Hyperreality

Hyperreality, 3 miesiące temu

Forget who said it, but: "Kill your darlings."

Photography, painting, writing, jokes. You produce a lot, you cut most of it, you gain practice along the way.

This being said, there are people with inate genius who produce 90% gold.

Hyperreality, 3 miesiące temu

Or create your own instance:

https://kbin.pub/en

This is was the original plan anyway. Not that everyone should join kbin.social.

Hyperreality, 4 miesiące temu

It's worse than shit, it's mediocre.

At least people talk about shit games, which means some people buy a copy just because they're curious.

Mediocre stuff? No one's interested.

Hyperreality, 4 miesiące temu

Goes to show that making a good game is still more art than science.

Hell, make a broken or buggy game, if it has the special something it'll still likely become a classic.

Eg. Fallout New Vegas or Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

Star Wars anything

How would you know unless you've played them? I highly doubt you've played every Star Wars game.

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

Combat is pathetically simple.

That's what I like about it.

Mod the shit out of it, create an incredibly overpowered character, cut through a dungeon while drinking a cup of tea or eating a sandwich.

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

the games are automatically also not interesting.

You don't know that.

For example, that's like saying you don't think you'll like the Dark Knight, because you don't like comic books and without ever having watched it. I'm not saying the Dark Knight is a particularly good movie, but it being part of a certain extended universe, having a particular setting, isn't necessarily relevant to whether you'll like it.

In a lot of genre stuff(westerns, scifi, fantasy, etc.), you'll have stories which aren't actually about a fictional future, but about the present or past. Often they'll rework them into science fiction stories, just like how a similar story would have been reworked into a western when those were popular.

For example, Red Dead Redemption could have been turned into a Star Wars game quite easily.

Hell, in the past acclaimed directors like Tarkovski made science fiction movies, so they could fly under the radar with subversive stories, exactly because critics underestimated the story they were telling because it was 'just science fiction'.

TLDR: don't judge a book by its cover.

This being said, I get why you wouldn't bother trying if you disliked much of the Star Wars you have seen.

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

I was fundamentally uninterested in the setting of the Thor: Ragnarok, but I still enjoyed it.

I was also fundamentally uninterested in Barbie, but still found the Barbie movie fun.

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

Here it is on the BBC's website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

Or:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Hyperreality, 5 miesięcy temu

Wow. Very generous.

If possible, I'd be interested in Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock. Sounds like it'd scratch an itch I have.

(and Death and Taxes, but only if no one else wants it.)

Can't message you, right now. Getting a 403 error.

Thanks for doing this even if I don't get anything. Happy holidays!

Hyperreality, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

1. I like looking at women.
2. Having a female character and trying out a variety of cool outfits, dresses and make-up is fun. Especially as most games allow you to do a lot of customisation for female characters. Barbie in Night City, Barbie in Skyrim, Barbie in the post-Apocalypse. I can happily spend far too much time getting their outfit and make-up just right, before I even get down to kicking ass.
3. Female bad-asses are far more interesting than the boring male action hero stereotype.
4. Games are escapist fun. I'm a man. I'm tall, I do weight lifting. Why would I play as a man who looks like me, when I can play as a woman, something I would otherwise not get to experience?

Hyperreality, 6 miesięcy temu

'Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then.’

• Ridley Scott

Hyperreality, 6 miesięcy temu

Fallout 4. Modded up the wazoo with the StoryWealth collection.

Reminds me of New Vegas and the originals games now. Far more content and things to randomly discover. Not just tacky boob mods.

Hyperreality, 8 miesięcy temu

Is the game 'finished' yet or should I wait till the modding community has had some more time to work on mods?

Hyperreality, 9 miesięcy temu

Hidden in a Badlands emerald mine.

Hyperreality, 9 miesięcy temu

Cunts are still running the world.

Hyperreality, 9 miesięcy temu

The last time I played Cyberpunk, it was actually good fun. Game was a bit empty, and it was pretty obvious they'd been forced to cut a lot of stuff, but I played it for several hundred hours without too many bugs. Pretty and ran well on my budget pc too.

As always, patience is a virtue.

Hyperreality, 9 miesięcy temu

Wait a year for the modding community to finish it.

When I first played Fallout 4 years ago, it ran at 20fps in some parts of the map and on medium.

Playing it again now, modded to the max, ultra, higher res textures, 60fps everywhere.

Same pc.

Hyperreality, 9 miesięcy temu

Did that on skyrim.

Don't know how much free time you have, but I couldn't be bothered anymore for FO4 on nexus. I just downloaded one of the bigger/better collections and ignored/deactivated the creepier/boobier mods.

Already more than enough of a hassle to get that working, with vortex sometimes not installing stuff properly, pre-cleaning files, etc.

Hyperreality, 9 miesięcy temu

Same, but realistically once you start heading towards the 500 mods range, it's almost impossible to get it working reliably.

At one point I had 200+ mods on skyrim, and the mod cycles and before/after conflicts on vortex looked like mandelas. I did enjoy 'completing' the vortex mod manager game. That's when it's 3AM, you're fed up, you give up trying to figure what's wrong, and just click randomly and uninstall/reinstall mods until vortex shuts up, and it somehow just works. Bit like winning the lottery.

Hyperreality, 10 miesięcy temu

Do you?

This game will run fine on a 2080, by the time it's been fully patched and optimised by the modding community. Honestly, can't wait till 2025 when I'll be able to play the finished game.

Hyperreality, 10 miesięcy temu

Depends. Some of the games they give you are on gog. Those you certainly get to keep.

IRC Others are only available as long as you're a prime member.

Hyperreality, 10 miesięcy temu

It's annoying that so many mods require you to use the steam version, for this and skyrim.

Hyperreality, 10 miesięcy temu

Not steam workshop, but nexus mods.

Hyperreality, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

"The algorithm is the algorithm."

Hyperreality, 11 miesięcy temu

Red dead 2 is available for less elsewhere.

IRC Witcher 3 is available for the same price on GOG, DRM free. Same goes for Disco Elysium.

TLDR: do your research. Other stores do offers during the steam summer sale