What are you playing?

Shawn · Jun 23, 2013

Dishonored -
Now a few questions for those who have experience with this game. I want to finish this game with the fewest kills I can the first time around. I want to really try my best to go for non lethal take-downs. What counts as lethal and what doesn't? For example in the first level there were a few guys that I took out with my sleep darts. What happens if they "accidentally" fall into the river? Does that count as a kill? Do killing animals count as kills? Anything general I should know about trying to get the best ending available?

AshburnerX · Jun 23, 2013

Shawnacy said:
Dishonored -
Now a few questions for those who have experience with this game. I want to finish this game with the fewest kills I can the first time around. I want to really try my best to go for non lethal take-downs. What counts as lethal and what doesn't? For example in the first level there were a few guys that I took out with my sleep darts. What happens if they "accidentally" fall into the river? Does that count as a kill? Do killing animals count as kills? Anything general I should know about trying to get the best ending available?

It counts deaths by any means, because it's not a measure of your character but of the chaos of the city. People die or go missing, people get scared and shit gets real. So these would all be deaths...

- Knocking someone out and leaving him were rats can get him
- Knocking someone out and throwing him into water
- Knocking someone out and tossing them over a ledge
- Letting them die to an environmental hazard (electricity, fire, falls, etc.)
- Killing them with the ability that makes their bodies vanish

If you kill them in any way then it counts as a kill. That being said, you have some lee-way on the kills per level. If you find you HAVE to kill someone, go ahead, just don't got on a shooting spree.

Shawn · Jun 23, 2013

AshburnerX said:
It counts deaths by any means, because it's not a measure of your character but of the chaos of the city. People die or go missing, people get scared and shit gets real. So these would all be deaths...

- Knocking someone out and leaving him were rats can get him
- Knocking someone out and throwing him into water
- Knocking someone out and tossing them over a ledge
- Letting them die to an environmental hazard (electricity, fire, falls, etc.)
- Killing them with the ability that makes their bodies vanish

If you kill them in any way then it counts as a kill. That being said, you have some lee-way on the kills per level. If you find you HAVE to kill someone, go ahead, just don't got on a shooting spree.

Thank you. Very helpful knowledge. Is there a rule of thumb for the kills it allows her level?

AshburnerX · Jun 23, 2013

Shawnacy said:
Thank you. Very helpful knowledge. Is there a rule of thumb for the kills it allows her level?

It even isn't really about kills ether... it's about several factors.

- Someone dying adds a small bit of chaos on it's own (Weepers count too)
- Having the body be discovered adds more
- Having it happen in public adds even more
- Having someone be devoured by rats or a weeper in public adds a lot
- Having ANY of this happen to a civilian adds a ton
- Letting an innocent die in front of you adds some too because you could have stopped it
- I think even gunshots and alarms add some

So ideally, if you HAVE to kill someone, you want to do it quietly and you want to hide the body, but not feed it to the rats. Also remember that some of the choices you get can add chaos as well.

Shawn · Jun 23, 2013

What happens if someone finds someone I've knocked unconscious. And do they ever regain consciousness?

All this stuff is good to know, cause when I do decide to be evil as heck I'm going to make the city weep.

Hailey Knight · Jun 23, 2013

Shawnacy said:
What happens if someone finds someone I've knocked unconscious. And do they ever regain consciousness?

All this stuff is good to know, cause when I do decide to be evil as heck I'm going to make the city weep.

The unconscious don't wake up, but if an unconscious body is discovered, the guards will figure someone's skulking around and start poking around in search of you.

It's hard doing a good run, because it's fun to have the challenge of going undiscovered, you have so many wonderful toys for ripping Dunwall apart one guard at a time. Sometimes when I get frustrated at being discovered, I just lose my shit and start slicing them up. Then reset so I can be calm and try sneaking again. Sometime one needs to get the murder out of his system.

CynicismKills · Jun 23, 2013

I have too many games to play right now. Ni No Kuni, finish Xenoblade, Last of Us, and now my brother found a copy of Last Story. I need more free time.

Hailey Knight · Jun 23, 2013

CynicismKills said:
I have too many games to play right now. Ni No Kuni, finish Xenoblade, Last of Us, and now my brother found a copy of Last Story. I need more free time.

