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Offline SorO_Lost

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #320 on: July 02, 2016, 10:10:09 AM »
*shrugs*
I hit register and it tells me I have to be a member to download files over 2mb. Then again it also doesn't talk about money until you hit register a second time and while that page mentions free users there are no free options.

Annnnd you don't have to click on an option to move to the next page. That's very purposefully unintuitive. >.>
Me and 86,000+ people fell for their shit according to the Youtube video telling you where to click.
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #321 on: July 02, 2016, 11:19:22 AM »
I think you have to be a paying member to use their 'download with manager' stuff instead of 'manual download', which only saves you about 2 button presses anyway.
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #322 on: July 02, 2016, 11:42:29 AM »
I think you have to be a paying member to use their 'download with manager' stuff instead of 'manual download', which only saves you about 2 button presses anyway.

Nope, using the manager is free, I do it all the time.  I'm really not sure what the point of being a paid user is, besides faster downloads. 
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #323 on: July 03, 2016, 12:47:51 PM »
https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Summer Games Done Quick is starting in about 20 minutes from this post.  Check https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule for the schedule!  First up is Super Mario Sunshine, then LoZ: A Link Between Worlds, then Demon's Souls, then Bastion.  So happy to see it on Twitch for the first time.

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #324 on: July 03, 2016, 03:04:19 PM »
Oh, you should have watched Shitty Games Done Slow by the Super Best Friends.  They played MindJack, a terrible game where the first big bug encountered forced them to keep replaying the first level over and over.  They did eventually manage to get past it, and continued to play the game at a leisurely pace.  They even beat the game, and later discovered that they had set THE WORLD SPEED RECORD for it!
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #325 on: July 10, 2016, 02:03:27 PM »
Journal Entry #15
I came back to Whiterun the conquering hero and was properly rewarded with knighthood and a new shiny enchanted axe. Apparently there was some kind of call in the background letting me know the neckbeards have summoned me. Well of course they summoned me, I'm kind of a big deal.

Journal Entry #16
I stole a horse and we traveled out into the world together with a quest marker on my map. And I learned a few things about the world, like how I'm also part spider and able to stand on steep ledges running sideways until I can jump even higher. I also learned my stolen horse was better in combat than I was when it killed and entire bandit camp while I was sniping them with arrows. I came to the conclusion that I was a paladin and my faithful steed Thunderhooves would be with me forever as we smite the wicked.

Journal Entry #17
I have no f**king idea where these neckbeards are but I've killed approximately one "northern Ireland" in bandits attempting to figure it out. Also someone kept placing mountains in my way and eventually Thunderhooves fell to his death. I celebrated his life by doing what we did best, caving faces in.

Journal Entry #18
It turns out you can just port into the nearby down, run across the bridge, and turn left. After more stairs than Rocky could ever climb I met the neckbeards whom taught me how to call the name of my attacks and somehow yelling sound forward also causes me to recoil forwards in a quick dash. This world makes no goddamn sense.

I also failed to kill them so I simply stole a necklace for a consolidation prize. They need to keep their clothing >.>

Journal Entry #19
The neckbeards are not convinced I am a dragonborn, even through they called me, I stole a dragon's soul, and instantly learned their shouts, so they are sending me on a go fetch quest. Screw them.

I now own a house with my own minion in training in Whiterun.

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #326 on: July 11, 2016, 06:09:35 PM »
This just in, the Bloodskal Blade fires motherf'ing Getsuga Tenshos.

Skyrim is pretty much most of what Skyward Sword should have been at this point.
Which is probably why Breath of the Wild is a sandbox lootfest complete with kid friendly nudity and fire.

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #327 on: July 11, 2016, 06:46:54 PM »
Dragonborn DLC is amazing overall. The Bloodskal Dungeon is incredible!
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #328 on: July 12, 2016, 01:03:44 PM »
Journal Entry #20
I met some people in Whiterun who killed a troll on my way in some weeks ago and seeing how they killed it before I could run over and gave me a ton of lip for not helping I paid them very little heed. Well it turns out their base is here in Whiterun and I signed up to join it.

At first I ran around like a delivery boy but they eventually teamed me up with a mentally challenged heavy armor specialist which was like the best thing ever. I paid him for advice then stole his money to pay him again and he never caught on. He was also apparently immortal and offered peace every time I "accidentally" struck him down. Best ally so far, I even bought him dinner with his own stolen money as a reward for helping me.

Journal Entry #21
Bitches with overcompensating swords be damned. Anyway, I found a Skyforge and properly stole all the weapons on the table and eventually found my self being invited to their sect cult. I am supposed to meet them tonight for some fluid swapping and I'm highly debating on not showing up at all seeing how there is only like two girls. While chilling at the local forge the blacksmith, whom complained she owned waaaayyy to many plates at this point, started talking about how she wished she could use the Skyforge some time. *sighs* Guess who will be showing up tonight.

