Lemmy constantly falls into the same social trap as reddit: that we think we’re some monolith of consumerism and when we believe something we think everyone else will be on our side.

Go on YouTube and look up the hundreds of videos from the past few months alone of scalpers and other Pokemon buyers getting into actual physical fights, buying literally 10+ of those huge box sets, and camping out at those vending machines and buying literally everything in them the minute they restock.

I’m a vendor at comic and anime conventions here in the US. I did a show last month that was literally 99% Pokemon cards and merch, and everyone was buying that shit up regardless. There were actually maybe five booths including my own that weren’t selling just Pokemon stuff, if at all.

I’m surprised you’ve only had one crash yet. I’ve had a few so far now. I think it’s mostly the graphics though. I once had an inventory full of hundreds of alchemy ingredients and I tried to buy more and the game crashed. If I’m sprinting through the open world and looking around too much, the game can freeze up and crash while it’s trying to load in the world.

It’s a little touchy for me lol.

Mafia 2 did a similar thing. I like the games, they’re fun and interesting and all, but it’s kinda weird when you spread collectables throughout a map but they’re almost all in the opposite direction of any missions.

I’m still doing stuff in Cyrodiil. I’m trying to save Shivering Isles for last because it was the best looking thing from the original version.

Also, that screenshot of Akatosh and Dagon fighting looks insanely epic

I absolutely love Manic Miners (the fan remake of the old Rock Raiders game). The customization so you can make your own mining crew, all the old-school parts that are in the game, everything about it is fantastic.

It’s why I stopped playing. And I got both games, with DLC.

I bought Schedule 1 for the full $20 last week.

I can’t stop playing. It’s too fun.

I wouldn’t necessarily chalk it up to laziness or whatever. Imo it’s just different games do different things differently. It doesn’t break my immersion or mean the game is less fun to me.

I don’t understand what you mean.

In Oblivion Remastered, in third-person, when you run in a straight line either left or right your character will do this kind of sideways/backwards jog instead of straight-up strafing like they’ll do in Morrowind.

Imo either one makes sense when compared to real life, but maybe I’ve just been playing games too long?

God the Oblivion Remaster is seriously one of the best looking games I’ve ever played. I love the new looks for almost everything, but the window effect on Oblivion gates still feels a little off to me. It still looks cool though.

I still can’t get over just how good everything looks though.

Dude. The preorders literally “sold out.” My brother messaged me last week asking why there was a huge line out the door at GameStop, and I had to look it up because that was also the day Switch 2 preorders started.

G*mers are the bane of other gamers’ existence. Also, most people have literally no self-control.

I’m surprised you think it’s repetitive and it makes you want to go back to Skyrim lol.

But that said, anytime I play an Elder Scrolls game, I always get the urge to play the other ones too, so I get it. It usually ends up taking months of my life away whenever it happens though.

I’ve been playing the Remaster and it looks immaculate, and it’s the same game. Different strokes I know, but I am loving the Remaster so far.

That said, I got Schedule 1 the other night and I put in two all-nighters already so far. That game is addicting - like the crack you can cook and sell in it.

You’d be surprised. There are/were mods for Marvel’s Spider-Man to replace the Pride flags flying around NYC to American flags. I’m almost positive there were some fucked up ones for the Miles Morales game too.

Maybe it was something like a word-swap mod to change “type 1/type 2” to “male/female” that got banned?

No clue. /s

ETA: which, I saw a couple posts in the steam discussions “celebrating” that Nexus put that mod back up. Like how fucking childish do you have to be to actually go out of your way to make a post like that? Saying shit like “I bet all the people who complained about it in the first place are CRYING right now!” It’s literally changing some words in a menu of a fucking video game

Everyone gains collective amnesia about all the good times they had playing/modding Bethesda games whenever they’re in the news cycle for some reason. It’s kind of fascinating/frustrating.

Add in the fact that a lot of these people have regressed over the past 10 or so years to the point where they think like 12-13 year olds again, and we get this whole “anti-woke gamer” bullshit.

To be completely fair though, I had to go out of my way to find people shitting on the game for even being “woke” in the first place. I saw the type 1/type 2 body type when I was making my character, but I just figured it was a natural progression since every other game with a character creator in the last 5 years has done away with gendered body types, and Oblivion is such a classic that it might have been overlooked; sadly not. In my head though (also because duh, it’s obvious if you use your eyes) I ascribe each to male or female, and it took me like a second to get through that entire thought process.

Been playing nonstop since it came out. I’m already level 30, almost done with Mages Guild and nothing else.

It’s back.

G*mers are so far gone I’m not sure we can save them at this point.

Edit: dude literally believes people are gonna hack into your PC and uninstall certain mods or games if it doesn’t fit with a certain worldview in a couple years. If anything, the only evidence I’ve seen for people to totally censor shit like video games (and other media) is nazis Republicans.

Well, this is a discussion thread, and I found some shit I need to discuss, although not with the game itself directly, but with “fans” and other G*mers:

This chucklefuck is actually getting some attention and people agree with them. The human race is fucked if the average person thinks like this on a daily basis. I’m not sure what’s worse; the out in the open bigotr, or the fact that they’re apparently okay with the current administration turning the government a completely fascist regime, or let alone they think this administration is “too soft” on perceived entertainment slights.

