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January 13

They've been doing remakes recently, with quite a bit of success, of the mainline Resi games, Revelations is not mainline, it's a spinoff. It's not impossible that they would remake it, but I wouldn't hold my breath since they inexplicably skipped over Code Veronica when Code Veronica is far and away the game most screaming for a remake. And even if they made a remake of Revelations, that would have nothing to do with the current version, it would be a completely separate game, just like all the other remakes.

January 13

1 minute ago, uuuhhii said:

the point of fan service is profit

just look at dead or alive dlc

if modder are doing it for free the publisher get nothing

Fair point, but what money is left to be made off Resi: Revelations? Is Capcom planning to release a skimpy (skimpier) outfit DLC for this game 11 years after release? Sure, the 160 people still playing are the most hardcore fans and chances are most, if not all, of them will buy the DLC. So let's say the DLC is $10... No, let's get REALLY greedy, make the DLC $25, these are the most hardcore fans of the game, they'll buy it anyway. Capcom can make $4000 in a best case scenario. Whooptie doo!

January 13

14 hours ago, ShadySands said:

I get all my history from Mel Gibson movies.

Aim small, miss small... FREEDOM!!! and whatever part of Australian history Mad Max was.

I've been operating under the assumption that Mad Max is a biopic. It is, right?

January 13

Sure, you don't want porn mods popping up in a live streaming tournament that 8 year old little Billy might be watching and OH NO little Billy saw boobies now he's scarred for life or whatever. Won't someone think of the children!?

/clutches at pearls

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there were no live streaming Resi: Revelations tournaments in 2023 and there won't be any going forward. Furthermore, the 160ish people still actively playing this 11 year old game are almost certainly the most dedicated and hardcore of hardcore fans of this game and they almost certainly all know each other by now. They can hash this out by themselves thusly:

ChrisPunchBoulder762 - "Hey xXxA$$MASTURxXx, you mind not running that nude Rachel mod for this session? I find it distracting to see her running around with her milkers out."

xXxA$$MASTURxXx - "Yeah, my bad. Hang on, I'll disable the mod and log back in, give me 30 seconds."

Problem solved.

Side-note: Rachel already has her milkers out in the vanilla game so when Capcom is accusing people of inappropriate character models they should first look in the mirror. Seriously, this is her in the game sans mods:

January 13

1 hour ago, HoonDing said:

Laredo, Combatech, Kore Kinetics use completely different technology so the ammo should reflect that, imo.

There are even 'old earth' weapons, wouldn't make much sense for them to use the same ammo as future weapons.

From a realism standpoint it makes perfect sense that people on one planet would have standardized to different ammo types than people on a different planet 50 light years away. From a gameplay standpoint, it adds nothing but frustration to the game and clutters your inventory. Is it fun when you rummage through a room and find 12 different types of ammo and none of them are what you use? That's not a hypothetical, either. That's something that happens in this game fairly frequently. When realism and fun gameplay experience butt heads, fun gameplay experience should win every time.

I'll apply that same argument to the lame planets in this game. From a realism standpoint, 99% of rocky planets and moons would be dull, lifeless rocks. That doesn't make for a fun gameplay experience, though. Fun gameplay experience should have been prioritized over realism.

That's a mistake Todd made multiple times, he prioritized realism over fun gameplay experience. What makes it more baffling is that he prioritized realism over fun gameplay in a game where you play a ****ING SPACE WIZARD. If you're going to go for realism then go full-on hard sci-fi. I don't believe Bethesda has the writing chops to do hard sci-fi well, but they went for it anyway, but only went 80% hard sci-fi, but also SPACE WIZARDS. And before someone comes in here and WELL ACKSHUALLYS me and tells me about some wonderful book that's hard sci-fi but with space wizards, it's very likely possible to do hard sci-fi but with space wizards, but it requires high-level writing prowess to do well. Let's be honest here, Bethesda does not posses said high-level writing prowess.

January 13

@Hawke64What a bizarre thing to do. I mean, Resi: Revelations does have a multiplayer mode, and it's quite fun in fact, but I can't imagine it has a thriving community 11 years after initial release, so why bother with anti-cheat software? The only explanation that I can come up with is that Capcom was using it to test the software out because they are considering using it in an upcoming game.

Edit: I just looked it up, it currently has 155 players on Steam with a 24 hour peak of 163. That's impressive for an 11 year old game, but hardly worth installing anti-cheat software for. I'm going to guess that those roughly 160 people still playing this game all know each other at this point, so if there's cheating going on the cheaters can get called out by name and shunned by the community.

January 13

Here's the list of ammo types in Starfield:

Why the **** would you do this? What is wrong with you, Todd? How is this beneficial to gameplay? (side-note: "How is this beneficial to gameplay?" is the question that should be asked whenever anything gets added to a game.) Here's the complete, unabridged list of ammo that should have been in the game:

Handgun bullet
Rifle bullet
Shotgun Shell
Energy cartridge
RPG Grenade

January 13

3 hours ago, ShadySands said:

I'm not a big fan of ranch but I eat it chicken wings and pizza occasionally.

What does ranch have to do with chicken wings? #TeamBlueCheese

I jest... Sort of. Ranch is an acceptable alternative when blue cheese is not available.

January 13

tl;dr: You can build awesome ships in Starfield but you will be fighting the interface every step of the way.

