Craig H Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Been playing just a ton of Fallout 2. Sooooo much bigger than the first game. I found the GECK, but now I'm off chasing south to (I guess) San Francisco. Random things I have done that come to mind: Got the car, got my car stolen, paid the bastard to get it back, stole my money back from him, got some fake citizenship papers, killed a few gangsters, stopped a reactor meltdown, blew up a wild west town outhouse and covered half a town in poop, found a cure for Jet addiction, rescued a kid that didn't really need rescuing, rescued another one that did, shot some more gangsters, met some friendly talking scorpions, reloaded if I ran into an Enclave patrol becuz lasers, saved pretty much everyone I met from devastation except the one village I was supposed to save. Still haven't found power armor so clearly I have missed a bunch of stuff. Using a combat shotgun and a sniper rifle, Sulik is rocking the .223 pistol, and I have Vic with an assault rifle but it's starting to suck now. I only have charisma 4 so that's all the followers I can drag around. I have 125% skill in small guns and like 6% in heavy guns and energy weapons because I took the Gifted trait (along with Fast Shot, which is really badass). Something tells me this may be a problem soon. The car being called a Highwayman makes me think of that weird ass song song where Willie Nelson gets hung and Johnny Cash becomes a raindrop. This game is so, so good. Totally worthy of its classic status. Just such a great game world, and so much more fleshed out than the first game which feels almost skeletal compared to this one. Fuck, after reading that, it makes me realize that Fallout 3 wasn't deep enough. I'm hoping Fallout 4 gets back to that level of depth and fuckery where it feels like you can do damn near anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Finished VVVVVV, which I never managed to do on the PC. Hell of a little game there, you should play it if you still haven't somehow. Deleted my STO character and re-started, because the game had changed so much since I last played it (Memory Alpha/crafting was brand new) that I basically couldn't cope. Back up to lv5, still working the tutorial missions. I also downloaded the PS3 version of DCU Online on a lark. I honestly think that, if I could transfer the expansions (not the character) I purchased in the PC version I might actually play the PS3, since it seems livelier and a better fit for the platform. But I'm not interested in playing the PC version now, and I'm not willing to re-purchase stuff I bought on the PC (admittedly, it was all with comp money from EQ2) again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Where is this pool and how can I get in on the odds of a Veblen shout out in the movie thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Got my 16th Platinum trophy tonight with Tomb Raider (2013). Fuck Square Enix for their multiplayer trophies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Candy Crush Saga developers try to trademark "Candy", and go after the game the Banner Saga because it has the word SAGA in it, and may cause confusion. Because god knows when you see this.. you're going to get it confused with this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Mock it all you want but their trademark on "Candy" for games and clothing was approved by the US Trademark Office. And this of course has lead to Apple sending out notices to all the other "Candy" apps. So I don't fault them for trying - I fault the Trademark Office for approving it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 On one hand, it seems absolutely petty and more than a little specious. On the other - have you SEEN how many games there are "based on" Candy Crush that exist for the sole reason of confusing the rubes looking for Candy Crush? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 What Joe said. http://www.gamezebo.com/news/2014/01/20/king-has-trademarked-word-candy-and-youre-probably-infringing Lots of devs are frustrated cause it seems so ridiculous” says Benny Hsu, the maker of All Candy Casino Slots – Jewel Craze Connect: Big Blast Mania Land. Benny’s game, which shares no similarities with King’s properties aside from the word ‘candy,’ is one of a number of games that have been targeted by King. So awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Proud to say I've never accepted any requests to play this abomination that clogs up my newsfeed, though I gather it's simply a different colored Bejewelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 less cool is them going after Stoic, the developers of The Banner Saga, on the same claims of brand confusion. Grim norse strategy epic, candy puzzle game... I could see how that kind of confusion could happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Now its either mass effect trilogy or lego marvel. Let's be Lego Marvel Super Heroes buddies! ...I went with Mass Effect. sorry brudda. It was there just looking at me, saying play me, play me. you've read the reviews, listened to the hype - play me. Enjoying the hell out of it though, if that's any consolation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 The Natural asks you to be his Lego buddy and you say no? What kind of heartless monster are you? