It apparently isn’t designed to your tastes, but to say it isn’t designed well would be to overlook decades of highly regarded roguelikes. Even Nethack, which is nearly 40 years old and still loved, requires lots of experimentation (and many deaths) to discover how things work.
Seriously, where did this BS come from?
The components to build a science machine in Don’t Starve don’t strike me as much stranger than those to build crafting stations in other games. In my experience, they’re often unrealistic.
And how the hell would I know this necessary recipe without looking it up?
Did you miss the fact that the recipe is shown in the build menu?
That’s still true in BotW. (I think it requires the set to be upgraded as well.) The bonus from the Flamebreaker set is fire damage immunity, which can be handy when fighting certain enemies. You don’t need that bonus just to be in a scorched climate, though.
I think you only need one piece of the flamebreaker set to be fireproof survive in Goron City. You would need a second piece (or one piece and an elixir) to get closer to the caldera, but by that time you can buy a second piece in the city. You never need the third piece.
I went to the stables just to check out what was there, and discovered that they have quest information, quest triggers, rumors about the world, vendors that don’t show up elsewhere, mini-game challenges with rewards, hints at the locations of Link’s lost memory photos, etc. It never occurred to me that someone might miss out on all that stuff if they weren’t given a reason to visit a stable. (Maybe the game gives a hint to go there? I don’t remember.)
Sorry you drew the short straw.
Wow. Seems like your approach must have been really off the beaten path.
From memory, I think I was offered a fireproof elixir by an NPC at the nearest stable, and by a traveling vendor further up that road, and was given the flamebreaker armor for helping an NPC about halfway to Goron City. (That last one caught my interest because the help needed was in catching fireproof lizards, which seemed relevant to my immediate needs.) Any one of those would have been enough.
Your experience must have been frustrating. Were you avoiding roads and NPCs, by any chance?
Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 both bored me to sleep. I didn’t find anything in their worlds to care about, and the meta-game of endlessly memorizing monsters’ attack patterns just doesn’t hold my interest for more than a few minutes. I guess soulslike games are not my cup of tea.
And some of them are unskippable.
Such unfounded confidence that a professional report studying the cost of GPUs fails to account for some basic shit someone would tell you on Reddit is just arrogance; there’s no other word for it.
No, it’s a reasonable response to years of AIB price reporting that has very often neglected to call out the price gouging that I mentioned. Obviously, I wasn’t about to spend $3000 and hours of my time, nor grovel through its table of contents, to find out whether this particular report was an exception that was somehow overlooked in the article that was shared with the public.
Updated my comment to reflect new information.
In any case, your short-sighted assessment of my comment is exceeded only by your rudeness and hair-trigger combativeness. You’re not exactly making this forum a nicer place to be. Kindly go take a walk.
Dr. Jon Peddie, president of the research company and consulting firm, points out the multifaceted nature of the AIB market “squeeze”:
“The AIB market, largely supported by gamers, is being squeezed from the bottom by powerful new notebooks and CPU integrated graphics, and from the high end by rising pricing due to competition (supply and demand), memory prices, and Trump administration tariffs that bounce around.”
I can’t say I’m impressed with the reporting here, which neglects to account for graphics card prices tripling around the start of this decade and never returning to normal. This had already broken the usual upgrade cycle among PC gamers, well before Trump tariffs and memory scarcity arrived.
Our current car use per capita is unsustainable.
Either we reduce it, or we reduce human reproduction and survival rates.
Reducing the use of cars would help.
TK Dodge RE made melee combat much more interesting when I last played. I could finally enjoy playing someone other than a stealth archer. :)
Adamant and other overhauls from SimonMagus did likewise for various other game mechanics. Some people prefer Ordinator and other overhauls from EnaiSiaion.
Interesting NPCs adds a bunch of potential followers, and the one I chose was fun.
And at least some of their flagship games were ported to PC by a developer that didn’t bother with optimization, leading to ridiculously high system requirements, so only a fraction of PC gamers would reasonably be able play them. (I’m looking at you, The Last of Us.)
High prices, late releases, badly performing ports, forced online accounts… Each of these mistakes is a slap in a potential customer’s face. Together, they practically guarantee poor sales.
Maybe they think recent RAM and GPU prices will lead many PC gamers to start buying Playstations? I doubt it.
I could see this being used as an excuse for governments to keep spending taxpayer money on Microsoft licenses, and for software/hardware companies not to support open operating systems like Linux.
California is the fourth-largest economy in the world.
I guess they don’t want the additional income from the PC gaming market.
If it was less than they hoped for during their brief experiment, I would be curious how much of that had to do with the excessively high system requirements of PC ports like The Last of Us. Expensive games probably don’t reach nearly as much of their potential market when they struggle on midrange hardware.
Maybe they’re betting that PC gamers will start buying Playstations now that Sony is leaving the PC market and RAM prices are going the way of GPU prices?
Friendly reminder that kernel-level anti-cheat can and will be circumvented.
Any game fairness improvement that it provides will be temporary, but whatever malware it allows onto your system (either deliberately or through bugs exploited by third parties) will likely last until you reinstall the whole OS. Depending on the type of malware, it could even persist for the life of the hardware.
For the record, this is not the company that most people think of when they hear the name Motorola.
“It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong based Chinese technology giant Lenovo.”
What about Fluorite stands out to you as holding promise?
Based on what’s stated in the article, I would describe it as very experimental, but interesting nevertheless. Thanks for bringing it up.
I haven’t used either one yet, but I already know that I would rather my projects be married to Godot than to Unity, even if that were to make development a bit harder. Open systems are far less likely to betray me in the future.
I think you somehow missed it, mate. Here’s a screen shot from the year of its release: