Into the Starfield: Made for Wanderers
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Creation Engine 2. They redid a lot of the technology in it (Rendering, animation, etc) but obviously it'll still be built on the same DNA that lets their open worlds function as they do with full mod support.
According to them, it's their biggest tech jump since the transition from Morrowind to Oblivion.
Yeah, I think thats one of the main reasons I haven't been watching these.
Awesome, just got way more hyped. Now all I need is a Series X.
Goddammit.
I'm a massive Beth head. Having a kid obsessed with PlayStation I just accepted I wouldn't play any more of their games when MS bought them. But after years of not letting their games hype me up, the Activision purchase convinced my kid to ask for an Xbox for his birthday so now I can finally get back into being hyped over this game.
I'm a massive Beth head. Having a kid obsessed with PlayStation I just accepted I wouldn't play any more of their games when MS bought them. But after years of not letting their games hype me up, the Activision purchase convinced my kid to ask for an Xbox for his birthday so now I can finally get back into being hyped over this game.
Wait, the source is Bethesda...? Re: 'They redid a lot of the technology in it (Rendering, animation, etc)'
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This game is shaping up to be absolutely incredible and most likely one of the defining games of this generation.
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You will probably be able to leave them anywhere, also I doubt they say anything unless you talk to them. That's how Skyrim was.
Yeah I'd assume it would be like their past games and you won't even have to take them if you don't want to. Or even get them in the first place.
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That'd be great
You're right. If i remember correctly Fallout 4 also did that
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I would actually like it if the robot companion talked to you a bit, maybe you can tell it to mute itself but having a robot with a sense a humor explore with you would be amazing IMO.
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Todd Howard On Joining Xbox
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Also I believe we saw in a job listing or linkedin profile the mention they dropped Havok for their own new solution.
Nope that true next gen goodness is starting right here. Even so this is just a taste of how TES6 will be.
They kind of mention wanting to get back to their roots mechanically there for a second but I'm not sure what that means. A new dialogue mini game is nice.... is it governed by a stat? Can I game it every time?
And having the world "react" to you.... that could mean anything. Is that me picking a faction and suddenly a banner is blue or red, with the blue guys running around my crib, is that reactivity? Did you hear about the fight near the docks last night? They say it's pirates again. I don't know anything about that. Good day.
Exploring is fun and that could be enough for me, if the loot table is interesting or at least large. I always felt like the loot table in Fallout 4 was so shallow, you see everything in like 20 hours tops. These games are cherished for their longevity but you better be happy with your +4 upgraded club.
No mention of freedom during quests themselves, and the quest guy was right there, so.... maybe there's not much to speak on there.
The best thing I gleaned from this are the companions. Companions are awesome, and it is awesome when they talk and react to what's happening around you. Who among us hasn't dragged party members around in an RPG hoping to trigger some nugget of banter. Maybe the 10 million playthroughs with Lydia grunting her way through the dragonborn's quest has uhh given them some inspiration.
And having the world "react" to you.... that could mean anything. Is that me picking a faction and suddenly a banner is blue or red, with the blue guys running around my crib, is that reactivity? Did you hear about the fight near the docks last night? They say it's pirates again. I don't know anything about that. Good day.
Exploring is fun and that could be enough for me, if the loot table is interesting or at least large. I always felt like the loot table in Fallout 4 was so shallow, you see everything in like 20 hours tops. These games are cherished for their longevity but you better be happy with your +4 upgraded club.
No mention of freedom during quests themselves, and the quest guy was right there, so.... maybe there's not much to speak on there.
The best thing I gleaned from this are the companions. Companions are awesome, and it is awesome when they talk and react to what's happening around you. Who among us hasn't dragged party members around in an RPG hoping to trigger some nugget of banter. Maybe the 10 million playthroughs with Lydia grunting her way through the dragonborn's quest has uhh given them some inspiration.
I like the idea of being able to join factions with ulterior motives. Usually joining factions in games means your character is kinda forced to exclusively follow through with whatever agenda the faction you're joining has planned, but to be able to join and then be able to serve another faction by spying on the one you joined with actual consequences sounds pretty dope. I just hope it's not limited to "spying," like it'd be cool to be able to influence two factions to join forces and share resources rather than be at each other's throats.
