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I just beat XCOM, completed the final mission without losing a soldier in it.

It was only on normal difficulty, but I'm still feeling incredibly smug at the moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... sROQUWaHnQ

^ Skyrim: Dragonborn trailer ^

Every time I pull myself away, they drag me back in...

The DLC seems to be more in the vein of Dawnguard, with actual content and quests.

So it's Bloodmoon all over again?

Skyrim was sort of that anyways.

Oh well, Morrowind had the best setting and story (as in it's the only Elder Scrolls game where you're not a gofer and you feel like you've actually resolved everything in the game if you do all the quests) so getting involved with Vvardenfell and Solstheim again will be fun, regardless, especially if I'm right and you're going to interact with the Nerevarine (who is said to be Dragonborn in Morrowind, before what the term meant was even established, and is immune to age and disease from Corpus and thus would probably likely be alive 200 years after Morrowind.)

I still hope the next DLC involves interacting with the Thalmor in any meaningful way (preferably to destroy them,) since you couldn't do jack shit with them in-game, despite the game going out of the way to make them loathsome and pretty much responsible for the entire civil war.

Not to mention for trying to destroy Mundus if you read enough of the backstory. Talos not only united the empire, he was put in charge of keeping Mundus from being destroyed. The Aldmeri are literally trying to destroy the world because they think it's the human's fault they know pain and death...

It would be kind of awesome if you thwarted two plots to destroy Nirn in one game (Alduin and the Thalmor.)

As an aside, Talos most likely did what Vivec did, which is siphoning power from Lorkhan and lying about how he got it (although then again, Lorkan was responsible for the creation of everything, so holding his power would basically make you in charge of keeping Nirn intact; so while he may very well be a prick, he does play an important role in the world)

Interestingly enough, Akatosh also wants to destroy Mundus eventually (he seriously made Alduin for that purpose; Alduin's crime is merely wanting to conquer the world, as Parthuunax and the Greybeards will say.)

So Talos is probably playing for the wrong team if he wants to keep Nirn existing, not that it makes the Thalmor any better.

Hey, hey, hey! If you talk about TES, then you need to acknowledge Blitzwings historical contributions!

I commited a fatal mistake yesterday. During the infrequent breaks that I got working the polls, I would play The Megaman Zero Collection. That in of itself isn't the mistake. The mistake was thinking that I could play any of the individual titles and expect to win.

I said I had beaten all of the Zero games on the Easy Scenario. The way this was possible is that Easy Scenario greatly reduces the difficulty of the games to the point where you can humanly beat them. It also gives you all the elves, weapons, upgrades, etc. This allows you to kick all kinds of ass. I think I've said this before. Sorry for repeating myself.

Anyway, I played the first Megaman Zero game. I actually managed to get pretty far. Much further than I had when I first played the game when I had it for the GBA. But, then I got stuck on one level, and decided to quit peacefully while I still had my sanity. Okay, that was good.

Then, and here's where I screwed up, I tried to play Megaman Zero 3. On it's normal difficulty. All I can say is: Rage City. It was very fortunate that I was at work, and that there was a lot of people around, which prevented me from doing much more than swearing under my breath. Otherwise, there'd've probably have been broken furniture and body parts (my own) strewn across the floor.

Eventually, I rage quit. And kept coming back. And then rage quitting again. Like tzor.

I think I had a point to all this, but I forgot what it was.

Shrapnel wrote:I commited a fatal mistake yesterday. During the infrequent breaks that I got working the polls, I would play The Megaman Zero Collection. That in of itself isn't the mistake. The mistake was thinking that I could play any of the individual titles and expect to win.

I said I had beaten all of the Zero games on the Easy Scenario. The way this was possible is that Easy Scenario greatly reduces the difficulty of the games to the point where you can humanly beat them. It also gives you all the elves, weapons, upgrades, etc. This allows you to kick all kinds of ass. I think I've said this before. Sorry for repeating myself.

Anyway, I played the first Megaman Zero game. I actually managed to get pretty far. Much further than I had when I first played the game when I had it for the GBA. But, then I got stuck on one level, and decided to quit peacefully while I still had my sanity. Okay, that was good.

