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Heck, if he's finally making his Traveller dream game, the aliens can get pretty wacky.
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About "Space Magic" appearing in the game, I wonder if its possible as they mentioned the pen and paper RPG Traveller as an influence and that game does have Psionics, although as Traveller is leans more towards 70's hardish SF its a bit more constrained than say Biotics in Mass Effect.
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Oct 13, 2022 10:08
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The_White_Crane posted:We finally got our first real look at gameplay yesterday: That looked really really bad. This game looks like it needs a 3 year delay at minimum.
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Oct 13, 2022 10:10
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I imagine they'll lean heavily on Arthur C Clarke's third law : “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Hey, an alien artifact/DNA has given me the ability to shoot lighting bolts out of my rear end.
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Oct 13, 2022 10:41
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Telekinetic powers would be some physics jank fun. Expand it into more than the Alteration spell in Skyrim.
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Oct 13, 2022 11:37
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And speaking of tropes, I'll take space magic any day over the tired plot point of "ancient advanced progenitor civilization that mysteriously disappeared."
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Oct 13, 2022 13:50
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I'm sure that'll be in there somewhere.
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Oct 13, 2022 13:53
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The Ancients of Traveller took humans and wolves from Earth and seeded them across the galaxy for whatever reasons and then promptly exterminated themselves to the last in a civil war. It may not be a "progenitor" race in the fashion of Halo Forerunners, but I doubt Todd can resist.
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Oct 13, 2022 14:01
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Just a reminder https://youtu.be/hFcLyDb6niA
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It turns out the ancients were all wiped out by a doomed science experiment where they attempted to stack one too many plates on a table and the resulting physics explosion ended all life in the galaxy.
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Oct 13, 2022 14:12
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Right, the alien device stuff (reminds me of what little I played of Andromeda, even more than the original Mass Effect), opens the door to "magic", but there's hard sci fi options that still open the door to combat systems besides guns. Look at Cyberpunk 2077's hacking; it's absolutely not magic but it IS a way you can build a character to engage in combat in a fundamentally different way. Or, set aside the biotic from ME and look at the engineer; a combat drone to draw aggro and a flame thrower and electric shock on cooldown.
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Mylan posted:And speaking of tropes, I'll take space magic any day over the tired plot point of "ancient advanced progenitor civilization that mysteriously disappeared." Somewhere, Todd Howard just threw everything off his desk in a rage after reading this post.  Don't spoil the storyline!
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Oct 13, 2022 16:17
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The Titanic posted:Somewhere, Todd Howard just threw everything off his desk in a rage after reading this post. Hey Todd, if you're reading this, please dont make the ancient aliens turn out to be the Dwemer.
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Oct 13, 2022 16:22
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Mylan posted:Hey Todd, if you're reading this, please dont make the ancient aliens turn out to be the Dwemer. I think you're asking way too much.
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Oct 13, 2022 16:23
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Mylan posted:Hey Todd, if you're reading this, please dont make the ancient aliens turn out to be the Dwemer. Now you just wrecked the ending of the game where you learn that it's like Star Wars, which happened a long time ago, but the Dwemer were there and this is basically a huge prequel to the universe of Elder Scrolls before it was thrown into magic and castles and tells the story of what happened to the Dwemer.
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Oct 13, 2022 16:25
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Can the ancient aliens be Ferengi? They are fun.
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Oct 13, 2022 16:26
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I am looking forward to the inevitable mod where someone re-creates Tamriel on some earth like world somewhere.
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Mylan posted:Hey Todd, if you're reading this, please dont make the ancient aliens turn out to be the Dwemer.
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Oct 13, 2022 17:58
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Can Starfield craters fit the entirety of Skyrim inside them?
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Popete posted:Can Starfield craters fit the entirety of Skyrim inside them? It’s another avenue to release Skyrim. Of course Beth will add it as a $30 paid dlc.
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Oct 13, 2022 18:14
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Please let the protagonist be silent 
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central dogma posted:Please let the protagonist be silent It is, because when it comes to their AAA open world games Bethesda is actually a company that learns from (some of) its mistakes: Daggerfall was a bland proc gen world so Morrowind was hand crafted. People didn't like the hit system in Morrowind so Oblivion became more naturalistic. Skyrim gave the game a more unique visual aesthetic in the architecture and landscape. The gunplay is massively improved in F4 vs 3. https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesda-co...arlier%20today. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 18:23
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i want my character to be voiced by the tiktok text to speech lady
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Oct 13, 2022 18:26
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I hope they have some kinda magic whether psionics or Cyberpunk style hacking or whatever. I think melee would be even goofier in the setting than magic and I want some kinda option besides guns. Melee works if it's an over-the-top cyber ninja thing like Cyberpunk alongside wacky slick cyberpunk but getting out of my stocky retro space ship and running at some space pirates with an iron pipe just feels wrong. It just occurred to me that I basically want them to do the opposite of how most things were handled in Outer Worlds.
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the magic is FTL, what more do you want??
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Bad Purchase posted:the magic is FTL, what more do you want?? Would be cool if they tackled the whole time paradox poo poo that comes with FTL, but I doubt it.
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Theotus posted:Would be cool if they tackled the whole time paradox poo poo that comes with FTL, but I doubt it. You see that star? You can go there. But if you do, when you get back your wife will be super duper dead.
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FuzzySlippers posted:I hope they have some kinda magic whether psionics or Cyberpunk style hacking or whatever. I think you can handwave a lot away just by saying 'nanomachines did it'. Projectile attack? Destructive nanoswarm. Healing? Restorative nanomachines. Or maybe the
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It may seem like magic, but Quantum blockchain disruptor v1.05 is very real.
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Starfield not showing up on the xbox store yet??
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1glitch0 posted:Starfield not showing up on the xbox store yet?? Huh? It doesn't release until, what, March?
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External Organs posted:Huh? It doesn't release until, what, March? I was told 11.11.22.
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1glitch0 posted:I was told 11.11.22. I mean, I wish... In googling, I'm not even sure it has a release date other than "early 2023"
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I don't see it on Steam either
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It would have been very funny if the game was releasing today and this thread was silent for almost a month proceeding it.
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"Originally, Starfield was supposed to release on November 11, 2022, but in May 2022 Bethesda announced that the space game is now delayed into 2023." I'm going to play it, but I'm trying to brace myself for it feeling a lot more like Fallout 4 than Skyrim. Both games are better when modded, but when you consider either the vanilla experience or what mods can do, I'd say Skryim still has both a higher ceiling and floor. I think part of it is the setting, the art deco faux realistic setting just wears thin in a way the relatively well realized province of Skyrim doesn't. I can only shoot ghouls in that town across the river from Boston, or super mutants in the downtown, or raiders in camps, so many times, but something about clearing out bandit camps, trolls caves, and Draughr crypts just stays fresh for me for so much longer. I'm interested in seeing how it feels to have a ship you travel in, and if that gives a feeling of bringing your home with you in way neither Skyrim nor Fallout have. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Nov 11, 2022 |
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Hoping Bethesda will have some news soon about Starfield's new release date.
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I would guess the earliest we see it is Fall 2023 at this point.
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Popete posted:I would guess the earliest we see it is Fall 2023 at this point. I hate to accept this but yeah pretty much. I would think we would know something by now if it was early 2023.
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It'll probably come out one week after Legend of Zelda TOTK. Cursed!
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