Doc_Crankenstein
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- Comment on Day 825 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Look, I’ll admit it wasn’t perfect but it did fix the issue it was designed for which was to fix the RNG of CC effects for mages which was a huge issue from the first game. They just did a poor job of scaling the armor with late game damage.
I read from the other comment that they are moving away from the armor system for the new game, so excited to see what they are replacing it with. I trust Larian, especially now they are not limited by Hasbro to adapt the D&D ruleset and have free reign over system design. One thing I missed in BG3 was crafting systems and the extensive environmental effects.
- Comment on Day 825 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Very. They improved a lot of their systems from D:OS to D:OS2.
DOS2 has a revamped armor system that makes combat a lot more engaging instead of it being straight damage and saves vs resistance, so strategizing becomes that much more important since you can’t just tank everything. Mages also are now limited by their spell “Memory” so they have to plan what spells to prepare. So combat has a lot more strategic elements to it making it a much better, more engaging experience overall.
Character creation is just so much more expansive. It adds the character origin options during creation that allow for intriguing and unique story beats, personal quests, and encounters based on what you choose. Then there are the additional playable races that were added.
Skill progression between combat and utility/social skills are now two separate progress trees. Now you don’t have to feel like you’re sacrificing one to be good in the other and can have a more well rounded character.
DOS2 also adds enemy visibility cones. Which is such a QoL improvement for those who wish to do stealth.
Then there is the overall tone and story are just so much more polished and has a lot of narrative implications by being from the perspective of a Sourcerer instead of a Source Hunter. It breaks away from being just another generic fantasy story of “good guys fight bad guys”.
- Comment on Day 825 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Original Sin is great but it pales in comparison to its sequel.
Original Sin 2 is one of if not the best CRPG to date.
- Comment on 'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo 2 weeks ago:
Yea. There have always been half baked indie titles for Next Fest. They are indie devs, not every title is going to be a hit. Some people are just starting out.
But the real big issue is that a lot of the “indie devs” this season have begun to lean heavily on AI generation, so now there is a massive inflation of half-baked titles from people who really have no business publishing a game making it that much harder to actually find the diamonds in the rough.
- Comment on 'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo 2 weeks ago:
Children mate. They exist to scam children who don’t know better.
And you highly overestimate the average user’s “tech savvy”-ness. That bell curve skews a lot lower, friendo. Way too many people have no clue how to use a computer beyond “point and click”.
- Comment on 'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo 2 weeks ago:
Yea. This year’s Next Fest on Steam is just fucking sad with how much AI slop clones are clogging it.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode 3 weeks ago:
Nah. There’s always pirating.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode 3 weeks ago:
Nope but the game never claimed to be a pod racer.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode 3 weeks ago:
The game has mainly landspeeders, speeder bikes, and skim speeders.
Pod racers can be used during specific race events in the campaign, certain Arcade scenarios, or the multiplayer mode.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode 3 weeks ago:
Those are overcharged titles. $60 is the full price of a game. Anything over is an overcharged title. I refuse to accept the attempt to inflate the price of games by the bigger publishers.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode 3 weeks ago:
Yea. It’s a $30 game at best.
Not saying it’s a bad game just it isn’t a full priced title. It’s an arcade game with a pretty coat of paint and a popular IP attached.
- Comment on AI modding unlocked a pit of memes I didn't expect. 4 weeks ago:
Great, as if finding quality mods wasn’t hard enough now we are gonna have to wade through a sea of slop.
- Comment on Capcom aims to enhance its propriety RE Engine with AI to accelerate efficiency in QA, debugging, and data processing 4 weeks ago:
God fucking damnit.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 5 weeks ago:
Nope. You’re right. I’m stupid. Zero Dawn is the first game. Forbidden West is the second Horizon game. I flipped which was which.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 5 weeks ago:
Do people really look at the videos on Steam? I always immediately click past them to look at the images.
I watch them for any gameplay footage.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 5 weeks ago:
Which wouldn’t even make sense considering “Zero Dawn” in context of the Horizon series is that it is a specific canonical event that is only discussed in the second game. The first game didn’t have any notion of the Zero Dawn event afaik.
- Comment on A New PS5 Jailbreak May Have Just Opened The Floodgates To Piracy 5 weeks ago:
Ghost of Yotei, Saros. Astrobot, Gran Turismo 7, Demon Souls remake.
Upcoming titles: God of War Laufey, Until Dawn 2, God of War trilogy remake
The whole reason Sony stopped its PC releases is because they were butthurt PC sales blew console sales out the water. People want Sony titles, we just don’t want to spend 600$ just to play them when we have a perfectly good machine (with some people having even better machines) already that isn’t ecosystem locked.
- Comment on Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse 1 month ago:
The owners of the company get a fat check while the employees gets shafted. Same as with any corporate merger.
- Comment on Anon listens to music 1 month ago:
The meaning of art is up to the audience, not the creator.
- Comment on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% 1 month ago:
Haven’t played a Nintendo game in over a decade because fuck Nintendo for how they treat the consumer.
Just because you’re feckless and have no integrity doesn’t mean other people don’t as well.
- Comment on Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet 1 month ago:
Yup. I loved the game and have been waiting for a sequel but fuck Sony, so this announcement might as well not exist for me.
- Comment on Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet 1 month ago:
Why else do you think they stopped releasing titles on PC?
- Comment on Anon listens to music 1 month ago:
Something something separate art from the artist something something
- Comment on Anon listens to music 1 month ago:
“there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism”
It’s been a known concept in leftist theory for a long while.
- Comment on Day 793 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Fallout 3 is one of the few games I’ve ever actually played all the way through (ADHD is a bitch) and man I’ll never forget being so mad that Fawkes, the radioactively immune supermutant, refused to go into the radiation filled chamber to save the day and forced me to do it instead.
Yes, I know the game has, since its original release, been updated to include it as an option (even if they have Fawkes shame you for being “cowardly” for choosing it).
- Comment on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games 1 month ago:
Denuvo is an Austrian company, not American.
- Comment on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games 1 month ago:
By using the law to circumvent the privacy of the account holder.
- Comment on Currently playing: Caravan SandWitch 1 month ago:
This game was such a great vibe
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 1 month ago:
Decades of anthropological evidence say otherwise. Read Graeber’s works on the subject. They are incredibly enlightening.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 1 month ago:
The two are not mutually exclusive