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emptyother, 1 month ago

Well… Technically that shit was 3D. Buildings, signs, and fences had perspective. And the streets looked pretty sweet in level editors that allowed one to move the camera to ground view. If one didn’t mind seeing flat cars and flat people, because those were 2D.

Anyway, I’m just being annoyingly pedantic as an excuse to share some nostalgic memories of that game. Don’t mind me.

emptyother, 1 month ago

Norwegian who was in “Speider’n”. Nobody here cared about the religious parts of it.

emptyother, 1 month ago

I know I heard my name called occasionally as a kid. Clear as day but directionless, seemingly from very close to me. I figured its just a bug in a developing mind. But could also be that my mom got damn angry if I didnt hear her calling so I was always listening for it, and like the article describe, I picked up noise and the brain filled in the expectation.

emptyother, 1 month ago

Oh this is gonna be great! I hope. Except… There something about the graphics, I cant figure out what, that makes it feel less realistic. To me at least. Is it just my nostalgia for the old pixelated graphics that ruins how it looks? Or is it something more tangible, that might possibly even be fixed before release?

emptyother, 1 month ago

Its music level released on YT gave it a lot of exposure. If even that wasn’t enough, what hope do we have for an Alan Wake 3 or Control 2 without a crappy tacked-on monetization scheme? Because thats always next if a singleplayer game series doesn’t make as much money as the publishers wanted it to.

emptyother, 1 month ago

Oh hell no, my last known action on this earth is NOT gonna be spent complaining about someone else’s music skills. Unless they are playing a vuvuzela or something…

emptyother, 1 month ago

Absolutely, bringing laughter and curiosity to people worldwide 2K years later is THE way to face death. But that guy is gonna be hard to beat…

emptyother, 2 months ago

Yeah, sex scene and sex jokes was a bit surprising, compared to how tame Bethesda games are on stuff like that. Well, at least the unmodded ones.

But didn’t scare me away after first episode either. Looks promising.

emptyother, 2 months ago

How could series back then afford to run more than two seasons? Like every tv channel I’ve ever had access to only bought the two first seasons then re-ran them over and over and over again, in random order. I was never able to finish a series until internet became popular.

emptyother, 2 months ago

Would be nice if every game publisher was required to contribute a version of their game, that can be played without an external network or license, to the country’s main library. For cultural safe-keeping. I know at least one country does that for books.

emptyother, 2 months ago

In a normal world, someone in power who immediately starts blaming without any proof or cause or connected reason, should have been marked as crazy and shamed out of any place of power. I don’t care if its left or right or between. They should be as relevant as those who blame aliens for building the pyramids. They have no place deciding the fate of others.

That a lot of US are so ready to fight immigrants that they dont mind their politicians jumping blindly to conclusions and seeing enemies everywhere… Its scary. Even on this side of the Atlantic.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Arkane Studios, for Dishonored, Prey, Dark Messiah, Deathloop.

Used to be Looking Glass Studios. And then Ion Storm. Do you see a pattern?

emptyother, 3 months ago

Half tempted to love any gamedev company that promises to keep making singleplayer games, that can be played offline, without microtransactions and battlepasses. It would take more than a few botched game launches to make me give up on them.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Damn I’ve always wanted Windows to have that. Being able to put user folders on another partition, or even another drive, at install time. And being able to use “dynamic disk” (aka software raid) to expand partitions across disks as storage requirements grow. I know it is possible to setup, but with a lot of workarounds and annoying problems.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Jup, useless folder. There’s one related thing I’ve complained a lot about lately, so I’m gonna complain some more about it:

Microsoft got this “great” idea of trying to repeatedly trick me into uploading that Documents folder to the cloud. A folder filled with GBytes of Battlefield and Assassins Creed cache files, Starfield mods, MS database files, etc… A lot of files that are in constant change, or locked the entire session. Annoying as hell. I love Onedrive, but I dont know why its so damn important for them to have those files.

