I have a print of the original movie poster for that. Gave it a really cheap frame because, well it's a print. :P
Shit no wait. it's the Lugosi one, not the Christopher Lee.

Galaxy says I'm ~255 hours in. At some time the time tracking didn't work, but this is balanced by the days when I had the game running in the background and was actually working most of the time, switching in to play 15 minutes when Visual Studio was building and uploading.
So it might approximately right. I guess I'll hit the 300 before I finish the game since I don't use quicktravel and there are still a few places to explore, although the main quest is nearing it's end (or so it feels) and I've ignored the card-collecting game (and the associated quests) completely in this run. Definitely a game to come back to, since a lot of decisions you make have an impact on how things develop and what follow-up quests are available.
I like both.

Wish I had the poster for both.

In fact, a wall of movie posters from every time Lee played Dracula. :P Now that would be worth the price of admission!

Hurm. Weekly staff picks are over by Wednesday ,aren't they? So if they didn't want it to overlap...

Brown Wednesday, Grey Thursday, Black Friday, transparent weekend promo.

Looking forward to giving that a run, then seeing how Fallout 4 stacks up in terms of sheer content hours.
I think Witcher 3 will have it beat since long-reaching decisions that make you want to do brand-new game runs aren't exactly Bethesda's strong suit.
I've seen some go until early Thursday morning. It depends. Regardless, I want to see how many more list items I can wipe out before I start my GOG purchase hiatus.

You'll need a pretty big room for that. ;-)

I think, for me it'll be a long time until some game actually comes close to the Witcher 3 experience. I'm of course biased since I love the books and the universe and I think the game(s) (for the most part) perfectly capture their essence. I've never shed as many tears over a game as with Witcher 3, and shedding tears at all over a game is a rare occurrence in itself. I think I would barely need my second hand to count the games that have managed it, and I've played hundreds. So for me, to be that deeply moved by a game, is really something special. That would by a nice idea for a thread - games that deeply moved you emotionally.

That said, I'm a little bit curious about FO4. I like the Bethesda games for the most part. Even bought a physical copy of Skyrim and got rid of Steam to play it. I think they're kind of losing it gradually ever since Morrowind storywise, but still the games have really great moments. But somehow - as much as I felt compelled to play Skyrim (>400 hours) it somehow burned me out. So I'm in no hurry to give FO4 a try. I still have New Vegas to play (by Obsidian, I know) and don't feel any urgency. Especially after the Witcher 3 it will be hard to decide what to play next (probably "something completely different") because the writing there is so outstanding, and Skyrim's and FO3's writing were objectively really bad (though the worlds are terrific).

Yes, that is a good idea. Plenty of games have moved me emotionally. That emotion is just typically hair-ripping levels of anger. ;)

I don't think the writing for Fallout 4 will be better than or even anywhere near Witcher 3. Bethesda does exploration sandboxes. That's fine, it's interesting for a while, but they don't do stories well.
Anyone who wants to see a dissection of two of their recent storytelling attempts can go to Spoiler Warning, then watch the Fallout 3 and Skyrim seasons. Those illustrate the numerous problems pretty conclusively.

More or less I agree. I don't think FO3's story was bad, but it was unoriginal and cliched. It was however prefectly serviceable and did it's job as a tool to link quests and advance the gameplay.
I'd say that the game was more about the ambience. If there's one thing FO3 got right, is the atmosphere, the dilapidated surrounding and the feeling of being stranded in a radioactive ruined wasteland. The background music helped a lot too. I just loved getting lost in the ruins of what was once a great civilization and finding bits of random story fluff about the world that was.
New Vegas I thought had a better story, far more interesting specially with all the different factions.

Goodnight GoG, have a good night! :)

*raises hand and wobbles it left and right*

Hope everyone is having a nice Moonday evenoon :-)

Hiya!

I dunno. I'm trying to figure out how to stop my rep from going up, without having to stop posting. I don't think you guys will de-rep me. Maybe we can try to get her up 460 points by the end of the week instead :-)