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Well, that settles it. $80 games is going to be the new standard and Sony will quickly trail along. Oh well, nothing much has changed for patient gamers.

I have found that adept gets more balanced as you level up, I’m level 8 right now and I’ve had a few challenging fights.

A little over level 10 is where the game gets most difficult, then it quickly gets easier again. Once you have a powerful restoration spell you're almost unkillable on adept.

Correction: It is to make money, but the goal is to get people to subscribe now then jack up the prices once people start relying on it.

I finished the base game earlier today, doing the shivering isles now. It's a great remaster, but it definitely needs a few updates. Performance and bugs aside, the balance of the game is all over the place and the difficulty options are broken. Expert is way too hard, adept is too easy. Luckily, modders already fixed a lot of things.

I highly recommend modding your game to improve a few things:

• Ultimate Engine Tweaks improves performance at zero cost to graphics. It also helped significantly with stutters.
• Difficulty Slider Fixed makes the difference between difficulties less drastic
• More Damage makes everything (including enemies) deal more damage. A must have imo because Bethesda's school of spongy enemies is really outdated game design. 2x more damage on everything makes combat deadlier and more exciting.

P.S. there's an "unofficial oblivion remastered patch mod" that claims to fix thousands of bugs, but in reality it makes the game more unstable and has its own issues. Don't use it yet.

House Flipper 2 is great. I wish missions were less linear, but it's probably the best "home designer" game out there.

This makes me think he knows something we don't. Is he trying to dodge GTA 6's release date? There wouldn't be another reason to move the launch date up by two weeks.

Context length is disappointing, but the fact that it trades blows with R1 despite being 30B MoE is insane. I'll wait and see if real-world performance matches up to benchmarks, but it sounds like a big deal.

53% is abysmal, it might as well be a coin flip. FYI this article is about a random one called BrandWell, popular AI detectors like GPTZero are much more accurate.

FYI it fails to fetch votes if you don't include https:// at the start.

[Have a coin, beggar.]

The old video game industry still blows my mind. Competition was so fierce, there were tons of high quality AAA games releasing each year until things suddenly slowed down in the PS4/Xbone era. Granted, a lot of consoles failed and a lot of companies went under but it must have been wild to see Counter Strike, Baldur's Gate 2, Diablo 2, Deus Ex, Perfect Dark, Red Alert 2, etc. all launch in the same year.

The indie scene today is great, but the amount of AAA games coming out these years are much fewer, and there's a 50/50 chance it's going to be a total flop.

As for the lockpicking I learned something recently from a video and now I never break a pick.

I noticed this myself today! At first I thought lockpicking was random and I broke almost all my lockpicks, but I noticed a subtle cue for when it's going to lock in place. From what I understand the middle speed has a chance to work or break your lockpick, but the slowest speed is guaranteed to work.

There are so many games nowadays that do what Oblivion attempted to do, so much better.

Such as?

That's the difficulty mod I'm using. Do the performance tweak mods actually make a difference? Every time I tried one of these it ends up being placebo.

IIRC in the old oblivion there was an arbitrary limit to how many skill points you can put in a stat depending on your class. This has been removed, you can now put up to 5 points in a single stat every time you level up to customize the build as you'd like. You get the same skill points regardless of skills you leveled up.

Some stats have been balanced, like how Agility now scales damage of daggers and shortswords now (before it was only bows). Many masteries have been rebalanced and changed to fit the playstyle more. Enemy scaling still exists and AFAIK enemies scale the same, but because leveling has been reworked you shouldn't have to worry about min-maxing or what skills you're gaining.

As for face animations, they're a little uncanny but overall I'm impressed with them. They look great, most of the time.

All the early access reviews on youtube. General consensus was that it's buggy, unpolished, and not very fun

I hope they manage to salvage this game and steer it back. I loved HLD and solar ash and was really disappointed when I heard this game had major issues.

I'm still confused about searching by tags in the store. You can't search by tag in the normal search bar, and the "categories" dropdown at the top doesn't have all the tags I want.

That's unfortunate. Hopefully a driver update comes around soon

As of today, this is the highest rated game of 2025. Really impressive ratings, I hope I can find some free time to play it later.