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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (3 Viewers)
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cobalt_27
Footballguy
Found on you tube, remember going to my little brother's babysitter and playing this. Was the best at the time, bet the first Zelda took some ideas from this game even. I think there was a doctor/surgery game also that we couldn't play. Remember baseball was good too
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
So how important to this game ate the people with names? I was doing a quest for the chick in megaton who wants to get a letter to her family and on the way to her village I go past little big town or whatever its called.
Supermutants attack me out of nowhere so as I'm dodging and hiding I backed into the entrance for this place and three characters get killed in the ensuing battle. After I stripped then and the dead mutants of their stuff it appears the only living person is the suicidal chick. Never got to talk to any of the others.
Is my story line screwed?
After that I still made it to her town. And now I need to find her brother or not. Question. .. What's the best strategy for putting stuff down when you are too heavy?
Supermutants attack me out of nowhere so as I'm dodging and hiding I backed into the entrance for this place and three characters get killed in the ensuing battle. After I stripped then and the dead mutants of their stuff it appears the only living person is the suicidal chick. Never got to talk to any of the others.
Is my story line screwed?
After that I still made it to her town. And now I need to find her brother or not. Question. .. What's the best strategy for putting stuff down when you are too heavy?
Todem
Footballguy
Deactivate the bomb in megaton......get your house in megaton....use your fridge and file cabinets to unload valuables and food stuff etc.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Blow megaton up!!!!!!!
Todem
Footballguy
NCCommish
Footballguy
Todem
Footballguy
Agreed.......Megton is your first home base and you can branch out from there. The Wasteland is vast.....having a few allies early in the game is important. Level up some before you go Road Warrior on people.
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NCCommish
Footballguy
To disarm the bomb in Megaton you are going to need at least 30 skill points in explosives. This is one of those things I was talking about for getting started as far as character setup goes. Also if you are going to disarm the bomb you may consider doing the following. Accept the job from the sheriff, go to the bar and talk to Mr Burke, he will ask you to blow it up and give you a device to do it. Go back to the sheriff and tell him. He will go back to the bar and confront Burke. Be ready because as soon as Burke kills the Sheriff you can kill him. Loot both. Then disarm the bomb. You get the house and some nice early game stuff. Also be sure to go into the Sheriffs house and collect the Bobblehead doll. It adds one point to your strength allowing you to carry more. This is not considered stealing either. All bobbleheads are fair game.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
You get a residence whether you blow it up or not. Blowing that city up is a top 10 moment in this generation of gaming.
At least blow it up and then reload a previous save.
At least blow it up and then reload a previous save.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Yeah I forgot to add. I got the sheriff killed and I tried to kill the guy that did it but I missed and he disappeared. Maybe I should restart...... darn
NCCommish
Footballguy
You can still get the house by disarming the bomb. The sheriffs kid will give you the key to the house after you do the job on the bomb.
Ghoti
Footballguy
Just an FYI: KOTOR is now $3.99 (down from $9.99) on iOS. Here's the iTunes LINK.
I recently finished it on the iPad and I can verify that the port is excellent, save for a little clunkiness in the controls. It was nothing too frustrating for the main game, except for the racing parts (which are mainly optional).
It's definitely worth the four bucks.
Foosball God
Foos
Another Intellivision kid here. Their football game was ahead of it's time.Insein said:Intellivision. Classics like Nightstalker, Snafu and Fish Fish.NewlyRetired said:The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.
I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it
http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw
What was your first home console you can remember?
Foosball God
Foos
Loved Sea Battle and D&D as well, spent countless hours playing those. Pitfall and Bump and Jump as well.NorvilleBarnes said:
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
My first video game system I think was an Apple III computer or one of the original atari's. I'm not sure. All I know is in the decades since pong, no game has come close to the entertainment, skill necessary, outright fun and everything that is perfect with video gaming that was Kaboom on the Atari. With the paddles.
The trillions spent since have not matched that singular youthful pleasure. Video gaming wise. Of course, girls ended up being fun too.
The trillions spent since have not matched that singular youthful pleasure. Video gaming wise. Of course, girls ended up being fun too.
shadyridr
Footballguy
I am about 3/4 of the wat thru Infamous Second Son and here is my review:
Pros
1. The graphics are simply amazing. Im not usually a guy who plays a game just for graphics but Id recommend getting this game eventually JUST for the graphics. Theyre that good.
2. His powers are really cool. He has 3 main powers that you get throughout the game and they each have different abilities.
3. The main missions are fun! Enough diversity to keep you interested.
4. The game is action packed! This game is also much more difficult than the first two. They took away the cover mechanism so basically you get into these firefights with multiple enemies. They are high intensity, fast paced, firefights where you continually blow #### up and have to keep on the move. Great job. Ive also died a ton!
