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dinckelman, do games w The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023

Finishing up Yakuza 6. Outside of that, I’ve been playing a mix of ESO and Guildwars 2, and enjoying some Rimworld, and Binding of Isaac. The last one basically never leaves my steam installation

USSEthernet, do games w The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023

Sea of Stars has been the only game I made time to play in months.

yokonzo, do games w This should be illegal

I’ll never miss a chance to shill Ross Scotts excellent video on games as a service and how wrong it is here

My man has been personally leading the charge against this issue and has even looked into making this practice illegal

HKayn, do games w This should be illegal
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

Why should a developer be forced to forfeit their source code just because they don’t want to sell their game any longer?

If people focused on DRM-free games instead, this wouldn’t be an issue in the first place.

FastWarfarin, do games w The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023
@FastWarfarin@lemmy.world avatar

I’m playing ghost recon breakpoint these days, fun game

Transcriptionist, do games w This should be illegal

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A message from Meta Quest with a picture of quadrupedal orange alien with purple spots down its spine and large green eyes named Bogo from the Oculus Quest experience of the same name. Below the image is the text:

“Hi Kolorafa,

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Blackmist, (edited ) do games w The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023

Baldur’s Gate PS5. Co-op.

Currently takes about 6 seconds to swap between characters. Every time. Every turn. Click, clunk, click, clunk.

Playing really thoroughly, we’re up to 60 hours, level 7, and just starting Act 2.

It’s bad design that part of Act 1 is behind the exact same prompt as the end of Act 1. I nearly missed a whole zone there, as well as an awesome weapon.

9point6, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule

Lol Starfield 2021

I guess they’re behind schedule then

Dasnap, (edited )
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Probably COVID, so I’d add 2 years to each of these dates for possible releases if a project hasn’t been cancelled.

I’d love an Oblivion remaster next year. Although I have a sneaking suspicion the Skyblivion project might end up being the more polished experience.

Annoyed_Crabby,

From looking at skyrim remaster, oblivion/fo3 just gonna be texture update and some lighting/shader change, that’s it.

XTornado,

Well I would expect some patches at least for fallout 3 as that was more broken with current PCs but who knows.

Fades,

And the textures won’t even be that much better, current mods will outperform visually no question. Just a fucking cashgrab

Annoyed_Crabby,

100% sure they will use uncompressed og texture.

99.999999% they gonna get external dev to remaster it so the art direction will be incoherent and jarring, 0.000001% they get modder that does all the cool texture/shader mod onto the team.

Cethin,

It could be. It doesn’t say what studio is working on it. If it’s BSG then yeah. If it’s contracted out to another studio then I wouldn’t be surprised to see a version with the newer rendering tech and things like that.

MxM111,

Why would Covid delay game by that much after Covid?

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever,

Part of it is because games have multi-year development cycles. And, for most of covid, WFH/remote was not something people really understood how to do (having kids around did not help). So basically all games lost 1-2 years of development time.

And for a major studio (like MS), you have limited support teams and resources. So if Ghostwire needed one of the support studios, DOOM Year Zero (!?!?!?!) would have to wait and so forth.

And then you just have release windows. It matters less in a digital distribution world, but you want your big games to hit for holidays and known good selling weeks. So if Starfield is end of Summer, DOOM can’t be.

And as you add on delays you need to improve the game because something else came out with a similar bit and you will come across as “derivative”.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Most companies froze during the start of COVID. During the first few months, we didn’t know if COVID was spread through air or by blinking. Companies scrambled for WFH, trying to keep workers alive while other companies scrambled to create 6-ft distances. People died. Less people went out to buy things.

This went on for a full year at minimum.

MxM111,

You would think that software companies could switch really easy.

Viking_Hippie,

You would think so, but for an industry where almost all of the work is location-agnostic, they sure love forcing people to work in offices and cubicles.

Cethin,

I think it’s part Covid but also part that they just underestimated how much time they needed. Clearly it still could have baked a little longer. It feels like it was only fully playable at the very end because so much QoL stuff needs to be added, in my opinion. I think it would have been smart to at least have the mod tools ready at launch, or at least weeks later. It looks like it’s going to be months for those though.

Stovetop,

Well we all knew that much at least. It was originally announced to be released in 2022 but they pushed it back almost a full year to 2023. Guessing when development slowed due to salvage work needed for Fallout 76 and then likely a mandate from Microsoft to polish it more before release.

ithas, (edited )
@ithas@artemis.camp avatar

It also says FY which I assume means Fiscal Year. It seems like Microsoft's fiscal years end in June and start in July based on browsing a few investor pages (like this one saying fourth quarter ended in June). Not that that completely solves for the time difference but wanted to mention it

Potatos_are_not_friends,

It’s official. The release of the next Elder Scrolls will be any time from now to 2028.

Viking_Hippie,

If we’re lucky.

NuPNuA,

We knew that already, Phil’s been pretty open about it.

mp3, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Even two more years couldn’t save Redfall from a disaster.

Dasnap,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

No amount of time can save a project built on a bad concept. No one wanted an Arkane multiplayer, hero-based looter.

BigVault, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule
@BigVault@kbin.social avatar

Fallout 3 remaster?
Yes please.

Bitrot, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule

Licensed IP Game looking cool.

4am,

It’s DLC for Game Dev Tycoon 😅😉

Annoyed_Crabby, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule

Es6 2024 2026? Doubt it.

Steeve, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule

Dishonored 3? Yes please

Cossty, do games w FTC fails to redact Microsoft document, revealing an old Bethesda release schedule

Aren’t those remasters like Oblivion and Fallout 3 outsourced to some differnt studio, which is using Unreal engine for them? It won’t be very moddable then.

I will just wait for Skyblivion.

Ser_Salty,

Wait, why would they use Unreal? Seems way easier to port them to newer versions of Creation to me.

Fwow13, do games w The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023
@Fwow13@lemmy.ml avatar

I recently introduced Untitled Goose Game to my 10 year old daughter, and now that’s all she wants to do with me every evening after her little sister goes to bed. So… That’s pretty much all I’ve been playing.

We’ll see what the next obsession will be.

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