Your current game play-through
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Stickman393
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Does this count?
DGWVI
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My most recent game has been Fallout 76, but I'm kinda burnt out on it. Put a few hours into the Oblivion remaster, but got just as bored as I did in the original.
Trying to find something to dig into while I lay in bed. Been looking at Avowed and Dragon Age : Veilguard, but
Trying to find something to dig into while I lay in bed. Been looking at Avowed and Dragon Age : Veilguard, but
jessenator
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Sadly I think playing in the sandbox and never finishing the main quest has been Bethesda players instinct for nearly twenty years. Some argue it's just their design ethos, and I don't disagree. A critic I mostly like called it a "worrying statistic," something that was brought to bear in stunning display with
w/re: FOLON, I can neither confirm nor deny that the internet archive has the GOG version of FO4 GOTY, which simplifies it, AFAIK.
My next Everest will be getting Tale of Two Wastelands to install properly on Linux...
I'm giving into withdrawal from Mass Effect, but soon I'll do either RDR2 or Baldur's Gate III next. Though knowing myself, It'll probably be Spelunky or Binding of Isaac or Risk of Rain (2).
giovanni
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I haven’t played Starfield so I can’t comment on that. But I did play Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and I never finished any of them. Did that hurt my enjoyment of the games? Not at all, on the contrary I felt like I could freely explore the open world on my terms and stumble upon quests or quest items every now and then. I always felt like the exploration and all the small side quests were the most fun part of these games. I don’t see how that’s worrying? Now that I am replaying Oblivion I am enjoying the structure of the quests more than before and I can appreciate the game even more: I can still lose myself in the exploration but since my free time is more limited I enjoy “accomplishing” tasks when I play. I’m also older which probably contributes to what I enjoy in a game? I think the Bethesda games I played were all pretty balanced in terms of quests vs free exploration. Maybe Starfield was a bit more shallow in terms of structure?
cwsquared
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drgonzo1969
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I am currently playing Super Mario World with my daughter. She loves it. But we always get stuck on the same level I used to get stuck on when I was a kid. Butter Bridge 1. Well, I finally beat it yesterday! I am proud of myself. Not sure if I ever did that as a youngin. Always had to have a friend over to beat that level. On to Butter Bridge 2!
edit: well goddamnit guess who didn't save the game like a fukkin noob....
edit: well goddamnit guess who didn't save the game like a fukkin noob....
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jessenator
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Oh totally. I've played the h*ck out of Skyrim and FO4, doing the dungeon crawl with different builds, and I found so many side and unmarked quests in over multiple playthroughs. Not saying the games are unenjoyable by any stretch.
IMO, the civil war arc in Skyrim is meh, the Alduin ending is alright, if a bit anti-climactic with scaly boi himself, the buildup was decent enough. The Dragonborn DLC has a much better ending, I think. There's a great mod for the College of Winterhold which makes that a much more enjoyable experience---enhances the school and paces out the main quest line.
Fallout 4 is a game where I do need to switch my brain off, because the writing is so terrible. I think I'm just conditioned to never go to the institute ...ever. Its longevity/replayability can be enhanced through a few mods, mostly for the Minutemen, which makes them a bit cooler and less stupid. Also paces out Presto Gravy's incessant quest giving. Also, do yourself a favor and open the console to "set timescale to 2" to make the days stretch out. 20 is default IIRC, so even 10 will give you some more space, but just don't do 1! Ask me how I know...
As far as Starfield is concerned, I learned not to buy Bethesda games on launch, so I put it off to maybe a steam sale purchase. I saw reviews and turned to a few reviewers whose tastes mostly resemble my own and gave in; watched them. All 8 to 12 hours of them... (didn't play it. Sorry if my description was deceitful.) But while there are valid criticisms, there's a loooot of opinion, and one of them turned me off to the reviewer; just too bitter, and I don't need more of that.
However, if you can turn your brain off (similar to FO4, but not nearly as bad), the dungeon crawling looks great! Combat is vastly improved (except melee it seems). It's the connecting pieces that make you shake your head and say, why doesn't this work like No Man's Sky? The story, from memory isn't flat out nonsensical like FO4, but its payoff at the end is disappointing. At least in Skyrim the main villain is a known quantity and you feel a little satisfaction at his defeat.
Bricksnbeatles
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Been playing Super Mario 3D World and Bowsers Fury recently. Enjoying 3D World, but Bowser’s Fury is just okay so far. Seems like it was trying to do the open world thing that Odyssey has, but they didn’t really have the ideas worked out yet
Stickman393
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Ja. Meine Frau ist schön.
Never learned another language. Spanish would probably be more useful day to day. But I'm a stickman with roots in Germany, and the language has musical qualities that I quite like.
Plus, one day I wanna read Capital in its native tongue.
cwsquared
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Meine Frau ist auch schön.
Three years of Spanish in high school. Wanted to take German too, but apparently taking two vastly different languages at the same time is frowned upon.
Started taking German I in college, but met a girl in class and lost focus. Good times. Now I do it bit by bit in an app 20 years later. If I went with my roots, I should be doing Swedish.
At least I can pretty much understand Rammstein lyrics now.
Band of Dans
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Negative, but I picked it up during a recent steam sale and am looking forward to checking it out. I've never really gelled with deck-builder type stuff so it's been kind of an intimidating prospect.
OTOH, I've been playing a ton of Silksong lately, which is another game that's hard to enjoy without focused attention.
jessenator
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I would go so far as to say Fallout London is the 2nd best (21st century) Fallout game Bethesda never made.
It was a trying time to set up indeed. I was doing it on Linux, so I was already making it harder on myself, but h*ck off, Microslop. Ended up having to install an outdated version of GOG Galaxy in a dedicated WINE bottle and download/install it from there, but the biggest issue was checksum failures. Had to re-download the base game so many times…
Betty Wont
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I'm playing Trails Through Daybreak. A JRPG (#11 in the Kiseki series) I worked on the localization a couple of years ago. Dialog heavy, turn-based, large interconnected universe. Its quirky and horny in weird ways (you can dress your characters in swim suits and the girls are OBSESSED with each others' boobs. Lots of Japanese Lolitas teasing clueless dudes) And cooking/eating is a big part of the gameplay.
Feral Feline
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I just started the DuoLingo FRENCH, so I can converse with Stickman and CWSquared and still not understand...
jwyles90
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I caved and got a PS5 Pro when they announced the price hike (I'd been on the fence about getting one after I upgraded my tv a year or so ago) and have been playing through Ghost of Yotei lately. It's freakin sweet, and I feel like it's going to take me forever to actually finish the game since I keep finding myself stopping to take in the scenery/follow a chirping bird to a random side quest.