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To be honest (and I did try the same things) otherwise they'd just have had to script a game over or something like a hard reset back to the beginning, doing that would have kind of killed the start imho. It also stands to reason that no sane human would try to smash the glass of his/her own balcony door/windows without proper justification ("the door was jammed" probably wouldn't fare too well with the landlord). Trying to smash that window straight away is, let's face it, a very gamey thing to do. That said, there was only one other place where I felt the game was just blocking me from doing something, "for reasons" and that was

Vault 88 Power Armor workshop Vault 119 Power Armor armory Vault 119 cafetaria Atom Cats garage Jamaica Plain Misty weather

Just cruisin'

Which quest was it? The dungeon by Dawnstar. First a door wouldn't open so I toggled culision and walked through it. Then a scripted sequence bugged out and I tried to force the quest to the next stage and got stuck in a dialog. Finally, I gave up. Do you have the unofficial patch installed? If not, you really should grab it (goes for *every* Bethesda ES/FO game btw). I can't recall having any game breaking issues once I installed that (well, not in Skyrim anyway)

I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. already worked this way. Ironically it's one of the things that actually made the game easier on harder difficulties... My clanmates in Warframe tolerated me during an Eildolon (actually a Tridolon) hunt. It's funny how even with 5 years worth of gear there's still stuff I lack the proper equipment for to perform really well (lack of experience obviously didn't help any either )

Yeah, quite obviously so. There's so much wrong with that article... Just...no...that's not how the GDPR works. Encrypting information you don't have the right to collect in the first place doesn't suddenly make you GDPR compliant. It's also funny that they mention it not being in the EULA for at least one game, as if it being in there would have somehow made a difference. Afaiu (ianal) you need explicit consent for the collection of any personally identifiable data, these things being hidden in EULAs nobody reads that are written in legalese being exactly one of the things the GDPR was designed to combat. The entire thing seems like a massive GDPR violation and given the speed with which it was dropped it seems as though the companies involved (or their lawyers at least) are well aware of it... Could be pretty interesting if someone decided to take this to court. Preferably a German one as they're seemingly quite fast and keen to set examples when it comes to privacy given ICANN was one of the first to lose a case about the GDPR for requiring more data than they strictly needed. EDIT: typo

What mods do you use that require so much time updating when Steam bumps a version? Only things that come to mind for me are SKSE and the stuff depending on it, which I think are three or four mods. Still, having to keep a backup exe around and/or waiting for SKSE to update everytime Valve touches that creation club crap is hellishly annoying.

Seems like something people shouldn't be too surprised at. "tracking" "mostly harmless", those don't belong in the same sentence without a negation.

If you want to really mod Fallout 4 you really should (on that note, there's a mod that re-enables achievements...requires a dll so no go on consoles). Doesn't even need to be that powerful, the core of mine is still a first gen i7 and it handles pretty much everything just fine. Just loading times suffer a bit here and there (might also be due to lack of SSD).

I'm so smart... (and no, I didn't use any mods, cheats or exploits for that)

Played through the new Warframe update. Was about what I expected but I haven't boarded the hype train for Warframe in a loooong time so unlike a lot of others I wasn't disappointed Though it made me wonder what a good writer could do with the Warframe universe...

And then rinse and repeat... I'll wait for a sale.

Hmm, Forza Horizon 4 up for preorder. It's set in the UK and apparently will finally have a track editor, then again that's what they said about FH3 as well and we know how that turned out, so we'll see about that. Now if they do something about the atrocious AI and give us a bigger map... (and get rid of the offroad garbage). Oh, and maybe fix that POS that is the Windows Store... (which arguably isn't a problem of the game, but hey, if you are only going to release through that it better not be a steaming pile of garbage) A few more releases and they might even catch up to the features TDU had all those years ago. You know, the ones that mattered, the gameplay features, not the graphical stuff MS prefers to make a big deal out of.

Wait a minute...that looks like a story mission? Did you get hit by an acute case of masochism?

First person could work but then don't do stuff like this: "Gameplay is in first a first-person perspective, but switched to third-person during a cutscene." Maybe they'll add the ability to switch, I could get behind that. Also "You play a character named V (as in the letter)." had me go "Rrrreallly?"

I'm not sure if it's Arkane experimenting or Bethesda requesting something and Arkane doing the best they can with it... Especially since there was mention of an "upcoming multiplayer mode". For Prey. Really? I mean, really?!?! I don't really understand who they're aiming the game at. Most people that buy it "because Fallout" will probably quit sooner than you can blink and once only the jerks are left they too will probably look for greener pastures... And the first category might feel burned enough that it'll cut into their initial sales for FO5 (and/or TES VI). And that's assuming the game isn't a technical wreck on release to begin with. Will be interesting how Bethesda would handle that without modders to fix their crap...

