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I still love Morrowind and Oblivion. Morrowind might be my favorite game ever.
 


Hey,

I like Fifa16 by EA sports very much because of it's graphics and all realistic features.
 


Just installed that Graphics enhancement mod for Morrowind and I gotta say it looks pretty impressive, even works at 7680x1440p surround. Of course character models are still a bit rough, but still an impressive modification.

I've finally gotten Oblivion modded up graphically (only alternate start mod as far as gameplay changes) and while it doesn't look next gen, it definitely is passable. I forgot how creepy the planes of Oblivion and the Ayelid ruins were. I daresay my Oblivion playtime this week has actually exceeded my Fallout 4 playtime this week, but I'll be honest TES setting is something I like much better than the FO one, so that's not a bash on the Fallout series, just that I like steel and orcs more than guns and mutants.
 
I really enjoyed Oblivion, despite it's age. I only played it last year. My main gripe were the gates. Oblivion gates were both fearsome looking and boring at times. The factions were superb though. Much better than the main storyline. And I only played through 3 of the factions before finishing the main quest and deciding to drop the game entirely.

I want to try Morrowind, but I'm afraid it'd be too old for me to get into. I know of the graphics mods available, but the animations are what I'm worried about.
 
The graphics in the stock Morrowind game are very dated but that's what mods are for. I've got nearly as many hours in Oblivion as Morrowind. I even replayed both games in the last year.

Fallout has it's own campy lore that make it the game series it is while TES is way more of a serious setting. I love them both. I can't pick a favorite.

I really wish Skywind and Skyblivion would get a release date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywind

https://tesrenewal.com/

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FAFOCFFf_U"][/video]
 


Yeah, I really liked Morrowind a lot. It is the best of the three Elder Scrolls games I have played. I like the classic old school RPG style. I never got into Oblivion though. I stop playing it after only around 30 hours. I guess it was too much of a change from Morrowind for me to adjust to it. But I have no problems with Skyrim I like it much more than Oblivion. I was thinking about giving Oblivion another try, but it is a very low priority....

The only other RPG game that I have played more than Morrrowind (over 1000 hours) is Fallout 3. I was thinking about playing Morrowind again on it's 10th year anniversary, but I didn't have the time for it.

As of last night I am at over 100 hours for Fallout 4... and I barely started the main quest. I have only done up to the "When Freedom Calls" mission where you lead Preston and his settlers to Sanctuary. Mostly been exploring and grinding caps and resources to build settlements.

Wow... you need a lot of wood, steel, and concrete to build settlements. I built a 3 story "house" in Sanctuary, but I am not pleased with it at all. I'm gonna tear it down and rebuild, but Sanctuary is such a large area, that I am not sure how to proceed to create a walled in settlement.

Tenpines Bluff was my first "completed" settlement. It still needs a few things (like decorations), but the farm is walled in (metal walls and fences), the primary housing is built and defenses is decent enough for now....

Currently working Outpost Zimonja... walling off the outpost with concrete foundations (two stacked on top of each other) proved to be rather frustrating and very time consuming. But with the walls up I have started to build the "living area" of that outpost, however, I am constantly running out of wood...
 
85 hours in myself 😀

I just really started the main quest myself. Got some pretty awesome settlements going on. This is Sanctuary and home base.

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Not as pretty as some of my newer settlements but it has my power armor collection. And my dogs. :lol:

I generally just build the flat top square shack things and put turrets on top for defense then make a protected living area. Sanctuary has houses so I only made my power armor building and a small market on the other side of town. I let settlers live in the existing houses.
 
Yeah, I need to level up my Charisma so that I can get local leader 1 and 2. I think I will slowly wall off Sanctuary a little bit at a time. Gonna need a lot of resources so I'll need to finally make my way to Diamond City so that I can buy shipments of 100 wood every few game days. At the rate I am going I can probably completely wall off Sanctuary in another.... 300 game days....
 
Sanctuary has a fence that can be fixed very easily with no resources at all just using existing fences in town and moving them.. Also
Raiders only come from a few places so once you figure those out you can concentrate defenses at those spots.

I took the local leader perks early.

Also
If you want to make good settlements strip everything that you can from a settlement and use those resources then make sure to send provisioners to and from all the other settlements so they can share resources. You need local leader 2 to do that I think.
 

Unfortunately, I am a rather particular with the walls I want to put up. Similar to Outpost Zimonja, I want a concrete perimeter wall and then place a metal wall on top of that. At least it should not be as complicated because in some of the areas I had to double stacked concrete walls and then double stack metal walls since Outpost Zimonja is right up against a pretty high rock cliff. Sanctuary is basically flat so I should be able to just get away with a concrete wall and metal wall stacked on it.

I actually have not found that many settlements yet; only 6 in total. I am rather reluctant to scavenge from them because I will likely build settlements there as well, plus they do not have much in terms of wood resources to begin with.

