The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Tamas]

From tomorrow, you shall be able to link your Game Pass account to your EA Play account and gain access to the base EA subscription's games.

[Caliga]

Disco Elysium Final Cut, adding some quests and, most notably, full voice acting will come out 30th March.

I'm not sure how I feel about full voice acting in this game. I'm not sure if it would have been nearly as introspective for me if it had this from the start.

I'll play it again.  I loved that game.

[Solmyr]

One thing I'm not getting amidst flight sim and truck sim and their impressive realistic graphics and weak gameplay (not the point, I know) is why can't a more active game do the same?
When you have games set in real world cities they're usually shrunken and altered versions.

Your question contains the answer - "weak gameplay."

It is hard, resource intensive work to populate an open world.

Daggerfall, and before that Elite took a stab at handling this procedurally, with mixed results. Similar with No Man's Sky to name a more modern example.

And as I mentioned, Cyberpunk 2077. Very big and populated with non-interactable cardboard cutouts. At least in Daggerfall you could actually talk to every NPC and ask various generic questions!

Do you go about a real city striking up conversations with randoms?

No, but I might strike up a conversation in a bar, a night club, or another similar venue.

[Solmyr]

On recommendation from people regarding Curious Expedition 2, I picked up a similar exploration roguelike, Renowned Explorers: International Society. It's quite fun as well.

[grumbler]

while I didn't enjoy the book

I've read maybe 200 science fiction novels and it's the greatest of all of them, by far.

I think you chose the wrong 200 books! 

I enjoyed Dune, but it isn't in my top ten or so.  Pohl Anderson's A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows and A Stone in Heaven, for instance, are both much better (in characters, setting, and plot).

[Jacob]

Do you go about a real city striking up conversations with randoms?

Most of what you do in an open world game you wouldn't do in a real city...

[Habbaku]

Do you go about a real city striking up conversations with randoms?

Most of what you do in an open world game you wouldn't do in a real city...

Maybe you wouldn't, coward. 

[Jacob]

Maybe you wouldn't, coward. 

If you would, why are you doing it in game rather than in real life?

[PDH]

Maybe you wouldn't, coward. 

If you would, why are you doing it in game rather than in real life?

Maybe he is really fucking lazy.  (got your back here)

[Tamas]

Point is, if you want a realistic city crowd it is perfectly suitable to have a silent (as in, not telling you more than a random sentence) mass.

[Solmyr]

Still, you can usually do more in a big city than just walk around silently.

[Tamas]

Still, you can usually do more in a big city than just walk around silently.

You might want to play one of these Yakuza games.

[Solmyr]

I probably should, sometime.

[Josquius]

One thing I'm not getting amidst flight sim and truck sim and their impressive realistic graphics and weak gameplay (not the point, I know) is why can't a more active game do the same?
When you have games set in real world cities they're usually shrunken and altered versions.

Your question contains the answer - "weak gameplay."

It is hard, resource intensive work to populate an open world.

Aye. But when flight sim is showing the whole world...
Why can't there be Eg a military flight sim doing the same over a realistic Germany or so?
A GTA like in a realistic small county. Easy enough to generate the buildings and genericise them a bit, it's just the street plan and key landmarks that are significant.

[Razgovory]

Do you go about a real city striking up conversations with randoms?

Most of what you do in an open world game you wouldn't do in a real city...

Yeah, I used to think that as well.  One day though, a perfect stranger walked up to me and asked if I would go into a warehouse and kill all the rats in exchange for a belt.