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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Bloodwake on December 04, 2008, 09:35:46 AM

Title: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Bloodwake on December 04, 2008, 09:35:46 AM: Fallout 3 play time yesterday: 11 AM - 1:20 PM, 6:00 PM - 3:00 AM

Total play time: 11 hours, 20 minutes. In a 24 hour period. I still managed to go to class and eat dinner too.

Last time I played a game this hardcore, it was Mass Effect. I reached a ten hour day with Mass Effect. Before that, I remember regularly playing Oblivion from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed on a regular basis during summer '06 (the first real summer I had an HD monitor)

So, if BioWare and Bethseda teamed up, my life as a social person would be over. It would just end. At one point last night I was seriously considering turning my cell phone off.

Too bad I can't do this tonight. I have a paper to type. The funny thing is, I still haven't beat Oblivion. Oh shit.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Kestastrophe on December 04, 2008, 09:52:47 AM: I actually thought this was a Borys thread before I clicked
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Tieno on December 04, 2008, 09:54:37 AM: Quote from: Borys on December 04, 2008, 09:45:20 AM
CONGRATULATIONS!

You've just made demi's, Patel's, Prole's, MAF's, White Man's and other gaming "connoisseurs" (:lol) ignore list!

Those gay-ass gamers wouldn't know a good RPG game even if it ravaged'em up their asses.
JRPG gamers :piss2
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Himu on December 04, 2008, 09:54:37 AM: Borys is to Bioware what I am to Final Fantasy.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: cool breeze on December 04, 2008, 09:54:51 AM: same here lol

:bory2

no, but this would be horrible. Bethesda and Bioware make very different games despite both falling into the same wrpg niche. Although, Bioware can learn a lot from Bethesda about how to design side missions that aren't complete garbage.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: cool breeze on December 04, 2008, 10:01:08 AM: I didn't mean to type niche, I meant subgenre, I swear!

I was just writing a paper for the past 2 hours where I used Niche so much because it was about Print Journalism that it's instinctive
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Bloodwake on December 04, 2008, 10:12:42 AM: Hey, fuck what other people think. It's what I think that counts.

And I think that I may not get my paper done tonight because of Fallout 3.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Tieno on December 04, 2008, 10:13:46 AM: Quote from: Bloodwake on December 04, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
Hey, fuck what other people think. It's what I think that counts.

And I think that I may not get my paper done tonight because of Fallout 3.

Exactly, it's what I think that counts
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: tiesto on December 04, 2008, 10:40:51 AM: WRPGs, the greatest cure for insomnia ever...
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: demi on December 04, 2008, 10:54:35 AM: Quote from: a slime appears on December 04, 2008, 10:33:35 AM
Oblivion was good.

Mass Effect sucked.

Fallout 3 is fucking amazing.

CO-SIGN apart from Oblivion atrocious thank you kind sir please spare some gold "ching ching ching" ok i will tell you the secret entrance of the dungeon
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: demi on December 04, 2008, 10:56:07 AM: bet you arent so tough behind that ban message
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: demi on December 04, 2008, 10:58:48 AM: I hope I get to sneak up on you and take your clothes off LOL!
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: dammitmattt on December 04, 2008, 11:03:02 AM: Quote from: tiesto on December 04, 2008, 10:40:51 AM
WRPGs, the greatest cure for insomnia ever...

Only if you ignore 95% of all conversations/cutscenes in JRPGs (and I like JRPGs)
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Himu on December 04, 2008, 11:12:20 AM: Quote from: Borys on December 04, 2008, 10:17:37 AM
Quote from: Kosma on December 04, 2008, 10:12:05 AM
You still play you're FF's though B. On dirty stinking consoles. :-X

I have 108 hours logged in FFX-2 as we speak :P

I have 100 hours in that game. It is fucking amazing.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: dammitmattt on December 04, 2008, 11:30:43 AM: Quote from: Himuro on December 04, 2008, 11:12:20 AM
Quote from: Borys on December 04, 2008, 10:17:37 AM
Quote from: Kosma on December 04, 2008, 10:12:05 AM
You still play you're FF's though B. On dirty stinking consoles. :-X

I have 108 hours logged in FFX-2 as we speak :P

I have 100 hours in that game. It is fucking amazing.

I just don't understand this. And I fucking LOVED FFX.

What made FFX-2 so appealing to some people? Did I seriously miss something?
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Himu on December 04, 2008, 11:32:18 AM: Quote from: dammitmattt on December 04, 2008, 11:30:43 AM
Quote from: Himuro on December 04, 2008, 11:12:20 AM
Quote from: Borys on December 04, 2008, 10:17:37 AM
Quote from: Kosma on December 04, 2008, 10:12:05 AM
You still play you're FF's though B. On dirty stinking consoles. :-X

I have 108 hours logged in FFX-2 as we speak :P

I have 100 hours in that game. It is fucking amazing.

I just don't understand this. And I fucking LOVED FFX.