Then, and here's where I screwed up, I tried to play Megaman Zero 3. On it's normal difficulty. All I can say is: Rage City. It was very fortunate that I was at work, and that there was a lot of people around, which prevented me from doing much more than swearing under my breath. Otherwise, there'd've probably have been broken furniture and body parts (my own) strewn across the floor.

Eventually, I rage quit. And kept coming back. And then rage quitting again. Like tzor.

I think I had a point to all this, but I forgot what it was.

Pfff newb. I didn't even know there was an easy mode and beat all the Megaman Zero games (awesome series but highly questionable story line.) So yeah check out how I get all the ladies with my pro megaman skills. But seriously though the hard part of any of the zero series for me is always the non standard 8 bosses. The first time I ran into X and Zero's body were nightmarish times the first few times I fought them. Honestly 4 gave me the most trouble (stupid recipe system combined with my refusal to seek online help to figure it out) while 2 was a cake walk (working from memory that's the one where you can power level Armor I believe).

I beat Assassin's Creed III.

Good game. Crappy ending.

It doesn't actually offer any closure. Well, they get past the "Solar flare will flip the Earth's Magnetic Field and cause WIDESPREAD GEOLOGIC INSTABILITY"* junk. They definitely left it open for a sequel. Albeit a sequel with a new set of problems, which may or may not be interesting.


*the earth's magnetic field doesn't actually work like that. The magnetic field flipping happens semi-regularly. It's never been correlated with any widespread disasters or any other event. Maybe a few magnetically-animals--like pigeons and hammerhead sharks--get migraines or something.

That sucks.

So you don't get to fight George Washington or anything?

MGuy wrote:

Shrapnel wrote:I commited a fatal mistake yesterday. During the infrequent breaks that I got working the polls, I would play The Megaman Zero Collection. That in of itself isn't the mistake. The mistake was thinking that I could play any of the individual titles and expect to win.

I said I had beaten all of the Zero games on the Easy Scenario. The way this was possible is that Easy Scenario greatly reduces the difficulty of the games to the point where you can humanly beat them. It also gives you all the elves, weapons, upgrades, etc. This allows you to kick all kinds of ass. I think I've said this before. Sorry for repeating myself.

Anyway, I played the first Megaman Zero game. I actually managed to get pretty far. Much further than I had when I first played the game when I had it for the GBA. But, then I got stuck on one level, and decided to quit peacefully while I still had my sanity. Okay, that was good.

Then, and here's where I screwed up, I tried to play Megaman Zero 3. On it's normal difficulty. All I can say is: Rage City. It was very fortunate that I was at work, and that there was a lot of people around, which prevented me from doing much more than swearing under my breath. Otherwise, there'd've probably have been broken furniture and body parts (my own) strewn across the floor.

Eventually, I rage quit. And kept coming back. And then rage quitting again. Like tzor.

I think I had a point to all this, but I forgot what it was.

Pfff newb. I didn't even know there was an easy mode and beat all the Megaman Zero games (awesome series but highly questionable story line.) So yeah check out how I get all the ladies with my pro megaman skills. But seriously though the hard part of any of the zero series for me is always the non standard 8 bosses. The first time I ran into X and Zero's body were nightmarish times the first few times I fought them. Honestly 4 gave me the most trouble (stupid recipe system combined with my refusal to seek online help to figure it out) while 2 was a cake walk (working from memory that's the one where you can power level Armor I believe).

Well, I managed to beat 3 today without help of the easy mode. Also keep in mind that when I first played the games, I was like eleven.

I really liked 3, though. It's definitely my favorite out of the series. I also liked the ending of four.

I recently downloaded DOOM for my Xbox. I had forgotten that I had never beat DOOM when it was out without cheating in some way. Luckily, E2M8 reminded me...

Darth Rabbitt wrote:That sucks.

So you don't get to fight George Washington or anything?

Georgie does a couple of dick moves over the course of the game. A couple of chapters involve keeping him alive despite assassination attempts. The game spends time making the point that the Patriots often weren't any better than the British.

There's a DLC that's coming out about "The Tyranny of King Washington", an alternate-history thing where George Washington declares himself king or something. I suppose you end up sticking a knife into him.