Cons
1. Side missions are so dumb, boring, repetitive and short.
2. Ive heard the game takes about 10 hours complete. Im actually fine with that since MLB The Shows is coming out next week!
Pros
1. The graphics are simply amazing. Im not usually a guy who plays a game just for graphics but Id recommend getting this game eventually JUST for the graphics. Theyre that good.
2. His powers are really cool. He has 3 main powers that you get throughout the game and they each have different abilities.
3. The main missions are fun! Enough diversity to keep you interested.
4. The game is action packed! This game is also much more difficult than the first two. They took away the cover mechanism so basically you get into these firefights with multiple enemies. They are high intensity, fast paced, firefights where you continually blow #### up and have to keep on the move. Great job. Ive also died a ton!
Cons
1. Side missions are so dumb, boring, repetitive and short.
2. Ive heard the game takes about 10 hours complete. Im actually fine with that since MLB The Shows is coming out next week!
shadyridr
Footballguy
I am about 3/4 of the wat thru Infamous Second Son and here is my review:
Pros
1. The graphics are simply amazing. Im not usually a guy who plays a game just for graphics but Id recommend getting this game eventually JUST for the graphics. Theyre that good.
2. His powers are really cool. He has 3 main powers that you get throughout the game and they each have different abilities.
3. The main missions are fun! Enough diversity to keep you interested.
4. The game is action packed! This game is also much more difficult than the first two. They took away the cover mechanism so basically you get into these firefights with multiple enemies. They are high intensity, fast paced, firefights where you continually blow #### up and have to keep on the move. Great job. Ive also died a ton!
Cons
1. Side missions are so dumb, boring, repetitive and short.
2. Ive heard the game takes about 10 hours complete. Im actually fine with that since MLB The Shows is coming out next week!
3. Story is meh
Pros
1. The graphics are simply amazing. Im not usually a guy who plays a game just for graphics but Id recommend getting this game eventually JUST for the graphics. Theyre that good.
2. His powers are really cool. He has 3 main powers that you get throughout the game and they each have different abilities.
3. The main missions are fun! Enough diversity to keep you interested.
4. The game is action packed! This game is also much more difficult than the first two. They took away the cover mechanism so basically you get into these firefights with multiple enemies. They are high intensity, fast paced, firefights where you continually blow #### up and have to keep on the move. Great job. Ive also died a ton!
Cons
1. Side missions are so dumb, boring, repetitive and short.
2. Ive heard the game takes about 10 hours complete. Im actually fine with that since MLB The Shows is coming out next week!
3. Story is meh
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Like a bunch of people my age, I started off with the Atari 2600. Adventure, Chopper Command, River Raid, Yar's Revenge, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. I owned both the 2600 version of Pac-Man (an abomination) and ET (there's no word in the English language that properly captures how crappy this game was). Pretty sure that's why I'm so jaded and cynical today.
Insein
Footballguy
Or watch it on youtube. Its a complete dump to your karma if you dont want to be evil.
biggamer3
Footballguy
everytHing you say is about my sentiments on the game. I played evil my first turn through the game, not sure I want to play good on the next playthrough to see what I missed, will probably sell the game.
Concept Coop
Footballguy
I modded a Wii finally. I've been playing Mario Sunshine and Zelda Wind Waker for old times sake. Classic games.
NCCommish
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
SlaX
Footballguy
Honestly, I will never get how someone who owned a 2600 can say that game was that bad. I can understand someone looking back at the game and seeing the flaws in hindsight, and apparently so many people have played the game without ever reading the f'n manual to understand what you were doing. It's the "cool" thing to look back at E.T. and think "what a piece of garbage!" But, it just wasn't THAT bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9BdV6WmGQc
There were hundreds of worse games out for the 2600 and have been much worse since - and that's the biggest reason for the crash and why Nintendo put the "seal of approval" into place. Also, we accepted the abomination of the 2600 version of Pac-Man because that was the closest we were gonna come to having it in our homes (for the time). It was either that or pouring salt on snails.
I'm not saying the game was a great game. I wouldn't put it in a top 10 games list for the system. But it wouldn't fall into a bottom 10 games for the system either.
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Insein
Footballguy
Well yea. But if you didnt want your character to be evil, just watch youtube instead of spending hours setting that up in game.
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Insein
Footballguy
Never had 2600 but it is a lot of group think that has jumped on to the ETs bad bandwagon. There was a lot of garbage for the 2600. I dont consider ET the worst on the system either.
Chaka
Footballguy
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I think I'm starting to understand how huge this world is.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I disagree with the ET defense -- I think it really is as bad as its reputation. Even as a little kid I was able to appreciate how bad that game was. Basically you stumble around for 15 minutes, occasionally succeed in finding random stuff if you can get around the glitches, and then it's over. I know that description also sounds like Adventure and other games of the era, but compare the level designs and you'll see something like the best design possible on the system on one hand and mailing-it-in even by 2600 standards on the other. ET is like the Platonic form of shovel-ware.
