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sniper_samurai · 03-02-2016 9:56am

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Arrow improved after the first season, and especially the first few episodes, imo. Flash is the better show though, a more interesting overall story arc (though weeker on the "villain of the week" front) and a better cast of characters.

Yeah, but that is only because Oliver Queen keeps fighting Batman villans.

Mitch Connor · 03-02-2016 10:35am

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Yeah, but that is only because Oliver Queen keeps fighting Batman villans.

Possibly, but it is also generally more consistent with who they are fighting. In Flash it is a new bad guy found and dealt with almost every week. the nadir being 'bee woman' or whomever she was. Ugh. On the plus side, Mark Hammill as The Trickster was brilliant (that episode was brilliant, with all the little throw backs to the original Flash tv series).

SolvableKnave · 03-02-2016 11:24am

Humble Bundle has gone all Ubisoft.

Some good games in there, including Far Cry 3. Might be worth a pop. For $15 unlock Assassins Creed: Rogue and The Crew.

sniper_samurai · 03-02-2016 11:40am

SolvableKnave wrote: »

Humble Bundle has gone all Ubisoft.

Some good games in there, including Far Cry 3. Might be worth a pop. For $15 unlock Assassins Creed: Rogue and The Crew.

Pity it doesn't contain Ubisoft: The Game

Andrew76 · 03-02-2016 1:40pm

Gunslinger is great fun. Grown Home decent too (it was free on PS+ recently I think).

OptimusTractor · 03-02-2016 2:32pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Possibly, but it is also generally more consistent with who they are fighting. In Flash it is a new bad guy found and dealt with almost every week. the nadir being 'bee woman' or whomever she was. Ugh. On the plus side, Mark Hammill as The Trickster was brilliant (that episode was brilliant, with all the little throw backs to the original Flash tv series).

I was a bit disappointed that Hamill used his Joker voice though. It just didn't seem right.

sniper_samurai · 03-02-2016 2:48pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed that Hamill used his Joker voice though. It just didn't seem right.

He used that voice in the previous Flash series too where he also played the Trickster.

Kimbot · 03-02-2016 2:58pm

I have to say I enjoy arrow, most people cant stand it for some reason.

Flash is my go to programme tho and thats the only reason I watched arrow because of crossovers etc.

Kimbot · 03-02-2016 2:58pm

I have to say I enjoy arrow, most people cant stand it for some reason.

Flash is my go to programme tho and thats the only reason I watched arrow because of crossovers etc.

Mitch Connor · 03-02-2016 3:01pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed that Hamill used his Joker voice though. It just didn't seem right.

As Sniper says - Hamill played The Trickster, with that voice, prior to doing the voice for the Joker in the animated batman series. So Trickster pre-dates it, and is actually (apparently) the role than landed him the Joker voice over gig too - the people behind the animated show loved it and wanted it for Joker.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 03-02-2016 6:26pm

Watched a couple of episodes of Daredevil recently - its pretty good so far. It's a lot grittier than I thought it would be.

Dr. Mantis Toboggan · 03-02-2016 7:16pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Watched a couple of episodes of Daredevil recently - its pretty good so far. It's a lot grittier than I thought it would be.

Great show. Some very dark themes running through it.

Dr. Mantis Toboggan · 04-02-2016 1:34am

Any you guys gonna give Helldivers a go?

SolvableKnave · 04-02-2016 9:52am

Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Any you guys gonna give Helldivers a go?

It's downloaded and waiting to be taken for a spin. Limited game time this week. Will be hitting crucible over the weekend. Might spin it up then

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 04-02-2016 10:52am

Played a bit of Fallout 4 this week, still really enjoying it.
I think because I've been playing Destiny and coming back to Fallout - I really seem to be getting my moneys worth from Fallout. I've barely made any progress in the actual story but enjoying wandering the Wastelands.

PetKing · 04-02-2016 11:10am

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

Played a bit of Fallout 4 this week, still really enjoying it. I think because I've been playing Destiny and coming back to Fallout - I really seem to be getting my moneys worth from Fallout. I've barely made any progress in the actual story but enjoying wandering the Wastelands.

Have to admit it, but this Fallout isn't as good as previous ones IMO.

Generic Dreadhead · 04-02-2016 11:52am

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Played a bit of Fallout 4 this week, still really enjoying it.
I think because I've been playing Destiny and coming back to Fallout - I really seem to be getting my moneys worth from Fallout. I've barely made any progress in the actual story but enjoying wandering the Wastelands.

I "Finished" it last night (Final mission, grabbed a few of the available trophies, romanced another partner)

Was actually glad to see the back of it tbh.