Deeper companion interactions are also welcome, as are meaningful dialogue options especially after that disaster known as Fallout 4.
Deeper companion interactions are also welcome, as are meaningful dialogue options especially after that disaster known as Fallout 4.
Everything they have been saying about this game is music to my ears- I think it is going to turn out to be a really special game. You get the impression that getting a break from Fallout and Elder Scrolls has put a spring in their step.
Agreed. An 11-years-newer, current-gen-appropriate Skyrim that makes advances in AI and systems? Gimme it.
Skyrim is the most under-appreciated 30 million+ seller ever. One of the top couple dozen games in sales ever, and people reference it like it was a terrible broken mess. The fact that people love the Bethesda RPGS so much *despite* the crappy inventory and the bugs/jank and the flaws speaks to how special they actually are.
a lot of people forget how influential Skyrim was and still is, I still dive into it on a yearly basis and lose countless hours to it's gameplay loop.
I just hope you can't join every faction imaginable. It gets silly when you're the leader of the evil faction while simultaneously leading the good faction. It's nice they let you act bad to take certain factions down, but I hope you can't also just legitimately be a leader of opposing factions with no intent to choose between one or the other.
Why not? If it doesn't fit your character, you could always not choose it, too. One of the nice things about a Bethesda game is you don't necessarily have to start a whole new character to get a different perspective.
Another thing is it's hard to know which faction you really want to support. Or maybe as a player, you just want to see how everything is. Maybe you're trying alternative lives for your character, etc. As someone who gets very immersed in things, I also keep my view of my character quite malleable and I'm always changing little things. I don't see my character as set in stone, but as something I'm always molding. Maybe I encounter something in one faction I put into my characters backstory, etc.
By having player option, it allows you to choose what path is right for you. In Skyrim, I skipped a lot of stories because they did not fit my Assassin/Thief character. I didn't even do the main story because my character was hardly good.
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I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't make roleplay sense then don't do it but give me the option.
How BGS modernize & evolve some of their mechanics, can't wait to see how Avowed will evolve too. FNV structure is GOAT but their are some flaws.
POE2 is not perfect too, especially on the main story, not so much big reactivity for the main quest. But the world building is incredible.
I think Living lands is the perfect setting to make something like FNV and in more ambitious way. Opportunity to enhance the experience.
POE2 is not perfect too, especially on the main story, not so much big reactivity for the main quest. But the world building is incredible.
I think Living lands is the perfect setting to make something like FNV and in more ambitious way. Opportunity to enhance the experience.
Sure, but the 'openness' comes as across (often, at least) as being at cross-purposes with the intent of role-playing.
Skyrim went about it by having the 'requirements' to join the various guilds being so non-existent (save for the one mage guild shield usage) that one could become everything - the lack of inherent 'morality' there helps, but even so, it's a little odd being the listener, fighter's guild champion, guildmaster of the thieves guild, etc...
Fallout 4, having morality, went about it by letting you cozy up to each group....right until they inevitably ask you to murder/destroy every other group - which then ruins the illusion of having a 'choice' in the first place, since it's (barring the minute-men), a zero-sum game.
IMO there's a better way than either of the above, but I'm not sure what it is, aside from designing the factions in a way that keeps them relevant to the story (if desired), but doesn't require a 'pick one and that's it', no peacekeeper/maker option' solution.
I appreciate the effort, but listening to a bunch of leads tell each other how great their game is in mostly non-specific terms is such a weird and outdated move.
Show the game. Let people make up their own minds and then talk about it. Gamers will almost always focus on other stuff than whatever developers think is important.
Show the game. Let people make up their own minds and then talk about it. Gamers will almost always focus on other stuff than whatever developers think is important.
I don't think it's outdated, I think it's just how the industry has moved. In the past, you'd see screenshots and gameplay of a game first. Seeing alpha footage, early builds, etc was the norm. But we've moved past that, especially as fans expect everything shown pre-release to be a reflection of the final game. If it is rough, people will talk about that. If it's buggy people will talk about that. If content is cut, people will talk about that. People hold on to every thing a developer says as a promise.
In most Bethesda games you can choose to take a companion with you or not.
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