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salads Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Candy Crash stuffs are extra silly when you consider how much of the apple store is filled with actual unashamed cash grab rip-offs. If anything, appstore game lawsuits need to be encouraged and don't need this negative press. Now you're just being blindly apologetic for Nintendo. ALL shareholders want "profit and growth," that's the very nature of the capitalist system. Without writing up a synopsis of Das Kapital, Marx's equation still holds: Money --> Capital --> Money'. Capital seeks its highest return, etc. etc. Sitting on $8B of cash while you're in the red and earning zero return on the cash balance is what pisses off shareholders, not using it to bolster advertising and R&D in times of need. The 70% short number just came out this week, and the WiiU has only been out for a year. So to argue that if Nintendo thought a strategy of more advertising would've worked when the system was first released a year ago, prior to knowing the extent of the short fall, is absurd. Nintendo only barely made a profit the previous year and for the first six months of 2013 the Wii U sold a lot closer to nothing than many would find plausible having already forced Nintendo to cut their sales expectations because of under-performance in 2012. 2012 was also the year when Iwata announced an expansion/restructuring that is soon to come to fruition judging by the new buildings popping up in Kyoto and Tokyo that would fit the description of R&D bolstering you mentioned. This has not proved in any way to be a happy substitute for profitability, and as I understand it the outlay is handcuffing them from doing more about the situation by bringing down their bottom line. Microsoft can and did loss-lead for year after year to try and get momentum behind the Xbox brand, because it didn't put the company as a whole in the red. That is not an option for Iwata and people are already calling for his head. Or maybe I'm completely wrong, but the reason they aren't doing something straightforward which we'd think would help a lot will still be either a] it's not that straightforward, b] it won't help as much as we think or c] some another good reason we aren't aware of because we're just plebs on a message board. The reason will not be laziness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 The NFL tried to trademark the term The Big Game despite it (1) sounding pretty generic (2) having existed as something totally unrelated to football in Vegas for like 40 fucking years. But, they failed, so I guess the trademark office was awake that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Shit, Gamestop just price dropped ACIV to $30. Looks like I can't hold that off longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 The NFL tried to trademark the term The Big Game despite it (1) sounding pretty generic (2) having existed as something totally unrelated to football in Vegas for like 40 fucking years. But, they failed, so I guess the trademark office was awake that day. Yeah, the Cal & Stanford folks were a little upset when the NFL tried to trademark the name of THEIR game. Sorry NFL, you don't get to try and trademark every possible euphemism simply because you don't want people saying "Super Bowl". Especially when that euphemism is already in wide use to refer to ANOTHER football game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Honestly I think if you worked at it you could compile a list of maybe 50 things that have some claim to the term The Big Game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Honestly I think if you worked at it you could compile a list of maybe 50 things that have some claim to the term The Big Game. Nope, there's just one. That's why the NFL tried to trademark it. There are no others. [/snark] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Honestly I think if you worked at it you could compile a list of maybe 50 things that have some claim to the term The Big Game. I can think of at least 3 bigger games too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 less cool is them going after Stoic, the developers of The Banner Saga, on the same claims of brand confusion. Grim norse strategy epic, candy puzzle game... I could see how that kind of confusion could happen. Undoubtedly, especially since The Banner Saga is a really cool game. Reminds me of Bethesda giving shit to Notch about a Scroll item in Minecraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 No I thought Bethesda issue was the next project Notch was working on was/is called Scrolls. There issue from my understanding wasn't confusion as much as not knowing if people would understand it wasn't an Elder Scrolls game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 You are indeed correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 No I thought Bethesda issue was the next project Notch was working on was/is called Scrolls. There issue from my understanding wasn't confusion as much as not knowing if people would understand it wasn't an Elder Scrolls game. That's pretty much the definition of a valid "confusion in the marketplace" claim, though. (See also: Bethesda suing Interplay, or whatever agent repackaged Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics as the Fallout Trilogy, Marvel suing Dave Sim for putting his parody character Wolveroach on a cover in such a way that he was indistinguishable from Wolverine, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I was going to say it would be weird that Bethesda went after Minecraft because they went out of their way to put a small Minecraft themed easter egg into Skyrim. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Notched_Pickaxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 The Natural asks you to be his Lego buddy and you say no? What kind of heartless monster are you? I was weak, okay? I'm sorry. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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