I mean, like, an hour before your post. So it depends what you mean.
Rare is the company that made me realize greatness is fleeting. They were killing it in the ‘90’s and then slowly… Are they even an on going concern anymore? I know they were bought by Microsoft and were just a shell of the company they used to be. I think it was Giant Bombcast with Jeff Gurtsmann saying that not a single person from the Nintendo days were left at that company and was effectively just a name.
I wouldn't call it "just a name". Yeah, the company has Ship of Theseused itself but it's an ongoing process over time. It's not like Atari which is literally nothing but a name that's passed through several owners since the company's original demise. Any company that's been around for more than a decade or two will have few to none of the originating members left but it will have had continuity all the way back. Microsoft today has nothing of the Microsoft of 1982 left but we can draw a line between everything that's happened to/by them to where they are today. Same with Rare. In many ways Sea of Thieves feels a lot like a game Rare would have made during the N64 days if the communications technology had made it possible. It's not as unique and inventive as some of their early stuff (because it's hard to get lucky enough to be that unique and inventive in a well established medium) but the line between Banjo Kazooie and SoT is there.
There was some question as to who owned the No One Lives Forever IP after a series of acquisitions. It kind of fell down to being, possibly, between Activision and Fox and when Nightdive went looking a few years back and neither company seemed to want to do any research to determine what they owned. It ended when an Activision exec, I think, said something along the lines of "We don't know if we have any rights and we're not going to stop you from doing this but if you do, and it turns out we do have rights, we'll sue you". With Microsoft owning Activision there's the possibility that there's finally some money and will behind figuring out those rights situation and getting a remaster going. After all, Somehow, Goldeneye Remastered.
It does two autosaves. I had the same problem, but falling back to the prior autosave fixed it.
Both of my autosaves are insagibs. :/
Thanks. I've been thinking of picking this up to scratch the Valheim itch. The amount of content already there looks pretty respectable, for an EA release. And even though it sounds like it was designed with co-op in mind from the beginning, I'm glad it also appears to be perfectly playable solo for loners like me.
Probably this needs a thread, but I'll ask here: Did you play the demo? If so, is the performance better than the demo? Because the framerate was awful on my rig playing the demo, despite it having a good scratch at the Valheim itch.
Performance is still bad. Apparently it runs better on GPUs with less RAM than it did, but there are some core issues. Even on my 4090 with it supposedly running at around 140fps I get traversal stutter and what I think is frame pacing issues when moving the camera around. It's not smooth at all like it should be at 140fps. People will tell you to cap it at 60fps, and that does conceal the issue a little, the hitches are shorter, but it's still there. Personally, I'm not going to go back to it until they get it sorted.
It's basically Doom 2016 with an old-school paintjob, and even more blood. It's fast and fun, has upgrades to hunt for, and lots of monsters to shoot.
I'd like to see a modern version of Autoduel. Top-down view, zoomable and possibly pause-able, to give you time to think on the strategy.
Roadwar 2000 might be a better starting point. That was quite a good game.
Everyone wants to be the next Fortnite, but most find out they're the next Anthem.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Hellbender and Fury3 make a return. Never did get to try them back in the day.
I am glad you pointed this out. While I love the art direction and aesthetics of the Mass Effect universe (and the Destiny universe as well), I seem to bounce off the gameplay on both. It's probably just me, but if I could get an open-world survival first-person game with Mass Effect or Destiny aesthetics, that's probably all I would play.
Remember you can use other characters to talk to people; most checks can be tried once per character. And you can always quicksave with F5; you can do this even in the middle of a conversation or even combat. Restoring to try again takes a long while, though.
Autoduel is realtime and the player controls exactly one vehicle. RW2k is turn based and has multiple vehicles. I'd prefer both of them to be redone!
Yeah, it's not like they ride up and tell you about that. The Baldur's Gate thread has a ton of tips as we discovered them, and is quite good about using spoiler tags appropriately, so you might benefit from reading there. But it's a long thread. It's a gigantic game, one of the biggest RPGs ever done.
You'll have a better experience playing HoMM3 using VCMI, a recreation of the engine. Or at least a better experience on a technical level.
I haven't played one, but I keep seeing that Paladins are problematic from a story perspective. One hint: if another character does something, that doesn't break your oath.
