Thread for Gamers IX: God Howard Starfield Edition

[Arachkya]

As a kid, but I always wanted to be the bad guy, since the hero just runs in circles.

I haven't played 'em myself, but I've heard the Overlord games are fun. I think you get to play as the villian.

Maybe, I think ial check out the trailer, I suck at most games though.

Dont have the reflexes.

Its why I hate all sports.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I haven't played 'em myself, but I've heard the Overlord games are fun. I think you get to play as the villian.

Maybe, I think ial check out the trailer, I suck at most games though.

Dont have the reflexes.

Its why I hate all sports.

I'm not a sports person either. You tried any Pokèmon or Final Fantasy games? I don't have experience with the latter, but they're supposed to be good. Pokèmon games are a lot of fun, and you don't need internet, especially with the older titles.

[Arachkya]

Maybe, I think ial check out the trailer, I suck at most games though.

Dont have the reflexes.

Its why I hate all sports.

I'm not a sports person either. You tried any Pokèmon or Final Fantasy games? I don't have experience with the latter, but they're supposed to be good. Pokèmon games are a lot of fun, and you don't need internet, especially with the older titles.

Sorry if I am picky but I HATE that kind of fluffy cuteness, it makes me hurl.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I'm not a sports person either. You tried any Pokèmon or Final Fantasy games? I don't have experience with the latter, but they're supposed to be good. Pokèmon games are a lot of fun, and you don't need internet, especially with the older titles.

Sorry if I am picky but I HATE that kind of fluffy cuteness, it makes me hurl.

Hmmm. I'm stumped for now.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Forgot how fun custom firefight in halo reach is

[Kowani]

Maybe, I think ial check out the trailer, I suck at most games though.

Dont have the reflexes.

Its why I hate all sports.

I'm not a sports person either. You tried any Pokèmon or Final Fantasy games? I don't have experience with the latter, but they're supposed to be good. Pokèmon games are a lot of fun, and you don't need internet, especially with the older titles.

Perhaps Civ, or Stellaris?

[Immoren]

Best part is about playing Hollow Knight is that I find myself contorting myself into weird poses, like it'd make maneuvering jumps better.
Just like in the Good Old Days.

[The New California Republic]

New BioShock game on the way!

[Rostavykhan]

Decided to try the new Bedrock update for Minecraft while I wait for BF1 to update aaaaaaand Bedrock is literal garbage that's 90% "Buy our shit", and 10% shitty UI.

Guess it's finally time to move on from this game after ten years.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Bethesda put out a new patch for fallout 76 which broke all the legendary armour and weapons in the game after you started reloading.



lol

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Bethesda put out a new patch for fallout 76 which broke all the legendary armour and weapons in the game after you started reloading.



lol

God fallout 76 is such a shitshow. Why anyone is still playing it is one of the greatest mysteries in the world.

[The New California Republic]

Bethesda put out a new patch for fallout 76 which broke all the legendary armour and weapons in the game after you started reloading.



lol

That game is dead to me at this point, to the extent that personally I don't regard half the shit in it as canon anymore.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Bethesda put out a new patch for fallout 76 which broke all the legendary armour and weapons in the game after you started reloading.



lol

That game is dead to me at this point, to the extent that personally I don't regard half the shit in it as canon anymore.

Bethesda seriously needs to get their shit together, this is just soooo laughably bad its depressing.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Bethesda put out a new patch for fallout 76 which broke all the legendary armour and weapons in the game after you started reloading.



lol

God fallout 76 is such a shitshow. Why anyone is still playing it is one of the greatest mysteries in the world.

Im sure some people genuinely enjoy it and i will not begrudge them for that, others are maybe just masochistic lol

[The Huskar Social Union]

Phoenix Point came out recently on the epic store, but it doesnt look great from what ive seen of it so far, so im hoping by the time it comes out on steam next year its had more work put into it.

[The New California Republic]

That game is dead to me at this point, to the extent that personally I don't regard half the shit in it as canon anymore.

Bethesda seriously needs to get their shit together, this is just soooo laughably bad its depressing.

Fallout needs to go back to its roots. No multiplayer. No microtransactions. No "premium" versions.

[Ifreann]

Bethesda put out a new patch for fallout 76 which broke all the legendary armour and weapons in the game after you started reloading.



lol

I am convinced that there's a few people in Bethesda who have a bet going on who can finally kill Fallout 76.

