Thread for Gamers IX: God Howard Starfield Edition

[The New California Republic]

I'm about to do what's known as a pro gamer move.

You are gona scream a racial slur?

A man of culture as well i see.

Or ragequit. Another classic pro gamer move.

Its nothing new or groundbreaking honestly. Its stuff that has been done before, and its done really well but thats it. There was nothing that made me go "This is an incredible new breakthrough in game design" or "This is a really unique narrative twist or setting" or anything like that.

Its Fallout New Vegas in Space. Thankfully no where near as broken as that game was. I do think its overhyped a lot.

Which reminds me, I really need to play that again.

[West Leas Oros 2]

I've seen a few let's play vids of it on YouTube, I think I'll give it a miss. I think the theme of it really does appeal to me, but I think there is something just "meh" about the game in general. Can't quite place what it is exactly.

Its nothing new or groundbreaking honestly. Its stuff that has been done before, and its done really well but thats it. There was nothing that made me go "This is an incredible new breakthrough in game design" or "This is a really unique narrative twist or setting" or anything like that.

Its Fallout New Vegas in Space. Thankfully no where near as broken as that game was. I do think its overhyped a lot.

Well, I sure did love FNV, so Outer Worlds looks promising.

[The New California Republic]

Its nothing new or groundbreaking honestly. Its stuff that has been done before, and its done really well but thats it. There was nothing that made me go "This is an incredible new breakthrough in game design" or "This is a really unique narrative twist or setting" or anything like that.

Its Fallout New Vegas in Space. Thankfully no where near as broken as that game was. I do think its overhyped a lot.

Well, I sure did love FNV, so Outer Worlds looks promising.

I don't think the factions in Outer Worlds are as polarising as they are in Fallout games. The Outer World factions are mainly "here are a bunch of corporations that might all do things slightly differently but when it comes down to it it's still just capitalism on steroids", and a handful of minor factions thrown in for some semblance of variety.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Well, I sure did love FNV, so Outer Worlds looks promising.

I don't think the factions in Outer Worlds are as polarising as they are in Fallout games. The Outer World factions are mainly "here are a bunch of corporations that might all do things slightly differently but when it comes down to it it's still just capitalism on steroids", and a handful of minor factions thrown in for some semblance of variety.

NV factions are definitely more fleshed out.

[The first Galactic Republic]

I'm about to do what's known as a pro gamer move.

Ni—

Completed the Outer Worlds, got a pretty good ending where everything looks like its gona be alright, eventually.

Pretty fun game, really enjoyed it. Writing and characters are top notch, combat was fun though nothing new or groundbreaking, some really fun missions and i love that you could do a ton of them without even firing a gun, which was cool.

Gear modification and tinkering system was good, though there honestly were not that many guns or armour that Wowed me, nice variety of weapon types (armour was worse imo) but nothing.... spectacular and nothing that really stood out in terms of looks, just.. different colours of the same armour really. Weapons were all very satisfying to use though, especially the plasma weapons and machine guns, those were awesome.

Skills and perk set up was very good. Not much to complain about there.

Game looks very dated on the xbox one, thats probably my biggest issue with the game, lots of textures aint great and some stuff is very blurry, but i like the art style and it ended up not bothering me too much.

On Normal i feel it definitely got a bit too easy as it went on, like the final mission i just stormed through and slaughtered fucking everything pretty much unscathed.

Don’t know if I’d pay full price for it, but this game sounds like a pretty good reason to finally give Game Pass a try.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I'm about to do what's known as a pro gamer move.

Ni—

Completed the Outer Worlds, got a pretty good ending where everything looks like its gona be alright, eventually.

Pretty fun game, really enjoyed it. Writing and characters are top notch, combat was fun though nothing new or groundbreaking, some really fun missions and i love that you could do a ton of them without even firing a gun, which was cool.

Gear modification and tinkering system was good, though there honestly were not that many guns or armour that Wowed me, nice variety of weapon types (armour was worse imo) but nothing.... spectacular and nothing that really stood out in terms of looks, just.. different colours of the same armour really. Weapons were all very satisfying to use though, especially the plasma weapons and machine guns, those were awesome.

Skills and perk set up was very good. Not much to complain about there.

Game looks very dated on the xbox one, thats probably my biggest issue with the game, lots of textures aint great and some stuff is very blurry, but i like the art style and it ended up not bothering me too much.

On Normal i feel it definitely got a bit too easy as it went on, like the final mission i just stormed through and slaughtered fucking everything pretty much unscathed.

Don’t know if I’d pay full price for it, but this game sounds like a pretty good reason to finally give Game Pass a try.

Oh definitely get it via game pass, thats how i did as i was a bit hesitant to pay full price for it myself.

[The first Galactic Republic]

Ni—


Don’t know if I’d pay full price for it, but this game sounds like a pretty good reason to finally give Game Pass a try.

Oh definitely get it via game pass, thats how i did as i was a bit hesitant to pay full price for it myself.

