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Theharpyeagle, (edited ) w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

I’m pretty sure I soft locked my New Vegas save a good few years ago, or at least locked myself out of the ending I wanted. I was going for the Yes-Man ending, but I wanted to let House upgrade the robots first. I let him do it and then killed him to get the platinum chip back, but turns out he didn’t have it on him. Without any way to give the chip to Yes-Man, I was SoL. I think you can still complete the game with a couple other factions, but I know for sure that I already pissed The Legion off so I don’t know how many options are left. Maybe I’ll dig up that save somehow and try again.

Also, In the original Thief games (Thief: The Dark Project, Thief: Gold, and Thief 2), there was a brief fadeout period between dying and getting kicked to the game over screen. This death state didn’t lock the controls, so you could still move around, interact with objects, and, critically, quicksave. If you happened to quicksave at the moment of your death, there was nothing you could do to get out of dying. There was only one quicksave slot and no autosaves, so if you weren’t manually saving every now and then, you had to start the entire game over. Learned to make occasional checkpoint saves the hard way.

The death mechanic did lead to at least one hilarious fan mission where you had to get through a door and complete the mission after falling to your death.

JokeDeity,

Yes Man is the failsafe ending, so you should always be able to do it I’m pretty sure. Killing Yes Man should work like killing Victor and he just jumps to a new body if I remember correctly.

federated_toast,

Link to the fan mission? I’ve been getting my annual itch to go back to The City

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, w Starfield user score drops to "mostly positive" on steam

Steam has long since proven itself it be a useless metric to get any valuable statistics from.

It’s reviews have always been filled with memes, but especially now that reviews can be monetized.

Even poorly done negative reviews rake it a lot of Steam Points.

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

How can reviews be monetized also the overall score is what really matters and is far more trustworthy than any games reviewer. Oh you mean points, I still fail to see how that matters when a game has 10k+ reviews and some tiny portion of them are memes. There is literally nothing better in terms of reviews.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Steam reviews are generally 90% memes or circle jerking.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint had mostly negative. The reviews all complain about either no achievements or the fact that the game was locked to their Ubisoft launcher first. Not real criticism of the game, especially considering most of what people complained about on release was fixed by the time it got put onto Steam.

It’s now 7 months later and it’s finally gone up to mixed with mostly positive reviews recently, despite no changes to the game.

Compare Breakpoint to Wildlands, it’s not as good previous game, all of the recent reviews are still circle jerking but posting positively.

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As soon as Steam embraced the memes and shit reviews by adding a Funny button its reviews went to shit.

nanoUFO, (edited )
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You do realize you are cherry picking right? The power of steam reviews it that it’s just users posting what they want and there is a score aggregate with cool tools that tell you if a game is being review bombed. There are plenty of very good reviews on steam and I use them all the time when going through my many thousands of wish listed indie games. Please don’t tell you me you think reviews done by “game journalists” getting early review copies and going to review events is better… on the whole. At least with steam reviews I know it’s people like me rating a game.

pancakes, w NBA 2K24 is already the second-worst reviewed game on Steam
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Another lazy iteration of a yearly sports game with massive glaring issues? Colour me shocked, surprised, and astonished.

brihuang95,
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honestly, when was the last “good” 2k game?

EDIT: just read the article. i forget that for the PC version they keep using the last gen version of the game lol, how difficult is it to use the current gen version?

ConditionOverload,
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2k12 was probably the best one. 11 years ago.

BleatingZombie,

I still have that one for 360! I was never very good, but it’s always a ton of fun to play

In my uneducated opinion, it feels like the gaming industry advanced past “quarter-eating” mechanics and have reverse engineered their way back there. The rubber-banding doesn’t feel fun/competitive anymore. Even playing solo just feels like it’s just trying to give you a taste of success in an attempt to get you to spend real money. Those of us who won’t ever “pay-to-win” just see an arbitrarily difficult or awkward game. For example, one of the later ones feels like it changes the player speed drastically based on who IT wants to do better now

520,

EDIT: just read the article. i forget that for the PC version they keep using the last gen version of the game lol, how difficult is it to use the current gen version?

Jesus, really? It's one thing to do that for the Switch, but for PC?

brihuang95,
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yeah, that’s what my brother has told me and it’s why he hasn’t been buying the new ones

Mandy, w Starfield user score drops to "mostly positive" on steam

Ou for fucks sake people, games dont have to be perfect tens Its okay to be a 8/10 or 7/10

nanoUFO,
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The funny thing is that “Publisher Bethesda was not permitted to pay additional royalties for the RPG because it scored 84 on Metacritic, according to Fallout New Vegas developer Chris Avellone. It appears that Obsidian’s publishing contract included a deal that meant the studio would be issued bonuses if the game hit a Metacritic of 85.” scores matter to Bethesda a lot even enough to ruin relationships and screw developers.

Mandy,

i know that one, and my comment was 100% not about that none, really just about people really

doctorcrimson,

Your English is bad.

Mandy,

Oh nooooooo, a random nobody on the internet doesnt like how I write in my second language, whatever shall I do? Is that good enough for you sire? May I get your highly esteemed stamp of approval now?

Honytawk,

Guess we should switch to a different language then, the first language of OP.

Or are you then going to cry as well since you only mastered English?

