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  1. Once upon a time I finished Dragon Age 1. 

     

    Then the baby came. Then the baby turned 1 and later on, 2.

     

    The idea of playing a game that's more than three hours long is now utterly laughable and will be for years to come.

     

    The end.

     

    That'll be my life come late December or early January.  Add to that the fact that I'll be nearly 44 and I'm gonna be lucky if I have the energy to do anything.

  2. I was guessing his complaint was the DA2 ending.  I personally had no issues with stabbing a certain someone in the back after that bit.

     

    I'm actually optimistic about Inquisition.  It appears that they've learned their lessons the hard way with DA2.  The most worrying thing for me is that a lot of it seems to be built around the fade.  The parts where you get trapped in that are my least favorite parts of DA.

     

    I actually like that they are making characters strictly gay or lesbian, as opposed to DA2, where everybody is either bi or has seemingly taken a vow of chastity.  Of course I still think Saints Row 4 has the best romance system of any game ever, so what do I know?

  3. In my defense, I'm almost always on the opposite side of deathmatches from JT, so I'm used to seeing him in that damn jacket.  Threw me off the first time I wandered into a firefight he and melraz had started in freemode, and somebody came running at me in all green. 

     

    I had the same problem with the armor always showing.  Stout showed me how to fix it.  First make sure you turn off the armor always showing switch.  Then go to a clothing store and buy an outfit.  It doesn't work on tops/pants/etc, but if you buy an actual outfit from the clerk it will hide the armor.  Once you do that, you should be able to change to any clothing you want without having the armor show itself.

  4. No, dude, you're in Freemode. You go into a shop at your own peril. Someone would do it to you in a heartbeat if you were in a shop and they had half a chance.

     

    You should see the welcoming party we've provided players who've decided to go into a Los Santos Customs when we're around. RPGs, firetrucks, you name it. All's fair in love and war.

     

    Robert, Mis and I ran into some REAL chickenshit heels last night. You know it's bad when the best thing you can say about players is "at least they didn't grab tanks."

     

    I think this is a chickenshit tactic, I don't care: Get killed, put it in passive, establish position like on top of a building, come out of passive, kiil people until killed, put it in passive, re-estabish position on top of another building, kill people until killed, repeat. 

     

    Look, if you can get on top of a building as part of a live firefight, then you've earned your position and can snipe at will. But if you didn't take a chance getting up there, then you don't deserve the spot.

     

    And it wasn't like we had them outmanned - at worst it was 3-2 us. Then they had a couple of people join in and it was 4-3 them. They pretty much ended our night by getting in that wall breach near the East side Los Santos Customs. Robert left and I got disgusted with the whole affair and started chasing a car to sell, but MIs kept up the good fight, outnumbered 1 to 4. He'd kill one of them and they'd throw it into passive, despite having him 1 to 4. THAT's a chickenshit heel.

     

    Yeah, those passive guys were just sad.  It was 3 on 3 for most of the fight, and every time we'd kill one he'd chuck it back into passive again.  They kept going into passive, getting up on roofs and popping out.  At one point i decided fuck this, so I got up on the highest roof around and waited for them to do that.  Sure enough 2 of em came out of passive on top of the Rooftop Rumble roof, right in my sniper sights.  Got em both, so of course all 3 of them slapped it into passive and came up to where I was.  I knew what they were gonna do, so I went into passive myself.  All 3 came out of passive at the same time.  One of em was a true dumbass, because he tried a grenade launcher even though all 4 of us were standing in close proximity.  Managed to take himself and both of his buddies out, leaving me the only person standing on the roof.

     

    Had fun doing a few missions with melraz and RUkered yesterday evening.  Learned three important lessons:

    1 - passengers in the back of the 6wd Dubsta can indeed be thrown out of the back by a collision

    2 - hopping out of a helicopter that is still running and sitting on its side will kill you in a hilarious way.

    3 - be careful doing the hacking mini-game with melraz around.  I did it during the Los Santos Connection mission and popped out of the mini-game to find him standing behind my female character doing hip thrursts while she was bent over the computer

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  5. I can't recall what my schedule was last night - I know at one point I timed out because I got online, then got busy doing something else and was gone from the game for about 30 minutes. Then I think I got back on and did my usual pointless pissing off of the Vagos - gimme that car, ese - and decided I'd rather do something else.

