Even this is a stretch to be honest. Their games aren’t easy to mod. Minor updates break shit. You need to consider mod load order. You need to “clean” the base files before loading in any big mods.

Their games are made of fucking speghetti code and they don’t care. They could fix it, but they don’t. They could clean their own base game files so this isn’t necessary, but they would rather force people into the ecosystems of Creation Club.

This is one point I contend with: Fallout 76 didn’t become good with patches. I’m not unconvinced that there’s a conspiracy for Bethesda to create the impression online that the game became good with updates.

That’s just me though.

There are some films I enjoy which are objectively bad, and that’s okay.

If people want to enjoy Bethesda games, it’s fine, each to their own.

However, if you want to talk about game design, there is a lot of evidence which supports the claim that Bethesda don’t know what makes a (objectively) good game anymore.

Unfortunately, Bethesda are the only ones in town who are capitalising on “Bethesda style games”. (With the exception of a few, like The Outer Worlds, and Cyberpunk 2077).

Bethesda’s strong suit is their physical world building - but everything else has been getting worse.

The running joke is that the players mod the game to fix after launch. Except it’s not a joke, and it’s really not funny when the devs actually expect the community to fix their game. They could simply pay someone to implement every single fix from the UFO4P and UESSP, but choose not to. They do not care about quality.

Who cares? Bethesda is long past the point of developing a good game.

They could take all the time in the world and it would still be shit because their formula for game development is pathetic.

I meant as a playable character.

Also, no, I didn’t play it lol. My last Assassins Creed game was Black Flag

I don’t think Ubi went “woke” but it does seem kinda disrespectful IMO.

Imagine if in Assassins Creed Origins, the main playable character was white. There would be an uproar.

For what Assassins Creed is worth (and it isn’t a lot, and hasn’t been for a long time), the stories are about the history of the country, as much as the people within it.

To take the perspective away from a native citizen betrays that intent. If Ubi wanted a “fish out of water” character, they should have continued to elaborate on Desmond’s story.

What does woke mean?

Have you seen the price of Square Enix games?

They need to pull their fucking heads in.

As long as Konami profits, the MGS franchise can fuck off, even if I love the series.

For what it’s worth, I totally get you.

Fallout 4 is a bad Fallout game. However, that doesn’t make it a bad game.

It would be silly for me to say I don’t like it on the grounds that it’s a bad Fallout game.

I simply don’t like Fallout 4, whether it’s part of the franchise or not.

“I don’t like it because it’s not like the original”

It’s a different game, with different mechanics.

By that logic, Metal Gear Rising is a very bad stealth game.

I’m fucking chubbed up.

“Oh fuck, that must mean something was there before, keep rolling perception checks, whatever it is must be around here somewhere”

whenever i hear this, my brain defaults to…

Oof.

ACKTHUALLY

My other post gave an answer which made sense.

I would want to know what moment in the future causes me the most stress, which I don’t need to worry about at all.

No paradoxes, just convenience.

Also, I wasn’t saying money making wouldn’t work, only that your future you would cease to exist because you would have changed things.

If you’re okay with suicide to offer your past self financial advice, then the same should be true of your future self.

Personally, erasing that timeline seems unacceptable.

I would ask my future self “what is the most stressful thing awaiting me on my future, which I shouldn’t worry about at all”.

This doesn’t change anything except my mental health is better off.

Everyone here is trying to make a quick buck, without thinking about whether it will work.

If they change the past, they will cease to exist, unless time is looped, which means nothing would have changed.

So the past is a dead end, and the future you should know this too, answering you will either make them vanish from existence, or answering you will not change anything.

If they vanish, there’s no guarantee you’ll be better off, even if you do become rich.

Yes you can, just that the past you can’t hear it.

It’s all about what sort of group you’re playing with. I run a group for some kids at my school and I know they would be heartbroken if I just straight up killed them.

I’ve only had to do this once though. I made it a lesson about caution. The player was being reckless, and they ‘died’. Seeing how distraught he was, I decided after the encounter, that the other players should roll for a perception check, and noticed the character still breathing slightly. It was nice to see the kid perk up immediately afterwards.