winety

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[–] winety@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder what specifically was changed for “smoother gameplay” and “polished mechanics”.

It seems the new executable is 64-bit, so the game could crash less resulting in smoother gameplay. But overall the changes seem lackluster according to review on Steam. (Currently they are mixed.) I'll continue playing modded Morrowind, and look at this after Aspyr patches out the most ostentatious issues.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps having a few Jaffas guard my website could deter LLM scrapers... 🤔

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

XBONE emulation is slowly becoming a thing. MattKC gives an overview of where XBONE emulation stands right now.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

dunst packaged

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

The chunkiness of the bottom panel reminds me of the classic theme for Windows 7.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Morrowind's a better game, but I wouldn't want to live there. But if corporate were to send me anywhere instead of living, I would vastly prefer to be sent to Cyrodiil than to Vvardenfell.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Oblivion seems to be the best TES game to chill in.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Czech translation of "mammals" is savci, the Slovak translation is cicavce, and the Polish translation is ssaki. All of these (to my knowledge) literally mean suckers, because we like sucking tits.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 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.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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?

 

So, Starfield was a disappointment (in my opinion). The story isn't interesting. The lore and world-building do not make sense. The game mechanics do not mesh together. (And it doesn't run well on the Steam Deck.)

But the promise of Starfield? The big space game? The big space RPG where you can play as Captain Reynolds type character? That's something I can get behind. I want to traverse space, visit different planets, get lost, meet interesting characters, solve their problems, and shoot some stuff. Two games come to my mind when I think of this:

  • No Man's Sky
  • Mass Effect

I've only played a few hours of No Man's Sky, but I think it does space traversal well. To put it bluntly, flying from planet to planet without interruption is better than fast travel. But the gameplay loop did not

Mass Effect nails the space adventure side of things. You visit multiple interesting places, you meet different people with curious problems, and you solve these problems (mainly by shooting). But it's a typical Bioware game: The places you visit are small and confined, and there are (comparatively) few of them. The space traversal is done by clicking a few buttons in a menu.

My question is: Are there any “big space games”? Are there any games that deliver on the promise of Starfield? What are your favourite sci-fi RPGs?

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