The car better talk too! Uh.. did you miss Fallout: New Vegas? Because if you did.. boy, do you have something to look forward to! I have a deep deep dislike for Fallout3 as it kept me from playing New Vegas for too many years. I must say that I wasn't an Obsidian lover until post Project Eternity kickstarter. I played couple of their games (Kotor, NWN2) and I saw them as creative but unpolished Bioware wannabe, oblivious to the time constrains and bad deals. Going through they catalog and learning more about them was quite a ride. New Vegas is probably my fav RPG in many years and a showcase of what Obs is capable of. From what I understood: yes. They said you can play it solo but they didn't say you can play it offline. From what they showed the game seems to be focused around competion/coop. You can probably play it solo, just like you can play World of Warcraft solo... Doesn't look worth playing from where I stand, but hey, you never know. I'm waiting for them to get to the "alternative" part. Hehehe, I was just thinking the same...

The Prey DLC sneakily got released! It's called Mooncrash and the more I read about it the more disappointed I get. I'll get it anyway, eventually, and maybe it'll be good but...I dunno. Rogue lite escape the base stuff with "multiple playable characters" wasn't what I was hoping for. Oh of course, "upcoming multiplayer update" now it all makes sense. The one time I'm actually eagerly awaiting a DLC and when it releases I'm like...: I'll wait for more reviews and/or a sale. EDIT: yes, the more I read about this the more I'm thinking I'm going to give this a pass.

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From what I've seen it's mostly getting flak for the censorship, the voice acting and the gameplay generally not being very good (annoying and repetitive puzzles, clunky controls and the spacing of the save points being hit and miss).

Judging by the reviews you are far from the only one feeling that way. I'll keep an eye on it to see whether they turn the game around as the premise definitely sounded promising...

Afaiu they only worked on the art. Skyforge, it feels to me, is kind of a mish-mash of European and Asian MMO styles. It uses a combination of maps that feel like "regular" MMO maps where you progress through quests pretty much like a regular MMO, except that these are repeatable. Story parts also take you through these. The other part are instanced missions that you grind over and over again (and which scale, the open world maps don't). Initially it had a relatively interesting storyline and progression system, both were however scrapped at some point for whatever reason. The story was still just gone last I checked and the skill tree has been replaced by grinding events for currency like things that you can buy bonuses with or something shallow like that. The combat was pretty fun and the different classes did actually feel different enough form eachother. I did "ascend" last I logged in which opens a lot more possibilities combat wise (you get to switch between other class' abilities and stuff) that I didn't really play with (you start as an "Immortal" and your aspiration is to become a full fledged "God" btw) I feel the game leans more towards the Asian grinder than the Western MMO in the end. Ultimately I felt that game got way too repetitive way too soon and when I last logged in it seemed like the monetization had become very aggressive as well so that second time didn't last long at all. Unrelated: I tried TERA and I didn't get what the praise for its combat system was all about, I think Guild Wars 2 has a better action oriented combat to be honest.

