I'm a little concerned about "a vast, procedurally generated world that doesn't hold your hand" because the former often means "shallow worldbuilding" and the latter "no effort to do signposting".

Like much as I love Caves of Qud, the procedurally generated towns are just remixes of each other without a lot of depth, so there's no point talking to anyone besides the questgiver and maybe a merchant. It's the designed locations like Grit Gate that are worth looking into. As to the latter, I'm fine with not having overlays that tell you exactly where to go to accomplish every little thing, but it's easy to go overboard and give *no* direction, which can be very frustrating.

I hope it doesn't take either of those too far, but having them as up-front selling points does make me concerned.

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Machinka: Museum looks like exactly the sort of thing I'd like. Sold, for zero bucks!

Might as well grab Endless Legend too, I was interested in that once upon a time.

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Much as I enjoy the game (although it's a little newbie-hostile even now), I think I'll skip the beta and wait for the changes to hit the main branch.  I'm here to play, not to playtest.

As to content, it's a pretty big game overall. Although outside of the primary quest there aren't all that many smaller stories to pursue, at least in the earlier parts of the game. I do recommend roleplay mode if you're going for the story and not just trying out a variety of cool builds though. Otherwise go for the dailies to get the hang of it, where you get prebuilt characters that you see how far you can get with. I've reached

Spoiler, click me

Golgotha

twice this week, which is pretty good for me.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: NezchanIt looks interesting, but the sound effects seem awfully harsh to my ears. I can't help but feel like the running sound and NPC "voices" would annoy me greatly after a while.

Maybe not even that long a while.

Don't most games have volume options on that kind of stuff?

It's not the volume, it's the repetition of the same, harsh sounds. I don't think playing the game with sound turned off is a good solution for that.

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It looks interesting, but the sound effects seem awfully harsh to my ears. I can't help but feel like the running sound and NPC "voices" would annoy me greatly after a while.

Maybe not even that long a while.

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Quoting: EhvisI skipped on it because of the external account requirement. Didn't even know that it wasn't needed all this time.

Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: TheRiddickI don't really see the reason why everyone who never plans to have a playstation needs now make a PSN account to play the game bought on steam. But apparently it was in the fine print somewhere.

is PSN store coming to PC? then that would make some sense.

I've heard word that Sony is trying to set up their own version of GamePass, so it makes sense (if somewhat scummy) that they'd be pressuring devs to require a login. I imagine Arrowhead is caught in the middle , and will see no benefit at all.

Hell, they won't even be the ones harvesting monetizable data.

Something like that would have been my guess. I wouldn't even be surprised if the "grace period" was done on purpose in order to give many more people a "smoother ride" into the game. That may sound a little conspiracy, but Sony has done worse things.

Two possibilities occur to me. First is that Sony only started putting their plan into action after release, so it wasn't even a consideration until now. The other is that they deliberately waited until they got a large player count with a big sunk cost before pulling a bait and switch of sorts. And, of course, none of those players can get refunds now.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI don't really see the reason why everyone who never plans to have a playstation needs now make a PSN account to play the game bought on steam. But apparently it was in the fine print somewhere.

is PSN store coming to PC? then that would make some sense.

I've heard word that Sony is trying to set up their own version of GamePass, so it makes sense (if somewhat scummy) that they'd be pressuring devs to require a login. I imagine Arrowhead is caught in the middle , and will see no benefit at all.

Hell, they won't even be the ones harvesting monetizable data.

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The essence of it, below the fairly polished visuals, seems to draw on stuff like the Little Nightmare games. A few wrinkles on the formula, but I imagine if you liked those this would be appealing.

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Quoting: redneckdrowSounds like you could use a few ox driving [External Link] tips, Liam!:tongue:

Why, yes, I do have a bluegrass/country/old-time tune for just about any occasion....:whistle:

If you wanna be happy, listen to bluegrass music.

If you wanna be sad, listen to bluegrass lyrics.

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It's really nice to see they're filling in so much content, although I'll almost certainly never get to see it.

I doubt I'd be able to muster the skill and tenacity to get all the way to the Ashlands. Hell, I haven't even been past the swamps. So this stuff might as well be a whole other game.

Really hoping at some point they'll get all the late game stuff finished so they can loop back and make the early game more engaging and improve quality of life for the lesser Vikings among us.

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