Any gamers around here?

[Munch]

No one likes escort missions, or quick time events.

Infact I feel like making a list of my 10 gaming peeves


Escort missions
Quick time events
Content locked by micro transactions
Bad ports on classic games
Grinding without a varied option to do so
Great graphics wasted on boring gameplay
The rule of cool (can apply to most other things but is worst in gaming)
Video games make kids turn violent bullshit
Water levels
How people don't realise what a c**t Mario really is.

[Mike Cl]

I already have Morrowind in my steam collection.  It is a classic in every sense of the word.  I can remember the first time I played and how confusion turned into pure joy!  Every few years I play it again--it is still fun.

[Munch]

I already have Morrowind in my steam collection.  It is a classic in every sense of the word.  I can remember the first time I played and how confusion turned into pure joy!  Every few years I play it again--it is still fun.

Argonians are hella sexy.

[Blackleaf]

Cliffracers are kinda fun, since there's constantly a threat literally loomng over you.  Not so fun during escort missions.  :(

Also, the questng system doesn't hold your hand.  Someone will tell you to clear out a bandit nest SW of Balmora and you're doing to have to figure out exactly where that is for yourself.  (It's intentionally vague so that you explore your surroundings more)

That and be careful who you kill.  You absolutely can botch the main quest.

And feel free to ask the natives plenty of questions, you never know what you'll find out.  But some topics will anger them.  Know your audience.

Cliffracers wouldn't be as annoying if they weren't littered all over the goddamn place. You can't take two steps without being assaulted by a cliffracer. They also seem to be the ONE ENEMY that continues to dodge your attacks, even when you're a high level.

I do like that Morrowind doesn't hold your hand as much, but I understand why that'd be a turnoff for some people. Unlike Skyrim, where quest givers just make a floating arrow appear on your map and compass, Morrowind quest givers actually give you directions, like in real life. They tell you to go this way, cross the bridge, take the second right towards Balmora, etc. And if there's a certain object you're tasked with collecting, the lack of a floating arrow telling you exactly where it is means you actually have to LOOK for it.

I also like that there are no essential NPCs, and you can't just become the guild master of every guild after doing the bare minimum to prove yourself to them. Some factions are opposed to one another. One guild might give you a quest that involves killing members of another guild, which obviously results in that other guild being rather displeased with you and kicking you out. Personally, I like how Morrowind and Oblivion did guilds, where you slowly build yourself up through the ranks, where your relevant skills actually factor into how far the guild will let you go. Skyrim's guilds were awful by comparison. You go from zero to guild master like nothing. You can become the Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold without mastering a single magical school. You, the new student who has contributed barely anything to the college, who knows nothing, the headmaster of the school because you...killed the bad guy? How does that make any sense?

[Blackleaf]

Speaking of The Elder Scrolls, I've been playing the new free-to-play game, Blades. It's in Early Access now, so I don't think it's available to the general public yet. Let me just save you guys the time. Don't bother with it. While the gameplay itself has some potential to be fun, it is very much what I would describe as being pay-to-win. The game is designed from top to bottom to try to force you to buy their in-game currency. Most of your loot comes from chests, of which you can only open one at a time, and how long they take to open depends on their rarity. Wooden chests, the most common type, open in five seconds. But silver chests take three hours to open, and gold chests take six hours to open. You can only hold ten chests at a time, and those slots will fill up quick. So you'll be forced to either wait several hours, opening the game occasionally only to open a chest and start the next one, or paying gems to open them instantly. While you can get gems through normal gameplay, they are very rare, and not nearly common enough for a player to avoid buying them to enjoy the game. When you level up, sometimes the game will tempt you with a limited time offer for a legendary weapon, which is absolutely OP compared to the weapons you'll find in normal gameplay. These weapons costs several thousands of gems. To give you an idea of how crazy that is, I've been playing for several days now, and I'm only in the double digits. Most of my gems were given to me at the start of the game, and they're getting increasingly more rare as I go. Which means, if you want to have any hope in the PvP mode of the game, you will have to spend money on these legendary weapons.

Loot isn't the only thing the game tries to get you to spend money on, either. The game has the player show up to their childhood town, ruined by mysterious circumstances, and it is your sole responsibility to name and rebuild that town by yourself. While the idea of building your own city sounds cool in concept, it isn't fun. You build a building by collecting supplies in quests (or paying gems in place of those supplies), selecting a lot (or two for vendors), commit those resources plus gold, and then you wait for that building to be constructed. Construction time seems to vary, but some buildings can take several hours to finish. Or, as you might have guessed, you can pay gems to instantly finish construction. Since there are no buildings in this city before you make them, that means no vendors to sell your unwanted stuff to. And these vendors have limited gold, which repletes each day. So unless you want to collect the lumber, limestone, copper, and gold for a blacksmith so you can tell your three extra iron shields and make some room in your inventory, you're going to have to pay up.

Bethesda is being absolutely predatory with this game. It's not totally surprising after Fallout 76, but this is not the way to regain your fans' trust.

