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lefty
10-31-2011, 01:18 PM
COD MW 3
Uncharted 3
Arkham City
The next Assassin Creed
GTA 5



:pctoss

Positives: I'm almost done with Arkham Asylum and Infamous :lol



But seriously, who has the time?
Dex
10-31-2011, 01:35 PM
Sure as hell isn't me.

People in the "good PC for gaming" thread talking about how most FPS can be finished in one sitting.....riiiiiiight. I can't remember the last time I was able to sit in the same spot for anything but work for 6+ hours. I'm lucky to get 1 or 2 hours to play video games, and that happens like once or twice a week.
vander
10-31-2011, 01:37 PM
one game to get. not enough time to play

Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

will easily last me until ME3 and Bioshock 3, wasted about 200 hours on Oblivion without ever even getting the expansion, wasted about 100 on Fallout 3.
those Bethesda games, you get your money's worth
baseline bum
10-31-2011, 04:41 PM
You're more interested in GTA5 than Skyrim? Seriously? After seeing how much of a turd GTA4 was, while Oblivion was one of the largest games ever made with tons of great action, a top-notch storyline and jaw-dropping (for 06 at least) graphics and sound? I wouldn't call Oblivion a perfect game since the Oblivion gates got a little boring after closing a couple of them, but every other quest in that game was a perfect 10. I can't wait to see how Skyrim builds on that formula with the dragon battles and the skills.
Dex
10-31-2011, 07:11 PM
You're more interested in GTA5 than Skyrim? Seriously? After seeing how much of a turd GTA4 was, while Oblivion was one of the largest games ever made with tons of great action, a top-notch storyline and jaw-dropping (for 06 at least) graphics and sound? I wouldn't call Oblivion a perfect game since the Oblivion gates got a little boring after closing a couple of them, but every other quest in that game was a perfect 10. I can't wait to see how Skyrim builds on that formula with the dragon battles and the skills.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found closing Oblivion Gates like doing laundry.

Enter gate. Go invisible. Run to end and close the gate. Repeat 16 times.

They should've put some dispellers or a boss that forces you to fight it or SOMETHING at the end of the gates to spice things up a bit.
resistanze
10-31-2011, 08:23 PM
Uncharted 3 tomorrow no? I'm putting that $50 gift card to good use.
Sense
10-31-2011, 09:02 PM
You're more interested in GTA5 than Skyrim? Seriously?

The dude has MW3 on his list... :wakeup
MannyIsGod
10-31-2011, 09:29 PM
I wasn't expecting to get BF3 but I was able to get it by trading in some old shitty games and getting some game stop bonus specials. Picking up UC3 tomorrow though.
baseline bum
10-31-2011, 10:51 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found closing Oblivion Gates like doing laundry.

Enter gate. Go invisible. Run to end and close the gate. Repeat 16 times.

They should've put some dispellers or a boss that forces you to fight it or SOMETHING at the end of the gates to spice things up a bit.

Going invisible just ruins the game IMO. It was one of the first things I did after completing the Mages' Guild quest and being able to enchant my armor with chameleon. After 5 minutes that got boring as hell. The really fun "cheat" in the game is to train acrobatics to 250+50 points for the boots of springheel jack (so you're at 300 acrobatics) and then do athletics as far as you can with the remaining levels.

For me the Oblivion gate plan is to run to the sigil stone, save the game, and keep reloading until I get a stone I like. :lol
Dex
11-01-2011, 02:03 AM
Going invisible just ruins the game IMO. It was one of the first things I did after completing the Mages' Guild quest and being able to enchant my armor with chameleon. After 5 minutes that got boring as hell. The really fun "cheat" in the game is to train acrobatics to 250+50 points for the boots of springheel jack (so you're at 300 acrobatics) and then do athletics as far as you can with the remaining levels.

For me the Oblivion gate plan is to run to the sigil stone, save the game, and keep reloading until I get a stone I like. :lol

Pretty much; way too powerful. Hopefully in Skyrim they find a way to temper that, by making it consume way more mana or making creatures that can still detect you or something. The fact that you can fully replenish mana before your invisibility wears off makes you next to invincible; at that point it basically becomes a matter of what battles you choose to fight. I try to use it as little as possible now, but ignoring it is like having the RCP-90 in Goldeneye and not blastin' fools with it. :lol

I'll have to try out that Acrobatics trick, if for no other reason than something else to do in that game until I pick up Skyrim.
Frenzy
11-01-2011, 08:48 AM
Between work and family I am lucky to game one hour a day. Or do what ever I have to do and spread my free time around and play 5...6 hours once a week.... sacrafice the hour a day of course.