It’s only a dollar for the first month if you’ve never been a game pass member before right? Something like that?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Oh definitely get it via game pass, thats how i did as i was a bit hesitant to pay full price for it myself.

It’s only a dollar for the first month if you’ve never been a game pass member before right? Something like that?

Yeah think so. Might be for the first two months actually.

[Ifreann]

I'm about to do what's known as a pro gamer move.

You're gonna stop working with women?

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You are gona scream a racial slur?

A man of culture as well i see.

Or ragequit. Another classic pro gamer move.

Its nothing new or groundbreaking honestly. Its stuff that has been done before, and its done really well but thats it. There was nothing that made me go "This is an incredible new breakthrough in game design" or "This is a really unique narrative twist or setting" or anything like that.

Its Fallout New Vegas in Space. Thankfully no where near as broken as that game was. I do think its overhyped a lot.

Which reminds me, I really need to play that again.

I just started a new game. Think I might back Mr. House, that seems to be the only ending achievement I don't have yet.

[The New California Republic]

I just started a new game. Think I might back Mr. House, that seems to be the only ending achievement I don't have yet.

Yeah, backing Odo Mr. House is the only way to avoid getting rid of him, a task which I always hated.

I seriously need to do a Legion playthrough. To date I have never done one, which is probably surprising in some respects, but perhaps not others.

[Rainbowsix]

does anyone here play dead by daylight

[Ifreann]

I just started a new game. Think I might back Mr. House, that seems to be the only ending achievement I don't have yet.

Yeah, backing Odo Mr. House is the only way to avoid getting rid of him, a task which I always hated.

I'm pretty sure I've done a Mr. House playthrough before, but that would have been back when I had a pirated copy.

I seriously need to do a Legion playthrough. To date I have never done one, which is probably surprising in some respects, but perhaps not others.

I hardly ever support the Legion, because, you know, they're a bunch of bastards.

[The New California Republic]

I seriously need to do a Legion playthrough. To date I have never done one, which is probably surprising in some respects, but perhaps not others.

I hardly ever support the Legion, because, you know, they're a bunch of bastards.

I feel like attempting some kind of "double agent" playthrough, where I work for both the NCR and Legion as much as possible, but I think that would quickly become impossible because the reputation and karma system would start to kick in sooner or later. I could cheat by manually changing my karma and reputation stats to make it possible, but that kinda defeats the purpose of it.

I might have to just accept the fact that to do a proper legion playthrough I am going to have to play the role of a real prick for a while, in order to fit in with the bastards, regardless of how distasteful it is.

[The first Galactic Republic]

I hardly ever support the Legion, because, you know, they're a bunch of bastards.

I feel like attempting some kind of "double agent" playthrough, where I work for both the NCR and Legion as much as possible, but I think that would quickly become impossible because the reputation and karma system would start to kick in sooner or later. I could cheat by manually changing my karma and reputation stats to make it possible, but that kinda defeats the purpose of it.

I might have to just accept the fact that to do a proper legion playthrough I am going to have to play the role of a real prick for a while, in order to fit in with the bastards, regardless of how distasteful it is.

It’s not particularly difficult to be on decent terms with both the Legion and NCR. The way I play New Vegas, I end up neutral with the Legion and positive with the NCR basically until it’s time to pick an ending, and it’s just from doing tasks for both.You don’t have to deal with hit squads and you can do almost all the quests. It helps that a lot of NCR quests are just against generic bandits and don’t involve the Legion.

The one thing that ruins it in my experience is Boone’s quest, since it leads to a whole mess of dead Legionaries.

[The New California Republic]

I feel like attempting some kind of "double agent" playthrough, where I work for both the NCR and Legion as much as possible, but I think that would quickly become impossible because the reputation and karma system would start to kick in sooner or later. I could cheat by manually changing my karma and reputation stats to make it possible, but that kinda defeats the purpose of it.

I might have to just accept the fact that to do a proper legion playthrough I am going to have to play the role of a real prick for a while, in order to fit in with the bastards, regardless of how distasteful it is.

It’s not particularly difficult to be on decent terms with both the Legion and NCR. The way I play New Vegas, I end up neutral with the Legion and positive with the NCR basically until it’s time to pick an ending, and it’s just from doing tasks for both.You don’t have to deal with hit squads and you can do almost all the quests. It helps that a lot of NCR quests are just against generic bandits and don’t involve the Legion.

The one thing that ruins it in my experience is Boone’s quest, since it leads to a whole mess of dead Legionaries.

Yeah I know that it is possible, but you need to be really selective about which quests you do, with foreknowledge of what the effects of each are, as some actions that may crop up during a quest will make the NCR or Legion hate you almost instantly. It also has knock-on effects of how companions perceive you too, as I like to stay on good terms with as many companions as possible. But that's yet another thing that will likely need to be sacrificed in my Legion playthrough.

