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thoro, (edited ) do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

I typically patient game nowadays. I still have games from two years ago to get to and I’m currently slowly playing through Baldur’s Gate 1 so I probably wasn’t going to Day 1 this anyway.

But I thought about it.

Tbh, while I don’t really care for the big name review sites, there’s enough mixed reviews on the storytelling, procedural generation, and RPG systems, that I think I’m going to keep this in my wishlist for a while.

Might look at it closer later in the year and when I have more free time or just wait for the inevitable GOTY edition

flowerpoer83948, do piracy w Where can i find rare books ?

yeehaa

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nah, we are the guys that AARRRrrr! The yeehaa guys are foolish Landsmen!

UnRelatedBurner,

Aye, foolis. Their dumb horses too, where do ye go ridin’ it on boats? in circles?

ISOmorph, do piracy w Where can i find rare books ?
CrowAirbrush, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

I’ve known Bethesda as the: “fun bug ridden producer” i’m curious to see what this does as it’s time to step away from delivering broken stuff.

khalic, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

Well look at that, I did learn my lesson with Anthem. Cheers to whoever did not pre-order or get game pass for it. I’ll check again in a year when they might have made a good game out of it.

echoplex21,

Lol Anthem has a 61 Critic Average with 13% Recommend and Starfield has an 88. Average with 94% Recommend…

That’s a very positive reaction to a game so I don’t know what kind of narrative you’re trying to build.

khalic,

The publications I trust describe it as sterile, overly ambitious and with no heart. Definitely not the level of fuckup as Anthem or CP2077, but not worth my time for the moment. Anthem was just the moment I said f%#k them, no more buying mediocre games before they come out and I know they are good

TheHotze,

You are getting down voted, but I definitely agree that most people should wait till they know the game is going to be good. A year after launch isn’t a bad idea.

Mandrew002, do piracy w So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?

1 hour and 13 minutes

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

Yup, was just Steam DRM. There’s universal tools to crack that. Less so “you can’t play our game unless you spend money” and more “it’s slightly inconvenient to install this way, innit? Why don’t you go buy it instead, bruv?”

Leate_Wonceslace,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I sometimes say that Steam is the best DRM; most advantages for the least inconveniences.

Jius, do piracy w So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?

Before it goes live

RickyRigatoni, do piracy w So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Worst case scenario Ghostwire Tokyo having Denuvo added was a test run for adding it to Starfield. But as long as no denuvo, we got no problem. 😎👍

hoshikarakitaridia,

Still mad that Payday 3 gets denuvo. What a colossal waste. This makes me hesitate to buy it.

Sharmat,

Usually, Denuvo is mentioned in the EULA of the games, so going by this metric, it’s unlikely for it to have Denuvo since there’s no mention of it.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah but I feel like Bethesda would be the kinds of people to to hide it until a day one update so they don’t have to disclose it to predorererererers.

Dr_Cog,
@Dr_Cog@mander.xyz avatar

I doubt it, but either way: stop preordering games.

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

B-b-but my exclusive content!

DeathWearsANecktie, (edited )

I remember when I had to pre-order physical copies of games in case my local game store ran out of stock on the first day of a release.

Pre-ordering in 2023 is a scam.

argv_minus_one, (edited )

I feel like Bethesda wouldn’t use Denuvo at all, because it would break a lot of mods, and Bethesda games rely heavily on mods to be fun.

ETA: Also, Bethesda games tend to be appallingly slow even without Denuvo, let alone with it.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow, (edited ) do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

Any reviews touch on PC performance?

And I don’t mean “it ran a smooth 30fps on my 4090”, I mean is the FPS unlocked, does performance chug in random places etc.?

TheDubz87,

I’ve watched a few spoiler free reviews on YouTube and the general consensus is that it drops a little in densely populated cities, but otherwise doesn’t struggle. If your interested it’s one of the first things this guy touches on.

youtu.be/--mSrBth6hY?si=IMg4hlk7URiPo84Q

rizoid, do piracy w Where can i find rare books ?
@rizoid@midwest.social avatar

OpenBooks by Evan buss on GitHub. It’s an irc based downloader and I have been able to find even the most obscure stuff with it. At least so far.

Jamie, do gaming w Super Mario Wonder's online multiplayer may be disappointing, but we have already witnessed that the alternative would be far worse.
@Jamie@jamie.moe avatar

and since the game was not designed with modern network tools in mind such as rollback (which would probably be too heavy for the Switch)

Rollback netcode has been around since Quake in the 90s. It’s not a very new or computationally intensive technology, relatively speaking.

can,

But this is Nintendo.

ampersandrew, (edited )
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

There is a fundamental difference in resource allocation when each client is running the simulation rather than a server, which is the difference between Quake and a fighting game.

