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fibojoly, w Starfield’s Local Planet Map Is Horrible

I’m not sure how this is surprising anyone at all, honestly.

The problem (but not for Bethesda) is that we are so used to mods that we seem to forget how absolutely shite a lot of their vanilla UI is. Has everybody forgotten the Skyrim map? Coz I sure as shit have not.
Did they somehow miraculously fix it all in Fallout 4? Genuine question, I kinda gave up on them after Skyrim.

vaultdweller013,

The fallout 4 map is basically the same as the fallout 3 and new vegas map, and now that I think about it oblivion. So this is verry much a two steps forward one step back situation.

Cheese, w OpenMW (Open Morrowind) 0.48.0 Released!

Anyone here still play the game? Is it still worth playing, compared to newer games?

Computerchairgeneral,

I'd say so, but then again Morrowind has a lot of quirks that make it hard to get into for modern players. Like the fact that the game doesn't have quest markers. Instead, you get directions like "follow the road and turn left at the fork, it'll be the first cave you see" and you have to follow those directions if you want to find anything. Or how the game uses a dice roll-like system to decide if you hit with your weapon or succeed at casting a spell. At the same time, there is a lot to like about Morrowind if you give it a chance. Unlike a lot of modern RPGs, you don't start out as anyone special. You're a nobody and you stay as a nobody for a good chunk of the game. To advance in the various guilds you have to actually level up your various skills and do enough quests to earn a promotion. So when you do reach the rank of guild master or complete the main quest and people call you a hero it feels like you've really accomplished something.

So yeah. Definitely worth playing, but it's not for everybody and you have to remember that it's an RPG from the early 2000s. If you play it with OpenMW there's a great site called Modding OpenMW that catalogs mods that are compatible with OpenMW.

verysoft,

I wish RPGs would be more RPG again, immerse us in the world with things like directions rather than a UI for everything. Make players figure things out instead of being so hand-holdy.

geosoco, w Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay

A lot of the article is focused on how games journalism has adapted to meet the current business environment (read advertising). Gaming is certainly not alone in that. Newspapers were hit a long time ago, and we've seen the same issues there too.

I'm curious -- what value do most people get from games journalism? Would people really miss if pcgamer, kotaku, or eurogamer just disappeared?

I'd really love to see a detailed balance sheet for some of these orgs to see what the actual operating costs are and how much is going to exec salaries.

Cqrd,

People always claim they wanna see reviews before they buy their games, it’s the anthem of the anti-pre-orderer. Surely some of those reviews would come from games journalists.

The problem though is that it’s not sustainable to give away your content for free. You have to get advertisers to pay you and most people interested in games journalism are probably gonna have ad blockers, so then you have to fall back to whoever will pay you. You also have to avoid getting on a publishers bad side as a smaller journalist, or you’ll be black listed and your career will be over. So what can you do besides take money to fudge some reviews?

This is the problem with all free news content also, by the way. Somebody’s gonna pay for it, if it’s not you then it’s the people who want their opinions to be the prevailing one.

sugar_in_your_tea,

The only one I really value is Digital Foundry. I like how they break down games technically and give insight on how to get the most out of them through settings and whatnot.

But outside of that, I generally trust user reviews more.

Mojojojo1993, w [Rumor] Bloodborne Remaster Is Targeting a 2025 Release Date; September's State of Play to Show Games by Asian Studios

Year’s of rumours and nothing ever happens. One day would be nice. Be better if they got it on PC. Probably never play it. Real shame they lock games away

rhacer, w Starfield’s Local Planet Map Is Horrible

100% agreed! It’s worthless I’ve spent some time trying to protect myself to the map and it’s nigh -unto impossible.

Stunning oversight, and I have no idea how the play-testers didn’t say “nope! Do something different!”

RxBrad, w Saints Row and Red Faction IPs Will 'Live On' at Plaion, Says Deep Silver
@RxBrad@lemmings.world avatar

Wonder if we’ll ever see that fixed Saints Row 2…

jayandp, w Volition studio (Saints row) closes

I really hope somebody saves IdolNinja’s work on SR2.

weirdo_from_space, w Spyro Reignited Trilogy sells 10 million units globally

Crash remake sold great too, but not the Crash 4. It feels like people ony really wanted to briefly relive the “good old days” and checked out after playing some of the N. Sane trilogy.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Considering the only okay remake of Spyro 3, I think they knew exactly where the limits of cashing in on nostalgia was.

mindbleach, w Saints Row and Red Faction IPs Will 'Live On' at Plaion, Says Deep Silver

I propose a Red Faction retro spinoff. Cash in on the underused franchise and the modern boom-shoot glut by doing a voxel-based game where everything, and I mean everything, is destructible. Like if Teardown was a setpiece-heavy FPS pretending to be from the Delta Force / Outcast era. Low fidelity keeps costs down, the genre is weirdly underused for all its indie-demo examples, and if the immersive sim curse kills any sequels then they’re only back to square one.

weirdo_from_space,

A good version of original Red Faction would be great.

mindbleach,

It’s on GOG. I guess it has trouble running in Windows 10?