The last game I was able to play for several hours a day was black ops earlier this year when I was unemployed for about 2 months :lol

I don't mind playing or buying games late for campaign levels and such ,but if I wanna play online I try to pick up the game ASAP. I hate going in months late and every one is a pro but me....dam kids and their trash talk :cuss
MannyIsGod
11-01-2011, 08:59 AM
Dude that is so true. This is the first FPS I got at launch and I'm actually holding my own online early. Its refreshing.
DarkReign
11-01-2011, 09:46 AM
Dude that is so true. This is the first FPS I got at launch and I'm actually holding my own online early. Its refreshing.

PC or console?
MannyIsGod
11-01-2011, 09:51 AM
console. I'll take the loss in graphics and control (since FPS aren't my favorite type of game anyway) for the far cheaper price.
baseline bum
11-01-2011, 10:51 AM
Pretty much; way too powerful. Hopefully in Skyrim they find a way to temper that, by making it consume way more mana or making creatures that can still detect you or something. The fact that you can fully replenish mana before your invisibility wears off makes you next to invincible; at that point it basically becomes a matter of what battles you choose to fight. I try to use it as little as possible now, but ignoring it is like having the RCP-90 in Goldeneye and not blastin' fools with it. :lol

I'll have to try out that Acrobatics trick, if for no other reason than something else to do in that game until I pick up Skyrim.

The way to do it is this (acrobatics cannot be a major skill for your character):

1) Do not wear the Boots of Springheel Jack when doing the Thieves Guild quest where you steal the elder scroll. If your acrobatics is high enough you can make that big jump and live without them. If your acrobatics isn't high, then get arrested after stealing the scroll. You'll still have it and the boots afterwards.

2) Complete the Mages' Guild questline so you can make spells. Make a spell that drains your acrobatics skill by 100 for a second or two. Then cast that spell when getting acrobatics training so you can fortify acrobatics to 200.

3) Put on the boots and now your acrobatics is 250.

4) Create a +100 fortify acrobatics spell.

5) Enchant 5 pieces of armor, rings, necklaces, etc with it so you get +10 on each piece. That gets you to 300.

An unpatched game you can get acrobatics so high that you die when you hit the ground, but 300 seems to be the limit on the XBox360 with the patches (and you definitely want the patches since an unpatched Oblivion crashes like hell on the 360).

The 300 acrobatics is pretty fun to use. You can go jump up on a city wall and start a riot by picking guards off with a bow-and-arrow and then having your allies in town fight them to the death. :lol
baseline bum
11-01-2011, 10:58 AM
Speaking of your allies fighting until death when a guard hits you, I hope they change it in Skyrim so that your allies to surrender if you do. I hate when I forget to take off the Gray Fox's mask and go into town, and then half the city gets killed when the guards attack me. :lol
DarkReign
11-01-2011, 12:05 PM
console. I'll take the loss in graphics and control (since FPS aren't my favorite type of game anyway) for the far cheaper price.

Cool.
resistanze
11-01-2011, 07:32 PM
Picked up Uncharted 3, probably won't play till the weekend though. Started up work again and I'm tired as shit :depressed
scott
11-01-2011, 08:51 PM
Get jobs you fucking bums
lefty
11-01-2011, 10:07 PM
Get jobs you fucking bums

:lol
ynh
11-01-2011, 10:45 PM
I have picked up Uncharted 3, Goldeneye Reloaded, Gears 3, Battlefield 3, Arkham City, Dead Rising Case Zero, Dead Island, Dark Souls, and Rage in the last couple of months. I'm also slated to get Skyrum, Saints Row 3, and MW3.

Personally of all the games that I have bought I could of been happy with just getting Uncharted 3 and Gears 3.. Of the ones I plan on getting still I think Skrum and MW3 are going to be the other two that I would of been happy just getting if I was limited on time and budget (I work third so there isn't much more to do than game when I get off in the morning).

BTW All of those that I bought I would recremend (shocking how fun Goldeneye Reloaded is) other than Rage.. that is the only "regret buy" I have.
ynh
11-01-2011, 10:48 PM
Shit.. forgot Halo Ann. as well.. need to get that. Then I'll spend the rest of the year trying to play all of these (only picking up Mass Effect 3 for the next year)
ynh
11-01-2011, 10:51 PM
BTW.. love Uncharted 3 but god I hate the ps3 controller.
Kai
11-01-2011, 11:30 PM
Skyrim, Zelda, The Old Republic for me
ynh
11-02-2011, 12:28 AM
I swear I have zero interest in the new zelda only because of motion controls.
ynh
11-02-2011, 12:35 AM
Aren't we all? I mean youre on a message board talking to people you don't know in real life... just saying ;)
Landon Donofag
11-02-2011, 01:02 AM
http://i.imgur.com/5IABx.jpg
Mister Sinister
11-02-2011, 03:47 PM
Pre-ordered Skyrim, as well as the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection a few weeks back.
Brutalis
11-03-2011, 12:44 AM
one game to get. not enough time to play

Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

will easily last me until ME3 and Bioshock 3, wasted about 200 hours on Oblivion without ever even getting the expansion, wasted about 100 on Fallout 3.
those Bethesda games, you get your money's worth
Sense
11-03-2011, 01:42 AM
Get jobs you fucking bums

Hire me Scott, I'll move back to SA...

