I’m obsessively playing guild wars 2 at the moment, and it is arguably similar, in that you don’t absolutely have to grind to enjoy the game. You can get a character to top level very quickly (a few days), and you can gear them up to play a lot of the end game content fairly quickly (exotic gear is about 5% weaker than the best gear in the game and significantly cheaper and easier to get. You don’t have to craft or collect resources to play and have a good time.
What do you want? Lots of games fit that description.
In some shooters, you basically only grind for cosmetics, like Overwatch, Marvel Rivals or Counter-Strike. Dota 2 is a Moba and also only has cosmetic unlocks, I think.
Maybe Minecraft or Terraria? I don’t think you really grind in these games, but you do very similar stuff all the time.
These are the features that I want to avoid: grinding for resources, cosmetics, and anything that require repetitive and/or mindless action. Any genre is good, the question is more like a test to see if a game like this can exist
No cosmetics pretty much disqualifies almost every game, because all of them have it, even old games.
In my comment before, I probably wouldn’t describe cosmetics as a grind. You just unlock stuff on the side, as a bonus, since most of it is random. It’s not like you’re going to play a thousand games of Ursa in Dota to unlock some rare skin.
A bit of cosmetics on the side is ok. What I want to avoid is cosmetics like in Sea of Thieves, where the main reason to gather resources and completing mission is unlocking them
I consider digging hours for diamond as a form of grinding, and you have to get it for crafting advanced stuff. I could play creative mode, but at that point it’s more like a 3d Paint than a game
Dumb question, but you verified you have enough disk space?
I was going to suggest Lutris, i have never used it but i think it can download the game directly from Ubisoft Connect, but I just realized Lutris is Linux only and I’m assuming you’re on windows.
Jeśli masz dobre intencje, czegoś nie wiesz, nie rozumiesz, albo chcesz się po prostu dowiedzieć, to strach przed tym, że kogoś obrazisz, nie może cię blokować.
Potrzebujemy kultury zbudowanej na dialogu i wzajemnym zrozumieniu, a częścią dialogu jest także to, że czasem na początku możemy się nie rozumieć, czy nawet wręcz możemy niechcący się wzajemnie obrażać.
Sam czasem wrzucałem do sieci różne żarty, czy nawet rozpoczynałem dziwne dyskusje na tematy które chciałem zrozumieć, oczywistym jest to, że często jest to trochę wbijanie kija w mrowisko. Natomiast nigdy nie kończyło się to źle.
Przykład (ze świata libertarian): zdarzało mi się ich pytać, o stosunek do zwierząt, zoofilii, pedofilii i tego typu rzeczy. 3/4 tych ludzi czuło się obrażonymi, że ktoś w ogóle mógł tak pomyśleć, natomiast zawsze ktoś bardziej pewny siebie wdawał się w dyskusje i odpowiadał jak to jest. Nawet jeśli nie po drodze mi z prawicowymi libertarianami, no to dobrze dla całej społeczności by rozumieli na czym stoją (akurat dla społeczności libków zrozumienie że ich ideologia jest związana z zoofilią i legalną pedofilią o ile dziecka się do tego nie zmusza, to też pewien moment kiedy część powie dość, wysiadam).
Także pytaj się, dowiaduj się. Jeśli nie jesteś pewny czy kogoś temat może zaboleć, to zaznacz że nie rozumiesz tematu i chcesz się dowiedzieć takich i takich rzeczy. Zawsze ktoś się czuje obrażony trudnymi pytaniami, bo to wywołuje u niektórych dysonans poznawczy, takimi ludźmi się nie przejmuj.
For the way people react to you: That’s going to be based on your reputation with their faction that you set in character creation + your Personality stat. I just made a hoity-toity Paladin-eque character and I set his reputation with nobility really high and underworld really low, with commoners just a little bit low (-2)…Asking people in town for stuff results in a lot of turned up noses telling me to stuff it. Lol.
But also, for commoners, picking the Blunt option (your Streetwise skill) when speaking to them usually helps, and picking Polite (your Etiquette skill) usually makes them dislike you because it makes you talk like the upper class.
