Random video game news... the critical eyes have it

[uuuhhii]

try to read some dev news but twitter just doesn't show anything other than login anymore

what is wrong with it

[melkathi]

3 hours ago, the_dog_days said:

Says the guy who loves VtM.

Nobody will touch Changeling the Dreaming to make a game , so I play what I can get

[Bartimaeus]

2 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

try to read some dev news but twitter just doesn't show anything other than login anymore

what is wrong with it

Not only that, but the alternative backends that fix many of twitter's most annoying problems (e.g. my favorite, unofficialbird.com) seem to be broken right now no matter what profile or post I go to, which means I cannot see anything twitter-related at all. It's really dumb for me too, because I actually tried to register years ago, but every time I make an account, they immediately ban me within seconds. I mean, I can't blame them, it is me after all, but why, what did I do? I had never even posted/commented/liked/favorited anything, and I even registered from my home connection.

Twitter is the worst, to be sure, but I still get occasionally linked something to there and now literally I can't even check out a basic post.

Edited June 30, 2023 by Bartimaeus

[uuuhhii]

7 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Not only that, but the alternative backends that fix many of twitter's most annoying problems (e.g. my favorite, unofficialbird.com) seem to be broken right now no matter what profile or post I go to, which means I cannot see anything twitter-related at all. It's really dumb for me too, because I actually tried to register years ago, but every time I make an account, they immediately ban me within seconds. I mean, I can't blame them, it is me after all, but why, what did I do? I had never even posted/commented/liked/favorited anything, and I even registered from my home connection.

Twitter is the worst, to be sure, but I still get occasionally linked something to there and now literally I can't even check out a basic post.

would be horrible if paradox still post half of the new stuff on twitter instead of actual dev diary

couldn't even check if that is the case now

[213374U]

13 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Not only that, but the alternative backends that fix many of twitter's most annoying problems (e.g. my favorite, unofficialbird.com) seem to be broken right now no matter what profile or post I go to, which means I cannot see anything twitter-related at all. It's really dumb for me too, because I actually tried to register years ago, but every time I make an account, they immediately ban me within seconds. I mean, I can't blame them, it is me after all, but why, what did I do? I had never even posted/commented/liked/favorited anything, and I even registered from my home connection.

Twitter is the worst, to be sure, but I still get occasionally linked something to there and now literally I can't even check out a basic post.

RIP. Ol' Musky at it again, eh?

As good reason as any to fully move to Telegram.

[Gorgon]

I*m looking forward to phantom liberty. 

By the way, if you are still waiting for CDPR to fix enough bugs to play Cyberpunk, it's pretty good now. 

[sorophx]

love the FF discussion, but guys... is someone forcing you to use Roman numerals when discussing these games? I spend half the time deciphering what part exactly you're talking about 

anyway, the best FF game is obviously 9, as it should be since it's the last FF game with heavy involvement from Sakaguchi AFAIK. but I am kind of sad to see FF 12 (my personal favorite) not getting any love from you guys.

as for FF 16, "played" it on YouTube, and my very short review follows: voice acting is great; CGI cutscenes are amazing; story is unbearably bad, writing in general is just weak (too many coincidences convenient for the plot, if you know what I mean), main character is written as an idiot for some reason, very unlikable; visual design is strong; combat is generic as hell, Eikon battles are unnecessarily long. reminds me a lot of FF 13 for all the wrong reasons.

[Lexx]

Best FF game is FFXIV.

[the_dog_days]

9 hours ago, sorophx said:

love the FF discussion, but guys... is someone forcing you to use Roman numerals when discussing these games? I spend half the time deciphering what part exactly you're talking about 

anyway, the best FF game is obviously 9, as it should be since it's the last FF game with heavy involvement from Sakaguchi AFAIK. but I am kind of sad to see FF 12 (my personal favorite) not getting any love from you guys.

as for FF 16, "played" it on YouTube, and my very short review follows: voice acting is great; CGI cutscenes are amazing; story is unbearably bad, writing in general is just weak (too many coincidences convenient for the plot, if you know what I mean), main character is written as an idiot for some reason, very unlikable; visual design is strong; combat is generic as hell, Eikon battles are unnecessarily long. reminds me a lot of FF 13 for all the wrong reasons.

Can't wait for FFLXIX. Gonna be nice.

[Gorth]

5 hours ago, the_dog_days said:

Can't wait for FFLXIX. Gonna be nice.

