Quoting: slaapliedjeMy first Elder Scrolls game was Daggerfall. It still seems to be the 'best, and most ambitious' of the games. It expanded on what was in Arena, and made the land huge. Then came Morrowind, which is a fantastic game, but tiny in comparison to Daggerfall... Then Oblivion, they dumbed down and Skyrim they dumbed down further. All of the little side games that came out for it were even more basic. Wonder what MS will do with the series now that they own Zenimax...

I generally agree, but I wonder what you think they dumbed down from Oblivion to Skyrim.
Honestly, I think Skyrim is better than Oblivion in every regard and I don't see any further dumbing down between those two games, just a fixing of tons of mistakes from Oblivion.

A Morrowind-quality (and gameplay depth) game at the size of Skyrim is something I'd really love to play. Not that it will ever happen, of course.
AA/AAA devs nowadays are simply too afraid of doing open gameplay RPG systems that allow players to potentially break their "balance" and demand some time & thought investment.

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The last seal will be broken when 666 articles are published in a month.

Then, the ultimate Wine pun to end them all shall be released to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting.

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Nice. Noise suppression has always been an issue for streamers and required some really creative solutions from some.

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Well, if that does come to fruition, it would scratch so many itches I won't have to shower for weeks!

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Interesting - though I'm way too dependent on a whole bunch of Chrome plugins and its syncing to do any Browser switch.
Chrome would have to somewhat collapse for me to take the time to switch browsers - last time that happened, it was Firefox that collapsed, forcing me to switch to Chrome.

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I had to check to make sure the video wasn't playing at half speed.

It doesn't look bad, but I think everything in that game needs to happen at twice the speed. Everything just looks so... slow.

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Quoting: nepoThe BIG problem for me is my low trust in Google - the "Google Graveyard" is full of killed Google products.

Exactly this, and this has always been the biggest reason for me not to spend any money on it.
I don't doubt their technical capabilities of pulling it off, but if this is not successful enough (and honestly, I somewhat doubt it will be, given GFNow and the similar XBox offering), this is very likely to not be around anymore in 2-3 years.

I might go for the subscription for a month or so, just out of technical curiosity, but I'll never spend any cash on specific games if that doesn't also give me the game on Steam.

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Quoting: denyasisI'm seriously jealous of this of you who can program and understand this stuff

I'm a programmer since 10+ years and even I barely understand half of it :whistle:

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Quoting: x_wingThis game has the potential to become the next freelancer.

It's odd how long it has taken already for someone to pick up the formula, isn't it?

The problem is that despite being a very very good game it fell flat on it's ass.

Is that conjecture or do you have a source for that ?

It's not really conjecture, more an exaggeration.

It really wasn't overly successful, but was no complete flop, either, at least according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_(video_game)#Sales [External Link]

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I want to have that Crotchy shirt.

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