[The Huskar Social Union]

The only good legionary is a dead legionary

[Ifreann]

I hardly ever support the Legion, because, you know, they're a bunch of bastards.

I feel like attempting some kind of "double agent" playthrough, where I work for both the NCR and Legion as much as possible, but I think that would quickly become impossible because the reputation and karma system would start to kick in sooner or later. I could cheat by manually changing my karma and reputation stats to make it possible, but that kinda defeats the purpose of it.

I might have to just accept the fact that to do a proper legion playthrough I am going to have to play the role of a real prick for a while, in order to fit in with the bastards, regardless of how distasteful it is.

On the plus side, you can side with the Legion and still kill Caesar.

[The first Galactic Republic]

It’s not particularly difficult to be on decent terms with both the Legion and NCR. The way I play New Vegas, I end up neutral with the Legion and positive with the NCR basically until it’s time to pick an ending, and it’s just from doing tasks for both.You don’t have to deal with hit squads and you can do almost all the quests. It helps that a lot of NCR quests are just against generic bandits and don’t involve the Legion.

The one thing that ruins it in my experience is Boone’s quest, since it leads to a whole mess of dead Legionaries.

Yeah I know that it is possible, but you need to be really selective about which quests you do, with foreknowledge of what the effects of each are, as some actions that may crop up during a quest will make the NCR or Legion hate you almost instantly. It also has knock-on effects of how companions perceive you too, as I like to stay on good terms with as many companions as possible. But that's yet another thing that will likely need to be sacrificed in my Legion playthrough.

I mean, if you want to role play as a Legion patriot that sends the sons and daughters of the west coast back home in bags then you can always do that, but otherwise you don’t have to alienate other factions at any point prior to locking in the endgame.

I don’t remember it taking any special planning to keep the Legion docile. Doing some NCR quests will piss them off, but not to the point of locking out some of their fetch quests, and those will bump up your relationship with them. Siding with a faction in the end only requires their ending still be available, so the Legion just has to not hate you if all you care about is the ending. Fighting for them the whole game would just be a role play thing.

And it’s an objectively worse experience if the NCR hates you early because they control so much of the map and give a lot of quests.

You mention karma, but that’s irrelevant to the factions. The Legion doesn’t care about good karma anymore than it cares if you’re a woman.

And you can technically avoid losing companions if you just don’t talk to them after reaching certain points in the Legion ending. I do all the ending quests all at once, so it’s never a big deal to not have them for a few minutes.

I guess it depends on how early you want to lock in your Legion ending.

[The New California Republic]

Yeah I know that it is possible, but you need to be really selective about which quests you do, with foreknowledge of what the effects of each are, as some actions that may crop up during a quest will make the NCR or Legion hate you almost instantly. It also has knock-on effects of how companions perceive you too, as I like to stay on good terms with as many companions as possible. But that's yet another thing that will likely need to be sacrificed in my Legion playthrough.

I don’t remember it taking any special planning to keep the Legion docile. Doing some NCR quests will piss them off, but not to the point of locking out some of their fetch quests, and those will bump up your relationship with them.

I remember that I was able to piss the Legion off very early in the game just through normal gameplay. Maybe we are just doing things slightly differently from each other.

You mention karma, but that’s irrelevant to the factions. The Legion doesn’t care about good karma anymore than it cares if you’re a woman.

It matters to companions though, that was my point, which can end up fucking up quests.

[Ifreann]

I don’t remember it taking any special planning to keep the Legion docile. Doing some NCR quests will piss them off, but not to the point of locking out some of their fetch quests, and those will bump up your relationship with them.

I remember that I was able to piss the Legion off very early in the game just through normal gameplay. Maybe we are just doing things slightly differently from each other.

Normal gameplay

[Licana]

It matters to companions though, that was my point, which can end up fucking up quests.

yeh but companions are dumb

I remember that I was able to piss the Legion off very early in the game just through normal gameplay. Maybe we are just doing things slightly differently from each other.

Normal gameplay

>not using CNR

[Immoren]

[Heloin]

The Outer Worlds

I just started a new game. Think I might back Mr. House, that seems to be the only ending achievement I don't have yet.

Yeah, backing Odo Mr. House is the only way to avoid getting rid of him, a task which I always hated.

I seriously need to do a Legion playthrough. To date I have never done one, which is probably surprising in some respects, but perhaps not others.

It's actually kinda fun to play an "evil" play through with the legion. Much more then an evil run in Fo3 ever was.

[The New California Republic]

I remember that I was able to piss the Legion off very early in the game just through normal gameplay. Maybe we are just doing things slightly differently from each other.

Normal gameplay

That reminds me, I need to do a playthrough where I try to piss off absolutely everyone.

[Barboneia]

Normal gameplay

That reminds me, I need to do a playthrough where I try to piss off absolutely everyone.

I did a playthrough on a friend’s xbox where I just slaughtered every living person I came across. It was surprisingly easy. Melee weapons are kinda OP.