That was the same for me, but reverse. I tried to play No Man’s Sky to get hyped for Starfield, but they’re just such different games doing different things and one doesn’t appeal to me as much as the other.

They have a whole rube Goldberg machine set up that fires a BB gun into their gut every time they get shot

Oh, yes. Any Arrowhead co op game will work, besides Magicka they also have Helldivers or their Gauntlet reboot.

Working my way through completely exploring the entire world of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I really love this game, but goddamn is it enormous. I’m about 75% in.

And just picked up the switch port of Red Dead Redemption. Really glad to be able to play this one without dragging out the 360. Still an awesome game, and a damn good port.

Yes, it really knows how to make inventory management an integral and engaging part of the gameplay. Too many times is inventory management done wrong or relegated to a mechanic thought of as “busywork”. .

I’d love to see more games shine a spotlight on it, because I find it very interesting.

A lot of old Iron Maiden will fit that quite well, of course, maybe most infamously, The Trooper.

I wouldn’t necessarily say unfun, but “not for me”. Stardew Valley. I went in ready to relax and farm, but oh God, time moves quickly! And I only have limited energy per day. That wombo combo when I was starting out just stressed me out and I didn’t get into it immediately.

I know there are mods for it or that it’s a good game even with the time, but out of all possible farming type games there were plenty more my speed than Stardew.

I think it does make sense to expect that up until you realize how much of a technical undertaking it’d be to do so and whether that payoff seems worth it to them. Seamless transitions seem to me to still be in a category to show off if you have it, so that they didn’t should be a red flag, but if you didn’t watch all the footage then you wouldn’t realize that, which I get, and I dont expect everybody to watch both the showcases like I did, thats probably over an hour of footage.

I can see why you’d expect a similar seamless experience due to their previous maps, but implementing that is completely different due to the style of game and requires new engine features to do so unlike their previous games which were already capable of it since Morrowind. You could expect them to consider doing it, but it wouldn’t be a given

I can understand the link between seamless exteriors and the equivalent of what that would mean in the context of a space game for Bethesda, but the technological implications of having a galactic system flight mode and seamless planet to space transitions are both completely new ideas to Bethesda and are also technically complex to implement in a game already knee deep in new tech and systems only from what we’d been shown.

There’s a reason things like seamless planet transitions are only something you might be able to expect in recent years. While Bethesda could totally make that happen, it’s not where I’d expect them to put their money, or they’d have probably dropped a line showing it off in the pre release footage.

At once, I understand why you might’ve expected that, but expecting anything not explicitly shown is never a good idea when it comes to tempering expectations.

Yeah, Ive followed Jeff for a long time and he’s absolutely not afraid to say a game isn’t good, and his tastes can be fickle and particular, if I were a publisher cynically selecting who to send advance codes to to manufacture a good score he would not be one of them.

As a consumer, I love him because he has integrity, likes what he likes, and says what he means, and I even can tell sometimes when he dislikes a game that I’d still like.

I remember when GTA 5 hit PC in 2015 and was around 90 gigs. Seems like we’ve finally hit the point where most AAA games are around its size. How time flies…

It seems like English is not their first language. What I think they were saying is that escaping from a difficult living situation doesn’t always guarantee a better one since anyone you live with could be monstrously shitty, even if they arent your parents.

They believe that you can make do where you are because life is hell and “what’s the point?” Not that I believe that absolutely dire worldview, but that seems to be their point.

Sometimes physics bugs can be funny, but I’d rather it not be buggy because I always hated things like getting hung up on geometry, having a physics enabled object kill me because I happened to touch it, or worst of all, realizing I haven’t seen my companion in the last ten minutes, somehow they got lost somewhere and only showed up after I manually teleported them to me with console commands.

The first two of those Bethesda seemed to nip in the bud by Fallout 4, but the bugs are not always charming.

Well, you confirmed some of my fears. I’m sure I’ll still enjoy it when I play it eventually, but the mech game genre has been in starvation mode for a long time and it doesn’t seem like AC6 will be able to really scratch that itch.

Getting back into Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. I’m about at the end of the game and I’ve really enjoyed playing a portable full on stealth game. Its scope is quite limited, what with it being a PSP game, but it actually serves to breed a pretty easygoing stealth game with not too much of a cost for getting caught and pretty limited sound and sight ranges to match the small level sections.

While it’s totally limited it’s actually a bit refreshing compared to how tight being stealthy can be in even the home console MGS games.

And bring back touch screen inventory management. Beyond me why they didn’t take advantage of their own console’s features when they’d already done that in all past possible games.

Probably a case of TLOU having less impact for those who already played the game compared to Sonic Boom which is those characters in situations that are new compared to the games.

The same conversation Limbo started to kick off when they released that back in the day. Quite short, but when you enjoy each moment that much, how can you attempt to assign a dollar to hour value? You just can’t always diminish it to something that simple.

In terms of saying whether it’s “the best of all time”, well, it could certainly be one of the best of all time, but you really can’t put it in front of or beside games doing radically different things. Youd have to start making a few wide umbrellas of games to place together and then rank them from there. Perhaps something like Unravel would be more comparable with something like Inside or Limbo.

In terms of mods it depends on if the game already releases with mod support. What that means is usually that the game will either accept raw texture, sounds, scripts etc. files in whatever formats the game understands, and it’ll allow those to overwrite the files usually used by the game, or otherwise take them and attach them to new characters or items added to the games by the mod scripts.

Sometimes this requires the players to create mod tools to more easily create and modify the files the game will accept since how mods are handled is usually proprietary, or the game will actually have its own developer released mod tools such as Fallout 3’s GECK.

Sometimes games don’t natively allow mods but have a dedicated enough userbase that reverse engineers enough code to figure out how to inject mods. Usually this is many, many times more complicated and the extent of possible mods are usually simple replacements of textures or models, and nothing as complex as deeply scripted mods.

Sometimes games are not moddable at all due to being heavily encrypted or the userbase just not being dedicated enough. ENBs are not exactly the same as mods, so you’ll often find games that aren’t moddable still have mod site entries for ENBs even though you can’t replace any textures or anything like that.

I’m not a real modder, so some of this info may be quite vague or not entirely correct, but hopefully that gives a good overview.

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