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Al! posted:more bittersweet than sad i think theyve pushed the genre as far as they could and sounds like their games were all solidly successful and they basically want to take the retirement job of supporting their old games and spend time with their families yeah. also they did go out with a bang, what a great game that was
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Aug 29, 2023 16:48
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:it's royale 
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Aug 29, 2023 16:48
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and when i win by hiding for the first 10 minutes then killing the last guy with a rocket? that's a royale with cheese
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Aug 29, 2023 16:50
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:its funny seeing ppl act upset and surprised when they found out that on-planet stuff will have invisible walls and boundaries The reveal that the entire game is procgen save the story locations really put a damper on my expectations
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Aug 29, 2023 16:50
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Lostconfused posted:If you just say "starfield looks exactly like you expect a bethesda game to look like" then how will you provoke an emotional reaction? How will users engage with your product if they don't feel things? all you have to do to market it to the average person is to let them know it exists and is made by the same people as fallout 4 and skyrim, which are beloved games to everyone but goons
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Aug 29, 2023 16:51
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Truga posted:yeah. also they did go out with a bang, what a great game that was the fact that theyre focusing on content for it is great. they could sell me like one island a month for 15 bucks and id subscribe for the rest of my life.
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Aug 29, 2023 16:52
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Grapplejack posted:The reveal that the entire game is procgen save the story locations really put a damper on my expectations what part of "theres 1000 planets to explore" made you think it would be anything other than this?
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Aug 29, 2023 16:52
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my understanding is that the 1000 planets or whatever are procgen but you land and it populates the planet with prebuilt content appropriate for your level and progression. whats going to make that a bitch is that there are going to be a bunch of locations and npcs that you see on a wiki and the solution to find them is to just keep landing places at the right level until they populate
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Aug 29, 2023 16:55
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Al! posted:my understanding is that the 1000 planets or whatever are procgen but you land and it populates the planet with prebuilt content appropriate for your level and progression. whats going to make that a bitch is that there are going to be a bunch of locations and npcs that you see on a wiki and the solution to find them is to just keep landing places at the right level until they populate is that how it works? i figured that each populated planet would have pre-genned landing spots that are the same for every player. If the player wants to explore the planet further, then they can put down custom landing zones that will then proc gen based on the coordinates. This approach gives the best of both worlds imo, hand-crafted locations for all the important story or POI stuff and proc-gen slop for all the piggies that want to clear out endless bandit camps
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Aug 29, 2023 16:59
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Al! posted:my understanding is that the 1000 planets or whatever are procgen but you land and it populates the planet with prebuilt content appropriate for your level and progression. whats going to make that a bitch is that there are going to be a bunch of locations and npcs that you see on a wiki and the solution to find them is to just keep landing places at the right level until they populate whatever procgen they’re doing is based on the same seed for everyone, so while bases out there in the middle of nowhere will be procgenned in their layout/enemies/loot, etc. everyone should see the same stuff in the same location at least that’s my understanding right now
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Aug 29, 2023 17:03
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Al! posted:whats going to make that a bitch is that there are going to be a bunch of locations and npcs that you see on a wiki and the solution to find them is to just keep landing places at the right level until they populate That sounds like a not fun way to play, but I assume some people will do that and complain about the game being bad.
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Aug 29, 2023 17:03
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:is that how it works? id imagine its mostly procgen base slop with handcrafted ones thrown into the mix.
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Aug 29, 2023 17:04
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Ben Nerevarine posted:whatever procgen they’re doing is based on the same seed for everyone, so while bases out there in the middle of nowhere will be procgenned in their layout/enemies/loot, etc. everyone should see the same stuff in the same location oh that makes a lot more sense. agdq 2024 randomizer run ftw
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Aug 29, 2023 17:04
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Al! posted:id imagine its mostly procgen base slop with handcrafted ones thrown into the mix. the way the player explores a planet is through a menu when they get in orbit. They can choose a landing zone from a list of existing POI landing zones, think specific cities and ruins or areas for the story, etc, and they can also put a custom marker on the surface that will then proc-gen a chunk for the player to explore, likely using the surface coordinates as a seed so other players can share coordinates with each other. Presumably, that chunk will include stuff like bandit outposts, caves, random ruins, mineral deposits etc. I imagine that the POI landing points will be mostly handcrafted, and the same from player to player, so that the games story missions can be designed and not left to the whims of procedural generation at least, this is all my understanding based off of previews and poo poo
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Aug 29, 2023 17:12
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i mean who knows we will find out for real by thursday evening oblivion was the only one of these games i hated. my best experience was finding out that new vegas exists and was coming out the day before it launched, what a nice surprise that was
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Aug 29, 2023 17:14
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all of bethesda's games have had procgen poo poo in between built areas going back to arena. even morrowind is partially procgen. starfield sounds like it's basically gonna be daggerfall in space as far as how the map was made
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Aug 29, 2023 17:15
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Pete Hines said Starfield is “more Oblivion than Skyrim” and I’ve been puzzling over it for days. what could he mean? it’s bad instead of good?
