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circuitfarmer, do gaming w Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This is getting a lot of flak, but I mostly agree. I have enjoyed the exploration of random planets as a pleasant aside to quests. Yes, they’re dull. It’s a lot of scanning flora and fauna, if they exist. Wandering slowly around.

But in that sense, it’s actually one of the most immersive activities in the whole damn game. If Starfield has an issue with anything, it’s immersion.

One thing I didn’t like about NMS, frankly, is that every planet seems to be teeming with life. It makes that life feel uninteresting when you find it, because there is no yin to the yang.

fosforus, do games w Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'

Everything time this dude opens his mouth, I get an urge to wear an eyepatch. But hey, if he’s as rich as he alludes here, that shouldn’t be a problem, right?

fosforus, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me

Doesn’t BG3 have that “throw the dice” -gimmick? At least we can avoid that horrible joke of a game mechanic in Starfield.

elgordio, do games w Astarion's voice actor (Neil Newbon) is doing a let's play of Baldur's Gate 3

Somehow I see to have completely missed this guy on my play through!

bjoern_tantau, do games w Astarion's voice actor (Neil Newbon) is doing a let's play of Baldur's Gate 3
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

I hope they get the audio problems sorted. They do hilarious shit but Tom’s robotic voice cutting out all the time makes it a hard listen.

BTW, they had the Narrator, Amelia Tyler, as a guest for their third stream. She’s a friend of Neil.

Cavemanfreak,

He has pinned a comment on the first video saying audio won’t be a problem going forward. Not sure if that’s for the videos already out, or for a new batch of videos though, haven’t seen the first batch yet.

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Nice, thanks.

finthechat, do gaming w Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me
@finthechat@kbin.social avatar

I had [semi-important named NPC] die during a quest but then still talk to me as they were lying on the ground. Just Bethesda things, I guess.

CMLVI,
@CMLVI@kbin.social avatar

They have a tiered system where important NPCs can't die until conditions are satisfied, wonder if the condition to die was satisfied but dialog still got delivered?

Maultasche, do gaming w Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me

This Fallout video is one of my favourite occurrences of this issue.

stopthatgirl7,
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That is amazing and I laughed so hard I had tears.

Everblue,

Holy shit my sides. That robot has 0 fucks to give, get slapped.

gregorum,

This is the first thing I’m reading today, and I think it’s going to set the entire tone for the day. 

Thank you, it’s amazing!

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The last one linked in the article was really good, too.

Farewell.

Maultasche,

May you rest in peace.

storksforlegs,
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

I’m pretty sure I woke up my neighbour laughing at that this morning… holy crap

TheAlbatross, do gaming w Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me

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  • atocci,

    I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took a laser in the knee.

    TheAlbatross,

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  • atocci,

    I just started last night, but that was immediately the vibe I was getting. Not a bad thing so far, but I never did finish Skyrim, so I guess I'll see if this goes the same way...

    TheAlbatross,

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  • tias,

    Bethesda didn’t evolve over the past 10 years. They just added some ambient occlusion and increased the resolution of their textures. The game engine was OK when when Skyrim came out, but it’s really kind of embarrassing that the exact same issues still remain in 2023.

    interolivary,
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    I’ve only finished eg. Skyrim or Fallout 4 both once, but I’ve got gods know how many zillions of hours in them, especially after installing Sim Settlers 2 for FO4. I like the worlds, I just don’t care much about the story and the games don’t make me care about the story

    Quentinp, do gaming w Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me
    @Quentinp@lemmy.ca avatar

    Sniping pirates and leaving them sitting in odd poses is oddly sad. Sometimes they freeze in place sitting on a couch or whatever. Low G has some weird stuff going on when you kill someone too, although watching dead bodies slowly float down is a neat touch.

    pimento64, do games w Atari acquires massive Atari archive (AtariAge) after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges

    Atari acquires massive Atari archive (AtariAge) after revealing a ‘new’ 2600 that takes cartridges recaptures their intellectual property rights over former abandonware

    Caligvla,
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Current Atari is only Atari in name, they’re a completely different company.

    geosoco,

    From a hardware perspective, that's been true since just after the 1983 crash, when it was sold to Jack Tramiel's company -- even before the Lynx and Jaguar. The software side was split into Atari games which has an even longer history of being passed around.

    Prewash_Required, do games w Atari acquires massive Atari archive (AtariAge) after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges

    Sadly, this may mean the days of homebrew programming for the 2600 are at an end. AtariAge is where all those programmers sold their wares, along with homebrews for other platforms like Intellivision and ColecoVision. I’ll have to head back over there for the first time in a while to see what they say about it.

    Kolanaki, do games w I've played the Star Trek game of my dreams, and it's a grand strategy game
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    My ideal Star Trek game would be a first-person immersive sim where I can just be a random citizen in the galaxy and just… Live there. Maybe I join Star Fleet. Maybe I join the Marquis. Or I could be a Klingon or a Borg, or one of the Dominion’s warrior slave dudes addicted to drugs.

    underisk, (edited ) do games w [Spoilers] Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret, brutal game over scene for players who somehow overcome every safeguard to permanently lose a critical item
    @underisk@lemmy.ml avatar

    That ending scene is used in at least one other circumstance:

    spoilerif you kill the emperor at the start of Act 3 inside the astral prism

    It’s probably just a generic scene for miscellaneous unwinnable game states.

    Wogi,

    Your spoiler tag isn’t spoiler tagged.

    Also I saw that cutscenes once before making it as far as you describe, I don’t even remember how, pretty sure it was midway through act 2. But it’s definitely a semi generic cutscene for when you lose in a particular type of way.

    MimicJar,

    I got it during the Act 2-3 transition. I had a fight that had to end in 3 or so turns and I didn’t make it.

    Wogi,

    That’s where it got me. I remember now

    Hoomod,

    I don’t think you can use line breaks with the spoiler markdown

    underisk,
    @underisk@lemmy.ml avatar

    It’s working fine on the client im using and I’m using the format buttons in the web-based editor. What syntax works on your guys’ end?

    baked_tea,

    I’m using Liftoff app and the spoilers are never hidden

    p03locke, do games w [Spoilers] Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret, brutal game over scene for players who somehow overcome every safeguard to permanently lose a critical item
    @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    The comparison is funny, considering how easy it is to fire the mining laser accidentally. Button shiny!

    Carighan, do gaming w Epos Gaming to 'wind down' but all employees have already lost their jobs
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ll be honest, I had never even heard the name. Neither of the company, nor of any of their products. Still sucks for the employees of course, the current downturn is huge and as it accelerates and more and more investors pull out, the money the C-suites care about disappears and they panic even more about their bonuses so they fire and shutter even harder.

    The made-up money that is the stock market can sadly have very real effects on employees’ livelihoods. :( But of course not on the CEOs who happily cash their 6-/7-digit base salary and then just fuck off to the next company they can drive into the ground.

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