I feel ya, man.

Bowielee · Jun 23, 2013

Holy crap, I was just reminded that I didn't finish Ni No Kuni!

To the PS3, Robin!

I got overwhelmed with school work and kind of forgot about it.

Gilgamesh · Jun 23, 2013

I just got a copy of Ni No Kuni a week ago, it's killing me not to start it.

bhamv3 · Jun 23, 2013

New Vegas from Terrik is just the gift that keeps on giving. Seriously can't put it down.

Right now I've added a few mods to it. Project Nevada, Weapon Mods Expanded, Mail Order Catalogues, Underground Hideout... This stuff is awesome!

CynicismKills · Jun 24, 2013

Oh and on the weekends I've been trying out FF14 because it's beta and why not. It's surprisingly polished already and I've had fun playing the Pugilist class.

Bowielee · Jun 24, 2013

I'm beyond finished with the Final Fantasy series as a whole.

Gilgamesh · Jun 24, 2013

Bowielee said:
I'm beyond finished with the Final Fantasy series as a whole.

I am too, with the exception of FFXIV, I will be giving that a full chance as a solid MMO. Here's hoping it doesn't blow up in my face.

Bowielee · Jun 24, 2013

Completely random thought of the day. You know what I'd like to see?

A completely modern remake of Citizen Kabuto, but retaining the original voice acting.

figmentPez · Jun 24, 2013

I decided to play Saints Row 3 again, mainly because I need some distraction from my anxiety. This time I decided to make my character look like me:

It's not quite right, and I may tweak it later, but I think it's at least as close as my Mii

bhamv3 · Jun 24, 2013

Ah, Saints Row. Use a mod so that you can upgrade a tank, and you can literally park in the middle of the street and blow up everything in sight for hours. Your tank will withstand dozens of tank shells on its own before it even starts to show a dent. Highly therapeutic.

GasBandit · Jun 24, 2013

I saw pez playing SR3 the other day, and thought about jumping in with my overweight zombie mafioso, but OH MY GOD GNOMORIA Gnooomooooriiiiaaa gnomoria gnomoria gnomooooooria let me sleep pleeeeeease.

I've driven 4 kingdoms into the ground (two goblin invasions, one mant and one zombie outbreak) but this time it looks like my gnomes will make it through year 3. If only they weren't so terrible shots with their crossbows.

Hailey Knight · Jun 24, 2013

Bowielee said:
I'm beyond finished with the Final Fantasy series as a whole.

This.

I've discovered much better RPGs, to the point that I have trouble even going back to the old Final Fantasy games I used to love. And as pretty as FFXV looks, and with fun action gameplay too, I don't know if I want to sit through cutscenes of stoic, uninteresting characters interacting with ditzy, hyper characters while a convoluted story is poorly presented through flashy graphics.

GasBandit · Jun 24, 2013

I tried to get the little woman to do a playthrough of Chrono Trigger with me on an emulator... but it didn't stick. We didn't make it past Magus before I could tell she completely lost interest. This, after I talked it up as probably the best RPG of its generation.

:SADFACE:

Well, I suppose I should have known. Whenever we play something, I notice she never reads the quest story or shows any interest in background lore. In skyrim I'm the one reading every single book, in borderlands she can't even be bothered to read the quest objectives.

Gilgamesh · Jun 24, 2013

GasBandit said:
I tried to get the little woman to do a playthrough of Chrono Trigger with me on an emulator... but it didn't stick. We didn't make it past Magus before I could tell she completely lost interest. This, after I talked it up as probably the best RPG of its generation.

:SADFACE:

Well, I suppose I should have known. Whenever we play something, I notice she never reads the quest story or shows any interest in background lore. In skyrim I'm the one reading every single book, in borderlands she can't even be bothered to read the quest objectives.

I've been meaning to get my wife to play Chrono Trigger. She loved Kingdom Hearts 1 and Chain of Memories (she beat them both) but I dunno if turn based is her thing.

Hailey Knight · Jun 24, 2013

Gilgamesh said:
I've been meaning to get my wife to play Chrono Trigger. She loved Kingdom Hearts 1 and Chain of Memories (she beat them both) but I dunno if turn based is her thing.

