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Lumidaub, do gaming w Bethesda Is Changing The Way You Pickpocket In Starfield
@Lumidaub@feddit.de avatar

I mean, I did partake in the “Skyrim in space” jokes but I didn’t know there’d be pickpocketing. Huh. So is it safe to say everybody’s builds are going to trend towards stealth sniping?

TwilightVulpine,

In a setting with guns? 200% guaranteed.

parrot-party,
@parrot-party@kbin.social avatar

Must have been the space wind

dudewitbow,

For people playing efficiently, probably. Everytime i play a bethesda game, i usually go out of my way to play some theme. Playes skyrim in stealth(after 2h axing most of it), oblivion with magic, melee in fo3, energy in fnv, luck maxed pistol/revolver only for fo4.

Ill probably look at the weapon list at launch and pick a weapon type from there

dino,

My first thought as well, have 0 expectations from starfield/bethesda…but pickpocketing in space is a new low.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Less ‘Skyrim in Space,’ more ‘Fallout 4 in Space.’ They are really leaning into the “Build Your Own Trash-Fort” aspect, as with Starfield, you not only build them on every planet. You get to ride around in them between planets.

I get that ‘Builder Games’ are big money, but dear lord…

yardy_sardley, do games w Cozy Games May Help Improve Players' Mental Health, Researchers Say

My brain accepted this new piece of information and immediately tried to recalibrate my sense of wellbeing based on how much time I spend playing cozy games.

So there was a bizarre moment where I felt positively dandy.

Did anyone else get a mental health buff just from reading this headline?

BossDj,

The animal crossing thumbnail alone gave me a little boost. But I’m sure I’ll just scroll on to yet another article about *****

Wootz, (edited ) do games w New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June

Nah.

2016 was brilliant for its minimalism. No plot needed, no introduction, just tight combat and metal.

You don’t improve on that with more mechanics, more plot and more MTX.

Yawweee877h444,

Yeah I mostly agree with you. Except there was plot and lore in 2016, it was just minimalist as you said, but more importantly it was executed really well. It had the “doom” feel. In addition to awesome gameplay and soundtrack.

Eternal was great for the gameplay, and even an improvement in some ways. The lore and plot was ridiculous though. Way overdone, didn’t feel like doom.

I say go back to 2016 style with the gameplay improvements of eternal.

gaylord_fartmaster,

The lore and plot was ridiculous though. Way overdone, didn’t feel like doom.

As opposed to a screen dissolve followed by a wall of text? I thought it was fine.

I didn’t finish the DLC if it started going off the rails there, though.

Yawweee877h444,

Nah my comparison is to 2016. I just thought it was overdone in eternal to the point of silliness. Subjective opinion obviously.

It wasn’t all bad though. The introduction to the “evil twin” doomguy was kinda fun. So if no DLC you missed that at least.

Wootz, (edited )

No plot needed.

To me the essence of 2016 is the scene in the beginning where an info screen tries to dump exposition on you and you chuck it into a wall.

There is plot, but you don’t need to pay attention to it. Doomguy is angry and needs to kill demons.

To me a big fumble in Eternal was trying to explain why doomguy is angry and so good at killing. He’s like an inverse Cthulhu, terrifying, unknowable and mysterious. Trying to explain or understand him breaks the basis for the character.

On gameplay, I didn’t mind the changes, but I thought the embellishments were a little on the nose. The technicolor rainbow explosion of ammo when you chainsaw someone, and the increased focus on using abilities to replenish resources scream “This is a video game!” in a over the top way that I felt took away from the immersion and grit that I associate with Doom.

Bosht,

Agreed on all points. I tried getting into Eternal a couple times and still haven’t finished it. It’s more than likely a good game but it doesn’t have the flow of the first.

