ryathal

ryathal, 7 dni temu

Dread delusion claims to be like Morrowind, but it’s just on my wishlist soni can’t say how accurate it is.

ryathal, 2 miesiące temu

Each game has their own little quirks and focuses. From what I remember sc3000 is best to start in a corner. You only get half the pollution from buildings on the edge, which is pretty big in the early game. You also get easier access to trade partners which is a good source of income later. Public transportation is also important, and very expensive, so you need to aggressively maintain a strong budget surplus to keep expanding.

There’s also some magic numbers to know as you get more familiar with the game. Airports, farms, ports, and subways all have sizes you need to keep in mind when planning.

ryathal, 3 miesiące temu

It probably will. Given the modest spec bump and the high even for Nintendo hostility to switch emulation, it’s probably trivial to support switch 2 as well.

ryathal, 3 miesiące temu

It’s my second store, but it’s still a distant second to steam.

ryathal, 3 miesiące temu

Most the article makes no sense, but the Mac stuff is really weird. This 18 year old YouTube video is still accurate about the Mac part. youtu.be/2B-ekl_cEWk?si=xWJ43QEO48O9t2oY

ryathal, 3 miesiące temu

Epic is the latest example that’s trying. EA gave up that fight years ago, and probably had better shot than Epic ever will.

ryathal, 3 miesiące temu

The problem is a second launcher or library is a pain in the ass for a user. I already avoid GoG unless it’s massively cheaper, and there’s the no drm benefits there. I’m not even interested in free games on epic.

ryathal, 3 miesiące temu

Retreating to PC makes sense, because PC won the console war.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

It’s a new game. Unfortunately I think we are now in an era where we can expect new games to run like shit on release, and be improved over the first year.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

Morrowind had a decent story and great world building but the mechanics were absolute shit.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

The level up system was bad. The thrust/chop/slash system for weapons is awkward. Every attack costing stamina is bad for early characters. The excessive number of weapon categories, combined with short and long blades being the only ones that were common. The persuasion system was just bribe people to get what you want, or taunt them for free murder. Run speed being a skill, jumping being faster than running and being a skill as well (combined with the level system this can cause problems). Item durability in general. The encumbrance system, and containers having weight limits. The spell making and enchantment system had some cool things, but it was also trivial to break the game in multiple ways. The quest tracking and journaling was garbage. Alchemy was undercooked. Merchants had way too little gold so selling became annoying by mid level. The haggling quickly got annoying as you could sell at extreme markup or buy for nothing fairly easy. Magicka didn’t regenerate, so being a mage was annoying at early levels until you had sufficient potion access.

There’s also some things that are more bugs I think than bad mechanics. Stealing from a merchant flagged every copy of an item as stolen from them. I once managed to make every redoran guard hostile to me on sight, which got really annoying.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

The fact you have to start your comment with multiple don’t do X things proves my point. As a story it’s great, but as a game it’s got a lot of problems.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

You can be almost everything in Morrowind, just like Skyrim. If anything Skyrim actually locks a chosen play style in more due to talents. There’s a few more exclusive guilds in Morrowind, but they aren’t major for the most part. Just because you have spent the time to learn how to avoid the rough edges doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

There’s never been much content blocking in elder scrolls. You could always master every skill even in Morrowind. Morrowind had a few exclusive guilds, but even Skyrim had a couple. Role playing in Skyrim is self imposed.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

I bought it with iceborne when it was on sale recently on steam, I had a copy for PS4 but I’ve transitioned to just PC games at this point.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

There two big differences to me are scale and value. A ccg has rare cards, but they aren’t actually that rare compared to loot boxes. Loot boxes tend to have both lower drop rates and pollute their drops with lots of garbage, even for rare drops. Secondly, physical cards have value, you can sell or trade them, you can buy singles of cards you want. You can use them for things other than the game as well.

ryathal, 4 miesiące temu

As others have said start with 5. The rule of thumb for civ games is to wait for the expansion dlc to release and buy the game on sale. 7 is also a significant departure from the previous games, so it’s probably even more important to wait or outright skip it until they get it more polished.

Also it’s worth looking into endless legend or endless space 2 if you want to try more 4x games.

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

The PS5 doesn’t even have games and we are moving on to the 6? I guess that’s some innovation.

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

I haven’t actually played any of the old monster hunters before world, but from what I understand they are far more clunky, and you tend to fight the game almost as much as the monsters.

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

These graphs are the best counter to games have cost $60 for a decade argument.

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

Most the must haves are older, some aren’t on steam, but are worth checking out if you end up liking some others.

