Caesar and his guards are actually pretty easy to kill. Explosives, some DLC perks and a shotgun, a nice Gauss Rifle, etc, there’s quite a few builds that make it relatively easy to wipe out the whole tent and then the whole camp.
Er, you wiped out one of their camps. The Legion’s armies are vast and it controls a huge area.
Not only is that not a classic RPG problem (computers have speed and TTRPGs have different systems for different scales of conflict resolution), it isn’t the problem in this case.
But I’ll grant you that this problem; the I put a railroad in the sandbox, nobody rode the train and now everything’s broken problem, is a classic design blunder. It’s also a very, very tricky problem and I can only imagine that’s about five million times more true when designing CRPGs.
Got stuck into this again after getting a bit tired of Skyrim and needed a break from (the rather disappointing) Diablo 3.
Really enjoying it. I love how a simple side-quest can turn into a 2 hour event. I often reload the conclusion of a quest to try a different choice and see how things end. Or load again to attempt a more efficient massacre.
It’s a far more open game than the claustrophobic feeling Fallout 3 gave me. Less invisible walls and subway stations for a start. Pity about The Strip though. It really feels like there was ambition to make it better but the result feels empty and unfinished, I generally stay away.
It’s strange going back to the experience based system compared to Skyrim’s use-it-to-improve-it mechanism. Not sure which I prefer.
On the down-side NV is looking a bit old now, they really made a big jump graphically in Skyrim, at least on the Xbox anyway.
However it feels much more a completed game than Fallout 3 did. It’s as if they took the negative aspects of Fallout 3 and improved on them. It’s not perfect but a major improvement.
Anyway, 70 hours in and I’m wondering if I’ll ever finish it :)
I stopped reading. The ravings of madmen hold no fascination for me.
Once i complete Diablo on Normal I’ll summarize my thoughts better in the game thread but yeah, I’ve found it boring so far (just started Act 3).
Well, New Vegas is certainly a better game than Diablo 3. I gather you’re playing on Xbox? Shame, since there are some great graphical mods for it on PC.
I wish I could replay these huge games, but new games I’m interested in come out faster than I can go back to the old ones. If you ever decide to complete the main quest, it probably won’t take too long. You will have to be on the Strip a bunch, though.
I actually own it on PC too but as its game that requires extended playing sessions. For that I prefer to be in front of my TV on the couch. Downsides are longer load times and no mods (which I’m not big into either - prefer a Vanilla experience).
Also, re completion. I actually picked it up again because I realised it was high up on my backlog. I had intended on plowing through the main quest and then ticking the game off my list, but sure enough, I got sucked back into all the side-quests.
You own the vastly superior PC version but are playing in on the XBOX?! Plug your PC into your TV then! Argh! Madman, like I said!
Also, you have to complete Diablo III on Nightmare to give me us your opinions, Nightmare is where the game takes off the training wheels and gets down to business.
Meh, I like my neat and tidy console, couch and TV setup. No messing with USB controllers and PC cables. Plus i have my PC setup in another room dedicated to RTS games and slogging through Diablo.
So slog through 20 hours on Normal only to get killed by lag on the final boss? No thanks. It’s a bland game IMO. Though that’s for another thread…
Yeah, I know what you mean about having the PC separate and not dealing with all the cables and crap. It’s pretty much a rat nest behind my TV already. I always WANT to move the PC to the TV for fun some weekend, but I never do it. :)
Also, you have to complete Diablo III on Nightmare to give me us your opinions, Nightmare is where the game takes off the training wheels and gets down to business.
Isn’t that a bit of a design flaw? You have to sink tens of hours into the game before it gets good?
I guess it depends on your definition of good too, I suppose. Ridiculously difficult isn’t my idea of fun…
This isn’t really the right thread, and that’s my bad, but I’m not saying you can’t enjoy Diablo III until nightmare, nothing like that at all, but he said it was “boring” and I had heard of people thinking that change their minds in nightmare.
I don’t know anyone personally who doesn’t enjoy the game from the beginning. This is NOT some sort of Final Fantasy XIII bullshit by any means.
I see Diablo III spills into as many threads as Bioware games and Skyrim!
It probably has a better ending than Mass Effect 3.
I actually did want to reply to some of your comments, mostly in that Fallout New Vegas was on of my favorite PC games that year it came out (was that 2010?) and continues to be a favorite RPG. I really liked Skyrim, but the story/quest/replayability is higher in FNV in my opinion, and I really hope these same guys get to make Fallout 4 using the modified enging Skyrim was running on. I think most everyone wants that, so hopefully Bethesda just focuses on the next Elder Scrolls game and let’s that happen.
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Thats not going to happen. Bethesda is doing Fallout 4, just like they did Fallout 3. Bethesda’s plan has always been to alternate between the two franchises, and they restricted Obsidian on where/when they could do their game, meaning Bethesda has plans of its own. And on top of that, Fallout 3 outsold Fallout:NV so they have no reason to hand the series off to Obsidian from that perspective either.
I don’t think any of these settings are good enough to warrant repeated visits, compared to what we’d have if they started afresh each time… The setting can be reused for expansions, and binned for new games. Thus say I :)
Dude, a kick in the nuts is a better ending than ME3.
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As an aside, that Nuka Break Fallout web series is doing a Kickstarter for a second season and have already passed their goal. Their new goal is $200k and if they hit that in the next 30 days Chris Avellone and Tim Cain have agreed to help out on the scripts and will also have speaking roles of some kind.
I’m slowly making my way through season one. It’s not all that bad, really, for a cheaply produced web series filmed in the desert.
