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janAkali, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

That’s why mods exist. And some games have a setting to hide helmets.

Masterblaster420,

that's stupid. what meta gaming BS. "i want the benefits of wearing a helmet but i want everyone to see me!" just fuck right off with that shit, junior.

Aaroncvx,

Video games are a fantasy and I want my character to look a certain way, fuck me right?

Masterblaster420,

i mean, yeah, but i guess it depends on if you're playing online or in single player mode.

sorry, i'm a D&D purist. i want a fantasy simulator, not your selfish fantasy jerk off.

kozy138,

In a fantasy world, wouldn’t it be reasonable for someone to use an invisibility spell on the helmet? Or apply some sort of invisibility serum/option into it?

Cryophilia,

That sounds very expensive. Perfect invisibility is usually expensive and/or difficult in fantasy settings. Much like in the real world.

Rentlar,

Now you’ve got me imagining a budget version of an invisibility potion/spell/item that gives 30% translucency.

Cryophilia,

Pretty much. If you’re sneaking around you usually don’t need 100% invisibility. If it’s dark, 30%-60% is fine if you’re at all sneaky. That’s how the “chameleon” spell worked in Oblivion.

kozy138,

One of the best games I’ve ever played… And the mods were top notch

SomeGuy69,

These are faulty full body invisible spells, that are heavily discounted, because they work only on the helmet. Because of the difficulty to create a full invisible spell, the majority created are faulty and basically trash, but mages sell them for low price to get back at least the material costs. Low yield.

frickineh,

Bro games are for fun. If they can’t be a selfish fantasy jerk off, what can? That’s such a dramatic description. Is “I’m a D&D purist” code for “I can’t let people enjoy things.”

Anarki_,

“Making your own fun is verboten”.

This guy…

Masterblaster420,

that's some real beta cuck shit to regard my hot take as an authority. you must be pretty submissive.

Agrivar,

Thanks for clearly identifying yourself as blockworthy. I was gonna give you the benefit of the doubt, but you just couldn’t resist outing yourself could ya?

Masterblaster420,

lol. nobody cares who you block, dipshit. "oh no! some little beta cuck won't see my posts!" /s

Godric,

You being downvoted is why I’m starting to hate lemmy.

Sotuanduso,

They’re being downvoted for being rude to someone just for expressing a desire to hide helmets in games.

Godric,

In a clearly joking manner. Humor is dying slowly, killed by people who feel the need to rectally insert every statement they read, and I’m noticing it more and more on Lemmy. It’s saddening.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Go yell at the clouds.

Sotuanduso,

I am generally a comedic person, but my humor sense did not tingle at this. Reading the guy’s later comment in the thread only made me think it was more serious.

otp,

It wasn’t funny though. The words they used, the reaction, the context…none of it was particularly funny.

A joke that isn’t funny and can be easily read as rude gets downvoted. Seems pretty straightforward.

SomeGuy69,

Nice sock puppet account.

Masterblaster420,

it's a shit show. i never expected much though. children are stupid.

RandomStickman, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now
@RandomStickman@kbin.run avatar

The worst one I've experienced is EVE Online. They had such an extensive character creation system, and I spent ages posting for the player icon, only to be staring at tables and icons.

The sky box (space box?) is pretty though.

Empricorn,

It’s… Eve Online. Even I know what the gameplay entails, and I’ve never played it. What did you think you were getting into!?

RandomStickman,
@RandomStickman@kbin.run avatar

I kinda went in to it sorta blind. At the time there was development on features that lets you walk around space stations. Also I just kinda got lost in the process and got way too in to it for some reason lol

Empricorn,

Haha, totally fair! Eve Online is just kind of famous for being a “spreadsheet simulator”. I’m sure that’s at least partly unfair but again, never played it!

solitaire,
@solitaire@infosec.pub avatar

Oh no, it’s fair.

A highly customizable table is the core of how you pilot your ship. It’s an overview that gives you a list of everything you’ve set it up to show in space around you, as well as a bunch of columns with information on said objects. Some of it is obvious and straight forward, like distance, but goes down into the minutia like transversal velocity. You can set up a bunch of presets for checking on different things.

Logistics and economy are huge parts of the game that you could mostly ignore (though at some point you’re going to open the market which is exactly as detailed and dorky as you imagine) which will prompt you to make your own actual spreadsheets at some point. Though funnily, in the 10ish years I played I never made a spreadsheet despite being notorious for doing it in other games.

There is just a ton of math and potentially useful data accessible to the player that you might want to use at some point.

My potentially hot take is the spreadsheet UI is the best, all MMOs should do it, and the worst parts of Eve’s UI are the parts that aren’t spreadsheets.