What made FFX-2 so appealing to some people? Did I seriously miss something?

The gameplay is omfg

Via Infinito is the best FF dungeon since Ultimecia's Castle :bow
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on December 04, 2008, 12:15:37 PM: Quote from: Borys on December 04, 2008, 09:45:20 AM
CONGRATULATIONS!

You've just made demi's, Patel's, Prole's, MAF's, White Man's and other gaming "connoisseurs" (:lol) ignore list!

Those gay-ass gamers wouldn't know a good RPG game even if it ravaged'em up their asses.

what? I'm a super Mass Effect apologist and my favorite RPG ever is Planescape: Torment, YOU TAKE THAT BACK :borys
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 04, 2008, 01:20:51 PM: I still haven't played FFX-2. The game system and non-linear structure sound appealing and I don't mind the theme (as long as I can play it with nobody around :-[ ) but what puts me off it is people say it's crazy unbalanced much like FF7/8. What good are cool battle and growth systems if you don't have to use them?
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 04, 2008, 02:46:07 PM: ... yeah, I don't quite get why you'd respond to a post about balance concerns with a list of points none of which address balance.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Himu on December 04, 2008, 03:39:47 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on December 04, 2008, 02:46:07 PM
... yeah, I don't quite get why you'd respond to a post about balance concerns with a list of points none of which address balance.

The game is pretty balanced. Just don't use catnip + trigger happy. Also, the counter this balance, there's a cool feature called Oversoul. When you kill a specific number of enemies of one type on the field, the next one you fight is an overgrown, overpowered version of that type. So let's say you killed like 10 bombs in some area, the next time you fight one, you'll fight a suped up, mega Bomb that's way more powerful. Now, if you oversoul *bosses* the game difficulty ramps up tremendously, especially in Via Infinito, the 100 level dungeons (was it 100 levels? I forgot).

Also, locations have different difficulty ranking. So if you want a challenge go to a mid or high level place instead of one that's low difficulty.

It's pretty great game design and it pains me no other jrpg has taken note of what FFX-2 did.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 04, 2008, 03:41:01 PM: It'd be interesting to see an RPG with BioWare's character interaction, dialogue, and voice acting and Bethesda's gameplay and world-building.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: drew on December 04, 2008, 05:36:55 PM: dork

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i playef > 98 hours in oblivion
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Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: littlemathletics on December 04, 2008, 05:47:12 PM: Quote from: Borys on December 04, 2008, 01:40:59 PM
1) It's totally non-linear. I mean there is a set path of missions you have to do in order but other than that EVERY SINGLE AREA known from FFX is open to you after about 1 hour of gameplay.
2) It's totally embarrassing think the laughing scene from FFX repeated 100 times over and almost in every cutscene.
3) It has the best combat system from ALL FF games. Better than 7s, better than 10s. It's a mixture of classic job system (White Mage! Black Mage! Thief! Warrior! ~~Blue~~ Gun Mage!) with the ability to instantly change a job in a battle (like switching characters in FFX)...
4) ...but the system has flaws: no summons and no limit breaks :'(
5) There are also Garment Grids which have pretty amazing features like for example allowing you to cast ALL Black Magic as a White Mage (so you have ALL WM spells and ALL BM spells in your arsenal) etc.
6) It has about 1 000 000 of minigames where you can win some uber, only one of a kind items in the game like +100% HP and +100% MP accessory.
7) It has a 100 Level Deep hidden dungeon with a final boss that has 999 999 HP.
8) As a whole the game is pretty much a big fanservice to FFX fans, much like FF9 was for old FF games fans.
9) You can beat it in 20-30 hours or in 150-200 hours. It's up to you.

Didn't realise you like it that much, man, but all that pretty much hits the nail on the head as to why FFX-2 is fucking amazing.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Tieno on December 04, 2008, 05:49:29 PM: Bunch of distinguished mentally-challenged fellow revisionist Oblivion haters!

Such an amazing game, 160+ hours can't be wrong.
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: CurseoftheGods on December 05, 2008, 12:38:31 AM: Wait. Bloodwake got laid?
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: drohne on December 05, 2008, 01:45:25 AM: if bioware and bethesda teamed up they'd make a 10,000 hour game consisting entirely of semiprocedurally generated tedium. and then they'd charge you for horse armor
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: Tieno on December 05, 2008, 03:49:10 AM: Quote from: drohne on December 05, 2008, 01:45:25 AM
if bioware and bethesda teamed up they'd make a 10,000 hour game consisting entirely of semiprocedurally generated tedium. and then they'd charge you for horse armor
Go buy the LBP costumes then
Title: Re: If BioWare and Bethseda Teamed Up, I Would Never Get Laid Again
Post by: T234 on December 05, 2008, 03:56:57 AM: Quote from: CurseoftheGods on December 05, 2008, 12:38:31 AM
Wait. Bloodwake got laid?
Yep, at some cabin in the mountains in Volland (which means two things, she was HOTT, and he was probably smacking her ass while making her count to 22.