Video Game Thread 2.0

[Itachirumon]

More actual logic. You have to convince someone you're the good guy, right? way before you have a showdown or else there isn't any trust there that you aren't trying to trick them. Especially true if you killed the council and the councilor was killed by Leng. Cause you can fabricate evidence with an omni-tool.

Ash spent over 2 years and 6 months mourning someone she thought first was dead and then a traitor. I think she's allowed to distrust you when you arrive at the same time Cerberus did.

With that said, this is why you don't rush. It's an RPG, talk to people. Check your private terminal. Check on the people between missions. Otherwise, take the consequences.

I have also learned Kingdom Hearts still manages to make me feel dumb when trying to acclimate to a new fighting system.

For what it's worth, the only reason I couldn't save Kelly was because I didn't invite her up for dinner/talkies in 2. I was trying to remain single so I could romance Kaiden.

.....It was hard, his shift in 2 made him a bit less likeable than Garrus. Then even tho I wanted Gay!Shep I lost my shit squeeing at "emergency induction port"

[The Illusive Man]

Mass Effect 3 is a bit better with the “MOTHER OF ALL MODS”
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2pOgo0Qs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2pOgo0Qs</a>
Bad parody songs are bad.

Features:

(click to show/hide)

Keybindings multipurpose layout (Lite version does not have keybinds)
- Finetuned keyboard. Andvanced console commands for fun, modding, video and snapshot making.
- Keybinds list integrated in game manual. Press [Esc] and select "KEYBINDS"
Armor&Outfits
- Unlocks every Outfit wearable by the player in Single Player (including another "unfinished" N7 Set (labeled as "Spectre armor") and the Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Armor and more...)
- Unlocks all exclusive mini DLCs (Collector Rifle, Reckoning Armor, etc)
- Unlocks all outfits from Start
- Helmets (both M and F) added as customizable  Shoulders, Arms, Legs to give unlimited combinations.
- More Material options
- More Pattern options (transparency presets only). If you want to make a new shape for a pattern, then refer to this project: Social.bioware.com
- More Lights colors
Stores
- Unlocks all stores and items from the start of game.
- Stores look better. Easy to tell what store it is. Price markup eliminated. Items sorted by category and Alphabetically from A to Z.
- Spectre Supermarket(requisitions) sells ALL weapons & all weapon-mods.
This includes | the 'Resurgence Pack' weapons |  'From Ashes' particle rifle (if you have 'from ashes' DLC) | 'Firefight pack' (if you have it) | Leviathan MODs.  The Rebellion Pack Weapons were there as well, but unfortunately they appeared blank due to the way Bioware coded it and we will probably never get to use these weapons (& future MP DLC too) in single player unless they release them in another DLC.
Only 3 price groups: 3k = Military grade, 5k = Spectre grade, 10k = Prototype grade. You need 420k to buy all 'Level 1' firearms (including  weapon mods). Note that more funds may be needed when future dlc stuff will be added.
 
Guns
- All guns unlocked at the beginning
- 17!!! weapon-mods for every weapon.
- 9!!! Heavy weapons fully functional (use numpad)
- Encumbrance wheight affected by every gun - more fair.
Gameplay (nothing major)
- Grenades and MediGel capacity up to 12
- Fuel efficiency reduced (uses more fuel)
- Fuel capacity highered (1500)
- Values of War Assets changed
- Facebook's "General Shermann" as additional reward for Multiplayer
- Faster planet scanning, slower reaper ships
Character Creation
- Tons of pregenerated faces added to the faces cycle (male and female)
Graphic Changes
NOTE: For maximum performance also get "additional_graphic_changes.rar" file (Some changes are for NVIDIA only)
- Decals (shots in walls) stay much longer (nearly forever)
- Dropped weapons stay much longer (nearly forever)
- detail Mode increased
- Selfshadowing enabled
- Shadowresolution highered

This mod also dug up and addressed some cut content from way back. You see way back in Mass Effect 1 you were supposed to be able to rescue both Ashley and Kaidan running like frack. Both squad mates are available in 3 with this mod.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSJDxM8YT4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSJDxM8YT4</a>

[Art Vandelay]

Doing a second run through of Red Dead Redemption, but this time as an evil character. I have to wonder, why exactly does robbing a bank give you significantly less money than collecting a bounty on a criminal or even just ten minutes or so of hunting? That's just not right.

[chitoryu12]

I'm loving this "Games with Gold" program, where XBL Gold users get free games. It's even better, because my Gold is glitched. I'm on the second year of it being free for some reason.

