Mageman

Really, his balding isn't getting any better and his stupid comb over does not do a good job at hiding it. Do you think he will buzz or shave it off soon ?

@Grimmy616 said:

Part 3 is up

Shane needs to die.

He needs to get tortured first though.

Pachter is horrible as well, I stopped watching the bonus round quite some time ago, and Pachter was fucking almost always there.

Fucking gametrailers....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNnJqJ9hO4w

Consoles are the cancer killing gaming.

@usgrovers said:

@Mageman said:

If you don't play on the highest difficulty then you don't really know how hard a game is. That is why it is a ''real difficulty''. Some game might be harder than average on normal but not all that hard on the hard settings. FPS games in general are not supposed to be played on a gamepad in general, it makes for a miserable experience on any difficulty. Never played ME 2, ME was perfectly playable on the hardest difficulty.

Not quite. For example, one of the hardest parts in Oblivion at it's hardest setting was is the first two rats you encounter during the tutorial - there are guides to killing the very first enemies you face... there is no way that is intended to be the "real difficulty."

Maybe it is, the start is supposed to be very tough as you don't know the mechanics very well and are just starting out. In Skyrim I spend about 40 min trying to kill some mages at an early level character for some quest, I had to use everything, from the environment to the quicksave mechanics...but in the end I somehow managed. And now I kill everything in one hit, no one can touch me and it is the same difficulty. So yes RPG games are supposed to be tough at the beginning.

@sixghost said:

@Mageman said:

On the gaming forum I frequented before GB, most of the people played video games on the hardest setting available at the start of the game or that is at least what the polls would show.

To me it is the real difficulty, I have this little quirk that I can't really play the game on a lower setting because it then feels like I am cheating and not actually playing the game. But I read some posts over at the Skyrim board and it seemed that not everyone was playing on the Master difficulty, which is fine but I could never ever turn it down. However I tend to not replay games very often, I remember the hardest difficulty setting in GoW 1 not being available from the get go, so I just played the hardest available and that was the experience for me and it was also satisfying.

But what is your opinion on difficulty and usually, what difficulty do you chose to play a game ?

You lost me when you said the hardest difficulty is the real difficulty. You're honestly telling me CoD campaigns are intended to be played on Vet using a gamepad, or Mass Effect 2 is supposed to be played on Insanity? Just two examples.

If you don't play on the highest difficulty then you don't really know how hard a game is. That is why it is a ''real difficulty''. Some game might be harder than average on normal but not all that hard on the hard settings. FPS games in general are not supposed to be played on a gamepad in general, it makes for a miserable experience on any difficulty. Never played ME 2, ME was perfectly playable on the hardest difficulty.

@Hunkulese said:

@laserbolts said:

Shouldn't you be asking if anyone plays on the highest difficulty setting? I mean surely you must know that the majority do not play on the hardest setting.

But then he doesn't sound like a super cool hardcore gamer.

...I think pouring lots and lots of time into games makes you ''hardcore'' in which case I don't any more.

@laserbolts said:

Shouldn't you be asking if anyone plays on the highest difficulty setting? I mean surely you must know that the majority do not play on the hardest setting.

But I don't know that, that is why I am asking....I formed the question like that because at GT back in 2006/7 people would mostly answer that they play on the higher difficulty settings in games as opposed to normal. No idea how it is here.

On the gaming forum I frequented before GB, most of the people played video games on the hardest setting available at the start of the game or that is at least what the polls would show.

To me it is the real difficulty, I have this little quirk that I can't really play the game on a lower setting because it then feels like I am cheating and not actually playing the game. But I read some posts over at the Skyrim board and it seemed that not everyone was playing on the Master difficulty, which is fine but I could never ever turn it down. However I tend to not replay games very often, I remember the hardest difficulty setting in GoW 1 not being available from the get go, so I just played the hardest available and that was the experience for me and it was also satisfying.

But what is your opinion on difficulty and usually, what difficulty do you chose to play a game ?

If the cigarette expenses were covered for + those 500 then yes.

To get away...

@Hizang said:

Play Oblivion first, then Skyrim.

Don't do this, Oblivion is shit.

Anyway there are so many RPGs but I guess the ''essentials'' would be the following

Fallout 2, Planescape : Torment, Baldur's Gate II, Morrowind (with the graphics modified to modernish standards the world of Morrowind still holds up), Deus Ex.

From the newer RPG list the good ones would be KOTOR, Mass Effect, New Vegas and Dragon Age Origin I guess.

My favorite RPG would be Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines.

Basically, play a Troika game, a Black Isle game and a Bioware game.

Playing VTM : Bloodlines and slowly walking to the oceanside hotel thinking to myself ''the atmosphere sure is thick around here, this is gonna be epic'' I try to immerse myself and walk slowly to the door when suddenly at the door the right (I think) lamp explodes. It is the only time I remember getting a jump scare in video games.