So, what're you playing?

[Sheepherder]

Que?

Little dudes made out of lead and tin.  If you ate lots of them as a child, you may have problems with Skyrim.

Your pacifist thief who doesn't set foot outside of cities for a dozen levels at a time and vendors all of the equipment he steals but doesn't use the cash to upgrade equipment will not do well.

[Azazel]

 

[WayAbvPar]

He is saying you need to be at least a little brain damaged to have any real trouble with the combats in Skyrim.

[Sheepherder]

You will not need to mod Skyrim for you to play through it, enjoy it, and not feel gimped by doing shit which comes naturally to your character.  Unless you are a glutton for punishment like Sinij, or ate a vast quantity of lead as a child.

WayAbvPar: It's more like a lot brain damaged.

Also, I assume he's not just asking about whether he can survive combat; but whether his inner sperglord will be shouting at him for DOING IT WRONG.  There is very little to sperg about in Skyrim.

[Ironwood]

Except collecting cabbages.

[Azazel]

My concern was if I choose to play as a stealthy archer-type, and level up doing mostly stealthy archer-type things from the shadows, would I get assraped due to neglecting melee skills when I inevitably walk around the corner and some mob beats my skull in with a 2x4?

[MuffinMan]

That's why you make sure you keep a sword and board hireling so you can still plink them with arrows whilst they're tanking for you.

[Ironwood]

Besides, very quickly the stealthy archer is a God.

Literally.  Worship and everything.

[Ingmar]

Yeah stealthy archer type is probably the most overpowered way to play it.

[Malakili]

Skyrim, LoL, Tribes: Ascend.

[Strazos]

Finally got my PC back after a month. Besides Blood Bowl...I'm frankly not sure what I want to play. Been doing other nerdy shit...like reading.

[rk47]

My concern was if I choose to play as a stealthy archer-type, and level up doing mostly stealthy archer-type things from the shadows, would I get assraped due to neglecting melee skills when I inevitably walk around the corner and some mob beats my skull in with a 2x4?

Master fear illusion spell and you'll have no issues. Or Nords have Battlecry racial. Let them run around in circles as you back off from the engagement. It's pretty straightforward IMO. There's even a perk to activate bullet time.

[Stormwaltz]

I sort of lost track of Skyrim, to my own surprise and dismay. Instead I've been playing STO's Duty Officer system (and pretty much no other part of the game), Saints Row 3 (Oh, you want to take a shot at me from the window of your ricer, Decker? Let me break out my Abrahms tank...), and the newly-released PC version of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.

[Sheepherder]

Master fear illusion spell and you'll have no issues. Or Nords have Battlecry racial. Let them run around in circles as you back off from the engagement. It's pretty straightforward IMO. There's even a perk to activate bullet time.

Or...

[Ironwood]

 

[WayAbvPar]

Got drunk and talked into SWTOR over the weekend. Just hit level 10 and about to leave the n00b planet. I wish it was more sandboxy, but I will give BW some credit- the quests and voice acting are pretty damned good. I really feel like I am taking part in my own movie.

[Murgos]

SWTOR has been winning time over Skyrim lately.  I feel like I want to play Skyrim but it ends up not happening.

[lamaros]

SWTOR has been winning time over Skyrim lately.  I feel like I want to play Skyrim but it ends up not happening.

This is exactly how I've been feeling about Skyrim too. Except my time has been in Blood Bowl and the real world.

[Llyse]

This is exactly how I've been feeling about Skyrim too. Except my time has been in Blood Bowl and the real world.

Blood Bowl when my addiction to Terraria is sated and Real life doesn't interfere

[Xilren's Twin]

So I got this email that apparently Gamefly subscribers now can play a bunch of PC games for free by installing their Steam wannabe client.
Since one of my boys has a membership, i may play around with it.  While it says 300+ pc games, I'm not seeing many large titles in here, but they do have things like Assassin's Creed 1, Puzzle Quest, Disciples 1, 2, and 3, King Arthur and Sam and Max episodes.  We shall see.  I dont see myself purchasing games from them, but if they want to give me free stuff to play while my boys rent xbox games I shant object.