Edit: And I just realized that tempering and repairing gear has a timer attached to it too, because heaven forbid we be able to do a single fucking thing without having to pay gems to avoid waiting to play the fucking game.

[Hydra009]

I am playing Morrowind using OpenMW (a different game engine running Morrowind)

HUGE quality of life improvement.  Much more responsive, less buggy/glitchy.

Now, to add some mods...

[Shiranu]

Speaking of RPGs, I decided to get Kingdom Come: Deliverance since it was on sale. So far... it seems pretty damn cool, honestly. It is very much an RPG in the old-school sense, and the main character is literally just a peasant with no skills and no reputation and is treated exactly like that, which is a fun shift from being some divine saviour type character.


Edit: Also, it takes place in a very meticulously historically accurate 1400s Czech society, which is pretty dope... minus the English accents.

[trdsf]

Argonians are hella sexy.

The nitpicker in me has to object to mammalian nipples on what appears to be a lizard... oh well, it's a fantasy world, '*handwave* "Because!"' is an acceptable explanation there.  :D

[Blackleaf]

The nitpicker in me has to object to mammalian nipples on what appears to be a lizard... oh well, it's a fantasy world, '*handwave* "Because!"' is an acceptable explanation there.  :D

There is an in-universe explanation for that. Argonians can actually take on several different forms. The sap of the Hist trees of their homeland of Black Marsh has the power to change their physical form, even changing sexes. According to some sources, Argonians hatch as quadrupedal lizards, and later transform into their more humanoid forms after drinking the sap. So basically, the lizard nipples are just the Hist helping them to fit in with the humans.

[Hydra009]

On second thought, Morrowind is a really dated game with lots of minor nuisances like the cliffracers, the questlog, and the overly complex dialogue options.

To be honest, I'd prefer a game where I can just have fun straight away without needing to download mods and just mess around without any convoluted roleplaying.  A game that just works.

A friend of mine at work got me a copy of Fallout 76, so I'm going to try that instead.  Some of the monsters looked pretty interesting.  And besides, most of its problems are probably patched by now.

[trdsf]

There is an in-universe explanation for that. Argonians can actually take on several different forms. The sap of the Hist trees of their homeland of Black Marsh has the power to change their physical form, even changing sexes. According to some sources, Argonians hatch as quadrupedal lizards, and later transform into their more humanoid forms after drinking the sap. So basically, the lizard nipples are just the Hist helping them to fit in with the humans.

In a weird way,  I'm pleased that there's an in-universe explanation for reptilian nipples.

And that's another sentence I never thought I'd have to type.

[Blackleaf]

On second thought, Morrowind is a really dated game with lots of minor nuisances like the cliffracers, the questlog, and the overly complex dialogue options.

To be honest, I'd prefer a game where I can just have fun straight away without needing to download mods and just mess around without any convoluted roleplaying.  A game that just works.

A friend of mine at work got me a copy of Fallout 76, so I'm going to try that instead.  Some of the monsters looked pretty interesting.  And besides, most of its problems are probably patched by now.

*Looks at calendar*

Yep.

[Sal1981]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-wZ4xWpLc

[Hydra009]

I have a quick question:  who is playing these games that really needs to have a rapid, seamless transition from device to device to device?  It's not like I need to play Borderlands while doing the laundry, walking the dog, using the bathroom, and driving to work.  That's just too much Borderlands.  Borderlands needs borders, okay?

I love gaming as much as the next guy, but I really don't need to cram it into every quiet moment of my life.

Plus, I'm pretty sure the US's ailing internet infrastructure is just not up to the task of rapid, seamless transition from device to device.  Sometimes, I can't even get YouTube videos to load.  It just does that loading circle thing endlessly.  And that's with a wired broadband connection.  Good luck streaming that monstrosity.

[Munch]

I have a quick question:  who is playing these games that really needs to have a rapid, seamless transition from device to device to device?  It's not like I need to play Borderlands while doing the laundry, walking the dog, using the bathroom, and driving to work.  That's just too much Borderlands.  Borderlands needs borders, okay?

I love gaming as much as the next guy, but I really don't need to cram it into every quiet moment of my life.

Plus, I'm pretty sure the US's ailing internet infrastructure is just not up to the task of rapidly, seamless transition from device to device.  Sometimes, I can't even get YouTube videos to load.  It just does that loading circle thing endlessly.  And that's with a wired broadband connection.  Good luck streaming that monstrosity.

yeeeaah, thats the problem with consumerism today, these companies pile on the addiction of it. I remember back in the 00s, online games would sometimes give you messages like to remember the outside world, go out and get off the pc sometimes, take a break.
companies these days rarely want you to do that, they want you to consume every minute of your day in their product.

I play games on my pc because when sat on my chair with my keyboard or control pad, I can get lost in the element then, before I come out of it and do things in real life, to take a break from it and make it more meaningful when coming back to it.

I like drinking cider, but would't want to do it every minute of the day. I like treating myself to some nice chocolates, but couldn't every day because of, well, my condition. And I don't need to rot my brain on escapism gameplay every minute of the day. This is why the only games on my phone are word and puzzle games when i need something to do, not witcher 3