aesthelete

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Captain Ron fam checking in!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played it but if that stuff is what you’re looking for I think baldurs gate 3 might be for you.

  I’ve never really felt like the dialogue choices in any Bethesda game save maybe new vegas (which I don’t even think was technically a Bethesda game) had a lot of real impact on the game. In Skyrim I think there were maybe a handful of times that it mattered. Most times in those types of games I wind up exercising the entire dialogue tree because usually it lets you, and sometimes that’s the only way to get some side quest or whatever.

  The combat in Bethesda games save some of the Fallout series is actually pretty bad IMO. In Skyrim, the combat doesn’t feel like combat at all and feels more like two characters swiping air near each other.

  The thing that’s the most disappointing about most of these games to me is the squandered potential. At first there feels like there’s depth there, and if you try to get there it is shown to be a facade.

  They have a lot of breadth to their games but IMO they’re as deep as a puddle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that may be right for first person only, but many games that are largely played in third person fit the bill to me: Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Horizon, even the latest Zelda games to an extent.

  I know I’m leaving many other titles out here too, I’m just listing ones I’ve personally played.

  No Man’s Sky is even close to being on the list IMO but it’s not quite RPG enough to fit in the same category.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you don’t have many options if you enjoy open world fps RPGs, and Bethesda games are sometimes the only passable option.

  This is only true if it’s literally true that it has to be “first person”. There are, in my opinion, way too many 3rd person semi-RPGs with a vast, open world that are very similar to Bethesda games. It has gotten to the point with me where there are only so many games like this I’ll even play, because they’re huge time drains and they come across as basically the same game with a different skin or setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point around the enaction of Obama-care there was a dude with a combover that came around to our office to tell us that “yes, healthcare costs are high in America, but I’m here to tell you that insurance companies are not the problem.”

  So here he is: a guy lying to himself about his hair loss with a full-time job going around to different companies saying how insurance companies are not the problem…surely he couldn’t be lying, or a waste, or a lying waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mahomes and maauto