Thread for Gamers IX: God Howard Starfield Edition

[Alvecia]

6-9 depending on the waifu.


The game itself is alright I guess. It's got a very breath of the wild exploration with climbing and gliding.
The combat itself is pretty good. Hack and slash with an elemental system. Different elements interact with each other for various effects and damage
4 characters in your party, each having their own class and element that you can instaswitch between for neat combos

Then there's the gatcha system to get the waifus, which is pretty much your bog standard gatcha before it's had enough time to build up all those weird and complex minigames for gaining currency that most gatcha's I've played tend to have.
Obviously that's where the money maker is, which is why its free to play.

The gatcha currency itself can be made in a few non paying ways. Gained from quests, exploration, and achievements. Also cause its new they're handing out a big bunch every day.

Overall, I'd give it a 7/10. Fun enough to keep me entertained for an hour or two, but not enough to get me invested in the grind.

What is a "gatcha"? First time I've heard the word.

I mean, it'd help if I were spelling it right.
Gacha is basically loot boxes for anime girls.

The games are typically designed around the ability to pay some sort of currency for a percentage chance of obtaining a character.
You then use them for whatever flavour of character based gameplay that particular game uses.

For example, in Genshin Impact, gain 10 special currency, use it on a "wish" (loot box) and you have a 80% chance to get a 3* rarity character, a 15% chance to get a 4* rarity character, a 5% chance for a 5*.
Higher rarity, better stats, that you can then add to your party for the hack and slash exploring part of the game

Edit: I probably haven't explained that very well. I'm a pretty shit explainery guy. Here's the wiki article

[Purpelia]

So it's a gambling lootbox. Got it. No further explanation needed.

[Ameriganastan]

I beat Night In The Woods last night. Good little game. The whole

murder cult feeding people to an eldritch horror

deal was a little out of nowhere in my opinion, but it was still good.

[Alvecia]

So it's a gambling lootbox. Got it. No further explanation needed.

Yeah, exactly.

See you're much better at this.

[Heloin]

Congratulations, you’ve basically made the default Vault Dweller. What the hell guys. We gave you demon eyes, horns, and even tails. We are sorely disappointed. Go crazy. We worked hard on this!

Throwing out some sass in a hotfix update post is just what I need.

There are people in the world who, when given a choice, will always pick to play as a human and I'll never understand them.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Congratulations, you’ve basically made the default Vault Dweller. What the hell guys. We gave you demon eyes, horns, and even tails. We are sorely disappointed. Go crazy. We worked hard on this!

Throwing out some sass in a hotfix update post is just what I need.

There are people in the world who, when given a choice, will always pick to play as a human and I'll never understand them.

People like Humans.

[Heloin]

Congratulations, you’ve basically made the default Vault Dweller. What the hell guys. We gave you demon eyes, horns, and even tails. We are sorely disappointed. Go crazy. We worked hard on this!

Throwing out some sass in a hotfix update post is just what I need.

There are people in the world who, when given a choice, will always pick to play as a human and I'll never understand them.

People like Humans.

There are people who seriously enjoy the Michael Bay's Transformer movies and who like white bread. While I can't prove that there is heavy overlap between these groups I would be shocked if there wasn't.

[The Huskar Social Union]

People like Humans.

There are people who seriously enjoy the Michael Bay's Transformer movies and who like white bread. While I can't prove that there is heavy overlap between these groups I would be shocked if there wasn't.

I like white bread and i like the first michael bay transformer movie




My god.... what have i.. become?

[Heloin]

There are people who seriously enjoy the Michael Bay's Transformer movies and who like white bread. While I can't prove that there is heavy overlap between these groups I would be shocked if there wasn't.

I like white bread and i like the first michael bay transformer movie




My god.... what have i.. become?

It's ok, the first step is admitting. The healing process can begin.

[Heloin]

Things that'd improve Minecraft immensely: vastly increase the amount of clay in the world. I've never been to Sweden and I don't know a whole lot about the country, but I can only assume it's the one place in the world where clay is some rare resource.

[Serrus]

Things that'd improve Minecraft immensely: vastly increase the amount of clay in the world. I've never been to Sweden and I don't know a whole lot about the country, but I can only assume it's the one place in the world where clay is some rare resource.

Clay is one of those Schrodinger's resources.
If you need it, you aren't gonna find it for kilometers.
If you don't need it, your lakes will be full of nothing but clay.

[Andsed]

So I just won a game of Among Us as an impostor even though there was a cheater and someone caught me killing. Basically Purple was a cheating arse who had their cousin tell them who the other impostor was(it was Cyan) and so I hunted them down and killed them.

Pink was nearby and knew it was me but blue made the 0 iq move of accusing white(they claimed they vented which was an outright lie) but they managed to convince another person it was white and I voted for them so white was ejected.

And then I sabotaged the reactor and pink and I were the only ones who went to fix it and so I killed pink and let it run down. So basically the bystander effect and some 0 iq crewmate plays let me win a game I had no business winning.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Things that'd improve Minecraft immensely: vastly increase the amount of clay in the world. I've never been to Sweden and I don't know a whole lot about the country, but I can only assume it's the one place in the world where clay is some rare resource.

