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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.


ThomasW - Mar 18, 2009 9:03:18 pm PDT #1726 of 26133
Anything for a weird life.

amych, the alchemy garden from the Frostcrag Spire add-on would be much cooler.

the physically aggressive plants might be hard to find, though, so perhaps venus flytraps instead of harrada?

(also, for a true Oblivion garden, put in some pitcher plants and then ignore them.)


Kevin - Mar 23, 2009 3:15:12 pm PDT #1727 of 26133
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

After a great many hours playing the latest GTA, I'm pleased to report I've completed 25% of the game.


billytea - Mar 23, 2009 3:30:04 pm PDT #1728 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

After a great many hours playing the latest GTA, I'm pleased to report I've completed 25% of the game.

I've never played this. Does that mean you've stolen 25% of a car?


Sean K - Mar 23, 2009 3:41:02 pm PDT #1729 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

After a great many hours playing the latest GTA, I'm pleased to report I've completed 25% of the game.

I've gone back to play older video games and been a little startled at how quickly they can be completed. I think length of game play has steadily been getting longer, to the point that we mostly only notice when we go back to older games.


amych - Mar 24, 2009 5:04:52 am PDT #1730 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Am reminded of this, that I read just yesterday: In Praise of the Three-Hour Game


omnis_audis - Mar 24, 2009 11:18:17 am PDT #1731 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

40 hours for the average game? Huh. Wow. I really do suck. No clue how long it's taken me to get through Assassins Creed, but I'd venture to say more than 40 hours. Eh, I have fun, that's what matters.


Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2009 11:21:46 am PDT #1732 of 26133
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Assassin's Creed takes way less than 40 hours if your goal is just to finish the game and not find all the flags and kill all the Templars. I think it took me 14 or 15 hours, maybe 20 at the most. But that was playing till 5 or 6 in the morning for three nights straight.


Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2009 11:39:05 am PDT #1733 of 26133
brillig

God knows how much time I've got into Dungeon Siege II , but Hubby pointed out that I missed half the secondary quests in Act I, so I'll have to do it over. Oh, well, gosh darn. Killing pixels is fun.


Volans - Mar 24, 2009 3:04:43 pm PDT #1734 of 26133
move out and draw fire

I got Fable II for my birthday. Love it so far. Even Captain Curmudgeon (the DH) is now a fan.

Me: We could play co-op. Him: OK. Because it's your birthday. But I'm going to quit when I get all Diablo-ed out.

That was 4 hours of gameplay ago. Now he's making his own character so we don't squander XP while playing co-op.


billytea - Mar 24, 2009 4:44:28 pm PDT #1735 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Hee. I just came across a WotC thread [link] with the following exchange:

In third edition, I created a paragon Half-Dwarf Half-Dragon Half-Tiger raised in the Elemental Plane of Fire by vampire Swordmage-Monks trained to dual-wield large Mercurial Greatswords with Monkey Grip who was instructed by vampire agents of Vecna in the Underdark in necromantic magic. Durgonzelbub, the Spellreaper, was an exalted Iajitsu Master Samurai Barbarian Frenzied Berserker Wizard who specialized in ranged trip-attacks with his poison-barbed knife-whip and had taken the vow of poverty. Through the cunning use of feats and magic items, he could crit on a 12. He wore a buckler on both wrists and carried a bag of holding filled with trained dire boars that would charge any enemies they saw whenever they were let out of the bag.

He was on a never-ending quest to find his lover, whose soul was trapped in an enchanted gem known as the Soulgem which had been carried by the Dark Lords of Darkness into the Underdark. Only by uniting the eight heads of the Octophallice, each corresponding to a different dragon variety and containing powers of those dragon's respective elements, could Durgonzelbub ever hope to defeat Octophall, the eight-headed dragon whom Tiamat calls Master, and learn the secret to restoring his lover's soul from its prison and prevent the invasion of the material plane by the Two-Eyed Beholder Lords.

This is how I convinced my friends that it was time to just play the game and stop multi-classing every freaking level.

This paragraph just won the internet.

Thanks. I modeled the character after Drizzt.