I'll even switch NT..
MannyIsGod
11-03-2011, 08:56 AM
Picked up Uncharted 3, probably won't play till the weekend though. Started up work again and I'm tired as shit :depressed

I likely wont get a chance till then either.
redzero
11-03-2011, 09:13 AM
I still want L.A. Noire, Uncharted 2 + 3, Skyrim, Arkham City and some other games.

I guess I'll just keep playing Dark Souls for now.
ynh
11-04-2011, 02:28 AM
Do yourself a favor and only rent L.A. Noire
DarkReign
11-04-2011, 09:33 AM
Do yourself a favor and only rent L.A. Noire

Was going to say that. That game is slow as molasses.
Trainwreck2100
11-04-2011, 12:24 PM
yep LA noire was more GTA4 than RDR
AussieFanKurt
11-05-2011, 06:04 PM
Does anyone know when GTA is out?
ynh
11-07-2011, 01:53 AM
Here comes one messy week. MW3, MGS pack, Skyrum, Halo Ann, and Saints Row 3 all in the next 7 days.
Mister Sinister
11-07-2011, 02:00 AM
Here comes one messy week. MW3, MGS pack, Skyrum, Halo Ann, and Saints Row 3 all in the next 7 days.

And since Gamestop is probably doing a midnight release for MW3, I'm gonna go check if I can pick up my MGS HD Collection. It worked for the new Dragon Ball Z game during the midnight release for Battlefield 3, so why not.
ynh
11-07-2011, 02:03 AM
And since Gamestop is probably doing a midnight release for MW3, I'm gonna go check if I can pick up my MGS HD Collection. It worked for the new Dragon Ball Z game during the midnight release for Battlefield 3, so why not.

I'm hoping they do that.. they usually do allow that.. it's what I'm planning on doing as well.
Mister Sinister
11-08-2011, 02:09 AM
I'm hoping they do that.. they usually do allow that.. it's what I'm planning on doing as well.
Went fine at my local Gamestop. I was apparently the second person who was there for MGS.
ynh
11-16-2011, 12:54 AM
Well, the buying season is done for me. Now to spend the next year playing all these games. From all the games that I got I would have to rank them like this.

1. Skyrim- Just amazing. Best game of the year by far

2. Halo Anniversary- This game is every thing I could of wanted. Halo:CE is one of my top 3 games ever.. so to play it again remastered is just amazing.

3. Saints Row: The Third- GTA3 was the last time that I had so much fun doing nothing but running around and acting like a dick to every NPC

4. Battlefield 3- Not planning on touching the single player. But, MP alone this game is amazing. Really just sucks you in and makes you forget you're playing a game.

5. Gears of War 3- One of the best online experiences that I have ever had... tempered by that damn Sawed off.

6. NHL 12- Every year they keep putting out a great game.

7. MW3- I won't say that I think MW3 is bad.. I actually do like it and love the survivor mode and Kill Confirmed but I honestly can't get into like I have other CoDs and I have no idea why.

8. Batman: Arkham City- This is a great game, don't get me wrong, but it hasn't grabbed my interest as well as the previous did. Perhaps because I just haven't had the time.

9. Uncharted 3- Great game hamped by the fact NaughtyDog wanted to push hand to hand combat into the game. Started getting boring and very repeatitive

10. Dead Island- Really my surprise game of the season. Lots of fun.. another game that has gotten lost in the shuffle though that I need to put time into

11. Dark Souls- Ah, yeah this shit is hard. I like the game but don't feel I have the patience to try and be good at it.

12. Dead Rising: OTR- I'm not sure why this wasn't just a DLC. I love the franchise and like this game.. but I think the prior statement is only because I really didn't play much of DR2, thus most of the stuff in this game is new to me.

13. NBA 2k 12- I seriously suck ass at this game. Don't play it much

14. Rage- This is one of the most disapointing games I have ever played. By far this is the only game I regret buying and as such it will be traded in pretty soon. Terrible load times, boring gameplay, terrible sound... just a straight up bad game IMO.