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Thelsim, do gaming w Every Bethesda RPG, ranked from worst to best

I’m just glad Daggerfall got some appreciation. It is horribly outdated now, but back then it was the first game that really let me explore an open world and role-play as whoever I wanted to be (within the limitation of the game of course). I could do anything I wanted, go anywhere I pleased.
I don’t think I ever got far in the plot, but I spend months exploring every other nook and cranny. I still remember the vibrant online community it created in the form of webrings where people shared tips or showed off their screenshots in self-made geocities websites.

lowvisnitpicker,

Yeah, I’ve spent hundreds of hours in Daggerfall and never got far with the story, but I did figure out how to fly in the void outside the dungeons and shoot the really hard monsters with arrows! Daggerfall is so ridiculously big it probably has hundreds of towns that have only ever been visited by one obsessive kid who made a point to click on them all.

Sina, do gaming w Every Bethesda RPG, ranked from worst to best

While I know they just wanted to shit on Starfield, but at least I like how they’ve put Oblivion & Morrowind at the top, because I agree those two are by far the best on this list.

As for Starfield, It’s basically Skyrim in space. To me most of the criticisms Starfield gets outside of the -to me- irrelevant technicalities (loading screens, performance) apply to Skyrim as well. I played Skyrim at release and I was super disappointed, now playing Starfield felt largely the same, but a wee bit better. I don’t think the whole RPG progression system makes sense in a scifi rpg shooter, so that part is worse than Skyrim obviously, but at the same time the planets & various biomes make open world exploration more fun to me, though the main story is equally bad & there are a lot of immersion breaking things that make no sense “in space”. For example I love the digipick minigame, but it’s immersion breaking as f. (and then there is that part where I just joined a serious intergalactic organization & after like 1-2 missions they sent me on a diplomatic quest to decide the fate of the galaxy, basically)

HairHeel, do gaming w Every Bethesda RPG, ranked from worst to best
@HairHeel@programming.dev avatar

I almost gave up on Starfield because the main quest is just chasing MacGuffins around the universe, apparently? But I started doing the Ryujin Industries side quests and those are kinda fun I guess.

averyminya,

The side quests really make the game. My issue came down to after that first playthrough I did all the quests… So in ng+ what do I do, different choices?

t3rmit3,

the ng+ actually have some crazy changes to the game, that are randomized. You can either get a normal world, or 1 of 10+ altered worlds.

averyminya,

I remember seeing those articles. It was just tough putting together a life and stacked character and complete quests to throw it away for my experience which was another normal boring one (clarify, only boring because it was all exactly the same, I liked my first playthrough).

I like the game, it has a strong message behind it. It’s tough rebuilding your mantis ship decked with other quest ship materials and your alignments when you get a not crazy NG+

mojo, do gaming w Every Bethesda RPG, ranked from worst to best

I immediately know Morrowind would be the top. The game has not aged well.

ollie, do gaming w Cities: Skylines 2 review

how unexpected! personally I thought cs2 would launch with brand new features and improve on existing ones from the previous title! who could’ve guessed!

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I’m very surprised as well, was looking forward to this game but now I will naturally wait and see what gamers say. It’s also going to have performance issues, so I expect we end up with reviews being Mixed fairly quickly…

Shiggles,

Honestly, and this game hasn’t earned much leeway by releasing with the performance issues stated, but I think it’s appealing to a different crowd. Cities skylines was always a bit too goofy, whereas 2 has a bunch of new features that focus on actual city management but those often get overlooked by the lack of charm.

Profilename1,

Must be a day of the week that ends in y.

Fizz, do gaming w Cities: Skylines 2 review
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

I’m gonna get it once mods fix it up and add content

CorrodedCranium, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Thanks to fan projects, it’s still possible to play EverQuest as it used to be. The latest fan-run classic EverQuest server, Project Quarm, launched on October 1. Like other unofficial fan servers the Al’Kabor Project and Project 1999 before it, Quarm strives to present the game as it existed back in the first couple years of the game’s life—warts and all. Unlike Project 99, however, this server will progress through the classic era all the way through the 2002 Planes of Power expansion, seen by many to be the peak of the EQ experience.

