RedEye9 wrote on Sep 2, 2024, 15:59:
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I thought you would have Cheat Engined it into submission.

Magic words RedEye9.

Constant progress in hacking elan: last games, finding x, y, z coordinates, just teleporting past obstacles, puzzles and tiresome distances.

So, maybe is time to revisit KCD ...

WannaLogAlready wrote on Sep 2, 2024, 15:54:
Honestly tried 3 or 4 times with mods aplenty, but found its world depressing and boring in its purposefully allowed obstacles.

My loss, I'm sure.
I'm not dumb as some to think that a game sucks, that it better fail and no more like it done, or somesuch idiocy just because it isn't to my personal likings.
I truly respect the kudos it has and wish the best for it.

Anyway, never lose hope, I *know* that someone will/could make a mod that will turn it stellar for me, just have to wait, or maybe a 5th try be a delight

I thought you would have Cheat Engined it into submission.

Honestly tried 3 or 4 times with mods aplenty, but found its world depressing and boring in its purposefully allowed obstacles.

My loss, I'm sure.
I'm not dumb as some to think that a game sucks, that it better fail and no more like it done, or somesuch idiocy just because it isn't to my personal likings.
I truly respect the kudos it has and wish the best for it.

Anyway, never lose hope, I *know* that someone will/could make a mod that will turn it stellar for me, just have to wait, or maybe a 5th try be a delight

Ah the one game that my rock solid prior build could not run for more than 10-15 minutes without it crashing. Every.Single.Time.

I'm not sure how every other past gen title worked without a hitch and this one could not. I blamed it on piss poor coding and after uninstalling, said I would never try it again. I did it give quite a few reinstall chances on the prior build. Nothing made a difference.

Bought the game shortly after it initially shipped, because the content was appealing, and it got rave reviews in the beginning. And then I discovered the save-game function was hobbled out of some sort of bizarre notion that creating artificial difficulty in game saving makes the game more of a "challenge"...;) Actually, doing that sort of stuff is piss-poor game design, as I completely agree with the people who don't like it. I've often skipped games entirely because of being limited to checkpoint saves, only. This game was worse than that with the silly potion-save gimmick, but even that wouldn't have been so bad had the potions been ubiquitous throughout the game instead of rarer than hen's teeth! The point of all games is fun. When a game becomes tedious to play because of poor mechanics, the "fun" is seriously degraded. Thanks to this post I may fire it up again, however, and put these mods into play as none of them existed when I bought the game originally.

InXile did the same thing with the Bard's Tale 4, as those of us in the kickstarter urged them to use a save-anywhere, anytime save-game function. And we were ignored, of course. I thought that was bizarre, especially since the original BT1 game allowed you to only save in the Adventurer's Guild. That meant if you were on level 22 of deep dungeon, in order to save the game you had to walk backwards from that level all the way back to the AG to save the game, and then when you started from a save you had to retrace your steps just to get back to where you had stopped playing at level 22...;) So you literally wound up spending as much or more time saving your game as in playing it! And you had to repeat this continuously from every save. So, after the BT4 shipped, it turned out InXile had to release a whole new version of the game because of various reasons, and according to the developers the most requested new feature for the game was a save-anywhere, anytime function! Duh...;) To be fair, though, the checkpoint save function in BT4 wasn't all that bad, really, but it still wasn't the best save-game function to develop for the game.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 1, 2024, 08:24:

El Pit wrote on Sep 1, 2024, 03:46:
As a bit of a movie buff, I have to ask: do they know how to play a banjo in medieval swamps?

Since the earliest recorded instance of a banjo-like instrument wasn't until 1621 and the origin of the banjo is in Africa...probably not.

HAHAHAHA... you, Sir (@El Pit), have just been edu-pwned or lore-fucked! Take your pick!

Conclusion: Less movies and moar history classes for you, dude. History buff > movie buff.

