DebatableRaccoon

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DebatableRaccoon,

Sorry to the console players but I really hope we get the PC release of Ghost of Tsushima before the sequel comes out. That’ll just sting otherwise

DebatableRaccoon,

Not too unpopular, actually. I’ve seen the usual complaints against it. I’ve avoided it enough to not have any spoilers but seen enough to know to know to not get my hopes too high. I’m just looking to scratch the itch that Sekiro left behind and it was very much the shinobi stuff that got me through that game rather than the souls-like elements so GoT seems to be the right fit.

DebatableRaccoon,

This isn’t even a slap on the wrist for a company like that anymore. This is more like an untimely poke

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

DebatableRaccoon,

Oh cry me a river. These hacks don’t deserve the pity they’re clearly trying to win because they have already proven they don’t know how to make a technologically sound game. Every single one of their games has suffered from save-breaking glitches, and yeah I might be one of the unlucky ones to have experienced at least one in all of their games but I can count the amount of developers that have given me a similar experience on one fist (yes, I mean “fist”, not hand).

I have an up-to-date system, more than meet the requirements for this flaming turd of a game and even among the insane amount of loading screens, there are still frequent hang-ups from the game needing to load while walking through a plaza while the game is running on my SSD. That’s simply not good enough. The last time I experienced such behaviour in a game was when I was playing on a potato over a decade ago or playing online with abysmal internet.

Critics don’t have to be developers to be able to spot in what ways a game is bad and neither does the general public. This is very different from “I don’t like this so it’s bad.”. This is a case of “It runs like ass, the writing is boring and the traversal of their mostly-empty crafted universe is little more than a lag-hung menu with a stupid amount of layers to access what you’re actually looking for and a whole ton of loading screens and thus it is bad.”. They haven’t crafted some grand open universe like they advertised, they made a bunch of levels, added a slow fast travel system and a standard fast travel system and called it quits. They’re now finally being called out as the bunch of half-asses they really are and they have more than earned it.

“We were riding the limits of what was possible” is a common excuse given. Then maybe don’t bite off more than you can chew. “Overcome technology itself”. A bad craftsman blames his tools. Maybe stop using an engine that isn’t fit for purpose. The “Creation” engine - or as we might as well call it, Gamebryo - has long been cited as the cause of many problems and barely workable. Take time to retrain your developers to a user-friendly engine and you’ll quickly make up the lost time in efficiency but they insist on holding on to that dinosaur of an engine.

As a member of the general public, I can’t say I know how to make a game, let alone a good one but given the constant stutters, mostly empty world, boring writing, frequent instances of forcing grind to pad play time and ever-increasing tedium in their gameplay loop, I have to assume that Bugthesda doesn’t either. The fact they saw to set team members on reviews instead of fixing all the problems with their games, I have to say their priorities aren’t in the right place and the ones who are “disconnected” are Bethesda who seem to be under the delusion that they’ll get nothing but praise just for releasing a game, no matter the state it’s in.

DebatableRaccoon,

Todd Howard personally promised them a canvas bag.

DebatableRaccoon,

So it’s not free

DebatableRaccoon,

Just make sure to temper expectations. We’ve been here before, remember?

DebatableRaccoon,

Can we get the internet checked for alzheimer’s?

DebatableRaccoon,

Considering they have - or at least claim to have - already updated their prehistoric engine, there’s only third-party ledt because I certainly wouldn’t trust those hacks to build one from the ground up.

Completely agree on Howard, by the way. To me, he’s another Molyneux except I’ve been able to at least finish games from Molyneux.

DebatableRaccoon,

They’re going to add different splash screens to all those loading screens? How innovative

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

That’d require effort on their end setting up a server interaction. Not to mention an opportunity for a loading screen glitch

DebatableRaccoon,

One will be missed

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

You can’t learn something if you don’t ask. Never put someone down for seeking information. That’s how you get people who are too self-conscious to ask basic questions, go through their lives knowing nothing and being mistaken for idiots.

DebatableRaccoon,

I noticed even Keighley was picking his words as if to remind people to not start expecting a lot.

DebatableRaccoon,

Or they could just port the games we’ve been waiting for like Ghost of Tsushima and be happy with the money they get from the people who won’t be buying a console. Especially, now that Sony have proven they’re happy to steal digital content from customers’ libraries. Really poor timing on a statement like this.

