all of the guild questlines in oblivion are so fun, particularly the stealthy ones Dark Brotherhood and Thieves.

The Outer Worlds is a perfect example of this in the best way possible.

half assed remake

which is exactly why they called it a remaster. it was never their intention to remake the game.

Personally I think most of the stuff that went wrong with Starfield were design choices related to space travel and many many planets, which won’t be an issue with TES of Fallout going forward. So if they stay in their lane I don’t see any reason why they can’t keep churning out decent titles in those series, even if they maybe don’t reach the same heights.

Avowed ran well for me.

Avowed is UE5 and that ran well for me.

i wouldn’t say discord “spoiled” us by trying to reinvent forums, i’d say it unnecessarily blurred the lines. classic case of feature creep.

i generally agree with the point you are making because Oblivion is my favorite TES game, but I just got done playing Avowed which is pretty good. defintiely not as deep as oblivion in many areas though.

i don’t think they changed the magic system but they did adjust enemy level scaling, which could have been part of your problem.

hold your horses armor buddy, they still have a few other elder scrolls games to remake first.

dude follow the link, there’s an official bethesda countdown to the stream.

but how do we know that?

At the very least we know it should release by the end of the month.

how do we know that?

that’s what i was told about SWTOR and that was just as tedious as any other MMO.

you had me until MMO.

how is it better than display boxes?

maybe not quite what you’re looking for but the shadow of mordor series has a liiiitle bit of that. obviously not as city-focused as arkham or spider-man.

does it support keyboards as well? or how else do you control WASD etc?

i can’t imagine that will be comfortable to use for any significant amount of time.

apple does it, and i think Google too. everyone you add to your “family” must share the same payment method. so naturally you will limit that to only people you highly trust.

you should be able to use games within your family completely unlimited anyway.

I would understand the local connection requirement if that was for sharing with people outside your family. that would make it similar to sharing a game with a friend you know in person. without that the floodgates would be open to sharing games with literally anyone online.

eh, i don’t see any reason why they can’t churn out another TES or FO like they have been for years. my problems with starfield were mostly unique to the galaxy map and space.

FO76 and Starfield were much much more risky than TES6 or FO5 will be.

the scope for starfield was just too much, it was doomed to fail from the beginning. i think they’ll be fine going back to their TES roots.

oblivion is my favorite in the series, but goddammit bethesda stop making remakes. make a make.

what makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?

gray, whatever.

beige, no. never again.

Mass Effect the IP isn’t the issue, the issue is EA sucks. So you’re basically asking why do they even persist as a company anymore.

Also I think Andromeda was okay, just terribly buggy at launch. The gameplay was actually pretty fun imo. On the other hand, Veilguard was technically sound but the game itself was not great. So if they can somehow learn lessons from both, there is hope.

micromacro crime city is fun. It’s kinda like a giant Where’s Waldo map except you solve mysteries as a team.

the strategy is to buy everything you can ASAP but focus on monopolizing and developing the orange and red properties. they are statistically much higher to land on than other properties because people get sent to jail so often. When exiting jail rolling 6, 8, or 9 is very likely to hit orange first and then maybe red on the next roll.

tldr; punish the poor fuckers getting out of jail. yay capitalism!

valve is a publisher too, and they have the exact same policy for their games.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement

yeah I think I played about 10 hours. the initial stage around hogwarts proper was interesting and fun, but once the quests went out into the open world it got a lot more tedious.

the major difference with GOW is that you can pause combat at will to strategize and time abilities/combos with your squad.

I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s not great either.

…and then hand the IP to another studio.

yet they still keep making them.

eh it’ll be back. they are doing another mass effect after Andromeda.

online multiplayer bullshit with monthly fees.

idunno, to me the heavy reliance on platforming and metroidvania-style traversal far outweighs any superficial RPG elements in those games. I just get annoyed rather than immersed in the game.

KOTOR. just existing in a Star Wars world and becoming a Jedi. really have no idea why we can’t have another Jedi RPG, do you not like money Disney?

once in a while there are rumors. absolutely not “always”.