… why does this chicken have its dick out.

weirdo_from_space,

I mean the original Red Faction isn’t very good. I’d like to see a proper version of that game. A new entry that takes all the good ideas of the original and properly executes them.

Blxter, w Report: Embracer has made layoffs at Gearbox Publishing
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Honestly my biggest problem with embracer group is they don’t have a “real stake” in gaming or actual interest like Xbox does when they buy studios. (Please correct me if I’m wrong) but all they do is buy companies and then when they see profits go down they just lay people off.

mindbleach,

Which is better than EA somehow.

Blxter,
!deleted4407 avatar

This might be a really unpopular opinion but nowadays I feel like EA is doing and has done much better than previous. Aside from there sports games.

mindbleach,

Nowhere to go but up.

Pxtl, w Lenovo Legion Go - Launch Trailer
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

They’re jumping into a very crowded space, one where Valve is the first-to-market. That said, Valve is good at proving a hardware market viable and then flubbing at actually dominating it (VR, PC set-top boxes) so I could see somebody like Lenovo winning at this.

I’m kind of surprised they went for the Switch/Tablet form-factor for this instead of targeting the phone scale, but Lenovorola already cratered at trying to do this as a phone once before (Moto Z with the gamepad mod).

simple,

I’m kind of surprised they went for the Switch/Tablet form-factor for this instead of targeting the phone scale

It seems like every one of these new handhelds is trying to have the best specs in the market no matter what. The ROG Ally was sold as a more powerful steam deck, and now the Legion Go comes in with a better screen and battery. It does seem really big, though.

Pxtl, (edited )
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

The Logitech G-Cloud is similarly top-specced and pricy, although iirc it’s supposedly more lightweight and comfortable than its counterparts. It’s getting very crowded in that space, I don’t envy any of these companies that jumped onto this band wagon and found everybody else doing the same thing at the same time.

I’ve tried using gamer-clips on my phone and the top-heavy weight distribution makes them uncomfortable despite the lower-mass of phone+controller, so I can see how that would be a design challenge. I still wish Lenovorola had stuck to it harder with the Moto-mods, but I suppose the death of the Atom processor line and Windows Phone means that any such device would have to be Android, and gamers want x86-64 PC-compatible devices, and that’s probably not doable in a phone form-factor.

simple,

I’m eyeing the GPD Win Mini right now. It’s not out yet and I’m waiting for reviews but it looks like a comfy small handheld with great specs. Not quite a phone form factor but it’s close enough. May be close to what you’re looking for.

Pxtl, (edited )
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

looks.

Ooh, that’s neat! My only complaint looking at it is that they didn’t figure out some place to put a right-side thumbpad for a better mouse-mode. Joystick mouse emulation is a miserable solution, and the central thumbpad is too far for gaming (ask anybody who played Mario 64 or Metroid Hunters on the DS). My dream machine would be to use the old Blackberry trick of making the right-side of the keyboard able to masquerade as a touchpad (you literally run your thumb along the keyboard and it’s a pointing device), add a face-toggle-button to switch between mouse-mode and keyboard mode, and then add a scrollwheel shoulder-button.

smeg,

Valve don’t care about being the market leader in hardware though, they’re just happy to create a new market for people to play Steam games on!

DeriHunter,

Aha,they are basically doing it for charity!

smeg,

Sure, let’s go with that

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Valve wasn’t first to market by a long shot. Valve was the first to offer a great price and a great operating system. But the general category of devices existed long before the Deck. They just were fucking expensive.

Wirrvogel, w Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay
@Wirrvogel@feddit.de avatar

Definitely worth reading. Thank you for the link!

iridaniotter, w HUMANKIND™ - Cultures of Oceania DLC
@iridaniotter@hexbear.net avatar

Hmm I played Humankind when it first came out but was left wanting. I should probably check it out again and see what’s changed.

Argongas, w Starfield GPU Benchmarks and Comparison: NVIDIA vs. AMD Performance

Meanwhile, the game won't even launch for me because apparently if you don't have the most recent version of Windows, it won't recognize your graphics card. And for whatever reason absolutely refuses to update to 22H2.

MomoTimeToDie, w Gaming handhelds, like the Switch and Steam Deck, will need to have a replaceable battery by 2027 in EU | overkill.wtf

I wish the EU would just stop getting their grubby hands ibto everything they possibly can

Gotta love the reddit-tier “downvote anyone who disagrees” mindset here. It’s like I never even left reddit!

mnemonicmonkeys,

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