You mean Playstation Plus, right?

[Cloud3514]

I'm loving this "Games with Gold" program, where XBL Gold users get free games. It's even better, because my Gold is glitched. I'm on the second year of it being free for some reason.

You mean Playstation Plus, right?

The difference is that if you stop paying for XBL, you keep the games they gave you while subscribed. Playstation Plus locks you out of the "free" games when you stop paying.

[Ghoti]

Mass Effect 3 is a bit better with the “MOTHER OF ALL MODS”
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2pOgo0Qs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2pOgo0Qs</a>
Bad parody songs are bad.

Features:

(click to show/hide)

Keybindings multipurpose layout (Lite version does not have keybinds)
- Finetuned keyboard. Andvanced console commands for fun, modding, video and snapshot making.
- Keybinds list integrated in game manual. Press [Esc] and select "KEYBINDS"
Armor&Outfits
- Unlocks every Outfit wearable by the player in Single Player (including another "unfinished" N7 Set (labeled as "Spectre armor") and the Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Armor and more...)
- Unlocks all exclusive mini DLCs (Collector Rifle, Reckoning Armor, etc)
- Unlocks all outfits from Start
- Helmets (both M and F) added as customizable  Shoulders, Arms, Legs to give unlimited combinations.
- More Material options
- More Pattern options (transparency presets only). If you want to make a new shape for a pattern, then refer to this project: Social.bioware.com
- More Lights colors
Stores
- Unlocks all stores and items from the start of game.
- Stores look better. Easy to tell what store it is. Price markup eliminated. Items sorted by category and Alphabetically from A to Z.
- Spectre Supermarket(requisitions) sells ALL weapons & all weapon-mods.
This includes | the 'Resurgence Pack' weapons |  'From Ashes' particle rifle (if you have 'from ashes' DLC) | 'Firefight pack' (if you have it) | Leviathan MODs.  The Rebellion Pack Weapons were there as well, but unfortunately they appeared blank due to the way Bioware coded it and we will probably never get to use these weapons (& future MP DLC too) in single player unless they release them in another DLC.
Only 3 price groups: 3k = Military grade, 5k = Spectre grade, 10k = Prototype grade. You need 420k to buy all 'Level 1' firearms (including  weapon mods). Note that more funds may be needed when future dlc stuff will be added.
 
Guns
- All guns unlocked at the beginning
- 17!!! weapon-mods for every weapon.
- 9!!! Heavy weapons fully functional (use numpad)
- Encumbrance wheight affected by every gun - more fair.
Gameplay (nothing major)
- Grenades and MediGel capacity up to 12
- Fuel efficiency reduced (uses more fuel)
- Fuel capacity highered (1500)
- Values of War Assets changed
- Facebook's "General Shermann" as additional reward for Multiplayer
- Faster planet scanning, slower reaper ships
Character Creation
- Tons of pregenerated faces added to the faces cycle (male and female)
Graphic Changes
NOTE: For maximum performance also get "additional_graphic_changes.rar" file (Some changes are for NVIDIA only)
- Decals (shots in walls) stay much longer (nearly forever)
- Dropped weapons stay much longer (nearly forever)
- detail Mode increased
- Selfshadowing enabled
- Shadowresolution highered

This mod also dug up and addressed some cut content from way back. You see way back in Mass Effect 1 you were supposed to be able to rescue both Ashley and Kaidan running like frack. Both squad mates are available in 3 with this mod.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSJDxM8YT4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSJDxM8YT4</a>

... fuck. I've got the series on Xbox.
Oh well. To Youtube!

[Shane for Wax]

More actual logic. You have to convince someone you're the good guy, right? way before you have a showdown or else there isn't any trust there that you aren't trying to trick them. Especially true if you killed the council and the councilor was killed by Leng. Cause you can fabricate evidence with an omni-tool.

Ash spent over 2 years and 6 months mourning someone she thought first was dead and then a traitor. I think she's allowed to distrust you when you arrive at the same time Cerberus did.

With that said, this is why you don't rush. It's an RPG, talk to people. Check your private terminal. Check on the people between missions. Otherwise, take the consequences.

I have also learned Kingdom Hearts still manages to make me feel dumb when trying to acclimate to a new fighting system.

For what it's worth, the only reason I couldn't save Kelly was because I didn't invite her up for dinner/talkies in 2. I was trying to remain single so I could romance Kaiden.

