Kendo 2

ShoddyCast on Youtube as a comprehensive video series on Elder Scrolls lore.  I highly recommend them.

The Elder Scrolls Lore Series: Season 1

The Elder Scrolls Lore Series: Season 2

In my unpopular opinion Bethesda has lost the ever-narrowing edge they had in the gaming market and they're aware of it.  I think The Game Awards in 2015 not being a Bethesda coronation like it always was in the past hit them pretty hard.  Witcher3 beating FO4 had to sting, and Bethesda obviously doesn't have a candidate for Dec 2016.  The less-than stellar reception of FO4 was probably unexpected.  What Bethesda has been getting away with since 2006 simply won't fly today.  Euclideon software, photo-realistic graphics, modern game engines (CryEngine, Unreal4, EA’s Frostbite, CDProjekt’s RedEngine, Source, Unity, etc.)...there's no way that Bethesda can compete with any of that on consoles.

Like it or not consoles is where the high-end market has been heading since xBox and PS3.  I just bought an XBox1 and an new 28" LED 4k TV and they'll be delivered this Wednesday.  Mass Effect Andromeda and Cyberpunk 2077 are calling my name and I want to play that shit in style.  Note I'm NOT dropping almost $800 to play a Bethesda release.  They don't don't even rate an honorable mention.

Dishonored 2.  Now we can begin to understand why Bethesda doesn't want media reviews ahead of a game release.

Dishonored 2 has performance issues on PC

Bethesda responds to Dishonored 2’s PC performance issues with new tips

6 hours ago, yoyosdt said:

Haha wow, pretty funny just so happens the mod author of it is here. Would be great if you or K2 could upload it/send via PM.

Here you go.  K2_GothGirlType3.rar

The esp is for FO3 so you'll need to make a NewVegas one yourself.

After Bethesda releases the final DLC for a game they do one patch for the construction set and then they abandon it.  Oblivion, FO3, NV, Skyrim and now FO4.  Also funny that the FO4 season pass and all of the 'extra-content' promised at purchase never happened.  Bethesda is not CDProjektRed and they don't give anything away.

As for the future of Bethesda modding it will fall more and more on modders who are able to crack the game to add content.  It will fall into the realm Sims and Mass Effect modding; player-made extractors and editors not sanctioned by the companies or subject to their licensing.  The FO4 CK being abandoned is par for the course for Bethesda; but it being in the woefully incomplete state it is now is something new.

I've already decided I'll never buy another Bethesda title until the modding community has had access to it for at least a year.  Fear of missing out outweighs my wasting 60 bucks on a game that sucks.  FO4 taught me that lesson.  I also believe the response to FO4 is one reason why Bethesda is taking their Nancy Pelosi snake-charmer 'have to buy it to see what's in it' game review policy.  When talking about game releases Bethesda touts DOOM but never mentions FO4.

What's also disturbing is the new story-driven approach Bethesda is trying to mimic from games like Mass Effect and Witcher series.  To pull that off a developer needs what we all know Bethesda lacks; writers who can script and execute a compelling story.  That talent left when Ken Ralston packed up his desk and walked out half way through FO3.

5 hours ago, Doublezero said:

But seriously though, this in a sense is a review embargo; not a winning strategy going forward. This isn't giving me a lot confidence that TES:VI will good game on a new engine.

We'll find out around 2020.  It takes Bethesda about 4 years to make a game, even with an engine they've been using since 2002 and Morrowind.  If it took them 8 years to make FO4 just imagine how long it will take for TES6 and a new engine to run it.  And there isn't going to be an Obsidian FO game based on the FO4 engine like what happened with FO3 and New Vegas.  FO: New Orleans, FO: Boneyard are not happening.  That means NO new Bethesda titles that can be modded.  It's FO4 and the broken and now abandoned CK for it.

Skyrim Remastered won't fill the gap because the mods people want require frameworks that will have to be refitted for a 64bit engine.  It took Skyrim modding 4 years to peak, but that was a new game and all of the interest that drives.  People have already seen Skyrim.  64bit doesn't offer anything we haven't seen when mods and ENBs are used with the 32bit version.

What all of this boils down to is Bethesda continuously shooting themselves in the foot.  Them not allowing for advance notice game reviews is just another bullet in the chamber.  Popular Youtubers are already talking about this 'one day' review scheme.  They aren't happy and neither are their subscribers.  When that happens word spreads fast and the gist of most comments is 'They're trying to hide how bad their games are.'  People like Bethesda games, but there is no denying how buggy they are when compared to other modern releases.

