[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

She doesn't love you, you're the first thing she could grab with a heart beat and two legs

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Fallout 4 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

So I figured it's about time I gave this game a shot.

I'm familiar with the series, but never really loved it, have played all previous titles but most of my time is on F3 and FNV.

I think the reason why I didn't pick this up earlier was because I didn't feel like going further into the Fallout universe, it felt like Bethesda were milking the golden cow.

Of course I'm trying it now as I picked it up cheap and the TV series has come along, of which in almost at the end of. It very much feels like the TV show is Fallout 4 on TV, but then I've never played F76.

The game is nice, very familiar to what I remember of F3 and FNV, I wonder how open it is with the perks system, or will I have to put levels into gunplay at some point?

I'm trying to stick to the main quest to start with, I've helped out the Minutemen, and then made a b-line to Diamond City before setting off to find the private detective so still pretty early on. Dogmeat is a fine companion for the road.

Any tips or suggesting for a good start, and play through?

There is a patch landing at the end of the month, so I haven't experimented with any mods just yet.

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago

Because maybe they actually love being a teacher?

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

I remember Divinity Original Sin was the same, the song was really shrill too, they don't appear to have a good track record with a games musical score

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 9 months ago

Are you having a nice rant?

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago
[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago

Yes, but you need to work with a porting company or pay for proprietary software

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Specifically, whose story am I playing?

I'm playing two games at the moment, a single player run through as a custom character, and a coop run-through as Wyl in the second player slot.

I've noticed that in coop I get a lot of story if I instigated chats with NPCs or scripted events even while sleeping at camps.

How will the game end in this way, will player one and player two get two endings?

In my single player playthrough, if I decided to move Gael to my first character slot and control him would I get a Gael playthrough instead of my custom character? Would that mean there's no point in starting as Gael as an origin character?

Does anyone know the difference here?

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

In my experience it's like 2 players have full agency to play independently, unlike other coop games where the experience for player two is often driven by player one.

In BG3 you can run off in completely different directions, engage with your own NPCs in conversation while the other player starts a fight and it's seamless

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

They're a strange developer are Fatshark, clearly very talented creatively, but their business side needs improvement.

Poor choices but with MTX and their project management is dire

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So I'm familiar with DOS: EE and the element mechanics of combat, but I'm not sure if that applies to DnD 5e.

But last night I threw a fireball cantrip at a group of goblins standing in grease, and what do you know but the whole gang go up in flames!

Does anyone know of other great spell or skill combinations you can use, especially to deal with groups?

Also what are your go-to combat setups?

I'm currently running a Druid, Cleric, Warlock, Fighter so if you can think of combinations from those classes that would be great too.

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

I'm not convinced she can act

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 months ago

The best and I mean BEST play through to do is what's called The Possible Trinity, it involves playing GTA IV and it's 2 expansions, The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Dammed missions in a specific chronological order.

It really makes the excellent writing standout and is like being part of an interactive drama series that's like The Sopranos and The Wire.

https://gtaforums.com/topic/430301-the-possible-trinity/

It's my favourite gaming memory ever.

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

I've finished Kingmaker and WotR is in my backlog.

Pathfinder is a really decent RPG system with tons of choice, but the game Kingmaker comes out as quite linear, you don't really have much choice in how you play the game apart from being good or evil.

The game is split between being a typical adventure explorer RPG and being a kingdom management game, the former is interesting and has good quests, the latter is opaque, difficult to get to grips with and inflexible.

The worse part is no matter your best intentions, it you don't do exactly the right things with your kingdom you can find yourself in a dire losing position by the late game.

I don't mind games that have failure conditions, but losing the Kingmaker game after 30+hrs of playtime because your kingdom starts rioting and you can't complete any events seems too harsh to me.

Personally I had to turnoff all the failure conditions in the options so that I could grind through the game to get through the final quests, it ended up leaving a bitter taste for the game which started off as promising.

I hear most of these issues have been addressed in WotR though so I'm looking forward to picking up that.

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