You mentioned you’re new to the steam world, does that mean your steam account is new? I could potentially see that delaying things a little bit, if they’re doing some vetting so it isn’t someone constantly making new accounts, playing for a couple hours and refunding
But it’s only been 2 games since Skyrim, right? And for Starfield it’s being renamed Creation Engine 2. Either way that statement “Bethesda just doesn’t do that.” Doesn’t seem accurate when they have done that multiple times.
that asthmatic engine they’ve been dragging since Morrowind
I don’t believe that’s true at all, though. At least by Wikipedia, Morrowind was NetImmerse, Oblivion was Gamebryo (modified Havok), and Skyrim was Creation. And I remember in the announcements for Skyrim that they remade the engine for the game. And Starfield is an updated engine, Creation 2
But they did? For Oblivion it was Gamebryo, for Skyrim it was the Creation Engine
Vermintide 2
Fallout 4
Diablo
Steam features, and it won’t disappear after time.
Well shit, I might need to pick up the previous entries
The Ubisoft of yore is so far dead at this point, that the idea of a reboot isn’t really something I care about. I put them in the same category as Madden and modern CoD games: they’re going to keep putting out the same thing every year, slightly reskinned, and there’s enough people who will buy it every time that it’ll be profitable. It’s pretty much never going to appeal to me, but I don’t particularly care that it exists at this point. There’s enough other developers making novel games that I am interested in.
I’m interested in that. I know a lot of people weren’t too big on Outriders, but I enjoyed it a lot.
I’m not much of a giant-robot guy, so this wasn’t really on my radar, but the gamespot video’s description has me more intrigued. It sounds like the loop will be similar to what I normally do in CCG where after a loss I might consider what went wrong and then rebuild my deck to address it. Here it seems there isn’t a “good” build for your core as much as there’s a good one for a particular situation, and after a loss you’ll need to retool your build to fit.
Yeah, people are talking about the hesitation with the bugs, but I’m just hesitant on the gameplay. Procedural worlds, scanning, “barren but resource rich planets” don’t sound like riveting gameplay to me. The actual gameplay that was shown looked alright, but parts of it felt really weak. Worried they want the wrong way on Ambition vs. Fun
I’d throw Painkiller into the ring. I still think of “shurikens and lightning” whenever I think of it https://youtu.be/qk7DlYcQ0uM
And Alina of the Arena. It’s essentially Into the Breach meets Slay the Spire
Not saying it’s true here, but I’ve run into some games where playing the Windows version with proton runs better than the native Linux client.
It’s weird, I liked a lot of the things they did mechanically: I liked that they filled a lot of “negative possibility space” where if I saw a boulder on top of the hill and decide to push it just for fun, the game acknowledges it. The freedom of traversal was also interesting.
But I really disliked how they did lots of mini-dungeons instead of some really in-depth ones. I was very disappointed in the first Legendary Creature what whatever they’re called, and kinda switched off after that.
For me, my issue with Skyrim was largely with mechanics. I like a little number-crunching in my RPGs, and trying out different builds. Skyrim just felt too… streamlined I guess. At this point I’m a little wary of games that advertise “play any way you want!” since it often feels more like “do whatever you want, none of your decisions matter”
Yeah the progressive web app is useful enough I wish it were mentioned on the main Lemmy.org page. I don’t really feel the need too a separate app with it (which is somewhat ironic because I came here specifically because of third party apps)