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Bohandas

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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1935 on: March 20, 2015, 12:31:03 am »

An annoying game thing I've just been reminded of is the tendency of Skyrim's built-in launcher to make unbidden changes to my mod list
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« Reply #1936 on: March 20, 2015, 12:51:04 am »

Except you can't use it to launch the game anyways, since you probably have mods that require the skyrim script extender, right?

(So I assume you just ran it to fiddle with graphics options?)
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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1937 on: March 20, 2015, 01:33:22 am »

and load order
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« Reply #1938 on: March 20, 2015, 01:34:37 am »

Can't you do that from the nexus mod manager? I say having not used it or played skyrim in a few years.
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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1939 on: March 20, 2015, 01:35:57 am »

I don't use the Nexus manager. Maybe I should.
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« Reply #1940 on: March 20, 2015, 11:03:34 am »

An annoying game thing I've just been reminded of is the tendency of Skyrim's built-in launcher to make unbidden changes to my mod list

Yeah, it happened to me twice this week. Each time it removed about half of my mods (Which means about 50) and added a few that I had unsubscribed ::)

Except you can't use it to launch the game anyways, since you probably have mods that require the skyrim script extender, right?

(So I assume you just ran it to fiddle with graphics options?)

It is definitively possible. I found a guide a while ago that explained how to do it.
Link to said guide.

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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1941 on: March 20, 2015, 01:33:05 pm »

Does anyone know how I would go about retrieving the relevant list of mods from a save file so that I'd know which ones I need to turn back on to load that file without corrupting it?
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« Reply #1942 on: March 31, 2015, 04:42:00 am »

So I was playing Wakfu and was trying to get into it, I spoke to someone who played Wakfu and... yeah

Sorry it turns out your useless! You should have read a guide

Why the WORLD do I need to read a extensive guide, in a game that features tutorials and notes, just so I don't suck after a while?

It is one thing to need guides to optimize and it is another to need outside guides just to not suck.

Noob Traps

So there is an odd item infront of you, seems harmless enough... Ohh sorry it was a bomb that kills you instantly. You should have known about that before you touched it.

Unlocking Basic Features

With few exceptions I really am annoyed at games where you need to unlock just basic outright concepts of the game. Instead of picking on Pixel Piracy instead let me bring out Tropico 5.

In it you go through the ages... but some "basic amenities" need to be unlocked. Sometimes in a really inconvenient manner over time. It can really screw you over.

Games that start right to game

Seriously, go to the menu.

It gets good later honest! But it sucks now

Ok I FULLY support games that hold their cards close to their chest and only open up the deeper mechanics as it goes along. In fact I love games that do that, there is something about watching the gameplay or story evolve infront of your eyes that makes everything come together.

But I loathe games that sort of have this sadistic glee in sucking for most of the game only to get good much later.

Pixel Piracy is the game that really hit that with me. The game treats you like shit, almost literally. I don't want to open up the game to where "it gets good" (ignoring that it is a roguelike so making you play again a LOT is what it does) when the start of the game is just so degrading and luck dependent.

Before that it was DCUO where the "level where the game is fun" was level 30... hours upon hours of playing. Weeks of playing before the game is fun in the slightest.

King of all, master of none characters

I am actually a fan of versatile characters in games. Now in Let us Cling Together this actually came forth with the Dragon who had it all. Sure they weren't AS strong as the high damaging characters. Yet the fact that they did 80% of the damage in both melee and ranged and had a lot of health and a rather decent finisher meant that dragons were amazing at the low to mid levels...

Then they fall off and start to become nearly useless. I really dislike it when games have a poor "all around" character. The point of these characters is that they are greater than the sum of their parts. Yet games always overcompensate by making their individual skills so weak, or make specialists too powerful.

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I am just having bad luck with games lately... First Wakfu then Pixel Piracy...
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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1943 on: March 31, 2015, 07:34:40 am »

DCUO got less fun for me as I got higher in level, but that was because I would hit the ridiculously small money cap faster and faster, so I would constantly have to stop doing superhero stuff to turn my money into potions.

Eventually I just said fuck it and deleted it from my hard drive and never looked back.
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« Reply #1944 on: March 31, 2015, 07:39:13 am »

Honestly I'd put Free to Play as a Pet Peeve onto itself... if it wasn't unfair to just unilaterally lampoon an entire format.
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« Reply #1945 on: March 31, 2015, 08:03:04 am »

I've been playing Heroes of the Storm lately, and I like it. (It's in (closed) beta currently)
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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1946 on: March 31, 2015, 08:06:57 am »

Honestly I'd put Free to Play as a Pet Peeve onto itself... if it wasn't unfair to just unilaterally lampoon an entire format.
Free to play in and of itself isn't a bad thing. The ugly part is what the industry tends to do with the idea.
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« Reply #1947 on: March 31, 2015, 10:15:48 am »

Let's talk about how dumb depth of field and motion blur are. Stupid graphical gimmicks or stupidest graphical gimmicks?
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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1948 on: March 31, 2015, 10:31:28 am »

I still hate free to play.  I don't think I'll ever stop hating free to play.

Stupid graphical gimmicks or stupidest graphical gimmicks?

Yes.
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Re: Gaming Pet Peeves
« Reply #1949 on: March 31, 2015, 10:41:53 am »

I still hate free to play.
Do you mean you hate freemium, or do you really hate all (mostly or fully) free games?
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