Make gamers boycott games again!
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Sigma gamer: "there are more games than can be played in a lifetime made in the 30 years the industry didn't hate me. I will play those instead, often for free"
Yeah, they could stop making games tomorrow and I probably wouldn’t give a fuck, just play some New Vegas.
/starts playing the original Baldur's Gate trilogy again for the umpteenth time
It's been 20 years and it hasn't stopped being a satisfying experience yet.
The companions in 2 getting fleshed out really helps. 2 lets you start by enraging a brick shithouse of a ranger do he attempts to attack you then immediately recruiting said enraged brick shithouse to go and punch things while shouting about his pet miniature giant space hamster. Which turns out to be accurate and not just one of his mad ramblings despite however many blows to the head he's taken by now.
Then you look up Jim Cummings imdb and realise he also voiced Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Taz the Tanzmanian Devil, Pete from various Disney productions from the 90s onward, and a whole host of others including many video games.
and obsidian only has the talent to write books, the outer worlds showed they are terrible devs. were they not handed the engine and world on a platter, FNV would have been just as bad as ToW, Fo3 is one great thing that rod howard did.
I have been meaning to pick that one up for ages. How does it hold up compared to Baldur's Gate?
Is not really a trilogy, was BG1 and BG2.
You also expect humans to be the major race in Faerun, yet less then half of the characters are human.
It just does not feel like BG to me. In BG2 you had the main character being tempted with the power of Bhall, and one of the things you are tempted with is the ability to kill things like mind flayer, demons and other stuff like that. You are not suppose to kill everything at level 3.
Sorry for the rant, I like playing BG3 and at the same time I hate how not like BG it feels.
True but I consider ToB to be part 3 even though comparatively it's shorter than 1 and 2 and it has shared content with 2 since you can run Watchers Keep in both [which I often would for the first few floors in BG2 since things like the infinite ammo fire xbow could be bought at the entrance and some other extremely handy items were nearer the top].
Plus story wise the 3 were generally separated that way. 1 is dealing with Sarevok, 2 is Irenicus, 3 are the other Bhaalspawn.
Fucking wot. They literally exist by complete host parasitism and feed exclusively on the brains of sentients... 🙄
He explains that he eats only the brain of bad guys. It just feels forced but I doubt kids will notice at all.
Firetooth, when you want a +4 xbow that never requires ammo for the majority of BG2 because a +4 weapon in general is OP for BG2 but also who can be bothered to reload? Never matters you can't upgrade it until ToB because it will still serve as an excellent weapon for some of the more squishy characters /cough Imoen ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Throne of Bhaal was supposed to be the third installment of the trilogy, but budget and time constraints kinda forced them to squeeze it all into an expansion instead. So yeah, it is a trilogy.
LOL I just picked that up at Goodwill for $3 to play on the 360 I got at Goodwill for $13. Microsoft has never gotten a cent from me for any of their systems or games that I own.
Awesome! Get all the DLC, one of the few games where I felt all the DLC was worth it.. Also if you ever get the chance get it on PC, lot of great mods.
goodwill doesnt sell xboxes for $13 lmao, it would have been at least 50.
They did 4-5 years ago when I bought it, before the retro gaming craze picked up. Also got a Dreamcast for $13 6-7 years ago.
They've gotten better at appraising some of that stuff recently, but at the time they didn't always know the value of the stuff they put on sale.
If/when PS2 emulation gets more stable and reliable I'll probably never need to buy a new game again.
There was a time a few years back every time I'd go to goodwill I'd see a used PS2 on sale. Got a couple of them as spares for when the drive motors wear out.
Then of course if you can find some old PATA hard drives there was a way you could hack the system to play games directly off the HD without needing the discs. I remember doing this back in college and putting a shitload of games on the HD but forgot how I did it.
I'm around 7 PS2s deep over the course of my lifetime. I have the worst luck with them. My first two fresh out the box lasted long times, but used ones I get always seem to be on life support when I get them and die within a handful of uses.