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Bethesda seriously needs to get their shit together, this is just soooo laughably bad its depressing.

Fallout needs to go back to its roots. No multiplayer. No microtransactions. No "premium" versions.

From what I understand, the worst thing about 76 is that there are some parts of it that have clearly had real work put into them. Maybe it was never going to achieve the same cult status as the original two games and New Vegas, but it could have been a perfectly good follow-up to Fallout 4. But then some brain genius, presumably Todd Howard, decided to jam in all the multiplayer and microtransaction bullshit, and to make that shit work the game had to be gutted.


It's a shame. Not much of one, it probably wouldn't have been better than average. But still, a shame.

[The New California Republic]

Fallout needs to go back to its roots. No multiplayer. No microtransactions. No "premium" versions.

From what I understand, the worst thing about 76 is that there are some parts of it that have clearly had real work put into them.

Yes there are certain parts of the game that are actually fun, but the one thing that I found totally immersion-breaking was when I was doing a quest and some random other player was already in one of the interior locations related to the quest, rummaging about, having already killed all the enemies inside that I was likely meant to encounter (the other player having clearly stumbled across the location rather than being there as part of the quest, since they were not interacting with any of the quest-related parts of the location). When it was already being picked clean for scrap items by some random other player it just made me lose any illusion that I'd discovered something. I never got that immersion break in Fallout 4. That was the one crippling weakness that I found with the game having a multiplayer element.

[Purpelia]

To be fair there isn't much you can do to avoid that sort of stuff if you want to combine multiplayer and open world gameplay. About the only thing you can do is keep quest areas locked off as dungeons that only open up for access once you get the proper quest.

[The New California Republic]

To be fair there isn't much you can do to avoid that sort of stuff if you want to combine multiplayer and open world gameplay. About the only thing you can do is keep quest areas locked off as dungeons that only open up for access once you get the proper quest.

Hence why the Fallout style of gameplay and the multiplayer elements mix about as well as oil and water. Multiplayer just needs to get the fuck out of Fallout.

[The first Galactic Republic]

I’ve seen MMOs use separate instances so different players can have entirely different interactions in the same area.

Take Elder Scrolls Online. I remember a quest that has you go to an abandoned town overrun with mobs. Completing the quest repopulates the place and turns it into a settlement with vendors and everything, but other players who haven’t done the quest will still see mobs there. There’s no interaction at all between them, so the mobs are gone for people who did the quest, the vendors are absent for people still on it, and the two kinds of players can’t see each other at all unless they’re on the same page. I thought it was pretty impressive.

And it was part of the main map. Not a dungeon or anything.

[The New California Republic]

I’ve seen MMOs use separate instances so different players can have entirely different interactions in the same area.

Take Elder Scrolls Online. I remember a quest that has you go to an abandoned town overrun with mobs. Completing the quest repopulates the place and turns it into a settlement with vendors and everything, but other players who haven’t done the quest will still see mobs there. There’s no interaction at all between them, so the mobs are gone for people who did the quest, the vendors are absent for people still on it, and the two kinds of players can’t see each other at all unless they’re on the same page. I thought it was pretty impressive.

And it was part of the main map. Not a dungeon or anything.

Oh I have no doubt that it can work for some games, but the implementation in Fallout was a disaster, and I doubt it could ever work because of the type of game that Fallout has always been.

[Purpelia]

To be fair there isn't much you can do to avoid that sort of stuff if you want to combine multiplayer and open world gameplay. About the only thing you can do is keep quest areas locked off as dungeons that only open up for access once you get the proper quest.

Hence why the Fallout style of gameplay and the multiplayer elements mix about as well as oil and water. Multiplayer just needs to get the fuck out of Fallout.

Honestly I think it could work. You just have to keep the open world aspect of it separate from fixed plot instances. Sort of like what the Fallout 3 DLC's did or like literally every good MMO does. Give the player a giant generic sandbox world to explore and than lock plot locations behind transitions.

[Skylus]

Game Awards starts soon.

[Fuyujima]

Fallout 76 is an asset flip which refused to have NPC's and was coded by one of the most incompetent companies in the history of video games.

The issue isn't the inherent idea of a Fallout multiplayer, instead that Bethesda has become extremely lazy and greedy after the Creation Club fiasco.