No, that would be a design decision, not a design flaw. Just because you don't like the way they made the game doesn't mean they screwed it up. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Munty
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No, that would be a design decision, not a design flaw. Just because you don't like the way they made the game doesn't mean they screwed it up. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Munty
Considering that your buddies do die you get to do the missions eventually.
But if it makes it impossible to obtain 100% completion then it's a flaw surely? I have to watch my character do enough questionable things as it is, I shouldn't be forced to murder someone I resued immediately after they've just saved my life simply to make room in a half empty bar for another 'buddy' to give me missions. Should I? :neutral:Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
Anyway it's screwed either way as I've booted up this morning and done absolutely everything there is to do yet I can't move on as the final buddy won't spawn in the bar... I got myself killed, shot my rescue buddy in the head then went to the bar but nothing changed. Went to my safehouse and accepted the new character as my rescue buddy but still nothing changed. Went to the bar and now there are only 3 people there (best buddy and 2 others whose missions I've done) the fourth space is now open as the new rescue buddy is out in the wilderness and my previous acquaintance is dead.
Nothing happens though, that last person never arrives no matter what I do. I've spent a few hours finishing up today AFTER killing the guy and accepting the new buddy, expecting it to eventually sort itself out. It doesn't... I then killed my new rescue buddy and accepted the next one. Rested in my shack for several days, still no change. There are now only 2 people in the bar!
So what can I do? I can't finish this mission later because the buddy will be dead and I'll have missed out on 2/40 side missions. Bye-bye 100% completion, on a game that will have taken 40 hours to play through. Don't get me wrong I'm still really enjoying it but like it or not this is a flaw, not a decision...
When I played through I only got my buddies at triggered events so it may be possible that you have missed the trigger or completed a mission before it was meant to be completed. Either way even if you do travel to the south area you can come back at any time and may find your buddy then. Unless they have changed something in a patch this was the way it was for me.
I had to reload to an earlier game but I figured it out. Basically there are 6 buddies in the North and you're only guaranteed to meet 2 of them (maybe 3) The other three are prisoners of the enemy soldiers in various locations... Now once you go south you'll NEVER see any of those buddies again, regardless of whether you left them locked up or if you let them out, if you did their jobs or not. Hence my desperation to do the missions before leaving the north...
Turns out the bar only has space for 4 of your six buddies, as I already mentioned. Your best buddy is always there and your rescue buddy is never there. That means in order to do missions for your rescue buddy you need to either kill your best buddy so rescue gets a promotion, otherwise improve relatiosn with your rescue buddy until they outrank your best buddy and replace them, or as I did improve relations with another buddy by doing their jobs until rescue buddy is demoted.
In this way I got jobs done for best buddy and the other 3 I'd already found, then with one space in the bar I went and rescued the fifth and did their missions. The mistake I made with the sixth seems to have been rescuing them before killing my rescue buddy and accepting the new one (therefore making space in the bar) By doing it the other way round and killing my rescue buddy first it seems to have forced the newly rescued buddy to immediately warp to the bar and I got the missions done :)
Working on the second map now having completed the north and central parts completely (though I still need to unlock one more underground location in the north if that's counted) I'm not as keen on the southern map as the northern one so far but I'm sure it'll get better as I find my footing over the course of some missions. Big annoyance so far though is an enemy wielded mortar which is practically impossible to track down! I googled the location of a guy who was giving me trouble in the end and chopped him up with my machete as that's how angry it had made me searching for him while trying not to explode :p Enemy cars and boats have 'nade launchers in the south too which is great when I have them but particularly challenging when the bad guys do :D
Oooooooooo.... The Invisible Mortar Guy! I HATE Invisible Mortar Guy.
Had to replace my PSP to finish FFIV: TCC today. On the Lunar Surface, with all secret summons, currently inside the Giant of Babil. When I get its firmware updated, tis on like Donkey Kong.
Also, have over 1000 Sirens to farm with. Life (on this game) is good.