Act 1 was great. Act 2, not so much.
Also the bugs and UI were really f**kign annoying tbh.

I had my fun, and might play some DLC in the future, but I felt like it went:

Level 1-10 = Fun
Level 10 - 25 = No ammo, missions over levelled, s**t time in general
Level 25 - 35 = Finished Act 1, started Act 2, had ammo, was good fun
Level 35 - 45 = Bored
Level 45 - 50 = Google "best side quests", all companions etc, had some fun
Level 50 - 57 = Just end it

I really only felt like I was having a good time for about 3 sittings. The rest was "Busy work"
That being said, I bought a decent ammount of time in, so it's not terrible.

I just felt like Bugs, Glitches, Too much Pipe Ammo and F**k all else till level 35+, Act 2 being poor in general etc kinda ruined it

Was a solid 7.5/10, could easily have been a 9 if it had been on PC with mods etc.

The pacing was s**t. Had me fighting level 45+ enemies at level 25 in a mission
Also..... the "Different endings" rubbish can just go and f**k right off tbh.

Had a point where I

FINALLY met the Railroad after googling.... sure of course by then I was like "could you not have given me these missions when I was level 15 and looking for missions to do in my range?"..... by the time I finished the game, I just couldn't give a toss about them as they were introduced to me so late.

Also made the crucial mistake of going around with partners that I thought were doing good damage etc (Preston, Danse) when in reality I should have went with the more interesting ones like

Curie, Valentine, Hancock. Their dialogue was much better in general.

Sad to say

I spent a good 45 mins shooting Dogmeat in the face last night, abusing the "X likes this" thing so that I could get some more of their individual side quests (Cait, Valentine etc) as I was under the impression they had some cause of dialogue ..... that and romancing Curie, that was really my end-game.

Commonwealth be damned

Mitch Connor · 04-02-2016 11:57am

Whats the story with the Fallout mods on xbox. I remember them making a thing of mod support on the One when they announced the game - is it actually a real thing, and any use?

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 04-02-2016 12:01pm

Only really found a few bugs in Fallout - last night as I was playing my Baseball bat completely disappeared. I had it equipped but it wasn't showing.
When I went to look at my Pipboy, it wasn't displaying either - my character would just look at the ground. Just restarted the application, no big deal.

I thought there was an update due early this week to fix a lot of these issues though. I was really interested in the Settler management update - looked really cool.

As for the lack of ammo - I went melee! Have a Baseball bat wrapped in razors and Spike knuckles. Great fun walking into a room of people - take a hit of Psycho and just go for it.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 04-02-2016 12:02pm

Only really found a few bugs in Fallout - last night as I was playing my Baseball bat completely disappeared. I had it equipped but it wasn't showing.
When I went to look at my Pipboy, it wasn't displaying either - my character would just look at the ground. Just restarted the application, no big deal.

I thought there was an update due early this week to fix a lot of these issues though. I was really interested in the Settler management update - looked really cool.

As for the lack of ammo - I went melee! Have a Baseball bat wrapped in razors and Spike knuckles. Great fun walking into a room of people - take a hit of Psycho and just go for it.

Generic Dreadhead · 04-02-2016 12:03pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Whats the story with the Fallout mods on xbox. I remember them making a thing of mod support on the One when they announced the game - is it actually a real thing, and any use?

IF you have a PC, get it on that, there'll surely be mods for the UI.

After playing Destiny and Borderlands (in both cases with you), trust me, the way the game delivers it's UI via the Pipboy is utter $h!te.

Let me give you an example......

You can't compare 2 piece of likewise gear.
You cannot sort gear into categories (left leg armour only etc)
You don't get told (even roughly) what level missions are (LEVEL 45 MIRELURK QUEEN AT LEVEL 24 ANYONE!!!!)
You don't get told where some of the missions are (many fans tout this as a positive, but honestly, there's too many buildings full of sweet f**k all to be wandering into them to find the 10 that have decent side quests like the robot pirates, cereal killer, haunted house etc etc)
Settlements, the way they are handled needs mod support (unassigned settlers vs assigned settlers).

I only complain about this stuff as the game could have been a 9/10 but was seriously hamstrung.... and you know what, I 100% blame Bethesda.... they wanted the big E3 reveal with a "Coming in a mere 5 months"..... they needed to make the christmas market

Maybe it's a game for people who want to put 300 hours into it. I wasn't one of them (I will check my playtime later though)

Generic Dreadhead · 04-02-2016 12:07pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

As for the lack of ammo - I went melee! Have a Baseball bat wrapped in razors and Spike knuckles. Great fun walking into a room of people - take a hit of Psycho and just go for it.

