I just finished a full Fallout 1 playthrough without firing a single bullet
Speech, Science, Steal, Sneak, Lockpick and Repair was all I used.
Very, very proud of myself. This challenge is in my head for years and now I've finally finished it.
I love how Fallout gives you real freedom. Where to go, how to act. And now I've noticed a special thing: how wonderful the scenario interacts with you and provides immersion.
Here's an example: In BG you get to a city, open up the map and everything is there. You know where are the stores, the temple, everything.
In Fallout you don't have this kind of info. You really need to pay attention to things around you so you don't shoot the wrong NPC or miss an important store or let some good item laying on the ground.
A masterpiece, indeed. From gameplay to story to background to NPCs, everything. Even the graphics, considering it is a game from 1997. I know BG is from 1998 and the graphics are prettier but in Fallout the graphics display better what the world actually is.
I am so bad at no kill runs. At one point during launch I had the loiwest score for the Hotel mission in Hitman Absolution because I couldnt do it without a massive Matrix foyer fight scene from start to finish.
I am so bad at stealth games its unbelievable. So you have all my respect.
Got back from the park a little while ago. This is the first year my son has been off of quarantine, and the second time he has gotten to play at a park. He loved it. He had never been around so many other kids before, for so long, he is basically in awe of any other child. Though we do have to stop him from trying to claim every toy, snack, drink, or purse as his.
The week's almost at an end. We got to spend a lot of time with the family and I'm very happy about it. There are so many things that happened this week: our dog Tucker bounding in the mud puddles and getting all muddy, bands of extremely heavy rain that came in waves and made the ranch visibly greener as time went on, a brilliant lightning storm late at night when the distant sky kept getting lit up very bright, burying grandma and grandpa's ashes by the pond, spotting the little snake and the tadpoles that had come to grow in our pond, admiring the rich algae that had developed because of the new source of water, and all the life that grew around it, using nets and skimmers to catch the tinier fish to move them to the stream, meatballs and chicken parmesan made with bacon grease, peach cobbler, blueberry cobbler, pancakes, fudge, tacos, monkey bread, visiting the Cave Without a Name in central Texas, the kids going racing on ATVs (Chris won by .4 seconds, 57.3 seconds to 57.7 seconds), scads of moths all over the house, playing Suspend (a game about hanging little metal sticks on a complicated scaffold) and having lots of trouble with the tumbly yellow ones while Matt sabotaged everything, Dad and Deena getting Gorilla Glue stuck on their fingers, saving Tucker from the scorpion, Matt and Larissa catching a tarantula out in the wild (I didn't even know we had tarantulas out here), playing with the new drone, admiring an increasingly beautiful orange sunset the other night, getting pretty new stones and shaped wood for Jeanne, hugging everyone over and over and over, Sarah Kate and Larissa squeezing into the big chair together, Katy getting goosed by Tucker and being mortified while everyone laughed at my poor cousin, looking at pictures of Joshua's new beard and watching a video of his wilderness survival training program, looking at pictures of the colored milk challenge, in which you'd drink an entire gallon of colored milk and then compete to see who had the most impressive colored vomit when they inevitably threw up (Joshua won with a brilliant blue stream), our other dog Ollie pestering everyone into cuddling him all the time while Tucker spent several days trying to hide from the scary new people (before eventually getting used to people and letting Larissa and Deena cuddle him), playing Speed Scrabble (a much more fun kind of Scrabble where you make your own words without a board and can rearrange them however you like) and building little castles out of the pieces just for fun, and my Aunt Jeanne singing "Oh Lord It's Hard to be Humble" at the memorial service for Grandpa.
Lots of rain, lots of moths, lots of food, lots of people, and lots of hugs.
I am so bad at no kill runs. At one point during launch I had the loiwest score for the Hotel mission in Hitman Absolution because I couldnt do it without a massive Matrix foyer fight scene from start to finish.
I am so bad at stealth games its unbelievable. So you have all my respect.
To be honest there were 3 kills, but only because I was aiming for a 100% run and those were mandatory for some quests.
They were made with super stimpack OD and reverse-pickpocketing explosives.
Im yet to complete fo1, but no kills is definitely out of the question. I took a caravan job all the way to Junktown and the guard at the gate told me it was night so I couldn't go in. I went in anyway... everyone attacked me and now pretty much the whole town is dead. I still maintain I was in the right, but somehow feel I messed up the game
Back on topic... happiness - I made a full English breakfast this morning. It brought me so much comfort, as I miss my country. Everyone loved it too, although the Brazilians took a little convincing to eat potato for breakfast (hash browns).
I hate to double post, but got some really great news today. My wife's visa has been accepted, so we'll all be heading for England soon. All... being myself, my lovely new wife and our soon to be born daughter Lara.
I hate to double post, but got some really great news today. My wife's visa has been accepted, so we'll all be heading for England soon. All... being myself, my lovely new wife and our soon to be born daughter Lara.
My novel is complete and now I begin the querying process to find a literary agent to represent the book to publishers. I'm a bit nervous about the first one, though. The agent in question seems like a great fit for my book (the book hits a lot of her interests), but the stakes are pretty high, since she's one of the biggest agents in the entire genre. I'm agonizing over the details of the query letter. I want to get it just right, because the impact could be huge if she opts to represent it.
I just sent out the first query letter. It seems like a great fit for the agent in question (she represents a lot of dark and urban fantasy novels with strong female leads), but I'm still anxious about the reception.
