Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

I've been playing Fallout 3 for the first time in years. I was underwhelmed with it at first, cause when I first played it I was in the whole Final Fantasy-style linear RPG and just did the main quest and a few others. Now I'm experienced with Oblivion, New Vegas and over 150 hours on Skyrim, I'm doing it right. There's so much good stuff I hadn't noticed before, even the littler subquests like Oasis and the tiny little stuff like Andale.

Also Dogmeat (and Rex in New Vegas) make me wish they put dogs in the Elder Scrolls games.

 

I found a dog companion in Skyrim! Can't remember exactly where, but I think he was outside a shack in the woods near Morthal.

 

What!!! Well I'm gonna have to play that again at some point. Even just to go on for a minute to invite one into my home. Aela, Lydia, my two daughters and the rotting corpse of the bard who pissed me off a bit too much can finally get a pet!

 

Same reason I bought it; played it a bit a couple years back, but got bored before I finished it because I was almost exclusively playing the main quest line. Which also meant that I was getting slaughtered practically everywhere I went, from what I remember.

Biggest nuisance is that I could run it on high settings with my old computer (which would have made a game like Skyrim look like a slideshow, whereas my current laptop plays it without any issue on high settings and a draw distance that probably exceeds the human eye), but NV doesn't like my quad core processor, and thus is restricted to medium.

The annoying talking dog?

 

If you go northwest of Morthal, towards Dragon Bridge, and stick to the roads, you should come across him eventually. His name is Meeko.

Also in Markarth stables you can buy a dog called Vigilance from some guy.

 

Nah, that's Barbas. You find him on the road outside Falkreath and you have to follow him for miles to some statue, and then you have to help him find an axe. That was a ****ty quest.

 

I was worried you were talking about ****ing Barbas too, I happily killed that guy. But yeah I'd have never found him because sticking to the roads is for squares.

 

So, I'm playing an Assassin's Creed marathon with my daughter next to me on the sofa. She's (sort of) watching. Am I a terrible father?

 

Nah you're a cool father. She's not even 1, she won't remember. (This is the one who was born a few months back, right?)

 

That's what I thought.

 

Man, I've not played Assassin's Creed in ages. I'm tempted now.

 

Yeah, I really wish they'd give you more of incentive to use the roads. They should make it so that it's just absurdly dangerous not to. Also I wish they'd make fast travel a little more limited because the game is a piece of piss. You can just hire the wagon outside Whiterun, right at the beginning of the game, and use it to discover every city. It just opens the map right up too quickly and you don't get the fun of exploring the world and discovering places at your own pace.

Awful father. Now she's gonna go out and jump off roofs into conveniently placed haystacks.

 

Somehow I've got good karma, despite blowing a huge Megaton-shaped hole in the ground. Charon died so now the only followers I can get are **** ones. Oh well, I'll stick with just Dogmeat.

 

Yeah to be fair, I made a point to refuse to use carriages. I did absolutely everything I could in Whiterun that didn't involve going to another city, then moved along to the next city and did the same there. Made play much slower and more fun, gave me time to find everything to do rather than bounding from city to city with no real plan. I still couldn't be bothered with roads though, mountain hopping all the way.

 

I'm gonna stick Assassin's Creed on. I reset my PS3 so I'm starting from scratch.

One question though...


Do I play Assassin's Creed I or II?

 

You can get some pretty great followers later on, especially if you keep the good karma. Also Dogmeat is pretty awesome and you can get the "Puppies!" perk if you have the Broken Steel DLC, which replaces him with a new dog when he dies.

Meanwhile in New Vegas, I'm looking for the perfect outfit for Hunter. I've got him in a nice pre-war outfit, but I need to find him the right kind of sunglasses:

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It's annoyingly difficult to find the most useless of items.

 

2. Ezio>Altair.

 

2, 1 is really repetitive

 

They're called Authority Glasses. Mick and Ralph's in Freeside usually sell them.

 

Yes, and killing beggars and minstrels/buskers.