El Pit wrote on Sep 1, 2024, 03:46:
As a bit of a movie buff, I have to ask: do they know how to play a banjo in medieval swamps?

Since the earliest recorded instance of a banjo-like instrument wasn't until 1621 and the origin of the banjo is in Africa...probably not.

As a bit of a movie buff, I have to ask: do they know how to play a banjo in medieval swamps?

I found this a hidden gem type of game. I knew nothing about it and a friend recommended it on a sale weekend a year or two back. The story is solid and the medieval aspects are really immersive in my opinion.

Dang it. No time to try it due to slammy lifey.

I played the vanilla version of this game on the free Epic gamestore give away, and was underwhelmed. Seemed overly annoying, more than fun. Uninstalled after a couple hours.

That said, maybe I should try it with the mods mentioned here, sounds like it'd get rid of some of the tedium and time wasting aspects.

Cutter wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 21:40:
This was before the potion bullshit. So how exactly was I supposed to save? It has nothing to do with temperament, knowledge, or maturity and everything to do with a shitty design choice. You'd realize that if you had the temperament, knowledge, and maturity.

ya, they could have done the same thing as everyone else and then people would be bitching it is the same old same old. so they blocked save scumming to make consequences more relevant. some places it works other places it does not.

Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 18:31:

jdreyer wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 17:45:
Got this free from Epic, still haven't played it.

Reading reviews, it seems like a lot of work.

Does installing it and giving it 10 minutes also seem like a lot of work? The game immediately tells you what it is in those early impressions. You'll either immediately notice it's a fucking gem, or you're an idiot.

Jokes aside... not kidding though.

Bruh, that's 10 minutes I'm not playing Call of Duty.

This looks like a game that takes more than 10 minutes to get a sense of.

yonder wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 15:05:

Cutter wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 14:51:
The lack of saving was a supremely bad choice. I recall riding into an area and getting ganked by a group of bandits early on in the game. No save, and I lost a dozen hours worth of work. Ragequit and uninstalled.

Should have kept up with the patches, they fixed that quickly.

Then again, if you don't have the temperament, knowledge, and maturity to not go dozens of hours between saves then I'm comfortable saying this game isn't for you.

It's like my friend who got bored halfway through Chapter 1 of RDR2. the fact that it's an amazing game doesn't mean it's for everyone.

This was before the potion bullshit. So how exactly was I supposed to save? It has nothing to do with temperament, knowledge, or maturity and everything to do with a shitty design choice. You'd realize that if you had the temperament, knowledge, and maturity.

jdreyer wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 17:45:
Got this free from Epic, still haven't played it.

Reading reviews, it seems like a lot of work.

Does installing it and giving it 10 minutes also seem like a lot of work? The game immediately tells you what it is in those early impressions. You'll either immediately notice it's a fucking gem, or you're an idiot.

Jokes aside... not kidding though.

TherMight wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 10:48:
Does not appear free. $2.99 through sep 5 is what I see on steam when I click link on article

So there is Free, and Free Weekend. Know the difference.

Got this for free on Epic and just not enough Adderal to make me play it beyond 40 mins. I'd love to but damn it's alot of ye'old talking.

Got this free from Epic, still haven't played it.

Reading reviews, it seems like a lot of work.

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Cutter wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 14:51:
The lack of saving was a supremely bad choice. I recall riding into an area and getting ganked by a group of bandits early on in the game. No save, and I lost a dozen hours worth of work. Ragequit and uninstalled.

Should have kept up with the patches, they fixed that quickly.

Then again, if you don't have the temperament, knowledge, and maturity to not go dozens of hours between saves then I'm comfortable saying this game isn't for you.

It's like my friend who got bored halfway through Chapter 1 of RDR2. the fact that it's an amazing game doesn't mean it's for everyone.

The lack of saving was a supremely bad choice. I recall riding into an area and getting ganked by a group of bandits early on in the game. No save, and I lost a dozen hours worth of work. Ragequit and uninstalled.