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HA! I saw this and thought "hey, I did this one time, I'll link my post to show what stats I found." Thank you, Guess a few people around here still remember how awesome I am. My stats are pretty out of date, though.

Did the Sands of Inaros quest in Warframe, ran a bunch of Void missions and got a ton of ducats and forma BP, all while watching X-files.

Okay, I'll bite. I want to see more of the dark villains we've had recently. Like Starlight Glimmer running a cult town like you'd see in X-files. Or Luna subjecting herself to a nightmare monster to keep others safe and being terrified at the thought of ever having a good dream. I mean, goddamn S5 had some dark shit, let's get more of that.

Magic in vanilla Skyrim sucks unless you abuse the dualcast destruction stunlock bullshit. Races don't matter because they Mod it up (personally I like the Perkus Maximus overhaul, which changes pretty much every mechanic in the game). Also, there are plenty of weapons powerful enough that even with mediocre skill you can kill stuff, especially given that you're basically swimming in potions after a few hours of regular play.

How is it not dumbing down? In Morrowind, you had to be skilled in a weapon to use it effectively, like it should be. The limited magic, enchanting, and weapon types are also ways in which it was dumbed down. Combat was also easier since some Morrowind enemies would just be immune to certain things, or have Reflect Magic, or cast powerful spells that did things other than damage. Skyrim is just way more forgiving. Also, limitations of the engine will make it quite difficult to add in spellmaking and enchanting of the same type. As far as I know, all the mechanics will be the same as Skyrim, it's just the story, NPCs, world, etc. that are from Morrowind. It'll still work with Skyrim mods, though, so you can make it a bit more like Morrowind in that way.

Not as chaotic (or brightly colorful) as Torchlight 2. Bro Team put it pretty nicely: (NSFW)

There's a mod for that. Also, Skywind is a huge mod that aims to recreate Morrowind in Skyrim. It dumbs it down a bit due to the easier combat and more forgiving mechanics, but AFAIK all the story and dialogue and everything is the same.

I keep an Ubuntu disc/flash drive to boot from in case there's an OS fuck up and I need to get files or find a password or something. That's about it. I'm primarily a gamer, and Windows is still the best gaming OS around.

I think Darksiders was a lot closer to God of War than Zelda. Faster, more complicated combat, some story similarities, very little noncombat interaction with NPCs beyond the main story, stuff like that. I wholeheartedly agree that the term RPG gets thrown around a lot more than it should. I love that RPG elements are making their way into more and more games, but very few mainstream games that come out these days are actual RPGs.

Have you played Morrowind? It's like Oblivion, but even more RPG. More challenging without just increasing numbers. No stupid level scaling to make the world more immersive. The character actually has to work to become a crazy powerful god. There's actually some real cultural differences in different parts of the world. There are obvious differences in architecture, foods, speech, and other things when you're in, say an Imperial city and a Telvanni city, or a Redoran city, or an ashlander village. Each group has their own culture, and each is explained well by their past. The factions have actual interactions that make sense. For example, the Telvanni and Mages Guild are bitter rivals, so joining one will make relations difficult with the other. The Thieves Guild occasionally has you steal from other factions, and can ruin your relationship with them if you're caught. In the Fighters Guild, one branch of the quest line will have you attempt to destroy the Thieves Guild, which will naturally make it hard to do anything with them (and part of the Thieves Guild quest line involves assassinating the Fighters Guild members pushing for the guild war). Being high up in the Thieves Guild will make you more attractive to the Morag Tong, since they both place high value on stealth and getting into hard-to-reach places. It was also even less forgiving, which made for more immersion. If you killed somebody vital to the main quest, they were dead. It warned you so you could reload a different save, but it didn't stop you from doing it. And even if that happened, you could still beat the game. If you found certain rare books, you could find legends on how to find certain items which would allow you to, with very great difficulty, still beat the game through other means. You could become powerful enough to kill Gods, and the game would let you. Sure, it would ruin some stuff, but you could do it. It didn't hold your hand, it gave you a giant world and let you do what you wanted, but you had to live with the consequences. Also, if you can't tell, Morrowind is my favorite game of all time.

PC all the way. But if it's just consoles, PS2. I love my JRPGs. Also 3DS, but I don't really count handhelds as consoles. Racing games are the only ones where a controller is better than MKB.

Meeting women of similar age. I swear like 90% of them are engaged or married (I know it's a lot less, but it seems like a lot more).

What? There are multiple weapons way better than Boltor Prime. Tonkor, Soma Prime and Vaykor Hek (hell, even normal Hek since you get it to something crazy like 390% multishot and then build for elements) off the top of my head. Redeemer with a frame that can consistently trigger finisher/stealth bonuses. Now what is unbalanced is the way weapon modding and enemy scaling works. At high levels, you basically have to use the best 10 or so weapons modded completely for damage or it's just not good enough. A lot of weapons simply aren't viable because they need utility mods to work well, but every utility mod is 1 less damage mod. Tonkor can get away with like 1 utility mod because it's bases are so high, but even then it pretty much always has to be reload speed, which might as well be a fire rate mod on Tonkor because of the 2 shot clip. It's really annoying, some of my favorite weapons art Paris Prime and Prisma Grakata, but I can';t use either on the really high level stuff because they can't put out of enough damage on enough things. Still a super fun game, though. And if this post is scaring anybody away from getting into it, this is only true for end-game content. Until then, literally anything can work as long as you upgrade your mods and aren't an idiot. It;s also free, with a very reasonable pay system. And the paid currency can be freely traded, meaning you can sell rare items to get it without spending any actual money. Also, the paid currency bundles usually go half-off during Steam sales.

I put it off for a really long time (in fact, I just started S5 about a week ago), but so far I'm really liking it. Wish I had watched it sooner.

The worst thing Bethesda has done was paid mods. I don't think changing the price on the season pass is that bad when it was $30 and the first 2 DLCs will totally $35. Beyond that there's another officially announced and the confirmation that there will be more that haven't been announced yet. Especially since they still gave everybody time who wanted to get the pass time before the price increase. Anyway, console mods will be a pale imitation of PC mods. They'll all have to be okay'd by Bethesda (and probably Sony/Microsoft) and converted to work on consoles. It's unlikely graphics improvements will be possible as consoles aren't nearly as powerful as a high end PC. Some mods that rely on things like .dll injection or post processing might not be possible at all because console OSs are so closed. They'll have to be a lot more careful with anything that might come close to breaking copyright because any mod they release will be sort of officially endorsed, so a lot of the humor mods that add pop culture references and internet jokes are out. It's doubtful any of the body replacers will be added since they almost always involve nudity. Some mods are better than no mods, but I'm worried console players have the wrong idea. And maybe some console peasants will realize what they're missing and join the glorious PC Master Race.

Corned beef is just the best meat.

OH SHIT GET HYPED I take it they're going off the revised Ring timeline? Because Rasen was fucking awful.

I'd like to see the actual questions and results of this survey. Neither this article nor the one it links to say anything beyond "Almost 40 percent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel for its 2015 report said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it." Also, I and everybody I know eats a ton of cereal.

I think it's more a general hatred of self inserts into shipfics. The majority are just somebody writing out their fantasies, rather than an actual romance story that makes sense.

Every TES game after Morrowind sucks (also Morrowind is the quite possibly the best RPG ever made) Every Fallout game after FO2 sucks (NV sucks the least, though) I have more but I think that's sufficient to piss everybody off for now.