bionicjoey

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

For Oblivion, there is Skyblivion coming out next year.

Not sure what you hope would be added in a “remake” though. You’re asking for something which would inherently do very little and be exactly the sort of cash grab that we normally condemn. You want these games with better graphics or mechanics? Play with mods.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Whenever people criticise Bethesda games for their engine, I pretty much assume right away they know nothing about game development. Bethesda’s engine is something they have a lot of control over and can constantly improve and iterate on. It’s not as though Starfield and Morrowind are running on the exact same codebase.

Starfield is bad because of bad game design, not bad game development. Skyrim was buggy on release as well, and yet people loved it because the design of the game was good enough that people were willing to forgive the programming flaws. People overvalue the engine in discussions about Bethesda games and it’s become this meme among people to seem like they sound like they know what they’re talking about, but ultimately the flaws in Bethesda games that determine their success has very little to do with what engine they use.

Also, the Skyblivion team is constantly releasing dev diaries showing the progress, and the mod is nearly finished. It looks very well done, and the whole thing is out in the open. There’s no reason to be cynical about whether it will ever release when you can literally go look at the progress with your own eyes.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Honestly I think that if ES6 is to Skyrim what FO4 is to FO3, it will probably be good.

The danger is if they try to replicate Starfield or FO76, ie. cut corners like crazy, be blinded by dollar signs in their eyes.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

If you like Obra Dinn, you’ll love Outer Wilds

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Funny, that game is by the same creator as the game OP mentioned.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

If Borderlands 3 had released on Steam, I’d have probably bought it when it came out because I still had a lot of goodwill for the series at that time. Instead, I had to wait until the Steam release when the game already had loads of negative press. Exclusive deals are idiotic

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Same! I still play Civ V all the time

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Machine learning is irrelevant to the sort of AI used in a game like this.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

The only competitive game that I’ve ever been particularly good at was Battlerite (Blossom main), and that was completely abandoned by the devs and community.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Game bugged out or something because they started rendering as skeletons instead of their avatars. So i guess i have my own literal skeleton crew now

You best start believing in ghost stories. You’re in one.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

I’m curious why people assume PM is incapable of delivering on promises. Like, I know he has a history of overhyping games, but surely he must also have some games where he actually delivered an awesome and complete game, right? Like the first 2 Fable games were pretty amazing.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Fair enough. I certainly won’t pre order this, but if it comes out and it gets good reviews, I may give it a shot

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah good point. I forgot about the whole “plant an acorn” thing

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

It’s not a question of demand, it’s a question of profit. Multiplayer games stand to make a lot more money than singleplayer. Nobody will spend real world dollars on cosmetic items in a singleplayer game.

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

Not even close to the same scale as what Valve and Blizzard get people to pay for skins and hats

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

For added authenticity, they should exclusively employ members of Cosa Nostra as voice actors

bionicjoey, 2 miesiące temu

People forget that basically everything about Trump’s campaign was copied directly from Reagan. Right down to the MAGA slogan

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

Sounds like AI will be used to detect the shitty meme reviews. Honestly a great use of ML

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

It has never worked though, as far more people would vote helpful if something made them laugh (because people just think “more upvote”)

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

I never said advanced. They say they are using ML as part of the process in the post

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

There is a tutorial mission to show you some of the basics.

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress

So like SMITE?

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

I see. This is probably a pretty niche reference nowadays, but is it more similar to Monday Night Combat? That was an actual shooter IIRC and had mobs mechanics like lanes and creeps.

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

Steam says it gets a yellow score for Steam Deck. Anyone know how it plays?

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

All of this could have been said about PDX’s Sims competitor Life By You when it got “delayed indefinitely” too. But then a week later it was cancelled. And then a week after that the lead dev came out and said there was no reason for it to have been cancelled because they had been on track for release before Paradox pulled the plug.

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

I think it’s just a specific setpiece moment. You can see the texture of the rocks closer to the player on the right and they are pretty typical for FNV

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

Turn-based all the way. RTS is a test of how fast you can click. APM is king. Turn-based allows you to think and plan and make decisions. Brain is king.

To be clear there’s nothing wrong with liking RTS, it’s just not for me.

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

CRPGs like Dragon Age Origins and BG3 are awesome

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

Technically it stands for “Computer RPG” but nowadays it’s more commonly meant as “Classic RPG”. It refers to any of those games like the classic Fallouts, Baldur’s Gates, Planescape Torment, that blend turn-based strategy game with RPG. Modern examples are BG3, Pathfinder: War of the Righteous, Pillars Of Eternity 2, Wasteland 3, etc.

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

sh.itjust.works/post/22476834

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

What game?

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

Ave, true to Caesar

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

Wh40k: Mechanicus has some amazing music.

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

This is an unofficial mod

bionicjoey, 3 miesiące temu

TLDR:

• Fishing
• Unreal Engine 5
• Crossbows
• New portraits

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

“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.

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

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, 4 miesiące temu

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.

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

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.

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

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.

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

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, 4 miesiące temu

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.

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

Except they don’t Extender

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

Extender? I hardly knew 'er!

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

Tyranids can have plenty of variety if you are familiar with the full breadth of their forces.

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

If you have a Netflix account, you can get Bloons TD6 for free on Android. It’s fun and the microtransactions are completely unnecessary and hidden away. Beware it’s a battery hog though

Also, if you like puzzles, look up the various variant sudoku apps from Studio Goya, particularly the one called “Cracking the Cryptic”

bionicjoey, 4 miesiące temu

What does this have to do with Ubisoft?