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Posts : 2751 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm
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As the other thread seem to have vanished into thin air, it might be time for a new one.
So what games are you playing other than adventure games? I'm currently working my way through Xenoblade chronicles, a game which has started to get quite repeititive, so I've also started playing Elven Legacy: Ranger.
Oh no! You know what it is? All the threads I started in my previous incarnation seem to have vanished.
Probably every thread with a thread creator who showed as "ex-member".
That means that all the threads started by Camaroboy is also gone, my "Revenge of the Strategy Nerds" thread is also gone, as well as my "Witcher 1 Spoiler thread".
OMG, I'd better go check if my screenshot game thread in th AG subforum is also gone...
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
Posts : 2751 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm
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Oh my, that is a real bummer. I wonder if they got lost entirely in the transfer (might be possible that the forum software disliked ownerless threads), or if it would be possible to restore them.
*edit* By the way, scratch Elven legacy: Ranger from my games being played. Already done with it
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I am playing Are You Empty and Section 8. I have ordered the first Dead Space, have been wanting to try these games so though I would start at the beginning.
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I've been on a furious campaign to catch-up on all the best shooters from the past seven or eight years since my last marathon fragfest.
So far, they have included the complete Half-Life 2 Orange Box collection plus the original Far Cry, BioShock, Painkiller, and Crysis. Am currently working on F.E.A.R. with both EPs.
Otherwise, have also been catching-up on a number of excellent RPGs including the truly great Fallout 3 with all four DLCs plus a few select, fan-made quest mods and Fallout: New Vegas
still working on its DLCs as the mood strikes). Have also finished Gothic 3 with its official EP Forsaken Gods, Vampire: Bloodlines, The Witcher, Two Worlds, and Oblivion's two official EPs plus several large, fan-made quest mods. Additionally, I'm almost done with the full Drakensang series and have already started both Mass Effect 2 and Borderlands.
Shame, they've gone to trouble to get the other thread back, but I guess this new one is just as cool and less bulky. I'm still on my Witcher 2 replay.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
Still playing Dragon Age Origin (but not as often as I would like). Love the voice acting, graphics, characters.... the lot. And it's linear enough to satisfy me. I'm a bit overwhelmed by Elder Scroll/Gothic type games!
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Darkness Within 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3
Posts : 2751 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm
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CoH really starts to shine when you play a 2v2 with and against friends, and using some kind of voice communication software. Carefully coordinating an artillery barrage, in order to lure your opponenets infantry horde into some well dug in machine guns is a joy.
btw I'm playing: FallOut 3, Heavy Rain, Amerzone on iPad (they made it too easy!!!) and Gears of war 1 (with a friend in coop. Never played such a game. it's fun for 2)
On the shelf: LA Noire, New Vagas, Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2 (yep; 2) and so on. Too many games with no time.
Still Intergalactic Janitor after all these years.
Posts : 1301 Joined: 28 OCT 2011 Location: BE, Antwerp
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Originally Posted By Fnord
CoH really starts to shine when you play a 2v2 with and against friends, and using some kind of voice communication software. Carefully coordinating an artillery barrage, in order to lure your opponenets infantry horde into some well dug in machine guns is a joy.
unfortunately my friends aren't PC game fans anymore.
So i'll have to stick to the single player campaign in the post-Skyrim future
Well some of us and our avatars survived ..and at least i see familar names back which is good, I have no idea how many of mine made it but some so that is nice.
I didn't mind the hacking mini-games, but to avoid the planet-scanning mini-game, you can always cheat yourself some extra resources with a savegame editore. You should be able to find those on sites like Cheats-R-Us or Cheat CC etc.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
Posts : 6693 Joined: 16 OCT 2004 Location: US, Texas
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Originally Posted By Traveller
I didn't mind the hacking mini-games, but to avoid the planet-scanning mini-game, you can always cheat yourself some extra resources with a savegame editore. You should be able to find those on sites like Cheats-R-Us or Cheat CC etc.
Really don't want to use any character-stat cheats, Trav.
But sure would love to just skip the rest of the minigames. I am finding them tediously repetitive at this point.
After Googling the topic, I found the latest version of a program called Mass Effect 2: Coalesced Editor, which allows you to edit a huge number of game parameters. However, I can not for the life of me figure out exactly where the minigame setting is. The info I've read online indicates there is indeed a line that can be changed to allow for near-automatic minigame solving. But it is buried somewhere within thousands of similar lines in hundreds of different sections and subsections.
If anyone here has worked with the program, I would appreciate a little help - thanks!
As a footnote: There are several save-game editors available. But they don't have a minigame auto-finish feature, which is all I really want.
Well, like I said, I used a save game editor to edit myself some additional cash/minerals and I didn't touch any of the other parameters. The one i got is useful in the sense that you can also edit your ME 1 decisions on it, if you somehow didn't manage to import ME 1. You don't need to touch any of you other stats.
Since the main object for having to go through the minigame motions is to attain more minerals or cash, cheating some of those in for yourself, obviates the need to do most of the minigames, and you really don't need to open all those safes and briefcases and other goodies containing cash or minerals, neither do you need to do any of the planet scanning anymore.
Sure, there might still be some things you need to hack for info, but at least going this way will lessen the amount of hackiong you need to do. Since hacks show a credit amount when it's cash, you know there are other goodies involved when they don't.
Sorry i can't help you with the other cheats you mentioned. I usually very seldom make use of any kind of editor/ trainer, but ME2 started to feel very tedious to me, i'm afraid. However, the editor I did find, seemed sufficient for my needs. I wouldn't mind hearing from you if you do manage to find one that enables you to override the hacks directly, though.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
I'm currently partway through Magic Carpet, having gotten it from Good Old Games. A very fun game, but, in these later levels, at times a little stressful too, at least until I've managed to build up my mana to the point at which I have the more powerful spells at my command and my castle to the point at which destruction is less worrisome.
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Originally Posted By Thaumaturge
I'm currently partway through Magic Carpet, having gotten it from Good Old Games. A very fun game, but, in these later levels, at times a little stressful too, at least until I've managed to build up my mana to the point at which I have the more powerful spells at my command and my castle to the point at which destruction is less worrisome.
Posts : 2751 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm
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Yea, I also thought that Magic Carpet 2 was better. While both are solid games, the first one got a bit repetitive after a while (if my memory servers, there are 50 levels in that game, which is about 15-20 too many).
I haven't yet played Magic Carpet 2 - perhaps Good Old Games will bring it out at some stage. ^_^
As to being repetitive, I don't think that it had occured to me (perhaps because my play has been spread out over a few months), but it does seem to have been producing fewer situations that are both novel and interesting in these past few levels...
Posts : 2751 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm
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Have you got all the spells yet? The problem I had with the game was that it stopped introducing new things a short while after the spell bar was filled. The levels do get harder and harder, but that is about it. In Magic Carpet 2 there is a far greater variety between the levels. But as Magic Carpet does not have a story that you need to keep fresh in your mind, it does lend itself quite well to be played over a larger period of time, which should alleviate some of the issues.
Anyway, I just finished Xenoblade Chronicles, my first JRPG in a while. I have no idea why reviewers claimed that the game would "take at least 100h to finish", because the timer "only" shows 55h for me. And now I feelt he urge to just load my old HoMM5 save games and finish the darn thing.
I think that I'm well past the point of having had the final spell revealed; most of the novelty now seems to come from varied level design (and I do think that there have been some entertaining ideas), what selection of spells are available in a given level, and sometimes the finding of said spells.
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