• dawn of war 1 and 2.
• StarCraft 1 and 2.
• Warcraft 3, 1 and 2 are very dated, but if you like the style/setting try them.
• AOE 2 and 3. Maybe 4, I find it a step backwards.
• age of mythology.
• Rise of nations and legends.
• beyond all reason

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

I’ve tried a few space RTS games, and it’s not my favorite. They tend to be extremely slow paced to simulate the vastness of space. At super low prices it can be worth it to try out, but it’s definitely a different experience to consuming a map with an ork waaaagh.

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

Most the successful MMOs are similar to that. Warcraft, final fantasy, elder scrolls, swtor…

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

Gen 1 pokemon. It was awesome to experience, but the formula is just better in later versions.

GoldenEye, I did try it years ago, but going back to one stick for a shooter is really awkward.

Wow, I don’t have the time for an MMO anymore and they are a lot less fun after your first experience.

Oblivion and Morrowind, the changes in Skyrim are almost all improvements, and the mod support is better. You can smoothe out the edges of the older games, but it’s a long process I’m not interested in. I’ll stick with find memories.

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

That’s where an emulator comes in handy, there’s a ton of text to fast forward through in golden sun.

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

Even as an RTS fan, I’m starting to think the genre is dead. AOE 3 actually had some nice updates to the genre, they abandoned most of it though. Sc2 improved on the DoW2 campaign, but it’s been nothing since.

Part of the problem is the focus on competitive formats. Pretty much everyone admits it’s the least popular format, but it also gets the most attention. Campaign, comp stomps, and co-op are by far the most popular formats, but they get little or no support. Part of it is the pressure to release so early, and competitive is just easier to focus on while fleshing out mechanics and factions. Another problem is listening to pro players of other games, they don’t know shit about making a good game, they know what they like about an existing game and want that as much as possible.

Another big problem is focusing on players of well established games. The people still playing ladder on SC2 or AOE2 aren’t moving anywhere, there’s probably 20x players that have stopped with those games that would love something new. Instead all that gets released are shallow copies trying to get players to move off a game they’ve played for a decade.

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

If they pull off what they are promising, it could be interesting, but it doesn’t look like that will happen.

At best it did a good job with the quick macro system. It’s a good way to allow players to have better macro without hurting the skill ceiling for pros.

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

The ultimate casual RTS is a moba.

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

I think the second level in immortal makes it less intuitive.

ryathal, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s been a while since I played but from what I remember build/train/upgrade command each had a second page you had to tab to, so some things took 3 buttons instead of 2. This felt really awkward instead of having dedicated basic/advanced buttons.

ryathal, 7 miesięcy temu

It only has a surface level similarity to pokemon. It’s as much like fallout 4 as it is pokemon.

ryathal, 7 miesięcy temu

Maybe one day enough younger people will be in elected that understand computers aren’t magic. There’s no fundamental difference between selling a DVD and a digital movie, from a legal perspective.

ryathal, 7 miesięcy temu

But think of your sense of accomplishment in getting the legendary ending.

ryathal, 7 miesięcy temu

Is it not possible to just run in a circle endlessly in the game?

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

I think the problem is that they use the same open world formula that they started, but others have taken and improved it and they haven’t kept up with the times. Shadow of Mordor/war scratch the same itsch as assassin’s creed with more interesting mechanics. Those aren’t even new games at this point. Horizon zero dawn and forbidden West offer a more action focused experience with a better open world, again not super modern games.

It’s like Bethesda, they are still putting out games that are straight from 2010.

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

What’s more iconic than Mordor?

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

Year of the Linux desktop is nigh.

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

That would just cause legit Linux players to generate negativity by always being stuck with cheaters. It’s way easier to just remove support if it really is most of your cheating problems for such a small player base.

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

This is one of the best free mobile games there is.

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

Games from back when a sports game could just be about fun and not extracting money on competitive modes.

ryathal, 8 miesięcy temu

That’s what makes money. Pointing at the 5-10 indie games that won the lottery isn’t really relevant to what is required for the average indie game.

ryathal, 9 miesięcy temu

You can support games like Inquisitor martyr that shut the servers down, but patched the game first to allow you to pick any season to play offline.

ryathal, 9 miesięcy temu

Doing that bankrupted jc penny.

ryathal, 9 miesięcy temu

They do ESO makes anything else the company does largely irrelevant. Same as Blizzard back when Activision bought them.

ryathal, 9 miesięcy temu

They don’t. Their payouts leaked a couple years ago, of the thousands of streamers there’s a few hundred that make minimum wage or better. This pattern holds true for YouTube, only fans, etc.

ryathal, 9 miesięcy temu

The bigger cost is probably the processing time, limiting to $100 probably drops the number of payments by 80%.

ryathal, 9 miesięcy temu

How often are those small streamers the only one though? Having times where you do almost ok aren’t that great if you make nothing 30% of your streaming time.

ryathal, 5 miesięcy temu

AOE 3 had a treaty mode that blocked attacking or building too close to an enemy before a certain time. It was a moderately popular mode.