us."

I also read that drinking the water will kill you... because you've obviously soaked up a lot or rads in your time.

 

Yeah, I just read all that myself. Really cool.

I know you said feral, but obviously it would kill the intelligent ghouls as well. Eden explains that it will kill any mutations, including just about everyone who wasn't born in a radiation free environment like the vaults. Which explains why it kills you if you drink it.

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doubleofive said:

Problem? Too bad I'm not a Macfaggot.
And 12 years old.

Hey, don't insult the other 12-year-olds here.

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FremenDar said:

[Cartmen voice] My penis is so large, it is always getting in my way. Sometimes I trip on it. Oh man! I have such a massive penis, all the time I women take one look at it and say they are too afraid to sleep with me. Here, take a look at all these links to see what an incredibly huge dick I have.

It's pretty kewl. [/Cartment voice]No one gives a crap about your dumb computer.

No one really cares about your dumb computer.

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FremenDar said:


Here's what I have: (Links to NewEgg for more details).

Case
PSU
Motherboard
CPU
RAM x2 16GB total
HDD About three of these.
GPU (Unlocked to 6970.)
Blu-ray disc burner drive
Monitor
Speakers
Controller


Ah, man... I probably don't care but I'm definitely not clicking on all of those links to find out.

Here's a picture of my computer:
http://www.hugepedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/computer-forums.jpg
Except that it's a little smaller than that and not that color and doesn't say DELL on it anywhere. But other than that it is very similar.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!