Faydaikin

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

i didn’t see that option anywhere. Gimme a sec, I’ll check again

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

I am an idiot. I didn’t click to the next page after it suggested I make an account.

I just close down the launcher immediately.

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

Thank you so much. I’ll do that.

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Thank you for the step-by-step. Steam can be a bit of a maze when you don’t fiddle with these things so often. :)

Edit: Apparently it’s " --skip-launcher" the extra dash matters XD

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

Thanks for making me feel slightly better about it. ;)

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

I can certainly see we’re keeping the reddit-tradition of being an angry little muppet at any given opportunity alive.

Yes, I asked a public forum for help about something I didn’t know. And they came through for me, more so than I would have expected.

You can go back to being angry elsewhere now. Shoo…

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

No. Are you just here to be an ass?

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

Apparently others also found the advice helpful.

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

The Launcher bit was a helpful add-in by a another kind user. I didn’t ask about that specifically, just mentioned that I dislike extra launchers.

My question was far more stupid than that. However, people came through for me regardless. And very fast at that. And for that, I am thankful.

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

I’ve just kinda gotten used to there not being an easy way around it. Hence my ‘Going Straight to the Forums’ reaction.

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

And you didn’t even have to click on my shitty post as it already had (SOLVED) in the title

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

Before that, there’s just a button that says “Get Started!” Right underneath the sentence “Sigh up for a Larian Account.” Otherwise the launcher was blank.

I mistook that as being a forced sign-up, as with some many other games nowadays.

Also, I’m not complaining about anything. I was looking for advise as there seldomly are easy, search-engine friendly, solutions to forced sigh-ups.

If you’d taken the time to read through the comments, you might have gleaned the context for yourself. But since you took the time to click on a (SOLVED)-post and then write the same message the guy before did, I felt compelled to spell it all out. Just for you.

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Indeed. But I have no intention of linking anything up with Twitch, or any other streaming service for that matter.

I just want the games I buy to launch when I press play. No sign-ups, no extra launchers popping up. Just the game I bought, that’s all. :)

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

Indeed. Although there’s very few things left that I haven’t ranked. XD

Faydaikin OP , 10 months ago

I’m ready! XD

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

And a Leatherman tool for when you’re out and about.

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

Sadly, nothing good remains that way forever. The structure and terms of Gamepass will eventually change to something less optimal.

Right now, the focus is to draw in people and create a “loyal” userbase.

Once they’re content with the state of the userbase, they’ll start restricting access and features to make people pay extra for different “premiums” and it’ll slowly go to shit.

It is ‘the way’ of mega-corporations.

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

Without actually remembering anything too well, I do believe marketing around Morrowind was mostly graphics related. It was Beth’ switching to full on 3D and Morrowind was pretty advanced in that regard.

I mean, the screenshots in the magazins sold themselves to anyone with the mind for fantasy. Hell, it’s still the most beautiful and alien world to come out of Bethesda to date.

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

That’s cool. Although I don’t know about “deal.” It’s a subscription for access to a home-arcade in essence. You stop paying and everything goes.

But alas, it is not for me to jugde. I’m not as big a fan of the whole ‘Games as a Service’ concept.

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

Not really. Quite a few smokers live a full life with minimum sideeffects from the tobacco. Hell, there’s just been a big push to remove some of the unnecessary added chemicals in cigarettes here.

So why introduce new ones?

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

Like the problem is we just haven’t noticed yet.

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

I mostly dislike open-world games because of the lazy travel systems. Either you have to run everywhere or you free fast-travel from any point, too any point.

There is no middelground.

I miss games like Morrowind, where you not only had to pay for fast-travel, but it functioned more like an actual transportation system. Like, you had to go to this city and take a Strider to that town and then a boat ride to get to your destination.

Giving the world some infrastructur and natural money drainers helps with immersion and facilitates the need to go do some side-quests every now then. You get fast-travel, but you also get to see the world that was build for you. And you don’t run around as the richest douche in the world by level 10 with the best gear available because nothing costs anything.

Bethesda skipped this aspect entirely back in Oblivion and never looked back. Making your characters golden gods from the get-go, with no reason to interact with anyone or do anything except screwing around and collecting trinkets.

There’s more to it, ofcause, but this is the biggest pet-peeve I have.

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

Less ‘Skyrim in Space,’ more ‘Fallout 4 in Space.’ They are really leaning into the “Build Your Own Trash-Fort” aspect, as with Starfield, you not only build them on every planet. You get to ride around in them between planets.

I get that ‘Builder Games’ are big money, but dear lord…

Faydaikin , 10 months ago

Isn’t that still a fuck-ton more than what any of their competitors have at their disposal?

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Yep, that sounds like a very Mega-Corp thing to do.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Wasteland 2.

There’s a couple of places that need passcodes and figuring out riddles. Sometimes you team is smart enough to remember them, other times not so much.

It also comes in handy with Dialog Options when no one in your team has ‘talking’ as a primary stat. You can still punch in the triggering word manually.

You’re basically the sixth member of the team if you can remember all that stuff. It’s neat little feature. Pen and paper absolutely required.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

I highly doubt Battle net will be removed.

Like so many titles before it, it’s likely you’ll just get to launch Battle net from Steam now.

So, no reason to uninstall anything. Or install anything for that matter.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

If you don’t mind OW’s new monetization model, that’s fine and all, but Bing?!

Why would you do that to yourself?

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Oh, sure. But I have a sneaking suspicion you still need both Battle Net and Steam installed and running for it to work.

Kinda like GOG Galaxy works with both Steam and EGS. It can manage all your other launchers, but they need to be running.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Not really my type of games, so… They can keep 'em.

