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- Comment on Starfield Review - Buy, Wait, Never touch 1 year ago:
That’s fair, but also, the fact that it has procedural generation should not be a surprise to anyone at this point, they were very open about it.
I’m just hoping there’s an easy way to distinguish in game between the procedural stuff that’s not worth exploring and the stuff that is. I’m hoping it can be safely ignored, but it WILL be annoying if they hide really interesting questlines on otherwise barren planets.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
There’s quite a wide range of reviews. I tend to trust the ones who talk about how much fun the side content and faction quests a lot more than I trust the ones that were underwhelmed by the main questline. I’ve been playing these games since Oblivion and the only main questline I ever finished was Fallout NV.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
Not really the same type of game at all. Elite is a fun simulation but there’s essentially no story.
In the same way, I’m sure the space combat will be fun in Starfield, with essentially no depth.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
All of the most positive reviews I’ve read have been at 80+ hours. Still finding new things to do, which is a good sign.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
Docking point for subjective things is weird to me as well. “I wanted a minimap!”
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
This reviewer also went right into NG+ after finishing the main story. I guess play how you want, but that feels deeply wrong to me.
- Comment on Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More 1 year ago:
Yeah I watched that. It was almost all dev talk, some views on the major city, and some promises. I meant like, I haven’t seen ANY impressions from outside the company that made the game.
But yeah, review embargo is up so let’s see
- Comment on Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More 1 year ago:
Being downvoted for sense. What a world.
- Comment on Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More 1 year ago:
Man I wish I could even get a consistent impression out of anyone. I’ve been scrounging for pre-release footage but Beth is being weirdly tight lipped about this one.
100% a wait for the reviews situation, the less they show off the more I worry they’re hiding something. Just a reminder to everyone, Fallout 76 was the last game they released…
- Comment on Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More 1 year ago:
Am I crazy or has there been almost no pre-release coverage of this game?
Oblivion and Fallout 3 are two of my all-time favourite games (I’ve played the others as well but those 2 stuck with me the most) but I just cannot get hyped for this game. It’s like a black box with people’s hopes and dreams, and it feels like people are just hyping themselves up by imagining what could be inside it.
I couldn’t imagine pre-ordering this game in particular. Beth has been so quiet I’m worried it may just be a total flop.
- Comment on 😲😲 1 year ago:
Yeah, this kinda shit is fucking hilarious but people don’t realize it. There’s this corporate training BS called Kaizen where they take a lot of normal Japanese words like 無理 (muri) and associate weird Eastern mystic significance to them.
Literally just means “impossible” and is frequently used in slang to be like “no no no I couldn’t possibly [talk to that hot guy]”. Having it put up on a slide and presented by some white dudes in suits who were nodding solely and talking about the secret Japanese knowledge was just too much to hear.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #23: Here's To You - Steam News 1 year ago:
I mean, from a game improvement standpoint you’d want them to have analytics. Seeing how other people use your game doesn’t seem the most unreasonable thing ever to me.
- Comment on But have you tried Jerboa? 1 year ago:
Because third party apps are literally the point that drove a lot of people to Lemmy in the first place. It’s classic selection bias.
- Comment on Every game developer company should be like this 1 year ago:
If you like roleplaying games, absolutely yes. It’s way move involved than their previous games (which were also great). Divinity always felt AA at best, but the polish on BG3 is impeccable.
For me what really does it is the professional voice work and motion capture on seemingly every single sentiet humanoid character in the game. Even random folks who have a single line of dialogue have a unique voice and an interesting character design. They don’t all blend together, even when they are objectively filler characters.
- Comment on Hopsital 1 year ago:
Oh I thought I was a plural for like “metastisizeds”
- Comment on Dude Uses Rice to Show How Much a Billion Dollars Is, Then How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis 1 year ago:
I mean, he clearly did. He even provided the final weight.
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 1 year ago:
There’s a concept in linguistics known as descriptivism vs proscriptivism. We either accept that things change meanings and pronunciations regionally and over time, or we try to absolutely state that there’s one correct way, and every other way is wrong.
A major issue with the “I’m right you’re wrong” approach is the in-group decides who is right and wrong. Regional slang is just wrong, not an equally valid way to speak. Those with formal educations are inherently more correct, and thus their grasp of their native language is more correct. This doesn’t really make sense when you think about it, other than to put down groups perceived as lesser.
Additionally, academics can convince themselves of one thing, and totally fail to be relevant to the real world. This leads your average person to become disenfranchised with academia and talk about how academics in their ivory towers have no understanding of how the real world works.
Anyway, that’s why I pronounce it joeff.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2] 1 year ago:
Yeah, this is true! The constant exploding puddles and stuff is interesting to look at, but does feel a bit chaotic and out of your control at times.
Honestly, it’s just making me more excited about Baldur’s Gate, since although I haven’t played the early access I know it’s a different combat system. That and the armour system of Divinity 2 really throws me off, gameplay wise, so it’ll be great to hopefully have all the RP stuff but with a less irritating combat system.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2] 1 year ago:
How does the exploration feel? I loved the original Subnautica but reviews of Below Zero turned me off.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2] 1 year ago:
I’ve been playing Divinity Original Sin 2, in anticipation of Baldur’s Gate 3. I got to the start of Act 2 about four years ago, and just never came back to the game. I always meant to pick it back up, so I started a fresh character and am nearly back to that point now.