DebatableRaccoon,

I’m honestly surprised they’ve ported as many games as they have already. Just annoying they’re slow to get them done. I can understand the whole first-year-exclusive thing. It’s annoying, sure but understandable but to be cherry-picking the ones they keep back is just infuriating.

DebatableRaccoon,

Not to mention there seems to be a not insubstantial amount of reused assets from all of those additions.

DebatableRaccoon,

True. It’s just after all this time between releases, I don’t know, I was just expecting better. For anyone who has been foaming at the mouth over Online, this one’s been a decade in the making. Or however long since they decided to not bother with singleplayer content additions.

DebatableRaccoon,

True but those games came out at a time when they were releasing a game every year or so and there were often still reworks to most of the assets they reused. This is a game that’s coming after a decade of money grubbing. They aren’t a plucky little upstart anymore.

DebatableRaccoon,

Yup which is why it isn’t newsworthy

DebatableRaccoon,

This isn’t news. They’ve always done this

DebatableRaccoon,

They’ve made it known they don’t care for PC players in the past. It’s like that toxic ex that occasionally turns up at your door to gice you a pity fuck before slapping you in the face then leaving again

DebatableRaccoon,

Luckily I wasn’t referring to my own though I did already know that for other reasons

DebatableRaccoon,

Change “micro” to “macro” and you’ve got it. You get a game then additionally buy all of the assets. “Fee2Pay” is a term that got coined a few years ago and it fits here too.

DebatableRaccoon,

Gambling and a lot of pyramid schemes come out of these “games”

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DebatableRaccoon,

You’d have more chance of winning if you bet on the latter, I’ll say that much.

DebatableRaccoon,

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. This is a company that is well known for releasing extremely buggy games and letting the modders fix them for free so it really doesn’t come as a surprise that their public response to valid criticism of their half-assed writing and development would basically be “you just don’t understand our genius”.

DebatableRaccoon,

What’s this available on? I’m not seeing it on Jerboa.

DebatableRaccoon,

Thanks for the info. I’ll be looking forward to potential further adoption in the future

DebatableRaccoon,

Well yeah. 1. They’ve now been raised on this shit and 2. They haven’t been raised to understand the value of money.

DebatableRaccoon,

“Precursor to Mirage”? I know Syndicate generally wasn’t well received but there’s no reason for insults.

DebatableRaccoon,

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why we only pay for finished products.

DebatableRaccoon,

The impatience of Man

DebatableRaccoon,

Ubisoft can go fuck themselves with their little “accident”. I haven’t bought one of their games in years amd this greedy corpo shit paired with lackluster games is exactly why.

DebatableRaccoon,

The nerve of this prick to talk as if he’s some selfless saviour fighting for the great good…

DebatableRaccoon,

Looks like Steam just became a service issue.

DebatableRaccoon,

And, ya know, poverty

DebatableRaccoon,

Is this the movie where the actors actually just had sex while “acting it out”

DebatableRaccoon,

Now if only it was a company people cared about. I’m sure twitter users will sorely miss being showm the next collectathon. Moving on.

DebatableRaccoon,

Not quite. When you’re given an ultimatum of “Stop using that good, fully functional app and use our one instead; it’s not completely functional but it does give us money or fuck off”, there isn’t much of a choice there. Those who don’t wish to knuckle under to scum (see: “tyrants”) forge a new path, it’s as simple as that.

DebatableRaccoon,

Nothing wrong with that. If you hate the face of a company for personal, political, philosophical, or whatever reasons, it’s perfectly acceptable to not want to use that companies product(s).

DebatableRaccoon,

Maybe don’t estimate every game you release is going to make a billion in profit. Maybe the execs shouldn’t be taking the bonuses they are. And maybe, just maybe think of the individuals when you start over-hiring. Getting really tired of theae headlines of layoffs because of short-sighted decisions for game releases.

DebatableRaccoon,

Corpos gonna corp. Here’s to the death of their kind

DebatableRaccoon,

I think the term you’re looking for is “greedy”

DebatableRaccoon,

It’s 10 extra dollars for a game you already own which is why it’s greedy.

DebatableRaccoon,

Steam Machines. They were supposed to bring PC gaming to the living room but didn’t live up to that promise.

DebatableRaccoon,

When micro becomes macro

DebatableRaccoon,

Or programmers could not waste time finding ways to find dodgy workarounds to a code that works. Necessity may be the birth of invention but corporate greed halts innovation. Imagine where enemy AI could be if WB weren’t hoarding the Nemesis system and others would have been able to further develop it over the past 9 years.

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