winety
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- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
I’d be broader and talk about points of interest instead of dungeons, but yeah. This, the art design of the world, and the music. Those are the strongest points of Skyrim.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
I was mostly only thinking about Skyrim’s world. Skyrim as a whole has many flaws.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
For example, Fallout 3 doesn’t do a great job of this, as much of the world is baren with no story or gameplay. Half of the world feels like it could be cut out without much loss. The Yakuza games on the other hand, have smaller worlds but they feel massive and fun because there’s always something to do moments away.
On the other hand, the world of Fallout 4 feels very cramped; you can’t go 5 meters without encouraging something. Bethesda’s games are interesting in this aspect – the worlds of different games are built similarly, but they differ in some small parameters (as in the density of Fallout 4), so they’re ripe for comparison.
Personally, I feel there were two peaks in Bethesda’s worlds – Morrowind and Skyrim. Both for different reasons.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 2 months ago:
You used to be able to pay Microsoft ~20€ to enable developer mode, so you were able to sideload emulators and other homebrew apps to the Series S/X. I’m not if it’s still possible.
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened 2 months ago:
I’d do the same thing if the disc scratches. I’d download a cracked version from a weird Polish website.
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened 2 months ago:
I’m not getting 4 until it’s $60 or less - if then.
It has Denuvuo; I wouldn’t get it if it was free.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer 3 months ago:
- I really need to play the first game.
- Those are some crunchy textures on the chest in the first scene of the trailer.
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 3 months ago:
I agree with Todd in the sense that the jankyness is part of Oblivion’s charm. However, I believe that the jankyness only works in a game from 2007, which has weird graphics and an overall surreal vibe. The jankyness is not charming in the dark fantasy of Skyrim nor in the hyper-realistic remake.
- Comment on A List of Open Source Game Clones 3 months ago:
I’d much rather see a standalone RPG built on OpenMW (without using Bethesda’s assets or world). I’ve recently played a bit of Project Cyrodiil – it it weren’t set in the TES universe, it could be a standalone game.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Personally, I was a bit confused if maybe a new expansion was announced (be it DLC or update). I didn’t really read the title thoroughly, sorry.
I’ve only played Scarlet Hollow and I liked it a lot. Glad to hear their other game is good as well.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Yeah, the news tab on Steam also doesn’t mention any DLC. And I’m fairly sure that the devs are hard at work on episode 5 for their other game.
I guess it was posted here to spark a discussion about the game?
- Comment on How to make physical PC GOG games 3 months ago:
- Some games on Steam are DRM-free, so you don’t have to buy these games twice. You could either burn just the game files, or you could create your own setup wizard using Inno Setup or some similar software.
- Is a blue-ray (or optical media in general) more lasting/durable than an SD card? Archiving my games library in Switch-like jewel cases would be pretty cute.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 4 months ago:
I have no idea how I fucked up and had this compressed so much, it’s OC and still ended up this blurry
It’s called deep frying, and it’s cool in some circles.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 6 months ago:
I really enjoyed that the setting is more grounded than other games. Personally, I wouldn’t describe it as generic.
Gameplay-wise it doesn’t do much interesting.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 6 months ago:
Honest question: Why would you want a remake/remaster when the original can be played almost anywhere thanks to emulators? Is it just the legal acquisition of the game, or would you want to see some improvements to the game?
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 6 months ago:
I think that the use of em-dashes specifically is a result of either the preprocessing of the training data or postprocessing of the generated text. I doubt that the material the models are trained on (i.e. Reddit) contains more em-dashes that hyphens in the position of sentence breaks.
But it definitely gets the use of dash as sentence break from people writing like that. If you ask ChatGPT in another language, whose users don’t generally use dashes, e.g. Slovak, it won’t use then as much.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 6 months ago:
There are dozens of us that know how to type en- and em-dashes! Dozens I say!
- Comment on Little weapons 7 months ago:
I did not know what a joint was. But I knew that miniature versions of things are cool as heck.
- Comment on Little weapons 7 months ago:
I would have killed for this when I was ten. Love this!
- Comment on Day 271 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 7 months ago:
I’ve heard that Shadows is one of the better Assassin’s Creeds, but 100%-ing it still sounds like hell. There’s just too much to do in Ubisoft openworlds.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2: 11 Minutes of Exclusive Gameplay – IGN First 7 months ago:
I like that the companion seems to be more talkative.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2: 11 Minutes of Exclusive Gameplay – IGN First 7 months ago:
The first planet kinda drags on. The games gets slightly better after that. One of the DLC is quite good.
- Comment on Leading indie game devs recommend their favourite no code game engines 8 months ago:
This reminded me of a blog post I read recently, in which the author also says that if you want to make video games and you don’t know how to program, you should start with something small and simple. (It seems obvious, but people often start making a 3D game with a branching story and multiplayer and then quickly quit because they can’t get it working.)
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 8 months ago:
In my country we have these:
This is a dvoukolák (lit. twowheeler). According to the internet it can carry up-to 240 kg. Dvoukoláks often have bigger wheels and they’re not collapsible.
I looked on American Amazon and on Walmart’s website and I couldn’t find anything like it. Bike trailers seem to be closest to a dvoukolák.
- Comment on Cubic Odyssey announced as a fusion of Minecraft and No Man's Sky 10 months ago:
It’s the blocks! (I never felt like I could create good looking buildings using the walls-stick-to-the-floor building system that NMS and other games use.)
