Reading your post makes me want to do another playthrough. Should I play the remake again? Or try the original? I'm thinking original because it looks hella different and I like older graphics anyway.
I have never played the remake, but from what little I have seen it looks like they butchered the aesthetics. Remake Wander looks sad and pathetic (and brown?), whereas in the original he looks stoically determined. The remake environments look like they have a dark greenish hue, whereas the original had more natural colors and was more bright.
SotC is only a few hours long so it'd be pretty easy to emulate it and tour through it over a couple afternoons.
Reading your post makes me want to do another playthrough. Should I play the remake again? Or try the original? I'm thinking original because it looks hella different and I like older graphics anyway.
I have never played the remake, but from what little I have seen it looks like they butchered the aesthetics. Remake Wander looks sad and pathetic (and brown?), whereas in the original he looks stoically determined. The remake environments look like they have a dark greenish hue, whereas the original had more natural colors and was more bright.
SotC is only a few hours long so it'd be pretty easy to emulate it and tour through it over a couple afternoons.
So you fit shapes so they form a straight line, big whoop. Something that quickly loses its appeal unless you're severely lacking in other things to do.
Skyrim, without a doubt.
It's as popular as Minecraft and a hundred times as bad of a game.
Skyrim is very good. I had dozens of hours of fun playing it on Xbox 360, and then dozens more playing on PC with mods. I think it wasn't until the 100 hour mark that it began to lose me, but 100 hours of fun is a great bargain. There are many games that are 100+ hours long but few that are 100 hours of fun. It's just great to be able to pick a direction, walk there surrounded bv the vertical rocky mountains or tall trees, walking besides a stream, listening to Jeremy Soule's atmospheric music, falling snow effects, a huge red moon and an aurora in the background, etc. Combat is very basic but straightforward and not difficult or confusing, just press or hold left mouse click. You don't have to worry about a rotation or combos or if your build is good, unlike say KCD where the combat is very technically difficult and frustrating. Also unlike KCD, Skyrim's world is much more visually interesting with the different biomes, different regional styles, the different types of mobs you face, etc.
I can see it being disappointing from a hardcore CRPG fan's point of view if they were expecting more choice & consequence, more combat depth and build stuff, etc.
The world is almost entirely boring brown wastelands. Draw distance is far too short unmodded. Ugly textures and modelling. A lot of the towns are samey boxy mud hut buildings. There is not that much enemy variety, as you are usually either fighting the samey pterodactyl cliff racers, skeleton summons, or dark elves. The game does not explain its mechanics at character creation and it is easy to screw yourself if you do not know ahead of time what race to pick and stats to invest into. Clicking a Cliff Racer 20 times only to hit once is not fun. Having to constantly pause the game to equip your teleport ring to port to bed, sleep, and then port back like you are playing sleep simulator is not fun.
Most characters talk like wikipedia pages or history textbooks, spewing paragraphs of lore and information at you. This is something that Oblivion and Skyrim did better because they were voice acted, forcing the writers to trim the fat and keep NPC dialogues short and to the point and sane.
There are a lot of other issues. On the positive, the designs of the dark elves and their stuff was somewhat novel (not a fan of the poor mudhut aesthetic or the grungy ugly lizards, though), and I liked that there was some verisimilitude with there being multiple different mage and thieves guild branches across the different towns, and the Telvaani subfactions with the five different wizards you could apprentice to and do their questline and gain rep with.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the Last of Us.
The topic is the most overrated, meaning a game that has more fame than it deserves.
I see a lot of good games that are perhaps more popular than they should. Skyrim is still a good pick because the popularity is just out of this world. But then there's the Last of Us. A game that did nothing particularly well, had a lot of woke **** in it, and its only a "masterpiece" to mongoloid woketards or children who play it when they were young and this was their first time experiencing a story that tugs at your heartstrings by forcing a surrogate father and daughter relationship on the player.
The Last of Us has been ported over and remastered more times than it deserves (and in a very short time spam too!) and it even got a ******* HBO live action series.
To me, this is the very definition of "overrated", so much to the point that it became the blue print for the so called "Sony Movie Game-slop".
Zoomers treat this thing like it were more important than the works of Shakespeare and Ovid's Metamorphosis combined. It's the single most significant media event that ever occurred in their lifetime.
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If people don't start paying attention to the thread name and picking their MOST overrated game I am going to start handing out IP bans. Val this is your fault, edit your posts accordingly.
Zoomers treat this thing like it were more important than the works of Shakespeare and Ovid's Metamorphosis combined. It's the single most significant media event that ever occurred in their lifetime.
I don't understand this. It logically makes no sense. Why would an industry that is so pozzed and gay make a game like this and charge $50 for it and embarrass the entire rest of their own industry? You saw the dev team photos where there is not a single bluehair, ******, fatty, or ****** right? In France of all places? You think the western game industry is behind that? If they are, it sure sounds to me like we won, when a few years ago we would get **** like "I can't believe a dev team looks like this in 2021..." from Jewson Cryer
I don't understand this. It logically makes no sense. Why would an industry that is so pozzed and gay make a game like this and charge $50 for it and embarrass the entire rest of their own industry? You saw the dev team photos where there is not a single bluehair, ******, fatty, or ****** right? In France of all places? You think the western game industry is behind that? If they are, it sure sounds to me like we won, when a few years ago we would get **** like "I can't believe a dev team looks like this in 2021..." from Jewson Cryer
I don't understand this. It logically makes no sense. Why would an industry that is so pozzed and gay make a game like this and charge $50 for it and embarrass the entire rest of their own industry? You saw the dev team photos where there is not a single bluehair, ******, fatty, or ****** right? In France of all places? You think the western game industry is behind that? If they are, it sure sounds to me like we won, when a few years ago we would get **** like "I can't believe a dev team looks like this in 2021..." from Jewson Cryer
It's to redefine what indie means.