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Aug 29, 2023 17:16
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Pete Hines said Starfield is “more Oblivion than Skyrim” and I’ve been puzzling over it for days. what could he mean? it’s bad instead of good? Maybe he meant it's more memeable
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Aug 29, 2023 17:17
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Pete Hines said Starfield is “more Oblivion than Skyrim” and I’ve been puzzling over it for days. what could he mean? it’s bad instead of good? he meant the facial animations
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Aug 29, 2023 17:18
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Pete Hines said Starfield is “more Oblivion than Skyrim” and I’ve been puzzling over it for days. what could he mean? it’s bad instead of good? the camera zooms into npc's faces when you talk to them
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Aug 29, 2023 17:18
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fully owned quote:Lastly, a note on Digital Foundry. You should expect to see relatively prompt coverage of the game by Rich and his team after a separate delivery of Starfield code was provided to them. However, this was provided alongside instruction to me by Bethesda that no other parts of Eurogamer were granted access. This was an unprecedented request, but one I ultimately felt compelled to honour to ensure the access granted to Digital Foundry was not subsequently impacted by any other mandate.
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Aug 29, 2023 17:19
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Pete Hines said Starfield is “more Oblivion than Skyrim” and I’ve been puzzling over it for days. what could he mean? it’s bad instead of good? 
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Aug 29, 2023 17:19
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https://twitter.com/BurkeKrohn/status/1696354150131318815?s=20
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Aug 29, 2023 17:21
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Aug 29, 2023 17:22
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is anyone from star trek doing voice work for starfield? maybe jonathan frakes dies in the tutorial after u kill some space rats and thats what he meant
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Aug 29, 2023 17:24
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Quark is in it (the best character)
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Aug 29, 2023 17:24
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Richard Leadbetter, brother of Lily
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Aug 29, 2023 17:25
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I did see a clip where a dude landed right next to a city cell and the city couldn't be seen at all. Disappointing but not surprising at all. Game just needs to come out, the discourse is getting too heated
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Aug 29, 2023 17:37
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Aug 29, 2023 17:38
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in no man's sky you could point your device at a little guy and name him "weinerhead"
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Aug 29, 2023 17:38
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Aug 29, 2023 18:25
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https://twitter.com/Bolverk15/status/1696518188333400572 lol that the replies are all people saying "that unironically owns"
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Aug 29, 2023 18:57
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punished milkman posted:yeah that mission was extremely tough for me and took a lot of build tweaks to just scrape through. i did enjoy the dialog in that mission at least, the math lines are very funny ended up having to punch the last stragglers to death after my shotguns ran dry
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Aug 29, 2023 19:05
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Risutora posted:ended up having to punch the last stragglers to death after my shotguns ran dry im not far enough along to have learned you fight that guy, but in this case learning that you get to murder him is a spoiler that actually makes me want to keep playing even more
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Aug 29, 2023 19:20
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trying to cash in my microsoft "rewards" points to see if i can buy myself starfield early access, and i think so many other people had that idea that the rewards site is down
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Aug 29, 2023 19:25
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Aug 29, 2023 19:33
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Al! posted:trying to cash in my microsoft "rewards" points to see if i can buy myself starfield early access, and i think so many other people had that idea that the rewards site is down are they still giving away copies of Windows Vista Ultimate you can return to Walmart for 200 bones?
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Aug 29, 2023 19:36
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We ebat the giant ice worm bot with the power of teamwork. I'm sure I won't have to horribly murder everyone I worked with in the next two chapters.
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Aug 29, 2023 19:36
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smarxist posted:are they still giving away copies of Windows Vista Ultimate you can return to Walmart for 200 bones? a lot of stores like walmart and home depot are switching to no receipt = no return policies and even starting to flag people that return too much merchandise because of people returning stuff for store credit lol
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Aug 29, 2023 19:43
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/Bolverk15/status/1696518188333400572 it was pretty essential to the plot for me because one of the party members permanently ended the life of another
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