It looks exactly like Skyrim but the player character is an ant.
:todd: says: "See that little patch of grass in the distance? You can climb it." The audience goes nuts. The sound of gamers simultaneously creaming their pants is powerful enough to make your ears bleed. It earns more than your country's GDP in pre-orders alone.
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Something I think is funny about space games. If a game takes place on multiple planets, then you can tell how diverse the environments will be by how many planets are advertised:
- 2-3 planets, not much variety, probably a budget game.
- 4-8 planets, each planet will have a couple of environments, totaling a decent variety throughout the game.
- 9-12 planets, each planet will be exactly 1 environment centered on the spot where your ship lands, totaling a decent variety throughout the game.
- 13+ planets, there will only be one environment in the entire game but its color palette will change.
mass effect 1 unreal engine empty maps walked so other space games could...... ignore it's lesson and try that shit but procedurally generated now!
It was impressive how artistically hollow Starfield looked. "NASApunk" is a hell of a tell.
Punk is when you get your aesthetics from literally the most dominant cultural vision of space travel! :so-true:
The one thing that really stood out to me is that whenever they showed combat the enemies were called "Spacer" or some derivative of that name. Skyrim Bandits are back baby
Yeah. pretty, but empty. Doesn't have any feel of it's own, not even Blomkapfs lived in future look.
A lot of the spaceship interiors came across to me as "The charm of Alien but blander"
Another hot take: Modern Bethesda is incapable of making good video games.
(I also would prefer it to be good tho)
The Skies of Skyrim, and it is just a repackaged mod where you play Skyrim as a bird.
One of the planets is Tamriel and you get bonked on the head in a surprise attack and wake up in a space cart....
You post satire but SO many people WOULD absolutely jizz their pants to play a good ant simulator
Sim Ant was awesome back in the mid 90s. I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen that kind of hard core digging and carrying dirt simulation in the years since.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/463530/Empires_of_the_Undergrowth/
I think Starfield looks cool. I have regarded Skyrim with a fairly significant level of contempt since day one, but . . . I know what Bethesda does and while I think a lot of it is dogshit, it's probably going to be a good time for a while.
I've possibly spent more time playing Skyrim's mods than any other game. Before Skyrim came out I would have said the same thing about Oblivion or Jedi Outcast/Academy.
My only hope for Starfield is that whatever bullshit they are undoubtedly planning for the modding community doesn't piss everyone off too much and we see a deluge of fanmade content for it. It can be as good or as mid or as bad as it wants - I just want to see a new major release get busted open and attract a mod community the way Skyrim did.
I have played, oh, ballpark 4000 hours of Bethesda games in the last 2 decades starting with Morrowind, played every game so far, and the only one I have beaten even one time was Fallout 3.
Skyrim was my first Bethesda game I enjoyed (Brink was my first Bethesda game lmao), so it has a place in my heart. I hope Starfield is good because it would be nice to experience something like that after all these years.
Western RPGs kinda left Bethesda's realm after the Eastern European countries started making them.
Yeah. Witcher 3 blew me away when it came out. Hell even Cyberpunk 2077 impressed me when I first played it (after all the updates).
Also Disco and Kingdom Come, all unique takes that broke away from the Bethesda jank and managed to make compelling story based RPGs.
Kingdom Come was the one where the dev wouldn't let the player or any NPC be black because of "historical accuracy", right?
:yea:
Guy was always a turbo chud so out of principle I avoided it. The fandom largely being chuds enjoying the hogfeed didn't help.
"Historical accuracy" means killing a lord's guard means two weeks in jail instead of more severe and permanent medieval punishments which were very commonly documented. More importantly, it means :us-foreign-policy:
Mordhau had a similar Chud problem. I overcame it by making a gigantic knight in a red tunic and beating people to death with my bare hands while spamming b its of the manifesto in chat.
Historical accuracy in kingdom come means running around naked at night breaking into everyone's house and stealing anything that isn't nailed down.
The way they balanced stealth to be based on what you're wearing means the most powerful armor in the game is a black shirt and black trousers because you just turn invisible when you crouch.
Visigoth gang stay winning
Was Kingdom Come good? I heard it was Meh. Disco is one of my favorite games of all time. I also would say it western RPGs went away from Bioware style games as well after Mass Effect 3 (which I will say after playing the trilogy again last year, I didn't hate as much).
kcd was a game i wouldnt have found fun in a vacuum but honestly a game where attack animations are based off historical fencing was something i liked so much that it made me overlook the games many flaws. (ofc i did pirate it)
fighting games arent my thing so im not likely to play it but it looks rad as hell.
When I first played it Kingdom Come was the first RPG of that type since probably Morrowind to really suck me in. It's a shame about the dev and it's a shame that it's so incredibly uneven - you'll do some of the best and most memorable quests ever, but you'll also get locked into inescapable boss arenas and battlefields that are awful.
I liked Witcher 2, and witcher 1 was okay, but Witcher 3 never grabbed myinterests. Kingdom Come's combat was completely impenetrible and I gave up on it.
I'd still be playing tes oblivion, my comfort game
Don't care how much it ages or what others say, there's a uniquely cozy charm to it
It does. My play through took me 400 hours, beacuse I said "I have to finish the main quest or I'll play this game forever"
It should have been.
If I ever get a genie wish I'm wishing for an Elder Scrolls game written by Kirkbride and Mielville and directed by Kojima. I want a digital acid trip.
An infinite flood of porn mods follows seconds later, and because it's 2037 and because of how hedonic treadmills work, it's mostly fringes of fringe fetishes and fixations that would make Cenobites blush.
:awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus:
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Logs onto Steam
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Sees 10,000 new indie games
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Checks Wishlist
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Finds a dozen games I haven't purchased yet
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Checks game library
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Finds two-dozen games I haven't played yet
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Checks online friends list
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Sees a dozen people I haven't talked to or played within the last five years
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Pops onto Reddit
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Sees promo for a hundred new highly anticipated games being released in the next year
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Visits vintage gaming store
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Sees an entire wall full of classic titles I've never tried out
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Pops into the arcade
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Sees wall upon wall of cabinets I haven't played in months
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Goes back home
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Gets online
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Sees that Electronic Activision has merged with Microsoft Nintendo
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Spends $99 for their newest game
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Its Sonic
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Play for five minutes, then turn the console off and go complain on the internet about how there aren't enough games
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