Only some of them. IIRC, all of the boats do, but there are three different types of trucks, one with a normal machine gun, one with a big heavy gun, and one with a grenade launcher.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
You can also upgrade your jeeps using diamonds that you collect so they have the grenade launcher too, as long as you get the jeep from a safe house it will be equipped with whichever weapon you unlock.Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
Aye, having plenty of diamonds from doing so much up north I've got a repair manual for the defender (is SOOO worth it!) and all of the accessories (camo, ammo belts, syringe pack, etc) I haven't spent much on weapons yet but I have an uzi for a sidearm and a very nice scoped assault rifle for primary (forget the name) It's a shame the sniper rifle doesn't fit in the specialist weapon slot as I wouldn't really call it a primary one. I'd rather carry that than a mortar/rocket launcher/flamethrower etc. but I want something for automatic fire too with a little more punch than my uzi. Perfect world I'd have an uzi, my assault rifle and a sniper rifle on me at all times. Invicnible ;)
As for the mounted weapons I'm not entirely sure when they upgrade but it's something to do with mission progress (when you get that 'safehouse upgraded' message for doing main missions your best buddies way) In the north you get the safehouse vehicles upgraded to the 50 cal MG which is personally my favourite over the grenade launchers anyway. I believe the GL upgrade for your safehouse upgrades is the last one you get but there are plenty already being driven around by the baddies so I just use theirs! Personally I think that's a bad upgrade as it's impossible to engage at close quarters with a GL so I'd rather keep the 50 cal :(
Anyway I managed to do all the gunshop missions yesterday and have a few more assasination jobs before they're all out of the way too. I have 3 out of 5 buddies in the south so I'll be doing their missions next before moving onto finish the main story. I'm not using maps for the south area (yet) as like I said, the game marks down which ones you've found as you go. That means it'll be easy to fill in the gaps later. For now I'm just securing safehouses and scouting outposts as I go, picking up diamonds every so often when I see the blip. Already found about 20 more so a lot of them are quite easy anyway. By roadsides, shacks, etc...
Have you found any of the gold AK47's yet :D?
Beat Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time. I really like it. I'm not sure if I liked this one better than Tools of Destruction, probably equally I suppose.
Started playing Infamous. I'm liking this one as well. I'm liking it so much better than Prototype.
2 actually, can you believe the first one started jamming up?! I went looking for them thinking they'd last forever but I guess not. Got a new one to replace my jammed one and then stored it in my shack before the end of the first half of the game, which is lucky as you lose any equipped weapons in the transition :pQuote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
I just started playing Zeno Clash then, a wierd little game haha.
I think there are 5 gold AK47s in total.
Been playing Borderlands obsessively since buying it, and you you know what I *don't* miss from Far Cry 2?? Weapons that wear out like they were made in a Playskool factory in the Bangladesh. I love finding a weapon and knowing it will always work perfectly. :)
lol, I know what you bean, BoB. I can understand shooting for more realism by actually requiring regular maintenance on your weapons or something, but am I seriously to believe that all of the armed people running around there have guns that are such wrecks that they fall to pieces after firing 20 rounds? :P
I third that motion, but it is of course in place for gameplay reasons more than realism I think... Once you buy a weapon from the gunshop you can get it brand new from the armoury next door forever. That means you can essentially trade it in every time you pass one in the future and never have your weapons wear out. The enemy guns are crap because (I think) the designers didn't want us to be able to get hold of good weapons too early in the game. For example, the gun I'm using now for my primary (the scoped assault rifle) I found on a corpse before I was able to buy it.
If there was no reliability factor, or if I was able to repair it forever, then I would have been able to have that gun earlier than they want me too. Plus there are probably about 10 gunshop missions in all and it took till the 9th one to unlock this particular gun so by getting it early I would've been essentially cheating the game out of some of it's vast potential of content ;)
finally finished bfbc2 (campaign) and started on dragon age origins. Most recently? I'm stuck because i dont have a medic, and not enough healing poltuces to get past the renault in redcliff... (my first renault, my party is allistor, myself (rouge) morrigan, and leiliana.) and i get the renault down to ~25% hp and run out of healing items. not to mention the giant frickin horde they set on you...
Edit... went back and got a ton of healing potions... now im good. used morrigan to add frost damage to everyone and used song of valor to nerf my mele fighters...
Had to swap replacement PSP for a PSP-3000 to continue. Busted firmware and wifi switch.
This one is brand new so I'm covered.
Thought about a PSP Go but honestly with no way to import my purchased games it can kiss my hinder parts.
I purchased a PSP Go this time last year Kayin. Purchased it cos I was going away on a trip and wanted something to keep me entertained on the plane. What really made up my mind was the 10 free games they were giving away at the time :D. But yeah for what you pay and the cost of games for it its is a rip off, I have not purchased any additional games for mine.
Playing Terraria. It's like a 2D SNES-type Minecraft with a bigger emphasis on combat. Really fun so far.
IS that the one being advertised on Steam right now? I saw it and thought it looked rather entertaining if it is :)
Yes it is being advertised on Steam, a few mates of mine at Uni play it, pretty cool time killer.
Finished inFamous on the good side. A bit of repetition but the new powers kept it fresh. Can't wait to see what the evil story is but I picked up Beowulf for $5 so I'll probably try that first.
