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Coelacanth, do games w Was it Good? - Neverwinter Nights
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I remember the DM tools and custom campaign multiplayer being fantastic, but I don’t remember too much of the actual story. What I do remember is hating the restriction of a single follower, as the party banter is one of my favourite things in this type of games.

brsrklf,

Yeah, I got it mostly for the campaign, hoping for more Baldur’s Gate. It was so disappointing.

The story was uninspired, but most of all solo gameplay was so boring. One character, one NPC companion and you couldn’t control them in any way, starting at low level, all of that made your strategic choices practically inexistent.

And then the engine breaking everywhere causing it to rewind your action after 5 seconds because it suddenly remembered “hey, you were not supposed to be able to go there, we’ve put a bunch of knee-high crates to block that 5 meter wide empty hallway!”

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Yeah I had pretty much the same experience. BG2 was my favourite game at the time (it’s still up there) so I was incredibly hyped, but it felt flat in comparison.

At least I got enough bang for my buck with the multiplayer stuff.

lemmyng,
@lemmyng@lemmy.ca avatar

It was a very linear story, too.

Ledivin, do games w No Man's Sky Worlds Part I Update Trailer

Still missing features that they actively claimed were in the game at release, over 8 years later. Disappointing.

ephrin,

Dude, for real? Like what?

I’m sorry, but any game putting out free content updates (and major ones, too) over 8 years later is unheard of these days. Like, maybe Minecraft is the only other one I can think of.

mortemtyrannis,

Stardew Valley

Valheim

Dota 2

ephrin,

Ok, good call. So five so far.

Aquila,

Valheim’s early access

kudos,

Valheim isn’t out 8 years.

dual_sport_dork,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Such as…?

Muscar,

Pretty sure they’ve added everything they claimed, this is one of the reasons why people like them so much. It has all and more.

bionicjoey, (edited ) do games w Whiskerwood Announce Trailer

“Takes inspiration from Rimworld and Civ” looks like a bullshit tagline. This is a city builder, not a rimworld-style colony sim/story generator or a 4x game. It looks much more comparable to Timberborn, Against the Storm, or Banished. Which isn’t a bad thing. Those are all great games. I just wish there was a bit more honesty in the marketing here.

Anyway, it looks like fun. I’ve wishlisted it.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

The RimWorld comparisons don’t strike me as bullshit in the least bit. If you asked me to name one game that came to mind from this trailer, it would be RimWorld. For Civ, I guess it’s those screens that look like diplomacy and trade? That one’s harder to pin down, but I don’t doubt that they were inspired by it in some way, even if it doesn’t manifest very visibly in the trailer.

bionicjoey,

I guess if you don’t play a huge variety of these kinds of games it could superficially resemble Rimworld, but it strikes me as a very different beast. Like I said, to me it looks much more like Timberborn. The only part of the trailer where it looked anything like Rimworld was the couple of frames where they appeared to be designating some blocks to be mined in order to create a tunnel.

bionicjoey,

To explain myself a bit more: one of the key distinguishing features of Rimworld as what Tynan calls a “story generator” is the focus on characters. There are heavy rpg mechanics baked into the characters in a Rimworld colony, and the colony typically has relatively few members. This combined with the storyteller system has the effect of creating a much more personal story. Contrast that with most Banished-like games, of which I’m including this one, where your characters don’t really have much of a personality and are relatively fungible.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

How can you rule out from this trailer the possibility that it shares these qualities with RimWorld? Because I sure can’t.

bionicjoey,

There are some frames where they’ve selected the mice and they don’t appear to have much in the way of RPG mechanics. Certainly nothing of the same scale as Rimworld. Plus, the scale of the game precludes telling the same kinds of stories. You can tell by the scale of it that mice are meant to be cheap and plentiful. I’d imagine in a good run in this game you might easily have over 50 mice. Whereas on any reasonable difficulty of Rimworld, you are lucky to have more than 10 pawns.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I’d say both that you’re making a lot of assumptions off of not a lot of information, and that it can be inspired by RimWorld without being exactly like RimWorld, perhaps even with different strengths, but it certainly looks like they were inspired by RimWorld.

bionicjoey,

It’s hard to say at this point, but there’s a lot in the trailer that makes me think “Timberborn” and only a couple of frames and pixels that make me think “Rimworld”. And given that their marketing tagline is “inspired by Rimworld” you’d think they would show off any Rimworldiness a bit more in the trailer.

bionicjoey, (edited )

Here is what I’m referring to. You can see the mouse just has a basic list of moods and maybe some kind of job specialization.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f1f615ea-00e3-40b5-85e0-9b9c86cee845.png

Pawns in Rimworld have a deep backstory, full sets of skills, family, dynamic relationships with every other pawn in the world, a full inventory including every bit of clothing, and with the DLC, they gain the potential to earn royal rank, biomods, cybernetics, and spellcasting.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve only played the base game of RimWorld, and that looks very RimWorld to me.

bionicjoey,

Agree to disagree. But then, I have >1300 hours in Rimworld. It’s possible I have a much stronger feel of it and that’s colouring my perspective of this new game.

