I don’t know much myself, check the fedora thread where they go into more details.

low-effort

People always underestimate the work that goes into making sure stuff works. These packages need to be built so they add a lot of compile time to the pipeline, these packages have limitations inherent to 32 bits so they also add troubleshooting and bugs. This is time and resources that could be spent elsewhere.

Apparently there’s a few problems with the flatpak version, like you can’t run gamescope or start a steam big picture session.

That’s not the point, dxvk isn’t gonna get used at all if the game is running dx12 or native vulkan.

Hey, you brought it up.

So, why are you friendly to Epic?

He’s telling consumers that they should expect to pay a premium price

What exactly do you expect him to say? Get the same GPU, but with more vram, at no extra cost?

If you want more performance, you pay more, that’s the way it’s always worked, and he’s correct in that 8gb is good enough for most people.

You can confidently say that this is fine for most consumers today. There really isn’t a great argument that this will serve most consumers well for the next 3 to 5 years.

People have been saying that for years, my 8gb card is chugging along just fine. The race to vram that people were expecting just hasn’t happened. There’s little reason to move on from 1080p and the 75+ million ps5s aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Kids have plenty of ways to get access to lootboxes that aren’t gated by a credit card, not to mention these games tend to blur the line for paid lootboxes by giving “free” in game premium currencies. Most of these games are fully aware it’s a kid playing, they just turn a blind eye because it profits them.

This whole personal responsibility is the same shit that the plastic industry has managed to pull, they are the ones doing it and they are the ones profiting from it, the responsibility is on them to make sure kids aren’t playing their games.

There’s plenty of different endings, but yeah that’s probably the one they’ll make canon.

The thing is Geralt is The Witcher, making Ciri the protagonist is a bastardization of the saga. Imagine that J.K rowling came up with a new book, titled it Harry Potter 8, and made the protagonist Hermione. To me this shows a real lack of understanding of their audience, people play The Witcher for the fantasy of being Geralt, of being a monster killer, of hooking up with every sorceress. But obviously IP sells, and they aren’t gonna change the title of the saga to something like “child of the elder blood”.

I wish them the best of luck, maybe they’ll pull off a fallout 3 and reinvent themselves. But I personally will be passing on this spinoff.

If anything, Ciri’s the character whose story is wrapped up by the end of Witcher 3, she saved the world and fulfilled her destiny. Unlike Geralt or the sorceresses, she does get old too.

It’s definitely understandable that a lot of players would feel betrayed at having Ciri becoming the MC after 3 games of Geralt. People would riot if you made someone else than Lara Croft the MC of tomb raider. A better solution would probably be a character creator for a new generation of witchers. Ciri is too powerful to be the MC.

It’s not only the people, it’s the people at specific timepoints, nobody wants a remake of skyrim and another iteration of assassin’s creed is only gonna get a lukewarm reception. Games are lightning in a bottle, their successes are basically impossible to replicate because there’s so many variables at play.

The steam deck is just a small pc running Linux, so yes.

Yes look at Nintendo, shitty visuals and high prices.

the people who provoked Nintendo.

This is my problem with your argument, you’re saying that because of piracy they’re entitled to crack down on emulation. Piracy is just a pretext they’re using here. Emulation is legal and yet they’re doing everything in their power to stop it from happening, this has nothing to do with piracy.

What if he had preordered the game?

Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the publisher to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game being played on Yuzu, Nintendo decided to finally come down on the emulator with an iron fist.

There’s plenty of ways to stop piracy, Nintendo just doesn’t want you to play outside their walled garden. They could choose to facilitate emulation and let you buy their games from emulators and prevent piracy while not hindering emulation. They could choose to port their games to other platforms. But no, they crack down on emulation because it hurts their bottom line if people don’t have to buy a switch - or whatever to play their games. Fuck Nintendo.

Yeah i was gonna mention xcom initially but i doubt stuff like party deaths will be a thing here. This game looks like it’s gonna feature full on companions, and the controls look pretty much exactly like bg3.

Those are some hot 10 seconds of footage. Looks like bg3’s combat with some tactical cover.

I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

They probably don’t want the game to end, there’s a certain finality that comes with an ending. I’ve had this happen to me for a few games and books but i usually power through.

sometimes reviewers only play the first few parts.

Not just the reviewers unfortunately, games shed players at every step, it’s why most games are front-loaded and fall off the further you get into them.

To choose your distro you must first decide whether you want a a stable distribution (debian) or a bleeding edge one (arch). Then you have to decide whether you want it to be a rolling release (tumbleweed) or a fixed point release distribution (fedora).

There’s a lot more that could be said about each of these distros, but they all have KDE sessions.

This would kill the fun for everyone but the best. SBMM is there to protect casuals and new players, aka 90% of players.

I guess guidelines are a decent start, the part that’s gonna be tricky is getting the gaming industry to follow them.