Always cool to see fan projects like this. I know there are a few out there but I’m struggling to remember the names of them.

I thought there was one for Ultima Online I saw but that might have just been an article about its official online mode.


The article really seems to be for people who played EverQuest or similar MMOs a while back and are nostalgic about them though

kuoushi, (edited )

UO has a super robust eco system of private shards and server software. It’s kind of amazing. Pretty active development on things like ServUO or ModernUO servers. The client has been fully rewritten and actively developed with improvements on ClassicUO. All of these are open source as well.

For servers you have places that function entirely as different eras of UO like the Renaissance shard, or even entirely new content like what’s in Outlands.

There’s honestly a lot to be found out there and it’s really neat.

cyd,

Does it still present the classic UO experience where as soon as you walk five steps into the wilderness, PKs descend on you, kill you in a few hits, and take all your stuff?

CaptPretentious,

Well don’t go to the graveyard then!

Kiernian,

Ahh. the terror of walking into a cave and seeing nothing but inky black darkness and four lines of text pop up all at once


<span style="color:#323232;">       Corp Por
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                     Corp Por
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                                   Corp Por
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Corp Por
</span>

Always reminds me of this little ditty –

…on regs and runes I drift in the night

any place it gates is right

gate far

gate near

by a dungeon I reappear

well

you don’t know

what

we can find

why don’t you die for me little newb

on a magic Corp Por ride…

Credit where credit is due – www.digiphobia.com/ultimasongs/html/magic.html

PaupersSerenade, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

I actually jumped into the Imperium server recently and finally duo boxed. The real probably is that the down time that could be filled getting to know other players in your level range is slim.

I admit I’ve been having a lot of fun with New World following the first expansion. The artifact gear you can grind usually has a 6 minute timer (some are dungeon locked, and one spawn every 90 minutes according to server day/night schedule) and it’s made me nostalgic. The mob has nothing to do but chat, and it’s been really enjoyable so far.

That’s my ramble done, but anything EQ related gets me nostalgic.

rivalary,

My wife and I used to play everquest back in the day and I’ve been trying to get her to try New World with me but we’re just too busy nowadays.

Umbraveil, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today

Many fond memories with this one. But if I could go back and experience one game for the first time again, I’d have to go with Gemstone III.

Davel23, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today

Josh Strife Hayes just did a video on classic Everquest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU1zn2oohkM

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

And his conclusion is wildly different.

errer, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today

Asheron’s call also still lives through third party servers. I always like it better.

ParkedInReverse,

There isn’t any AC2 though is there?

Fauxaly, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today

This game was the best, I miss it tons.

InverseParallax,

Project Lazarus, the best of eq without most of the pain.

I got a monkey off my back I didn’t even know I was carrying for 20 years.

Ashtear, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today

It’s tempting, but I know it would be too much of a time suck. Especially pre-Planes of Power era, after which time spent traveling drops dramatically.

I can’t imagine anyone unfamiliar with the game dropping into one of these fan servers, though. Bit of a reputation for not everyone being the nicest people, especially towards new players.

lorty, (edited )
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Not only that, but the game has a steep and punishing learning curve.

peetabix, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today
@peetabix@lemmy.world avatar

I love that when Everquest first came out there was no map. You had to make your own hand drawn map to navigate in the game. I’d love that in a RPG today.

tburkhol,

I have a nostalgic affection for making my own maps. I remember discovering hidden rooms based on unfilled squares of graph paper, and mapping mazes of twisty corridors, both all alike and all different. I think that translating the digital representation to physical added vividness to the imaginary worlds when they were presented as simple wireframes, 8-bit graphics, or even just text.

Today, I don’t have time for it. I would almost certainly end up visiting the same - I’m guessing - half dozen places I could keep in a mental map, decide the game is boring, and play something else. Lazy. Jaded. Spoiled. Whatever - that phase of my development from reading static books, to reading interactive text, simple avatars, now near-photorealistic animations…the phase where I enjoyed the physical crutch for imagination is just gone.

billwashere, do games w Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today

Oh how I miss the days of Evercrack.

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