I spent hundreds of hours in the mid-to-late 90’s playing Daggerfall, which meant using it’s original control scheme; if you haven’t tried that out…you should, just so you know what it was like (but I recommend using the Normal setting for reflexes because you will not be able to attack/do stuff as quickly). Pro tip: In that control scheme, to look with the mouse, press Enter to enter Mouse Look mode. Press it again to go back to movement/interaction mode. The Home key centers your character’s view again, and Page Up/Page Down look up and down if you don’t want to switch out of interaction mode. Holding down the mouse button and literally moving it in a direction to determine the type of attack (side to side for swipes, forward for stab, backward for overhead swing/kick) was certainly unique, even for the time. WASD controls didn’t become standard until after Quake and Half Life exploded onto the scene.
I highly recommend the following mods which add great quality of life changes without changing fundamentals about the game or quests. If you don’t want to load your game down with a ton of mods, I urge you to at least grab the top two in my list as they modernize the game in the same way that Daggerfall Unity modernized the overall controls with a WASD + Mouse Look control scheme:
Cruise Control - This is one of the best QoL improvements here. It’s important that you know about interaction modes, how to select them and how they work, but having them default in obvious situations makes it play a lot more like a modern TES game (such as defaulting to Steal mode when you are Sneaking, and Info mode when you’re far way or something can’t be Grabbed/Talked to, so you can walk around town looking at buildings and clicking to see what they are. This is the easiest way to fill up your map for shops and such if people don’t like talking to you/you don’t want to sit there and click on every single dialogue option over and over).
Sneak and Crouch Combined - This is the other really big one in this list. Sneak and Crouch are two separate things in Daggerfall. Crouching does not necessarily help you sneak (though I think maybe a little since you move slower?), and you can Sneak while standing. Doing both slows you down even more, and you have to remember to stop sneaking and stand up afterwards. This mod just makes the key to do either always do both, like modern TES games.
World Tooltips - This makes everything show what it is when you mouse over it like in modern games. WARNING: This will reveal secret doors and switches to you. So, I consider this one to be much more optional in setting up a new DFU install than the others because that does change the way you play. However, with how insanely huge/labyrinthine the dungeons can be…let’s just say I don’t have the kind of time I did 30 years ago wander aimlessly clicking on every wall panel in the dungeon to find the one secret door I needed to open to get to the quest objective. Plus, the game’s default 3D mini map often will load in such a way that it reveals many secret areas anyway.
Physical Combat and Armor Overhaul - Another optional one, IMO: If you want to not spend an inordinate amount of time missing enemies, this mod makes the combat work like modern TES games where you always hit, but all the numbers from weapon/armor/dodge skill/etc still factor in to the amount of damage done and such. It also fixes the Critical Hits skill to actually…do critical hits. In default Daggerfall, that skill actually affects your chance to hit, not how much damage you do. Meanwhile, the manual that came with the game was incorrect and told you that it affected your damage. >_<
Thanks for the guide on the dialog! I couldn’t figure out why everyone hated me, and i had assumed it was a combo of a low personality + being a Khajiit lol. So it’s nice to know i was at least half on the mark. The Blunt and Polite thing is making a whole lot more sense. I’m definitely saving some of those mods too (it will probably wind up being all of them knowing me), especially the Autosave and Quick Save one. Not even 4 hours in and i’ve been burned by that mistake multiple times. Pressing F9 to quick save has become a habit whenever i have to open doors
It took me a minute to figure out why i was dying. I went through maybe 4 health potions before i realized something was up and checked my status and realized “Oh shit, i was still carrying the Dark Brotherhood quest line’s poison apple and just ate it”. I hope it goes in Tamriel’s history books that the Listener of the dark brotherhood accidentally poisoned himself with his own poison apple
Lutris got Magic: Arena working for me on my Linux machine a few years back and gave me a very enjoyable card game grind for about 3 years until I stayed limiting MtG:A to my phone on the commute.
Amazing work both from the Lutris team, and the interviewer.
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