I'll say this, as awful as the interface and controls for the ship builder are, and they are GODAWFUL, the functionality is there to build whatever your heart desires... Within reasonable constraints. It will take longer than it should, because, again, the controls are horrific, but, given patience, you can build cool as **** ships. I don't expect Bethesda to do this, because we're talking about Bethesda, but hopefully modders can improve the interface and also add functionality that makes it clear where the hatch points for ladders will appear. If I knew where ladder hatches would appear I would plan out my ship to have one ladder to go between all decks and to the docking hatch rather than having them scattered seemingly randomly about the ship. I'm, sure... Well, somewhat sure, it's not actually random, we are talking about Bethesda, I wouldn't put it past them to not actually know themselves where the ladders will appear, but presumably THEY know where the ladders will appear. It sure would be useful for me to know where the ladders will appear when building the ship.

Side-note: Why the **** does this game have 800 billion different types of ammunition? From a realism standpoint, it makes sense that peoples scattered all over the galaxy would have different ammo types. From the MUCH MORE IMPORTANT gameplay standpoint, it's horrendous and whoever made that design decision should be fired immediately. I'M ****ING LOOKING AT YOU TODD. STEP THE **** DOWN, YOU ARE ARE LIABILITY AT THIS POINT YOU ****ING HAS BEEN!

January 12

1 hour ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

I have made thousands of posts on the Bethesda forums about how Starfield is a festering piece of **** and I have never played a minute of it.

You sound EXTREMELY qualified to post a review on Metacritic, have you done so already?

January 12

Todd taunting me:

January 12

6 hours ago, majestic said:

Is the buzz gone? Can I complain about the 10 hours I wasted on Starfield yet?

Not yet, I need you to exercise tantric commenting.

Potatoes quest update: I'm up to 41!

January 12

@majesticHonestly, I'm curious to try that pizza, in my head that sounds good. Then again, I'm one of the few people that is apathetic toward pineapple on pizza. If you put a slice of Hawaiian in front of me, I'll eat without complaint. I'd never buy it for myself, though, because I could just get a Margherita instead. The most disliked thing on pizza I regularly see is barbecue sauce. Pizza with chicken and barbecue sauce is fairly common where I live. The chicken portion of that is fine, great even, but BBQ sauce on pizza just tastes wrong to me. I see it on menus everywhere, though, so it must be at least somewhat popular. I don't find it an affront to God or anything, I just don't like it and won't eat it. :shrugz:

January 11

11 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

Wiki tells me that potatoes can also be found at:

Locations:
Shepherd's General Store in Akila City.
The Store at New Homestead on Titan, a moon of Saturn in the Sol System.

There's more than that. There's also Quickshop in Neon's Underbelly and there's a store in the Eleos Retreat where I got 3 (THREE!) potatoes. #BLESSED

I'm in Neon quite a bit, it's probably my favorite location because it's the most cyberpunk looking. It has that contrast of corporate greed and excess and people living in absolute squalor. Unfortunately, the Underbelly is a bit out of the way, I wish the shop that sold potatoes was on the main strip.

Side-note: What is the point of outposts? I mean, you can use them to generate income, but at the point that you will likely be building outposts, you'll already be swimming in money, soooooooo... :shrugz:

January 11

9 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

I'm suddenly picturing a breaking news story re: store employees chasing after some crazed man rampaging through a grocery store with an armful of stolen potatoes.

...I've definitely had moments in games like that. So frustrating.

The most frustrating part is that sometimes I'll come across a big ol' box, a case, labeled "potatoes". 1 or 2 of those boxes would presumably complete the quest. But you can't interact with those boxes (they have boxes of other fruits & veggies too, such as onions), they're not a container, you can't click on them, there's not even any physics interaction for running into them. For all intents and purposes they're decals. Todd put them there specifically to taunt me.

4 hours ago, HoonDing said:

On NG+ you skip most quests, but journal still gets clogged like a Glasgow toilet

Very annoying indeed

I have to just set aside my compulsion to complete as many quests as possible in a single playthrough and finish the game. I can do other quests in NG+, if I ever come back for NG+. It's not even a completionism thing, I just like to overlevel for the final boss in games. I'm pretty sure I'm already well past that point. However, I'm determined to finish this stupid potatoes quest, I'm in too deep. I'm up to 21 potatoes. I'm not going to just sit there at Jane's Goods waiting for the stock to replenish again and again, so I'm trying to get potatoes while I do other stuff. I wish I had picked up this quest much earlier.

January 11

6 hours ago, MrBrown said:

Can't wait to get to pick David Attenborough to voice my character.

I'm going with Bobcat Goldthwait.

January 11

@LadyCrimsonIn theory, Starfield meets the requirements of that "rule", there's always something you can mine or gather, but firing a mining laser at a node isn't exactly fun, nor exciting, nor engaging. Also, there's a limit to how much copper I need, not to mention how much I can carry.

Back to the potatoes, the best place I've found is Jane's Goods in Cydonia, because there are stools right there at the counter. What you can do is buy all the potatoes she has available, all 1 of them, 2 if you're lucky. Then you have to wait a bunch of hours for the stock to replenish. However, you can't just wait anywhere, you have to either sit on a chair or stool or couch or lie down on a bed. Why?