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Anime Schoolgirl posted:the bigger concern i have is that i'd like to see xbox outright give the studios formerly under zenimax creative freedom to do whatever they want for the most part, like tango doing games without tons of evident ubi-style poo poo strapped onto them by zenimax and arkane doing what they're actually good at even it doesn't sell multi-millions I would say the only chance if that like HBO/AMC did back in the 2000s, that they allow some creatives/developers a little more leeway to produce their own products as "flagships" to gain press while everything else is about maximum extraction (let 10,000 Diablo immortals bloom). Otherwise, Microsoft is going to try to squeeze value out of their assets one way or another. ------------ That Bethesda video is pretty straight forward "we are complete hacks that don't know poo poo and write garbage...moving on."
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Mantis42 posted:the most successful rpg company in gaming doesn't care about story, quests, or worldbuilding.
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Jul 17, 2022 07:53
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Mantis42 posted:the most successful rpg company in gaming doesn't care about story, quests, or worldbuilding. 'the story is there, but they're gonna spend 30 hours making shacks' the words of a man who definitely has confidence and pride in the value of his own work
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i wonder if there's a bethesda game that is beloved for its depth of worldbuilding and which continues to be actively played and modded 20 years after release...nah, sounds made up, can't possibly invest any time in that poo poo when we have 1000 blown up houses to model in exquisite detail but which people give even less of a poo poo about than the story
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Jazerus posted:i wonder if there's a bethesda game that is beloved for its depth of worldbuilding and which continues to be actively played and modded 20 years after release...nah, sounds made up, can't possibly invest any time in that poo poo when we have 1000 blown up houses to model in exquisite detail but which people give even less of a poo poo about than the story
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Jul 17, 2022 09:14
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:i don't think there's enough coke in the world for michael kirkbride to be willing to work at a full time game job again he's straight edge now anyway because he got on the joose or something and doesn't remember like 5 years of his life in any detail find some other guy who can load up on cigarettes booze and psychedelics to stare into the mind of god, there's gotta be a kirkbride 2.0 out there somewhere
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the brigand oaxaca guy made the whole game himself over the course of a decade while stoned as poo poo
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Jul 17, 2022 09:24
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Farm Frenzy posted:this video is the best thing ive ever seen for udnerstanding how bethesda makes games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi51-wjcwp8 genuinely one of the most depressing youtube videos ive ever seen
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Jul 17, 2022 09:33
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in other news today i learned that someone is credited in the gex 64 end credits as "the unapooper"
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Jul 17, 2022 09:39
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I finally figured out that the reason I am unable to parry combos is that I need to release the left stick and re-tilt it rather than keeping it tilted in the direction I want.
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Jazerus posted:i wonder if there's a bethesda game that is beloved for its depth of worldbuilding and which continues to be actively played and modded 20 years after release...nah, sounds made up, can't possibly invest any time in that poo poo when we have 1000 blown up houses to model in exquisite detail but which people give even less of a poo poo about than the story Hell yeah I love Daggerfall
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Jul 17, 2022 10:25
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"this giant robot is a kinda lovely final boss compared to all the extremely cool duels" "oh. oh"
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Cuttlefush posted:standing there 
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Farm Frenzy posted:this video is the best thing ive ever seen for udnerstanding how bethesda makes games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi51-wjcwp8 i gotta be honest, i never played fo4 but i never heard anyone describe its themes about "suspicion" or paranoia
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Jul 17, 2022 13:14
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Still playing Neon White, it's addictive as all gently caress. But the dialogue, my god the dialogue.
