Werthead Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 (edited) So for an entire chunk of the game Spoiler Alan Wake 2 turns into a perfectly solid rock opera. Edited November 11, 2023 by Werthead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horangi Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 (edited) On 11/10/2023 at 5:26 PM, Werthead said: (not as good as Starfield's caves, which are another level and possibly the best thing in the game) Really? I think I must be missing something, because it seems the caves I've seen are tiny two level ~doughnut shaped areas of one of four themes (standard dark boring, crystal latices, glowing fungus, or xenomorph themed) and contain a few resources and corpses of local planetary fauna and a single tiny box with credits. I've been expecting to find pirate bases, ancient alien ruins, actual xenomorphs or just something that takes longer then 15 seconds to scoop up resources and head out. Some are a bit prettier than the old Skyrim caves, but there just isnt anything to do in them. Are they procedurally generated unlike the human structures which I assume were hand crafted but then randomly distributed across the planets? Spoiler On the same note, I wonder why the power temples are so dull. The dragonborn power temples in Skyrim put them to shame even if the crypt theme did get a bit old after a while. Its just fly around in your ship until you hit a system with a temple, land, do the dumb floating puzzle and kill the starborn and thats it. [These are minor complaints for a game that overall is quite good, more ambitious, and certainly less bug filled at release] Edited November 13, 2023 by horangi Chilipep 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poobah Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 The Game Awards 2023 nominees have been announced. BG3 unsurprisingly nearly omnipresent. Starfield didn't even make it into the GotY shortlist. Alan Wake 2 getting a lot of love as well and I've heard nothing but praise but I'm waiting until my new PC build to give it a shot. I wouldn't be surprised to see Swen struggling to carry another stack of trophies though I could equally imagine a scenario where it's an either or on GotY or stack of lesser awards. Ran 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 (edited) 23 hours ago, horangi said: Really? I think I must be missing something, because it seems the caves I've seen are tiny two level ~doughnut shaped areas of one of four themes (standard dark boring, crystal latices, glowing fungus, or xenomorph themed) and contain a few resources and corpses of local planetary fauna and a single tiny box with credits. I've been expecting to find pirate bases, ancient alien ruins, actual xenomorphs or just something that takes longer then 15 seconds to scoop up resources and head out. Some are a bit prettier than the old Skyrim caves, but there just isnt anything to do in them. Are they procedurally generated unlike the human structures which I assume were hand crafted but then randomly distributed across the planets? Hide contents On the same note, I wonder why the power temples are so dull. The dragonborn power temples in Skyrim put them to shame even if the crypt theme did get a bit old after a while. Its just fly around in your ship until you hit a system with a temple, land, do the dumb floating puzzle and kill the starborn and thats it. [These are minor complaints for a game that overall is quite good, more ambitious, and certainly less bug filled at release] I enjoyed Starfield a lot, but I can't say that I noticed the caves being particularly impressive either. But I didn't do too much in the way of exploring random planets, so it's possible there was a lot I was missing there. Spoiler Absolutely agreed that the whole power template was dull and repetitive. I hated that stupid "catch the light" minigame, and I hated that my ship always landed like a kilometre away from the temple. The powers never seemed that useful, compared to shouts, so at a certain point I just stopped going for them. Since finishing Starfield, I tried out Hi-Fi Rush, which is a fun beat-em-up rhythm game. I enjoyed that aspect of it a lot, but got pretty bored with the level design/platforming after five or six levels. I then played Cocoon, which is a fantastic and mindbending indie puzzle game by the maker of Inside. The art and sound design are incredible, and for me the game hit the sweet spot of providing challenging puzzles but not so challenging that I needed to look things up or felt like beating my head against a wall. Highly recommended. Next up I'm trying to decide between another indie puzzle game, Sommerville, or replaying Prey for the first time in years, or trying one of the Yakuza games. Edited November 14, 2023 by Caligula_K3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted November 14, 2023 Author Share Posted November 14, 2023 55 minutes ago, Caligula_K3 said: I enjoyed Starfield a lot, but I can't say that I noticed the caves being particularly impressive either. But I didn't do too much in the way of exploring random planets, so it's possible there was a lot I was missing there. Hide contents Absolutely agreed that the whole power template was dull and repetitive. I hated that stupid "catch the light" minigame, and I hated that my ship always landed like a kilometre away from the temple. The powers never seemed that useful, compared to shouts, so at a certain point I just stopped going for them. Agreed about the powers. Probably the worst aspect of the game. Spoiler I eventually latched on to the one that deflects attacks and used it whenever things got tough, including in the final fight of the main quest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 On 11/13/2023 at 6:40 PM, Poobah said: The Game Awards 2023 nominees have been announced. Four noms for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, including Idris Elba as Solomon Reed -- though I gather the BG3 guy will likely win that one. Ser Rodrigo Belmonte II and Poobah 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Something wholesome and delightful for everyone on this wet, overcast morning: https://www.pcgamer.com/i-was-very-close-to-quitting-acting-full-stop-baldurs-gate-3s-astarion-says-he-was-saved-by-games-after-years-of-working-part-time-to-make-ends-meet/ Poobah and Caligula_K3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Rodrigo Belmonte II Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 Anyone played the fire emblem series ? I started with Awakening which was an amazing experience and thinking I’ll finally get a switch 2 when it comes out just for this series and Pokémon if it gets good again.Hope the switch 2 will be backwards compatible though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Yahtzee returns, with a new patron-supported site called Second Wind, with "Zero Punctuation" becoming "Fully Ramblomatic": IlyaP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 Meanwhile, I'm doing a playthrough of Daikatana with the 1.3 patch - this time with the companions rather than without. Even with the 1.3 patch, the scripting options and technology for NPC companions isn't great, but it is a 23? year old game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakasi Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 Looking forward to playing Rogue Trader soon. First foray into warhammer universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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