mnemonicmonkeys

mnemonicmonkeys, 9 miesięcy temu

Parhfinder 2 (which I have not actually played yet) did not do that. They opted for streamlining the existing system by combining several similar subsystems into one (i.e. everything is a feat now). But the math is still there.

I disagree. I’ve played 5E and GM PF2E (so I’m biased, but informed). In PF2E there’s no stacking bonuses of the same type, and there’s only 3 bonus types now.

Also, while there’s a ton of feats, Paizo didn’t just toss everything into feats.

PF2E is built off of a few frameworks for subsystems, one of which being character creation. There’s also the monster creation framework which allows homebrewing creatures and encounters that follow challenge rating suggestions. There’s even guidelines for building your own subsystems for thibgs like investigation, chases, research, etc. That are easy to learn get you fairly close to what Paizo would design themselves.

Meanwhile, the streamlining of 5E that you’re hinting at is WotC stripping out almost all character options. I always got tired of D&D campaigns by level 5 because your biggest meaningful choices are at 1st and 3rd level unless you start making multiclass abominations. And there’s also little support for GM’s, requiring each one to come up with their own rules for things like how ships work or designing magic items.

I’d rather have a system like PF2E that provides options, because you can always choose to ignore them and build your own thing. If you’re playing 5E, you don’t have that choice

mnemonicmonkeys, 9 miesięcy temu

Then go promote GOG or itch.io. Don’t support companies with monopolistic behavior

mnemonicmonkeys, 9 miesięcy temu

Except it’s not, it’s all subjective to the individual. Congrats, you manipulated your partner for no reason.

mnemonicmonkeys, 10 miesięcy temu

At least in the US, we have a lifetime for exclusive rights, at which point the material moves into the public domain. It really seems like a good system to me.

It’s not a good system to have it be 50 years past the death of the creator. Having access to content in public domain has historically caused art to flourish by serving as a base for creators to build off of. But for the past few decades companies have been plundering from public domain while not contributing anything back.

Our original copyright system in the US gave a baseline 17 years of copyright, with an additional 17 years extension that you could apply to. 34 years is a perfectly fair span of time to get value out of your creation because nobody is going to wait that long to get access to art they want. But it also ensured that the public domain continually had new content added that wasn’t completely antiquated. This is the system we should be pushing to return to.

mnemonicmonkeys, 10 miesięcy temu

So… you have a single bad dragon?

mnemonicmonkeys, 10 miesięcy temu

Unfortunately they cram at least one of the World Tour tracks into every one of the new cups. I can’t stand playing the new cups because of them

mnemonicmonkeys, 11 miesięcy temu

There is legitimate criticism, but there’s a lot of complete shit. I’ve heard people complain about procedurally generated planets that you have to go out of your way to interact with. There’s complaints of bullet sponge enemies from people who insisted on going to level 40 areas at level 20. Both of those complaints are bullshit

mnemonicmonkeys, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Agreed. I often spend 30-60 min in an area trying to find an ideal outpost location. The limuts on how far you can go on planets are already huge. From what I recall, the total area is comparable to Skyrim, though I’ll have to double check that

Edit: Yeah, literally every individual explorable area in the game is larger than the entire map of Skyrim or Fallout 4. Source: thenerdstash.com/how-big-starfield-is-open-world-…

mnemonicmonkeys, 11 miesięcy temu

PC gamer has done a fair bit of shilling for Epic Games the past few years, so you need to take everything they say with a pinch of salt

mnemonicmonkeys, 11 miesięcy temu

Actually, a surprising number of areas with doors or fast travel between them don’t need it. The entirety of New Atlantis’s exterior is a single cell. Same with Neon

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For starters, they put so little developments money into EGS that they went two years without a shopping cart, a feature that effectively every other online store has and could be custom coded properly in a day

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Would it though? Being a competitor to Valve, not sucking, and not pulling shady anti-consumer shit would result in immediate good will for a decently large (though disproportionately loud) section of the market. Hell, EGS failed at the 2nd and 3rd thjngs in that list and they still got a loyal fanbase

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And if you can’t own anything by paying, is game piracy even theft anymore?

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Dude, I went through character creation and barely noticed the pronoun option was even there. The mod is unnecessary

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Jesus. It’s like 12 year olds trying to sell old Nerf guns on Ebay for $300.

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Sure, but we can downvote it to hell and you can’t change shit about that either.

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Well, I just found out this games grades you after every mission like Devil May Cry or Bayonetta. I was interested, but this alone makes it a hard pass for me

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Except Nintendo has an easy way to protect against PC emulation: release their games on PC.

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I wonder how Valve pulled this off. Iirc, they had to reduce performance for remote play a couple years bag by switching to software acceleration when their license for hardware acceleration couldn’t be renewed

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I use Steam. CDPR has burned me with several of their games and I refuse to give them money anymore.

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Yes. CDPR owns GOG

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I think other manufacturers aren’t using SteamOS for 2 main reasons:

1: They get to brag about universal compatibility, even if that’s not a huge gap anymore

2: They aren’t dependent on a direct competitor for their software

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I second this. I’m planning to start switching my devices from Windows to Linux in a couple of weeks due to good experience I’ve had with the Steam Deck

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Plus windows just kinda sucks to use with these sorts of devices

FTFY

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