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Jul 17, 2022 13:26
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Ardennes posted:I guess the question is how much more profit can they squeeze from the franchise at this point? I mean they already tried to make Fallout 76, a semi-shooter and there are only so many micro-transactions they can shake out of the system (and they are already trying games as a service). they could try making a good fallout game
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this ludwig guy is stomping my whole dick and balls and im nowhere near phase 2 :|
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Rutibex posted:they could try making a good fallout game why though
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Rutibex posted:they could try making a good fallout game "Nameless Wanderer, this is Brotherhood-Of-Steel-Man"
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Jul 17, 2022 14:40
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bitmap posted:this ludwig guy is stomping my whole dick and balls and im nowhere near phase 2 :| Hes one of the hardest fights in the whole game. When I beat him it was a dice roll if he spammed bullshit attacks at me or not
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Jul 17, 2022 14:48
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genericnick posted:Still playing Neon White, it's addictive as all gently caress. But the dialogue, my god the dialogue. The story ends up being pretty interesting but it's fighting the writing the whole time
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Jul 17, 2022 14:49
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Bethesda just doesn't make good games anymore. It's as simple as that. Fallout 4 is just a shooting gallery where you pick up every single pile of trash so you can use it for their lovely annoying settlement building thing. 76 is actually better because they had more time to fix their stupid lovely building system. Also by deciding they had to have a more strict level and loot progression they actually made the "survival" part matter more because now the game doesn't constantly throw loot and waves of enemies at you so much. It ended up being a better single player game than Fallout 4 now that everyone quit playing it.
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bitmap posted:this ludwig guy is stomping my whole dick and balls and im nowhere near phase 2 :| He's one of FromSoft's best bosses so just savor it. You'll get there.
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Jazerus posted:he's straight edge now anyway because he got on the joose or something and doesn't remember like 5 years of his life in any detail The dude that does Kill 6 Billion Demons would be a good kirkbride 2.0
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Rutibex posted:they could try making a good fallout game Yeah, but they need a reliable revenue generator more.
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what's like the new (old) shadowrun RPGs in terms of mechanics and quality of writing? I played the heck out of them but then they stopped after Shadowrun: Hong Kong in 2015 and yeah I played battletech
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Jul 17, 2022 15:35
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If you want to play some isometric RPGs then I'd say Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder, Waatlenad 3 are all fine. Well as good as you can hope for these days.
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I once dreamed of a sequel to New Vegas that took place in Two Sun after the fall of the legion
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Ludwig was my fav boss apart from Maria. I'd been reading item descriptions a lot and he's mentioned over and over as this super Knight. Then he turns up and he's one of Froms best designs imo, horrifying and unashamedly goofy is their best aesthetic imo. Then phase 2 happens
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Honest Thief posted:i gotta be honest, i never played fo4 but i never heard anyone describe its themes about "suspicion" or paranoia They’re pretty obvious. One of the first things that happens when you get to Diamond City is that a guy kills his brother in a stand-off because he thinks he has been replaced by a synth. It’s also heavily implied but left ambiguous whether or not the player is also a synth with implanted memories. The Far Harbor DLC is actually pretty good story wise and gets into those elements a lot more but hardly anyone played it or cared enough to pay attention.
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I just played through the first hour of Red Dead Redemption 2 and I can tell this game is gonna own
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Frumply posted:The Far Harbor DLC is actually pretty good story wise and gets into those elements a lot more but hardly anyone played it or cared enough to pay attention. Far Harbor is great and worth whatever pocket change it costs to play Fo4 now Kinda bullshit that the "best" ending is making peace with the insane genocidal nuke cult because killing people for their beliefs is wrong  Did like the implication for the future of the fallout universe that humans are starting to be born highly resistant to radiation and they will inherit the earth. very crimes of the future
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Far Harbour is the only good DLC for that game. Edit: Also ghouls are humans you racist.
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Dudes rock and should remain the Sole Survivor of Fallout. remove character customization, all very 2010's, ancient history at this point, time to move on.
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wolfs posted:what's like the new (old) shadowrun RPGs in terms of mechanics and quality of writing? I played the heck out of them but then they stopped after Shadowrun: Hong Kong in 2015 pathfinder wrath of the righteous, wasteland 3, uhhhh....
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Frumply posted:They’re pretty obvious. One of the first things that happens when you get to Diamond City is that a guy kills his brother in a stand-off because he thinks he has been replaced by a synth. fallout 4 makes me so frustrated because the seeds of a fun and good story are there but then they're drowned and rotted in the soil by a flood of lovely writing and a godawful story that wastes every possible cool thing.
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if you don't mind fantasy over sci fi you've got Divinity Original Sin 2, Pillars of Eternity, and pretty soon in the next 13 years Baldurs Gate 3
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oh right DOS2 whips though it was Way Too Overwhelming for me mechanically. i like it dumb.
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