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Viri4thus, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Review Thread

Eurogamer 3/5 for reasons unrelated to technical issues. Stay classy Eurogamer…

Landless2029, do gaming w I'm something of a data hoarder myself

Guilty. I have half a bookcase of legacy PC games

nesc, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Review Thread

So, they delivered? 🙃

Tap for spoilerI really liked the first game, maybe in a year or two will try this one.

False, do games w Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

Ign gave it a 7/10:

There’s one historical movie scene that comes to mind for me when I think about Sid Meier’s Civilization 7, and it’s not a flashy arena fight in Gladiator or mission control cheering as we safely bring Apollo 13 back home. It’s Leo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator, running his hand along an airplane fuselage and insisting that he doesn’t want to see any rivets.

Ouch

hitagi,

The way of the future

Ethereal87, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd
@Ethereal87@beehaw.org avatar

Nearing the end of the non-DLC portion of Pokemon Scarlet. I’m trying to finish my Pokedex before I jump to the DLC here and just have a little bit more focused breeding/leveling up the babies before I’m all set. I forgot how much fun a mainline Pokemon game is as it’s taken up a lot of free time as I get towards the end. I do think this has been one of the better entries and the technical issues, while present, are nowhere near game breaking from what I’ve experienced.

The open world was a little daunting at first. They give you three “quest lines” you can follow right out of the gate and I was initially stuck trying to figure out where to go and what to do, especially since two of the quest lines are literally in two different directions. The region is basically a big circle/clock face. You start at 6:00 and the first things you can do when the game opens up are at 4:00 and 8:00. Once I got the hang of the travel down it was a lot easier to do, but they throw a lot at you to start.

nokturne213, do games w Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

Anyone know if it will have cross platform play? My brother is going to get it on ps5, but I would rather get it for Mac… unless we will be unable to play together.

Mubelotix,
@Mubelotix@jlai.lu avatar

They said it will. Hopefully it will work better than with civ6

nokturne213,

I never realized 6 had it, but I have not played multiplayer in probably 12 years.

Mubelotix,
@Mubelotix@jlai.lu avatar

It’s kinda broken because you have to use the same build but 99% of the time they are not synced across platforms

MrNesser, do games w Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

I don’t trust any review website anymore. If I did I would have bought cities skylines 2 on release.

I’ll wait for people to play and rate it

Bademantel,
@Bademantel@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed. The reviews are way too good for a Civ game on release. Would be the first in a while that doesn’t need DLCs to be really good.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Really? Because there are plenty of reviews that captured the state of that game at release, and they’re generally better at articulating it than the guy who has 1000 hours in a game and calls it “literally unplayable” in a Steam review.

MrNesser,

It’s more about how does the game function at release is there a performance issue that would prompt a hardware upgrade.

It’s not a dig at the game I’m sure it’s great but these websites are frequently paid for a good review.

Civ is known for having issues at release just because its such a giant game to program

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know which sites you think are getting paid for good reviews (this is a persistent myth), but find one or two that you trust.

glimse,

Individual Steam reviews may be trash but the average rating is valuable and usually pretty reliable. The biggest downside of the system is that it isn’t quick to “respond” to updates but the separate “Recent” rating helps a lot.

The point you’re responding to is that C:S 2 was praised by reviewers at launch despite it having TONS of issues and missing features. The Steam ratings were a way more accurate picture of the game.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

You can read into individual reviews rather than just looking at the aggregate. Plenty pointed out its problems.

glimse,

You can use both :)

simple,

Especially in a game like Civ. it’s hard to know how people feel about it until a week or so later. I remember when Civ 6 was said to be the best game in the series on release, but after spending some time with it, it was lacking. Reviews like these are more of a first impressions.

essteeyou,

Reviews like these are paid advertising.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Why’d they pay for bad ones?

essteeyou,

When Civ VIII rolls around they won’t send review copies to anyone who gave bad reviews last time.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

That’s not paid advertising. And review scores only tend to slide by a couple of points in aggregate after everyone else gets their review in.

