Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
amych (whitefonted in case someone doesn't want to see how to plus up speech):
Get the Charisma bobblehead in the Vault 108 - Cloning Lab, and then the Speech bobblehead in Paradise Falls - Euology's pad. Also, there are 300+ skill books scattered throughout the game.
My friend bought the Prima guide for Fallout 3. "You can get the hardback version at Amazon for only $20 and it has all the locations for books (and other stuff) listed. It is quite handy and has a nice map too."
There are good guides here...
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Oh, we've got the Prima guide, and it's a very good one, for anyone who's into using game guides (I know some aren't). In this case, it was just the particular choice of book that amused me a whole big lot.
that was awesome scola.
xkcd today is a buffista crosspost for certain.
No Left 4 Dead for me. Co-op is not split-screen; you have to have 4 Xboxes to play 4 player co-op and 8 for the whole effect.
What happens anymore when you have friends over who want to play a game? Rock Band, D&D, and board games will never die.
Well Gears of War 2 can play co-op split screen.
Still, Left 4 Dead is really designed to be played with 4 boxes, and usually over Live.
Oh, my god, there's a Mortal Kombat/DC Comics crossover game? That's kind of awesome.
You know, I don't why I've not mentioned this here before, as it's a natural, but I've been involved for a couple months in an ongoing Buffyverse role-playing game on LiveJournal. (I play Lorne and Ethan Rayne full-time, and I just ran the first major campaign, which entailed all out chaos, A Buffy vs. Angel smackdown, and a tour of the Rock And Roll Museum in Cleveland with Oz.
The game has its own continuity, diverged from the end of Buffy Season 7. If anyone's interested, there's a couple major characters available, including Gunn and Andrew. Info to get involved is here.
Yeah, we've played GoW co-op split screen, but only the two players.
I DL'd a couple trial games on the Xbox last night - Gauntlet and a pinball game. And my 3yo kicked my ass. As did Sox's 4yo.
I taught my nephew Baby David to play Ultimate Spider-Man this weekend. Am I evil? He's actually almost three, and he's not allowed to punch or kick anyone, but he had a lot of fun making Spider-Man jump in the water and he actually managed to swing down the street, and move and jump at the same time. What worries me is that I spent my entire youth wanting to do nothing outdoors or indoors but play videogames, and I just exposed him to that. And the spectacle of a three-year-old in a dark basement pushing Playstation sticks is somewhat disturbing.
My sister says she'll never do it with him, so he'll just think of it as something to do when Uncle Noumenon comes over. Hope so. 'Cause video games are super fun, I wish I could safely share them with him.
