I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect, sure*. But headlines like this do not help inspire confidence in new games: Early Star Wars Outlaws PS5 players paid $110 only to have Ubisoft issue a new patch and tell them to start a new save file or face game-breaking bugs. The company has since tried damage control, but only because of all of the screaming.
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The very belated STARFIELD: SHATTERED SPACE trailer.
I am way behind on getting back to STARFIELD (I’ve been actually running through a complete FALLOUT 4 run, just for the heck of it). I should check out the game again once I’m done with said run. At the very least, see what got updated, now that modders have the Creation Kit…
#commissionearned
The FALLOUT LONDON launch trailer.
I probably don’t have time to play this.
You can pick up FALLOUT LONDON at GOG, and they’re kind of suggesting that you grab a copy of FALLOUT 4 GOTY there and disable updates. This seems like a very good suggestion, because apparently it won’t work on Next-Gen Fallout and the developers aren’t even going to bother trying to keep up with the updates. I can’t say that I blame them much for that, either. Besides, I also think this replaces the base game, and people are still playing the base game. Heck, I’m finishing up Far Harbor as we speak.
Oh, hey, they finally did a real sale for BALDUR’S GATE 3.
20% off on Steam Summer Sale. There’s a bunch of others, too, but BALDUR’S GATE 3 is the one most relevant to my interests. Not that I’m going to play it for a while, given that I’m trying to get an anthology out…
The “…Well. THAT looks like [expletive deleted]” DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD reveal trailer.
I mean, I kind of felt bad after the DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD trailer. Bioware’s dead to me, sure, but I’m not into watching EA violate its corpse like this. It’s… unseemly.
Moe Lane
PS: What do I hate about it? I dunno, everything? The aesthetic looks like EA heard ARCANE was cool but wasn’t sure why, the storyline’s all over the place, Dragon Age has never really been able to decide what kind of fantasy setting it is and they keep making things worse with every game, I haven’t been happy with the gameplay since ORIGINS, and I have an almost irrepressible urge to just haul off and punch the featured NPC above in the nose. It’s not even because I dislike the NPC. It’s just that s/he/it/whatever has a very punchable nose.
Sony reverses course on linking Playstation accounts to HELLDIVERS 2.
Man, I miss the days when you didn’t worry about SEO in your title. I would have totally made a torturous joke about Sony getting swarmed by those ballistic drop bullets HELLDIVER 2 apparently uses. I dunno, my kid’s the one who plays it.
Also: if you happen to have Community Notes access on Twitter – which, by the way, offers endless opportunities to aggravate people who really deserve to be aggravated – there’s an entertaining (if ultimately counter-productive) argument going off inside there. Ach, well. I suppose it was inevitable.
#commissionearned
Tweet of the Day, This Is Going To Cause Annoyance In Chez Lane edition.
My kid is now a solid Helldivers 2 player. Fixing this mess for him is gonna be fun…
Got Fallout 4 up and running again.
More or less. The Script Extender is still being updated, so I can’t use any of those mods. Right now I’m just carving my little mini-settlement out of Sanctuary, prepping everything so that people can move right on in when I get around to going to Concord. I’m not really playing it again so much as I’m waiting for the Starfield DLC to drop…
Moe Lane
PS: I know people think Fallout: New Vegas has a better story, and it does — but I can build stuff in Fallout 4. That’s a huge part of the fun for me.
#commissionearned
Tweet of the Day, You Never Really STOP Playing Bethesda Games…
…you just put them away for a couple of years at a time.
Now where’s that mod list?
#commissionearned
I’ve been thinking about Fallout 4.
It’s been a couple of years. There’s a new update (that needs an update to get rid of the bugs from the last update*) for FALLOUT 4. The new update has stuff like the Enclave in it.
Really, what’s the harm?
*Ah, Bethesda.