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x00z, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 US price won’t increase after tariffs, but accessories will cost more
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

That means they are asking so much that it wouldn’t even hurt them that much.

Gradually_Adjusting, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

What a treat, and what a win for self-hosting. I wish they talked more about how they did it in the article.

MITM0, do games w Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

It’s people that need to evolve, not games

Evotech, do games w Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation

They are evolving. Just look at battle aces

tobogganablaze,

That’s what it was called, I tried to remember the game from a couple of months ago, when a bunch of big RTS streamers were suddenly all playing it for a few days. I’ve never seen a game that got boring so fast.

Typical micro-only focus with basebuilding and economy completely automated and a extremly limited pre-selected tech tree.

Evotech,

It was fun to play. Early Access / beta access ended which is why everyone stopped playing it.

Looking forward to release

cmrn, do games w The new Flappy Bird game has a hidden secret: crypto

I feel like they’re a couple years late to the boat on that (already sunken) fad

SomeRandomNoob, do games w Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report

i believe it when the games survive the release week

TrojanRoomCoffeePot, do games w Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers
@TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world avatar

If anyone wants/needs a turn-based Fantasy/Strategy/RPG game in their life, take a look at Age of Wonders.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/079a13b5-4fed-4b38-af71-e2198c5a29fa.png

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w Elden Ring Nightreign devs warn players on PC with the “latest graphics cards” may experience significant performance issues

Interesting. I assume it is related to the ongoing nvidia driver hell? Except ERN would likely want the latest patch for whatever features nVidia added to better support them and… yeah.

TwoBeeSan, do games w Sniper Elite Resistance dev defends asset reuse - “if they’re there to use, why not use them?”

When unreal 3 was prominent you could pick out geometry from several different games. Things looked vaguely similar.

Not inherently an issue will see how the game is. These games have been the definition of sale in the past. Good dumb fun occasionally

tal, do games w Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

“Fallout is the big one,” Middler claimed. “There are multiple Fallout projects in development, including, as far as I’m aware, that one that I’m sure you’re all wanting. It’s not far enough in along to say anything like ‘you’re going to be playing this game anytime soon’.”

Middler then joked, “Anyway, New Vegas 2, coming soon”. Is this the one we’re “all wanting”? Yes, but then also so is Fallout 3 Remastered, Fallout 5 and even a remake of Fallout 2. The fanbase is rabid, and hungry, and it’s been a long time since they’ve been fulfilled outside of Fallout 76 updates.

I mean, if Bethesda released all four of those, I’d buy all four.

I also don’t know what “Fallout 3 Remastered” entails, but if it means forward-porting the content to Starfield’s engine, that’d be pretty cool, though I do wonder how much effort will be required for mod-porting.

ArmoredThirteen,

I’m rabid and hungry because Bethesda has fucked up everything they’ve touched lately and I want something that makes me feel like how old Bethesda games did. Give me Morrowind remaster damnit, and Bethesda didn’t even make Fallout 2 and NV they’d butcher remaster/remakes

Death_Equity,

Morrowind remake should have come before Oblivion. I deeply wish to experience Morrowind again with updated graphics.

I suspect that it is considerably harder to do because of the engine and requires nearly a full remake.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Honestly, I feel like Morrowind is the title least in need of a remaster, as unlike later 3D titles, it has an open-source fan reimplementation of the engine, OpenMW, plus the fan updates of content.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnvOy5Kw79Y

It looks like the OpenMW people are also working on a VR version.

Death_Equity,

Those graphics are ass compared to what could be done today. Just look in the leap from Oblivion to the remaster. Morrowind making a jump in graphics would be monumental.

ICastFist,
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Bethesda could earn a significant amount of goodwill back by simply using OpenMW on a Morrowind Remaster and helping with its development, even if only for a year.

Death_Equity,

That makes zero business sense. Bethesda would never make money on throwing away thousands or tens of thousands of man-hours on that. They would spend more on a remaster, but they would make money in the end.

The Oblivion remaster sold more in two weeks than Oblivion made in a year. It sold more copies in April alone than the original did in 15 months.

cmhe,

I also don’t know what “Fallout 3 Remastered” entails, but if it means forward-porting the content to Starfield’s engine, that’d be pretty cool, though I do wonder how much effort will be required for mod-porting.

I think all their previous games will eventually get the Oblivion Remaster treatment. So a frankenstein’d UE45 renderer + gamebyro backend.

commander, do games w Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”

Dragon Age 1-3 all had their drawbacks but could always fall back on how beloved the lore was and how it was present. Dragon Age Veilguard has much of the lore the original creator laid out but presents the revelations in its game poorly and retcons lore from previous games in sterile ways. The original creator left after 3 and over the decade has dropped tidbits about the changing culture of the studio he left

Bonesince1997, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 US price won’t increase after tariffs, but accessories will cost more

Sneaky

hal_5700X, do games w Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report

Bethesda killed Fallout. With shit games and that trash TV show.

