No, it almost certainly wouldn’t have made a difference. Especially since the dev team behind it is woefully mismatched for the genre of game Gollum is; Daedalic Entertainment is known for making charming point-and-click adventure games and janky-yet-deep 2D survival horror games like Barotrauma, and notably not 3D…

That’s actually a fairly common migraine symptom, albeit to varying degrees. I get that during particularly bad migraines, too, though not as severely - I sometimes say gibberish, but if someone points it out I can usually try again and get something at least mostly intelligible out. For me, the bigger issue is word…

Growing up, one of my friend’s dads was in a horrible car accident and developed Broca’s aphasia as a result. Through intensive speech therapy over the course of several years, he was able to fully recover his ability to speak through taking advantage of brain plasticity, but for some entirely inexplicable reason,…

It’s also absolutely terrible for attracting new players. Existing players may be just fine with it (although, clearly, that’s not entirely true), but being told I literally can’t play the main campaign as well as significant other portions of the game is a great way to have me not even bother, when I might have…

Yeah, Laconia alone would be very expensive, especially if they wanted to do the setting justice, let alone all the space scenes. I can understand deciding to put on the breaks before reaching that point.

Seven years later, while randomly browsing through my comment history, I see that Kinja has finally allowed me to respond to your comment. According to a my reply to myself from the time, that apparently wasn’t always possible.

Huh? There are multiple playable female characters in BF2042. There are many criticisms of the game that could be made, but that’s not one of them.

...I mean, yes, you don’t have to use it, but you also don’t have an option not to see it when other people use it. If the issue is it ruining the aesthetics or immersion of the game for people, them not using it while others do isn’t really a solution.

I mean, presumably you will still need a user account, so yes. But Facebook is remaining Facebook, so a Meta account wouldn’t be the same thing as a Facebook account, and wouldn’t require that you tie your VR device into your social media profile.

Correct. This is also why they appeared young then - they were young, at least by their standards. These versions of them are not thousands of years old. Well, I guess Odin is a thousand years old by just a hair with the whole Vinland thing, but yeah. These are not the same gods as the ones in the old world.

The fantasy and historical games are produced by different teams, so their development cycles have little to nothing to do with one another.

Rome 2 has also really grown into its own, messy launch aside. I used to strongly prefer Attila, but lately it’s drawn up to be about on the same level for me. They really did revamp the game... much to my annoyance to some degree, because it meant they left the less-popular Attila behind to focus on Rome 2 instead,…

I kinda doubt they’re going to take that reason as far as the books do, though, because if they did, he wouldn’t be the only one needing a recast.

I mean, yeah, BFV’s not a very good game. You’re genuinely better off playing BF1 or BF4.

And, related, blaming “social backlash” for the subsequent failure of the game when, in fact, it was just a poorly made and supported game. BFV, I’m looking at you.

Or, if you really want a game set in a Bethesda world, Elder Scrolls Online is a decent option these days. No subscription required, though there is a small up-front purchase cost.

If you didn’t care for Fallout 4, then you definitely won’t care for Fallout 76.

Regarding performance, it can also depend on start dates as well as how that particular playthrough goes. If you start with an early start date, it starts to chug quite a bit near the end of the timeline simply because it has so many characters, territory change records, event records, etc. to track. It can be…

They wanted to expand it to all of mainland Asia, but they were unable to go beyond India because of limitations to the engine. As it is, the game REALLY struggles in later years, even on particularly powerful machines. I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually get all of Asia and maybe even all of Africa in CKIII.

I’m kinda sad about the SMG/optics change, simply because the 3x and 2-4x both actually worked pretty well on the Prowler. Ah, well...