Still one of the best games with a story that subverts its own genre alongside KOTOR 2, definitely worth experiencing.

Off topic, but I read books, and I can tell publishers leverage " judging a book by its cover" extremely well, because it is true, otherwise I couldn’t tell an academic edition or a general edition. A book with an AI cover is, in general, a bad idea, and it conveys low quality to the reader. Some open source books use AI to format an epub file; some use text recognition without professional formatting, and it is a disaster to read. You are better off getting an old pdf edition or paying a premium for a publisher’s modernised version.

Am I understanding that you mean certain important locations are not fenced off until you find the clues that lead to such locations? This game is pretty wide open. I certainly went to some “useless” location, but if I remember right, there is one very important location that you may just find “accidentally”.

I like the game, but it took some considerable effort to like it, plus a saving bug at the beginning that I had to solve, so I can understand why someone does not like it.

The only game that I’ve refunded after 100 hrs, the breakup stings this one. When you realise it demands so much from your acceptance and tolerance of bad game design, wasted potential and cult-like fanbase. You may as well just do something else meaningful…oh well

Dark Souls 3…it is a bit hard to jump in after its slower predecessor, for some reason unknown, I just like the legacy combat system better, can’t find the rhythm in the new one…

GOG forums are mostly technical topics. Different builds for different storefronts can cause different problems, and good luck getting help from devs and mod authors on Steam if you have a GOG problem.

It’s very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.

I have only paid for three games with this kind of money:

-America and Euro Truck Simulator

-Rimworld

Time to go back to retro gaming, they are free on abandonware or dirt cheap on GOG, I can handle the retrojank and graphics.

Ultima Underworld, I feel like getting back into retro gaming, so the first thing I have to do is to follow the tradition: read the manual. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have known I could make popcorn with a lit torch; that is an early prototype of “combine items” like in survival horror games.

I have tried a little Ultima 7: The Serpent Isle just to test how it runs on my machine; they definitely made sure that you pass the test of the history of Britannia before you can even continue the game.

Really like the old days when they still made booklets like History of Britannia (as told by Kyle the Younger), just so that you get immersed in the game world before you even play the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkLyC6PSjC4

This game kicked my ass back then. I think 5 mins was my max.

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They do moderate, threads disappear out of thin air, locked due to specific reasons. I’ve reported many, from minor insults to racism, and many of the times they take action. And I considered Steam more heavily moderated than both Lemmy and Reddit, unless you are in a beleaguered community.

The review section, though, is a dev problem; it can be a bit of a wildland, and that is true.

I still remember they put Deus Ex in the freezer, handed it over to Embracer, then they murdered it before the final chapter.

Well, many complex games have no budget on graphics, that’s why you can have one-man army dev making a monster of a game like Aurora 4x.

Hearts of Iron 2

When I realised Aurora 4x, a free space 4x game with an ugly UI, does ground trooper even more in-depth than a specialised WWII game, it starts to feel like a toy; there’s just no contest between these two when it comes to complexity in terms of moment-to-moment decision making.

This looks inspired by Condemned: Criminal Origins, alright, count me in.

Nice, reminds me of DMC.

No thanks, I have Children of a Dead Earth if I want to build ships, a much better sandbox when you can give your overpowered ships to the AI, and you can try to defeat it with default ships. NMS is too form over function to me.

If I want to build a dollhouse, I will just go with House Flipper, much more focused on interior design, even architects could take inspiration from its design.

If I want settlement management, Dwarf Fortress is much deeper.

NMS is a generalist open-world sandbox; it is not going to compete with specialist sandbox games in terms of depth, unless you want vibe and chill.

That’s not my argument, you tell that to @Jollyllama, but then again:

6IX9INE- GOOBA - 922m views 6ix9ine - BEBE ft. Anuel AA - 1.6 bn views

The Best of Beethoven - 66m views Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata - 225m views

Ouch, he is right, quote and quote with some modification “Some may not enjoy it and that’s their opinion but he is pulling more listener numbers and higher ratings and most other music artists.”

You tell that to the chill players when people mention “improve combat”, but why do fans complain when it is free, right? It is wild. xD