Anyone else using this?

[Amarr HM]

Fifa 12, Terraria and then more Fifa 12.

[CaptainNapkin]

So I got this email that apparently Gamefly subscribers now can play a bunch of PC games for free by installing their Steam wannabe client.
Since one of my boys has a membership, i may play around with it.  While it says 300+ pc games, I'm not seeing many large titles in here, but they do have things like Assassin's Creed 1, Puzzle Quest, Disciples 1, 2, and 3, King Arthur and Sam and Max episodes.  We shall see.  I dont see myself purchasing games from them, but if they want to give me free stuff to play while my boys rent xbox games I shant object.

Anyone else using this?

I installed the client to check it out and there seems to be a few things worth the download to play. I'm surprised they don't count against as a rental, but I'm also not going to complain about that. Interesting service if it works.

[HaemishM]

The Steam Sale and a good Christmas have got me swimming in games. On the current and future rotation will be:

FIFA 12
Portal 2
Battlefield 3
League of Legends
Ultima VII Complete
Mount and Blade: Warband
Shogun: Total War 2
Fallout: New Vegas
and probably Football Manager 2012

And there's still a bunch more days of Steam sale left.

[Rasix]

One of the fans on my video card is making horrible noises and spinning erratically.  I think I may be playing the RMA game this holiday season.

[Reborne]

Instead I've been playing STO's Duty Officer system (and pretty much no other part of the game)

I recently jumped back on STO after not playing it for ages.
Having to rediscover how to play it.
The duty officer system seems interesting but I've only just gotten my crew and sent a few of them off on a couple of missions.
Is there more to it than that?
Are you not playing the game much or is there a more involving side to it that I'm missing?

[Ruvaldt]

Portal 2 single player, and it is good.  In fact, it is so good that I feel a little guilty for having paid such a low price for it because it actually did deserve that higher price tag.

Now to find someone to co-op test with...for science!

[HaemishM]

Portal 2 single player, and it is good.  In fact, it is so good that I feel a little guilty for having paid such a low price for it because it actually did deserve that higher price tag.

Now to find someone to co-op test with...for science!

Absolutely agree about the Portal 2 single player. It is just abso-fucking-lutely brilliant from top to bottom. Production values, level design, voice acting, writing, concepts - it is as perfect an experience so far as the first one was, and I didn't think they'd be able to top the first.

[Ironwood]

Arkham City and, damn, is it huge.  Completed the story ages ago, but you just can't stop solving riddles.

Or performing beatdown.

[Rendakor]

Played some of the split screen co-op missions in CoD: MW3 with my girlfriend, only to discover that we're both pretty horrible at it.

Also, the technic pack for Minecraft is finally 1.0 compatible, so I reinstalled that and started up a fresh world.

[Ironwood]

Wait, you can't get all the trophies if you missed some during the story ?

Fucking Lame.

[Tairnyn]

Wait, you can't get all the trophies if you missed some during the story ?

Fucking Lame.

If you mean the ingame Riddler trophies I don't think that's the case. I have almost all of them now and did about 80% of them after the story.

[Ironwood]

I'm investigating.  They may not be where I think they are.  Only 3 to go...

[Ironwood]

Yeah, turns out I'm just not as clever as the Riddler.  Who knew.

[Minvaren]

Portal 2 (just completed), TOR, RB3 and GH6.  Have Arkham City and AC : Revelations ready to go when I get time.

In somewhat-related news, now two F13-ers are ranked on Siouxsie and the Banshees songs in RB3.  

[Azazel]

Wait, you can't get all the trophies if you missed some during the story ?

Fucking Lame.

yeah, Yahtzee talked about that in his review. I guess it's to encourage Playthrough 2? (This time in a different Spandex outfit!)