I wish I had taken the game less seriously tbh and not gone with a build focusing on VATS and Rifles.

Last night I just gave Curie an Ashmaker Mini Gun and 3000 rounds for the laugh

Also I was balls deep in the gun modding scene in the mid-game, wish I started that earlier tbh.

If you start playing, get rank 2 in Gun Nut, Rank 1 in Science and Rank 1 in Armourer early on so you can start crafting mods.... makes the game a lot better as your guns end up doing a LOT more DPS

sniper_samurai · 04-02-2016 12:08pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Only really found a few bugs in Fallout - last night as I was playing my Baseball bat completely disappeared. I had it equipped but it wasn't showing.
When I went to look at my Pipboy, it wasn't displaying either - my character would just look at the ground. Just restarted the application, no big deal.

I thought there was an update due early this week to fix a lot of these issues though. I was really interested in the Settler management update - looked really cool.

As for the lack of ammo - I went melee! Have a Baseball bat wrapped in razors and Spike knuckles. Great fun walking into a room of people - take a hit of Psycho and just go for it.

The patch is already out on PC, out next week on Xbox One and PS4.

They still haven't implemented mod support on the Xbox yet.

I pretty much 100% agree with Cormac about the game. Don't know how anyone could say this was GOTY, especially over the fantastic Witcher 3.

Generic Dreadhead · 04-02-2016 12:08pm

That french accent though

Generic Dreadhead · 04-02-2016 1:08pm

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Mickeroo · 04-02-2016 1:20pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Whats the story with the Fallout mods on xbox. I remember them making a thing of mod support on the One when they announced the game - is it actually a real thing, and any use?

They're not out yet but will be happening at some point apparently. Haven't seen anything about when exactly yet though.

Edit: I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be coming to PS4 at some stage too.

SolvableKnave · 04-02-2016 2:32pm

Cormac... wrote: »

And now for this!

http://www.boards.ie/love.php

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Hail 2 Da Chimp · 04-02-2016 5:27pm

Cormac... wrote: »

I wish I had taken the game less seriously tbh and not gone with a build focusing on VATS and Rifles.

To be honest - it doesn't take much effort / skill points, which is why I like it.
For some situations, you'll need to use a gun / rifle.
But when fighting lower level enemies / raiders, there's no reason at all not to use a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and razors!

Even if you're in a losing situation, let your friends Psycho and Jet help you out.

I do agree with the examples you've given - here's another example:
I accidental picked up a raiders entire inventory, instead of 1 piece of armour which was better than my equipped piece.
Now I'm encumbered and have multiple sets or armour and other misc junk I didn't want to pick up - with no easy way of knowing what's valuable or useful.

I mean, the fact I can't filter say each left leg piece is crazy. It's like Bethesda went out of the way to be inconvenient...

Generic Dreadhead · 04-02-2016 5:38pm

You can filter by "Value" which is usually a good way of going "Best -> Worst"

I just don't think Bethesda games are for me tbh. Fallout 3 didn't grab me, Skyrim didn't. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just probably not their target audience. I'd prefer Uncharted or Shadow of Mordor or something more "Linear"

Kimbot · 05-02-2016 11:38am

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Hail 2 Da Chimp · 05-02-2016 12:05pm

Had a great game of Fallout 4 last night, finally met up with

Kellog the prick

, tried to be civil and ask him a few questions - but he got rude...
So I took a load of Buff-Jet and equipped my Spike knuckles and punched him into a fine red mist.

Also found a legendary Piercing Power-Knuckles - which is unreal. 2 or maybe 3 punches will turn even a Super Mutant into a pile of mush. It has a perk, where every subsequent punch is more powerful.

Also went to Goodneighbour and met Bobbi-No-Nose..

Generic Dreadhead · 05-02-2016 12:40pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Had a great game of Fallout 4 last night, finally met up with
Kellog the prick
, tried to be civil and ask him a few questions - but he got rude...
So I took a load of Buff-Jet and equipped my Spike knuckles and punched him into a fine red mist.

Also found a legendary Piercing Power-Knuckles - which is unreal. 2 or maybe 3 punches will turn even a Super Mutant into a pile of mush. It has a perk, where every subsequent punch is more powerful.

Also went to Goodneighbour and met Bobbi-No-Nose..

Reminds me of that old AVGN episode where he's on about the main character punching everything :pac:

Super Mutant? - Punch it!
Legendary Glowing One? - Punch it!
Alpha Deathclaw? - Punch it!

