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Re: The Elder Scrolls VI Is Not in Development, Says Bethesda

TheGZeus

If they can give me the freedom and lore of TES and the quality and detail of W3's world, I'll be happy.
If they pull a Fallout 4 (voiced protagonist, limited dialogue options, linear gameplay etc) with VI, I'll just play more Morrowind and Daggerfall.
Skyrim was a good blank slate to mod into shape, but I don't feel like buying a new computer every time they release a new game only to spend days modding the imbalance and bugs out and fun into it.
I cannot be bothered any more. Morrowind needs like 6 little gameplay fixes, and some aesthetic bumps, and Daggerfall...I just like Daggerfall, despite it's many, many problems.
I have 16 gigs of mods for Skyrim. Takes adding survival mechanics to make traversing that map fun more than a few times. "Oh, so go to this cave and kill some Draugr and/or bandits? Oh, vampires this time? Wow." Then save files slowly becoming unusable due to basic software design problems...
I was sceptical of W3 having a fixed protagonist and a focus on the campaign, but what's there is so good, and there's just so much to do while you're doing main quest that I'll take the next CDPR game over another Skyrim or Fallout 4.
Skyrim got me into modern (post 2000) RPGs, but in the face of so many options (even the Saturday morning cartoon that ESO is), I don't know that I care about the next bethsoft game so much.

Re: Review: Aragami (PS4)

TheGZeus

"...can result in instant failure".
That results in me not caring about this game.
I'm not big into stealth games, even got bored with Dishonored. (In no small part to finding the story to just get in the way, and the morality system to be rubbish)
I despise being told that I'm some mind of mystical force of awesome, but I have no chance of success if anyone notices me.

Re: Download Your Free PlayStation Plus Games Now

TheGZeus

After all the praise, I was shocked by how much I hated Devastation.
The way it feels, the lack of weight to movement and attacks, the number of things mapped to L1, the tutorials interrupting gameplay, the slow-motion that kicks in when I'd have preferred to just dodge...
It looks and sounds cool, but in my brief stint with it, it made me very unhappy to actually play.

Re: Battleborn's Probably Maybe Possibly Going Free-to-Play Soon

TheGZeus

@johncalmc I'm terrified that they'll stuff BL3 with microtransactions. It already has 3 currencies: $, Eridium and Golden Keys.
I'm even more afraid they'll make it some kind of Destiny clone.
I've always solo'd Borderlands games. I dislike the tons of bullet sponge enemies that spawn ib co-op, and dealing with more people not interested in RP(yeah, I RP in BL. I'm weird like that). If they push multiplayer more, I'll write it off.
TPS was balanced for a full party, so solo was a chore at times.
Gearbox is... Gearbox.

Re: Poll: Will You Be Buying a PS4 Pro?

TheGZeus

I'd actually be more likely to consider it if they hadn't launched it so cheap without first dropping the price of the original units further.
I paid the same price months ago.
I can't help but feel a bit cheated.

Re: Toukiden 2's Opening Movie Will Get You in the Mood for Some Demon Slaying

TheGZeus

If this looks interesting, do yourself a favour and set up a Japanese PSN account and play the demo.
In my experience while the mechanics are solid and it looks nice, it plays like a cheap free-to-play MMO encountering the same enemies over-and-over, quests with no depth...

I honestly think Kiwami is the better buy. Sure, it doesn't have an 'open world' but in this case that just means "a big map into which the quests spawn baddies". It's not dynamic in any way.

There are low-level trash mobs around, and anything worth hunting is spawned by quests which are basically "kill this because reasons".

The fixed maps with loading screens are at least honest about this and you don't have to backtrack when you finish.

This is a bold experiment that failed.

Maybe they wanted to make an MMO and it didn't work out...