Finished Assassin's Creed II and have started Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
I can't believe I managed to not mention the fact that I managed my 100% game of FarCry 2 :D But I did! I continued enjoying the game right to the end but the little niggly bits of gameplay that had existed for the whole experience did gradually get more and more annoying.
Rapidly respawning enemies (literally 20 new badguys 3 minutes after you last passed through an area) the inability to jump or climb if the ledge is above knee-height... Honestly there wasn't much beyond those issues which bugged me about this game though, and despite people constantly pointing out how buggy it is I only recieved one CTD throughout more than 30 hours of gameplay so I guess I got lucky for once!
Anyway I used maps to get the diamonds but the rest was easy enough, though it got pretty repetitive on more than one occasion due to fairly limited mission types. Travel was ok, though driving was made particularly difficult thanks to the immediate respawn of enemies. I found myself taking the bus 9 times out of 10 to avoid patrols which would simply add time to an already inexplicably long journey.
I never found the actual gameplay itself to be too difficult but there were still moments where I jumped in over my head and had a bit of a struggle on my hands. The buddy system is great in that they'll come to your rescue when you're incapacitated. It's a nice feature and it was done really well.
All the little animations like reloading, healing, switching seats in a vehicle and clearing jammed weapons were great and they added just the right amount of realism to a genre that can be very wishy-washy.
The story was sadly the real let down with this game (quite a blow after 30 hours of gaming!) and the character never has any real choices to make, nor a personality of his own at any point in the game. The characters you deal with are similarly 2-dimensional with the repeating pattern of 'work for a, work for b, kill boss a, kill boss b, move to c and d' pretty much continuing throughout the entire game.
The purpose of this game is to kill an arms dealer (and therefore stop the flow of guns and the war itself) yet every mission that you do is intended to directly fuel the flames of the conflict. Our protaganist has no capability to turn down a job, even if it means killing the boss of the good guys who he's just finished helping. Put simply, he's an idiot. He's betrayed by everyone in the game at some point yet the ending is completely unexpected given the developments to this point.
So yes, great experience, endless amounts of fun to be had, great replayability, but lousy story and totally anti-climatic ending. Still I enjoyed it for 30 hours so I can forgive that the ending sucked I guess... Not sure what's next on my to-do list but I'm playing a bit of online Freelancer now which has long been a staple of my gaming diet :D
Officially completed ALL of Mafia II. Was kind of bored the other day so I fired up Mafia II to start, and ultimately, finish Jimmy's Vendetta (DLC that I bought during Steam's Xmas sale). Not sure why I stopped playing in the first place cause Mafia II was truly a fun game, I only wish I knew what kept bringing me back; the scenery and driving for cars of that era is top notch and I was suprised I put nearly 40 hrs into the game. Definitely got my $20 worth lol
Started playing Bad Company 2 online. Still playing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Downloaded Serious Sam HD the first and second encounter during the week so may give them a go aswell, got they cheap on Steam a while ago and never got around to downloading them. Thank god for un-metered, unlimited downloads at uni lol.
just got Dead Space 2 today. Gonna start playing tonight! :)
Just started playing Penumbra: Overture. I love the atmoshere of the game.
I go through super mario galaxy it was an interesting game and at the moment I am playing Crysis.
Beat the campaign of Killzone 2. I enjoyed it. The graphics were nice for a PS3 game, not that I really care about that stuff as long as I can see what's going on.
Almost done with The Darkness. Really fun game and interesting story. Will finish this once the fiance gets back as she's been watching the story along with me.
Started Assassin's Creed 2. I didn't care for the first one once it opened up and was just running back and forth. I really liked it up until that point and was told this one was better. Really enjoying it so far.
started duke nukem forever around 10 pm MDT last night finished it around 6 am MDT this morning
beat fable 3 on pc a couple weeks ago
Just acquired Splinter Cell Conviction and Fallout New Vegas.
I love the Splinter Cell series and am digging this one so far. Never finished the first Fallout so lets see if I can make it through this one...
Finished up dragonage 1, debating whether to play da2 or fable 3......
Finished the story campaign on Assassin's Creed Brotherhood last night, I enjoyed, I have enjoyed all 3 dames so far. Now I need to go back through and get all the collectables and purchase all landmarks. I also need to go back and get all the feathers in Assassin's Creed 2, only thing I have left to do.
I loved all 3 as well. Great change of pace from the war games.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
I actually bought all of the landmarks early in the game thinking I needed to to finish. I only have a few flags left to find now.
i'm planing on starting redneck rampage on route 66 once i finish this term at school. then i have to decide if i want to play hexen or rise of the triad. i'm also leaning towards duke nukem 3d.
finished portal 2