Also, did you know bobbi is a woman? I just thought he had a REALLY bad haircut

Generic Dreadhead · 09-02-2016 1:27pm

Was looking at mods for X-Com 2 and found this.

I know Chimp will be only delighted

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=619837596&searchtext=

OptimusTractor · 09-02-2016 2:44pm

Cormac... wrote: »

Was looking at mods for X-Com 2 and found this.

I know Chimp will be only delighted

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=619837596&searchtext=

I laughed more than was legally required.

Mitch Connor · 11-02-2016 11:16am

Finished The Expanse the other day - very good show, disappointing it ended so quickly though; 10 months to wait for season 2.

Watching Mr. Robot now. 2 episodes in, looks very good and have heard great things about it.

SolvableKnave · 11-02-2016 12:01pm

Battlestar Galactica film now in development. Doubtful to happen, but would love to see the TV show cast involved. Edward James Olmos IS Admiral Adama. Katee Sackhoff IS Starbuck.

For all we know though, the movie could be a prequel style story, so younger actors involved.

Mitch Connor · 11-02-2016 12:23pm

Now, its been a long time since I watched them, but I don't think there is much more Battlestar story left after where it left off - it ended on a fairly final note in the story. and from memory Caprica dealt with the run up to it all, so I am not sure where they would go with a movie.

Could end up being a reboot.

PetKing · 11-02-2016 2:04pm

Mitch Connor wrote:

Now, its been a long time since I watched them, but I don't think there is much more Battlestar story left after where it left off - it ended on a fairly final note in the story. and from memory Caprica dealt with the run up to it all, so I am not sure where they would go with a movie.

Caprica / Blood & Chrome just didn't do it for me, I think all the prequel stuff is kind of covered. As for a reboot of a reboot? Meh!

SolvableKnave · 11-02-2016 2:45pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Now, its been a long time since I watched them, but I don't think there is much more Battlestar story left after where it left off - it ended on a fairly final note in the story. and from memory Caprica dealt with the run up to it all, so I am not sure where they would go with a movie.

Could end up being a reboot.

PetKing wrote: »

Caprica / Blood & Chrome just didn't do it for me, I think all the prequel stuff is kind of covered. As for a reboot of a reboot? Meh!

I'd actually forgotten about Caprica / Blood & Chrome. I'm hoping now that the movie isn't just a retelling of the escape from the colonies and run to earth.

DaveNoCheese · 11-02-2016 2:45pm

Two episodes left in the expanse, great show!

OptimusTractor · 11-02-2016 3:16pm

What about Fair City. Yer wan Heather poisoning her own daughter just so she can get the doctor over for a quick shag. That's just cold.

Generic Dreadhead · 11-02-2016 3:16pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

What about Fair City. Yer wan Heather poisoning her own daughter just so she can the doctor over for a quick shag. That's just cold.

Is this the kind of stuff that happens in soaps now? F**king hell :pac:

PlainP · 11-02-2016 7:41pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

What about Fair City. Yer wan Heather poisoning her own daughter just so she can get the doctor over for a quick shag. That's just cold.

Lol big lol..

Do you actually watch it or just read about the story?

Mitch Connor · 11-02-2016 7:57pm

ok, three episodes in and Mr. Robot is AMAZING.

OptimusTractor · 11-02-2016 8:29pm

PlainP wrote: »

Lol big lol..

Do you actually watch it or just read about the story?

It's just so bland and the awful acting make it addictive.

PlainP · 11-02-2016 8:41pm

OptimusTractor wrote: »

It's just so bland and the awful acting make it addictive.

Well at least you're honest. I'll admit to dipping in every now and again. Haven't see much of the psycho mammy story though.

gimli2112 · 15-02-2016 8:54am

Thought space was pretty lousy when the game first launched but nothing as bad as Borderlands. Nocal showed me yesterday where you can buy extra inventorty slots in BL2. Beaten the game several times on PS3/PS4 with only 12 god damn inventory slots.:o

Generic Dreadhead · 15-02-2016 2:08pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

Thought space was pretty lousy when the game first launched but nothing as bad as Borderlands. Nocal showed me yesterday where you can buy extra inventorty slots in BL2. Beaten the game several times on PS3/PS4 with only 12 god damn inventory slots.:o

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PetKing · 15-02-2016 2:16pm

As a boards noob, I'm having some trouble posting a YouTube link here on Boards via the Android app. Can anyone help?

Mickeroo · 15-02-2016 2:23pm

PetKing wrote: »

As a boards noob, I'm having some trouble posting a YouTube link here on Boards via the Android app. Can anyone help?

yup, take the bit after the = in the youtube url and paste it in between the following

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