Like why does reality have to be so shit?

I was told jank was left in specifically because that’s a huge part of Oblivion in the first place.

Part of me appreciates it. Also it’s just using the same code from the original game, so I guess they wouldn’t want to fuck with it too much. Duct tape and voodoo, after all.

I understand that, and I care who I give my money to as well.

But almost every game nowadays has that clause, and almost every game regardless of single player or not, has mods for it.

This is also a Bethesda game. People are going to mod it out the ass regardless of what a few words in a text box say. The fact you think it means anything like we’ll never get official mod support is pretty cooked tbh.

I’ve power-levelled up to 25 by now, I’ve maxed out Intelligence and Willpower, and almost maxed out Strength. I have 60s in both Speed and Luck, and then I’m gonna see if I can get the rest of the attributes maxed out.

I love that levelling minor skills contributes to your overall level xp, so there isn’t as hard a level cap as there used to be.

Damn, I didn’t realize that you not being able to undo an update that they most likely had planned for at least a year or two to coincide with the release of the Fallout show led to you boycotting all things Bethesda.

I didn’t know Todd personally fucked with your rig to force you to live with the next-gen update and not be able to play a mod. I guess he’s just going around to everyone’s place and making sure they have all their Bethesda games fully up to date so they’re mods keep getting fucked with.

That means literally nothing to modders, and about 99% of gamers, at all.

I’m even surprised people had enough energy/time/whatever to even scour the EULA at the very beginning.

Especially cause it’s just “Oblivion but shiny”

I love the game and I’m having a blast, but I could definitely see someone whose life revolves around TES anyway to get a bit bored with it already.

If you’re anything like me and have done an Oblivion playthrough at least once every year or two since it came out in 2006.

I mean, I’m sure they couldn’t charge for Skyblivion in the first place. I get that it’s a huge undertaking and all, but they’re still using someone else’s assets and engine that they didn’t get the official license for unlike Obsidian with Fallout: New Vegas.

Fallout: London didn’t charge, I’m sure for exactly the same reason.

More TES is always a win imo

Bro, literally. Bethesda drops the next-gen update for Fallout 4 right before the show/Fallout: London mod releases, and everyone and their mother believes Bethesda is purposefully sabotaging the FO: Lon team by doing so. Once the dust settles, everyone just goes “oopsie, wasn’t me 🤭”

Bethesda “shadow-drops” (there were plenty of leaks and no one seemed to dispute the claims anyway) the release of Oblivion Remastered right when there’s a ton of talk about Skyblivion recently being close to completion, and everyone and their mother once again blames Bethesda for purposefully doing so to sabotage yet another huge mod team. When in reality, Bethesda gave copies to each of the team members who are actively working on said project for free as a token of appreciation for being such devoted fans of the IP in the first place.

It’s like everyone has these weird “anti-Bethesda” blinders on whenever there’s a new thing from them in the news that gathers any bit of hype. Even the Bethesda fanboys are guilty of this.

Oh man, careful OP doesn’t post a two-page rant proclaiming how they’re emphatically anti-Bethesda

I mean Oblivion Remastered just came out.

It’s weird replaying Oblivion but it looks like a modern game. All the original audio is there (along with a few new voices to break up the monotony of hearing the same handful of voices over and over again), and all the locations and gear, but it all feels different. Like it’s very familiar, but it’s still very different from what we remember. Leveling is a bit different this time around as you have seven or so points to divide among your attributes, rather than picking a couple that would get increased by random numbers. I’d recommend trying it if nothing else than to try out the new polished version yourself.

Although some of the jank has been removed from this version, like there are no more items duplication glitches, but the Bound Armor/Weapon glitch works.

I thought the original trilogy was supposed to be the metaphor for transitioning.

At least that’s what the Wachowskis themselves and the Internet say.

This has to be it. I watched the RLM video where they say the same thing, then I watched the movie for myself and in the first five minutes of dialog when the new Smith says “our bosses at Warner Brothers” and I was just like “ooookay”

I’m the opposite. I hate fighting Mr. Freeze in Arkham City, especially on harder difficulties when you have to use every kind of takedown on him. I just find it annoying trying to get him in the perfect position for some of them like the glide or line launcher takedowns.

But I do get why people would like that.

I loved the Cold, Cold Heart DLC for Origins though.

I’ve mostly been ignoring these Oblivion remake posts. I’ll believe it’s actually gonna happen when/if they actually drop it in the next 24-48 hours. I actually don’t give a shit, and it’s one of my favorite games.

Amazing.

One review I just read on steam said “great if you have dad game hours”

23th

There’s also Atlas, which is a pirate game from a spin-off studio of the ARK devs, so a lot of those basics like taking animals and such are very similar. But in that one, you can actually build your own ship from scratch

But if you don’t want the hassle of dealing with other players and still want full rewards, you could do all your questing over in that volcanic biome on the map.

At least back when I played that was the relatively safest area for me.

I haven’t played it, but there’s a game called Salt 2 that I’ve been interested in for a while.

The steam page says it’s basically an infinite ocean with different islands and such. It sounds like it might be procedurally generated, but you can customize your ship and it’s basically your mobile base and all.