Confessions of a dirty gamer

[Falksi]

I think Planescape torment is overrated and feels unfinished especially the second half. I also feel BG2 is unfinished post candlekeep and I prefer BG1 to 2.

Ultima IX is a guilty pleasure despite how awful it is.

I think Fallout 4 is better then New Vegas.

This isn't the "Trigger the Codex With a Statement" thread

 

[luj1]

kotc2 is great, but kotc is better.

why is that?

 

[Zeriel]

I think Planescape torment is overrated and feels unfinished especially the second half. I also feel BG2 is unfinished post candlekeep and I prefer BG1 to 2.

Ultima IX is a guilty pleasure despite how awful it is.

I think Fallout 4 is better then New Vegas.

I don't think PST is overrated at all, but agree it is probably unfinished. Honestly, a lot of games are. This has gotten even worse in modern era now that devs have access to stats telling them that 90% of players never get to the end.

 

[Skinwalker]

PS:T has so much content, it's kind of stupid to complain about it being "unfinished". Curst isn't on the same level of quality as the Sigil wards, and Fortress of Rugrats could benefit from some more encounters, but there's nothing essential missing from the game.

KotOR2: TSL is unfinished, with a rudimentary final level that's filled with literally empty rooms, and plotlines with a lot of build-up that never get a payoff (the restored content mod fixes a lot of this).

PS:T is finished.

 

[vitellus]

kotc2 is great, but kotc is better.

why is that?

i prefer the simplicity of it.

vs

goes far in my book

 

[Silverfish]

I have sex on a regular basis.

What's his name?

I think Fallout 4 is better then New Vegas.

Overall, I would agree. Vegas kills 4 in every aspect other than combat, but since combat makes up the majority of both games, 4 is ultimately more enjoyable moment to moment.

 

[vitellus]

i am currently playing through fnv after a decade and it's all brown. everything is brown.

 

[*-*/\--/\~]

I tried to play Arcanum twice, because I liked other codex-praised games... but I got quickly bored both times and abandoned it. Maybe because I wanted to play a tech guy.

 

[luj1]

kotc2 is great, but kotc is better.

why is that?

i prefer the simplicity of it.
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goes far in my book

more races/classes is better

the first game had like 4

both games have the same combat mechanics, except 2 has more of everything

 

[puur prutswerk]

I got to level 14 or 16 in the Diablo II demo back in the day because you could gamble on the gear with one of the merchants. I am not sure if it ever occurred to me to buy the actual game until eventually I bought it years later.

 

[502]

At this time and age I would rather play Skyrim than Daggerfall.

I may be addicted to Diablo II. Whenever I play another ARPG something feels off and I have this "I could be playing DII" feeling.

Never got into Guild Wars 1 properly but I actively play Guild Wars 2.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I have read the PS:T novella.

 

[processdaemon]

I have read the PS:T novella.

Is it as bad as the Baldur's Gate novels?

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I have read the PS:T novella.

Is it as bad as the Baldur's Gate novels?

I haven't read the BG novels, but the PS:T wasn't bad. I don't know if the novelization was official, I just found a pdf circulating on the internet some years ago. I think it used a lot of texts from the original game almost verbatim.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

Going underwater in any game is scary.

Going underwater in general irl is scary. We are not made for it.

 

[HappyDaddyWow!]

I have still never been able to get into Arcanum

I tried to play Arcanum twice, because I liked other codex-praised games... but I got quickly bored both times and abandoned it. Maybe because I wanted to play a tech guy.

Try a mage build

I almost never play magic characters in RPG games, Arcanum is one of the few where magic is actually fun and interesting.

 

[Laz Sundays]

Dammit, it looked like a nice thread. First page reveals that it's actually a torn page from "Trigger the Codex with a Statement"


Alrighty then. Guild Wars 2 MMO is continuously the best "new" rpg I've played in the last decade. If Neverwinrar Nights series are a valid rpg, GW2 is a masterpiece.

 

[Skinwalker]

Alrighty then. Guild Wars 2 MMO is continuously the best "new" rpg I've played in the last decade. If Neverwinrar Nights series are a valid rpg, GW2 is a masterpiece.

That's it? Who cares about Guild Wars. There's gotta be more than that. Give us the *real* dirty secrets.

 

[Laz Sundays]

I don't know what would be considered a dirty secret, actually. Most of the answers look like simple preferences.

I liked playing evil playthroughs and being edgy as much as I liked goody two-shoes plays? That's the best I can give you. Yet after my 35th I've developed an aversion to extreme evils.. so that's no longer a thing I do - HOWEVER! I very much like this fresh new prospect of trying a Baldur's Gay 3 evil run? It sounds satisfying due to how lowly I view degeneracy of colorful subhumans. I would have no problem killing any of them irl either, if they crossed the lines that they're crossing in the West infront of me, we still don't see it take root in Eastern Europe. Smite Evil and all that jazz.

You've also given mostly preference, there's no secrets there just a list of games you didn't like.

I used to love locking Drizzt by surrounding him with summons in BG to kill him? Nothing personal, I quite liked him otherwise.. but had to loot the bitch, just had to. Killing Minsk almost every time?

Playing with corpses in Bethesda games, arranging aftermath scenes to fit the roleplay vision I had?
Decorating homes meticulously? Spending insane amount of time creating, detailing and outfitting/coloring characters? Writing their bios? What! What's dirty, hahahah?

I need to believe in the world/setting to play the game and really cannot if it's bad? That's a preference tho

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

I have thalassophobia and when I was a teenager I was very scared of going underwater in Morrowind, because the monsters spooked me. So I avoided going underwater at any cost.

If I was going from the Vivec region to Suran, I would make a 20 minutes detour just to avoid traversing shallow waters for only a few seconds. This is what it looked like on the map, going from A to B.

During my detour I was also spooked by some guars on the northern shore of Lake Amaya, because I was also a big wuss outside of water.

One day I decided to toughen up and cross the water at this very spot between A and B (it took only a few seconds). It was scary but it felt like a true accomplishment. My brain gave me an achievement for that.


I was also spooked in Icewind Dale. The yetis were scaring me so much because the first one you encounter is in Kuldahar, which was supposed to be a safe space for people like me, then each yeti in the Vale of Shadow triggers a sudden fight music when they spot you.

Reminds me a bit of how Mars Attacks absolutely horrified me as a kid. A good comedy movie gave me nightmares and panic attacks for far longer than is healthy

You're insane if you think mars attacks is what qualifies as a "good comedy movie"...

 

[Hagashager]

It you can believe it I meant to say "goofy". I only now saw my typo.

I do like Mars Attacks though, it's a cheesy schlocky mess paying homage to '50s B-Films. I have a good time with it

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

It you can believe it I meant to say "goofy". I only now saw my typo.

I do like Mars Attacks though, it's a cheesy schlocky mess paying homage to '50s B-Films. I have a good time with it

Too bad half the movie is spent introducing pointless characters played by A-list actor. Aside from a couple ok scenes it's a sleepfest.

 

[Bibbimbop]

I've never played BG2: Throne of Bhaal. Just never got back to the game after finishing Shadows of Amn.

You disgust me.

 

[Butter]

Throne of Bhaal sucks ass though. You're not missing anything.

 

[Skinwalker]

Throne of Bhaaldur's Gate?!