It’s not The Wire or The Sopranoes.

It is genuinely fun and bingeable.

Forget who said it, but: “Kill your darlings.”

Photography, painting, writing, jokes. You produce a lot, you cut most of it, you gain practice along the way.

This being said, there are people with inate genius who produce 90% gold.

Ah, yeah. That’ll probably do it. Usually lower spec and/or mobile version graphics/cpu.

Weird. Runs fine on my i7-6700k with an rx580. Probably older than your pc.

I don’t know if they pay per sale, or if they bought the right to sell the game with a one off lump sum as they have done in the past for at least some games.

If it’s the latter, my buying the game on gog doesn’t send any more money to the original studio.

Gog?

Goes to show that making a good game is still more art than science.

Hell, make a broken or buggy game, if it has the special something it’ll still likely become a classic.

Eg. Fallout New Vegas or Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

It’s worse than shit, it’s mediocre.

At least people talk about shit games, which means some people buy a copy just because they’re curious.

Mediocre stuff? No one’s interested.

Oh, steam is usually expensive. I usually go on allkeyshop and find stuff cheaper somewhere else.

Gog is usually the same price as steam or epic, but drm free.

Does anyone actually buy games on Epic?

I never have. They’re rarely the cheapest, unless it’s free. Also DRM, obviously.

Or:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Here it is on the BBC’s website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Yeah. It is/was free on epic. As you say, the story seems pretty boring.

I don’t know why, but it felt really dead and empty. Most of the missions are go fetch missions too.

Cyberpunk, (modded) Skyrim, Fallout 4 or New Vegas, I actually enjoyed walking to the destination. Outer Worlds I found myself using fast travel as much as possible because I wasn’t rewarded for taking in the scenery. Not truly open world.

I mean, one of the companions, IRC I simply fast travelled to and from the ship 4 times to advance the quest. Go fetch at point A, go to ship to discuss, go fetch at point B, go to ship to discuss, etc.

IRC they just released the latest chapter of sim settlements, so yeah. I’ll probably return to FO4 in a year or two. Fallout London is also progressing, so that should be interesting. Thanks to content mods, you can largely skip the main quests of the original game.

It’s become the new skyrim.

I think skyrim’s golden age of modding is largely a thing of the past, but I haven’t played it in a few years (500+ mods at the time), so please correct me if I’m wrong.

How would we know though?

He’s an A-lister and he’s represented by a big talent agency and production company.

They can quite easily squash stories, simply by refusing media access to other stars or productions on their roster.

Hell, for all we know he could be on Epstein’s list. Or he could be secretly donating money to donkey sanctuaries. Who knows?

Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, but I think cyberpunk would have been just as good with somone else playing Johnny. Let’s be honest, it probably would have been better.

Keanu may be a great guy, although I assume we mainly think that because of his PR company, but he’s not a particularly good actor. Film actors are also often worse at stuff like this than professional voice actors. It’s not an uncommon complaint.

Not that I blame them, I assume they mainly hired him for marketing purposes, and he absolutely did help generate hype.

Japanese work culture is toxic.

Game industry work culture is toxic.

Combine the two, and it becomes even more toxic.

Apparently this is the Spacer’s Choice Edition. A remaster by another studio which some people don’t like.

There’s stuff on nexusmods which fixes it, but I don’t know if they’re any good.

Bad analogy. I’m still ‘going outside’. It’s just a question of how much I pay to mitigate the ‘chance of catching the flu’.

More like cycling to work with or without a helmet. Or wearing a cheap mask during covid.

Perfectly happy to pirate media, but pirated software is a risk I can largely avoid for a very low cost.

Your personal circumstances may differ, so do what you want.

Morality aside, I prefer not to pirate software for safety reasons. Malware is an issue, even if it’s rare.

Sounds like I should finally give Disco Elysium a try. The Final Cut’s on Gog for 10 Euros. Is that a good price / the right version?

Or should I reinstall Skyrim, load it up with mods, and spend another 1000 hours avoiding life?

