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>>41824
>the last good thing they made was morrowind
I think that game was only good on accident, like the first two Star Wars movies

>>41824
The irony of a guy saying Morrowind was the only good TES while charging Oblivion fans with nostalgia lmao.
>inb4 Morrowind was shit too
>inb4 Daggerfall was better

You guys think argonians would be really good at eating ass? They got long tongues and can probably open their jaws real wide too

>>42438
No lips though.

>>42307
Series really fell off after Arena

I liked the necrons more when they were just mindless killing machines rather than space Egyptians.

>>42459
It’s not impossible. Actually it’s rather easy, just take sample data off military casualties and generalize the findings to all the known or estimated colonized worlds and you get some pretty accurate measures.

Most factions have between several dozen trillion to a few quadrillion life forms, have hundreds of thousands to millions of worlds conquered, and their power level scales from lunar level to large planetary (except necrons and dark mechanicum, those factions are solar system level at their peak).

I remember reading something about 40k and it mentioned some research ship that's been flying through some sector of the galaxy for centuries and the only thing it detects are endless orks.

>>42475
There are plenty of other books detailing that whenever the imperium tries to expand it keeps finding more ork colonies

I only really got into the original game. It was really fun and I think one of my favorite games. I tried playing the second one but I hated that it was basically pay to play so I stopped with the franchise after that

>>42444
i miss the original version of pvz2. other than the fact that the aesthetics were peak, gameplay was better as well

series is a corporate slop cash grab that caters to braindead easily-exploitable morons, unlike the original, the designer of the original game was opposed to PvZ 2 and newer due to mobile-only and microtransaction bullshit and got fired for that reason by the new popcap that was sold off to EA

read this
https://bleedingcool.com/games/ea-fired-plants-vs-zombies-creator-objecting-pay-win-dynamic/

>>42327
There's things to appreciate about Morrowind as a project but it sure says something about a game when the most interesting and enjoyable parts of it are when you're basically just using it as an interactive screensaver or doing shit like brewing yourself potions of Fortify Acrobatics 1059 to clip into everything and fly all over the 16km map from a single jump.

>>42327
being incapable of understanding that other people might not like your game is step #1 for making a soulless husk of a game. i fucking hate morrowind but im also smart enough to understand that morrowind is good because its okay with people hating it.

a good game fills a niche, and a niche wouldn't be a niche if everybody liked it.

>>42345
He's directly stating that the much more generic fantasy of Oblivion and Skyrim are better than Morrowind's much more unique setting. I get that Morrowind's gameplay is controversial. I don't get preferring a generic fantasy kingdom over being swept away into dark lands under strange moons. I don't hate the generic fantasy kingdom setting, but I cannot see having a strong preference for it over a more distinct setting.

That, and hatred for Morrowind might be because of its many questionable and niche design decisions, but just as often it's "I don't want to have an adventure, I want to be lead to a place and fill out a list."

>>42368
the issue is actually that the adventure is not interesting and the destinations are boring as shit, so i dont care when i get to them.

i dont want to be led to locations, i just want locations worth seeking out. everything in morrowing looks like shit and theres nothing interesting in the whole map. the unique and distinct setting doesnt matter if the unique and distinct setting is a toilet

I prefer the 2012 piss filter over the toon colors look of post 2017.

>>42349
It is realistic, immersive and very fun to have features in games like enemies using the environment for cover and concealment like actual people. Having a guy slowly walk towards you in BDSM gear while spraying automatic fire with some ancient unmaintained gun is extremely harmful for the flow of a game set in a dark-n-gritty depressing nuclear hellscape.

>>42354
you and i both know they are NOT that advanced.

you want things to feel immersive? step 1: get rid of vats. step 2: make enemies actually react to damage even a little bit. no reason a flamethrower should be getting the exact same reaction from targets as a room temperature spritz of water

>>37978
IIRC the gun models were inherited from Fallout 3 and they had issues implementing iron sights because Bethesda had shit in the way on the original model.

>>42367
They could’ve also just made different models (they did and all of them stuck with the same trash carry handle underneath the barrel design) that sucked less before putting that garbage into new Vegas.

>>37992
>the spiky mess looks plausible
>the one that looks like a real gun looks fucked up

i think this sums up fallout fans

>>42348
>This is also a moot point, as having one single server that everyone played on was never a requirement.
Yes, in fact, it is. The idea of a big, persistent, shared world where you see ALL of the other players ALL of the time was the whole selling point. If the map isn't big enough for all of the players, make the servers smaller, don't undermine the entire point of the MMO as a concept.

