How to survive in RPGcodex for dummies

[franc kaos]

Since when is Oblivion a great game? I've played it at a friend's house a couple of times and I wasn't impressed.

I 'got' Oblivion the day after release, bought it a week later, and I'm still playing it, ergo, for me, it's a great game.

I've got 60+ mods that include new skills (unarmoured 'n ranger), better skills (sneaking, lockpicking and persuasion), better faces, LOD landscapes and decent parallax mapping, darker nights 'n dungeons, infinitely better spells (inc levitating and multi mark / recall), a companion with a decent backstory, the full Daggerfall book collection, guild requirements, an alternative start that gives you one of the houses (and your dads old sword), Francesco's levelling mod, four mods that fix the interface and natural wildlife + others...

Apologies for the overlong sentence.

I've started playing in the construction set, and it's perfectly possible to create sentences with choice and consequence, as well as NPCs with all the promises Beth made about RAI (minus many working animations unfortunately).

@ Naked Lunch: While I may enjoy sticking my genitalia in dark places the bible warns about, mangling or electrifying is not my idea of fun

 

[HotSnack]

Since when is Oblivion a great game? I've played it at a friend's house a couple of times and I wasn't impressed.

I 'got' Oblivion the day after release, bought it a week later, and I'm still playing it, ergo, for me, it's a great game.

I've got 60+ mods that include new skills (unarmoured 'n ranger), better skills (sneaking, lockpicking and persuasion), better faces, LOD landscapes and decent parallax mapping, darker nights 'n dungeons, infinitely better spells (inc levitating and multi mark / recall), a companion with a decent backstory, the full Daggerfall book collection, guild requirements, an alternative start that gives you one of the houses (and your dads old sword), Francesco's levelling mod, four mods that fix the interface and natural wildlife + others...

Apologies for the overlong sentence.

I've started playing in the construction set, and it's perfectly possible to create sentences with choice and consequence, as well as NPCs with all the promises Beth made about RAI (minus many working animations unfortunately).

It's a sad day for professionalism when the answers to all of these are "fix it yourself, lol."

 

[Nutcracker]

@ Naked Lunch: While I may enjoy sticking my genitalia in dark places the bible warns about, mangling or electrifying is not my idea of fun

Are you some kind of sodomite?

 

[HardCode]

For the record, most of the people here are from Kazakhstan, you big silly.

Say "Hi!" to Borat.

 

[franc kaos]

It's a sad day for professionalism when the answers to all of these are "fix it yourself, lol."

Unfortunately Bethesda made the game that Micro$loth asked them to make, one for the Xbox massive. They succeeded. The PC and RPG crowd were little more than an afterthought. As has been said before, the people who made Arena/Daggerfall are not the ones running the company now. If memory serves, Todd Howard was packing boxes of Daggerfall for market, not designing games for a monolithic corporation.

Though I am aware this will be my last Beth game ever (finished Arena, Daggerfall and played MW), especially as I suspect not only will Fallout3 not come with a CS, but they'll encode the playing files so no more boobies.

If Witcher / Gothic3 / NWN2 blows Oblivion out of the water (and did I read somewhere G3 will come with its own CS?), then I'll happily switch loyalties. Not really expecting much of NWN2.

@Nutcracker

Are you some kind of sodomite?

Some kind.

 

[vej-manden]

You forgot something: At least one in ten posts must contain shock porn. Four in ten if you want to gain membership in the 'Codex Club's Cewl Chemical Carbon Cum Crowd' faster.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

tits

 

[obediah]

tits

This site needs more titty fuckin.

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8===> ~~
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[Crichton]

Fallout and Daggerfall showed the beginnings of a genre that never panned out (which explains the angry cunts bit).

I've heard this before at the codex and it makes no sense to me. What do the two have in common?

Fallout

-Dialog Trees
-point allocation character progression
-indirect combat control (TB)
-short, hand-crafted
-focused on multiple-solution quests

Daggerfall

-no dialog (some exposition)
-improve through usage
-direct control (pseudo-twitch)
-sprawling, randomly-generated
-focused on exploration / dungeon crawling

What do they have in common?
-many possible character types
-non-linear

On the face of it, I don't see why daggerfall is closer to fallout than morrowind; it did a lot of cool stuff that morrowind didn't (time limits, randomly generated dungeons/quests) but it's no closer to the fallout/arcanum dialog-heavy school of RPGs.

 

[Woetohice]

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[Gromnir]

Rule #1: Don't post this kind of thread. It gives people the vague impression that there are rules, when there aren't. See, if we don't lay down any explicit rules, then we can later do stuff completely arbitrarily and claim it was justified by a rule we haven't told you about. It's the Tarkin Doctrine, you see. We can't rule by naked force, so we have to rule by the fear of force.

even the most backwards arsed group o' primatives gots rules. fact that you kids is more primitive than a troop o' chimps not change that reality. the genesis poster did a pretty good job o' codifying your rules too... though he forgots to mention that Cainsm is the dominat local religion and that most gaming issues is judged on how they mesh with current approved dogma o' the Churh o' Cain (as interpreted by vd, st. p, or spaz,) but otherwise it were a good effort on his part.



HA! Good Fun!

 

[Spazmo]

Rule #2: Ha ha Gromnir is a goofball.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Ha ha indeed.

 

[spacemoose]

Get out of here you filthy sodomite, this is God's forum

 

[mytgroo]

I played fallout and liked it, then I played fallout 2...

I played fallout and liked it, but then I played Fallout 2 and got really constipated and had to stop about half way through... Fallout 2 sucked hard. For all those who like giant games like Oblivion or Everquest, you are no better than butthead crack fiends lost in your computers... Games are for light entertainment not having your brain fried at 3 a.m.

 

[Aldin]

No no no no NO!

The only way to survive the codex is to lurk under the surface, never letting yourself become so tempted to respond that you actually... post...


Oh crud!

~Aldin, rapidly relurking

 

[LlamaGod]

Rule #1: Don't post this kind of thread. It gives people the vague impression that there are rules, when there aren't. See, if we don't lay down any explicit rules, then we can later do stuff completely arbitrarily and claim it was justified by a rule we haven't told you about. It's the Tarkin Doctrine, you see. We can't rule by naked force, so we have to rule by the fear of force.

even the most backwards arsed group o' primatives gots rules. fact that you kids is more primitive than a troop o' chimps not change that reality. the genesis poster did a pretty good job o' codifying your rules too... though he forgots to mention that Cainsm is the dominat local religion and that most gaming issues is judged on how they mesh with current approved dogma o' the Churh o' Cain (as interpreted by vd, st. p, or spaz,) but otherwise it were a good effort on his part.



HA! Good Fun!

Hey, Year 2002, how's it hangin?

 

[Da Wise Masta]

I don't give a damn about surviving the fucking Codex, anyways I got to go to.... a meeting (with a lot of girls- DAMN this will be a good "fucking" time).

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

I don't give a damn about surviving the fucking Codex, anyways I got to go to.... a meeting (with a lot of girls- DAMN this will be a good "fucking" time).

 

[Andyman Messiah]