Sometimes I really wish I could switch to some Linux distro instead.

emptyother, 5 months ago

If the models were trained only on data that was out of copyright it wouldnt have been an issue, but nobody want to train on only 100+ years old data. Copyright laws are too long when their content arent culturally useful by the time they are free for public use. It hinders the creation of useful tools, among them these generative AIs. Maybe time for some reduction of those laws to something useful, and at the same time increased strictness for businesses to misuse copyrighted content?

emptyother, 5 months ago

One tries to recreate an RPG campaign as close as possible to table-top RPG, but on a computer. Was the original definition back when “possible” was very limited.

emptyother, 5 months ago

I’m no fan of sports games. I dont play sports games. Also the kind of people I hang with also dislike sports games. And the last sport games I read about, a decade ago, had horrible reviews and awful graphics. So therefor I declare the Sports game genre for dead! /s

emptyother, 5 months ago

Huh. I was wondering about the name change when I bought FC 24 for my nephew this xmas. He made it very clear that they had changed names so that I didnt buy the wrong one, but he didnt say why it had changed. 🤯

emptyother, 5 months ago

It would probably only have sold as much as D:OS 3. Which wouldn’t have been a bad sale either, just not as much as BG3.

emptyother, 5 months ago

Do be aware that if they haven’t fixed this: Epic games doesn’t sync your Saints Row saves. And if you uninstall, Epic deletes the saves entirely.

I’m still sore about losing my save game. Had spent time on creating a pretty cool-looking character only to lose him forever when I was waiting for a much needed performance patch.

emptyother, 6 months ago

Mostly I choose gender based on how good they look. If males look brutish and carrot-y (no offense to Carrot Ironfounderdsson) or soldier-like, I choose female. If women look like drawn by Rob Liefeld, I choose men.

Though I do have a preference to a ginger short-haired woman (elf if fantasy) if I can’t decide on what I want to make.

emptyother, 6 months ago

I assume they’ve already replaced the CEO with an AI before they replaced the workers, right? That should be the easiest to swap out because any AI generated mistakes would be caught by the people doing the work just like we’ve always done with CEO generated mistakes.

emptyother, 6 months ago

And if one aren’t in the mood to learn something completely new, theres always Pathfinder.

emptyother, 6 months ago

Thats a good question to those who have spent 1K+ hours in Skyrim and Fallout 4. Why go back? Skyrim didn’t even have a base building system.

I’ll bet you’ll be back for the first big expansion. And that seems to be BGS’ bet too.

emptyother, 6 months ago

Meanwhile BG3 has gotten massively quest patched, added user requested features, a few new companion endings, etc, all within 2023. And that game was in better shape at launch than SF was.

emptyother, 6 months ago

Not a traditional AC? Origins and forward isnt traditional. Syndicate was so traditional they didnt even bring with them the improvements Unity had added (because both games were developed in parallell). It was the last traditional AC game in the series.

Also I loved that London. Also I loved those fight clubs. Also Evie looked damn sexy when fighting in said fight clubs.

emptyother, 6 months ago

Eh… Mirage is back to the old. Very minor skill-tree. Everything dies easy. No real sidequests. Social stealth works better.

But… It feels like a copy of AC. Like someone else without access to the source code of the originals tried to re-create it in Origins’ engine. Also the cutscenes kinda suck. And the city is a bit un-impressive and repetative.

emptyother, 7 months ago

I’d rather have my games voice actors on a livable wage than gta6 out early. We probably have to wait a few months or more until the game is bugfree anyway. And an additional year’s wait for it to come out to pc.

emptyother, 7 months ago

Steam exclusives and nobody bat an eye.

Not that any other game launcher/store can measure up to steam. But you lock yourself out of a lot of good games these days if you still avoid other launchers.

emptyother, 7 months ago

Deleting the content of that overlay folder seems to have worked. Just don’t delete the folder itself or it complains about it missing.

emptyother, 8 months ago

Only 15 years ago? Jeez, that game feels ancient by now. The kinda game us old nerds bring up whenever kids brag about FarCry 3 and up.

I hope I’m not the only one who loved the gun jam mechanics? Or the way a NPC friend could drag me out of combat if I died, and only give me a basic pistol? Gamers today are so inconvenienced from setbacks and accidents outside their controls. Losing equipment just doesn’t happen anymore. And if it does, its called a survival game or survivor mode.

emptyother, 8 months ago

So no different than every other BGS game newer than MW then.

emptyother, 8 months ago

Oh, they are. I keep telling people to WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORDS, and NEVER use same password on two sites. They dont listen. Its a lot easier to just remember 1-4 variations of a password and use that than carry around a password notebook. And they think themselves safe.