     

    I need to drop this money-hoarding act and get back into trying to become a more productive member of the night shift. Here Robert and Mis are fighting the good fight on the streets of Los Santos and I'm in my garage rearranging cars and plotting my next assault on the Vagos.

     

    I did begin some training this afternoon, but I soon discovered I must climb the top of Mount Chilliad and seek direction from the Wise Women of the DVDR - Dannie Lou and Bobbie Lou - on the ways of Mary Lou Fu.

     

    "When you can snatch my knife from your back, Grasshopper, you are ready."

     

    You must've logged off just before then.  I was about to invite you when I realized you weren't online any longer.

     

    I got on a little late last night, even for night shift standards.  There was a clan (crew) war going on over at Call of Duty.  We're doing pretty good, sitting in 2nd place after night 1 of 3 in our Diamond division (top/hardest).  I did more killing than dying, although that is not always the supposed primary objective.  When that was over I hopped over to GTA, just having missed Stout by mere seconds.  Robert, however, was making friends.  

     

    After 20 minutes or so of trying get into Robert's lobby, including one instance of restarting I finally get in there to find him surrounded by about 5-6 red dots.

     

    Now, I'm not saying Robert needed my help, because he didn't.  He was kicking their asses long before I got there.  

     

    I will say this:  After I got there with MY sniper rifle (killing two people on the way, 1x rpg, 1x sticky bomb)...shit started thinning out, and it wasn't long before Robert and I had claimed another lobby for the DVDR.

     

    Oh, the help was definitely appreciated.  I'd pulled a decent melraz imitation, though I'd only managed to piss off half the server by the time you joined.  I'm amazed nobody brought a tank to the fight.  That firefight must've lasted more than an hour by the time everybody bailed out.

     

    Fights like that are the reason I have no sympathy for people that complain we're ganging up on them.  They got plenty of kills on me, but I got a hell of a lot more on them.

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  6. The best part of the one DM we did last night was

     

    1) me stunning Robert the fact that I Mary Lou'ed 

    2) getting multiple melees the ONE time it wasn't my god damn objective

     

    Oh and somehow during the course of play - Andrew lost his mask and I swear to fucking God I thought we were playing with Larry Sweeney

     

    It wasn't just the Mary Lou.  It was the Mary Lou followed by the melee insta-kill that got me.

     

    Rippa:  Did I mention JT showed me how to Mary Lou?

    me:  I fucking noticed.

  7. If you get into exploring all the planets for side quests and what not, you'll get very familiar with crashing the damned Mako.  The game designers loved putting collectables in places where you have to drive the thing on almost vertical slopes.  Easily the most irritating part of ME1, at least for me.

  8. Rippa pulled off what may have been the most hilarious/irritating kill ever on me last night in that DM under the pier.  Mary Lou into a melee kill.  I think I set a record in that match by getting melee killed 5 times - 2 by Rippa and 3 by Andrew.  Add to that being blown up by the grenade that Kelvin's corpse had dropped, and blowing myself up with the RPG, and I was the king of dying in annoying ways.

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  9. I've done a few in FIB.  I kinda like matches there - lots of action, and you do have some options on how to approach it.  I've played a couple of the ones in the Biolab - hated of them.  I've also done a couple inside that one bank you can enter near the movie theater.  Those are alright. 

  10. JT got to experience the weird, random DM invites the game always sends out from me last night.  Always best to ignore those, especially the obvious gimmick ones. 

     

    I should've ignored one myself.  Wound up doing an indoor match in the Biolab.  I know to ignore those, just thought this one was outdoor.

  11. I got me butt back out in the bush today in search of one of them elusive 4 door sandkings. The little buggers are damn near extict if not already haven't seen one in months. Their little cousins are still plentiful but would really like to just get a glimpse of the magnificent and majestic 4 door. I'd like to have one in my collection. But they sure are some slippery lil bugga's.

    Better news I finally gotta meet stout. Still blows my mind we only live 10 miles apart. Thanks for the ride mane. Your always drivin my drunk ass around in game. And it now goes for real life.

     

    Got into freemode after a DM last night, and the first thing I saw was a 4 door.  I think they're allergic to you or something.

