Fuck Nintendo.

Edit: I’d be somehow interested in switch-like console and Nintendo exclusive games, but definitely not bundled with horse shit like that.

I can’t say one or the other globally. It is very much game dependent for me. There are open worlds that are just wonderful and it’s joy to play them and there are others whose world is empty and useless and that sucks.

One of the best executed open wolrds is old Gothic IMO (Gothic 2 is great too). Sure it’s probably ugly and bland by today standards, but the world is absolutely amazing. It’s completely open from the start, but player is so weak it is probably good idea to play semi-linear at the beginning. But nothing (except for tough enemies) stops you from exploring whatever and whenever you want. And there are tons and tons of things to explore. Hidden cave with loot? Shortcut connecting two roads? Place with very rare alchemy ingredient at the end of narrow valley? Shadowbeast lair? There is so much love put in there I still have cravings to play it even though it’s like quarter of century old game… Quite the same can be said for e.g. Morrowind which is another absolute gem from early 2000s.

But there are also open world games where open world either simply sucks or serves no purpose. I’d have to think about which games fall in there, because once it’s like this I tend to uninstall and forget the title…

Ekke ekke p-tang zoom boing!

I was looking at simple 2 bay home NAS and Synology was - quite logically - one of the contenders. Now I’m glad I ordered differently. Went with Asustor AS5402, which might be not as polished package as a Synology option, but they’re very open about it and say it’s just regular PC so you can instal e.g. TrueNAS if you want. This openness convinced me.

Morrowind is clearly and by far the best TES game ever made. It’s old and it shows, but this doesn’t take anything from the quality of the game. It has one of the best executed and most interesting worlds in any game I’ve played, it has great main story that is still just a scratch among other stories hidden throughout the Vvardenfell, and lastly the soundtrack… It’s epic when it needs to be epic, it’s calm when it needs to be calm, great melodies very well tied to different areas and parts of the game, it’s just awesome.

My favourite local (non english) source of gaming news rated game 6/10

Would that still be Morrowind?

Well, imagine Bethesda remaking Morrowind to mostly corridor walking sim since most side quests and all the optional stuff the game is filled with just cut out. Yeah, I don’t like the idea. And that’s exactly what I believe Bethesda is capable of.

They’d replace all the things that made Morrowind awesome for something dumbed down for casual player with attention span of week old puppy.

Yeah, I only play at PC and it’s really nothing to write home about.

I certainly hope so. And I also hope it won’t be butchered. KOTOR was amazing, but it’s tough to even start it these days and once you manage to run the game, the UI and controls are… pretty outdated to say the least. And I’m saying that as a person who finished original Fallout games recently and who plays other retro games regularly.

It’s an amazing game. Definitely go for it.

It’s like nothing I’ve played before. Closest match would be probably old Planescape Torment. Not that it’s vastly similar in gameplay, but more like novel style writing, deep lore, focus on narrative instead of action, … Both games are long, slow paced and both make you think. Highly recommend!

Well, it is net waste for the company at some point. AMD is supreme at CPU now, their lineup is awesome for years. But look at last few graphic card generations. When was the last time AMD really competed in enthusiast market? It’s been falling short for quite some time so now they admitted it, cut r&d cost and just skipped high end while focusing on most selling segment. And from the reviews it looks like it paid of as 9070 looks like a hell of an upgrade!

Don’t get me wrong. Nv having no opponent is not a win, because they can and will charge even more for their top of the range. But I’m just saying this was a good decision for AMD.

Well, I’m on the other side and am happy AMD don’t waste resources on high end cards. Vast majority of people use low to mid range cards anyway, so why waste millions to just compete with nvidia, while most enthusiast people will buy nv anyway (because dlss, rtx, whatever hurr durr)? It’s just waste of money for negligible returns. I don’t even know one single person in my social circle that would have 4k/120Hz display anyway. Most (basically everyone) has either 1080p/144 or 4k/60 and that’s mid range happy rodeo. I do have 1440p/144 and I feel like weirdo among my friends (why you need this?).

Since this came to effect, there’s nothing forbidding these authors to push update which has no new content except for maybe main menu “we’re still alive” sign…

Well, Tim Sweeny can suck his own wiener then. I have hundred(s) of games on Epic and I haven’t spent a dime there. And still won’t spend, because I have principles.

Yeah, better make another Concord…

Why should ot work? Most people will buy it for nostalgia reasons and “to play it again once the time’s right” and never actually manage to do so… /A bit of sarcasm with realization of how the world is

Oh come on! First Arma (Operation Flashpoint) had photorealistic graphics and played like a dream… That’s how I remembered it until I tried it 20 years later. Boy oh boy…

I started Wizardry 8 as my first one and it instantly became one of my favourites. Even though the story is somewhat continuation of 6 and 7, not knowing these is not a problem at all. It’s still interesting and well explained even for novice players. Much later I’ve tried both 6 and 7 and even though I felt I could like them and I even liked the hand made graphics, it was the user interface of the early 90s that was just too much for me.