Posts Tagged thief
Dragonborn Debt Consolidation (Skyrim prank call)
Posted by marcsart in Video Games on January 25, 2012
Ulfric Stormcloak has fallen on hard times. Waging a rebellion against the Empire can be very expensive and Ulfric has not managed his finances properly. Now, Ulfric must call a debt consolidation company and try to figure out how to get out of this sticky situation.
Oblivion and the ‘leveling problem’
Posted by marcsart in Video Games on June 16, 2011
In preparation for Skyrim, I’m doing a new playthrough of Oblivion. I really like this game but hate its broken-ass leveling system. If you’ve played Oblivion before you know what I’m talking about. The game’s enemies and treasures level up as your character does, which sounds like a great idea in theory but it’s entirely possible to screw up your character to the point where you are ‘behind the curve’ of the game and the enemies all own you. To figure out why this happens we have to analyze how the leveling system works.
When you create your character, you’re asked to choose 7 major skills that basically define your character’s abilities and also determine when you level-up. These skills have their own independent skill levels that are raised as you use those skills in the game. When you have a total of 10 skill levels across your major skills you level up. If you are playing as a warrior, for example, you might want to choose ‘Blade’ and ‘Heavy Armor’ for major skills in the interest of improving your character’s fighting ability. This would most likely be fine because with these skills you should be able to handle the stronger enemies as the game progresses.
The problem arises when you decide to try a more interesting character build, like say a thief. As a good thief, you will most likely want to choose a major skill like ‘Sneak’. What good is a thief that can’t sneak? Just imagine yourself in a dungeon, shrouded in darkness, bow and arrow in hand, just ready for that sneak attack on an enemy guarding a treasure you so desire. Sounds awesome, doesn’t it? Here’s the problem: choosing a major skill like ‘Sneak’ for a thief could actually hurt your character. You will sneak pretty much constantly and your character could level up too fast, causing enemies to become too powerful for you to defeat. What you will end up having to do is stop using ‘Sneak’ and the other major skills you chose in the interest of not leveling up. That’s right, in this game you want to avoid leveling up. This is inherently flawed because as an RPG gamer your sensibilities are to choose the skills that your character is going to use most, but some skills level up so quickly through normal play and don’t really contribute to your characters ability to stay alive that they end up hindering you more than helping you.
So what’s the solution to this problem? What I am going to try for my new playthrough is the following: I’m going to pick major skills that I can generally avoid using in the game, things like ‘Hand to Hand’, ‘Heavy Armor’ and ‘Conjuration’. Basically my strategy will be to have all my good skills as minor skills, level them up until I’m satisfied (gaining minor skill levels does not cause your character/game to level up) and then level up a throw-away major skill 10 times to trigger the character level up. How ass backwards is that? This will be my first time trying this strategy but I think it will result in the best character for me. The beginning of the game might be harder due to the fact that I will not be getting the initial stat bonuses from choosing such skills as ‘Sneak’ and ‘Marksman’ as major skills for my thief character, but I think in the long run it will make my character better and the game more fun.
I’ve purposely been avoiding looking up Skyrim info to avoid things getting spoiled, but I’m very happy to say that Skyrim will be adopting the (much better) leveling system from the Fallout series.
TLDR version: To make the best character in this game, choose major skills that you don’t actually want to use.
5/21/11 flyer
Posted by marcsart in Finished Artwork, Music, Video Games on May 17, 2011
Threw together a quick flyer for the 5/21 show. If feeling so inclined please feel free to spread this around.
EDIT: Updated the flyer because the lineup changed.
5/21/11 Promo Vid – The Jesse Minute, This Is A Movement, Unibrows and more! (5/21/11)
This is a promo vid for my show coming up on 5/21/11. Shit’s going to be epic.
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| 5/21/11 | Blaze’s Billiards 1229 Main St., West Warwick, RI |
8:00 pm, $5 – The Jesse Minute, This Is A Movement, Unibrows, Caves, aNti-goals and Toad Soda.
Upcoming Unibrows Shows
The 3/4 show is going to be Tonic Thief‘s last show. Which is sad, they’re a good band. I’ll be updating this post with updated information soon. Upcoming Show @ KC’s Tap/Cats 2/4/11I’m going to be playing a show on Friday, 2/4 at KC’s Tap/Cats in Pawtucket. I’m going to be doing something I’ve only ever done 1 time before: perform solo guitar without a band backing me up. *gulp* Hope to see you there!
EDIT: My regular band Unibrows have been added to this show. This is really going to be an interesting show with some entirely varied acts. Sons of Frankenstein last show @ Blaze’s Billiards 1/7/2011Sons Of Frankenstein last show! Blaze’s Billiards 1/7/2011 Rhode Island music and photography blog MusicInPictures.net has posted a bunch of awesome pics and videos from the Sons of Frankenstein final show at Blaze’s Billiards on 1/7/2011. They took some great pics of the bands that played that night: Tonic Thief, Reason to Fight, Sons of Frankenstein, The Usual Suspects and, of course, my band Unibrows.
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