Yeah, Chrono Trigger's a very different beast than slashing your way through enemies.

See, Chrono Trigger is still fun to play. I never feel like that game is a slog.

CynicismKills · Jun 24, 2013

I own like three version of CT. It's easily one of my top 5 games of all time.

Hailey Knight · Jun 24, 2013

CynicismKills said:
I own like three version of CT. It's easily one of my top 5 games of all time.

Likewise. Had it on SNES, PS1, and DS. Probably going to have the Wii VC version once we get a Wii U.

CynicismKills · Jun 24, 2013

I remember back in middle school, when CT first came out, working a shitty summer job to save up 80 bucks to buy it.

Worth every hot, stupid hour I toiled.

Yoshimickster · Jun 24, 2013

Bummed Injustice off my bud, FUCK I love this game! Also I love that they got Khary Payton to play Cyborg, and he says Booyah! NOSTALGIA! Weird change to Tara Strong's Raven, but it sounds cool so whatevs! My only qualm with the story mode is that the

Chancellor Superman doesn't have separate moves from normal Superman. I wouldn't mind as much, but he is the final boss in the main story.

Now I just wish I didn't have to pay 15 bucks to unlock the all the characters. Times we live in, sweet Satan.

ThatNickGuy · Jun 24, 2013

Hey, remember when unlockable stuff was available from playing the game? Those were good times.

Yoshimickster · Jun 25, 2013

Than there's butt load of costumes you can buy which is sadly going to be commercially successful because as good as this game is its still evil enough to manipulate completists.

BErt · Jun 25, 2013

I'll be playing this tonight. Can it be 5PM now?

bhamv3 · Jun 26, 2013

This isn't me playing something, per se, but I watched the first fourteen minutes of the six-hour The Last of Us movie.

Holy crap, this shit is amazing. The voice acting is perfect.

Far · Jun 26, 2013

Game is fantastic.

GasBandit · Jun 26, 2013

Gnomoria snuck a patch in on me yesterday afternoon that changed it so you have to feed your livestock - just grazing in the pasture isn't enough any more, they have to have troughs built and stocked with straw. Well, I didn't notice it was patched. Not that it would have mattered anyway, my save was in the dead of winter and I'd traded away all my "useless" straw to the previous merchant to pass by, so my 20-something yaks and 20-something alpacas just told me to go to hell and wandered away when I didn't feed them.

DOH.

Well, actually, that kind of solves my overpopulation problem. I had a backlog of meat to turn into sausages to turn into sandwiches. Of about 1000 meat. So, at least that pile will start to diminish now.

Chad Sexington · Jun 26, 2013

I pronounce Gnomoria so that it rhymes with a certain venereal disease and it makes me laugh every time.

Tinwhistler · Jun 26, 2013

GasBandit said:
Gnomoria snuck a patch in on me yesterday afternoon that changed it so you have to feed your livestock - just grazing in the pasture isn't enough any more, they have to have troughs built and stocked with straw. Well, I didn't notice it was patched. Not that it would have mattered anyway, my save was in the dead of winter and I'd traded away all my "useless" straw to the previous merchant to pass by, so my 20-something yaks and 20-something alpacas just told me to go to hell and wandered away when I didn't feed them.

DOH.

Well, actually, that kind of solves my overpopulation problem. I had a backlog of meat to turn into sausages to turn into sandwiches. Of about 1000 meat. So, at least that pile will start to diminish now.

I'm actually happy about the update. I got really tired of straw filling up my storage areas when it only brought 1 coin's value per unit.

GasBandit · Jun 26, 2013

Tinwhistler said:
I'm actually happy about the update. I got really tired of straw filling up my storage areas when it only brought 1 coin's value per unit.

Yeah, it was just a perfect storm of my save being in the wrong place for the patch to take effect. And the next merchant didn't even bring any yaks. I'm not TOO broken up over it though, as I said I have a lot of meat butchered and my kitchens are in a backlog. And the Mants and Ogres/Goblins keep killing each other outside my front door while I pepper both sides with crossbow bolts from my walls, so really our foodstocks are starting to get a little... longpiggish.

What are you playing?

BErt