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AMillionMonkeys, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
@AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world avatar

Pillars of Eternity. I really appreciate that they must have had some Anthropology majors on the team, especially for II, because the worlds feel much more exotic than other RPGs. It shows up just how generic Medieval Fantasy most RPGs are.
The tropical Roparu (?) society with its caste system is particularly interesting. The interaction of the various factions is believable. And of course the pantheon is well though out.
The downside is that they can be clumsy about exposition of the world - especially in the first one, you get these enormous lore-dumps.

Agent_Karyo, (edited )

I can't wait till they add true turn based combat to Pillars of Eternity.

I played about 3-4 hours and the loved setting and the world, but the real time combat did not work for me.

I don't mind real-time combat, but it has to be in third person.

seat6,

I couldn’t agree more! It’s a fantasy game but it explores some really cool concepts; like colonialism and freedom vs order.

zerofk,

I also love how reincarnation is a fact of life in that world, and souls are a real, almost physical, thing that can be manipulated and used.

nymnympseudonym, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
@nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world avatar

NetHack

i_dont_want_to,

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FishFace,

Eh? It has almost none, and what there is is rendered completely inconsistent.

QuantumTickle, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?

Rimworld

blave, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?

Fallout

hydrashok, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?

Dave the Diver

TheFeatureCreature, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca avatar

The TES series in general for its massive, expansive lore.

But Morrowind in particular has absolutely incredible world-building with incredible creativity and originality. There is a reason why so many people keep going back to the n’wah simulator and it’s because the world is so rich and fleshed out. So much of the following games was built off Morrowind’s stunning work.

SnotFlickerman,

Twice now I have tried to make a top level comment and accidentally responded to a thread instead… Anyway…

Instead of leaving this deleted I will agree wholeheartedly that while I personally am not the biggest fan of the TES series they have some of the most deep, complex and (somewhat) organized lore there is.

I just wish they would hire better script writers and weren’t so afraid of locking content behind player choices. Always having every option available just feels a little silly.

FishFace,

Yeah. And Skyrim really needed better VAs. That one guy who voiced Farengar just did not properly understand some of his lines and consequently butchered them.

rustydrd,
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

As someone whose first TES was Morrowind, it set the bar so high in terms of worldbuilding, I was honestly a bit disappointed with the later entries into the series. Oblivion (more generic fantasy setting) and Skyrim (nordic with dragons) definitely played better, but the worlds were much less unique and memorable.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

Subnautica and Raft

SnotFlickerman,

Wait Raft has lore and world building?? I love that game but I never even paid that close attention. Guess I need to go look now.

Modern_medicine_isnt,

Having played a lot of raft with my kids, I can say I never would have thought of it for this. But looking back, yeah, there is a good deal of world building going on.

drunkpostdisaster, do gaming w Imagine being this cool

Of it was League of legends that baby would be done.

BroBot9000, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Hollow Knight.

Absolutely can’t get enough of the world and all the interesting characters and hidden lore.

Auster,

One detail that held to me the strongest is the characters' talking patterns. It feels like dialogues were written in another language and then converted to English. The strongest example I think was the lady that gives the Knight flowers for delivering, which also is added to, iirc, being at least implied she is one of the oldest creatures in Hallownest.

phoenixz, do gaming w Imagine being this cool

I feel like there is. “Your mama” joke in there somewhere

Well done!

kamen, do gaming w Imagine being this cool

That’s kind of the total opposite of the typical “Florida man” scenario.

ParadoxSeahorse,

Because Florida Man is such a shambles Florida Woman must shine extra brightly

DrDystopia, do gaming w Imagine being this cool

Very well, I am currently imagining it.

cyberpunk007, do games w Day 472 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Serious question, do you actually play a different game every single day?

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t say it’s a “different” game, but I play a lot with friends and they like to bounce around or try new things (and I tend to get distracted by other games too).

Sometimes you’ll notice me get really hooked on a game and play that for like a week straight. I think Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Silent Hill f were the last single player games I got hooked on like that. I tried to get into Resident Evil 2 during October too but something about it I couldn’t get into at the time. Maybe some other time.

BreakerSwitch, do games w Day 473 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

This doesn’t make me super want to play 5, the only game in the main series I haven’t played, but it does make me appreciate the rest, sometimes in ways I’ve recognized, and others not so much. Halo was somewhat unique in the Halo 3 2007 era, where every game was shades of grey and brown, because enemies were still colorful, with distinct designs and silhouettes, and the game at least started in a lush jungle. While certainly waypoints made a difference, I want to say most interactive items were either brightly lit forerunner panels in blue, covenant panels in bright green, or human ones that were just a huge green button. Clearly that design was well thought out and done for good reason, even if it would be reasonable to consider them a little silly in their dramatic design. They stood out, even in halo 3s large setpiece battle areas

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Halo 5, ultimately feels like more 4 to me, so I’d say you’re not missing much besides the lore. But yeah, the design is really the worst part here.

Now that you mention the bright colors and standout interactive pieces of the earlier games, that’s definitely the difference I’m noticing between these. Like with the shutter door I mentioned. It really does not look like you can smash through it or interact with it in anyway.

BreakerSwitch,

Yeah, and that’s okay, as long as you’ve taught your players to be looking for that. If it’s the fifth game in the series and suddenly shifts to a couple of small, subtle interactibles and occasional pieces of important destructible environment, where those never existed prior, you better be using them all over, and from the start teaching players that they exist. It’s so important to teach players what the game expects of them. Going “what do I do!?” Is such a horrible experience every time, even in otherwise good games

damnedfurry, do gaming w Imagine being this cool

Credit where credit’s due, but it seems like great pains have been taken to hide the fact that this was a tournament of 4 players.

Looks like she also had a 1st place finish in this tournament, which had over triple the entrants (14), and she did it while 7 months pregnant—that’s much more impressive, imo.

sausager,

As someone who is sitting next to his newborn who he just brought home yesterday - the fact she did literally anything besides sleep is much more impressive

Edit: grammar. I’m so tired

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

Huge congrats! Hang in there - everything gets easier soon.

RustySharp,

soon

Could you please be more specific? It’s been 13 years. Maybe in another year?

ook,
@ook@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yes. Another year. Or another life. I keep mixing up these terms.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

Next week for sure.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Classic Dexerto, making a headline that gives a wildly inaccurate impression of reality.

The headline made it seem like she won a tournament on the likes of EVO, not some small local tournament that could have just been among family members. Its cool she did this, but the author is REALLY trying hard to live up to their name (Virgina Glaze ).

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