It’s supposed to be immersive, I think, so as not to force a voice that doesn’t match the roleplaying in your head.

I’m with you, though, I’d much prefer VA.

FemV in CP2077 totally killed it. Her voice acting was one of my favorite parts of the game.

AC Odyssey didn’t have as many emotional beats, but Kassanda was still way better than her brother.

And of course Jennifer Hale as FemShep… I’m starting to see a pattern here, lol.

The problem is the way they’re pushing the tools as magic lamps, and shoving them down everyone’s throats.

AI is a really neat tool that got dragged into an incredibly toxic system that enshittified it. Not a useful tool to help development, no, skip straight to replacing employees even if it doesn’t freaking work.

I mean, Starfield should have been my dream game, but after that…

I dunno. All my enthusiasm for BGS has been sapped, and I adored Oblvion.

Aww man, are they going to take down Skyblivion right when its done?

Funny thing is SWTOR has some great art, heartfelt voice acting and quests, great soundtrack and such, but at the end of the day it’s buried in a grindy.

On the other hand, I tried Fallout 76 (after it was patched up) drunk with friends, and it was boring as heck. The quests were so dull, gameplay so arbitrarily janky and grindy. Drunk! With friends! Do you know how low a bar that is :/

I’m a sucker for wandering lush bucolic landscapes though.

You should play KC Deliverance 2 if you haven’t. Its forests and rural villages are freaking gorgeous, especially for how “easy” it is to run.

Funny thing about AMD is the MI300X is supposedly not selling well, largely because they priced gouge everything as bad as Nvidia, even where they aren’t competitive. Other than the Framework desktop, they are desperate to stay as uncompetitive in the GPU space as they possibly can, and not because the hardware is bad.

Wasn’t the Intel B580 a good launch, though? It seems to have gotten rave reviews, and it’s in stock, yet has exited the hype cycle.

It’s polished and undoubtedly one of the best games of all time.

My only gripe is that I find the pause-based combat lengthy, though not bad.

Personally I just want another RtwP CRPG.

How do you feel about Torment: Tides of Numenera?

When do you think that stopped though?

There’s a lot of love for Skyrim, but I feel like there was already deterioration in the side quest writing, even strictly looking at Oblivion/FO3, not Morrowind.

As for BioWare, even ME3 was starting to show some cracks, even if you set the ending aside. And I loved Mass Effect to death. Heck, I’m even a bigger Andromeda fan than most.

…Point being I think we clung to BioWare/Bethesda a little too hard even when the signs of deoxygenation were there.

People like to write off CP2077, which is such a shame.

…And maybe this makes me a black sheep, but I bounced off Witcher 2/3? I dunno, I just didn’t like the combat and lore, and ended up watching some of the interesting quests on YouTube.

People understandably love to hate Oblivion and Fallout 3, but I feel the side quest writing had heart, like groups of devs got to go wild within their own little dungeons. Their exploitable mechanics were kinda endearing.

…And I didn’t get that from Starfield? I really tried to overlook the nostalgia factor, but all the writing felt… corporate. Gameplay, animation, Bethesda jank without any of the fun. I abandoned it early and tried to see what I was missing on YouTube, but still don’t “get” what people see in that game.

If you want a big walking sandbox in that vein, I feel like No Man’s Sky would scratch the itch far better, no?

Meanwhile, BG3 and KC2 completely floored me. So did Cyberpunk 2077, though I only experienced it patched up and modded. Heck, even ME Andromeda felt more compelling to me.

They have some good main quest writing, sure, but I feel like the nostalgia glasses factor is big, especially with NV.

I found a combat mod completely changed the game for me. By making it brutally damaging instead of so bullet spongy and deleveling it, it simplifies all that crap away. Perks and guns are for play styles, and it lets one enjoy the game instead of worrying about them.

Ace Combat Zero! Or 4, 5, and Zero (in that order) if you want a lot of it.

It doesn’t seem that big, right?