Yawweee877h444,

Yep, agree to agree here. I just thought the gameplay improvements in eternal were fun. But I agree the way you put it, kind of a departure from what doom should be.

coaxil,

No mick gordon (I’m assuming) just hurts my soul

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I felt like the decision to make jumping and mobility more a factor in Eternal hurt it a lot. Jumping puzzles and jumping mechanics in FPS games don’t really work for a lot of reasons (see: Half-Life) and it made the levels feel much more linear than 2016, the arenas much more smaller and less mobile. id did invent this genre, and even they can’t make it work. What does that tell you?

Also the changing of the ammo metaelements to prioritize chainsawing felt dumb. Having to pinata every so often was the most obvious thing that felt straight up wrong compared to 2016, and that’s a sign of a garbage core loop.

The writing was pretty good, but I have the attention span of a summer ant when I play Doom.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

Eternal actually made my hands hurt. Still haven’t gotten very far in it. Having to constantly cycle weapons, jump, dash, and do precision shooting, often all at the same time, was murder on my hands.

Kongar, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

I got it for “free” with my new cpu purchase. I played about 5 hours. It was a total slog. Put it down and have zero regrets. Bethesda has been making some very boring games lately imo.

rosymind,

Skyrim was one of my favorite games for several years.

I tried watching my husband play Starfield but I kept zoning out, using my phone, or getting up to do something else. I’d rather do laundry. Starfield is boring A.F to watch, and I have zero interest in playing it

Jakeroxs,

I think Skyrim is also boring to watch, they’re definitely better to play

rosymind,

Fair point on Skyrim being more fun to play than to watch. I agree. And if you like Starfield as it is- then so be it! I’m not trying to shit on anyone’s enjoyment of the game

BUT…my husband likes to try to optimize everything. So we’ll spend time looking at different aspects- some of the graphics just infuriated me. Some things looked so amazing, but others… meh or… wtf. The facial expressions are way behind the times, and everything he showed me seemed lacking in one way or another. Like that Aurora nightclub. The NPC’s are talking about what an amazing experience they are having, meanwhile it’s like 15 of them badly dancing or just standing around. They certainly didn’t look like they were having fun and they moved around like a group of homeless methheads

He ended up playing some more of the game once I went to bed, and then conceeded that it’s lack-luster and moved on to something else

Jakeroxs,

Yeah, I got about 150 hours in, did all the side quests I could find, went through NG+ did almost all the things needed to ng+ again but now I’m just like… Meh why?

I’m sure it’ll be a great game for modders, there’s already a good bit that help with some of the basics (UI, beth wtf) so I got pretty good moneys worth from the game and here’s to hoping I can take many more trips in like FO4 and Skyrim with mods to vastly improve things :)

On the Aurora thing, I mean… You ever been in a club with people on Molly? They look out of their minds so… Doesn’t seem too far off lmao

Bout to start a fresh run on New Vegas, been many many years so I’m excited :D

Case,

I bought after it released.

So far I’ve seen a lot of Bethesda typical bugs, but nothing game breaking yet.

Yes the first few hours of a play through are a slog, after it opens up more it becomes much more enjoyable. A live another life type mod would make me immensely happy.

That being said, Bethesda does a good job of making a platform for modding, and thats the KEY thing that keeps me buying, and playing again and again, Bethesda games.

For that reason ESO just never had the magic to me, I understand a lot of mods found for single player games would be highly unbalanced and its not an option for an MMO. That said, without mods Bethesda games are lackluster and I quickly lost interest despite trying to enjoy it a few times. I like MMOs too, don’t get me wrong, I’m not someone who only plays shooters being introduced to an MMO.

I’m excited to see what the modding community can do once the tools are released in 2024.

arefx,

Same got it free with my 7800x3d, played it for 15 minutes saw it ran like dog shit even on that CPU with a RTX 4090 and said fuck this.

Cyberpunk 2.0 has been incredible though

oxysis, do gaming w Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year

Yeah no shit AAA games are $80 going forward, games from the past few years are $70 if AAA. $60 was the sweet spot for AAA games but then the greedy companies began littering paid games with macro transactions.