EncryptKeeper,

I’ve got 2,000h in Rimworld and it’s sufficiently like Rimworld for that tagline.

Telorand, do gaming w Satisfactory Announcement

So excited for this. I’m going to start a new game when it drops.

Vodulas,

For sure the same. Want to do a single player run, but multiplayer is a lot of fun. It turns some of the more ridiculous space elevator parts into a group project

NeryK, do games w Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Gameplay Overview Trailer
@NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

NGL, I’m really digging what they are showing in this marketing campaign.

Eggyhead, do games w Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Announcement Trailer

Ah. The game I bought a switch to play, just in time for the following generation.

MacedWindow, do games w Why do we need a PS5 Pro? And who would want one?
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

Why in the world does this have so many downvotes? Lemmy voters can be so hostile to content, and then commenters seem cool. I don’t understand it at all.

Congrats on your first video! It’s well shot. I want the PS5 pro to drop so I can talk me brother into getting it and giving me his PS5.

Katana314,

I think it’s vehement disagreement with the premise, or in other words “We don’t need a PS5 Pro”.

One explanation for the sentiment is that people have already invested a significant chunk of their limited savings into the mammoth PS5 - and want that to provide them some of the best games on offer. They’re worried that after a Pro, they will become second citizen or get downscaled games.

Even if you provide an answer like “But that won’t happen”…they don’t trust that answer. Trust is not common in consumer sentiment right now.

dogslayeggs, do games w Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal

The combat looks a bit repetitive.

dogslayeggs, do games w Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Showcase | Ubisoft Forward

That looked far better than I expected. It had a lot of Horizon Forbidden West vibes to the gameplay, but the graphics definitely felt like being in the Star Wars universe.

hisXLNC, do games w Fable - Xbox Games Showcase 2024

If thats the main character ill pass

themeatbridge,

What are you whining about?

hisXLNC, (edited )

For anyone that can actually read and understand what they read, its quite obvious what I complained about.

themeatbridge,

It’s weird to be snarky about literacy when you have a spelling error in your whining.

hisXLNC,

A spelling error? Oh no! Whatever will we do!? Stfu retard

themeatbridge,

So doubling down on the bigotry, eh? At least you’re honest about what you’re about.

hisXLNC,

Not wanting to play an intentionally ugly character is bigotry for your smooth brain. I know youre hideous and want to feel represented but normal people prefer a character customization option so they can make the character they want and not be forced to play some ugly looking character because of “diversity. “

themeatbridge,

The fact that you think “intentionally ugly” and “diversity” are the same thing is just a staggering new form of ignorant intolerance. I’m going to need a minute to digest that.

Ok, so many question…

Is it that you only play as characters you want to fuck? Or you only play as characters that look like you? Or is it both, and you only want to fuck people who look like you, and want to play games where that’s part of it?

How ugly do you need to be to no longer be normal? Or is it being different from you that makes people ugly?

Are all ugly people minorities in your mind? Like you see someone on the street with crooked teeth and a mishapen head, and you think “Your kind aren’t welcome here!” Or are there certain minorities that are ugly to you, and you think this character model looks like one of “them”? Which group is even represented in this trailer?

I’m really curious about you. I’d really rather not be, and I’d probably be happier if I just forget you exist. You’re like a really weird shaped piece of dog shit. How were you formed? What the fuck was wrong with that dog?

I know you probably won’t give me answers, and will probably just fall back on some tired cliche of an insult again. But on the off chance that you feel like sharing, I’d love to know more.

djsaskdja,

You can usually create your own character in these types of games.

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w South of Midnight | Official Gameplay Trailer

Wow this looks great! Loved the vibe from the previous trailer a while back. Definitely keeping an eye on it.

Koen967, do games w Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Official Showcase Reveal

This studio really got the Indiana Jones tone down. Love the humor in this trailer.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Official Showcase Reveal

This game looks better every time they show it. Initially I was very worried when they talked about the dreaded project killing words “made for a modern audience,” but it appears this is going to be alright.

psmgx, do games w Homeworld 3 Review by Mandalore Gaming

Sounds like he hated the writing. Shame, that was a strong point in the series

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

His review of Homeworld Cataclysm (“Emergence”) made me buy the game just based on how he talked about the plot and tone.

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

The antagonist of Cataclysm is actually legitimately scary.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Well to be fair, only Cataclysm had decent writing. HW1 lived off its world building, but being a fresh setup it did a superb job with that.

Then HW2 mostly coasted on the success of HW1 in world building, bringing much of it down with its shallow design but eh, still good enougthe problem is that by now the world is known in large parts. Bow they need to bring in actual story, especially because we know from Cataclysm that they can do that.

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

It was a strong point of the original and Cataclysm…

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

There are like 12 credited writers for Homeworld 3.

Let that sink in.

Badeendje, do games w Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Official PvE Co-Op Mode Gameplay Reveal Trailer
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

That looks pretty slick. Now let’s hope the gameplay is fun and they manage to foster a proper community.

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