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I’m playing mainly western RPG’s like that, but I also couldn’t get into The Witcher. The gameplay is fine actually (I played way more clunky games with lots of enjoyment). But somehow Gerald just never clicked with me, causing me never to feel really connected to my character and to what’s happening.

It’s sad because I can notice how good the games are, but I just really cannot get into it.

Honestly most online games. I just prefer to game alone than with strangers or even friends. And while there are exceptions to the next point, I am well aware. But I also don’t feel like spending my free time having rando’s on the internet hate me for not being some awesome e-sporter, or be called a hacker when it does go well, as often seems to be how it goes. Like, I don’t get why people would spend their free time on something that just tends to make everything so negative. I have more fun things to do in my free time than get complained at… Honestly, the few online games I do like, you can play alone, and I mainly do, like ESO.

But one of the most loved games that I hate the most is GTA V. It’s so full of hackers it’s nearly impossible to do anything. Heck, I couldn’t even go buy a new outfit because some stupid guy was spawning shopping cards above everyones head causing the store to close and me to loose my whole selection of stuff I wanted to buy… Just why…

I also keep getting confused with the controlls somehow. Wanna get in your friends car picking you up? End up jumping on it’s roof or kicking it instead… It’s not that I can’t game. My hand-eye cordination might suck but that’s not even the issue here. I somehow just keep mixing everything up, while I’m fine with other games.

Been using Manjaro as my daily driver for ages. Tried a few others over the years but never found them comparably nice to use. Works out of the box, performs well incl in games, rolling release yet never had much stability issues, and access to the AUR.

That is, for my laptop and desktop ofc. Servers I wouldn’t run on it, at least no serious production ones. Not too important home servers maybe out of lazyness (I know this well, so easier to get stuff done).

Honestly for Skyrim I ate up the world building, lore, and freedom. And for that and the modding capabilities I have thousands of hours in the game. The questlines where fun enough, but the sidequests where meh and the gameplay too simplefied compared to previous games. I’d expect the next one to get even worse in that.

As a side note: I remember people theorising that it would be subtitled Redfall, since Bethesda had trademarked the name around the same time.

I also remember Todd later saying in an interview, after lot’s of speculation, that they had no idea yet for the game, basically debunking any speculation as just that.

I also thought the rumor was on trademarking “The Elder Scrolls: Redguard” or something along those lines, which is easily explained as that’s the name of an old spin-off from 1998 that they likely had to settle some stuff for. Timing spe ifically could be chance, or them figuring the announcement would bring more attention to the franchise. Besides, all game titles have been prime location. I think the word “Redfall” was a different rumour than the trademark one.

An old Twitter post suggested Highrock which also matched the trailers look. However, the next ESO chapter became Highrock and they never went back in a main game before, obviously ignoring Arena (Daggerfall was in that High Rock and Hammerfell) So it may have just been about that. An apperantly leaked internal note spoke of project Greenwood, possibly setting it in Valenwood (second most rumoured place) but that is alleged.

But then, it’s late night and it’s been quite a while since I looked into it. So I might renember it wrong as well.

In the end, Bethesda still has us talking and speculating, and has me writing 4 paragraphs, with just releasing one shitty 5 year old trailer. And that while, as I said at the start, pretty all rumours where debunked as “we don’t know yet”. Damn they got me. They still got me…

Expecting a somewhat bug free experience from Bethesda… also, while games take long nowadays, 12 years isn’t a normal amount. Nor is announcing 5 years prior then never speaking of it again… Pretty sure we’re past the “modern games take a lot of time to develop” stage by now.

But damnit, how can I find all those nirnroots if I stay on the road!

But that’s made by Zenimax Online. Outside of Bethesda handing over lore to use, they have nothing to do with that…

Point is more about how long Todd has just sat there by now living of Skyrim’s fame and rereleases…

You make it sound so much funnier than it is. But thanks for the laugh! At least some positivity now came from it 🫠.

They said it will be able to connect with Mastodon, so there is zero need imho. I guess it’s more aimed at the casual user who doesn’t care much about data collection.

What I wonder more tho, how is Meta planning on not getting blocked by most Mastodon servers out of fear they’ll go grab all data possible from any server they federate with? Most Mastodon users aren’t exactly pro-Meta and pro-give all your data away…

I just realised the other day, that with the common definition that retro is older than the last two generations, Skyrim’s original release is retro as it was a PS3 game originally…

Arena released in 1994.
Daggerfall 2 years later in 1996.
Morrowind in 2002, 6 years later.
Then Oblivion came in 2006, 4 years.
Skyrim was 2011, 5 years.
Now 12 years later, all we got is a 5 year old trailer and Todd once telling us they where still thinking aboht the setting.
Just let that sink in…

I’m back at Oblivion. The current sun and heat somehow make me feel nostalgic to those bright colours and silly interactions.

With a bidge like the guy below said. I think the owner of de Discord server needs to set it up tho, and I don’t run any Discord servers, so I don’t know the details. But I noticed sone servers do it.

For me the same but the first three instead, and any platform. I’ve spend a large part of my childhood on these, and still do. So much nostalgia. In certain ways, they feel more difficult than many adult-targeted games that release nowadays, making them never a bore either. I got them on PC, PS1, and PS2 (as they’re all different).

Well some Discord channels are already synchronising their content with Matrix, using the room feature to mimic the channel structure. OpenStreetMaps does this for example. I wouldn’t mind that normalising as at least, it stops me from needing to use Discord myself. But the fact it still synchronises back to Discord is, of course, not ideal. Small steps to the right direction I guess.

Replacement would be nice, but I mainly use it for some local communities which I expect will be the last to migrate. They barely got a start on Discord…

Elder Scrolls’ take on Dungeons and Dragons gameplay. If you read Arena’s manual, it’ll explain that they wanted a game that steers you into one dirrection, but if you want to say “fuck it” and go the other way, the story should support that. Similar to a DnD session where players don’t do what the Dungeon Master planned so he has to make up sonething else on the spot.

To this day, that’s why the main storyline is relatively short. But a storyline for alternative ways of life than “the hero who saved the world” exist, no matter if you’re a warrior, mage, thief, or assassin.

I know I’m a minority in this, but I unironically prefer vanilla Minecraft, it’s simple in a good way 😅.