Faydaikin

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Nah, there’s just not enough of actual old titles that could do with a remake or remaster.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Just got ‘Metal: Hellsinger’ It’s pretty fun take on the Doom-like Shooter genre.

Also got ‘Dredge’. Very chill, while being a creepy lovecraftian fishing game.

Both games are really good, if a bit short. But for the discounted price, the length of them is just fine.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Don’t worry too much about it. It’s part of the Role-Playing charm.

After my own first couple of playthroughs with “serious characters” I just started screwing around with fun builds.

The “Double Chaos” sorceror is fun and stupid way to complete the game. Sometimes I’m a doomsday machine in battle, others times I’m a sheep…

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s times like these where flash games are missed a little extra.

Armorgames.com had a ton of fun games that would have been perfect for pads and such.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Overcoming a challenge is fun.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s a good game.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

I don’t know about Game Of The Year. But Zelda definitely deserves a few catagories under it’s belt.

My money is on BG3 for Goty. It addressed a ton of the complaints there had been circulating about modern games for the last 10 years.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Which is weird when you think about how dependent Bethesda is on the Modding Community.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

It was pretty much one of the biggest lessons of the whole covid affair. The groundfloor personel is the most essentiel part of everything. Without, the whole system collapses.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Modern Warfare 2, maybe?

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Are people still buying these?

I get Blizzard games can be hard to quit, but damn, at least give them a reason to make a new base-game.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

Aside from the point that SH:A is just another over-monetized scam, I am quite interested in how much money that first stream garnered them. Because the more I read about it it seems like everyone and their grandmother bought into it to try it out.

I am sincerely hoping that isn’t the case.

Faydaikin, 10 miesięcy temu

It was only one for me, Baldur’s Gate 3.

So yeah, very much a matter of opinion.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

Quite a few times.

BG3 already payed itself off in the first couple of weeks. Subnautica is another. And although I loathe to admit it, I do have about 2000 hours in Dead By Daylight.

Hell, I’ve bought and re-bought the original two Fallout games several times back in the 90’s as I wore out the CD’s over the years. And there plenty of games in between them and the newest that were absolutely worth it. Some aren’t even playable anymore.

And since I got into the Indie scene the numbers went up.

So yeah, quite a few games all in all.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

It’s all a matter of personal taste. But yeah, Beth’s best games are definitely in the past.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

Oblivion is the weird transition point, ngl.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

For me, the “NASA punk” wasn’t the turn off.

Starfield could have been a great game. But the general route Beth has taken with Fallout, and continued in Starfield, doesn’t appeal to me. Pointless building filler, environmental storytelling over actual storytelling, radient quests everywhere and so on.

I have no doubt they’ll do the same with TES. Just half-assing it really. Skyrim was already pretty flat, so…

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Witcher 3 is a CDProjectRed game.

I don’t think Beth’ is capable of making a game even close to The Witcher 3. XD

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

I absolutely agree with you. And I did play it back when it came out.

There’s a few more things that goes in the “Meh”-pile of changes Oblivion brought to the table. Like the boundless fast-travel system and streamlining magic (although I did like the quick-cast mechanic. But that got scrapped as fast as it was implemented with Skyrim) and so on.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

I’m more upset about Obsidian and InXile.

I’m with you on that one.

Obsidian and InXile had just started getting some new promising franchises up and running (Wasteland & Outer Worlds). It’d be a shame if they went ‘Storefront Exclusive’ already.

The last minute EGS timed-exclusive deal already screwed with the first TOW game’s launch.

The concept of Storefront Exclusivity just shouldn’t be a thing at all.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

I agree. It’s just one of those things that starts things off badly.

And MS has been pushing a bit for it, like EGS.

Also I’m painfully aware of the age of the OG Wasteland as I grew up with it. I was thinking more in the line of the crowdfunded ones, 2 & 3. InXile seemed well on track with 'em.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

For platformers it’s controllers. Type varies from game to game.

For almost everything else, Keyboard & Mouse.

And lastly, the Joystick for those very singular free-flight games i might posses.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

Seeing as ‘Storefront Exclusivity’ on pc games was a part of EGS’s plan, they can keep their free games.

Plus, I remember an indie dev talking about how they tried to strong-arm him into going exclusive to them with ultimatums.

“You’re either only on EGS or you’re not it at all.” That kinda shit.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

Everything being in a simulation killed it for me, though.

The visually glitching-out NPCs ruined the fun of being a completely unhinged maniac with/without superpowers. Which is kinda what the games are about.

And the constant black skybox became depressing fast.

SR3 does it better, imo. It constantly rides the edge of “How much is movie set? And how much is not?”

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

I think most of what I’d like has already been made. But they are old, few and far between.

I’d really like a modern Freespace game.

I enjoyed how it made your keyboard into a functional cockpit and how you could customize your own and your squads fighters and loadout. And sending tactical info in the thick of battle.

All that junk. It was great. But the old games are showing their age.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

I’ve been lead to believe that Disneys legal department is feared even among other giant corporations.

They’ve been doing shady business for a long time and don’t fuck around, I guess.

Faydaikin, 11 miesięcy temu

Probably because giving away free games didn’t end up selling more of the other games on the storefront.

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Growing up with the NES, horror games weren’t really a thing.

Some were spooky themed, but I doubt they qualify as horror by any standard. Like Castlevania, Ghost & Goblins and such.

