That’s even worse part of it. Why tf does game like GTA6 even need marketing? Everyone and their dog will talk about it anyway…

It’s really absurd where budget of those games went to… Big corpo gaming is wasteful as fuck.

Fuck Nintendo.

Edit: I’d be somehow interested in switch-like console and Nintendo exclusive games, but definitely not bundled with horse shit like that.

I can’t say one or the other globally. It is very much game dependent for me. There are open worlds that are just wonderful and it’s joy to play them and there are others whose world is empty and useless and that sucks.

One of the best executed open wolrds is old Gothic IMO (Gothic 2 is great too). Sure it’s probably ugly and bland by today standards, but the world is absolutely amazing. It’s completely open from the start, but player is so weak it is probably good idea to play semi-linear at the beginning. But nothing (except for tough enemies) stops you from exploring whatever and whenever you want. And there are tons and tons of things to explore. Hidden cave with loot? Shortcut connecting two roads? Place with very rare alchemy ingredient at the end of narrow valley? Shadowbeast lair? There is so much love put in there I still have cravings to play it even though it’s like quarter of century old game… Quite the same can be said for e.g. Morrowind which is another absolute gem from early 2000s.

But there are also open world games where open world either simply sucks or serves no purpose. I’d have to think about which games fall in there, because once it’s like this I tend to uninstall and forget the title…

Ekke ekke p-tang zoom boing!

I was looking at simple 2 bay home NAS and Synology was - quite logically - one of the contenders. Now I’m glad I ordered differently. Went with Asustor AS5402, which might be not as polished package as a Synology option, but they’re very open about it and say it’s just regular PC so you can instal e.g. TrueNAS if you want. This openness convinced me.

Morrowind is clearly and by far the best TES game ever made. It’s old and it shows, but this doesn’t take anything from the quality of the game. It has one of the best executed and most interesting worlds in any game I’ve played, it has great main story that is still just a scratch among other stories hidden throughout the Vvardenfell, and lastly the soundtrack… It’s epic when it needs to be epic, it’s calm when it needs to be calm, great melodies very well tied to different areas and parts of the game, it’s just awesome.

I can tell you. It would be HUGE absolutely generic open world with AI generated characters and quests, virtually zero human made and interesting quests and gameplay would feel like filling excel spreadsheets. Somewhat like Ubisoft recepe :-D

At least that’s what original Daggerfall 's spirit would be. It was at the time where “the biggest” was simply the catchphrase and Daggerfall was exactly that. The biggest. But also very shallow and empty. Sure there were billions of quests but what for? When for one interesting there were dozens of generic ones? Don’t get me wrong, it was still a great game at the time, because players weren’t as spoiled and something was always better than nothing. At least that’s my impression.

Oh c’mon! It’s not just Portugal, there’s half of the EU missing…

Sixteen times the detail hard work!

Which cannot be said about Todd Howard.

True, but majority of non-entirely-indie devs do exactly what I said. Sadly some indie too.

I’ve played many different RPGs during my life, but Disco really is like nothing I’ve played before. Maybe, just maybe a little like Planescape Torment, but other than that? Nothing comes to mind. Which is unbelievable in this age, where most developers play it safe with basically sequels of successful games and new ones you barely can tell apart…

I got hooked, but I was like “what if I chose this option now?” all the time. So I started completely different character right after I finished. Got couple hours in, but… 1) it’s too fresh experience and I should probably give it a bit more time and 2) I wanted the new character to be this fascist, racist, egoist, alcohol and drug abuser, but damn. It’s so tough to play against some basic human principles.

Disco Elysium

I know it did not release this yer, but I got to it now, so it is GOTY for me.

It’s supposed to be extremely buggy as I’ve heard. Can’t comment much more on that, except fpr this snippet. Maybe it’s fixed now, maybe even for long time, but I wouldn’t trust it just like that after what I’ve heard.

Best of luck with encryption on there. Everyone I know tell me NOT to use nextclouds encryption.

Checkmate! I don’t even have 180 mbps internet lane. Deal with it Microsoft!

/s

I had a good fun with Bulletstorm. Kind of a game where you can put your brain on hold and enjoy the ride.

Isn’t Falkon pretty much dead?