For the console with the most games I love, it certainly does not love me back. And as I am the least tech savvy person, I cannot fix nor hack a console without something going even wronger.
Apparently these days the PS2 is completely cracked, and you don't need to do any hardware mods as long as you have the network adapter which lets you connect a hard drive to the PS2. Unless you have the last generation of PS2 slim, which doesn't work.
Basically you format a memory card to put some sort of program on it that lets you play games that you load onto the hard drive. To format the memory card you either burn a special DVD specific to the particulars of your PS2, or you format the hard drive with the software that then formats the memory card. Then you use some PC software to load ISOs onto the hard drive.
Back when I did this many years ago I think it required a gameshark disc and some hardware that let you program a memory card from a computer, so this seems like it's an improvement. I may try this with one of my PS2's with a dead DVD drive to see if I can breathe some new life into it.
There's also apparently some knock-off network modules that let you connect a SATA drive, which could come in handy if you want to use a modern SSD to load games off of.
switchwithps2wouldbe gr8. and itd do way better battery than steamos.
You can’t anymore, the internet changed gaming drastically for the worse.
Both in terms of games and "gamers". The group on the left are not the same group on the right so regardless of the ones on the left boycotting anything again/still the modern consoomer will still buy shit and perpetuate the decayed market.
zoomers buying fortnite iap ruined gaming. prove me wrong
It was already a shitshow by this point but the fact the SW sequel trilogy put Palpatine's return speech IN FUCKING FORTNITE is perhaps one of the worst advertising moves in recent existence.
"I preordered the game, how could they not deliver the game they promised?"
"But the gaming website said there would be 154 classes to choose from..."
Too many people get attached to specific IPs, even when that IP is clearly no longer worthwhile. The smart move would be to pick a genre you like, and then try to find good things in that genre. Specific IP can turn to shit, but it's a lot harder to corrupt an entire genre of works.
The problem is when your genre isn't "platformer", "puzzle", or "FPS", pickings are slim and far between.
Tactics games you're more or less fucked-in with Fire Emblem, because there's not many indie titles and AAA games just do not do that sort of thing anymore.
The fuck you just say?
theres only 2 modern xcoms and thats over 9 years. plus they got super woke
XCOM went super woke? What's with that? I have XCOM2 and it seemed fine.
I'd guess he's talking about XCOM:Chimera Squad.
Haven't played it, not planning either. I liked XCOM2 a lot but for some reason I'm not looking to play it again. What made it woke?
That is the good thing about gaming, despite all the woke stuff killing of popular francizes there still are so many great games to play. I'm good for like a decade. Hopefully the tides will change at one point. My next tactical games are going to be Desperados and Shadow Tactics. I'm also itching to play the old Commandos games, for nostalgia.
That's true. I just kinda got lucky with RPGs, but other more niche genres are kind of fucked. I'd have to suggest finding something else if there are no other options than supporting shitty companies and products.
An unfortunate side effect of gaming going mainstream is all the biggest companies started chasing the lowest common denominator.
I did branch out from turn-based-tactics... At least my love of Light Gun and Rail Shooter games is being satisfied by the Gal Gun franchise for now.
For those genres you're pretty much forced to go back in time. Though if you've already played them all before you're kinda fucked.
AAA games are shit, there are tons of good AA and indy ones.
wait you guys are buying games you dont like?
Some people do, as a sort of "post-modern irony hate-play" (TLOU2 was a big one for those types).
It's just ends with giving money/attention to people who hate you, so I have no idea how that twisted buying motivation picked up any steam. I guess it's another byproduct of Clown World.
I've seen supposed right wingers who bought and played The Lesb of Us 2 even though they knew about the trailer and that the game would be trash. Some fuckers only care about fancy graphics.
whack. I only buy game i see as going to be fun or try to support a smaller dev group with a early access game only if they check all the boxes of "yes we will actually complete this"
No kidding. I got fooled way too many times myself, but the Battlefield, Call of Duty, EA Sports, Blizzard, Naughty Dog in particular have a huge uphill climb to even be considered to get a dime from me. It's not a political boycott either. It's because it's been so long since they made something I would consider fun, that even spending $10 feels like throwing money away.