.....It was hard, his shift in 2 made him a bit less likeable than Garrus. Then even tho I wanted Gay!Shep I lost my shit squeeing at "emergency induction port"

Actually that isn't dependent on you talking with her. Only getting to the Collector Base on time to get her out of the pod. Only thing you need to talk to her over is getting your damn fish back.

Since I romanced Liara, it wasn't that hard to get Kelly to keep my fish.

[Itachirumon]

More actual logic. You have to convince someone you're the good guy, right? way before you have a showdown or else there isn't any trust there that you aren't trying to trick them. Especially true if you killed the council and the councilor was killed by Leng. Cause you can fabricate evidence with an omni-tool.

Ash spent over 2 years and 6 months mourning someone she thought first was dead and then a traitor. I think she's allowed to distrust you when you arrive at the same time Cerberus did.

With that said, this is why you don't rush. It's an RPG, talk to people. Check your private terminal. Check on the people between missions. Otherwise, take the consequences.

I have also learned Kingdom Hearts still manages to make me feel dumb when trying to acclimate to a new fighting system.

For what it's worth, the only reason I couldn't save Kelly was because I didn't invite her up for dinner/talkies in 2. I was trying to remain single so I could romance Kaiden.

.....It was hard, his shift in 2 made him a bit less likeable than Garrus. Then even tho I wanted Gay!Shep I lost my shit squeeing at "emergency induction port"

Actually that isn't dependent on you talking with her. Only getting to the Collector Base on time to get her out of the pod. Only thing you need to talk to her over is getting your damn fish back.

Since I romanced Liara, it wasn't that hard to get Kelly to keep my fish.

._. she wasn't in the place I was supposed to be before Cit 3 - I looked all over for her for about 2 hours before I did Genophage mission. Most of it was spent trying to figure out why she wasn't where she was supposed to be and looking through internet forums to figure out how to make her magically appear. Yeah I know 'the truth' but damnit Kelly Chambers was awesome - and I most assuredly saved her from the base in ME2.

[Shane for Wax]

Ehhh... she showed up for me. But eh. The dinner itself isn't really locking in anything. To be honest, I wanted my fish back so I just made sure she lived and was happy with me. It didn't affect my relationship with Liara in the slightest. The stripper thing however locks it in. And I never once did that. It was too weird for me when I saw it on youtube.

Shepard can flirt with Kelly anytime prior to the suicide mission, which eventually results in a private dinner at the Captain's Cabin, after which she offers to feed Shepard's fish. It is still possible to pursue a relationship with a squadmate after this point if Shepard is solely interested in having her feed Shepard's fish.

In ME3 you can lock in romances differently than in ME2. I couldn't go with both Liara and Traynor in ME3, for instance, cause you lock one or the other in depending on things (the shower for Traynor, the cafe and saying yes for the second time with Liara). But I could go with Liara and Kelly in ME2 because Liara decided to be the Shadow Broker. She just will probably say something if you do the Shadow Broker mission after the lock-in of the original romance.

[Itachirumon]

Well that'd be a relief...of course that'd require me to go back and play part/all of ME2 again then re-transfer to ME3 and replay that. In the words of Tobuscus' Dramatic Song - I got shit to do hahaha. Like study for the GRE....even tho I'd rather just game. I want more options in Hotel Giant 2.....and why can't Watch Dogs be out yet, I want to play it nowwww!

I'd settle for a version of DosBox that would run Woodruff and the Schnibble though....and a working download/copy. I have the CD but I could never configure it to run off of CDs and Woodruff is just...classic obscure brilliance

[PosthumanHeresy]

I'm loving this "Games with Gold" program, where XBL Gold users get free games. It's even better, because my Gold is glitched. I'm on the second year of it being free for some reason.

You mean Playstation Plus, right?

No, I mean I've had Xbox Live Gold for free for two years now.

I'm loving this "Games with Gold" program, where XBL Gold users get free games. It's even better, because my Gold is glitched. I'm on the second year of it being free for some reason.

You mean Playstation Plus, right?

The difference is that if you stop paying for XBL, you keep the games they gave you while subscribed. Playstation Plus locks you out of the "free" games when you stop paying.

And, unlike Sony, Microsoft doesn't give out your credit card or have Xbox Live go down for over a month!

[Art Vandelay]

So I'm thinking of buying X-COM: UFO Defense. I know it's only $5, but money is rather tight right now, and as such I'm still on the fence about it. Would any of you who've played it consider it to be a wise purchase?

[Askold]

So I'm thinking of buying X-COM: UFO Defense. I know it's only $5, but money is rather tight right now, and as such I'm still on the fence about it. Would any of you who've played it consider it to be a wise purchase?