Ashtear,

Just like they wouldn’t the last time…and the time before that…and the time before that…

It’s not a thing at outlets like these. Paid promo from influencers and independent reviews are not the same thing.

dinckelman,

Unless my friends, who have put a lot of hours into both Civ 5 and 6, unanimously recommend 7 to me, I have no intention of getting it.

I’m both satisfied enough with what I already own, and not sold on the new one yet. Not to mention that it’ll inevitably be a vehicle for more dlc and expansion packs

lud,

They won’t. For some reason you are only allowed to like a single civ game and you must hate every sequent game.

dinckelman,

No one’s said anything about hating it. For me, it’s primarily a co-op game, and if they’re not going to switch to it, it’s better for me to save the cash, and put it towards something else

lud,

I was just making a joke about civ fans always dislike every civ game except their favorite.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

Wait until there’s a steep sale on the Complete Edition later on. I only paid $5 for Civ5 Complete, and I think $15 for Civ6 Complete.

AlbinoPython, do games w Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

I am still waiting to see if they kept the ‘play by cloud’ feature.

frog_brawler, do games w Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

Wow, this completely snuck up on me. How exciting!

Brumefey, do games w Got Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (retail, PS5) early, AMA

I kind of don’t (yet) get the stealth / thievery mechanics. I broke into a place, stole something for a quest, and although not getting any indication of someone noticing me, I got a ridiculously high bounty.

That’s the kind of things I disliked in the first game. You kill a thieve in the middle of a forest and still get bad reputation…

jckwik, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd

My friends are now into running archipelago randomizer worlds so I’ve been playing Pokemon Emerald and Fire Red together with my friends who are playing Tunic and Satisfactory.

Super pleased with how smoothly archipelago works and how much effort modders have put in to keep it that way.

I am considering buying factorio to play as well. It’s so much fun to add a multiplayer aspect to single player games while also essentially adding infinite replayability because every game is different.

frank,

We do a lot of archipelago (A9O as we call it, cuz it’s shorter to write and there’s 9 letters between… Hoping it catches on).

Factorio is a staple in it. Minecraft too!

snugglesthefalse, do games w Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot?

Some games are super easy, press a button and it’s done (steam workshop and things like that), most games are pretty easy but it varies (drag and drop some files to a specific place, maybe do a load order) and then there’s the games that aren’t made in a mod friendly way and require a 50 step ritual to add a minor graphics update that probably won’t work the first 3 times because you forgot to add a patch on step 7b. Mass effect is definitely not a game designed to be modded, bg3 hasn’t had full official mod support that long afaik so some stuff is likely still hacky

Soulg, do gaming w I'm something of a data hoarder myself

Played the absolute shit of of midtown madness when I was a kid. Such a throwback.

zer0squar3d,

Same

ArchmageAzor, do games w Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot?
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

Use Nexusmods and their Vortex mod manager. It simplifies it a lot, though you may have to watch a quick tutorial video or two. It’s nothing that you won’t learn, though.

Certain other games may have other mod loaders just for them, that you can use. KSPs CKAN comes to mind, or Curseforge for Minecraft. A lot of games handle mods through the Steam Workshop.

In the case of using mod loaders most of the stuff you will have to do yourself will be limited to keeping mods updated, resolving conflicts, and managing load orders (where applicable).

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Mod Organizer 2 is typically recommended over Vortex but it depends on the game. I think Vortex has wider support.

bjoern_tantau, do games w Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Depends on the game. When the game was made in a way that is easily moddable then installing mods usually just means putting the mod files into some directory. But when a mod is supposed to do something that is not really supported then it has to do even more crazy stuff. And when several mods want to do similar crazy stuff it gets even more complicated.

So it really depends. Though BG3 has mod support built in by now. So everything in there should be easy.

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