Hey, thanks for deciding to do this series. Not all the scenes you’ve posted have been as striking as this one, but I’m enjoying the visual tour of game worlds in my feed.
Yesterday’s was probably the worst screenshot I’ve posted imo. It looked way different on my Display because of the options I have set and I was wiped from being out of the house all day. So I didn’t really stop and think “hey. This image kinda sucks” when putting moving it over to my phone
I just imagine the most emaciated wastelander actively bleeding out and barely limping along but stopping to just, like, take in the awe of the moment, man.
I ran out of Stimpaks and doctor’s bags and have been using Sunset Sasparilla from vending machines to heal until I stop being lazy and go buy some more
That’s a 700 ml bottle of 89.9% alcohol. Alcohol is 9 cal/gram (similar energy density to fat) and around 0.78 g/ml making the right close to triple the fried food and beer in calories (~4400)
At first I thought “yeah but you’re not polishing that off in a weekend” but that’s basically the equivalent of 2 fifths of booze which isn’t really a ton for a alcoholic or a hard partying college kid
2 fifths of liquor is absolutely ludicrous except for the absolute hardest of alcoholics.
Not to mention that while the alcohol might be equivalent, the more concentrated alcohol gets the harder it works on your body. You’ll have a much worse night/morning if you drank 6 shots of whiskey instead of 6 beers.
I know I associate with a few degenerates, but some of my heavy drinking friends could absolutely pound 2 fifths in a weekend. They’d be goddammed miserable on Monday but honestly that’s par for the course. One of my buddies in college used to put away a case of beer over a weekend which is 30 beers, not much less than 2 fifths which is about 35 drinks
I suppose it depends on how one defines the weekend. If you start the weekend on Friday night then it’s way more reasonable, say 8-10 on Friday, 12 on Sat/Sun is an intense weekend in Vegas. But if you drink 1.5 drinks per hour for 12 hours on Saturday/Sunday that’s 36 drinks. Which I don’t think is crazy for either a hard partying college kid or an alcholic
Correct. 60% of the alcohol consumed in America is drunk by 10% of the population. Honestly most people fall into 1 of 2 categories: non/light drinkers, and heavy drinkers. For heavy drinkers this is not crazy and I don’t think a light drinker is purchasing 90% abv absinthe
A fifth of what? It isn’t bad enough you people measure distance in football fields now you measure volumes in undefined fractions? What is a fifth LOL
A fifth used to be a fifth of a gallon. Stupidly as the world became more globalized bottle sizes followed and so the bottles we still call a fifth are actually 750ml. What’s worse is that the next unit up is a handle which is 1.75 liters! So it doesn’t even follow mathematically
I’m replaying Dragon Age Inquisition right now and holy shit Batman. Having to go sell stuff every 10 minutes is fucking annoying. Just give me gold. I don’t need 10 magic staffs with the exact same stats. And God help me if I don’t do inventory management before anything higher than a fetch quest.
Narrative RPGs and loot shooter mechanics do not mix, unless you have an auto sell option. Which would have worked beautifully, you even set up these camps. Why can’t I “send to camp” and have a minion sell it for me?
Is it just me or does your average rpg today seem just… easier overall than they used to be? I feel that’s where a lot of this problem comes from for me, because I’m always expecting it to get hard and it doesn’t. (😏)
There’s a few games here and there where dying happens a lot and consumables and constant gear upgrades are very needed, but the majority of them you don’t need most of the consumables or gear you get anyway. They feel like dopamine hit filler content.
Like I’m playing biomutant right now, and there’s a lot of consumables (and so so so much mostly junk gear) to loot throughout the game… but there’s also a heal ability that you can unlock and use on a timer, plus health refills outside of combat, so now that my weapons and armor are a lot stronger, even tho the enemies scale with you, it’s been dozens of hours of active play since I’ve used a consumable of any variety, and there’s at least half the game to go. And this has been a fairly consistent experience in games this decade or so, maybe longer even. I’m not a great gamer; I’m too lazy to learn to block or parry in any game, ever, and dodging is a maybe skill, only if it’s easy to perform… so it’s not at all that I’ve gotten better or anything…
EVERY game feels less challenging these days, and it’s frankly disappointing.
I don’t think it’s simply that I have more gaming experience either - I think it’s that studios are trying to maximize engagement by making games easy enough for everyone and their dog to complete.
It’s become so rare that I really appreciate when a game (most indie or FromSoftware titles) actually presents itself as a challenge to overcome rather than “cutscenes between fetch quests”.
Playing fromsoft games ruined a lot of other games for me.
The boss fights are a fantastic puzzle of rhythm, timing, and muscle memory. I can’t think of any other games that do that to that degree.
Plus their games, especially the more recent releases, feel super polished. Like they’re actually complete, and aside from some patches here and there, the game is done being developed.
And you can tell how much work went into their games. Makes me want to appreciate everything in it.
Also, it just kicks your ass if you get overconfident. I don’t want a video game that just let’s me win. It’s not satisfying if I didn’t have to learn anything, or get better muscle memory or whatever to get the victory.
Anyway, sorry that was such a long way to say that I agree with you!
I have a love/hate relationship with that character. He’s an endearing little weasle, but he kicked me down a hole with a monster in it one too many times.
Most games since the mid 2000’s have been designed for everyone to have an easy time going through the game so that no player is left feeling like they can’t finish it. That’s one of the main reasons I fell into Dark Souls. Came at the absolute height of the “super easy” trend and is actually challenging because it does not give a single fuck if you’re able to beat it or not.
Even other souls likes are mostly easier than the OG. Biomutant is one such game. It’s a soulslike action/adventure game intended for the adolescent/teen market.
The most annoying thing, IMO, about most modern “RPGs” is that they are barely even RPGs. Like most of them are only an RPG in the fact your character levels up and either can upgrade their stats or get perks or new powers as you progress. There is absolutely nothing else about it to make it an RPG. Like… Diablo. Nobody considered Diablo to be an actual RPG back in the day when the first 2 were the top dogs. And yet 90% of RPGs today are essentially like Diablo; action adventure games with some character development mechanics.
A real RPG, to me, is something like BG3. A game where you have actual choice in how the story plays out. Not the “same shit, different build” most are today. I love me some Fromsoft games and souls likes; but I don’t think of them as RPGs at all, despite that being the genre the developers say they are.
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