if RPGs have done this plenty of times, then it’s not a new idea, and why are we talking about it in the context of the new ideas starfield had?
people replay games for the gameplay. bethesda wanted a game you could replay for the story, and then have it still work as a story when the player deliberately sequence breaks everything because of their omniscience
i know but i’m roleplaying a semi-informed fan
i think it’s fair to say that at least a portion of bethesda’s reputation is built off that game
I don’t even mean I wouldn’t trust Obsidian. I mean I wouldn’t trust the specific team they had working on New Vegas, which was an absurdly stacked deck that they seemingly haven’t been able to re-create since.
Films you can re-watch twice and have it be just as good the second time are rare. Bethesda wanted a film you could rewatch ten times while simultaneously larping as a cosmic god and trying to break everything you could.
Dark Souls lore seems deeper than it is because it’s less coherently presented than in TES.
All the new ideas in Starfield fall into one of two categories:
The Bethesda response to fans saying their main storyline was trash was to make a game where the main storyline is the primary focus and draw of the game? That’s a bold move.
The NG+ stuff is a cool idea, but again, Bethesda just fundamentally lacks the talent to implement it. You can’t hit what they were aiming for with a handful of gimmicks. I wouldn’t even trust the team behind New Vegas, or whoever writes at Larian, to do it justice.
It feels like Skyrim was the game they’d (and by they I mean Todd) always wanted to make, and Skyrim was the first time they had the resources and technology available to make it more or less exactly as they envisaged.
Fallout 4 probably would’ve been in the exact same situation of the technology finally catching up to their ideas, except they completely botched the landing by adding in voiced characters.
From my own sources: Taylor is indeed done, and not just on Twitch.
it’s a level 2 meme
meme 1
meme 2
less of a meme, more a video that surfaced of a police officer trying to execute a handcuffed man because an acorn fell on the roof of his car and he thought it was a gunshot and later had to resign
meme 1 + 2
taylor swift in private jet drop acorn out of window, land on police car roof, scare police, lead to bodycam video
why is he waiting on you hand-and-foot if all you’re doing is sipping a coffee?
it’s next to the time ghost, to the right of 3 tuesdays ago
powerful isn’t the same as well-structured
it was written to be a language that anybody could read or write as well as english, which just like every other time that’s been tried, results in a language that’s exactly as anal about grammar as C or Python except now it’s impossible to remember what that structure is because adding anything to the language to make that easier is forbidden
when you write a language where its designers were so keen for it to remain human readable that they made deleting all rows in a table the default action, i don’t think “well structured” can be used to describe it
“exposes your wild hyperbole” lmao
your argument is that all these organisations are successively: setting up shop, attempting to compete with steam, and then failing, should be all the proof you need that steam has a monopoly on the PC market
comcast doesn’t have less of a monopoly on internet just because google fiber exists in one city somewhere
steam is a monopoly
they’re engaging in price fixing, which is pretty much by definition monopolistic activity, by denying publishers the ability to price games lower on other distribution platforms
if ea, the otherwise second largest distributor on the platform, can’t compete without crawling its way back to steam, then it’s pretty clearly a monopoly
counterpoint: shouldn’t we let them have more laundered advertising?
sql syntax doesn’t support even itself correctly i fail to see your point
if you don’t believe that adding more structure to the absolute maniacal catastrophe that is sql is a good thing then i’m going to start to have doubts about your authenticity as a human being
they were too well camouflaged so the tank crew couldn’t see them and backed over them reversing out of the drive
how would your reputation carry over when nobody in the universe knows who you are? it sounds like you’re just inventing a new thing you have to grind