My rage quit frustration with the mega man zero series was actually the goddamn ranking system. Nothing like completing some incredibly frustrating level with no elves just to get ranked D- for your performance at the end.

shau wrote:My rage quit frustration with the mega man zero series was actually the goddamn ranking system. Nothing like completing some incredibly frustrating level with no elves just to get ranked D- for your performance at the end.

Yeah, the rating system was brutally punishing and harsh when it came to docking points for failures. It really sucked that in Megaman Zero 2 and 3, you only got EX Skills (the Zero series equivalent of Master Weapons) if you got an A rank, which was impossible to do if you happend to exhale instead of inhale. Seriously, if you got hit like one time, you get docked to at least C rank. Fucking rating system. *shakes fists*

What I really liked about MMZ4 was that EX skills were not tied to rank, but rather what difficulty you did the stage on. That made the frustration level a lot less.

Beat the Cyberdemon in DOOM without cheating for the first time ever, lol. And on the medium difficulty level (Hurt Me plenty). I'm way better than I was as a young lad.

name_here wrote:I just beat XCOM, completed the final mission without losing a soldier in it.

It was only on normal difficulty, but I'm still feeling incredibly smug at the moment.

Yay, somebody else played XCOM! I was beginning to lose hope here.

I finished on Classic. Good game, but ending was abrupt.

Going back to the new Skyrim expanision...

I recently read that spears will be re-introduced into the TES setting. They have been absent since TESIII: Morrowind. When I told DarthRabbitt this, he exploded with joy.

He loved the fact that Morrowind had those weapons, and squealed with delight over the prospect of the Dragonborn's spear.

Spears are pretty awesome weapons, and it's a shame there aren't any in Elder Scrolls anymore.

I might have to remake my character. Again. But hey, the fun is the journey.

I hope it doesn't have the cocksuckery that the Dawnguard expansion has: random vampire attacks at the entrance of whatever town you're in. Did you know that whenever you fast travel to Whiterun regardless of the hour you arrive, every merchant in town is right by the front gate? I got so tired of having to reload because vampires ate all the merchants.

Fuck you Shrapnel, my spear fantasies are my business.

I will share whatever spear related fantasy that you or I happen to have. If I knew anyone else here personally, I would tell about their spear loving and licking as well.

In other news, I dreamt last night that Bayonetta 2 was not a Wii U exclusive. Then I woke up, realized the dreary hell that I was really in, and cursed Nintendo for making me wake up at 2am in the morning from a really good dream.

Fuck Nintendo and their fucking auto-erotic stranglehold on games exclusive to their systems and their systems only. Fuck 'em.

Hey Spearlovers, where's the God Killin of the Elder Scrolls variety at?

Lately, I've come to quite enjoy the game Spelunky, even the demo alone is quite nifty. In a way kinda understand why people like the game Terraria, being a little similar in a way to it. Treasure hunting at its quickest, I'd recommend anyone to try it.

Other than that, I actually do play Xbox Live titles, but I'm never sure how long it takes for prices to drop, since they like their 1200pt/$15 prices, but I've seen em go to $10 before. No doubt, the majority of you guys are PCs/Steam only..someday I will be too, just what can I say, I've enjoyed a childhood of console simplicity, gonna dig that as long as it can last. That said, once if the next obligation to get a console comes up, I'm just going straight for PC and Steam all.

Aryxbez wrote:Hey Spearlovers, where's the God Killin of the Elder Scrolls variety at?

Next session will probably be in a week or two.

That is complete and utter news to me.

Any WoW players here?

I'm thinking of picking the game back up in the semi-near future (buying a car first, then a new laptop). Also, I want to be a panda.

Anyway, I'm thinking of being a hunter because every server needs more huntards, amirite? However, I'm looking at the wikis, and I can't make any goddamn sense of the new talent system (This isn't Diablo 2! What the fuck?!). Could anyone explain to me how this works? Also, how the fuck can you balance 5 pets and not have them be massive underleveled (and from the looks of it, different pets matter more than they used to. Back when I played, you picked a bear or a cat or you were doing it wrong. Now there's way more animals, and some of them seem insane. Aren't Devilsaurs gigantic? Maybe I'm not remembering that right. Also, taming Crommagus? Is Petopia shitting me?)

I want to mostly solo because I hate most people. Maybe some small-scale grouping. I would like something that can kill a lot of time, but I already have 2 jobs and don't have time to take up any raiding.