Journal Entry #22
I was invited into the basement and told to drink the cult punch which they made a point of showcasing it was werewolf blood. I was relived the juice came out of a respectable tube and drank it. They claimed there might be some side effects before opening the door and letting me run around unsupervised in Whiterun.

I only was allowed outside for a few seconds but I brutally ate the face of an annoying NPC. They claimed the transformation was hard to control, dude you kicked me outside by my self. Eer I mean, yeah it was totally the werewolf that killed not me. I plead the W or whatever.

Journal Entry #23
Now a werewolf I terrorized the country side with my ability to ragdoll idiots into submission and legendary song reference such as knocking on a door before breaking it down yelling "who let the dogs out, bite, bite, BITE, bite" or "what did the human say OOOOoooooooooooowwwwwwwwww". Eventually I returned with a nearly capped progression for another mission and they teamed me up with Miss Snappy from before.

Journal Entry #24
She does not find my singing funny in the slightest so I spent the evening reciting the Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch lyrics.

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #329 on: July 17, 2016, 11:03:35 AM »
Journal Entry #25
I ventured forth into the world using my new wolf form to run through the world Thanks to it's powerful legs and stamina I was able to go all night and I discovered new farms, towns, and mayhap even what they call a city or two. I killed guards, bandits, dawnguards, cultists, animals, dragons, trolls, vampires, mammoths, zombies, and ate out half naked people in fur. It was an adventure of biblical portions that lasted many days and left so many corpses in my wake the criers of every town spake of the dragon terror and the clergymen demanded everyone to repent now before they were next.

Journal Entry #26
I found the Dawnguard base and walked in the front door proclaiming that I, the great Dragonborn, was here to slay the supernatural teethed terror spawn and I wanted more crossbow bolts. They said they would happily sell them to me and asked if I would go empty out some hall. Sweet, I agreed.

But apparently "supernatural teethed terror spawn" means vampires and their dogs. Before I left I attempted to discuss the matter and they asked me that if vampires are dead humans that come back to life then what were dragons that came back to life. And I stood there speechless unsure of what to even say to that, mostly because my eyes teared up in the joy in the expectation of murdering a Dracolich. So I ventured forth, cleared out the area and found a sliding puzzle.

Journal Entry #28
I should probably write this in my journal because I know the rumors of what happened will fairly inaccurate. So the puzzle was taking longer than it probably should have because my first reaction was to kill all signs of life followed by running through the enormous room following by searching for the next door in, and I feel I need to repeat my self: the enormous room. I became very hungry, werewolves like a lot. And so I was innocently eating the last bits of my food, since I haven't eaten all day, and I was pushing first dinner into morning, and I was a growing wolf pup who drooled a lot, while I did the puzzle.

Also I have no idea what kind of magic that bound the very respectable vampire lady who was sleeping in the center under the ground where bread crumbs can easily fall but it is not so strange as to think the seal, and her position form under the floor, would leave her wet with breadcrumbs in her hair. I just want the record to show that.

The vampire, named Serana, had some questions which I played the dumb adventurer to and as my reward she was going to take me to the vampire castle. Twelve hours into joining the Dawnguard, I said the puzzle took a bit, and I already found the vampire nest, I am such an amazingly adventurer.

Journal Entry #29
The vampire castle is such an amazingly place, and the king is her father, and he really made things awkward by asking me why Serana's face smelled like dog hair and was covered in bits of uneaten food if I found her bound and sleeping. The man's interrogation techniques were legendary and even after the explanation met awkward silence and stares I found my self confessing just about everything. From how the Dawnguard hired me, to being a werewolf, to the nightmares of blacksmiths dipping me into their forge's fires, to how I was looking for a Dracolich. I spent hours under his gaze being asked if I plan to get a job, what do I plan on doing, have I ever thought about kids, and eventually he offered to turn me into a vampire as my reward.

But not just any vampire, a vampire lord. I kind of accepted, what could be the harm in that right? It was a reward and it's not like he had some ulterior motive I'm sure. Man I wish I put some ranks into sense motive.
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #330 on: July 17, 2016, 11:33:46 AM »
Journal Entry #30
The long winded entries continue. The other lords were less than polite with me since I was now a high ranking vampire lord dragonborn but with Serana standing around all they could do was send me on tasks they figured would kill me. So me and her took off and explored the world some more, me for still not visiting most places and her for not being out for the last ten thousand years or whatever. I joined the mage college and a thieves guild, learned about marriage, and I even met a kid that was trying to summon me to kill someone who turned out to be a terrible kid hating bitch at an orphanage. It was awesome.

