As you will as well at some point in time...
Naw, kids always think they're immortal. It's kinda cute. They start to outgrow it with the first major injury or situation that doesn't just heal up or fix quickly.
What the heck is wrong with all the whiners on here?
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Naw, kids always think they're immortal. It's kinda cute. They start to outgrow it with the first major injury or situation that doesn't just heal up or fix quickly.
I'm still overjoyed that we now have bookmarks and module storage! Lol
I love Elite Dangerous.
On You Tube.
On You Tube.
Bethesda titles are notorious for bugs and glitches and I never played them. The first Bethesda title I played was Oblivion. I'm looking back to the days of Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Tomb Raider, Descent and so on. Before the trend of fixing games post release really took hold. Even Electronic Arts managed to release games that didn't require a series of fairly major updates to be playable. Batman Arkham Knight, despite being a great game, was an absolute disaster on PC and was pulled altogether. It has since had a major overhaul and is how it should have been at release, but it's taken them months to fix it. That never used to be the case, regardless of the type of spectacles you might wear.
Does it actually say that in the TOS, or are you just presenting your own prejudiced interpretation of the purpose of these forums?
Randomized outcomes for consistent behavior is the apex of ignorant abusive and disgusting game design. RNG has its place - on the back end. When the top level experience is determined by RNG, you're no longer playing a game you're just getting jerked around by a machine. In a top-level RNG system there is no such thing as "putting in the effort" nor is there such a thing as "wanting things handed to you". These concepts are meaningless because there's no such thing as doing a good job or a bad job, no such thing as success or failure. You as the player only have one role: to show up. Everything else is out of your hands.
It's not a play mechanics, or a challenge, or a puzzle. It's a barrier which randomly exists for some and not for others at different times. It's Schroedinger's Fun. It's a Stochastic Wall.
Why must we keep circling back to this single, fundamental failure to grasp the very simple reality that random outcomes and handouts are wholly unrelated concepts. They are not directly opposing views in which the exclusion of one mandates the other. Any reasoning that determines that dissatisfaction with RNG inherently means wanting "handouts" is not only entirely wrong, but fundamentally delusional.
It's getting hard to believe at this point that this argument keeps being made with any shred of intellectual honesty.
Gods, Descent... drove my eyes crazy but surely sharpened my sense of 3D fluid movement & geometry.
I still dabble with God's now and again. It's a flashback that makes me smile ; -)
'Prejudiced' ?
Look, it's a fair comment: constructive criticism is welcome because it's, you know, constructive. There's a sort of clue in the name.
But if all you want to do is moan and whinge then off to Reddit you go. Tatty bye.
I'd pay real money for a remastered Decent and Decent 2 on something like the PS4. I've still got the PS1 versions but the graphics are just eye-wateringly bad on a high-res LCD screen. CRTs were much more forgiving in this respect.
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This logic is so flawed I'm not even sure where to start. Acquiring a probe does not involve "gameplay". It's literally sit at a specific spot for an indeterminate amount of time (anywhere from 30 minutes to several days) until the signal source spawns for you. You really see no flaws in this "gameplay"? This is what you deem fun? I don't think the probes need to be so easy to get that anyone can get one in 5 minutes, but can we get some actual gameplay systems involved here? something more interesting than "throttle down, put netflix on the other screen, and settle in for hours of waiting"? Can you seriously not see why some people are complaining about how this has been implemented?
Bethesda have taken risks and created some amazing and immersive game worlds. An unfortunate side effect is a rather larger than average bug list. Broken quests, glitchy AI and the occasional crash. Sound familiar?
But I'll take that in return for 1000s of hours of enjoyment.
What amazes me is that people think that these threads which "finger-wag" at other people to stop complaining is actually going to have any effect at all. Why do you bother? Don`t you realise it does nothing except maybe make you feel better in your mind?
Just ignore a whining thread, like depriving fire of oxygen it kills it faster.
Also what you consider "whining" could be a very good complaint that needs looking into. If nobody complained, nothing would have the potential to be even better.
What happens when you find something you feel justly ok to complain about, should I post a whole thread telling you to shut up? You ask for someone`s right to complain to be taken away, they can then ask for YOUR right to complain be taken away. It works both ways, m8.
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Words of wisdom. [yesnod]
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Hi, I will be on over the weekend, and happy to pass one on to you
If you don't find one then Friend me in game and send some comms chatter my way o7
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Every time someone brings up the excuse of "there's bugs because our game is so big, innovative, etc" I point to Witcher 3. CD Projekt Red makes games that look better, run better, have far less bugs at launch, no DRM, DLC's that have enough meat on them that they could almost be a full game on their own, and just generally more customer-friendly. They get the job done. No excuses.
This is a very valid point. I don't see people asking to be given free stuff every time they take off here, it's about the player's ability to influence their chances of obtaining the item; essentially player agency. You can put that item behind a skill wall rather than one built on random chance and you're still restricting supply but rather than the restriction being one that the player is helpless to influence (your options currently being confined to 'sit and wait' or 'give up and do something else') it becomes one that actually provides entertainment and through it satisfaction in itself.
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Yep, I like TES but it's not a "good" game. I like the lore, Morrowind was/is a cult classic, Oblivion was fun if a bit generic. Skyrim... Skyrim was bland, stale and as generic as you can possibly imagine. I mean, they even went so far as to retcon dragons so they could get the "ERMAGERD DRAGUNZ!?" crowd.
Add to that it was still glitchy, unstable and run like a shetland poney with its legs sawed off at the knee's on release.
Yep, this is a big complaint of mine and it is often met with the asinine "You just want a WIN button huh?". No, I want the game to reward me for getting better at it.
A great case in point is the current bounty hunting CG. There is no skill involved with this, I just sit idle in a RES until something insignifcant spawns and I blow it away. Which seems to happen on average every 10mins.
The limit to my reward will be the games willingness to spawn NPC's for me to kill, not my ability to kill them.
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Exactly! Time-gated content is the absolute laziest, worst way to measure a player's "progression". What kills me the most is that FDEV are smart enough to implement the Stellar Forge which can procedurally generate an entire galaxy based on real science. These are some brilliant guys, but for whatever reason they just can't seem to get the little things right. It's like they have the tech guys, but they need some proper game design experts or something, I dunno.
I bring it up because, in my estimation, there are games that are worth playing despite their flaws. It's not an excuse, it's a judgement call on my part. Others will disagree yet continue to play this game for 100s or 1000s of hours. That's why this thread is at 15 pages and still going strong.
Witcher 3 was brilliant. But you know what? I'm done with it because I completed the story mode.
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