Whenever people criticise Bethesda games for their engine, I pretty much assume right away they know nothing about game development. Bethesda’s engine is something they have a lot of control over and can constantly improve and iterate on. It’s not as though Starfield and Morrowind are running on the exact same codebase.

Starfield is bad because of bad game design, not bad game development. Skyrim was buggy on release as well, and yet people loved it because the design of the game was good enough that people were willing to forgive the programming flaws. People overvalue the engine in discussions about Bethesda games and it’s become this meme among people to seem like they sound like they know what they’re talking about, but ultimately the flaws in Bethesda games that determine their success has very little to do with what engine they use.

Also, the Skyblivion team is constantly releasing dev diaries showing the progress, and the mod is nearly finished. It looks very well done, and the whole thing is out in the open. There’s no reason to be cynical about whether it will ever release when you can literally go look at the progress with your own eyes.

For Oblivion, there is Skyblivion coming out next year.

Not sure what you hope would be added in a “remake” though. You’re asking for something which would inherently do very little and be exactly the sort of cash grab that we normally condemn. You want these games with better graphics or mechanics? Play with mods.

I’m a big fan of this game. It’s tactically deep and can be fairly punishing while also being whimsical and silly. And I love the fact that encounters can be resolved with or without violence. The characters are all dripping with personality and it has a fun sort of globetrotting vibe.

So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.

Funny, that game is by the same creator as the game OP mentioned.

If you like Obra Dinn, you’ll love Outer Wilds

Honestly I think that if ES6 is to Skyrim what FO4 is to FO3, it will probably be good.

The danger is if they try to replicate Starfield or FO76, ie. cut corners like crazy, be blinded by dollar signs in their eyes.

If Borderlands 3 had released on Steam, I’d have probably bought it when it came out because I still had a lot of goodwill for the series at that time. Instead, I had to wait until the Steam release when the game already had loads of negative press. Exclusive deals are idiotic

Machine learning is irrelevant to the sort of AI used in a game like this.

Same! I still play Civ V all the time

Game bugged out or something because they started rendering as skeletons instead of their avatars. So i guess i have my own literal skeleton crew now

You best start believing in ghost stories. You’re in one.

The only competitive game that I’ve ever been particularly good at was Battlerite (Blossom main), and that was completely abandoned by the devs and community.

Yeah good point. I forgot about the whole “plant an acorn” thing

Fair enough. I certainly won’t pre order this, but if it comes out and it gets good reviews, I may give it a shot

I’m curious why people assume PM is incapable of delivering on promises. Like, I know he has a history of overhyping games, but surely he must also have some games where he actually delivered an awesome and complete game, right? Like the first 2 Fable games were pretty amazing.

Not even close to the same scale as what Valve and Blizzard get people to pay for skins and hats

It’s not a question of demand, it’s a question of profit. Multiplayer games stand to make a lot more money than singleplayer. Nobody will spend real world dollars on cosmetic items in a singleplayer game.

People forget that basically everything about Trump’s campaign was copied directly from Reagan. Right down to the MAGA slogan

For added authenticity, they should exclusively employ members of Cosa Nostra as voice actors

It has never worked though, as far more people would vote helpful if something made them laugh (because people just think “more upvote”)

Sounds like AI will be used to detect the shitty meme reviews. Honestly a great use of ML

There is a tutorial mission to show you some of the basics.

I see. This is probably a pretty niche reference nowadays, but is it more similar to Monday Night Combat? That was an actual shooter IIRC and had moba mechanics like lanes and creeps.

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress

So like SMITE?

Steam says it gets a yellow score for Steam Deck. Anyone know how it plays?

I think it’s just a specific setpiece moment. You can see the texture of the rocks closer to the player on the right and they are pretty typical for FNV

All of this could have been said about PDX’s Sims competitor Life By You when it got “delayed indefinitely” too. But then a week later it was cancelled. And then a week after that the lead dev came out and said there was no reason for it to have been cancelled because they had been on track for release before Paradox pulled the plug.

Turn-based all the way. RTS is a test of how fast you can click. APM is king. Turn-based allows you to think and plan and make decisions. Brain is king.

To be clear there’s nothing wrong with liking RTS, it’s just not for me.

Technically it stands for “Computer RPG” but nowadays it’s more commonly meant as “Classic RPG”. It refers to any of those games like the classic Fallouts, Baldur’s Gates, Planescape Torment, that blend turn-based strategy game with RPG. Modern examples are BG3, Pathfinder: War of the Righteous, Pillars Of Eternity 2, Wasteland 3, etc.

CRPGs like Dragon Age Origins and BG3 are awesome

https://sh.itjust.works/post/22476834

What game?

Wh40k: Mechanicus has some amazing music.

Ave, true to Caesar

This is an unofficial mod

TLDR:

• Fishing
• Unreal Engine 5
• Crossbows
• New portraits

I’m not sure if it quite fits but the first game that came to mind was Minami Lane

Agree to disagree. But then, I have >1300 hours in Rimworld. It’s possible I have a much stronger feel of it and that’s colouring my perspective of this new game.

Manor Lords listening to the community and adding in a cool feature. Awesome!

It’s hard to say at this point, but there’s a lot in the trailer that makes me think “Timberborn” and only a couple of frames and pixels that make me think “Rimworld”. And given that their marketing tagline is “inspired by Rimworld” you’d think they would show off any Rimworldiness a bit more in the trailer.