Xbox Game Studios |OT12| The One with Starfield and Activision Blizzard King

[Kals_Els]

@Mort

Haha, same. It’s like I know most of these words but…

Pretty much this, but without getting hit back.

[Kals_Els]

Country house - ESO

Housing is too OP.

Sakura Japanese House

[Mort]

@Kals_Els

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Housing is too OP.

Stop making me want to play a game I don’t have time for!

[Shadowgasm]

@Mort

Stop making me want to play a game I don’t have time for!

I was about to say the same thing.

[Astrakan]

@Shadowgasm

I disagree completely. I love the physics system and how every item is treated in the world. I get that some of you don’t care about it, but these things are why I and millions of other people like BGS games. Just let us have the few games that give us these things. You can go play the hundreds and thousands of other games that don’t.

100 %

It may seem like no big deal to those who don’t care about it, but I’m completely serious when I say the persistent world and the ability to manipulate so many objects in the game is a major reason why I have over 500 hours in Starfield, and expect hundreds more.

I’ve probably spent 100 hours just building and decorating outposts. Once we can fully decorate the inside of our ships I’ll probably spend the same amount doing that.

My personal gameplay loop is to do a bunch of quests and activities, then do some random exploration and do whatever encounters I stumble upon, then do some ship or outpost building, and then head back to quests. Not necessarily in that order, or on a strict schedule, but my point is that by simplifying the physics system you’ve effectively killed a third of the game for me.

So yes, please, leave Britn-- Bethesda alone! You can have all the Witchers and Red Dead Redemptions and Cyberpunks and whatever else, just please leave some of us to enjoy this one little corner of micromanagement gaming nirvana.

[Kals_Els]

@Mort

Stop making me want to play a game I don’t have time for!

I’m trying too! In all seriousness housing is hard, it takes a lot of time, gold and playing through the game to get all the stuff you would need to make these houses.

It looks incredible when others do it, but I’m just living in a snow globe with all the furniture I’ve collected that doesn’t even match.

[Resist]

@pg2g

Many people will question how much that adds to the game, versus what you lose for the added complexity. I think much of what we consider unique to BGS games isn’t much of a value add to most people playing the games. I’m sure many of the systems are key to the mod community though, so maybe it is important for the longevity of the game.

I think there is a real chance that we see TES6 and Witcher 4 hit in the same time frame, and well… Lol

How do we determine this, though? Their games are the most popular in the genre lol.

[Andodalf]

@pg2g

Many people will question how much that adds to the game, versus what you lose for the added complexity. I think much of what we consider unique to BGS games isn’t much of a value add to most people playing the games. I’m sure many of the systems are key to the mod community though, so maybe it is important for the longevity of the game.

I think there is a real chance that we see TES6 and Witcher 4 hit in the same time frame, and well… Lol

Oblivion has a more lively and interactive world than Witcher 3, they are completely different types of games.

Additionally, Bethesda has made it clear that the majority of players do not play with mods. Their importance to the games success and longevity is very overblown

[CallMeCraig]

https://twitter.com/dprien/status/1750928263499948301

big loss. wasnt part of the layoffs, he left on his own.

[JonnJonzz]

Personally, I see Obsidian, Bethesda, CD Projekt Red, all doing their own thing and RPG gaming is better for it.

This is just a very simplified thing Obsidian prioritizes Pen & Paper roleplaying where you could kill a main player, then have a whole new story come out of it.

Bethesda likes their games in a way as an immersive sim, where you could place something or kill someone, then come back to that same spot 400 hours later to find what you did still being there without respawning something else.

CD Projekt Red makes their RPGs more cinematic, in that they are more action orientated, what I mean by that is you really have to think on the fly, how you respond to what is happening.

Now I understand this is doing a bad service to them and it would take a lot longer to go over the differences, but I enjoy all of these RPG developers, so in my opinion I see no reason we need to compare them to each other or have them be competitors.

Why can’t they all do their own thing and enjoy them for that?