The first real horror game I remember playing was Phantasmagoria. But I was a teen at that point, so it’s not really from my childhood.

Edit: Remembered my actual first horror game.

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Have been glued to BG3 for quite a bit now. I am thinking about booting up the old Portal games again, just as a small break.

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I guess that depends on the amount of copies sold and the ‘refund ratio’.

If both are within acceptable parameters, they won’t do anything. Just leave it to the modding community to fix whatever needs fixing. They already have your money, don’t they…

It’s the Bethesda way.

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If it’s "dull on purpose, " Modders are the only way anything is gonna happen.

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Saints Row was more or less the death of the studio. I wonder if the reason they focused so much on SR was their own idea or the publishers.

It felt weird, in my opinion, that as the whole remake/remaster craze was going on, that they didn’t put out some polished and doodled up new version of Decent, Freespace or Summoner. They were pretty much the building blocks of the studio.

I mean, Freespace 2 is still one of the top-dogs in it’s genre. And it’s a 24 years old game.

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I doubt any of the guys that worked on Decent or the Freespace games are part of Volition at this point.

But damn are those games good.

If any game deserves a remake/remaster, it’s Freespace. Doesn’t need much, just bring it up to par with Freespace 2 mechanics wise and polish the graphics a bit.

No reason to change anything else.

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A looong ass time ago, I did. I don’t think I ever got it working right.

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Just out of curiosity, which character?

And what is the bug that caused the lock out?

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The game has only just gotten it’s first patch and they wrote in the notes what other things could be expected in Patch 2.

It’ll be polished off before you know it. Plus, I have a sneaking suspicion there’s plans for a DLC. More content is likely to come.

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Compared to a lot of Triple-A games out there, it is polished.

It’s a pretty big game with a lot of variations. And as i said; It just got it’s first patch and more are coming.

It took Bethesda about 12 years before they got around to fixing the “Games for Windows Live” thing in Fallout 3. Which literally made the game unplayable. That was a problem.

I’m sure they’ll get Wyll fixed for you, if he hasn’t already been in this patch.

But now I’m intrigued… If you don’t think you’re setting the bar high, what games are you comparing BG3 to that were that bug free at launch?

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We wouldn’t have any games with the stardards you’re suggesting. I think you’d be hard pressed to live up to them yourself, if I’m being honest.

No product is without it’s faults and flaws.

I’m sorry you happend to be one of the people that got that bug.

If it’s as big a deal for you as it sound like, I’d recommend getting a refund. It’s as simple as that.

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All games launch with bugs. Not necessarily game-breaking bugs, but bugs nonetheless.

There is simply no way developers can account for every tiny potential conflict in their code. So thank god for the internet and that fixing them post-launch is a concept.

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No idea what that’s supposed to mean.

The simple solution for you is just not buying games at launch.

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Probably. You didn’t answer the few questions i asked.

You said you weren’t setting the bar high, but failed mention any other game for comparison when I asked.

Just kept insisting that the two bugs you encountered at launch were completely unacceptable.

I’m just thinking you’d have a hard time with anything that has been made the last 20+ years. It sounds absolutely awful.

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You see, that’s are kind of comment that makes you seem hostile, which in turn makes it look like you have no basis for your claim.

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You too, mate

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I honestly haven’t seen anyone write about ‘how bug free’ the games is.

Most of the praise I see usually revolves around it being a complete game, a big game, nonexistent microtransactions, the characters, the story, the freedom, even how pretty it is. But not that it’s bug free.

Because it’s definitely not without bugs. Hell, there’s a lot of small details that could do with tune-up. And some got addressed in this patch. And I’m looking forward to Patch 2 as it’s supposed to improve load-time, which would be very nice indeed.

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The worst part is that it wouldn’t be that hard to “up” the level of Bethesda games. More focus on the writing, both story and characters would go a long way.

Dropping the whole “It’s one big world, no transitions.” goal. Make cities huge, with transitions and fill them with stuff and people. More “inhabited biomes” so to speak.

Choice & Consequence. Having different paths the players can go down. Locking players out of certain content and areas because of their choice, isn’t a bad thing. It just encourages multiple playthroughs. As well as adding multiple ways to dealing with a problem.

Not forcing motivation or character upon the player. The “chasing after a loved one” motivation in Fallout is terrible. And being a ‘shiny superman’ in both TES and Fallout is boring. We need more grey-area to move around in.

There’s clearly more that could be added to the list. But these four points alone would elevate their games to a more passable grade.

But this is just my personal opinion.

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Subnautica is on a whole different level. They made some wild impressions with the first game.

Too bad they dropped the ball on “below zero.”

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Oh no, there’s absolutely effort put into the graphics. It’s just everything else that’s missing.

The overall writing and direction in Bethesda’s games is piss poor as they haven’t prioritized it in some time. Even TES suffers from this. But I guess that’s more about the crowd they’re trying to appeal to.

It’s all cool if you like Bethesdas version of the Fallout world. But not everyone else subscribes to it.

And for reasons that are quite valid. As Beth’ has deviated far from the roots of the franchise.

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So we’re pretty much in agreement about the state of Bethesdas games. We just stand on opposite sides of the reaction to it.

As corny as it sounds, I wish most of the arguments I’ve been in, about games, could have been this civil. It’s a nice change of pace.

I don’t think I have more to add, as such.

Thanks for the talk, mate. You have a nice day.