Jakob Fel

As long as it still feels like TES and as long as it’s not even as hard as Elden Ring (which, as I hear, is supposedly the “easiest” FromSoft game but is still too challenging), I’m open to trying it. In general, I wish they’d just give us Skyrim’s combat with some tweaks; it’s the best combat in the series, in my opinion.

I’m not saying we need the dice roll system. I just don’t want a complicated time-based system that doesn’t feel grounded.

The problem is the style, not just the difficulty. I don’t like the whole timed parry system. It’s alright if it’s akin to Witcher 3 where the blocks are timed but not impossibly so, and where you’re given other means of fighting than parry-strike-repeat… Even then though, as much as I love that game, I like TES combat. Its simplicity makes it grounded and its feel is still somewhat rooted in the dungeon crawlers that made TES what it is.

I’ll never understand the hate, it feels to me like the hate comes from outsiders who weren’t long-term fans and what the series to be what it’s not.

TES combat may be plain but I’d take a grounded and easy to grasp combat system over hair-tearing frustration. There’s a reason I don’t buy soulslikes. I like to enjoy and unwind with video games, not torture myself until I ‘git gud’. Soulslike combat will utterly ruin this remake for me.

Hardly comparable. The bag wasn’t the centerpiece, it was barely even advertised in the first place… and people whined because an ancillary feature of a much larger package wasn’t the material they wanted. That seems awfully pathetic and vain to me.

That whole canvas bag thing was a load of crap. “Ouh, my bag wasn’t in the material I wanted it to be in. I’m gonna throw a tantrum and sue the company.”

I’m very excited for this project, but what concerns me are the lack of color in those screenshots and the rumor that it’s gonna have soulslike combat. I do not want soulslike combat. We don’t need soulslike combat in every freaking game.

You really do, you just don’t want to admit it. It’s okay, you don’t have to be angry at God. Just let go.

Delusion isn’t a good look!

True. Another part of the problem is that a lot of people don’t find any joy in seeing others happy, even if they don’t really get it. We should start being happier about others finding happiness, especially when that happiness is found in simple and wholesome things.

Bloated? How so?

I’ve been using it (and its predecessor OpenOffice) for the last decade and a half, and I haven’t looked back. It does literally everything I need it to do and then some. One of the best examples of just how good open source software can be.

This is especially true for the aspects of LibreOffice that she’s going to use most.

Well said. A lot of people just don’t get it, which is sad.

Yeah, a lot of people don’t seem to understand just how valuable our retro game collection can be. A lot of people think it’s just about holding onto the past, but it’s more than that. Not to mention the fact that the games you really loved for the consoles you really loved can hold very deep sentimental value that you shouldn’t be forced to give up.

There are boatloads of things that we don’t have tangible, irrefutable evidence for, yet we believe in. It’s called faith. You have faith in things, you just don’t want to admit it. And just because I have faith in things that you don’t doesn’t mean that I don’t have the right to have that faith.

I’d love to set up emulation on my phone but I don’t have a controller for my phone and I have a Steam Deck for portable emulation. Still, using the actual hardware is ideal, I just wish I knew where my DS and its charger went!

Not my fault some folks look for every possible reason to hate on people they don’t like.

I can definitely relate, similar experiences were my initial reason for getting a controller for myself. I ended up becoming a controller geek, though. Right now, I have a PS3 DualShock clone, a Logitech controller with DualShock ergonomics but Xbox face buttons, and then I have retro controllers for Sega Genesis and the SNES. Looking to expand beyond that eventually but virtually any game type works flawlessly with that setup haha

Oh gotcha, did you try messing with Steam Input to see if you can sorta force that game to work with one?

Did you seriously just do the Ackchyually meme?