>fast travel has been in WoW since vanilla
Fast travel, to the extent that it even existed, was extremely limited, and was limited. A mage can fast travel, but only to major cities, and mage portals only work for characters in the mage's group. Druids can fast travel, but only to Moonglade. Warlocks have a fast travel for players in his or her party, but only to the location of the warlock and only if the warlock has two other players in his location that can do the summoning ritual. I guess you could call hearthstones fast travel, though you're fast traveling back home rather than to a location. This is different, you may note, than just having fucking fast travel all over the place. FFXIV might one-up Retail WoW by having fast travel over short distances. Literally every significant area of their cities has a stupid fast travel node attached to it!

>"you have to walk everywhere" has never been a required trait of MMORPG games.
It's a significant part of them since, you know, the whole "persistent living world" thing.
>specifically WoW Mists of Pandaria, I believe. If memory serves correctly, flying mounts are usually awarded in games AFTER you have already explored the world, so it doesn't actually skip anything, only rewards you for already exploring everything.
"You get to skip over the world after the pointless questing and leveling phase which we only make you do to invalidate the last expansion's content and then never expect you to interact in that open world area ever again" is not a point in Retail's favor.

>if you can name an mmo, then i can name an mmo that has quests that can be done solo.
There is a significant difference between allowing for solo questing and flagrant singleplayer game shit.

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>>42352
>>42348
You guys do know that WOW has RP servers that explicitly get rid of the veteran features (shards, mounts, fast travel, quest finders, other helpers) so players interested in the actual gameplay can enjoy themselves right? Both the devs and the community run servers for that stuff and those servers are pretty popular too. If you don’t like the assistive features, you don’t have to play with them.

Oh, and WOW has addons that just allow you to remove all the features anyways—I used them during my first play through cuz I felt confident in myself.

>>42352
literally your entire thought process is "they dont do things exactly how they did them 25 years ago so its not valid anymore"

youre like a literal infant that hasnt figured out that putting on a hat doesn't make you an entirely different person

>>42356
thank you lmao

people really just ignore the options they have and then say they dont exist

>>42371
>more "it's just nostalgia" gaslighting
I've already explained what the whole concept behind the MMORPG is supposed to be and various ways in which the modern "MMORPG" undermines or even completely bastardizes this concept. I could go further, but I didn't want my post to seem too rant-y.

What is the core of a first person shooter? It's shooting dudes with your weapon from a first person perspective. If I were to claim that only Doom Clones counted as FPS, that would be the nostalgia talking because modern shooters are still very much about shooting dudes from a first person perspective, albeit in a different way. Contrariwise, if the FPS genre started de-emphasizing shooting dudes with your gun to the point where little to no actual shooting was taking place (and you could pay to skip the last remaining shooting segments at a cash shop), you could reasonably state that the "FPS genre" was no longer first-person shooter in any meaningful sense.

That's what I claim for MMORPGs. The core concept and the heart and soul of the genre is being an RPG set in this persistent, shared open world which is some kind of living fantasy world populated to some extent by other players. To the extent that the """MMORPG""" genre has continuously de-emphasized this aspect of their games and even allows you to skip over it means that they have largely stopped being MMORPGs in any meaningful sense.

There is no other option. General "follow the leader" bullshit within the industry has dictated that all modern MMOs are like this and the only exception are a small number of indie passion projects, none of which are even close to a full release.

Are there anything with like, a pokemon boss rush mode? Like you just fight all [looks it up] #1025 pokemon in a gauntlet?

>>37628
pokerogue?

https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=023186&title=orre-colosseum-pok-mon-s-most-vicious-doubles-format

We are partnered with a few comp pokemon servers so there's going to be more comp pokemon coverage coming from our mag soon

>>41976
You know is the truth

>>41976
Why exactly do you expect random battles?

>>41976
>dialogue choices
voice acting expensive

>>41976
>>41983
theres mods that make it like a rougelite

>>41999
do you mind sharing some you recommend? that sounds fun!

>>42328
Given that the whole point of the episode is to show the imperium's (and more specifically, its' bureaucracy) mindbogglingly inefficiency and incompetence, i'd say the derpiness all alround is pretty fitting.

>>42331
Yeah, it’s also just badly written. I’m pretty sure situations like this are why the planetary defence forces are even present. Besides, whenever petty bureaucracy actually fucks over the guard, it’s usually when they’re already dealing with disaster situations like with a regiment already engaged in open combat in a sector known to be too hostile for safe delivery like what happened during the black crusades with like half the galaxy or anything near the eye of terror. Something like a generic ork invasion just isn’t something to fuck up logistics over and even then—the fucking dudes are stationed right next to a hive city. Just raid there for weapons and munitions.

There were barely any obnoxious jokes in their gameplay reveal presentation. I might consider it if the writing and tone's closer to 1 than the other games.

>>42280
Yeah. It looks like they took the criticism from the Tina spinoff to heart. The gameplay looked really polished

Ban on Skibidi Toilet references = coal.