I'm not surprised, really. The second 'M' in MMORPG doesn't mean much anymore (and the last three were canned ages ago in WoW's case). When I started playing WoW I was just hanging around questing with others within a few hours and I didn't exactly look for it (I'm well to asocial to just hook up with randoms). Nowadays starter zones are mostly empty, quests are boringly easy and streamlined to a fault and getting to the level cap is a solo-affair that you just get over with as fast as possible so you can participate in the "end-game" rather than something to be enjoyed in itself. If you're not into raiding or competitive PvP then WoW, I feel, has very little to offer anymore. Kungen (a rather (in)famous player from the Ensidia guild, a top tier guild from the "old" WoW days) has a pretty good video about why MMOs (and WoW in particular) are pretty terrible nowadays. (He also complained about current day WoW being pathetically easy, which he demonstrated by, having not played WoW for many many expansions (think he quit in Cataclysm or so), ripping through the "hardest" content in a matter of weeks) Like Kungen when I started playing (not in vanilla, but in TBC in my case), I didn't even know about raiding, I pretty much just wanted an RPG that would never end. I got dragged into dungeons by my guild leader, ended up loving the hell out of it and got invited to my first (real) raid fight by someone I met while I was doing dungeons when I was levelling up, they were short a few people and I'd shown to be somewhat competent (the boss was The Lurker Below in Serpentshrine Caverns, if anyone cares). After that I started trying to get into a raid guild, ended up in one of the top tier guilds on my realm that was just getting started and the rest is history. I don't necessarily agree with all of his points. I can see his point about BDO providing play time and it did seem to have interesting mechanics, but I disagree about the game being any good, it's just another boring Asian P2W grindfest from where I stand (also doesn't have any form of community building like old WoW had). If he'd used EVE as an example I'd have been on board though But like him I ended up quitting WoW once I noticed there really wasn't anything in the game anymore outside of raiding and the raids, at that time (Cataclysm), weren't particularly fun. I gave it another go last year, but nothing's really changed. This seems misaimed, since level 7 is like 15 minutes of playtime and it wouldn't have been that different in vanilla. I know, since I got bored and left at level 19 back then and didn't give the game another try until Wrath. If you don't have friends along, WoW will always have a terrible and boring first experience. That is only sort of true, since I played through most of the 2nd Blood Elf starter zone (Ghostlands) with a group that spontaneously formed, so yes, that's higher level, but only barely (Ghostlands is level 10-20 according to Google). Moreover I did pretty much the same the second time I passed through there with my Paladin. However most of the road to 70 was solo (excepting I spent a lot of time in dungeons, especially my paladin which I leveled as tank through dungeons) although there was almost always banter/talking in map chat. Barrens chat might have been infamous (at least Horde-side), but the dead silence everywhere last time I tried the game I find a lot more jarring. You said it better, than I could. You said all the reasons, why I have stopped to play (M)MO's. Anonymity and rising asshattery ruined these games for me. Indeed, that is pretty much what I was trying to say as well. Most of the things I managed to achieve in that game I did due to meeting people while doing other stuff: my first real raid boss I got invited to through a Priest I met while I was leveling I managed to get into a top tier raid guild (on my realm) with no raid experience (barring the above) because I happened to have played with their dps-lead through a bunch of dungeons just prior to sending in my application most people you regularly did dungeons with you ended up "knowing" as the same people would be around at about the same time. Moreover due to how you had to hike to dungeons etc etc there was a lot more talking before and during dungeon runs in general people were generally better behaved. Being a jerk would just get you blacklisted from groups. This included leaving groups when things didn't go smoothly immediately, throwing tantrums, loot stealing etc. I also find that people tried a lot more to improve as a team in those days. Now the first sign of adversity people leave the group and just queue up again with no consequences. Doing so in pre-LFG WoW on a regular basis would just mean you'd get shunned in short order. Nobody likes a quitter (especially not with the time required to set up a group etc.). This is also one of the reasons Cataclysm tanked, they tried to make heroic dungeons hard again, without taking into account that the social dynamics just weren't there anymore, resulting in queue times of like 2hours as DPS with the tank leaving within 5min because he felt the healer was crap... most people you regularly did Batlegrounds with (or against) you ended up knowing, resulting in much more fun fights where social dynamics mattered (eg. you'd focus fire enemies you knew were a danger) PvP at dungeon/raid entrances (even on PvE servers, yes) Another thing I dislike about modern WoW is just Cataclysm. They redid the entire world, destroying all the nostalgia that was there (The Temple of Atal'Hakkar is a prime example in my mind, I *loved* that place and it was proper hard for a group of rookies). I feel they should just have updated everything but left what was there in place.

I'm not surprised, really. The second 'M' in MMORPG doesn't mean much anymore (and the last three were canned ages ago in WoW's case). When I started playing WoW I was just hanging around questing with others within a few hours and I didn't exactly look for it (I'm well to asocial to just hook up with randoms). Nowadays starter zones are mostly empty, quests are boringly easy and streamlined to a fault and getting to the level cap is a solo-affair that you just get over with as fast as possible so you can participate in the "end-game" rather than something to be enjoyed in itself. If you're not into raiding or competitive PvP then WoW, I feel, has very little to offer anymore. Kungen (a rather (in)famous player from the Ensidia guild, a top tier guild from the "old" WoW days) has a pretty good video about why MMOs (and WoW in particular) are pretty terrible nowadays. (He also complained about current day WoW being pathetically easy, which he demonstrated by, having not played WoW for many many expansions (think he quit in Cataclysm or so), ripping through the "hardest" content in a matter of weeks) Like Kungen when I started playing (not in vanilla, but in TBC in my case), I didn't even know about raiding, I pretty much just wanted an RPG that would never end. I got dragged into dungeons by my guild leader, ended up loving the hell out of it and got invited to my first (real) raid fight by someone I met while I was doing dungeons when I was levelling up, they were short a few people and I'd shown to be somewhat competent (the boss was The Lurker Below in Serpentshrine Caverns, if anyone cares). After that I started trying to get into a raid guild, ended up in one of the top tier guilds on my realm that was just getting started and the rest is history. I don't necessarily agree with all of his points. I can see his point about BDO providing play time and it did seem to have interesting mechanics, but I disagree about the game being any good, it's just another boring Asian P2W grindfest from where I stand (also doesn't have any form of community building like old WoW had). If he'd used EVE as an example I'd have been on board though But like him I ended up quitting WoW once I noticed there really wasn't anything in the game anymore outside of raiding and the raids, at that time (Cataclysm), weren't particularly fun. I gave it another go last year, but nothing's really changed.

It's a f2p third-person action rpg. It can be played solo or co-op. It's fun as hell for killing some time and you really don't need to spend a dime on it. It was developed by Digital Extremes, the same people who made Dark Sector and The Darkness II. The Darkness 2? Well darn, I never realized. You forgot two kinda known (and I like to think, relevant) games they co-developed though: Unreal and Unreal Tournament. So Warframe's gunplay is kinda on point, as you would sort of expect knowing that.