Indie is the way forward for gaming, the prices are actually fair and the devs are willing to support them far past when AAA companies will. That and modding for games has only been getting better and better. Last year we basically got a brand new Fallout game from modders, meanwhile Bugthesda can barely wipe their own ass.

scrubbles, do gaming w Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year
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https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/pictrs/image/bb492203-e1f8-4659-9988-9b1000dbc3d0.png

Interesting, would be nice if they showed what the average increase in prices was on this graph too, I bet there could be a correlation…

megopie,

Almost like there’s some kind of deeper generational economic divide, almost like all the people who own all the stock are retiring and starting to live off investments, and thus companies are pressured to payout ether in buy backs or dividends, so prices are rising while quality and pay falls, and only those benefiting from the record profitability can afford the new prices.

Sort of like the allocation of resources and labor are being redistributed to a retiring and wealthy leisure class and the burden to support that is falling on the younger generation.

LodeMike,

Presumably the spending is adjusted dollar amount.

rozodru, do games w Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset
@rozodru@lemmy.ca avatar

I swear gamers have the memory of a gnat. How many times has Bethesda pulled shit like this and people continue to support them? no one remembers the Horse armor all the way back in Oblivion? no one remembers the Skyrim paid mods in 2015? hell can’t even remember the SKYRIM PAID MODS IN DEC OF 2023!

This isn’t an outrage and no one should be upset AT Bethesda over this, but disappointed and upset with yourselves for yet again falling for their constant desire to nickel and dime their playerbase.

A_Random_Idiot,

You have to understand.

The overwhelming bulk of gamers just don’t care

Nothing will stand in the way of getting their current precious. Not even their own complaints and bitching.

They’ll sit there and complain about how a company is evil, its practices exploitative, and how everyone should avoid buying from them so they can die in the fires of Bankruptcy.

Then the second the next game/expansion/DLC/Whatever is announced, they are immediately in line to preorder the ultra deluxe mega fuck you 500 dollar package. because it comes with a unique mount and a special armor skin, and they just cant miss those things! they’re rare! and they’ll never be able to get them otherwise! /s

And then they’ll go into the obfuscated-cash-shop and spend another 700 dollars on digital bullshit.

Then, when they are all done, the overwhelming majority of them will come back to the internet, and cry and whinge and moan about how a company is evil, its practices exploitative, and how everyone should avoid buying from them so they can finally die in the fires of bankruptcy.

Cause the majority of gamers are brain damaged fucktards who, at the end of the day, just love throwing their wallet at things.

jjjalljs,

I mean this is kind of true of all people everywhere. The marshmallow test has flaws but I think it’s still revealing. A lot of people are really bad at self control and delayed gratification.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

I swear gamers have the memory of a gnat

It’s more a “sucker born every minute” thing.

atrielienz,

Don’t know. Don’t play a whole lot of Bethesda games. Didn’t play Oblivion. New gamers join the ranks every day. Not everyone has been gaming since the 80’s.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Well most modern gamers are probably like 14 years old and probably never even played Skyrim. So I’m not surprised young kids are buying this creation kit garbage with Mommy’s credit card.

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This is what happens everywhere: they’ll just keep chancing it until such a time as it’s acceptable.

BaskinRobbins, do games w Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset

They’re selling a single quest as dlc? I mean if you going to do dlc then at least make a full expansion.

NikkiDimes,

Why waste time with lots of quest when few quest do trick

JakJak98,

Right?

Bethesda just released an expansion for fallout 76. It’s a game that I’m fairly fond of, considering the amount of dislike I have for fallout 4, it improved on it in every way from the worldbuilding to building to the story, I could go on, point is, I like it.

The new expansion, the first map expansion and like 20 major updates in.

The new map is quite a large region. You’d expect a few side quests to unlock these other locations. Maybe some hidden gems. Maybe some cool NPCs outside of the main “expansion” right?

Its literally: A main quest that’s short (beat it in like 3 hours on the first day it dropped)

A single side quest that’s more of an optional objective on the main quest

A single new event

A single new boss.

Four things they added. Two of which can only be done once (bad formula for a game designed around repeating similar tasks)

They’ve just straight up gotten bad. There’s no love in their products anymore. It’s all taking the easiest way out, lacking any amount of real creativity.

