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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Morrowind’s interface better, too, with the optional window managing and selecting dialogue options from within text. But the icon-only inventory is atrocious. I have to hover every single icon to know what it is. I hope OpenMW will spawn a mod or something that will offer an alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gloomwood - The Research Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I accepted the fact that I’m not someone who replays games other than a few selected nostalgic titles so I bought it and can’t wait for this to fully release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  didn’t they get the memo that all indie survival horrors need to be low poly nowadays /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After years of hearing about it, I finally started playing Timberborn. Great chill city builder.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not big on city builder / management sims, but I really enjoyed my time with it. It’s also quite cute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Casual driving without pressure or violence? They can’t be the first, can they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of AAA titles without all that bullshit and none of them costs that kind of money, on any platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting 12 new subclasses next week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ratio suggested it was quite upsetting for many people :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lunacid: Tears of the Moon Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It‘s trying to nail the specific vibe of King’s Field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting 12 new subclasses next week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ok sry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting 12 new subclasses next week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I rambled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC number keys are shortcuts for abilities, so optional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for a top down game that is genuinely different to all the others?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s such an overcrowded genre isn’t it?

  Well it’s not really a genre, just a mode of perspective.

  Disco Elysium ditched combat for an everything-is-dialogue-approach and it is really really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe some classic, more phantastical CRPGs with turn-based combat are more your juice than Disco Elysium: Baldur’s Gate III, Pillars of Eternity II, Fallout. Planescape Torment, Tyranny, Pathfinder, Pillars I and the rest of the Baldur’s Gate series rely on real-time combat with pause which might get tedious when only using the mouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Video games are a luxury and it should be easy to avoid them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most cowardly and entitled boycott is certainly the one where you still consume without spending money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not different. Nintendo’s target group just don’t want to bother with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then let the next GTA take place in Scotland, leave the yanks in the dust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South of Midnight | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eurogamer.net - Chris Tapsell - 3 / 5

  Not that South of Midnight is a disappointing game - far from it - but that it’s such a shame for it to get so close to being something so genuinely special. This is a game of just remarkable craft - we’ve not even mentioned the stop-motion style of animation! It’s lovely - and likewise remarkable attention, thought, and care. If only just a little more of that care had been afforded to the playing of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then avoid the streamers? I’m sure the marketing experts employed by Ubi know what they’re doing. I’m also done defending that crappy company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess modern examples are Psychonauts or Prey (2017). Hundreds of games are released every week. There will be some gems, we’ll just never know. Among Us was one of those games before it got successfull by pure chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really good games flopped before because they weren’t marketed well. Marketing is budgeted for productions of any size, and influencer marketing in general is very effective for something like videogames. Larger amounts were spent on TV ads, or printing campaigns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #8⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, looks like 40fps are possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #8⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last game I played from GOG was Disco Elysium which worked perfectly on the Deck. Most of the original team were pushed out of the studio during a hostile takeover, so can’t really recommend to buy right now.

  How well does KCD II run on the Deck? I’ll take 60fps over visual fidelity any day, but sometimes it’s simply not possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cherami Leigh did a great job, but the script was sometimes such a cringefest, ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, that’s why Vilja has the peculiar “I’m lost” dialogue option. Really cute story!

  Never played Oblivion with companion mods, but I liked Vilja a lot in Skyrim. One of the few female companions that wasn’t designed to be the player’s projection canvas for juvenile fantasies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficulty balance is especially hard for puzzle games, I guess. You can get a good estimate with lots of testing (ha!) with many participants, but even then you or me personally can be outliers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess something Portal 2 lacked was the element of surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that Portal 2 even improved the first one in every aspect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally consider Disco Elysium very much a game (a way better role-playing gamer than most), because an “interactive story” is a game. Combat shouldn’t be a necessary condition. Planescape: Torment should have had the guts to scrap its lackluster combat and focus on its strengths.