Skyrim is bonkers shit. Just met a bear in a cabin by the river and I got its health down to where it had run off so I had a little snooze in the bed. Imagine my Goldilocks ass surprise when I wake up and the bear is back in the cabin awake and pretty pissed off. #Skyrim
I have restarted #Skyrim again for the umpteenth time as a break from #Fallout and #BG3 but still scratching that fantasy, elves and dragons and shit, itch. I'm playing as a Khajiit stealth archer (imaginative I know) but I'm just about to start the companions quest line, except that will make me a Werewolf Cat.
I wanted to like #Starfield , and I played it quite a bit. But ultimately, I found it lacking to, say, #Fallout 4 or #Skyrim . Here are some things I thought it fell short:
There isn't enough variety in enemy types. Mostly you just fight fellow humans with a variety of guns. The Starborn are a bit more interesting, but they also show up extremely rarely (apart from the Temple Guardians, and those are pushovers). Sometimes there are robots, which help a bit. And the alien creatures have some truly interesting varieties - but they are almost never inside the "dungeons" (i.e. facilities) themselves, and instead are an easily-avoidable obstacle on the overland map.
Outside of the handcrafted major settlement, the procedurally-placed facility placement is just... weird. Basically, the setting feels like the ultimate culmination of the American sprawl - everyone wants to put up shop as far away from anyone else as possible. Only instead of everyone having cars, everyone has spaceships. You never get the feeling that anyone interacts with their neighbors, or clusters together for companionship and mutual aid.
Also, because of this procedural placement, there is no reason to revisit the same region other than the handcrafted settlement twice. With Skyrim and Fallout 4, I developed a real sense of place as I gradually explored the map and discovered new nooks and crannies. But with Starfield, everything felt... disconnected.
The Alien Temples. God, those are boring - what was Bethesda thinking? The Dragon Walls in Skyrim fulfilled pretty much the same purpose, but they were always placed in interesting locations.
Could Starfield become a more interesting game with enough expansions and mods? Probably. But I'm not sure it will be able to reach the same heights as Skyrim and Fallout 4 did.
@thegamerstavern I will be playing #Skyrim one more time....after all these years. The endless story 😆 . I also feel tempted to give it a go to #fallout4 on the Steam Deck to see what this latest next-gen patch brings up. If time after that, maybe will continue with #oriwillofthewisps as my chill game. Have a good gaming weekend everyone #GamesFTW
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
I could've probably had the whole series of "The Real Barenziah" about 100 times now, but this one seems to be unobtainium. Where the heck do I find the other parts of this masterpiece? 🥴 #Skyrim#GamingOnLinux#gaming
In which Kendeshel defends a mad mage in the sewers beneath Solitude; also fights off two different dragons in the city; marries Rulnik Wind-Strider in Riften, and settles her family at Proudspire Manor; helps the East Empire Company reclaim Japhet's Folly; and acquires the Arms of Chaos to display with the relics in her museum.
I have an old PC and would like to try #Steam with #Proton. #Skyrim runs perfectly under Windows 10, under Fedora it crashes me "invalid adapter" directly at startup.
Happens with proton 8 and experimental.
In which the Dragonborns raid the Thalmor embassy, with very messy results, but get the information they rampaged in there for; and in which they rescue Esbern from the Ratway in Riften, and escort him back to Riverwood to rendezvous with Delphine.
Long overdue Skyrim Together post from early December.
Ce soir le Projet French Daggerfall, qui a pour ambition de traduire intégralement la version vanilla de #Daggerfall, est officiellement arrêté. Lancé en février 2000 il traduit 98% du jeu d'origine, et vu la manière dont celui-ci est codé, on ne fera jamais mieux. Merci à Aggelon, Ferital, Ancestral Ghost, Daneel53 et les autres qui ont porté le projet toutes ces années ! https://wiwiki.wiwiland.net/index.php?title=Daggerfall_:_Le_Projet_French_Daggerfall
Par ailleurs, son successeur, le PFDU pour #DaggerfallUnity, est lui bel et bien complété à 100%.
Moi-même associé au projet en pointillé les dix premières années (je dois être responsable de 3 ou 4% de la traduction du jeu, mais de 50% des débats débiles pour savoir comment il fallait traduire "ebony" ou "#Skyrim") je suis un peu touché de voir cette aventure, qui aura occupé un petit coin de mon esprit pendant près d'un quart de siècle, toucher à sa fin.
@BlackAzizAnansi Yep, my main gaming rig is a 2012 Mac Pro (the giant cheesegrater model) running Windows that’s been hotrodded a bit (upgraded 3D card) and will play almost anything still. “Starfield” finally got me 😂, been mostly playing older games lately, #Skyrim, #Cyberpunk2077, and my “solitaire” #WorldOfWarships
I love #Valheim and I picked up a Steam Deck so my daughter and I could play together. (She’s big into her Switch and we play #OverCooked together a bit)
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