CrateDane @ CrateDane @feddit.dk

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I played around 20 hours of it at launch, and it was bad. Not just in all the hilariously broken things that were memed all over the place back then, but the fundamental concept of the game just didn't quite work.

Morrowind was the first of the ES series where they drastically reduced the area but invested more in the content in that area. It had a unique art style and location. It kept most of the complexity of the prior games in the series, while subsequent games heavily simplified things to cater to console gamers. There are a lot of babies that were thrown out with the bathwater after Morrowind. Of course the later games also added a lot of improvements, but I think for its time, Morrowind was a very good game. It depends on preferences, but I would consider it the best game of the ES series relative to when it was launched.

More like Deadwolf at this point...

Yeah, and they've also had more explicit efforts like America's Army. That being said, while it is propaganda, it's not quite as deceptive and pro-warcrimes as what Russia's putting out there.

FWIW the Steam cut is lower for games that sell well. It's probably below 25% for BG3 overall.

Bioware made BG1 and BG2 and other RPGs in a similar vein, but has more recently made games trying to appeal to the mass market and failed miserably (Mass Effect Andromeda and especially Anthem).

The BG name lay dormant for a couple decades until Larian acquired it and released the highly successful BG3. So they are beating Bioware at their own game.

Given that there’s plenty of PCs out there with lower spec than the S

Not when it comes to memory. The Xbox SS only has 10GB combined system memory and VRAM. The PC version of BG3 requires 8GB system memory plus 4GB of VRAM, so the SS is a couple gigabytes short in total.

Going by the Steam hardware survey, 95% of PCs have at least 8GB of system memory, with 16GB being easily the most common amount. 80% have at least 4GB of VRAM, with 8GB being the most common amount.

They're a small company, they'll probably just go bankrupt.

They weren't normally on the same network, but were accidentally put on the same network during migration.

Just in case BG3 didn't illustrate the downfall of Bioware vividly enough, they go ahead and do this.

Inherited from naval wargaming, where it came about because first rate ships of the line had better armor than second rate etc. so armor class scaled inversely. That meant THAC0 was the best way to figure out what you needed to roll to get a hit.

It's also not functionally that complicated (your THAC0 minus target AC), just weird and confusing if you try to understand why it works that way.

While everyone has been talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, I decided to cave in and started a replay of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Well, yea, I got a ten years old PC and a Ps4!

I'm sure your PC could run Baldur's Gate 1 and 2... 😉

The tutorial in CK II is so bad

You can't just talk that way about Ireland.

Baldur's Gate 1 actually did have a tutorial in Candlekeep. Including temporarily giving you a full party to battle some critters in a basement.

Stellaris is far from the worst offender, and yet you're still entirely right.

Windows has a simplified version of that built in.

Just call up Linustechtips and ask to collab on a zetabyte project. Probably get the storage drives for free, right?

/s

Moreover, killing Youtube will be harder than killing any of these social media. Serving video content is very expensive.

170 is a fairly substantial sample size, but it does pose challenges with data interpretation when there's no intervention and the expected effect size is small.

Life sciences often uses much smaller sample sizes, but with intervention.

At the absolute minimum, the headline here should be "found no evidence of" rather than "do not". The good old absence of evidence vs. evidence of absence thing.

Ads are making a comeback on streaming services. Not only Youtube, which is now getting more serious about blocking ad-blockers, but even on paid streaming. Netflix has an ad supported tier, Amazon runs ads for its own stuff (so far)...