It’s shit because it is.

Ugh.

I was thinking of reinstalling skyrim, a game I’ve paid for multiple times, but I won’t now. This will almost certainly break some of the mods I usually use. I mean, fucking hell. The game’s over 10 years old now. Plenty of people have bought it more than once.

And yes, I know that you can prevent updates, but I’ve had the thing update anyway even when I disabled that. Forget about verifying file integrity.

Can’t we just enjoy the game we paid for, without Bethesda trying to fuck us over again?

Imagine if you bought a car, and the car company came over to your house without your permission, and started fiddling with rims so that the tyres you bought no longer fit.

Fallout 4. Modded up the wazoo with the StoryWealth collection.

Reminds me of New Vegas and the originals games now. Far more content and things to randomly discover. Not just tacky boob mods.

Also, games that are delayed too much sometimes end up being outdated and therefore relatively bad. Eg. Duke Nukem Forever.

Much better after the bug fixes, but still far from perfect. Agreed.

I stuck to bikes which were fun to drive around.

That’s what I found really interesting about Cyberpunk 2077.

It took me a long time before I even started using fast travel in that game. I actually enjoyed walking through the city. Even on later replays and when I’d finished almost all the side quests.

Far from perfect game even after all the bug fixes, and kinda empty after the end game, but I can’t help thinking it illustrates how Bethesda’s been left behind in many ways. It’ll be interesting to see what the next GTA’s like. If they manage to make a more immersive world to explore.

On a related note, I’m still annoyed microsoft bungled the windows phone and didn’t do more to support app developers. Arguably better than osx and certainly android at the time.

Read the article.

Yes, but you could in the original game too.

I look forward to buying this game in twenty installments, like Europa Universalis 4. Or perhaps they’ll offer a subscription, so you don’t have to pay $400 to access the full game.

Same thing for (international) politics too, obviously.

That and endless content and comment reposts.

It was bad when I left, it’s gotten worse now that some of the better mods and more prolific posters have left.

The last time I played Cyberpunk, it was actually good fun. Game was a bit empty, and it was pretty obvious they’d been forced to cut a lot of stuff, but I played it for several hundred hours without too many bugs. Pretty and ran well on my budget pc too.

As always, patience is a virtue.

Same, but realistically once you start heading towards the 500 mods range, it’s almost impossible to get it working reliably.

At one point I had 200+ mods on skyrim, and the mod cycles and before/after conflicts on vortex looked like mandelas. I did enjoy ‘completing’ the vortex mod manager game. That’s when it’s 3AM, you’re fed up, you give up trying to figure what’s wrong, and just click randomly and uninstall/reinstall mods until vortex shuts up, and it somehow just works. Bit like winning the lottery.

Did that on skyrim.

Don’t know how much free time you have, but I couldn’t be bothered anymore for FO4 on nexus. I just downloaded one of the bigger/better collections and ignored/deactivated the creepier/boobier mods.

Already more than enough of a hassle to get that working, with vortex sometimes not installing stuff properly, pre-cleaning files, etc.

Wait a year for the modding community to finish it.

When I first played Fallout 4 years ago, it ran at 20fps in some parts of the map and on medium.

Playing it again now, modded to the max, ultra, higher res textures, 60fps everywhere.

Same pc.

Do you?

This game will run fine on a 2080, by the time it’s been fully patched and optimised by the modding community. Honestly, can’t wait till 2025 when I’ll be able to play the finished game.

Not steam workshop, but nexus mods.

It’s annoying that so many mods require you to use the steam version, for this and skyrim.

He sued Top Gear for being critical of the tesla roadster in 2008. (And before someone pipes in about that being justified despite them losing twice, because you inadvertently bought the tesla spin on that case back when people didn’t yet realise Musk was full of shit, please do a bit of research.)

He lied about founding tesla and continually lied about the actual founders. When they sued for libel in 2009, Musk settled.

He banned the guy who posted publicly available information about his private jet on twitter.

The list goes on.

Musk has never been free speech. He has always been a cunt.