BicycleRepairMan wrote on Nov 9, 2023, 19:53:
I kinda got stuck in braid and never got back into it. But it was awesome.. and The Witness may be my favourite game of all time. I hope one day to see a third game from this guy , he is a genius.

He's too busy railing against "wokeness" on The Xhitter to work on a new game.

I'm sure some of the layoffs were people in the C-Suite, right? Right?

Are people still playing Diablo 4? Way to stay current, Melon.

The only thing I want to see from Bungie is a new Myth.

Xhitter Paywall


Well, bye.

Didn't Melon Musk fire some Twitter employees early on for tweets?

Xero wrote on Aug 3, 2023, 14:09:
I remember buying the original thinking it was going to be like Diablo back then, lol. I pull it out of the box. All 6 discs of soon to be Diablo glory! I was super hyped. I get into the game, a lot of dialogue... Okay no worries, action coming soon! Then I get to the combat and was like, wtf is this? lol. Just stand there trading hits, the information at the bottom indicating whether it was a hit or miss. I was like, no way am I going to get anywhere in this. I uninstalled it and never booted it up again.

While not my cup of tea, I know those who are into these, do indicate it is like the holy standard.

For some reason, I thought the same thing. I bought the game after just looking at the back of the box, thinking it was more Diablo. Initial disappointment gave way to hours of joy.

Jesus, is the music in the Dark Legions video in-game music? That hurt my brain.

Who thought this was a good idea?

"OpenAI threatens legal action..."

How horrible that someone is using their hard work without compensation or attribution.

When naming their games, studios should just stay away from adjectives like "Infinite" and "Forever". They seem to be cursed by the gods of irony.

That dungeon you start off in still stresses me out. I'm glad to see there's an option to skip it, but for nostalgia's sake, I went through it anyways. My inability to hit a damn rat is killing me.

Back in the day, I didn't really understand the leveling system. To level up, you have to use your primary (and I think secondary?) skills. I picked skills that were all combat related (the thing I didn't really enjoy in the game), so I hardly ever leveled up. I loved the quests for the various factions, but invariably you'd get one where they'd want you to go grab some feather or something from a random dungeon. The dungeons in this game are HUGE and randomly generated. Worst part of the game. It was such a relief when Morrowind came out and had tailored dungeons.

Oh yah, the clipping issues (and all of the other bugs) were annoying. Especially since it was in the pre-Internet days (at least, I didn't have access to it). But there wasn't anything like it, so it was fun. The thrill of discovery! Buying a horse and clip-clopping around the country. Joining a guild and rising through the ranks through quests (until they asked for an item from a dungeon).

I think the thing that made it the hardest for me, was I didn't quite get the leveling scheme. Now I realize I should have picked primary skills that were easier to increase, so I would have leveled more often and gotten more HP/MP. But back then, I didn't know that.

And that opening dungeon you had to escape from...

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Apr 26, 2022, 23:31:

ShakaUVM wrote on Apr 26, 2022, 21:43:
Daggerfall is the best Elder Scrolls game of all time, I super wish they'd do a cosmetic remake of it, without removing functionality. It had the largest world, the best magic item crafting system, the best spellcrafting system, and so forth, in all of the Elder Scrolls series, and was released in the mid 90s.

It's certainly unique and ambitious. Also completely broken with truly nightmarish dungeon design. Nevertheless, it's almost hypnotic to play, and I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I've finished the main quest (well both of them) three times.

I still have nightmares of those damn dungeons. It was always something like "Find the feather of infinite tickling in the dungeon to the west of town!" Ok, shouldn't be hard, right? Wrong I still hear those dungeon doors opening with a horrible squeal. Being killed by something due to the horrible combat mechanics (surely I can hit a damn rat?! ARGH!).

The most fun I had out of the game was breaking into shops, stealing everything, then coming back and selling everything to the merchants.

Loved this game back when it came out. Deathmatch was very fun, with the "spells" and all of their counters. The Citadel mode sounded cool, but didn't turn out that great. Shadar Logoth was suitably creepy in the single-player mode.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 6, 2022, 06:40:

Cutter wrote on Apr 5, 2022, 17:39:
Was just gonna scroll it but ended up watching the whole thing. Say what you want about their business practices with EGS that engine is seriously goddamned impressive. I was really amazed with their demonstration of their Lumen engine in the editor. That's just incredible lighting. Can't wait to see what CDPR does with it for this Weecher game.

Ditto. It's easy to see why CDPR went with this. The toolset and resources are pretty amazing. Making custom 3D objects with your phone?? Crazytown. I'm almost tempted to build something.

You can already do some decent photogrammetry with your phone. What that video didn't show was the tons of cleanup that's required. They went straight from taking the pictures to having a game-ready object in the engine.

Verno wrote on Feb 25, 2022, 09:32:

Cutter wrote on Feb 24, 2022, 22:03:
The "free" world needs to be attacking Russia cyber, conventional, nuclear! Russia first, China next!

This bizarre teenage level understanding of geopolitics is amusing but fails to see the realities of a post-nuclear winter world and the suffering that would ensue for all of humanity.

You should really try to learn something about the subject before making such silly statements.

It is odd how quickly some people jump to "Let's nuke 'em!". Despite my avatar, I don't want to play Fallout IRL.

Damn, thought I read Anachronox at first. Never mind.

Linthat22 wrote on Jun 4, 2020, 12:53:
Trump is going to dominate during his second run. Thank God!

Second term in prison? I think one life sentence will do, two would be excessive!

Cutter wrote on Jun 4, 2020, 12:36:
That is one sad looking werewolf.

I thought that was a dude in a dog costume.