Is it the worst game ever made? No, because it's actually playable and doesn't feature anything racist or demented like Custer's Revenge. But in the universe of non-broken AAA games, I absolutely do think it belongs in the discussion of Worst Of All Time.
Is it the worst game ever made? No, because it's actually playable and doesn't feature anything racist or demented like Custer's Revenge. But in the universe of non-broken AAA games, I absolutely do think it belongs in the discussion of Worst Of All Time.
jwb
Footballguy
I owned a 2600 in the late 70's, and I can honestly say that almost everything on it was "garbage" compared to the arcade, which is kind of a big comparison point. If you owned a 2600, then you were almost certainly an arcade kid too, and it wasn't remotely close, even for the good 2600 games. I don't see how anyone from that time can say different. The allure of the 2600 was playing at home, playing head to head games (tank, baseball, etc), and being able to play many types of games. But even then, we still knew it was junk.
Intellivision and Colecovision started to change things, but "home gaming" really didn't get good until the NES. Then, all of a sudden, you had stuff on par with the arcade.
Corporation
Angry Bovine
Yep, I got a platinum on it. The expert play through was not significantly harder. Some of the trophies were a little challenging. Doing the paper trail DLC and it is kinda frustrating.
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Drifter
Footballguy
Atari 2600. Best Christmas ever. Asteroids and Space Invaders to start with. Later did Intellivision and then the C-64 during high school.NewlyRetired said:The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.
I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it
http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw
What was your first home console you can remember?
James Daulton
Footballguy
Atari 2600. Best Christmas ever. Asteroids and Space Invaders to start with. Later did Intellivision and then the C-64 during high school.NewlyRetired said:The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.
I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it
http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw
What was your first home console you can remember?
Weren't these like $50 each back then?
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
YankeeFan, if you are going to play a "bad karma" game of Fallout, you should detonate the bomb in Megaton. It is terrific and awesome and completely worth your time.
Drifter
Footballguy
It absolutely was that bad. I'd play everything and anything back then and I remember thinking that game was a steaming pile.
The only game that was worse was the completely enigmatic one where you wandered around and there were astrological signs and no instructions on what you were supposed to do.
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SlaX
Footballguy
I haven't played the game in over 20 years. I bet I can still beat the game in less than 5 minutes. Nothing random about it. My biggest complaint about the game is that it's too easy and short. But so were most games during that time period.
Drifter
Footballguy
SwordquestAtari 2600. Best Christmas ever. Asteroids and Space Invaders to start with. Later did Intellivision and then the C-64 during high school.NewlyRetired said:The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.
I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it
http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw
What was your first home console you can remember?
SlaX
Footballguy
I know that my opinion is being dismissed here because you think I don't know anything about it, but that's entirely false. I purchased the game the Christmas it released for full price with money I received for Christmas. It's not like I'm looking back and saying the opposite of what people believe. It's been my firm belief that people who didn't like the game were morons that couldn't read a manual and learn to play. I still believe that.
What I find odd is that no one complains about Raiders of the Lost Ark on the 2600. A game made by the same developer as E.T - Howard Scott Warshaw (who also developed Yar's Revenge, by the way). The game was as clumsy as E.T and was even more difficult. I can't imagine trying to play that game without reading a manual. The menu system had to be navigated by the second controller (or was the player control on the second controller and menu using the first? I can't remember, but it's one of those ways). But Raiders is considered by most to be one of the best games on the system, yet it still has most, if not more of the same flaws people complain about E.T.
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Drifter
Footballguy
I was able to beat the game. My dislike of it had nothing to do with not being able to figure it out and everything to do with the fact, that as a game, it sucked.
SlaX
Footballguy
Drifter
Footballguy
SlaX
Footballguy
It was average. Not good enough to say you missed anything.
I've known forever that I take the unpopular opinion to E.T. I get passionate about defending it. I feel that its (along with 2600 Pac-Man) failure is mostly financial more than it is about game quality. I still can't believe the execs at Atari thought it was a brilliant idea to make twice as many Pac-Man carts as there were lifetime systems sold. I understand the foresight, but talk about a lesson of counting chickens before they hatch. We still see the same problems that plagued both games today. Producers giving ridiculously short time frame for development and QA and it results in a sub-par product. We see that happen nearly every year to this day
cough: Betafield 4 :cough.As far as E.T. We'll agree to disagree. I'm used to it.
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NewlyRetired
Footballguy
The games or the console?Atari 2600. Best Christmas ever. Asteroids and Space Invaders to start with. Later did Intellivision and then the C-64 during high school.NewlyRetired said:The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.
I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it
What was your first home console you can remember?
Weren't these like $50 each back then?
The console was pretty expensive, at $199 on release in 1977. Using a 3% inflation rate puts it at almost $600 in todays money.