Starlight Drive-In - No wood there, at least not that I can remember. I am interested in it because it looks like an easy area to build in since it is pretty flat. It also has a water filled crater which I can build a water purifier in.

Graygarden - Not much wood there to begin with. Gonna build up the settlement there because it is a farm with robot workers. Plus I go there a lot to buy "Shipment of Wood - 50" every few game days anyway.

Sunshine Tidings co-op - I do not think I develop this as a settlement (unless I change my mind later) so maybe I will scrap all the wood there, but I can't see it amounting to much.
 
I'm only 18 hours in. I haven't visited Diamond City either. I'm going through those 'quartermastery' and 'cleansing the commonwealth' quests from the Brotherhood of Steel. I'm also doing the minutemen missions. Although they all seem pretty straight forward and repetitive , they're still very fun. I found some pretty good gear that's got my damage resistance stats to a 100+ on regular bullets and 70 or so on energy bullets.
I'm trying to get my hands on a perk, which lets you gain health through radiation. I'm one level short of unlocking that perk.

I'm not that much interested in building a settlement. When I find one, I just give them some defence turrets, food and water. That's about it.

I also kinda regret spending too much points on charisma when I could've gone for strength or endurance. I thought it'd be like New Vegas where nearly every conversation had an option to use it and avoid some huge problem. Boy was I wrong....



 
Well, no one's posted in days, so here goes.

This is a random encounter you can see in AC Syndicate where a carriage is broken down and being repaired, while NPCs banter on about it. Some that I've mentioned it to have played the game a lot and have yet to see it.

The first time I saw such a thing it was back in a short alleyway. This is the first time I've seen it out in the open. The voice acting and dialog are very good in this game. I've had a lot of chuckles just listening to random dialog, or provoked responses.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMNFn34sdpo"][/video]

 
This is a random encounter you can see in AC Syndicate where a carriage is broken down and being repaired, while NPCs banter on about it. Some that I've mentioned it to have played the game a lot and have yet to see it.
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Nice. I couldn't understand what the lady was sitting on. I thought it was a glitch but then I saw the box.



Hehe, those machines have the aperture logos on them. The whole place has got that aperture labs vibe to it.
 
I can't imagine what the setup cost must have been to crank those things out. I thought from a lot of threads I've read they were not being well received, but Steam's page for them says 82.44% of the 1,839 reviews are positive. Plus they sold out on them pretty fast, and they're only carried in US, Europe, and UK.

https://steamdb.info/app/353370/

It seems the biggest problem is still mostly just an old Linux database game wise. I've also read lots of negative reports on Steam OS games performing worse on average than Windows games. So they either need to get better at porting them, or devs need to help out a bit in the development process.
 
Steam Controller is well received by the community but not by reviewers. It's probably a matter of getting used to since it's fundamentally different.

I agree that Steam OS has a long way to go to catch up with Windows performance. No one liked Steam also back in the HL2 days. 10 years later Steam OS might become a thing.
 
Just found out Ken Levine is planning to make an open world sci fi shooter. Only basic game system ideas are being discussed so far, and he's working with just a small part of his original IG team.

He's put out job postings on the IG site though for a "Gameplay Systems Designer and Tuner", and "QA Manager". In the GSDaT description it states required experience with UE, and UE4 experience is a plus, so it looks like they'll still use UE.

http://www.gamesradar.com/ken-levines-new-game-sounds-like-open-world-shooter/

http://irrationalgames.com/studio/careers/

His main focus is player driven systemic gameplay vs a linear narrative. So this is completely new for him and at this point he's just brainstorming with devs.

Here's an interesting lecture he gave at GDC. It's a 40 min lecture with 20 min Q&A.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FWUkA8y2Q"][/video]
 


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That was an old post you quoted. :lol: I was asking for Fallout 4 before it had been announced and by new Dragon Age I meant Inquisition. We even have a tentative release for Mass Effect Andromeda. Still no word on Half Life 3 though. :fou:

This thread has been slow lately. I'm 120 hours+ into Fallout 4 and just discovered the Institute so I'm not even close to being done.
 
Yeah, I kinda forgot about this thread...

Anyway, I'm 40 hours or so, in Fallout 4. When I reached level 30 (I'm at 34 now), I decided to stop doing the BoS and Minutemen quests and just get the main story going. So far, I'm liking it. I can't help but praise the combat system in this game compared to previous ones, over and over. They're sharp and well done.

I got Mad Max 2015 yesterday. The wasteland is so gorgeous. It's beautiful. The driving is ok, but it'll take me some getting used to. The combat is nice too, like how people have compared it to Arkham Asylum, but unlike Batman who can swing from one enemy to the next, Max has to get close before he can throw in a punch. It's optimized well too. I am probably getting my FPS at a steady 60, always.
 
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