Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Ah, and Male Hawke is just infinitely better than Female Hawke in Dragon Age II.

Frankly I vastly prefer female Hawke. I tried male Hawke once and just couldn't get into it at all, and this coming off of me playing a male city elf in DAO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As an aside: I am enjoying Elden Ring a ton more than I was expecting to, as a Soulsborne baby (literally only played Bloodborne before this, and never got myself past Cleric Beast just because the frustration would get to me, I'd put it down for the day, and then just not pick it back up again purely by virtue of forgetting).

Granted, a friend is helping me quite a lot - insofar as assisting me in finding a weapon I'm comfy with and farming runes to level my stats a bit. But said friend has also told me I'm improving a lot faster than they did in their first Souls game, which honestly felt kind of relieving to hear. I still feel like I'm kinda just flailing more often than not, but I'm sort of getting the hang of some stuff. Still very reliant on guard countering, though.

I wish I wasn't so nervous to try a magic build. I'm seeing a lot of vids of some crazy stuff you can do with magic later on, but I worry about how the actual leveling experience of it would be up until you get to that point. Only time I've done magic in harder-hitting games like this was when I was playing Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and had a Fighter pawn to distract stuff for me, and when playing Code Vein and utilizing a tanky NPC while I focused on range and magic. Without that 'buffer', I'm a little more baby about giving it a try.

[Snorky]

Don'tcha just hate it when in the off topic thread people still discuss the game? Anyway speaking of games I have been taking a break from playing this game and redownloaded starwars knights of the old republic I haven't played in a long time since launch and it has instance housing. The nice thing about getting ready to retire is having more time for games or travel so many things I want to do.

[Cincierta]

So today I found out that my water heater is now leaking water. How did I find this out? 4 am I hear a 'fssssh' sound and smell chlorine while getting ready for work, and wasn't sure what it was. Come back from work today and there's a large puddle of water in my garage and outside on the driveway.

Joy.

[VirusOnline]

So today I found out that my water heater is now leaking water. How did I find this out? 4 am I hear a 'fssssh' sound and smell chlorine while getting ready for work, and wasn't sure what it was. Come back from work today and there's a large puddle of water in my garage and outside on the driveway.

Joy.

oof that sucks
this and maintenance are the main reasons I'm too afraid to invest in a house

Plus, Man Shep can't romance Garrus.

i believe this is untrue ;d

[Cincierta]

oof that sucks
this and maintenance are the main reasons I'm too afraid to invest in a house

Considering the water heater was about 13 years old, I kinda realized it was pretty close to giving up the ghost. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

[Kolsykol]

Bought and played Cyberpunk 2077 after the 1.5 patch, I refunded it at launch because of how bad the performance was.
Game ran great with some exceptions, sometimes it felt like I had managed to go too fast and the game had to try and catch up and load everything in which slowed the game down a lot but it was very rare and seem'd random.

It's obviously a very flawed game and I think they really shot themselves in their own feet with a lot of the marketing, it's more like a Far Cry game than it is a RPG really.
I rly wish it was a silent protagonist with more fleshed out dialogue and choices, I didn't like the voice acting of Female V at all she sounded very fake and like she was '' a.c.t.i.n.g '' and trying too hard to sound '' badass ''.
The game kinda really wants to force you into some super black and white '' capitalism bad '' mentality too, V and the writing kinda feels like an edgy self-proclaimed economics expert teenager on Twitter sometimes.

Overall tho I really liked the game and think it's in a good state now and worth playing.
I typically really dislike open world games but like with Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077 actually made me want to be in and explore the world.
I even never used the fast travel option in Cyberpunk 2077 outside of once or twice because I wanted to recustomize my character or something.
But even when it was a side-quest and it was on the other side of the map I still traveled manually because the city is just so fun to travel in and it has great atmosphere it really feels like a real city they've done an absolutely incredible job with it.
It never felt to me like it had repeated assets and was copying things it felt like every inch of it was hand-crafted with a lot of love.
Even now I still hop in sometimes just to travel around it for fun.

The characters were really good too didn't think I'd like Judy at all but she ended up being my favorite character, and the romance sub-plot was genuinely really great.
Normally I think romance sub-plots in games are a bit cringey and there was some of that in the game too some of the sex scenes were just downright funny in a bad way.
But the Judy romance was perhaps one of my favorites if not my favorite in a game.

I rly hope they don't abandon the game, it's in a good state now and I'd like to see them actually expand on the open world and add some more activities.
Maybe expand on the bounty hunting, just driving around hunting marks down is a lot of fun.
The guns could also use more variety and the game could do with less locked doors.
As pretty as the city is, it's still pretty empty.
Kinda sucks that mods seem to be really hard to make for the game too, the mods I've seen all replace stuff ingame instead of add stuff it's basically just all swapping out models it's no Skyrim for sure.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Kinda sucks that mods seem to be really hard to make for the game too, the mods I've seen all replace stuff ingame instead of add stuff it's basically just all swapping out models it's no Skyrim for sure.

Cyberpunk was a half-finished game, Skyrim was a finished half-game.

[Kolsykol]

Cyberpunk was a half-finished game, Skyrim was a finished half-game.

Morrowind > Skyrim, and I also enjoyed Oblivion a lot more than Skyrim too.

I wish ESO was a prettier game and had better class identity, the classes all basically have the identical builds ( I don't like melee swapping to a bow either ).
The ES franchise has a great world and world-building but it has always looked a bit too derpy for me.
The skins they sell in the ESO store are just downright sad.

But I gotta commend them for the open world sandbox they've created it's really good.
I played a Nightblade and sorta RP:ed as a thief it was pretty cool that you could actually do that and sneak around stealing stuff out in the world basically as a profession.
Funnily enough ESO is just a better Elder Scrolls singleplayer game even than Skyrim.

Don'tcha just hate it when in the off topic thread people still discuss the game? Anyway speaking of games I have been taking a break from playing this game and redownloaded starwars knights of the old republic I haven't played in a long time since launch and it has instance housing. The nice thing about getting ready to retire is having more time for games or travel so many things I want to do.

Do you mean your ship?
Or did they actually add housing for real?

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Morrowind > Skyrim, and I also enjoyed Oblivion a lot more than Skyrim too.

Honestly, same. Morrowind was probably my favorite game in middle school, I played it every single day after school and homework. Had a house full of various odds and ends I picked up or niceties (I was, and will ever be, a giant pack-rat in video games), still had tons of Vvardenfell to explore, was halfway through the main story and hadn't even touched my expacs yet..

Honestly, haven't felt that much 'magic' and desire to just aimlessly wander and explore in an open world game for a long time, up until Elden Ring came out. Don't know what it is about Skyrim, but I just could never get into it like I did Morrowind (and Oblivion, albeit to a lesser extent). I don't think I've ever even managed to maintain interest in Skyrim long enough to get to High Hrothgar, let alone do much else.