Sulphur on 3/9/2018 at 09:21
The humour seems to have a defter hand, with less smug self-awareness, but we may not be calibrated on the amount of smirking silliness either one of us would find acceptable. If you can roleplay it with someone, my recommendation is to do that. There are many opportunities to troll your partner in it because the party all have different questlines and goals that may intersect, and it's a complete gas.
As for animals, I love cats and dogs because we've always had both around, and their complementary qualities are very much a reflection of who they are. Cats are complete assholes, which I can relate to; and dogs will love you unconditionally - who's going to say no to that? Anyway, what you're telling me is I probably should program a friendly fire soundboard for our next session, right?
Thirith on 3/9/2018 at 09:36
Sounds good to me, as do your descriptions of dogs vs cats (except I've always disliked/distrusted unconditional love, which probably says a thing or two about me). And I think I'll just have to plan in DOS2 as the next big RPG I'll play after Fallout New Vegas, though I'll want to play a couple of non-RPGs in between.
To return to the whole "Now what are you playing?" theme: I finished Little Nightmares over the weekend. I loved the unique visuals and the sound design, but in the end it felt too similar to Inside to me. If I'd played Little Nightmares first, I might've preferred it, but Inside grabbed hold of my imagination in a way that Little Nightmares didn't. Also, some of the sequences where you have to run from something or someone or avoid obstacles were pretty frustrating; there's a scene late in the game where you have to run across a long table while the people sitting on either side grab at you that came close to making me throw my controller at the TV.
Has anyone here played the Little Nightmares DLC? I've not checked the DLC episodes out, but if they're more than just, well, more LN, I might earmark them for another time.
Malf on 3/9/2018 at 10:44
Is it the Definitive Edition of OS2 you're playing Sulphur?
I should replay it, see if it's fixed some of my misgivings. I mentioned some while chatting to you on the weekend, but one that I forgot which was particularly egregious was the fact that because of the massive power differences between loot from one level to the next, it forced you to re-buy all of your gear whenever you levelled. So much so that it felt like you spent more time shopping then playing. Not so noticeable early on in the game, but from the second part onwards, this becomes a real problem for me.
Edit: Of course, I reckon a four player play-through could be grand if we can slot it in to the co-op slot. Maybe even custom characters so we don't know eachother's motivations?
Sulphur on 3/9/2018 at 10:49
It is indeed. And I believe they rebalanced it.
I haven't noticed level differences in gear so much but I am fairly early in - level 4/5. I also invested in Lucky Pockets for Fane and go around stealing things where it makes sense to avoid the whole shop scrounge thing - the game's still bloody hard depending on how much you've fucked yourself over in party composition and skills. I think my current party of a tank, a rogue, a battle mage, and a ranger work well enough, but not without some extremely tactical positioning learned from the tried and true method of poking the hornet's nest to check out the enemy force's capabilities, then reloading. It seems balanced to be a right ol' challenge, but not infuriatingly so yet.
RE: co-op - sure, but this is an 80+ hour game, and Jesh and I still haven't finished the original Original Sin after faffing with it for 50 hours or so. Gonna be a long-term investment, this.
Malf on 3/9/2018 at 11:02
Yeah, but we managed to finally get through Satellite Reign, so I reckon we've got staying power :)
Thirith on 3/9/2018 at 11:25
It sounds fun, but I'd probably bow out of that one. I wouldn't be able to commit to more than a couple of hours every second or third Saturday, and I prefer to play RPGs in a more compact way. In addition, with combat-heavy RPGs I usually prefer turning down the difficulty, as that's not an aspect of the genre I enjoy all that much.
Malf on 3/9/2018 at 13:56
Yeah, while it reviewed well and got through Kickstarter fine, I'm not sure how financially successful it was. It was quickly available for drastically cut prices in various places too, and I seem to remember it being a freebie somewhere at some point.
Thirith on 3/9/2018 at 18:09
Well, fuck. Even with all the fan patches in the world, Fallout New Vegas' bugs can still screw you over big time. The Legion armour helped me get into Caesar's camp, and I can even use the Mark of Caesar given to me by a messenger sent by the big guy himself to turn them friendly (or at least non-belligerent) - but the moment that one of the guard dogs smells me, they turn hostile, the legionnaires follow suit, and I am one dead courier. Grumble.
Jason Moyer on 3/9/2018 at 19:41
Disguises don't work around guard dogs or if you get too close to certain NPC's. They can see your non-disguised reputation. Working as intended.
Edit: This is probably worth reading if you don't mind mechanical spoilers. There's a lot of stuff in here the game doesn't explain very well if at all (
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_reputations)
Thirith on 3/9/2018 at 20:19
It is a bug if the Legion offers a temporary truce thanks to the Mark of Caesar, though.