I just want them to migrate from their shitty proprietary engine, buckle down on a good story and prioritizing fun.

ichbinjasokreativ,

This is not a new thing, even back in 2012 the much-beloved borderlands 2 got five new missions which cost $2 each.

JustAnotherRando,

The thing with those is that, while it was a small amount of content, it wasn’t just a mission, each was about an hour of repeatable content that was fairly fun to farm. At $2, they actually still felt worth it with as much fun as B2 was. If they had asked for like $10 each, people would have flipped out.
I’m not a Starfield player, but I would bet this is not even close to as good of a value proposition.

Gladaed,

Pretty sure it’s more of a pricing issue.

LoamImprovement, do gaming w Warner Bros. Discusses "Volatile" AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile

Volatile

Read: We don’t want to put the time and resources into making quality games when we can prey on whales in shitty Skinner box mobile apps.

Roundcat, do games w Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Remake Is No Longer In Development - Report
@Roundcat@lemmy.ca avatar

Does anyone really still expect a clean ,better than the original, unmonitzed remake from EA? This is probably for the best

Tavarin,
@Tavarin@lemmy.ca avatar

I don’t, but the original has so many bugs and issues on my PC that I’ve never been able to finish it.

Rakonat,

You sure you’re not thinking Kotor2?

Tavarin,
@Tavarin@lemmy.ca avatar

Nope, Kotor 1. Not sure why, but ended up with massive asset loading issues on some planets, and the worlds ended up bugged out as hell.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

thats the obsidian experience

afaix,

We just got a pretty good Dead Space remake, so maybe

BlinkerFluid,
@BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

sigh of relief

RealM, do gaming w GTA 6 Announcement Is Reportedly Happening As Early As This Week, With A Trailer Release Following
@RealM@kbin.social avatar

Today is Wednesday, the 8th of November. This is GameSpot, bringing you your daily GTA6 News. There has been no news to report today. This has been your daily GTA6 News.

potterpockets, do games w Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Remake Is No Longer In Development - Report

"Savior, conqueror, hero, villain. You are all things, KOTOR Remake… and yet you are nothing.“

notepass, (edited ) do gaming w GTA 6 Announcement Is Reportedly Happening As Early As This Week, With A Trailer Release Following

This is like the 12th week or so I heard that. Tho if people repeat it every week they will be right eventually!

Edit: This comment was written hours before the official announcement. Never had my comment milk spoil THAT fast.

slaacaa, do games w Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape

Mediocre Dark

grrgyle,

Mid dark.

Actually has a kind of ring to it…

Jaded, do games w Todd Howard Talks Elder Scrolls 6 And Retirement: "I Want To Do It Forever"

I’m gonna post the whole article because it’s garbage, has no substance and I don’t believe people should click on the link. Do better, GameSpot.

“Bethesda is about to launch Starfield, but what’s coming next? Bethesda Game Studios is making The Elder Scrolls VI and then Fallout 5, so the studio is staying quite busy. In a new interview with GQ, Bethesda’s Todd Howard shared a few new morsels about The Elder Scrolls 6 and discussed when he might retire from making games.

Starting off with the game’s announcement in June 2018, Howard said he often wonders if it was the right thing to announce it so early. “I have asked myself that a lot,” he said. “I don’t know. I probably would’ve announced it more casually.”

Howard also confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6, or whatever it’s called, does already have a codename but he would not reveal it. As for what he could say, Howard said the game aims to “fill that role of the ultimate fantasy-world simulator.”

“And there are different ways to accomplish that given the time that has passed,” he said.

Howard is 53 now and said it’s “weird for me” to think about retirement, something he believes is a “long, long way off.”

“I want to do it forever,” he said. “I think the way I work will probably evolve, but… look at [71-year-old Mario creator and Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto]. He’s still doing it,” Howard said.

In addition to his duties on Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, Howard is an executive producer on the new Indiana Jones game in the works at Machine Games”

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