GrayBackgroundMusic, (edited ) w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

Xmen on Sega genesis. At one point you have to literally reset the console. I was 10 and didn’t understand that’s what it was telling me to do. No game had ever done that, and prof x was breaking the 4th wall telling the player to do that. The game never broke the 4th wall otherwise. I didn’t understand until a decade later when I read it on some listicle.

tripledd, w NBA 2K24 is already the second-worst reviewed game on Steam

As much as I really don’t care for the games as a service model, I think it could actually work well for a lot of sports games. Maybe releasing a new game yearly like this just makes more money, but relatively minimal year to year changes would seem to fit well with the microtransactions

Zanshi,

Just Dance on Switch moved to this with 2023 edition. I honestly love having access to all the versions I bought as DLC rather than launching different versions depending on what songs I want

nanoUFO, w How Assassin’s Creed Mirage Is A Revitalized Take On the Series’ Roots
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Ubisoft claims to be making soulful games again [x] doubt

nanoUFO, w Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community
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I’m feeling better everyday about ditching unity and moving to godot.

derin,
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It is a lovely engine, and getting better every day. The more competition we get for Unity, the better.

simple,

On the exact same boat. I switched to Godot as soon as version 4 came out and have been really happy with it. I still use Unity professionally (at least until Godot 4 fixes some big issues), but most of my projects are now on Godot. God bless open source devs.

woelkchen,
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at least until Godot 4 fixes some big issues

With Godot being an open source project, you could scratch your own itch and help remedy the issues…

simple,

Sadly I’m really not good enough at C++ to contribute.

eldritch_lich,

Yeah my device struggled to run any major engines so Godot kinda saved my ass when I first got into gamedev many years ago. I was going to start learning the major engines now that I have slightly better hardware, but I guess I’m skipping Unity now.

poke, w Starfield user score drops to "mostly positive" on steam

Eh, guess I’ll drop my review.

The game seems good and mostly well made, with the best hand-crafted environments I’ve ever seen from Bethesda.

But when it comes to the core gameplay loop, I feel like I’ve played this game already and I got bored very, very quickly.

It truly plays like Fallout 4 but with more menus and loading screens in order to fast travel somewhere. There is space combat, but it doesn’t feel compelling to me. Click on bad ship until kaboom.

You want to fast travel? Drop some things, you can’t fast travel while encumbered. Please undock first, we have some quest events tied to undocking and we don’t want you to miss those. Please fast travel to the planet before landing at a location, we have some quest events tied to the space around planets and we don’t want you to miss those.

Again though, the game is generally well made and I can see a lot of people truly enjoying it and the many gameplay systems you can dive into like settlement, ship, crew building, and side questing.

The slower-paced looter shooter gameplay loop just really isn’t for me right now. I’d rather play Fallout or Borderlands.

Note that I haven’t commented on the story. I don’t feel like I’ve experienced enough of it to really give a good opinion on it. I’ve played 4 hours.

Honytawk,

It isn’t really a slower paced looter shooter, hell I barely loot anything and talk my way out of most situations.

It is more of a story based RPG, where you carve your own story out of the game. You decide what kind of character you want to play, and which quests you follow and which you ditch, anything is permitted.

If the only thing you do is go inside a random dungeon, shoot anything that moves, loot anything that isn’t nailed down and then go sell it, you won’t have a great time.

If you want to enjoy the game more, I’d suggest to choose a trope for your character: diplomatic Federation Captain, cunning Bounty Hunter, vicious Space Pirate, hardened Space Trucker, curious Scientific Explorer, …

Then find a quest line that synergies with your trope and follow it all the way through. Making decisions based upon how your character would react, not just what option will give you the most loot or is the easiest to accomplish.

Starfield has all the scifi tropes imaginable, kind of like what Skyrim had with Fantasy.

Currently I am enjoying my interpretation of the backstory of Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek. Being as helpful as I can, making philosophical statements and trying to find a diplomatic solution to anything. I change the UC to be the Federation and the Vanguard to be Starfleet. And recreated the USS Enterprise to the best of my abilities.

I had a blast for the whole ~26 hours I played.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

Fallout 1. During the term to the Master there is a 200 second countdown.

If you fooled up the speech check or want to do it differently and reload a save that was made after the countdown started then the countdown drops to 50 seconds. Making the fight impossible to do in time.

Mr_Buscemi,

I think you just helped me solve why I never finished it when I was 8 lol.

I was at the ending but was never able to finish it before the countdown ended. Now I need to install the game again!

Crazyslinkz, w Diablo 4 Korean Live Event Turns Into a Disaster With Empty Seats and Not a Lot of Interest

Lol, reddit refences in article. Yeah diablo 4 seems repetitive to me.

willywonkawashere, w Diablo 4 Korean Live Event Turns Into a Disaster With Empty Seats and Not a Lot of Interest

Rehash of all the previous Diablo games. No need to buy D4 as it is just built around you spending money.

InEnduringGrowStrong,
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Don’t you guys have phones wallets?
Blizzard was once great at making quality games.
That Blizzard doesn’t exist anymore and hasn’t in a while.

nanoUFO, w Thank you for 20 Years of Steam!
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“Top games of 2023”, Kerbal space program 2 “mostly negative” a classic

Jagermo, w Steam turns 20 today: "We've had to try a lot of different things over the years"

Never forget how it started. In the beginning, steam was as hated as uplay, origin and epic combined

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Bronzie, w How Assassin’s Creed Mirage Is A Revitalized Take On the Series’ Roots

Yeah I ain’t pre ordering, that’s for sure

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