[Cairnst (Bill Cairns)]

@pg2g

Many people will question how much that adds to the game, versus what you lose for the added complexity. I think much of what we consider unique to BGS games isn’t much of a value add to most people playing the games. I’m sure many of the systems are key to the mod community though, so maybe it is important for the longevity of the game.

I think there is a real chance that we see TES6 and Witcher 4 hit in the same time frame, and well… Lol

I’m not so sure I’d agree, I think the worlds Bethesda build is one of the big parta of their appeal and all the little elements of interactivity and world simulation is a big part of what makes them feel so alive and worth exploring - and I think the success of these games show just how much this adds to the people playing them.

I always say that being able to rob a shopkeeper by blocking their vision with a bucket is a perfect example of what makes a Bethesda game special - this goofy little intersection of all these systems combine to create an exploit that was talked about and shared by so many people when the game was first out. No other game out there where you can do this sort of thing.

[Kals_Els]

"Skyrim's magic system is bad."

I see combos like this with magic and sometimes I really consider trying them out, but too often I forget part way through and just pick up a greatsword and just start swing.

Edit: this is freaking hilarious!

Most realistic dodge roll mod

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@Kals_Els

…Watching parsing videos for StamSorc and just shaking my head at the ridiculous 139k-142k damage on the dummy.

Meanwhile I change up 2 of my sets and my main StamSorc is back as my top character with 97k, could probably hit harder once I golden Nirn and Zaan. Maybe even change Unfathomable to something else, then again that I’m likely to back to Red Mountain and Mora’s Whispers just because with Unfathomable they happen to be my favorite sets vsiusally(Mora is just for the shoulders). Power creep is good. a8233967-9083-46ee-842f-a254467390611920×1080 375 KB

I really need to start playing with a party again… been a casual ESO player for years now and my main is a wee baby compared to all that

[Kals_Els]

@Knottian

I really need to start playing with a party again… been a casual ESO player for years now and my main is a wee baby compared to all that

I myself play solo and just do random dungeons, I’ve done some DLC dungeons on vet with randoms, but some of them are way too much for me. Only reason I have Zaan is because it finally showed up on Goldies inventory.

I don’t know if I will ever actually try joining groups for clearing though as that’s not really what I play the game for, but I always see people advising that joining a guild is the way to go.

[KakkaKarrotKake]

@Kals_Els

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I see combos like this with magic and sometimes I really consider trying them out, but too often I forget part way through and just pick up a greatsword and just start swing. Edit: this is freaking hilarious!

I basically never use magic builds in the games, I always end up using bows/daggers/stealth but this video makes me want to try it out

[Kals_Els]

@KakkaKarrotKake

I basically never use magic builds in the games, I always end up using bows/daggers/stealth but this video makes me want to try it out

When I do use magic builds, usually I specialize because it can be very easy to just throw a fireball and lock any enemies movement.

I have also heard some complaints about destruction not keeping up with weapons. But that’s mostly because weapons can get a lot if crossover over with a lot of skill trees.

[biglo25]

you know i can tell that ms doesn’t use youtube ads because the halo tv series views are inflated by ads on youtube thanks to paramount while ms/xbox games barely have views over a million views sometimes and the “newer” highest viewed game is MSFS 2024 Trailer outside of showcases and directs

[Freed]

@biglo25

you know i can tell that ms doesn’t use youtube ads because the halo tv series views are inflated by ads on youtube thanks to paramount while ms/xbox games barely have views over a million views sometimes and the “newer” highest viewed game is MSFS 2024 Trailer outside of showcases and directs

I’m always surprised by how high the views for Flight Sim are. It’s a big game played by millions, with incredible technology and visuals that look quite literally like real life, but you can’t count it or consider it as a great game by Xbox.

[KakkaKarrotKake]

@Freed

I’m always surprised by how high the views for Flight Sim are. It’s a big game played by millions, with incredible technology and visuals that look quite literally like real life, but you can’t count it or consider it as a great game by Xbox.

It’s because it’s not a “real game” /s

I do think the new version will funnily enough be more gamey, it’s adding things that a more casual player might be into like actual rescue jobs and missions vs just flying around

[strawman]

Really interested to learn who is the new Blizzard boss. Announcement tomorrow?