I picked up a copy of an old-ish game, The Darkness, for £5 the other day. Never played it before, it's bloody good. Not survival horror as such, but it is horror... Seriously good, gory fun. Give it a try if you haven't already.
Just bought The Darkness myself, in a 4 for £20 deal from Gamstation. Also got with it Crackdown, John Woo's Stranglehold and Rogue Galaxy on the PS2. I only played Stranglehold last night though...put that on and it kept me addicted for ages. It's a lot like Max Payne and the recent Punisher game :)
As for GTA4, I don't hate it but it's vastly overrated. It's not as good as GTA: San Andreas was, that's for sure.
IMO GTA IV's a very good game. It's just not one of the greatest games ever that every review when it first came out stated and for that reason it's overrated. I got bored 50% of the way through and I can't be bothered putting any more time into it to complete it unless it's to get some of the newly released trophies on PS3. The missions get very samey very quickly.
Recommendation: If you don't mind putting a *lot* of time into a game (and I'm talking 60 hours + at least here) then get Oblivion. Burnout Paradise is an awesome game too, probably my game of the year so far (and I didn't rate previous Burnout's). Fallout 3 looks like being great too.
Recommendation: If you don't mind putting a *lot* of time into a game (and I'm talking 60 hours + at least here) then get Oblivion.
Probably the finest game I own for the 360, to be honest. Totally engrossing and so so addictive. I've been banging away at it since I bought the console in June, and I still haven't touched the actual main quest... Just been wandering around, doing my own thang!!
Probably the finest game I own for the 360, to be honest. Totally engrossing and so so addictive. I've been banging away at it since I bought the console in June, and I still haven't touched the actual main quest... Just been wandering around, doing my own thang!!
ive been looking at that due to vampyres post, i might go and buy it, i like the idea of free roaming play. maybe i will get that and gta4 together and those should see me through to christmas.
i wouldn't mind getting one of those games, but ive heard people slagging it off etc. ive only played grand theft auto and i enjoyed that.
Take it from a Gamer, the only GTA game that was crap was GTA II!
GTAIII was really good, but I must admit after being spoiled with Vice City I had little incentive to play it again, but I forced myself and it is fun.
GTA Vice City is mint possibly the best one with it's 80's cheese.
GTA San Andreas is really good but I did get bored and haven't played it for about 6 moinths. Maybe I'm not making a good case here afterall.
Anyway I can't imagine GTA IV being bad, if the previous games are anything to go by, however you may not like it if you haven't tried any of the older games other than just GTA, they're a million miles away from that.
Although we all know the best GTA ever made was GTA: London....you slaaaaaaag :lol:
Probably the finest game I own for the 360, to be honest. Totally engrossing and so so addictive. I've been banging away at it since I bought the console in June, and I still haven't touched the actual main quest... Just been wandering around, doing my own thang!!
I know what you mean. The first time I played it through to completion (took about 80 hours) but didn't give much thought to how I would build my character and hence had to play it on a low-to-medium difficulty.
I'm now on a 60+ hour journey, barely touched the main quest, building a big, mean bad ass who's about Level 35 so far. My Major Skills are between 50 to 100 for each and Minor range from the 20's to 100's. I'm going to try to get every skill to 100 before taking on the main quest at highest difficulty with the best stuff I can get from the dungeon crawls. Going to take a long time (prob 200-300+ hours) but it's a game that simply sucks you in. Absolutely in my top 10 of all time.
One hint I can give you without spoiling the game. Before entering a dungeon cast either a spell or drink a potion that Fortify Luck. It dramatically improves your chances of getting a very powerful item from the crawl. It's tied to your character level but if you're anywhere over Level 20 you get much better weapons/armour/etc.
Any advice on how to deal with those pesky painted trolls in the "rescue the artist" business? Using one turpentine per troll isn't doing the trick - it takes at least 2 to take down one troll and there doesn't seem to be as many turpentines!
Any advice on how to deal with those pesky painted trolls in the "rescue the artist" business? Using one turpentine per troll isn't doing the trick - it takes at least 2 to take down one troll and there doesn't seem to be as many turpentines!
So why didn't you throw turps at Takashi, or Gamestage :p
Any advice on how to deal with those pesky painted trolls in the "rescue the artist" business? Using one turpentine per troll isn't doing the trick - it takes at least 2 to take down one troll and there doesn't seem to be as many turpentines!
There's a couple of things you can do.