Oh, let me think about- YES!

Great game. I like the story, I like the atmosphere and I like how desperate the struggle is.

And the Chryssalids are the best/worst part of the game. A truly frightening opponent that can rip your soldiers open and then the corpses get up and start fighting against you. But nothing is more satisfactory than blowing them apart...

[Art Vandelay]

So I'm thinking of buying X-COM: UFO Defense. I know it's only $5, but money is rather tight right now, and as such I'm still on the fence about it. Would any of you who've played it consider it to be a wise purchase?

Oh, let me think about- YES!

Great game. I like the story, I like the atmosphere and I like how desperate the struggle is.

And the Chryssalids are the best/worst part of the game. A truly frightening opponent that can rip your soldiers open and then the corpses get up and start fighting against you. But nothing is more satisfactory than blowing them apart...

Sounds good. I think I might just give it a go.

As an aside, would you say that Terror From the Deep and Apocalypse to be worth a shot as well (not particularly interested in Interceptor and Enforcer)?

[ThunderWulf]

Mass Effect 3 is a bit better with the “MOTHER OF ALL MODS”
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2pOgo0Qs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2pOgo0Qs</a>
Bad parody songs are bad.

Features:

(click to show/hide)

Keybindings multipurpose layout (Lite version does not have keybinds)
- Finetuned keyboard. Andvanced console commands for fun, modding, video and snapshot making.
- Keybinds list integrated in game manual. Press [Esc] and select "KEYBINDS"
Armor&Outfits
- Unlocks every Outfit wearable by the player in Single Player (including another "unfinished" N7 Set (labeled as "Spectre armor") and the Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Armor and more...)
- Unlocks all exclusive mini DLCs (Collector Rifle, Reckoning Armor, etc)
- Unlocks all outfits from Start
- Helmets (both M and F) added as customizable  Shoulders, Arms, Legs to give unlimited combinations.
- More Material options
- More Pattern options (transparency presets only). If you want to make a new shape for a pattern, then refer to this project: Social.bioware.com
- More Lights colors
Stores
- Unlocks all stores and items from the start of game.
- Stores look better. Easy to tell what store it is. Price markup eliminated. Items sorted by category and Alphabetically from A to Z.
- Spectre Supermarket(requisitions) sells ALL weapons & all weapon-mods.
This includes | the 'Resurgence Pack' weapons |  'From Ashes' particle rifle (if you have 'from ashes' DLC) | 'Firefight pack' (if you have it) | Leviathan MODs.  The Rebellion Pack Weapons were there as well, but unfortunately they appeared blank due to the way Bioware coded it and we will probably never get to use these weapons (& future MP DLC too) in single player unless they release them in another DLC.
Only 3 price groups: 3k = Military grade, 5k = Spectre grade, 10k = Prototype grade. You need 420k to buy all 'Level 1' firearms (including  weapon mods). Note that more funds may be needed when future dlc stuff will be added.
 
Guns
- All guns unlocked at the beginning
- 17!!! weapon-mods for every weapon.
- 9!!! Heavy weapons fully functional (use numpad)
- Encumbrance wheight affected by every gun - more fair.
Gameplay (nothing major)
- Grenades and MediGel capacity up to 12
- Fuel efficiency reduced (uses more fuel)
- Fuel capacity highered (1500)
- Values of War Assets changed
- Facebook's "General Shermann" as additional reward for Multiplayer
- Faster planet scanning, slower reaper ships
Character Creation
- Tons of pregenerated faces added to the faces cycle (male and female)
Graphic Changes
NOTE: For maximum performance also get "additional_graphic_changes.rar" file (Some changes are for NVIDIA only)
- Decals (shots in walls) stay much longer (nearly forever)
- Dropped weapons stay much longer (nearly forever)
- detail Mode increased
- Selfshadowing enabled
- Shadowresolution highered

This mod also dug up and addressed some cut content from way back. You see way back in Mass Effect 1 you were supposed to be able to rescue both Ashley and Kaidan running like frack. Both squad mates are available in 3 with this mod.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSJDxM8YT4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSJDxM8YT4</a>

Okay, that kinda makes me wish I had the ME trilogy on PC too.


Speaking of Mass Effect, apparently there's a bug caused by the Recon Hood in Mass Effect 3.  I got it early in the game but didn't figure out what it was until I changed helmets.  If you use the recon hood and choose to have it off during most cut scenes, Shepard's eyeballs are popping out of his/her head during cut scenes.
http://i.imgur.com/FXDzL3g.jpg
(Link'd for size)