Nibodhika,

Oh yeah, they absolutely killed Fallout, the first game released by Bethesda (Fallout 3) was such a franchise killer that only sold 20 times more than the original game, and their latest game fiasco only doubled that. And let’s not talk about that fiasco of a TV show, that couldn’t even make it to most watched on Amazon, had to settle for the 2nd most watched show on Amazon, with only 4 times more viewers than Fallout 4 sold copies… In short, yeah, the new direction is such a fiasco that only managed to bring 165 new customers for every 1 that the original had.

Sources:

vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout

wccftech.com/the-fallout-tv-show-has-registered-1…

hal_5700X,

Just because something is popular. Doesn’t mean it’s good.

Nibodhika,

I never said they were good, and you didn’t complain about them being bad, you complained about killing the franchise, and whether a franchise is dead or alive IS measured by popularity.

hal_5700X, (edited )

…whether a franchise is dead or alive IS measured by popularity.

That’s one way. But the better way is how good of a product is. Is by judging it on writing, story, and characters. If you do that to Bethesda Fallout. They are killing the franchise.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers

Ironically, the turn based combat in Final Fantasy is the biggest reason I don’t play it. I find that the combat feels too repetitive, because its always the same animations, same music, same background per area, etc. Also, the random battle encounter mechanic annoys me when I just want to explore and I have to fight an entire army just to move from one side of an area to the other side.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve loved most of the Final Fantasy games. But the PS1 games (the golden era) were the worst about this.

Pre-PS1 typically required more thought. You had to balance magic use, item use, and of course melee. But even then you had to debate whether to spend a turn reviving your healer or try to get the victory before a team wipe.

Post PS1 you had X’s rock paper scissors battle. You had to figure out who could attack who. It wasn’t too complicated but it forced variety.

XII streamlined the auto attacking and allowed you to focus on the exceptions (enemy weak against fire, use silence, cure). That could be automated too, but I liked to handle that myself.

XIII & XIII-2 forced you to balance your jobs/classes constantly in battle.

Lightning Returna, XV, and XVI were real time.

Tactics was PS1, but it definitely required more than just attack.

The PS1 games, for the most part, could be dominated with “press X”. Most of the strategy took place outside of battle.

RightHandOfIkaros,

I played FFX for like, 20 hours give or take. The combat wasn’t so obnoxious in that games like previous ones. But then I got to the Seymour Wedding part, what I can only describe as “the part where you must defeat all these enemies in order with no save points in between and if you werent prepared with 30 billion healing items and Lulu (the GOAT) gets killed, your game is basically softlocked” part. Beat that (thank you savestate scumming) and was already not having fun but that cutscene at the end of that part was frustrating to me. It felt like every character was acting extremely out of character, except maybe Seymour, and it was at that point that I decided I wasn’t having fun anymore and didn’t really care enough to try to potentially suffer more of that.

I really tried to like Final Fantasy. I want to like it. I just don’t like that kind of gameplay experience.

But I do enjoy FF Tactics.

Soggy,

That part is like only like five fights against humans and robots, the only tricky part is the kicky robots will ruin you if you save them for last. And you’ve been without Yuna for a bit by that point so somebody (Kimahri or Rikku) should be filling in the healer role already. It is a weird and kinda weak story sequence but I think the game starts improving after that point.

RightHandOfIkaros,

This is certainly a good strategy but this probably assumes the player has been grinding levels. I don’t do that. I play the storyline, and do absolutely no extra grinding because it is boring. I must have been underleveled because those “just humans and robots” were getting a TPK in 2 or 3 turns of combat on I think the 4th group.

Sad to hear the game gets better, but honestly it took me 20+ hours to get to that point and I wasn’t absolutely loving the game. By the time I quit, I just kept thinking that I wished I could play as Jecht instead of Tidus. Jecht had a better design and his voice acting seemed less annoying. I understand the specific voice acting quirks of FFX, but it sure sounded like Tidus’ english actor was some random Square picked up off the street and paid $50 to read the lines. Along with other annoyances, I just decided dropping it was probably for the best. Lulu was my favorite character, with Jecht or Auron being second place. Seymour was good as a character, I just didn’t like him.

simple, do games w Dune Awakening is Funcom’s fastest-selling game ever as new MMO crushes the studio’s previous records
@simple@piefed.social avatar

It's funny in hindsight because before this game released there were so many armchair analysts saying it would be dead on arrival. Good for them.

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