Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

mellymoo74

Good do it now.

Lack of sleep makes me bossy.

Pickle has returned
Kissed
Smeared
Purred
Eaten
And is now asleep.
This is unfair.

mellymoo74

And you don't know if they did
Agency may have gone in too high etc this means you can link with em and make sure they know who you is.

Now I need to yoda myself.

tea_lover

Is Dragon Age: Inquisition good lambyr? Keep thinking I should get it, but then not sure where I'd find the time from to actually play it! Still looking for something to fill the Skyrim-shaped hole in my life lol.

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tea_lover wrote: »

Still looking for something to fill the Skyrim-shaped hole in my life lol.

Fallout

HBS x

tea_lover

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Fallout

HBS x

Haha, yep! Fallout 4 is sitting at home waiting for me to clear a few months in my schedule. Although tbh, I wasn't that impressed with Fallout 3. I did enjoy it, but not as much as everyone else seemed to!

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tea_lover wrote: »

Haha, yep! Fallout 4 is sitting at home waiting for me to clear a few months in my schedule. Although tbh, I wasn't that impressed with Fallout 3. I did enjoy it, but not as much as everyone else seemed to!

I preferred New Vegas

HBS x

Lambyr

tea_lover wrote: »

Is Dragon Age: Inquisition good lambyr? Keep thinking I should get it, but then not sure where I'd find the time from to actually play it! Still looking for something to fill the Skyrim-shaped hole in my life lol.

I've been enjoying it! I don't know if you played Origins (I have, didn't play 2 though) but one of the things I disliked in Origins was the number of multi-hour dungeons cos you'd complete one, and then you'd almost immediately be in another one. They've seriously cut that out. There's still some long dungeons but most of them are more storyline set-pieces... eg. you start a dungeon and different storyline events occur as you progress through it etc. Rather than pick up ten quests and get sent into a dungeon repeatedly mowing through the same packs of adds until you get to the end.

You've got the now typical Bioware dialogue wheel for interactions but they've changed it up from Mass Effect days (if you've played that?) in that your Paragon/Renegade choices are no longer obviously marked except where something you say will have a greater effect on how others interact with you. Any other time, you just build up a relationship and the way you speak with characters and your actions dictate how your companions speak with you.

It also seems like the game may be designed for multiple playthroughs. Ignoring dungeons, there's only one or two zones you have to do and most other zones seem optional, just to do quests to level up, gain gear and abilities and all that. I haven't even done half the available zones and I am already at the level where I could feasibly start the final few storyline dungeon missions to complete the game. I'm just guessing but I think the idea might be that if you played through it a second time you could mostly do a completely different set of quests.

Also really well voice acted. Your character can have either an American or British accent. I picked the British one for my female Dalish elf... same voice actress who did Samantha Traynor in Mass Effect 3. And there's some funny moments too when you reach Skyhold and get to be an inquisitor... you get to pass judgement on a box, for example!

Tis definitely worth a look! It's not quite as open world as Skyrim because all the zones are contained like in Origins but they're much bigger than Origins zones.

And if you haven't played any of the previous games, or like me you played Origins but not the sequel, there's a free online doobry where you can pick all the major plot points from the previous games (eg. whether the Warden survived Origins, who the King is etc.) and import it all into your game. I don't know how it works on console, but on PC it can import everything directly from the game(s) you have played. I think on the console you may have to manually configure it cos Origins and 2 were on the last-gen but don't quote me on that.

Little tip - don't try and take on that first dragon you meet straight away. You'll meet the dragon long before you're powerful enough to deal with it as I quickly discovered!

I know about holes created by games though. I played through Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 consecutively a few years back which is kinda rare for me but I got so into those games. Then when it was done I actually felt a bit lost inside!

tea_lover

Thank you so much for that! It definitely sounds like my kind of thing

I genuinely miss Skyrim, how sad is that?! I know I can just play it again, but I was so immersed in it the first time, I just loved the whole feel of it and nothing else has really come close for me - apart from Assassins Creed which I both love and despair of (depending on which one we're talking about - don't get me started on the abomination that is Black Flag)

ETA: I am now desperate to go home and play games lol.

Lambyr

Haha! I don't think it's sad. If I could somehow "forget" ME I probably would just so I could experience it all again as if it were new! I've probably played through the series including all the DLCs three times in total now but it doesn't have the magic of the very first time.

It's kinda rare for me to play through one game from start to finish. I did it with the Tomb Raider reboot though that was only ten hours(ish) long. Most games take me months or more even if I do enjoy them. Think it took me about eight months to complete Bioshock Infinite in patches.

The ones I tend to put the most time in are simulations. Not like Farming Simulator (or Goat Simulator... why is that a thing?) though! Currently I've been playing Cities Skylines a lot. I think it's cos there's a lot of creativity that goes into things like that and I quite enjoy designing new areas of my city... and then taking screenshots! Haha!

I haven't played any of the Assassins Creed games though I think I have some of them as part of the Games With Gold thing. I play most games on my PC (which I spent two years saving up to build!) but I also have an Xbox.

onomatopoeia99

Lambyr wrote: »

World of Warcraft. Terribly geeky of me but I began playing it about ten years ago when I first had to become a carer and found myself struggling to keep my mind busy.

I didn't start WoW when it came out, at the time I was in a bleeding edge raid guild in Everquest, and when I finally stopped playing I resolved I was never getting involved in another MMORPG again. It's too much like having a second full time job that you start when you get home from the first one!

I started playing Everquest for something to do in the evenings after a relationship fizzled to a stop, but had always liked that sort of gaming, played Baldur's gate when it came out and a secondary school Dungeons and dragons, pen and paper with lots of dice (still have all my various dice).