Sly Boots wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2024 3:39 pm

In other words, because modders abandoned the game already, Bethesda is forced to fix everything itself for once

Weirdly the Creation tools aren't even out yet.

Along similar lines Bethesda just announced what is coming in the first big Starfield update since release. Coming May 15th. Headlines are: the ability to change the difficulty of combat, so you could make gun combat harder but ship combat easier for instance; massively improved surface maps; interi...

May!

Like I said, it's not as successful as Skyrim, especially in terms of keeping people playing but I don't think a drop off in players is an indication of a failed or unpopular game, most games drop off in a similar way. People rightly make a big deal of concurrent players as they are a good guide but...

It's hard to imagine anyone being that bothered about that :/ I think there will be plenty of people looking forward to it. Starfield is one of those games about which the agenda was set by the people who didn't like it and ignores the thousands of people who did like it. Because the general consen...

A load of old fanny I don't think this patch is really aimed at people playing on PC, they seem to have focused mostly on console stuff from what I have seen. Also I think the media, and by extension perhaps Bethesda, have done a poor job of communicating what this is. There seems to have been a ge...

It is a spectacularly bad patch. Considering the size of Bethesda their approach to quality control is mesmerisingly shit. They all know that the TV series is being made which could bring a revamped interest in a whole series of games the most recent of which (discounting FO76 because, well, it is ...

No Rest for the Wicked New ARPG from Moon Studios, the people behind Ori. It's been described as a cross between Diablo and a Soulslike but it mostly avoids ARPG staples. The world is handmade rather than procedural, combat is very considered a feels a lot like a Souls game. The only thing they tak...

April's round-up. A little late as I was busy most of Easter weekend.

I think it makes sense as everything is stored on the Battlenet servers.

Yikes, the reviews I’ve read gave no mention of microtransactions whatsoever. Looking at metacritic, people aren’t happy. Really not sure about picking this one up after FF7, not least because I didn’t get on with the first Dragon’s Dogma at all. Yep, the big issue with DD2 is that they implemented...

Sly Boots wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Lol... 6 weeks after release this is discounted by nearly 50% on Steam

Still £30 too much.

Backpack Battles A really fun inventory management autobattler. I played a fair bit of the demo last year and was looking forward to seeing what they added for the Early Access release and it was a fair amount. There are two extra classes and a ton of new items. I do love a good autobattler, I put ...

Yeah, open world games when done right are fine, they're not to blame for anything. There's a massive demand for them, a lot of gamers prefer them to shorter, linear, story-lead games. Or at the very least want to experience them along side each other. They used to be priced very reasonably on PC t...

Open world games have a lot to answer for and are I think one of the main drivers behind the increase in the cost of games. It you are not spending masses of resources on making a huge open world you are trying to fill your game with loads of things to do in order to compete in terms of bang for buc...