RobBanks, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)
@RobBanks@sh.itjust.works avatar

So, wait. You can’t pilot your ship Elite Dangerously? It’s just click click?

BlinkAndItsGone,

No, you can fly it. The thing is, manually piloting your ship sounds like it’s not used for transportation, only for combat and docking/boarding other ships and space stations. But those things are apparently pretty fun.

RobBanks,
@RobBanks@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hmm ok

Vendetta9076, do piracy w A good place to listen to audio books online?
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

Why not just grab and put them on your phone or host them in a server?

JohnDClay,

Whole lot of storage space and a whole lot of work respectively?

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

You are severely overestimating both in your assumptions.

I think I have like 3,000 audiobooks in .mp3s and it takes hardly 5gb.

JohnDClay,

Wow, and those aren’t unlistenable due to compression? Cool. Yeah I would have thought it was more like 1gb per 10 hours, but I guess it’s orders of magnitude less than that.

dudemanbro, (edited )
@dudemanbro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

For real. I become a little bit of a snob when it comes to my audiobooks. I have a collection going of near 2000 and thats about 2TB of space. Now, I do try and get the “best” I can of what’s available, and, to be fair, 64kbps books are truly well and good. There are also ones that sound great and don’t pack a high bitrate, but once it hits the 32kbps that when its rare I’ll touch them unless the are the only copies I can find. Personally, I hate how much highly compressed books make the narrators sound. Just awful

dustojnikhummer,

I dumped my Audible books. Metro 2035 is around 550MBs, Windows reports 62kbps bit rate. Is that normal? m4b Downloaded with Booklib+AAX Converter

dudemanbro,
@dudemanbro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That seems normal. The copy I have in an m4b ~530 MB (@63kbps). There are various tools like the one you mentioned and (github.com/VarSell/iAmDeaf) which I’m sure does the same thing. Unfortunately I am not too well versed in the actual ripping of content so i dont really know how people get the untouched “highest” bitrate content. But what you did appears to be wihtin the normal range, I would say.

I am not really part of the scene but am part of a community that shares the booty

Vendetta9076,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

Setting up a plex server takes less than 5 minutes and audiobooks are less than 100mb most of the time. So not really. Setting up audiobookshelf takes a bit more time if you don’t already have docker installed/setup on windows but even then. An hour maybe? At most?

JohnDClay,

Cool! Could you direct me to this five minute guide to setting up a Plex server? Also for these you’d need another computer that’s always on, right? If it’s off, you wouldn’t be able to access the server? Our family only uses laptops right now so that would be an issue.

Vendetta9076,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

I can write the 5 minute guide out for you in this comment. Im assuming windows. And yeah the machine has to be on. Although you could just run it off your main machine, especially if its just audiobooks.

Make a plex account Download and run the latest version of PMS (plex media server) and follow the gui to create your media folders

Now if you only want to access the media within your home, you’re done. Grab the apps for each device and be on your way. If you want to access out of your home theres one more step. Port forwarding. Thats done within your router and is different for each one but basically boils down to this.

Find setting. Create port forward entry for whichever ip is hosting plex. Port forward 32400 on tcp/udp Done.

Im explaining it in short bullet point lines because it should be that easy.

dustojnikhummer,

Yes. You need a PC that can act as a server (so run 24/7). If you want outside access you would also need a VPN or expose your services to the internet.

Mastersmacks,

It’s for my tech illiterate girlfriend, if there’s more than 2 steps that’s an automatic no from her

Vendetta9076,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

Fair enough. I host it myself for my wife.

DulyNoted, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

There’s quite a wide range of reviews. I tend to trust the ones who talk about how much fun the side content and faction quests a lot more than I trust the ones that were underwhelmed by the main questline. I’ve been playing these games since Oblivion and the only main questline I ever finished was Fallout NV.

telepresence, do piracy w A good place to listen to audio books online?
@telepresence@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

these two tools apparently let you rip borrowed audiobooks from this service named libby. although i haven’t tested them. github.com/ping/odmpygithub.com/bookbonobo/libby-download-extension

also, have you checked the index? stuff like this is usually there.

ProvokedGamer,
@ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca avatar

They asked for audiobook sites online. They’d have to download for that so that wouldn’t work unfortunately. I saved your comment though because it’s still useful.

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