The problem with this line of thinking is that it applies to literally anything: “If you’re not comfortable, don’t let your kids smoke”. A lot of parents are shit or just don’t care to micromanage their kids’ life. That’s where the government needs to step in and decide what is ok for the kids to be exposed to or not.

Parents ultimately always have the veto choice, but whether Roblox is appropriate for kids to begin with is the real crux of the issue. The CEO just doesn’t want that discussion to happen for obvious reasons.

I’m talking about the definition of the words “deep” and “shallow”, here.

Giving you choices does not add depth, it substracts it, the developers have to write twice as much content that you won’t see, and because they have to account for each choice the story is much stricter in how it can evolve. Choices and replayability are opposites to story depth.

Anyhow, my argument was more about the fact that they don’t delve beyond the surface of things much, even companions barely have a single questline each. It’s very much a theme park crpg, everything has to be short lived and interesting lest they bore the audience.

You really shouldn’t base your opinion on how other people perceive it, we’re in a bg3 thread, most people here see it positively - so do i for that matter, but any criticism here is gonna be met adversarially. It’s always weird interacting with a fanbase when 80% of ppl that started bg3 never finished it, most ppl here never really got the full experience.

a huge map with a 1000 pointless quests

Act 3 in bg3 is exactly that though. The game has huge pacing issues. The whole tadpole stuff goes completely limp halfway through act 1. Companions interactions die off after act 1. Act 2 is full of rewrites and undercooked content. The emperor was obviously added very late in game development and the story twist as a result is cheap as hell. There’s no bad guy path - most of the evil interactions are killing off people and effectively locking yourself out of content. I could go on…

I’ll take bg3, disco Elysium or mass effect over Skyrim any day of the week.

I too. That doesn’t mean bg3 is perfect by any stretch, it’s the epitome of a theme park crpg, and quite frankly your shallow ocean analogy too. One encounter with harpies, one encounter with owlbears, one encounter with fungi, one random dragon tossed in… Everything starts and ends in a flash.

The op did give an alternative, I can’t speak much for it however.

Baldur’s gate 3 barely has any character building after picking a class at the start. It really doesn’t feel you’re building a character so much as following a template. And worse, the classes are all very vanilla. Pathfinder wotr for example has much better character building, the mythic classes add a ton of depth and interesting interlacing.

The big problem about exploration in bg3 is that there’s just not much to do. Most dungeons are like a handful of rooms and that’s that. You go in, you talk to a few people, you do 1 combat and rarely 2 and go out. There’s no sprawling or sense of discovery. I’ll recommend Underrail for exploration.

I generally agree with his statement, bg3 is very simple in terms of character building and has shallow exploration/questing (particularly after act 1). But then again, that’s the case for most AAA games out there - they are made in a way that anyone can play them to the end.

Yeah there’s some romance, but there’s barely any sex. You can only romance one character at a time and there’s like one short cutscene per character, with some being a fade to black, in a 100 hour long game.

Good. Make them open their platform to third party stores. Make them open their bootloader.

Look at the thread we’re in, look at the top of the conversation. This is about people not being able to play.

Oh no, people not being able to play games for a few hours, please stop the suffering.

Why would you want them to be breached? The only people that are going to be negatively affected by that are the users who was involved in the breach.

Yes and no. Sony would face repercussions for lax security, and while it would indeed affect the consumers, Sony would be at the epicenter. Forgive me for not giving a shit to what happens to Sony, and if they did in fact get breached I’ll be there with some popcorn enjoying some Shadenfreude.

I hope they weren’t breached again.

That’s awfully nice of you, certainly not a hope I share.

Consoles have been pcs under the hood for a while, they could run pc games just fine, they choose not to. Sony could implement a browser for their 500$ walled garden, they choose not to. Sony could let you install another OS on the PS5, they choose not to.

Premium currencies are just very anti-consumer, I’m sure you know most of the arguments against it so I won’t reiterate them.

GGG are great developers, but their sales department is as predatory as every other game, FOMO sales, lootboxes, premium currencies, supporter packs… Not being p2w (the standard on pc btw) is really the only good thing you can say about their current monetization.

There’s plenty to explore for sure, and the 3 acts will give most people a run for their money, but the game is incomplete, literally missing half the campaign. The missing weapons and skill gems means you actually don’t have many options that aren’t railroaded, there’s also going to be a lot of balance fixes and probably item drop buffs; EA is never the best time to start a game.

Given you don’t pay extra for EA and premium stuff like stash space you buy goes to both PoE1 and 2, you get quite a bit for your early access ticket.

Most new players buying into EA are not going to stick around. Also fuck premium currencies, this shit is manipulative as hell, not to mention it makes refunds needlessly complicated.

Well that’s how poe2 is usually described, i personally have never played any of the souls game so i can’t attest to the similarity. Poe2 is a lot more boss centric.

The dodge roll has its niche: avoid boss mechanics. You can spam it so it doesn’t provide any movement advantage, i think it gives iframes on targeted attacks, but you can still get hit by AOEs. However, because you can’t attack while rolling you want to avoid doing it unless you really need to.