So the industry intentionally embarrassed the **** out of their own selves with a game that cost a fraction of the rest of their pozzed **** and yet sold many times more and is regarded much higher, all to redefine an inconsequential label? Who benefits here exactly?
We don't need to derail the thread with this though I'm not even denying that it's overrated because it's rated so highly that it kinda has to be overrated by default
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Oblivion – Disgusting graphics (even for its time), terrible voice acting, boomer soundtrack, reddit dialogues, terrible main quest and worst boss fight/lore rape i have ever seen
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I don't understand this. It logically makes no sense. Why would an industry that is so pozzed and gay make a game like this and charge $50 for it and embarrass the entire rest of their own industry? You saw the dev team photos where there is not a single bluehair, ******, fatty, or ****** right? In France of all places? You think the western game industry is behind that? If they are, it sure sounds to me like we won, when a few years ago we would get **** like "I can't believe a dev team looks like this in 2021..." from Jewson Cryer
E33 had Jennifer English and Anita Sarkeesian (one of the OG gamergate feminists) in it
"I'm so straight I could suck a dick and it wouldn't be gay."
I don't understand this. It logically makes no sense. Why would an industry that is so pozzed and gay make a game like this and charge $50 for it and embarrass the entire rest of their own industry? You saw the dev team photos where there is not a single bluehair, ******, fatty, or ****** right? In France of all places? You think the western game industry is behind that? If they are, it sure sounds to me like we won, when a few years ago we would get **** like "I can't believe a dev team looks like this in 2021..." from Jewson Cryer
E33 had Jennifer English and Anita Sarkeesian (one of the OG gamergate feminists) in it
Anita Sarkesian was not involved in E33 at all. She met a handful of the devs at some public event a year after release. Jennifer English isn't ****, Charlie Cox and Andy Serkis cost more but the games budget was still only 10 million.
They're not in genres I enjoy, but IRL friends hyped them up so incredibly much that I eventually tried them out. Hollow Knight and Balatro. Just not my type of games.
I don't understand this. It logically makes no sense. Why would an industry that is so pozzed and gay make a game like this and charge $50 for it and embarrass the entire rest of their own industry? You saw the dev team photos where there is not a single bluehair, ******, fatty, or ****** right? In France of all places? You think the western game industry is behind that? If they are, it sure sounds to me like we won, when a few years ago we would get **** like "I can't believe a dev team looks like this in 2021..." from Jewson Cryer
E33 had Jennifer English and Anita Sarkeesian (one of the OG gamergate feminists) in it
Anita Sarkesian was not involved in E33 at all. She met a handful of the devs at some public event a year after release. Jennifer English isn't ****, Charlie Cox and Andy Serkis cost more but the games budget was still only 10 million.
True. I just view one shred of libtardation as a precedent to infect the entire studio. Look what happened to every other company who let people like this in.
"I'm so straight I could suck a dick and it wouldn't be gay."
E33 had Jennifer English and Anita Sarkeesian (one of the OG gamergate feminists) in it
Anita Sarkesian was not involved in E33 at all. She met a handful of the devs at some public event a year after release. Jennifer English isn't ****, Charlie Cox and Andy Serkis cost more but the games budget was still only 10 million.
True. I just view one shred of libtardation as a precedent to infect the entire studio. Look what happened to every other company who let people like this in.
I agree but the Anita link to the E33 devs is just not there, it's ******** made by seething ******* who already hate the game. It was some public game dev event, she took a picture that looks like she's photobombing it with half of her face cut out standing in the corner, with a few of the devs who are not the CEO or anyone very important, captioned "I got to meet some E33 devs". Also, again, this was a year after the game came out
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I can't believe no one has mentioned the Last of Us.
The topic is the most overrated, meaning a game that has more fame than it deserves.
I see a lot of good games that are perhaps more popular than they should. Skyrim is still a good pick because the popularity is just out of this world. But then there's the Last of Us. A game that did nothing particularly well, had a lot of woke **** in it, and its only a "masterpiece" to mongoloid woketards or children who play it when they were young and this was their first time experiencing a story that tugs at your heartstrings by forcing a surrogate father and daughter relationship on the player.
The Last of Us has been ported over and remastered more times than it deserves (and in a very short time spam too!) and it even got a ******* HBO live action series.
To me, this is the very definition of "overrated", so much to the point that it became the blue print for the so called "Sony Movie Game-slop".
Don't forget the 'game' part. You are certainly correct about the overrated part, but I always had the impression The Last of Us was more of an 'activity' than a game.
Anita Sarkesian was not involved in E33 at all. She met a handful of the devs at some public event a year after release. Jennifer English isn't ****, Charlie Cox and Andy Serkis cost more but the games budget was still only 10 million.
True. I just view one shred of libtardation as a precedent to infect the entire studio. Look what happened to every other company who let people like this in.
I agree but the Anita link to the E33 devs is just not there, it's ******** made by seething ******* who already hate the game. It was some public game dev event, she took a picture that looks like she's photobombing it with half of her face cut out standing in the corner, with a few of the devs who are not the CEO or anyone very important, captioned "I got to meet some E33 devs". Also, again, this was a year after the game came out
Yeah, E33 kinda just feels like another industry plant to me but I might be wrong. I know I have friends who love the **** out of it, but Idk if it's for me tbh
"I'm so straight I could suck a dick and it wouldn't be gay."
Oblivion – Disgusting graphics (even for its time), terrible voice acting, boomer soundtrack, reddit dialogues, terrible main quest and worst boss fight/lore rape i have ever seen