Bethesda is infamous for DMCA notices on Youtube.  Even if a reviewer was able to get some game play footage up with the 24 hr window it would be copyright flagged.  Look at what Bethesda did with FO4 and people resorting to PornHub just to get videos up.  Bethesda doesn't want the public knowing about the game until they buy it.  That's also why game reviewers get flak for saying something like 'The game is bugged so hold off on buying it for a couple of weeks'.  That bites Bethesda's bottom line and it doesn't look good with their shareholders.  It is like Bethesda knows what their games lack and the want to keep potential customers in the dark.

Bethesda announces they will be sending media review copies of games one day before official release.

Here is the article link on Bethesda.net.

Basically what this does is prevent potential customers from being informed in advance, before they make the decision to purchase a Bethesda game release.  One day is not enough time for a reviewer on a platform like Youtube to do some in-depth game play, compile a comprehensive video and provide a qualified opinion.  Given the release states of previous Bethesda game titles (i.e. all of the day-one bugs) it appears Bethesda doesn't have a lot of faith in their products.  Reviewers being able to actually review the games seems like an unwanted burden to Bethesda.

There were literally thousands of girls in this video and all of them were fuckable.  Compare that to a video about American Spring Break. *pukes*

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The first set.  They are awesome and I've never seen them used.

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You can always like it on YouTube as well.

"15 lashes with the knout.  Make it so."  That's a direct quote from the game, and then they actually do it.  Hanging, burning at the stake, impaling, all of that vile shit is in the game too.  Sometimes it's hard to watch without feeling outrage at the NPCs responsible, and they are just pixelated villains.  That's how evoking the game is, to me at least.  I've never been madder at NPCs in game than I have in Witcher3.

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Too bad the original made by Alex3874 is gone for good.  Can thank Nexus staff stupidity for that.

SJWs HATE Witcher3.  'Too much sex', 'not enough black people', 'perpetuates rape culture' and 'Those bunnies are fucking in the background!' 

There are a lot of reasons I love Witcher3, but I guess the biggest part for me is being treated like an adult when I play.  The human aspect of the game is very plausible and it might be 'too real' for sensitive types.  Gritty medieval reality with magic and monsters thrown in.

For those who haven't played the game here's all of the trailers.  It has the cinematic ones and the ones featuring real time game play.

I like it that ProjektRed wasn't afraid to show actual game quality footage in preview trailers.

The Honest Trailers for other games are just as funny...and truthful.  But yeah, FO4 sucks cock.

Bethesda is sloppy with their games and even sloppier with their DLCs and patches to fix patches, etc.  Also there isn't a vetting process for mods submitted to Bethesda.net.  They don't even check to see if the shit works or not.  Doing that for PC mods is one thing but sabotaging a console game is something else entirely.  Sony won't risk it.

And a few things that Bethesda 'failed' to mention when they were blasting Sony; one of Sony's major beefs with Bethesda was the size limit on mods for PS4.  And there's already an existing issue with jacked Bethesda textures on PS4 and Bethesda refusing to patch for that system.  There's also an issue with some of their sound file formats.  Bethesda isn't willing to address any of that BUT they want mods for PS4.  I'd tell Bethesda to get fucked too.

'cis' is used as a derogatory term by internet-inspired Leftist; based on an obscure German study about sexually done in the late 1990's.  Basically it means people identifying with the gender they were born with (a woman who thinks she's a woman, a man who thinks he's a man).  According to left-leaning activists this is a bad thing.

'SJW' is Social Justice Warrior.  You can Google that one though once you see how they really are you'll wish you hadn't.

'brunette'  Yes, dark hair.

3 hours ago, Karma199696 said:

by the way...  did i ever mention that i love older guys ??

WooHoo! \o/

EDIT: Should we take this to PMs?  *joking*

endgameaddiction,

You don't need the 'required' specs to play Witcher 3.  If you can run Skryim you can run Witcher3 as long as you have the 64bit OS and at least 6gb ram.

Horses... 

I've been around plug horses my entire life.  I hate them.  Mean, deceptive, cruel to one another.  There one thing to know about horses; if you get on one you had better be prepared to kill it, because they are prepared to push the limit on you if they see one instance of you being unsure or God Forbid afraid.  Horses aren't pets, in the same way a police dog isn't a pet.

No idea why Geralt calls his horse Roach.  But it's an apt term though.

I've played through Wicher3 twice taking different paths and romancing both Yennifer and Triss.  I've played Geralt as a dick and him as a nice guy.  I used both of those play-throughs to do Heart of Stone and Blood and Wine.  It's pretty safe to say I've seen a lot and done a lot in the game.  Now I'm starting a new game so I can use a new Geralt to complete the whole thing, start to finish.  No Bethesda game can hold my interest like that without mods.