Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Jade Kitsune
Hey, you were the one talking about how bad you are at the game. I was just trying to tell you who you can go to in order to learn how to improve.

Forspoken apparently isn’t giving out reviewer keys.

This does not bode well.

Finished Fallout 1. Incredible game, I made The Master kill himself and speeched him, ended at level 13. Now I’m gonna go through 2.

@Meanlucario
YouTube tortures people to death with endless advertising, personally I’d rather avoid that site at all costs.

@Badheart
Ad block, my child.

A trick to try in 2; the amount of companions you can have follow you is equal to half your Charisma. I forget if it rounds up or down on odd numbers, but using chems to boost it does mean you can get an extra slot.

Get the most you can, then get married. If you have a spare slot them your spouse will fill it. If you already have the maximum amount then your spouse will be added as an extra anyway.

Using both methods you can cheese to have like 6 or 7 companions.

@Dustcan
I had 2 companions in 1, 7 is crazy. Also you can get married?

@Dustcan
I mean, Bethesda didn’t send out any review codes for Doom 2016, and that game actually turned out to be good.

Either way, this doesn’t bode well for Forspoken…

@Mikey
I wish you luck with FO2.

The new Civ 6 leaders dropped yesterday.

@Meanlucario
Thanks.

Shotgun wedding, yeah.

You can sleep with a rando in one of the towns. Their dad then catches you and makes you hitched.

This forces your spouse into your party. Ordinarily this is bad since they won’t leave and have average at best stats, so they take the place of someone potentially better.

But as said they are forced in regardless of how many you already have so you can exploit this to have a party larger than normal.

Also I take it you missed Katja in FO 1?

@Dustcan
I only got Ian and Dogmeat.

Makes sense. Katja could be found alongside the Followers of the Apocalypse in…The Hub I think.

Kinda out of the way and the classic Fallouts had a big problem with everyone reusing the same character model.

@Dustcan
I think the guide I use led me to all of the companions.

I’ve finally started playing Tales of Arise (over a year after I got the damn thing).

I’m interested in seeing the direction this game takes. I’ve heard people talk about how dissapointing the end of the game is, but right now, I’m just enjoying my time with it.

@Dustcan
Is the beginning of 2 supposed to be this annoying or am I missing something. i have a spear and 90% of my attacks are missing against ants and radscorps in the trial thing.

@Mikey
Nope. That’s how the game starts.

Marvel’s Avengers is getting it’s last content update on March 31st, and is ending all support and removing the game from digital storefront on September 30th

The premium currency will be removed and all in-game cosmetics will be given away for free to everyone.

@Meanlucario
I just wanna get out in the wasteland.

@Mikey
Tough luck. This is how FO2 starts: You having to go through RNG Hell.

Ah, the Temple of Trials.

The long time punchline for older fans, and the perfect rebuttal to any and all claims that Fallout 2 is a good game.

But seriously, yes the beginning truly is godawful if you pick anything other than a melee build. The story goes that there originally wasn’t supposed to be a tutorial level, but one of the higher ups thought a more action-y beginning would attract more customers, so the Temple was tacked on without any consideration for game balance.

At best divesting in some Speech means you can skip the boss at the end, but you still have to suffer the radscorpions until then.

@Dustcan
90% of the game is an improvement over the first game still probably. How long is the Temple of Trials?

@Mikey
…Don’t get your hopes up, my friend.

10 minutes? 15? It’s 3 floors deep.

It’s not too long objectively speaking. Subjectively…

But yeah, one thing that really pissed me off in 1 was how those green/red rings under NPCs identifying them as friendlies or hostiles was restricted to a perk. Perks in 1 and 2 take forever to get and you can only get so few, and when Ian/Katja/Dogmeat uses the same character model as everyone else it should not be optional. Thank god 2 made it standard.