My dog Ollie is just aggressively cute. He's a toy poodle and he will MAKE you cuddle him. He'll snuggle up next to you and not move an inch until you get up. He just likes being close to people.
If I didn't have my laptop, he would be lying on top of me.
A Windows 10 update just broke my computer's sound, but my brother found the solution: apparently the Windows update screwed up my audio driver and broke the updating process for that driver, preventing me from fixing it (that is, I had a missing driver and Windows apparently no longer knew how to get it back on its own). But I downloaded a program to hunt down the most recent update and told the Device Manager where to find the new driver's files on my computer. Now the audio's working again.
I have said before that I have an unusually good older brother. Even aside from the technical help he gives me, he's just a plain nice guy in general. He's the sweetest, kindest, and most generous person I know.
I've known him for 28 years, and he's never been anything different.
We have hit a record with my son. The longest amount of time without a hospital stay. We have been out of the hospital for almost 8 months now!
Also, my dad picked up the 5th ed starter set. So we are gonna start running some games and hopefull get some friends in on it too. Proffessor Dirk Daringscale the Bard is ready to teach the realms a lesson! I am a little worried though, he hasn't played since 1st ed, and I fear he may kill us all.
Apparently, they are making s Witcher movie. Henry Cavill is set to play Geralt. I'm reserving judgement on this one. I wasn't particularly impressed with his version of Superman. I watched Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and I nearly fell asleep. It was so dark and talky, I actually started to read a book, and the book was more interesting, so I didn't watch all the way through.
Gennefer is going to be played by Anya Chalotra, someone who is of partly Indian descent. Ciri will be played by Freya Allen. And Fringilla Vigo, a sorceress is being played by Mimi Ndwani, an actress of color. Cue the haters coming out on this one.
It's a Netflix series, rather than a film, right... very exciting. Where's that Mass Effect film someone said they were going to make ages ago?
@ThacoBell Great news about your son. My dad's a great guy, but I can't help feel a little jealous at "my dad picked up the 5th ed starter set"... Im staying at my parents house, since I just arrived back in England from Brazil, got home to find every game, model, book - anything slightly related to fantasy or gaming - has all been packed up into the loft heh. Apparently, with a baby on the way, my life should just be work, family and the odd beer and game of golf. Personally, Im visualising a family multiplayer playthrough of the Baldur's Gate series with my wife and future children
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Speech, Science, Steal, Sneak, Lockpick and Repair was all I used.
Very, very proud of myself. This challenge is in my head for years and now I've finally finished it.
I love how Fallout gives you real freedom. Where to go, how to act. And now I've noticed a special thing: how wonderful the scenario interacts with you and provides immersion.
Here's an example: In BG you get to a city, open up the map and everything is there. You know where are the stores, the temple, everything.
In Fallout you don't have this kind of info. You really need to pay attention to things around you so you don't shoot the wrong NPC or miss an important store or let some good item laying on the ground.
A masterpiece, indeed. From gameplay to story to background to NPCs, everything. Even the graphics, considering it is a game from 1997. I know BG is from 1998 and the graphics are prettier but in Fallout the graphics display better what the world actually is.
I am so bad at no kill runs. At one point during launch I had the loiwest score for the Hotel mission in Hitman Absolution because I couldnt do it without a massive Matrix foyer fight scene from start to finish.
I am so bad at stealth games its unbelievable. So you have all my respect.
Lots of rain, lots of moths, lots of food, lots of people, and lots of hugs.
They were made with super stimpack OD and reverse-pickpocketing explosives.
Back on topic... happiness - I made a full English breakfast this morning. It brought me so much comfort, as I miss my country. Everyone loved it too, although the Brazilians took a little convincing to eat potato for breakfast (hash browns).
If your proposal is half as well written as your posts on this forum you have nothing to worry about!
Reminds me of:
Wish me luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=256&v=e9dZQelULDk
If I didn't have my laptop, he would be lying on top of me.
I have said before that I have an unusually good older brother. Even aside from the technical help he gives me, he's just a plain nice guy in general. He's the sweetest, kindest, and most generous person I know.
I've known him for 28 years, and he's never been anything different.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/flyana/3d-print-yourself-as-a-samurai?distro_platform=facebook
Also, my dad picked up the 5th ed starter set. So we are gonna start running some games and hopefull get some friends in on it too. Proffessor Dirk Daringscale the Bard is ready to teach the realms a lesson! I am a little worried though, he hasn't played since 1st ed, and I fear he may kill us all.
Gennefer is going to be played by Anya Chalotra, someone who is of partly Indian descent. Ciri will be played by Freya Allen. And Fringilla Vigo, a sorceress is being played by Mimi Ndwani, an actress of color. Cue the haters coming out on this one.
http://blacknerdproblems.com/the-witchers-lack-of-diversity-aka-cant-we-just-paint-most-of-nilfgaard-black/?fbclid=IwAR2fiZazavmJ-57t_SswZSFwbTJbLl6Ndk51vbeT04VpP7n5Ch25M_o_M_0
@ThacoBell Great news about your son. My dad's a great guy, but I can't help feel a little jealous at "my dad picked up the 5th ed starter set"... Im staying at my parents house, since I just arrived back in England from Brazil, got home to find every game, model, book - anything slightly related to fantasy or gaming - has all been packed up into the loft heh. Apparently, with a baby on the way, my life should just be work, family and the odd beer and game of golf. Personally, Im visualising a family multiplayer playthrough of the Baldur's Gate series with my wife and future children