1. Turn down the difficulty level so you don't have to hit them as much. You can turn it back up again afterwards.
2. Use the turpentine on a dagger rather than a big two-handed weapon like a claymorgue. The reason is you can launch a lot of attacks with the dagger in the time it takes one swing of a claymorgue. A Daedric dagger is quite powerful too, my hero is at Level 35-ish and a Daedric dagger gives around 20 damage per attack. A claymorgue gives about 25-30 but I can deal around 4 blows per 1 claymorgue swing.
Using a dagger is a good tip anyway, I don't use any other Blade weapon (apart from a Capture Soul sword). The range is a lot shorter but it makes up for it with the amount of swings you can perform.
1. Turn down the difficulty level so you don't have to hit them as much. You can turn it back up again afterwards.
No way! Turning down the difficulty is for sissies! *Secretly wonders why he didn't think of that* ;)
2. Use the turpentine on a dagger rather than a big two-handed weapon like a claymorgue. The reason is you can launch a lot of attacks with the dagger in the time it takes one swing of a claymorgue. A Daedric dagger is quite powerful too, my hero is at Level 35-ish and a Daedric dagger gives around 20 damage per attack. A claymorgue gives about 25-30 but I can deal around 4 blows per 1 claymorgue swing.
Great tip! I've been belting away at it with 2 handed weapons, big one handed weapons but all with the same result - kaput after a few blows from the flat nosed boozefrea... erm.. I mean trolls. I'll have a go with a dagger then.
No way! Turning down the difficulty is for sissies! *Secretly wonders why he didn't think of that* ;)
It's a great way of building up your stats and it works both ways.
To build up your Block/Heavy and Light Armour, turn it all the way down. Cast a spell to create a very weak creature and hit it once without holding a weapon. The let it beat the crap out of you with your guard up (for block) or down to build up armour levels.
Turn difficulty all the way up. Cast a creature spell and then go all guns blazing at it with a dagger until you kill it (you'll build up block/armour too). Wash, rinse and repeat. You'll need to recover afterwards so have plenty of potions or just keep casting heal spells.
If you can get the Staff of Everscamp then you don't need to create creatures as 4 scamps will follow you until you get rid of the staff (which you can't drop, you have to complete the quest).
Also your Blade/Blunt stats upping are not dependant on what weapon you are holding. Connecting with a dagger ups your stats the same as using a heavy sword. The same goes with spells. A spell that costs 5 Magicka ups your stats at the same speed as one costing 150 Magicka.
One other thing I forgot to mention with the creature/difficulty tip is to carry a load of Repair Keys. Because you're getting the crap kicked out of you it will degrade the armour and your weapons. Repair them with a Repair Key to get your Armourer stat up to 100. I recommend you get this to 100 as soon as possible for two major benefits:
1. You can set the strength of Armour past 100 to 125%.
2. A Master Armourer never breaks a Repair Key. So one Repair Key is infinite and as these things weigh in at 1.0 each they take up a fair bit of room.
Also pick up the armour off any character you kill, repair it and drop it again (or sell it at a shop if you're not encumbered).
Another essential item to collect is in one of the Daedric Shrine Quests. Completing the Nocturne quest gives you the Skeleton Key which is an unbreakable lockpick. I don't need to tell anyone who's played the game how useful that is :-)
Wow. Way to hijack this thread into the Oblivion tips thread!!!
Totally love Oblivion as well...And for the Trolls in the painting, I just stood up on some rocks so they couldn't reach me and pumped 'em full of arrows....
The Darkness is also a brilliant game..just completed it and now trying it on the harder level, which is feckin' hard...
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i wouldn't mind getting one of those games, but ive heard people slagging it off etc. ive only played grand theft auto and i enjoyed that.
Just bought The Darkness myself, in a 4 for £20 deal from Gamstation. Also got with it Crackdown, John Woo's Stranglehold and Rogue Galaxy on the PS2. I only played Stranglehold last night though...put that on and it kept me addicted for ages. It's a lot like Max Payne and the recent Punisher game :)
As for GTA4, I don't hate it but it's vastly overrated. It's not as good as GTA: San Andreas was, that's for sure.
Recommendation: If you don't mind putting a *lot* of time into a game (and I'm talking 60 hours + at least here) then get Oblivion. Burnout Paradise is an awesome game too, probably my game of the year so far (and I didn't rate previous Burnout's). Fallout 3 looks like being great too.
Probably the finest game I own for the 360, to be honest. Totally engrossing and so so addictive. I've been banging away at it since I bought the console in June, and I still haven't touched the actual main quest... Just been wandering around, doing my own thang!!
ive been looking at that due to vampyres post, i might go and buy it, i like the idea of free roaming play. maybe i will get that and gta4 together and those should see me through to christmas.