I’m thinking most people shouldnt use passwords at all anymore. They are a huge point of failure because people are people. We need something else to be the norm. How can we make hardware keys or something the norm for logging in? Have everyone carry around a bankcard-like thing that fit into every computer where people need credentials. Would’nt that be safer while still being accessible and convenient?

emptyother, 8 months ago

Nothing is simpler than passwords. But we want something thats both simple and safe. Even for lazy people, tech-unsawy people, and people with bad memory.

What if every pc came with a jubikey-ish reader and every website supported a browser api for it? Probably not jubikey, but something that fit in a wallet like bank cards do (but also was an open tech so that anyone can implement and sell cards). Wouldn’t it be both safer and simpler than passwords? It would take some time to turn around of course but the same was probably the case for https, 2fa, ipv6, and tpm’s.

emptyother, 8 months ago

The game was kickass for a kid who loved all kinds of weird action games! I probably shouldn’t try it again and ruin my memories of it.

But a top down shooter where you could fire in different directions than you were walking was revolutionary for a kid who had mostly played metal gear solid on his new PlayStation.

emptyother, 8 months ago

Not surprised. But I had never seen a game like that by then. And very rarely after too. Most recent one I played was… Alien Swarm, I think? I loved that one too.

emptyother, 9 months ago

Jup. Thief 3 had the best horror. No jumpscares, just a sneaking game where you spent many levels training to listen for footsteps and now heard footsteps where there was nobody. One of the few games that has ever scared me.

First and second Amnesia game had some of the same type of horror too. After that they got less and less scary. Don’t know why.

emptyother, 9 months ago

Spotify did that too. Got to listen to THE definitive worst cover of Hotel California I’ve ever heard. I don’t trust cloud services with my music anymore. Mp3’s forever.

emptyother, 9 months ago

No, just that there are no invisible walls. After 7 hours of flying, she reached a paper-cutout of the planet.

emptyother, 9 months ago

I am curious and exited to hear what tricks they have used.

Theres nothing in the engine reqiring to fill every cell between two cells. Might as well be empty space, or cells with random generated terrain.

Also how are they doing the ship interior cell? Loading a cell without removing the old? Why aren’t they using the same thing for interior windows in houses then?

emptyother, 9 months ago

Or if there will be an official canon WotC novelization…

emptyother, 9 months ago

Im near the end of BG3, and “stuck”: I’m just unwilling to end it. Happens often with RPGs for me. So a good time to take a break and play something else.

emptyother, 9 months ago

Well, movies and music doesnt come with microtransactions. Unless we count popcorn, and concert merch, i guess.

emptyother, 9 months ago

Huh, a new thought… Micro? Why is it called “micro” transactions still when theres nothing micro about them any longer? Skins for 20$ and the like isnt exactly micro. Should probably be called desi-transactions. Deca-transactions in some cases.

emptyother, 10 months ago

You can’t get the lava to empty? It only empties in turn-based for some reason, so just switch to turn-based and do nothing for 2-3 rounds.

emptyother, 10 months ago

My biggest complaints about it is awful performance, and that it silently deletes the savegames if I uninstall the game, no cloud save even!

I spent so damn long in the editor creating this kickass Eddie Riggs wannabe and now he’s gone because I wanted to wait a bit for a performance patch. 😭 So I haven’t had the motivation to return to the game since I found out.

emptyother, 10 months ago

adapting a tabletop system to a video game. In DND your DM obviously wouldn’t pause combat indefinitely while the rest of the party messes around

Another related thing that annoys me is that free attack you get before you are added to combat. In DnD rules everyone is combat as soon as one player take the decision to attack, but nobody is allowed to actually do their attack until their own initiative. The way it is in BG3 you can potentially do 4+ extra attacks at turn 1, and it feels cheap and clumsy.

Of course if BG3 changed it this way, some people wouldnt get why when they clicked the attack button first but they still have to wait their turn. Even in DnD some newbies ask about that. Maybe thats why Larian did it the way they did?