Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 226

xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:

 

CP3S said:

Dude, forget about the controller for a few days and enjoy Florida with your wife. I have a feeling you can find way better things to do there with your time than play video games.

I kid, you know it. I'll be themeparking it up Friday, tons of fun.

 

But it's Frink!  ;-)

And xhonzi!

Meh.

The sinners sandwich was delicious.

In other news, I had a great time with my first xbox experience in xhonzi's dungeon home theater.  No matter that I was continually brutally murderized by teenagers in Halo and constantly wandering around in the darkness with my flashlight off in L4D2, it was a lot of fun.  If it were 10 years earlier and I had no kids and/or job, I would probably buy an xbox.

TV's Frink said:

If it were 10 years earlier and I had no kids and/or job, I would probably buy an xbox.

Buy one anyway.

If you had joined us, I might have had even more fun and it might have pushed me past the tipping point.

I don't know what you are talking about.

Sounds like you need to buy a 360 so you can discover how unbelievably amazing it is to (trying really hard to keep this last bit from sounding dirty, rewrote it like ten times, came to the conclusion I am going to have to avoid using the word "play" at all costs) game with me.

You didn't get to play with the O'Fives either, they are even more mind bogglingly amazing than me! Pity you'll never get the chance since you don't intend to buy a 360... talk about a life wasted...

CP3S said:

talk about a life wasted...

I hereby declare my life uninteresting. I've haven't gotten anything I need from here, and now I'm unhappy. Therefore, I leave you now and go back to where I truly belong...in the non-gaming off-topic threads. I'm not telling you where I'm going, but if I ever do come back here (IF), it will be under a different name. Not Frink, not Ric, but someone else.

I "game" by myself quite a bit.

...

Oops!

doubleofive said:

then we could help you make a free account (which should give you at least a month of Gold so you could play online). Might be fun, if you have the time, busy father and so forth.

I have at least two or three 48 hour subscriptions lying around. Those could be handy.

Fink, stop being a bum and buy a 360! They are just barely over $100 these days, set a little aside each month and you'll have enough for one in no time.

Games like Halo 3 and L4D2 can be found used in the under $10 dollar range these days.

CXXX said:

Fink, stop being a bum and buy a 360! They are just barely over $100 these days, set a little aside each month and you'll have enough for one in no time.

It's not a money issue, it's a time issue.  My free time is very stretched and while I did have fun playing, it's just not at the top of my list right now.  Maybe someday down the road.

Heh heh, free time says Mr. 13996 post count in 1.5 years.

CP3S said:

Heh heh, free time says Mr. 13996 post count in 1.5 years.

Guilty as charged, but most of those posts were made on not-free time.  Take that as you will.

Been playing a lot of Fallout: New Vegas in my spare time.  Love the game, it's incredibly addicting, and improves on Fallout 3 in all the key ways (honestly, to me, it's more of a true Fallout 3 than the "real" one was).

But goddamn, does Bethesda need to work on releasing games that aren't glitchy as all hell.  Damn game freezes on me all the time - I get very nervous every time I'm traveling a wide, empty stretch of wasteland - it's frozen right when I got to where I was going before, necessitating a system restart ... and meaning I needed to start back from where I'd originally left and do the whole long walk all over again.  Ugh.

What system is it on?

ChainsawAsh said:

 

But goddamn, does Bethesda need to work on releasing games that aren't glitchy as all hell.

I wish you hadn't of said that, the new Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is coming, and DAMN does it look GREAT!

Ziggy Stardust said:

What system is it on?

PS3, but it was equally glitchy when I played it on PC.  Haven't tried it (or Fallout 3, for that matter) on a 360, though.

In the middle of the dreaded Water Temple...I enjoy a challenge but it's just plain annoying but at least this time I've got a general idea where I'm going, even if my memories are from a very long time ago.

And if those memories are accurate it goes back to being fun and challenging once it's out of the way.

ChainsawAsh said:

Been playing a lot of Fallout: New Vegas in my spare time.  Love the game, it's incredibly addicting, and improves on Fallout 3 in all the key ways (honestly, to me, it's more of a true Fallout 3 than the "real" one was).

But goddamn, does Bethesda need to work on releasing games that aren't glitchy as all hell.  Damn game freezes on me all the time - I get very nervous every time I'm traveling a wide, empty stretch of wasteland - it's frozen right when I got to where I was going before, necessitating a system restart ... and meaning I needed to start back from where I'd originally left and do the whole long walk all over again.  Ugh.

You're playing the PS3 version, right? The 360 version is even worse! I had to shelf the game and wait for a patch to be released over a month later before I was even able to beat it because of that dumb corrupt save file error the 360 versions suffered from.

Load times were so slow (hopefully the PS3 version was faster) that it really hindered my desire to want to explore. In Fallout 3 I wanted to go over every crook and cranny with a fine toothed comb and pretty much did, in New Vegas I'd see a shack nearby and walk right on past, even skipped over whole settlements, just because I knew I'd have to wait over a minute at the loading screen every time I walked through a door, and that was only if I were lucky enough for it not to freeze on me.

As excited as I was for New Vegas and for as much as I could have really loved it, I was ever so happy to beat the game and shelf it for good. Really left a bad taste in my mouth. If I ever get in the mood for some more Fallout in the future, Fallout 3, not New Vegas, is the game that is going in my console.

I am sure I am not being fair to the game's content, but I honestly didn't get to see all that much of it. When I feel like I am spending more time waiting at the load screens, getting up to restart my Xbox from a freeze, and waiting for everything to reload than time actually playing the game, it is really hard to feel motivated to play it.

dark_jedi said:

ChainsawAsh said:

 

But goddamn, does Bethesda need to work on releasing games that aren't glitchy as all hell.

I wish you hadn't of said that, the new Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is coming, and DAMN does it look GREAT!

I was excited about the new Elder Scrolls too, but now I am not even sure if I even want to mess with it until it is out for at least a year or more. New Vegas was released in October, patches were released immediately to fix glitches that allowed people to get infinite money, yet the game breaking errors didn't get fully patched until the middle of December (conveniently just a couple of days before the first DLC was released, interesting...). Here we are in March and the game can be bought brand new for $29.99. Would have probably been a much more enjoyable, and definitely far cheaper experience if I were just buying the game now.

However, to be fair to Bethesda, Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian and just published by Bethesda. Since Skyrim is actually being developed by Bethesda themselves, maybe it won't be as bad.