Legion said:   What it do Edd. I see you've dropped all but the Mr. I didn't play Origins, so I can't say, but I did play RDR2, and that map makes me dread the first 10 hours or so of the game. I'm over these giant maps that try to hide the fact that you're walking 10+ minutes in each direction to complete and turn in quests by being really pretty on the way. Its boring, I'm bored, give me a radio or something to shoot.  Hah, yes. I was/am in the process of changing my user name "globally" on the internet, as I found out there were lots and lots of Mr. Edds out there (103 only on steam). I was looking for something more unique, but so far, as an user name, I only liked the name of my Pillars of Eternity character. I wish it was a FO/TES character, but I think of those creations almost as their own separate entity. Until I decide I have settled on a far more generic name, "Mr.".  I can't speak for RDR2, though, as I haven't played it (waiting for that new GPU).   Legion said: I'm safe for everything but the graphics, which I just hit the minimum for. I'd like to upgrade to the point where I can play in 1440p with consistent fps across all my games. I just got Fallout 4 to run in 1440 but it dips from 60 to 30 in dense environments. What's the deal with the low supply of RTX 3000x?   I'm considering an RTX 3070 precisely for 1440p gaming. As for the supply issue, it's something to do with low production and logistics - current events haven't helped them I imagine. On top of that, damn robots have been buying all of the supply that ends up being available, usually faster than a human can. This post was edited by Mr. at October 7, 2020 9:05 PM EDT

Good to see you again, Legion. I agree. The problem with huge open-world maps (in extension) is that you have to know how to make them, and there has to be a reason for you to make them. That reason can't be "because big maps are cool and trendy", otherwise you end up with a huge empty cask, devoid of real substance, like Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey or Ubisoft games in general, where you can clearly see the same assets for even major buildings, like temples, simply repeated all around the world. I'm not saying devs shouldn't repeat assets, far from it, but it's something to avoid, especially with landmark buildings, and if you have to repeat a landmark building even a single time, it's a sign telling you to stop.    But in Cyberpunk's case, I have a feeling that leaked map isn't showing the entirety of the Badlands. It's a map of the city, and I feel like there is some more land to the east of that highway between Santo Domingo and Westbrook... Unless the Badlands are in the Southwest (which it doesn't look like, given that screenshot in the OP), in which case they are on the map.    Alas,  I'll probably hold off on playing Cyberpunk 2077 for at least a month, but potentially until June/July next year. The latter would be the wiser choice, considering real life deadlines and projects... And I have to buy a new GPU for it, which will be hard to do this year anyway, given the low supply of the new RTX 3000x and the economies of a college student with a low-paying intern job.  But, in Fallout at least, sometimes it's better to spec on Luck rather than Intelligence. This post was edited by Mr. at October 6, 2020 10:23 PM EDT

So, I'll get this out of my way: Now that I've thought about it, and right now, without seeing and playing Avowed, I don't want Obsidian to make 'New Vegas 2' or even another Fallout.  Why? Because most of the big writers and people behind New Vegas have left, and only Sawyer remains. In my experience, the last Obsidian RPG that had really great writing, characters and world-building was Pillars of Eternity 1. I'm not sure if they would be up to the task of making a sequel to what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest RPGs of all time. "But what about PoE2 and The Outer Worlds?", you might ask. Well, I never played POE2, so I can't really claim it's bad. However, the reason I never played it was because its premise and world never really caught my attention, so much so that not even the prospect of another Obsidian RPG made me want to buy it. Regardless, it is rather well known that it didn't do nearly as well as the first game, and the writing, from the bits I've seen, seems inferior. As for The Outer Worlds, it has a terrific concept and potential as a franchise, and I think in world and spirit it's better than FO4, mostly because it was designed primarily as an RPG, while FO4 decided to give up some RPG/Fallout fundamentals. However, if I take my Obsidian fanboy hat off, it really isn't as great in the writing department as the Obsidian of old. None of its companions are really as memorable as, say, Durance from PoE, or Boone and Raul from New Vegas, and the main story and themes are kind of a given once you see any trailer - it really doesn't go in different directions than what they set out for it (If your character good, then corporations bad, money bad - even if the outcome of going against corps might be bad, it's only because of a twist of luck, because fundamentally, they're all bad). It just doubles down and goes deeper on their story premise. On the other hand, Obsidian isn't the only studio under Microsoft that has a Fallout history. inXile Entertainment just released a terrific post-apocalypse game (bugs aside) in Wasteland 3, and unlike modern Obsidian, I think at the end of the day, comparing both of these developers' recent track-record, I have more faith in inXile and the team behind Wasteland 3, so much so that I would rather see a collaboration between Bethesda and inXile than Bethesda and 2020 Obsidian.  This post was edited by Mr. at September 21, 2020 7:06 PM EDT

Hello. I believe most of you probably know by now that Microsoft bought Bethesda. The first 35 seconds of this video is how you should feel about it: Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about what this means, how you feel about it, what you expect, what you fear... Anything you want to. What do you think about it?    This post was edited by Mr. at September 21, 2020 6:41 PM EDT

Glad you enjoyed it! I haven't seen it yet, but I do remember being surprised at how much attention and success the movie garnered. After that initial controversy, I expected it to flop, and now it looks like it might herald a new wave of video game movies.  I'm happy to see Jim Carrey again, it feels like he wasn't in any big movie for quite some time, or maybe I just wasn't paying attention... I think his last movie that I saw was... "Yes man" or something like that, with Zoey Deschanel. It was a lovely little movie.