Sounds kinky

[Mamoulian War]

On 7/2/2023 at 5:16 PM, sorophx said:

love the FF discussion, but guys... is someone forcing you to use Roman numerals when discussing these games? I spend half the time deciphering what part exactly you're talking about 

anyway, the best FF game is obviously 9, as it should be since it's the last FF game with heavy involvement from Sakaguchi AFAIK. but I am kind of sad to see FF 12 (my personal favorite) not getting any love from you guys.

as for FF 16, "played" it on YouTube, and my very short review follows: voice acting is great; CGI cutscenes are amazing; story is unbearably bad, writing in general is just weak (too many coincidences convenient for the plot, if you know what I mean), main character is written as an idiot for some reason, very unlikable; visual design is strong; combat is generic as hell, Eikon battles are unnecessarily long. reminds me a lot of FF 13 for all the wrong reasons.

12 is very strange game IMHO. When I played it for the first time, I hated it. On second playthrough, I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun with it. Not in top 5 FF, but still fine. And on Zodiac Age playthrough, I had good time as well, but it felt less fun than the second time

[Humanoid]

I can just about accept Roman numerals on an analogue clock face, but they have no place anywhere else.

[Bartimaeus]

20 minutes ago, Humanoid said:

I can just about accept Roman numerals on an analogue clock face, but they have no place anywhere else.

Basil II > Basil the Second

[Humanoid]

2 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

Basil II > Basil the Second

Basilllll!!!

Probably something his mum kept yelling while he was but a wee tacker.

[Zoraptor]

Cognomen system > any ordinal system. Really shows you've achieved something in life- and you get well known but probably apocryphal stories told about you 1000 years later, eh Basil Bolgoroktonos...

[BruceVC]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/92159/starfields-new-creation-engine-took-so-long-to-do-bethesdas-todd-howard-happy-with-results/index.html

Interesting update around Starfields new graphics engine,  Creation Engine 2

Its going to be epic 

 

[HoonDing]

already lost interest in Starfaild

TES VI OR BUST

[Keyrock]

6 hours ago, BruceVC said:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/92159/starfields-new-creation-engine-took-so-long-to-do-bethesdas-todd-howard-happy-with-results/index.html

Interesting update around Starfields new graphics engine,  Creation Engine 2

Its going to be epic 

 

 

[Star Crossbowman]

13 hours ago, BruceVC said:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/92159/starfields-new-creation-engine-took-so-long-to-do-bethesdas-todd-howard-happy-with-results/index.html

Interesting update around Starfields new graphics engine,  Creation Engine 2

Its going to be epic 

 

Todd Howard is who I would want to represent humanity when the Aliens show up

[Zoraptor]

Played in the movie by Jeff Goldblum, and hides an alien defeating trojan inside a version of Skyrim for Samsung Fridge Alien Navigation Devices...

Did anyone really expect the engine to be anything other than Gamebryo++ with a new renderer?

[Keyrock]

3 minutes ago, Zoraptor said:

Played in the movie by Jeff Goldblum, and hides an alien defeating trojan inside a version of Skyrim for Samsung Fridge Alien Navigation Devices...

Did anyone really expect the engine to be anything other than Gamebryo++ with a new renderer?

I'm sure it will still have some of the 20 year old Gamebryo bugs that they never bothered to fix.

[BruceVC]

10 hours ago, Keyrock said:

I'm sure it will still have some of the 20 year old Gamebryo bugs that they never bothered to fix.

, geez you guys are cynical. " Bethesda bashing " is so.....last decade

They have addressed the problems with the older versions of this graphics engine. I think its best we just  accept that Starfield is going to be real contender for RPG of the year. But it will lose to BG3 

 

[melkathi]

I think Bethesda has given up on truly trying to address any problems.

They know that the average console gamer doesn't care enough about details to notice that things are wrong, and among the PC gamer community anyone who does (or thinks they do) is going to download mods anyway.

Why care about getting the most out of your graphics when the players that will complain are already planning to install Bodyslide, Caliente or turn all models into furries.

Edited July 5, 2023 by melkathi

[Humanoid]

11 hours ago, Keyrock said:

I'm sure it will still have some of the 20 year old Gamebryo bugs that they never bothered to fix.

I think it would be more accurate to say it's Gamebryo with 20 years worth of Bethesda bugs progressively added to it.

[BruceVC]

30 minutes ago, melkathi said:

I think Bethesda has given up on truly trying to address any problems.

They know that the average console gamer doesn't care enough about details to notice that things are wrong, and among the PC gamer community anyone who does (or thinks they do) is going to download mods anyway.

Why care about getting the most out of your graphics when the players that will complain are already planning to install Bodyslide, Caliente or turn all models into furries.

Okay but did you read the link I posted, they specifically mention working with Xbox to address console problems and optimization  so this is another  advantage with being part of Microsoft