Where I grew up, the ground had more rock and clay then actual soil. If Minecraft was like that...

[Ameriganastan]

This is stupid. I have to make some account on Bethesda net to play Doom Eternal, and the fuckers wont let me use my regular username. Apparently the term 'Redneck' is offensive now, even though that's been my gamertag since like 2007.

[The Huskar Social Union]

This is stupid. I have to make some account on Bethesda net to play Doom Eternal, and the fuckers wont let me use my regular username. Apparently the term 'Redneck' is offensive now, even though that's been my gamertag since like 2007.

R3dneck

[Ameriganastan]

This is stupid. I have to make some account on Bethesda net to play Doom Eternal, and the fuckers wont let me use my regular username. Apparently the term 'Redneck' is offensive now, even though that's been my gamertag since like 2007.

R3dneck

I tried that. Didn't work. Sons a bitches. But turns out it's just the account name. My gamertag remains the same.

[The Huskar Social Union]

R3dneck

I tried that. Didn't work. Sons a bitches. But turns out it's just the account name. My gamertag remains the same.

Well thats good atleast.

[Heloin]

R3dneck

I tried that. Didn't work. Sons a bitches. But turns out it's just the account name. My gamertag remains the same.

Rooinek.

[Ameriganastan]

I thought I could handle Ultra Nightmare difficulty. I was wrong. Very, very wrong. I'm going back to regular difficulty.

[Purpelia]

There are people in the world who, when given a choice, will always pick to play as a human and I'll never understand them.

Speaking as someone who has played a lot of RPG's my general view is that it's likely just defaultism. Humans tend to be the jack of all trades sort of class that is decent at doing everything as opposed to the various other races that tend to have strong bonuses in one area but strong minuses in others. And for someone into a game not knowing what it's about or what skills are useful or not specializing your character is just an intimidating way to potentially screw your self over or miss content. Yea sure, you can make that persuasion and lockpickling character or that spellcaster or archer in your next play through to get all the stuff you missed. But nobody ever plays RPG's twice. Once you've seen the story that's it. So you want to try and get as much out of it as you can that first time round. And between this and the knowledge that specializing might lead you down a play style you just don't enjoy but can't tell if you will beforehand humans are the safe option.

Honestly that's why I dislike RPGs that give you D&D like character creation before the game starts. My ideal RPG would start you with a cosmetic only race, gender etc. and than let you have access to all the game skills as you go along without restrictions for you to mess around with and pick which ever suits your style as the game progresses and you figure out what that style is.

[Destyntine]

There are people in the world who, when given a choice, will always pick to play as a human and I'll never understand them.

Speaking as someone who has played a lot of RPG's my general view is that it's likely just defaultism. Humans tend to be the jack of all trades sort of class that is decent at doing everything as opposed to the various other races that tend to have strong bonuses in one area but strong minuses in others. And for someone into a game not knowing what it's about or what skills are useful or not specializing your character is just an intimidating way to potentially screw your self over or miss content. Yea sure, you can make that persuasion and lockpickling character or that spellcaster or archer in your next play through to get all the stuff you missed. But nobody ever plays RPG's twice. Once you've seen the story that's it. So you want to try and get as much out of it as you can that first time round. And between this and the knowledge that specializing might lead you down a play style you just don't enjoy but can't tell if you will beforehand humans are the safe option.

Honestly that's why I dislike RPGs that give you D&D like character creation before the game starts. My ideal RPG would start you with a cosmetic only race, gender etc. and than let you have access to all the game skills as you go along without restrictions for you to mess around with and pick which ever suits your style as the game progresses and you figure out what that style is.

I have always seen humans as like that 'neutral' option. I honestly believe humans are played by the most "human" of people, the normal-ites. Maybe there's someone who wants to play as a human because of the lack of interest in orcish culture or dislikes how a goblin looks. Sometimes I can't get into the role of a crazy shapeshifting elf with magical healing powers from an elder God or a dwarf who constantly drinks ale while running around at half the height of a human while speaking in a deep Scottish accent, it is pretty much impossible to go wrong as a human, making it the best race to choose for both lazy people and people who seriously lack the ability or care to get into another role.

I agree that humans are jacks-of-all-trades. A human can be pretty much about anything. Humans can stab, shoot, become wizards,.. even master kung fu!

[The first Galactic Republic]

So, uh, anyone following that Bionicle RPG fan game?

[Kowani]

I built a Monotype-Ground team for Pokemon Showdown and I am having way too much fun

[Ameriganastan]

I beat Doom Eternal. I think I liked 2016 better. This one didn't feel quite as epic. Also, it went a little heavy on the plot. And I'm not playing Doom for the plot.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I beat Doom Eternal. I think I liked 2016 better. This one didn't feel quite as epic. Also, it went a little heavy on the plot. And I'm not playing Doom for the plot.

I was genuinely surprised they tried to flesh out a story and the world of Doom as much as they did in eternal, i just think it was a bit messy and maybe could have been done a bit better.