I don't really care about the lawsuits. There's going to be a lot of things that are true of course, but many of the allegations will be false. I don't care about Hong Kong or women, the only thing stopping me from playing World of Warcraft is BfA sucked so bad I couldn't take it anymore and Shadowlands makes BfA look good by comparison
I have zero confidence left in them at this point outside of the Hearthstone team. I'm sure that will be ruined in time as well just like all their other intellectual properties. How do you fucking lose subscribers during covid when everyone is locked inside their houses smdh
The most ironic thing is that they punished Swifty and Quinton Flynn and both of them were innocent, and now the same feminist culture they promoted is coming after all the other employees at the company.
Wasn't CP somewhat fixed by now?
Barely, and even then it's a shell of much better open-world games, missing a lot of the nuance present in games as old as GTA IV.
Not even close.
Never bought last of us 2. Bought cyberpunk and didn’t have no where near the problems people reported on it. Worst thing for me is you could see NPCs spawn in the background of one early game dialogue scene. Goofy bug sure. But not bad enough for me personally to demand a refund.
Same, I played the whole thing through and had less bugs than most open world games. I'd see more bugs in an hour of Skyrim than I had my entire playthrough.
But even without them there was a plethora of weaklinks in the game itself, mostly relating around things to do. They seem to have thought 50+ copy pasted "help the cops" and "there is a car for sale" missions were enough to make a game. The worldbuilding itself seems to have been the priority over putting things in that world.
cdpr had the best record for games, on par with old school blizzard. sucks how they ruined it for a mediocre rpg cashin.
"Record" is a strong word considering they had created one series of games prior, and only one of those did almost anyone play because of how janky and difficult to play the rest were. Old School Blizzard had three series, six of seven of which is still a classic people play to this day (nobody plays Warcraft 1).
I really think the Witcher 3's success massively overinflated people's expectations and opinions of them. Which is one reason why CP2077 got such a mass negative reaction, over hyped expectations.
I had one pretty serious issue: During a quest, the game would crash shortly after I entered a certain building. It took me several tries to do it fast enough to get in and out before the game could figure out it was supposed to crash.
I still had a good time with the game in general. Could it have used more variety in quests? Absolutely. But colour me easy to please, I suppose.
Same. Could the game be better? Sure. Am I upset with it? No
Emulators are a gift that will always keep giving, and it makes matters much easier having switched to Linux. I know Steam support Linux well enough but i asked myself 'do i want to support steam whilst trying to become more privacy conscious and less consumerist?' - The answer was 'nah not really'. Not when such impressive vaults of beautiful, ancient code lie at my fingertips. I will always be open to the odd indie game, if it happens to run on Linux, but AAA games have long since descended in to darkness and will not sway me at this point, despite the occasional rare offering of quality.
God bless emulators... and Dwarf Fortress, i will always have love for that.
Why would you love DF, when Toady married a danger haired leftist? Not one month after he announced his engagement, he put tranny dwarfs into the game.
The only reason I haven't switched to Linux already is because I need softwares like Photoshop and Illustrator for work and they require Windows.
one the right : im not gonna preorder buy still buy day 1 and complain that it suxx
i hope the console gamers learned after BFV
Im still playing through Shadows of War that I got at something like 90% off from a key reseller.
is it any good compared to the first game? i heard they added way too many iaps to be as enjoyable.
There was a grind or pay system at launch but that was all removed
I had an Atari - and yes, the ET game - as a kid. I learned at a very young age that video games could be bad. (I didn't learn that movies could be bad until much later. Thanks, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace!) It's a hard lesson, but it does build up critical thinking skills.
People who grew up in the 80's definitely didn't know what a bad movie was until much, much later.