If WW was stuck in development hell, cutting Monolith makes sense I guess. PFG only did Multiversus, WB SF seemed to only work on/support mobile games, with no recent credits.

Crypto mining works better in windows!?

GPU compute is usually a Linux forte. By a huge margin, for me.

there’s no way anyone will let him do this.

America: Hold my beer.

It’s probably not big if it’s included in the driver download and run in real-time so quickly. Not big enough to worry about anyway.

Well… Cyberpunk was basically an unfinished alpha when it was released.

Also, BG3 has no major DLC.

It’s a freaking good game.

I never played it at release, but modded to the brim just before phantom liberty came out (yes, I know, bad timing), and I was blown away.

It means it’s selling well and people are playing it long term.

I have but one question.

Do you wear spandex, OP?

To be fair, BG3 is like bottled lightning, and I think it’s unreasonable to expect many (if any) other studios to produce something like that.

Even the Divinity games were way above par, with a much more lukewarm (but not unsuccessful, I guess?) reception.

Ah yeah I meant Sweeny.

Epic Games is not publicly traded.

And TBH their history with Unreal is not that bad. And Valve is already extracting a truckload of money out of us through their percentage cut.

Carmack is absolutely a character though, lol. I have to wonder how controversial EGS would be without him.

Its happened to me after a full day too.

I am just using the browser UI, and just mean the notifications on the site.

Sometimes I get a reply with no notification even within Lemmy, and someone else said this happens to them too.

What do you mean, are you on some client that has notifications disabled by default?

Genuine fediverse noob here.

Now this is a good reason.

And random note, but I didn’t get a notification for this reply?

Right but I dont see how its anything but a minor annoyance.

Like, if the game is really good… What is so bad about installing the epic client?

I get it being annoying… But why is it such a deal breaker? If the game is good, why not just install it, play the game, leave it when you’re done?

The other storefronts have some cool features (namely gamepass for xbox and all of steamworks and the app stuff for steam), but it doesn’t really matter if the game doesn’t use em.

Rimworld was another shining example. Its actual early access was a forum release, the Steam EA was polishing.

That being said I have a dead EA or two in my library. Starforge comes to mind…

as opposed to trying desperately to find your article as you scroll and having pop ups and other things interrupt you as you read

Joke’s on the websites, as I run Cromite, so no pop ups or anything.

…But also, most of the written web is trash now.

:(

the YouTube experience is far less annoying on average.

Are you sure about that?

I opened YT links without premium on a new browsers and holy moly! I got 1-3 minute unskippable ads every time.

I immediately clicked them off, of course.

GN is indeed a rare outlier. They’re like an oldschool tech site that rose at the exact right time to grow up on YouTube.

And our site was like the opposite. Uh… let’s just say many Lemmy users wouldn’t like its editor, but he did not hold back gut punches, and refused to watch his site turn into a clickbait farm.

I briefly wrote articles for an oldschool PC hardware outlet (HardOCP if anyone remembers)… And I’m surprised any such sites are still alive. Mine shut down, and not because they wanted to.

Why?

Who reads written text over their favorite YouTube personality, or the SEO garbage that pops up first on their search, or first party articles/recs on steam, and so on? No one, except me apparently, as their journalistic integrity aside, I’m way too impatient for youtube videos, and am apparently the only person on the planet that believes influencers as far as I can throw them.

And that was before Discord, Tiktok, and ChatGPT really started eating everything. And before a whole generation barely knew what a website is.

They cited Eurogamer as an offender here, and thats an outstanding/upstanding site. I’m surprised they can even afford to pay that much as a business.

And I’m not sure what anyone is supposed to do about it.

One can’t offload “usable” LLMs without tons of memory bandwidth and plenty of RAM. It’s just not physically possible.

You can run small models like Phi pretty quick, but I don’t think people will be satisfied with that for copilot, even as basic autocomplete.

About 2x faster than Intel’s current IGPs is the threshold where the offloading can happen, IMO. And that’s exactly what AMD/Apple are producing.