Although I am quite against all that exclusivity silliness.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I do have a firm policy regarding games that are and were exclusives. I don’t buy them even if they eventually come to my neck of the woods.

If they didn’t want my money then, they aren’t getting a dime now. Pretty simple.

But as I said, neither game really had any interest to begin with. So there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have picked them up anyway.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Do you still have fun when you lose?

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

That statement comes off a bit disingenuous when you qualify like that.

One might get the idea that you’re inserting the same toxic behavior we see in competitive games so often into this conversation.

A simple “Yes” would have sufficed and I wouldn’t have thought twice about your sincerely on the subject.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

‘Metro 2033 Redux’ and ‘Metro: Last Light Redux’ are my favorite stealth games.

Good atmosphere and setting.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I literally just posted about a few of these in another thread. :)

Decent: Freespace and Freespace 2 are the best Space Fighter - Dog-Fighting Tactics games I’ve played. They still hold up to this day. And the voice-acting is great.

Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2 are also solid games, although more in the silly corner. Dig out a dungeon, build rooms to attracts creatures of the dark, train them and go to war against the foul knights and kings of the overworld.

The OG Fallout games are always worth a mention. Fallout and Fallout 2.

If you’re into old disturbing point and click puzzle games Sanitarium is a classic.

Or a bit more laid-back storytelling with mysteries, maybe? Then Oxenfree is worth looking into.

In the FPS category I recommend the Metro games. Well, the two first ones anyway. Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. Stealth is optional, but advised. :p

I’d also be amiss not to mention Soma. It’s a scary game and a solid mindfuck at the same time. Approach with caution.

That’s my list for now. I hope there’s something in there you can use. :)

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

GOG’s version works for me straight out of the box. Other than that, there’s the High-Res patch and the general Patch. They are quite important on modern machines.

If you play on Windows, make sure both patches are installed. Then screw around with the High-Res patcher a bit, hopefully you can find the right setting. It will probably take a few attempts.

If you play on Linux, I sadly can’t help you as I never got Fallout to work in it. :/

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Hmm… Compatibility mode, maybe?

I remember having trouble with Win 7 as well.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Indeed. I just ran through what I had on GOG.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Man, this thread reminded me of some of the great old games I used to play back in the day.

And if any of ya’ll are into Space Fighters and Dog-Fight Tactics, boy have I got something for you.

‘Decent: Freespace’ and ‘Freespace 2’.

Although the graphics might seem a bit dated, believe me when I say it won’t matter in the least. You’ll be far more focused on the information your HUD is feeding you, giving orders to squad-mates and navigating the basic controls in a panic.

Unlike some modern space games, you don’t get to just screw around with standard WASD +Mouse controls. Your keyboard is your cockpit and everything pretty much controls as in one (although a simplified one). There is no auto-aim and no freebies, if you can’t keep your aim where it’s supposed to be, you miss.

There’s also a energy-management system where you get to prioritize what subsystems needs more power: Shields, Weapons or Engines. And you can overclock the different systems at the expense of the others on the fly. Choose wisely.

You get to choose your own ships and weapons loadout as you rise though the ranks and gain access to various new goodies, not all missions calls for the heaviest ordinance. Finesse and maneuverability are virtues here.

The story is fairly basic: “Terrans (Humans) and an Alien Race known as the Vasudans are at war. Third Alien Race pops in and wrecks house on both sides. Shit gets interesting as the new Alien Race are technologically superior and neigh unkillable.”

The voice-acting is phenomenal and you really get the feeling of being an expandable grunt, that slowly gets to prove his worth and is let in on more and more Special-Ops assignments, equipment and such. Everything is on a need-to-know basis and there’s a lot you don’t need to know.

The game contains plenty of bonus objectives that aren’t immediately apparent. Sometimes it pays off to stick around a bit longer when you’re told you can go back to base. ;)

I don’t know how good I am at selling the games, but damn if they aren’t the best I’ve ever played in the space-fighter genre to date.

They are worth giving a try at the very least. And they are dirt cheap on GOG as a bonus.

I’ll just add the intro sequence the first game here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-xcgBL1mY

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Congratulations, Tenno!

Hopefully I’ll be following in your footsteps before long. I’m at MR 29 and half way to the next test. :)

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

Unlike Bethesdas games, I still have a bit of hope for Baldurs Gate 3.

But let’s see how it turns out.

Faydaikin , 11 months ago

They could really get the original team together to cook up a new game.

I shit you not, that was likely an idea MS had when they started buying up all the studios. But the boys are slowly starting to retire from game development or have moved on to greener pastures and other ideas, so good luck on the prospect of some OG Fallout/Wasteland stuff coming.

Plus, let’s not delude ourselves into thinking MS gives a shit about the customers, the franchises or anything other than their own wallets.

And Bethesda has been a shitshow for a while now and it shows in their games. Poor management leads to poor development and poor products. If they have 3000+ employees and only releases one game every 5(+/-) years. And the games are still so alpha-levels of broken upon release that the Modding Community have to fix every release, for the same bugs, every time, you’re doing something wrong.

I’m not trying to be super negative here. Cynical? Sure. But mostly just trying to give another perspective.

I believe something is coming. But don’t get your hopes up too high. In the end, it’s more that likely just about milking something that maybe should have remained dead.

Faydaikin , 1 year ago

Master Of Orion. Both the original, it’s sequel and the modern remake. It’s nice to play something with different pacing from other games. And the random outcomes from AI throughout the game’s progression keeps things spicy from playthrough to playthrough.