TwinTusks,

I heard of it, never dig into it, I have no idea what it does except it had something to do with space and its a MMORPG

RandomStickman,
@RandomStickman@kbin.run avatar

It's a open sandbox where there are a lot of "careers" or playstyles you can pick from. The most popular one would be joining a player corporation (guild) and fight against other corps for territory. There are miners who mine astroids for resources and sell it for money. Others use said raw materials and set up factories to refine it into different products. You can be a space trucker and haul them, or you can even be a space pirate and attack and loot said truckers. Of course there are more traditional dungeon raid esque PvE with your corp.

The (in)famous thing about EVE is that it's a space spreadsheet simulator. (It's not completely unfounded as there's an official EVE Online add on for Excel, but unless you're doing space business you don't really need it. I never did). The learning curve is also pretty steep. But it's pretty fun, and the harshness of space does create some great space friends. As they always say, the best ship in EVE is Friendship.

Talaraine, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

I'd like to have the random appearance generator still generate reasonably realistic faces haha. Maybe a toggle box that just says, "Send it" if you don't!

fsxylo, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

The NPCs won’t know, but I will, and that matters.

_Lory98_, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

That’s why I almost always hide helmets.

Son_of_dad,

Most games don’t give you the option sadly

VaultBoyNewVegas,

Most crpgs do though

SomeGuy69,

That’s why you simply don’t equip a helmet.

TwinTusks,

Exactly, only equip when you in combat.

summerof69,
  1. Buy a game.
  2. See if you can hide helmet.
  3. Refund if not.

👍

DharkStare, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

This is one of the gaming things I’ve never actually done. I almost always just take the default character and jump into the game. The most I’ll do is cycle through a few presets if they have it.

Rentlar,

🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲… OK that looks good enough.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i’m amazed to see that there are people who don’t just set the skin color to bright purple and move sliders all the way to either side

if i can’t play as fuckhands mcmike what’s the point?

FilthyShrooms, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

Just got fallout 4 the other day. Spent like an hour making the guy look like Geralt from the Witcher, then proceeded to play as the gal.

Such a shame that >!he died after like 10 minutes!<

Demdaru,

Ooooh, you still might hear his echo :3

YarHarSuperstar,
@YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world avatar

I’m learning just now that you can even customize both of them. I never thought to do both, just whichever I feel like playing as for that playthrough.

Agrivar,

Wait, am I just learning now that you can customize both parents and then choose which one to actually play later?

Patches,

You customize both but “later” is a stretch. You will never see the other after bout 10 minutes of gameplay. >!Spoilers!<. I think they use both of your looks to generate your child but honestly that side story is such shit - I’d rather not look for my son/daughter.

FilthyShrooms,

Nonsense. If you ever want to >!go back to the vault, you can see their frozen body slumped over next to your open cryopod.!< That’s like a whole 12 minutes!

GlitterInfection, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

Haha, hours spent making my Skyrim characters just the right shade of almost looking right…

I play exclusively in first person.

Monster96, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

I spend most of my time constantly customizing my character in Fallout 4 than actually playing the game I’ve noticed. I like to switch out her outfits, her hair, eye colour, etc. from time to time depending in what’s happening in game. For example, if she’s in Nuka World as a raider then I put on a post-apocalyptic outfit or if she’s in the institute I dress her as a covert assassin.

FenrirIII, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

That’s why you get sex mods.

tominator,

But the helmet stays on.

RealFknNito, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

I feel targeted and attacked personally.

summerof69, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

I liked when in WoW you could turn off helmets in settings.

AgentGrimstone, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

I usually rock the body armor + no helmet look, it’s badass, unless the helmet has stats that are too good to pass up.

DragonTypeWyvern,

40k Astartes moment

MagnyusG, do gaming w I try to convince myself to use "random appearance" in games that have it now

That’s why good games give you the option to remove helmets during cutscenes, or just hide them altogether.

Kusimulkku,

No. I want to see my cool helmet. Games that remove helmets and (all customization) during cutscenes annoy me.

squirrels,

option

Good work reading their comment

Kusimulkku,

or just hide them altogether.

I read that as in they either remove the helmets during cutscenes or they give you an option for selecting if you want to do that. But sure, thanks for the compliment…

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

ideally i’d want games to have NPCs react to if you’re wearing a helmet or not, and a real risk of getting attacked when in populated areas, so you have a choice to make whether you want to keep your helmet on or take it off (and that should be a simple button press)

that way there’s a bit of added flavour, and you have an actual reason to see your character without a helmet.

MonkderZweite,

Seems like a logical fallacy to me.

Ecksell, do games w The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
@Ecksell@lemmy.one avatar

Been playing Helldivers 2, really fun game!
Question about it: It offers a curved HUD option in the settings, which is really neat in the YT vids I’ve seen, especially since I have a curved monitor. I’d love to enable this, but it doesn’t work at all for me. Does it for anyone else?

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