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Let's play?

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  • 18-03-2011 1:14am
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    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭


    Anyone interested in doing a Boards_Games "Let's play"?

    I'm thinking something old skool, Baldurs Gate, Planescape Torment, Fallout 2, System Shock 2 etc..

    Nominate a game and few weeks to complete it, maybe with a few waypoints.

    who's in?


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    Tallon
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    I'll 100% watch it no matter what :)


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    #3
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Not a video, more a group play, updating progress in the thread. A nostalgic replay of a classic we can appreciate all over again. :)


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    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,442 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Wouldn't mind Fallout, Baldurs Gate or Planescape Torment since I got them from GoG and have been meaning to pla them, would give me a good incentive.
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    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    quarryman wrote: »
    Not a video, more a group play, updating progress in the thread. A nostalgic replay of a classic we can appreciate all over again. :)
    Not even a podcast? :(


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    uberpixie
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Wouldn't mind Fallout, Baldurs Gate or Planescape Torment since I got them from GoG and have been meaning to pla them, would give me a good incentive.

    Ironically enough I just started Planescape Torment (gog edition) last night. Just finished Dragon Age 2 and felt like a proper old skool rpg I have meant to play Planescape Torment for years....

    UPDATE: I am currently looking for my journal.....:D


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    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,186 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I'd be up for that. Would definitely be interesting for the games that you can play very differently (i.e. good/bad paths), and write up what's happening. Would also be up for trying a podcast type 'Let's Play'.


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    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Fall out or Oblivion and kill every single person you encounter and see how far you get.


    Currently playing Oblivion as i never finished it and noticed you cant be bad and side with the bad guys, never noticed that before. You can be bad to the village type people but still have to stop the bad guys.


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    DamoBrad
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    I'm actually Playing Fallout 3 now and have Stabbed, Filled with way over the legal limit of lead, Bludgeoned to death, Fragged, Random but strategically positioned frag-mine killed, Exploded by means of frag meeting head, skewered, pick pocket activity and instead planted a live grenade in their pocket prank and basically massacred everyone in Megaton. And all the bodies outside i dragged them all to the bomb in the centre. Legged it into Luas Sims house and got the bobblehead, Raided all the houses and stored all the ones i couldnt carry into the hallowed out rock, Armed the bomb (previously i accepted that quest from TenPenny) went up the tower and BLEW THEM INBREDS TO PIECES!!! HA HA HA

    Oh it was so enjoyable...

    I think i'll restart and do it again..

    this time i'll just arm the bomb :D


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    i'd go for a planescape torment playthrough, never played it and am generally not too fond of old clicky mouse controlled rpgs but ive heard so many good things about it that I'd like to give it a try


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    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    i'd go for a planescape torment playthrough, never played it and am generally not too fond of old clicky mouse controlled rpgs but ive heard so many good things about it that I'd like to give it a try

    Yeah, I'm itching to do a replay of this.

    It should be accessible to most people now since its on GOG for €7.

    edit: also with the widescreen mod, you can play in 1920x1080!


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    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    Woudl be up for this haven't replayed this in a while and there are still paths/choices I havent' made.


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    #13
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    So who's in?

    Planescape Torment.

    Start this Friday and leave it going for a month or so.

    I can start a new thread.

    In:
    Quarryman


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    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,186 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I'm on a stag this weekend, so i can't start this Friday :( .....Wait a minute, i'm on ****ing stag! :D

    Seriously though, i'll start from early next week.

    In:
    quarryman
    Kiith


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i'm in, but im not sure how much I can play day by day yet

    gona be doing like 8 hours a day study in april, but I can probably do an hour or two a night planescape.

    although like I said, i never really got into the old style mouse controlled rpg's so I might just get sick of it after not too long :)


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    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    Great, this will be a good distraction from minecraft.

    In:
    Quarryman
    Kiith
    Sharrow


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    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    i'm in, but im not sure how much I can play day by day yet

    gona be doing like 8 hours a day study in april, but I can probably do an hour or two a night planescape.

    although like I said, i never really got into the old style mouse controlled rpg's so I might just get sick of it after not too long :)

    i suggest it's kept very casual, people can dip in and out over the space of a month.


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    Retr0gamer
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    I'd love to give it a go but I'm finishing up my PhD and well an 80 hour RPG isn't conductive to it :)
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    quarryman
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I'd love to give it a go but I'm finishing up my PhD and well an 80 hour RPG isn't conductive to it :)

    It's not that bad Retro, 20 hours would see you to the end along the main quest, there aren't that many side-quests. It's nowhere near the length of Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale.


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    cherryghost
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    I'm in also, but again won't be able to start this Friday.


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    #21
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,186 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Retro might have a point though. I don't think i could play a Bioware/Black Isle RPG without doing pretty much everything there is to do in the game. Even though i've played pretty much every side quest in Baldur's Gate 2, i still repeat them all on subsequent plays.


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    kearneybobs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,923 ✭✭✭kearneybobs


    GOG.com are going to love us!

    Should start with Duke Nukem 3D before the new one arrives.
    It's something that I would deffo participate in, but wouldn't religiously do.


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    Retr0gamer
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    quarryman wrote: »
    It's not that bad Retro, 20 hours would see you to the end along the main quest, there aren't that many side-quests. It's nowhere near the length of Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale.

    20 hours? Not the way I play RPGs :D. I'd have to do everything. Sure I sunk 120 hours into Fallout 3!
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    20 hours? Not the way I play RPGs :D. I'd have to do everything. Sure I sunk 120 hours into Fallout 3!

    in one playthrough?!


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    Retr0gamer
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    in one playthrough?!

    Yep and 3 of the 5 expansions. Stopped playing halfway through point outlook just totally burnt out :)

    I just decidedto go wandering the wasteland and did all the sidequests and explored everywhere I found and then when I hit level 20 I got the perk to show everything on the map and proceded to do all the stuff I missed. Most of the sidequests were better than the main storyline.
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    ooh yeah, i forgot all about point lookout :)

    I spent hours just wandering about that, and eventually just gave up

    must give it another install actually, feel like shooting some mutated hillbillies


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    Retr0gamer
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    I really loved Point Lookout but I'd just had Fallout 3 burnout by that stage. I had a backlog that was getting bigger and not getting played.
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    tman
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    Count me in as well, I've been meaning to play it for years!


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    #29
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Great I'll start a fresh thread at the weekend with Planescape Torment details, where to buy, mods to install and waypoints etc. People can play whenever suits them.


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    #30
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    bish. bash. BOSH.


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    #31
    twinQuins
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    I'm rather confused by the implementation here. SomethingAwful began the whole thing and if you read through the threads (or visit the Let's Play Archive) you'll see it's one person playing through the game and either vlogging it or screencapping and describing.

    There are sequential games where one person plays a part, sends on the save and then another picks up from there but this seems more like a book club where everyone plays and offers opinions than an actual Let's Play.

    Would such a thing ever happen here?


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