Take it from a Gamer, the only GTA game that was crap was GTA II!
GTAIII was really good, but I must admit after being spoiled with Vice City I had little incentive to play it again, but I forced myself and it is fun.
GTA Vice City is mint possibly the best one with it's 80's cheese.
GTA San Andreas is really good but I did get bored and haven't played it for about 6 moinths. Maybe I'm not making a good case here afterall.
Anyway I can't imagine GTA IV being bad, if the previous games are anything to go by, however you may not like it if you haven't tried any of the older games other than just GTA, they're a million miles away from that.
Although we all know the best GTA ever made was GTA: London....you slaaaaaaag :lol:
yeah i played that one too, was pretty fun. until it kept crashing cos of my duff audio card.
I know what you mean. The first time I played it through to completion (took about 80 hours) but didn't give much thought to how I would build my character and hence had to play it on a low-to-medium difficulty.
I'm now on a 60+ hour journey, barely touched the main quest, building a big, mean bad ass who's about Level 35 so far. My Major Skills are between 50 to 100 for each and Minor range from the 20's to 100's. I'm going to try to get every skill to 100 before taking on the main quest at highest difficulty with the best stuff I can get from the dungeon crawls. Going to take a long time (prob 200-300+ hours) but it's a game that simply sucks you in. Absolutely in my top 10 of all time.
One hint I can give you without spoiling the game. Before entering a dungeon cast either a spell or drink a potion that Fortify Luck. It dramatically improves your chances of getting a very powerful item from the crawl. It's tied to your character level but if you're anywhere over Level 20 you get much better weapons/armour/etc.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
So why didn't you throw turps at Takashi, or Gamestage :p
There's a couple of things you can do.
1. Turn down the difficulty level so you don't have to hit them as much. You can turn it back up again afterwards.
2. Use the turpentine on a dagger rather than a big two-handed weapon like a claymorgue. The reason is you can launch a lot of attacks with the dagger in the time it takes one swing of a claymorgue. A Daedric dagger is quite powerful too, my hero is at Level 35-ish and a Daedric dagger gives around 20 damage per attack. A claymorgue gives about 25-30 but I can deal around 4 blows per 1 claymorgue swing.
Using a dagger is a good tip anyway, I don't use any other Blade weapon (apart from a Capture Soul sword). The range is a lot shorter but it makes up for it with the amount of swings you can perform.
No way! Turning down the difficulty is for sissies! *Secretly wonders why he didn't think of that* ;)
Great tip! I've been belting away at it with 2 handed weapons, big one handed weapons but all with the same result - kaput after a few blows from the flat nosed boozefrea... erm.. I mean trolls. I'll have a go with a dagger then.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
It's a great way of building up your stats and it works both ways.
To build up your Block/Heavy and Light Armour, turn it all the way down. Cast a spell to create a very weak creature and hit it once without holding a weapon. The let it beat the crap out of you with your guard up (for block) or down to build up armour levels.
Turn difficulty all the way up. Cast a creature spell and then go all guns blazing at it with a dagger until you kill it (you'll build up block/armour too). Wash, rinse and repeat. You'll need to recover afterwards so have plenty of potions or just keep casting heal spells.
If you can get the Staff of Everscamp then you don't need to create creatures as 4 scamps will follow you until you get rid of the staff (which you can't drop, you have to complete the quest).
Also your Blade/Blunt stats upping are not dependant on what weapon you are holding. Connecting with a dagger ups your stats the same as using a heavy sword. The same goes with spells. A spell that costs 5 Magicka ups your stats at the same speed as one costing 150 Magicka.
You can build stats up very quickly doing this.
Cool, I've never thought of that either... Great tip!!
*rushes off to fire up the 360*
1. You can set the strength of Armour past 100 to 125%.
2. A Master Armourer never breaks a Repair Key. So one Repair Key is infinite and as these things weigh in at 1.0 each they take up a fair bit of room.
Also pick up the armour off any character you kill, repair it and drop it again (or sell it at a shop if you're not encumbered).
Another essential item to collect is in one of the Daedric Shrine Quests. Completing the Nocturne quest gives you the Skeleton Key which is an unbreakable lockpick. I don't need to tell anyone who's played the game how useful that is :-)
Wow. Way to hijack this thread into the Oblivion tips thread!!!
The Darkness is also a brilliant game..just completed it and now trying it on the harder level, which is feckin' hard...