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Posted December 30, 2013
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tinyE: Ever watch a porno and say, "Gee, I didn't think it would end that way."
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jjsimp: Who ever gets to the end of a porno?
Does porn ever have an ending, rather than just a jarring cut?
Posted December 30, 2013
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tinyE: Ever watch a porno and say, "Gee, I didn't think it would end that way."
Bah! They get married.
THE END.
Posted December 30, 2013
Just like with my porno's, I hop from game to game. I either play a game I'm in the mood for or use my 'roll a die to play a game' list: I roll (1d4-1)*10+d10 to come up with a number between 1 and 40 for all the campaigns on my list. It's not 40 games though, the games I like most I often have parallel savegames. Baldur's Gate campaigns can be copied by taking all but the data files to a different folder and tweaking the .ini and Dragon Age and Titan Quest have a built-in option for switching between characters.

I've got the games sorted by genres with links to folders embedded in my taskbar and on my roll-a-die sheet:

rpg's:

Dragon Age: 9 campaigns + 1 Awakenings campaign,
Baldur's Gate: 2 Tutu campaigns, 2 Shadows of Amn campaigns, though it's in a bit of a slough now.
Titan Quest: 4 campaigns (and characters can interchange loot!)

rpg's with only 1 campaign per game:

Icewind Dale
Classic Adventures (a BGII conversion mod)
Fallout 3
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Heroes of Might and Magic V

fps's:

Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Delta Force Black Hawk Down

two problems of course with this method:

1. it takes an awful lot of time for a game to be finished.

Finished this year: only Dragon Age (1 campaign), Battlefield 3, Medal of Honor 2010 & Warfighter

2. there are bound to be games on the list I lose interest in.

Part of the 40 that hardly ever get played: racing games (Dirt 2 & 3, Fuel), some rpg's (Drakensang, Neverwinter Nights, Skyrim), the strategy games (Company of Heroes and Imperium Romanum), a sims game (Sims Medieval) and a single fps: Brothers in Arms.
Post edited December 30, 2013 by DubConqueror
Posted December 30, 2013
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whodares2: I think the droid planet and ending may have been integrated into the Completion Mod because I played through a whole area of HK-50s and '51s. The ending was also for more fluid and seemed to have a lot more to the story and choices from when I first played it all those years ago.

Anyway, thanks for the response I'll look into that project as it worth another play through if there is still more to do.
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Novotnus: It's not HK factory (which was restored in a form Obsidian planned it), it's a separate planet with its own master to find and its own questline \ subquests to follow - most of those are made and voiced by the authors of the mod, because original M4 questline was mostly recycled for Nar Shaadda :)
The ending was also restored to be closer to what Obsidian intended, but they had a separate mod in works that alters it a little to make it even more fluid (like: explaining how Hawk was ready for escape when last we see it it's not very spaceworthy, conclusion to Visas - Mandalore friendship and so on)
You are quite correct. It was definitely an HK factory. I am going to look for the project you wrote about earlier, I would like to see this planet of the droids.

Cheers +1 for you.
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DubConqueror: Just like with my porno's, I hop from game to game. I either play a game I'm in the mood for or use my 'roll a die to play a game' list: I roll (1d4-1)*10+d10 to come up with a number between 1 and 40 for all the campaigns on my list. It's not 40 games though, the games I like most I often have parallel savegames. Baldur's Gate campaigns can be copied by taking all but the data files to a different folder and tweaking the .ini and Dragon Age and Titan Quest have a built-in option for switching between characters.

I've got the games sorted by genres with links to folders embedded in my taskbar and on my roll-a-die sheet:

rpg's:

Dragon Age: 9 campaigns + 1 Awakenings campaign,
Baldur's Gate: 2 Tutu campaigns, 2 Shadows of Amn campaigns, though it's in a bit of a slough now.
Titan Quest: 4 campaigns (and characters can interchange loot!)

rpg's with only 1 campaign per game:

Icewind Dale
Classic Adventures (a BGII conversion mod)
Fallout 3
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Heroes of Might and Magic V

fps's:

Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Delta Force Black Hawk Down

two problems of course with this method:

1. it takes an awful lot of time for a game to be finished.

Finished this year: only Dragon Age (1 campaign), Battlefield 3, Medal of Honor 2010 & Warfighter

2. there are bound to be games on the list I lose interest in.

