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You watched a beaver take a shower!
*shudder*
You watched a beaver take a shower!
*shudder*
Oh, are they?Options are a Good Thing!
Yep, it was my tag line even back then—see post #8Oh, are they?
Options are awesome. I just now, moments ago, was deciding between 3 games and bought the one that talked about its wide array of options in the description of the game (Farthest Frontier).Oh, are they?
Options - Having Your Cake & Eating It, Too!
Options are a wonderful way to widen a game's appeal. Graphic options let you tailor a game's graphics to fit your system's capabilities and your own tastes (depth of field OFF!). Difficulty settings let you tailor the game to your own skills and even mood. Gameplay settings let you customize...forums.pcgamer.com
Agree with all that, but add 4X games into the lots of options category. I don't know Civ6 well enough yet, but it has loads. Civ4 BtS has approx:AAA games only options are usually Easy, Normal or Hard. Contact was a great exception
I'm an idiot, so take this for its full value (nothing), but certain traditional PC genres like 4X, cRPGs, and management tycoon games--for instance--I never really considered to be AAA. I always put them in their own category as just PC games, and this has persisted even after they've long since gone mainstream. I have to remind myself that most people lump them into the AAA category these days.Agree with all that, but add 4X games into the lots of options category. I don't know Civ6 well enough yet, but it has loads. Civ4 BtS has approx:
♣ 9 Difficulties;
♦ ~15 map types and 5-6 map sizes;
♥ ~20 civs and ~30 leaders to mix and match—you can even cross-mix, eg have Lincoln as leader of Egypt, or randomize leader personalities;
♠ Always war, always peace, peace but war possible;
♣ 7 victory conditions;
♦ At lease 4 major peaceful economy choices;
♥ Barbarians absent, present or raging;
♠ Start game in any of the eras;
♣ Tech trading and/or brokering allowed or not;
♦ Presence or absence of Vassal States, Tribal Villages, Perm Alliances, Random Events, Espionage;
♥ 4 game speeds;
♠ ~4 climate choices;
♣ However many opponents you want, random or chosen.
As far as I know, Firaxis balances the Civ games for a default set of conditions—ie 'Normal' everything'—and the options are there to supply a massive playground. Then we have all the mods…
But yeah, it's a difficult topic to reach any conclusions on
You can eventually get all the perks, etc. in Fallout 4 because there's no level cap. Personally, though, I liked how they did all of this in Fallout 76 where you could respec as much as you liked. Leveling was harder, but being able to create different set-ups was very fun.I've played some more Fallout 4 today, but I've started to get a bit bored with the game. Or maybe it's my built specifically. Most of my perk points have been spent on crafting, lockpicking, hacking and increasing the damage of my guns, but those perks don't really feel interesting. The only interesting perk I have is the one that allows you to hack robots, which has been pretty fun.
I've also gotten to the point where loot is mostly worthless. I've been exploring every nook and cranny of every location out of habit, but 90% of it is literally junk and I'm pretty sure I have more crafting supplies than I'll ever need. And since I put so many levels in crafting, I never find an upgrade to the weapons I already use. Even the legendary stuff I find is almost all useless. I only occasionally find some armour with better base stats than what I'm wearing and the occasional magazine, most of which feel pretty underwhelming as well.
I did finally make it to Diamond City and continued the main quest, which was surprisingly interesting. I can't remember the last time a Bethesda main quest actually made me want to see more of it instead of making me want to wander off into the wilderness. I might just grab my fat man and all the mini nukes I've found so far and rush through the main quest line, then either start a new character with a more interesting build or play a different game.
As a counter point to that article, there was this one:Looks like I was wrong (again). I haven't read this article because I'm avoiding spoilers, but I thought you might want to see it:
Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much
Everyone wants to bone and I'm shy.www.pcgamer.com
You can eventually get all the perks, etc. in Fallout 4 because there's no level cap. Personally, though, I liked how they did all of this in Fallout 76 where you could respec as much as you liked. Leveling was harder, but being able to create different set-ups was very fun.
By the way, you can respec in Fallout 4 with a console command if you don't mind cheating a little. It's not a simple respec command, though, you have to give yourself the individual perks and stats.
A better solution is probably the Quick Player Respec mod.
I've never tied my RP identity to a playstyle, so that feels kind of foreign to meThank you for the information, but for some reason the idea of respeccing my character now feels wrong. It clashes with my idea of who my character is and I can't change that in the middle of a game.
I think instead I'll try switching it up by bringing a gun with a suppressor with me, so I'll be able to sneak more. I put quite a lot of points in sneaking, but that doesn't help much if the entire area gets alerted as soon as I fire the first shot. It's good enough for sniping from a distance, but it doesn't work inside buildings most of the time.
I've never tied my RP identity to a playstyle, so that feels kind of foreign to me
Now, Baldur's Gate 3 has its respec system, but that just doesn't feel right for this drastic a change. I like to use the respec system to hone the finer points of a character build, attempting different variations of Paladin or combinations of Rogue and Ranger, but staying with a theme. When it comes to making a full 180 on a character, I have to get that clean break: not just my same guy as before, reconfigured, but a completely new guy. I don't know about you, but I like to make up backstories in my head for all my dudes, and I just couldn't reconcile shifting rails from John Q. Paladin to Thiefy McHunter on the same guy.
Oh, I know lots of people do it. Just not me. I like to be as flexible as possible and change my style up whenever the urge hits.It seems I'm not the only one who feels like this. From this article:
I started Baldur's Gate 3 over from scratch after 20 hours and I have no regrets
Confessions of a chronic re-roller.www.pcgamer.com
Another patch today.So much for the idea that huge, massively complex AAA games can't be patched quickly. Larian has patched BG3 twice today and 3 times since I bought the game a couple of days ago.
My first Far Cry 6 playthrus, you'll find posts from me dissing the sidearm as irrelevant & useless.Do you ever discover "the trick" for something in a game and think, "Wow, it's true. I actually am the biggest idiot."
Do you ever discover "the trick" for something in a game and think, "Wow, it's true. I actually am the biggest idiot."