Serana for the most part played my wingman to our escapades. I also loved being a werewolf so much the gods had decided that I could be the first hybrid and Serana would overlook my werewolf transformations and keep them a secret. There was so much blood shed. But eventually even my werevampire strength wore out and I fell asleep. Halfway through the night someone tried filling my room with some kind of gas to put me asleep. It's a tactic that wouldn't work since my helm of water-breathing couldn't possible extract enough oxygen from water to keep me alive, it must have been supplying me with magically created oxygen, and so I didn't need to breath their smoke to begin with. So I was awake but playing dead while they carted me off into the night.

Journal Entry #31
All they did was lock me in a shack on a bed so what the hell, my vampire senses showed one person waiting for me to wake up so what the heck, I went back to sleep. Fourteen hours later according to my knack ability to track time in six second intervals I woke up and met a women named Astrid. She tried being ominous and claiming that I killstole so I owned her secret group and like a bad Jigsaw she set up this little game.

On the other side of the room were three people, hooded and apparently bored with all the waiting. One of them had a contract out to die and the other two didn't. I realized this was some kind of test, would I discover who it was or would I simply decide the assassin was the real villain. I scratched my chin as I came up with a solution to the test. Once I was ready I used my vampire powers to temporarily turn invisible and then I stole everything Astrid had before walking over to the three kneeling people I pulled off their hoods so they could see me and they could see her, they had overheard everything but now that could finally see the people deciding their fate. And then staring at Astrid I spoke to them, but what I said was not a question but "Yol".

Astrid tried to remain unflinching but I can tell I surprised her, perhaps some my cruelty and display, or maybe because she just realized I was the dragonborn here to prevent their lives from decaying into slavery and meat, or maybe she heard Serana outside draining the blood from the last of her allies, but she glanced downwards unable to meet my gaze and she realized she was sitting on top of the book shelf naked with her clothing neatly folded in my hands. In that moment she must have realized how close to the brink of danger for her and her entire club really was. This was one NPC that was not going to successfully push me around.

She recovered quickly and offered me a job promising me that she her self would offer me contracts with targets worthy of my attention and gave me the password, and location, of her entire secret assassin club. When in doubt, try to make them your friend right?
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #331 on: July 17, 2016, 05:49:34 PM »
Journal Entry #32
Astrid was a little surprised when I knocked on her door and asked if she had found anyone yet, maybe she didn't expect me so soon? She offered up some kind of excuses of being delayed running back here but I simply told her I was getting bored so she asked around and one of the guys said he had not one but three contracts for me. Finally some respect. As a reward for the group's loyalty I stole all their pants and replaced their shoes with a bunch of rags.

Journal Entry #33
Back out into the world again I decided to continue the main quest a bit and finally went to retrieve the horn in the go fetch quest. And son of a Blacksmith, some women named Delphine beat me to it. Huh, I guess either the test is worthless or she's another dragonborn. Serana offered to turn into a thrall if she was, that girl has a control issue. Always bringing men back to life and making them run after her.

It looks like I'd have to go to Riverwood, some town near the bottom of the mountain. Strangely my map said I had already been there.

Journal Entry #34
Oh shit, it's Riverwood.

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #332 on: July 17, 2016, 08:01:43 PM »
Just watched someone fall off a pier and into a lake playing pokemon go. Comedy gold.


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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #334 on: July 21, 2016, 05:14:30 PM »
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #336 on: August 12, 2016, 02:38:31 AM »
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2107261546/ethos-it-begins-again

A rather interesting game with 3 distinct styles of playing it; as an emperor building your own empire and sending soldiers/mercs to fight, as an adventure delving through dungeons with a combat style that reminds me Dark Souls, or as a gladiator in the bloodsport arena in both single and team pvp battles.

Or something, I don't explain things good. Check it^
Just randomly ran into it on Steam's Greenlight and found their Kickstarter and I instantly wanted to fund this shit  :D
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« Reply #337 on: August 12, 2016, 10:25:29 AM »
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2107261546/ethos-it-begins-again

A rather interesting game with 3 distinct styles of playing it; as an emperor building your own empire and sending soldiers/mercs to fight, as an adventure delving through dungeons with a combat style that reminds me Dark Souls, or as a gladiator in the bloodsport arena in both single and team pvp battles.

Or something, I don't explain things good. Check it^
Just randomly ran into it on Steam's Greenlight and found their Kickstarter and I instantly wanted to fund this shit  :D
And I don't actually do this whole kickstarter funding thing, ever really.

Looks interesting, I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work.  Feel free to cross post it over here if you want.

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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #338 on: August 26, 2016, 09:35:54 PM »
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Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« Reply #339 on: August 27, 2016, 11:19:51 PM »
No Man's Sky is one of Steam's best sellers, but look anywhere else on the Internet and all I see are flaming garbage wrecks of drama.

TL;DR Creator promised a bunch of stuff and overhyped it Molyneux-style.