Part of the 40 that hardly ever get played: racing games (Dirt 2 & 3, Fuel), some rpg's (Drakensang, Neverwinter Nights, Skyrim), the strategy games (Company of Heroes and Imperium Romanum), a sims game (Sims Medieval) and a single fps: Brothers in Arms.
Man, I would be interested to see what you would do with Diablo II. If you've already played that one how many campaigns did you do?
Post edited December 30, 2013 by whodares2
Posted December 30, 2013
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Melhelix: I buy a game. Then I download the game and try and get it to run (on a Mac). So there tends to be an hour or so of cursing trying to get the thing to install and run without the sound going haywire, or the movies not playing, or the cursor not flickering, or the display not being psychotically coloured, or the ever popular it plays beautifully but you can't change locations (I'm looking at YOU IWD… yes, I finally fixed that). And then the game goes into the vague mental list of "I should play that when I have a moment". So I tend to end up with a crazy amount of games installed and only a handful actively being played.
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jsjrodman: Awesome. I do this sort of thing with trying to get emulators working (eg Basilisk II, what a pain).
Then similarly, I tend to forget about them and not play the game much I installed it for in the first place.

Is there a watering-hole for running games on the mac somewhere? Do you use winebottler or crossover games or what? If this seems too offtopic, is there a thread about this?
I use Boxer for DOSBox games, runs basically everything DOSBox-y. Wineskin Winery tends to take a bit of finagling but will get most things playing. If you don't want to make your own wrappers you can always pull them from The Porting Team's Port Database or Paul the Tall. You may need to do a bit of tweaking afterwards, but it's a real good way to get a quick headstart. CrossOver works a bit like a less modifiable version of Winery, except for some reason (better libraries? I'm really not sure) CrossOver will run almost everything. The only problem is it's a bit spendy, although the free demo works as a full version, so ymmv. I don't use the pre-made bottles in CrossOver (made by other people for specific games), I make fresh Win 7/XP/Vista bottles. It just has given me a higher batting average than Winery. The Wineskin App Database is also useful for checking what other people have done, common problems, if it runs, etc. Lastly I use PlayOnMac. PlayOnMac is kind of my last resort, I can sometimes get things that otherwise won't even install, to actually install but I can never get it to run anything (which is probably just my user error). Still, I do sometimes use it in conjunction with something like Winery since it can open just about anything.

Generally for GOG games in the game specific forums (things like http://www.gog.com/forum/inquisitor) there will be a couple of threads about "How can I get this running on a Mac/Linux" or "Game XXXX on Wine?" or something of that nature. Otherwise just kind of poke around or ask. :D

/threadjack
Posted December 30, 2013
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whodares2: You are quite correct. It was definitely an HK factory. I am going to look for the project you wrote about earlier, I would like to see this planet of the droids.
Here's the mod's forum with download link. From what I understand, they're working on improving this one even further.
http://deadlystream.com/forum/forum/21-m4-78-enhancement-project/
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whodares2: Cheers +1 for you.
Always nice to meet a fellow TSL fan :)
Post edited December 30, 2013 by Novotnus
Posted December 30, 2013
Star Wars fans! God be praised! My copy of Battlefront should get here tomorrow.
Posted December 30, 2013
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Novotnus: Here's the mod's forum with download link. From what I understand, they're working on improving this one even further.

Always nice to meet a fellow TSL fan :)
Sorry, I can't see the link. This may be a job for.....GOOGLE!!

No matter the time zone or location in the world, it most definitely is.

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tinyE: Star Wars fans! God be praised! My copy of Battlefront should get here tomorrow.
Awesome! I have such fond memories of that game and its sequel. I have played them in few years, unfortunately. You must be looking forward to SW: BF3, I certainly am. I'll hang myself if my best purchase option is Origin though.

C'mon GOG what are you waiting for. Where's Lucasarts already. My copy of Rebellion is giving me hassles.
Post edited December 30, 2013 by whodares2
Posted December 30, 2013
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whodares2: Sorry, I can't see the link. This may be a job for.....GOOGLE!!

No matter the time zone or location in the world, it most definitely is.
Might be my cranky keybord not registering Ctrl or V keys :)
Fixed now :)
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tinyE: Star Wars fans! God be praised! My copy of Battlefront should get here tomorrow.
Got the sequel from Steam sale. Installed and waiting :)
Shame those more obscure SW games, like Yoda Stories, Droid Works or Pit Droids are nowhere to be found at reasonable prices.
Good thing I found a replacement for my broken Mysteries of the Sith CD on Steam (liked the story even more than original DFII). Shadows of the Empire, Jedi Knight and Rogue Squadron are still doing fine :)
Post edited December 30, 2013 by Novotnus
Posted December 31, 2013
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DubConqueror: It's not 40 games though, the games I like most I often have parallel savegames. Baldur's Gate campaigns can be copied by taking all but the data files to a different folder and tweaking the .ini and Dragon Age and Titan Quest have a built-in option for switching between characters.
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whodares2: Man, I would be interested to see what you would do with Diablo II. If you've already played that one how many campaigns did you do?
I didn't get far in Diablo II. There was a boss fight I couldn't win and it frustrated me I had to battle my way back through a whole swath of monsters again to try again and die at the same spot. I like Titan Quest's mechanism more, where monster's that are dead stay dead until you exit the game and your loot stays with you.
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