Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don’t put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.

  • @cmhe@lemmy.world
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    61 year ago

    I agree! The content of the game is the issue, not the engine. Bashing Bethesdas engine is just a meme, at this point.

    Linux is 32 years old, people wanting to throw everything away and start new, just because they don’t like certain aspects of it, are crazy.

    Personally, I don’t really care about raytracing, or even improving the graphics that much, IMO they should reuse assets and code if that will make them invest more of their time to improve their writing, quests and let people go their own paths through the quests instead of just having 2 or 3 options (do the quest, don’t do the quest and sometimes rat the people out to the authorities). So that we have BG3 level of writing and quests, in different kind of game.

    And for god sakes, do simple things like let companions whisper when sneaking.

    Also, New Atlantis doesn’t look build for Humans but for giants, too much scaled up.

    • @emptyother@programming.dev
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      31 year ago

      Is whispering while sneaking so easy though? It would double the voice acting budget, time, and the audio asset size. Theres no magic audio filter for making believable whispering out of regular voices.

      Well, maybe there will be once game studios start using AI voice actors.

      • @Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
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        At the very least just lower the voice volume of companions in sneak even if it’s lazy fix. I don’t need breathy whispers in my ear for funny or throw away dialogue. But that’s just my thoughts maybe other people are different.