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    I actually checked on the very off chance to see if you were still on last night JT, when I signed into a crew-only room and pretty much immediately got a "special crate drop" inbound. I've never seen a regular crate in an invite-only room where I was the only participant, much less a special crate. If you do get on, the special crate drops might be occurring in all rooms regardless of how many people are in them.

     

    Needless to say, grabbing it was easy. $5,000, 5000 RP (level up!) and a minigun, not that I needed it.

     

    I may get to roll for home around lunchtime because I think I am getting a time-off award for the stuff I did last week in support of the 101st.

     

    (Translation: They do not want to pay me overtime for the situation they put me in.) 

     

    I will have to check this out when I get to the crib.

     

    If this is a bug, I hope it does not go away before I get a chance to nab a crate.

     

     

    Seems like they've screwed some more stuff up with the latest update.  I was in an invite only room buying new stuff and outfitting my new Dubsta when a Simeon car appeared on the map.  Never seen that happen before.

  13. Eh, I think Levithan is skippable. Actually, Omega is better, I think.

    You need the Cerberus Network for ME2 to unlock Zaeed, but I think that's included in every version.

    Arrival is important, but what Shepard does to the noble and beautiful Batarian race is still an injustice he must pay for.

    EDIT: Oh my God! We're all forgetting From Ashes for ME3! It paints a more complete story plus adds a badass party member for you in the game. It's mandatory.

     

    I had forgotten that From Ashes was actually DLC.  Definitely need that.  Decent mission, and adds a bunch to the main game storyline.

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    I love the last fight of Arrival, if only because it allows me to use slam to launch enemies into space.  I get an inordinate amount of enjoyment from doing that.

     

    The last fight in ME was made memorable by Liara making the encounters with Geth Juggernauts and charging Krogan less than frightening because of her ability to use Lift and make them drift away harmlessly to their doom.

     

     

    I usually use an adept in ME1.  So many hilarious ways to take guys out in that final fight.  Use lift on charging Krogan and watch them float off into the ether.  Use throw to shoot Geth off into space.  Makes the final fight a breeze too.

     

     

    I love the last fight of Arrival, if only because it allows me to use slam to launch enemies into space.  I get an inordinate amount of enjoyment from doing that.

     

    You can do it on the Shadow Broker's ship as well.

     

     

    It's even better on the Broker's ship, because you get the added bonus of watching em get struck by the capacitor discharges after you fling them to their doom.

  15. Had fun doing freemode for the first time in about a week.  Tanks being nerfed is nice, but they need to make suckers wait for a bit before getting the next one.  Two clowns last night kept grabbing them over and over. 

     

    Finally managed to take out a helicopter with a sticky bomb, after somebody in a buzzard got a little too close to the ground.

     

    I developed the unfortunate habit of accidentally killing mis last night.  Expensive habit too, since most of those kills involved blowing up his Adder with misplaced sticky bombs.

     

    New Coveted isn't bad, just takes longer than before.  We used a buzzard, but AxB's sniping technique should be faster.

  16. Since Robert associates my character with leather jackets and has been known to shoot me if I wear something different in free mode  :P , I bought all of the new leather jackets that were available (even though I kinda hate the Chestnut one because it is hard to match it up with other clothing) as well as a couple of tank tops, one or two t-shirts, and a couple of baseball shirts. 

     

    I'm so used to everybody looking about the same at all times that I wasn't prepared for some guy in all green running right at me in the middle of a freemode firefight.  Of course Stout is messing with me now after the update.  He looks, different, somehow.  Not sure how, exactly

     

    Females also got a Love fist shirt.  I almost went with it, but decided on a tropical print tank top instead.  They also finally added a camo jacket for females.  I put my female in a floral print dress for a bit, but she looked too much like an actual hipster with all the tattoos, so I punted on that.  That dress made me look like I shoulda been at Whole Foods.

     

    The new Dubsta is a beast.  As expected, it doesn't corner that well, but it's much faster than I figured it would be.  Damn thing can go pretty much anywhere - drives right up mountains, and can cross some pretty deep rivers as well.  Got rid of my Vacca to make room.  Price isn't that bad considering.  Rest of the new cars are overpriced.

     

    Glad they actually fixed the 4wd on Sandkings, like they said the did.

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