The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

I know people like to bash EA, but I've personally never had any real problem with them. It's a minor annoyance to have to use Origin as well as Steam and not have my games library in one place, but I prefer that than the Ubisoft situation where they still sell via Steam and still enforce the use of UPlay, which is a piece of shit software in my opinion that has blocked me from playing single player games because of problems on their end and not mine. 

Great that Valve and Bethesda actually listened instead of just turning a blind eye to the uproar this caused, but queue a whole new uproar from mod authors who think they've now been shafted.

bartosso wrote: adg211288 wrote: I know people like to bash EA, but I've personally never had any real problem with them. It's a minor annoyance to have to use Origin as well as Steam and not have my games library in one place, but I prefer that than the Ubisoft situation where they still sell via Steam and still enforce the use of UPlay, which is a piece of shit software in my opinion that has blocked me from playing single player games because of problems on their end and not mine.  Where do I even start! But I guess the number 1 nemesis is Ubisoft right now. EA has much longer history of mischief than Ubisoft, even though Ubi's fuck-ups of recent years are even more spectacular. They raised the bar so high that even EA can't reach it. Uplay's one of the main reasons I don't play Ubisoft games at all.

I wasn't into Oblivion at the time, learned about him after he quit public modding, though didn't get to read the (supposed) full story until recently. I actually joined his site and was there for I guess a few months but left after making a bug report for his latest mod and he outright accused me of lying about it as well as lying about another mod of his in a thread on his forum which didn't even exist. He did make good mods but the guy's a paranoid arsehole who thinks everyone is out to get him. The other side of his little conflict isn't much better, they both have stories up on their sites that contradict each other's version of events and they're probably both full of shit. Bottom line is though that that the other guys I've dealt with who Giskard brands trolls have always helped me with their mods when I needed it and responded with courtesy every time and don't make their mods hard to get. You basically had to kiss Giskard's arse to get his mods when I was on his site and I doubt it's any different now, not that I got the chance to tell, I tried to go back once just for a look and he'd deleted my account. 

It's a fair point and I'm not sure I could blame them if they did, though it would be disappointing for certain, we sure don't need any new Giskard's in the TES modding scene. Much like the incident with Giskard and those other modders, neither side in this paid mods thing is entirely blameless for the current situation either. 

^It may be different based on which version you play, but for me Venetica was literally unplayable: I can't remember the exact specifics, but I know I needed a certain ability in order to advance the plot, but I needed to find a certain NPC and I couldn't, because he had totally disappeared from the game. What a joke! Even when the game did work, I found the combat really clunky, and as you said, trying to fight more than one enemy at a time almost never worked out. I liked the main character and the lock picking was hilarious, but that was about it.

^Let's just say, the scene I hated involved a certain someone getting kidnapped. I hated it, because the game is touted for some having amazing writing, and yet that's one of the most tired and overused gaming tropes ever, so that combined with my struggles with the combat added up to a point where I was just completely fed up with the game. And yeah, my biggest problem regarding combat was the difficulty: One of the prologue fights was so nasty I ended up switching to easy early on, and then everything was too easy for a while, so it never really felt right at all. I'm hoping the third game does a better job in that area, as I'm now at a point where I can get over not liking a plot if I enjoy the gameplay enough. 

Been playing a bit of Fallout 3/New Vegas again, merged into one using the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. Don't think I'll ever be playing them unmerged again. Still this ends tomorrow because:

Edited by adg211288 - 18 May 2015 at 12:31pm

I'm pretty sure my brother gets to play that, in like 2 hours, due to preordering it. After watching several videos, I like what I've seen enough that I'll probably get it at the end of the month when I have more money, unless my brother tells me the combat is awful.

Well, I guess it's to be expected with a game this big.