I don't think ever patching a game before 2000 If a game had a bug back then, you'd just had to play around it
The cancer of the industry is that games are being released way too soon, before they are even near to completion. It's not just in games either, but with a lot of saas/online/cloud shit. Too much completition that companies are desperate to be the first.
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You could say, I am easily impressed, but the first minutes, when you're wading through the snow, creating and looking for tracks that can even disappear, watching the clouds and the mist, going through a stream to cover the tracks etc. I was kind of flabbergasted.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
You could say, I am easily impressed, but the first minutes, when you're wading through the snow, creating and looking for tracks that can even disappear, watching the clouds and the mist, going through a stream to cover the tracks etc. I was kind of flabbergasted.
The atmosphere is pretty insane, that fog is a FPS killer but it definitely knows how to set the mood
Don't forget console games that didn't have internet connection, so no patches. Games which had 1-2 bugs become "mythological bugs" and are so weird, people remember them to this day, and those were quite rare.
The problem is that too many mediocre people (and below) are working in all software engineering industries, whereas, in the past, you had the "best of the best of the best". These days, you go to conferences and you see the points discussed and you facepalm so hard, your hand goes through your face; app architecture, tdd, mvc vs mvvm vs viper vs mysexynewshitiwillabandoninsixmonths. None of that crap mattered 20 years ago, because what was important was the product and its performance, not bringing some 100 juniors for cheap and thinking "ohh how will we ever maintain this crap, oh lets write it in some religious-type nonsense so even the dumbest js derpeloper can follow". You see this everywhere; server services are garbage, OSes are garbage, "apps" are garbage, games are garbage. Everything in 2019 is garbage and slow. "Premature optimization" is a concept stemming from idiots unable to design software with optimizations in mind. Everything is being rewritten every few years because you can't expect the twats hired for cheap to understand "legacy" code and maintain it, so instead they rewrite it in sexytech1237192873, write blog post about it and then change their jobs every six months, leaving everything broken.
And the sad thing is, idiot drones just flock and "preorder". For reference, see this thread. People are just rewarding this behavior. It's an infinite loop of bad management, incompetent derpelopers and imbecile consumers so rich, they are looking to satisfy some sick evolutionary trait by throwing money they know is going to a buggy shit. Media also pours gasoline on the fire by never mentioning instability and bugs in reviews, because they are paid to suck cocks.
India is such a big country, it has many high quality and low quality developers. Painting it as an issue of nationality is bollocks. (Their accents are impossible to understand though ).
I think software has become the new "doctor" or "lawyer" job, where parents push their kids as "real jobs" to maek moneyz. The amount of "musicians" I've met that actually do their money from software is not even funny. I say "musicians" but I should also say "developers" too because it's clear that they don't give a shit about software, are terrible at it, but need to maek moneyz. It's not their fault really, it's the fault of management who are looking for cheap developers.
so this guy gave me attitude so I hogtied him and put him on traintracks waiting for a train to run him over.
But there was no dismemberment which made the whole thing not as satisfying as I hoped it would be.
Which is curious. Because once I shot someone in the face with the shotgun and half their head was gone.
Also It kinda sucks that being good in this game gets rewarded so hard with outfits, discounts and whatnot but being an evil outlaw only gets you.. bountyhunters and mistrust.
I don't wanna be good. Robbing trains, shooting people in the face because they look at you funny, robbing in general, stabbing people, not helping strangers and robbing them instead, all that is pretty fun.
It's just a shame you can't skin people like you can with animals and wear their faces as masks.
You get all these hunting challenges and legendary beasts but there should be a whole compendium for hunting defenseless people and selling their skins.
Which is why I really bonded with that one couple that invited me for dinner implying some good old cuckholdery who then proceeded to poison me and leave me to die.
I was ready to start a love triangle with them in which we would routinely invite guests to the house and sodomize them before skinning them alive but when I got back to their house they weren't up for that and just started shooting.
@Amadeus good thing you can just spam "Hello"s and "How are you"s in the last act to recover from being a terrible person and go back to the light side
@LeoNatan I agree aswell. But I'm just too rich and the game runs fine for me, so I don't care about having paid 35€ in the Ukrainian store. There are many things I do, that I find ethically questionable and have real life consequences as opposed to gaming, but that I feel compelled to do anyway (like driving my car when I could use the bike or eating meat almost every day etc. etc.).
Any way, mea culpa.
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Saying hello to random people increases your Honor. Do it couple dozen times and you convert from super bad guy to the nicest guy ever
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Its stupid yes, the game is generally too casual, but its just as stupid to use this as a player. If you actively chose to exploit this "feature", the fault is on you. Why would you want to spoil your own experience and if you do, who cares except yourself?
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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But yeah kinda sucks how all the excl00sive rewards are for the high honor only, would've been nice to get some unique outfits at least for being a real rotten sumbitch. I guess they figured low honor was easy and fun enough already that it doesn't need any extra incentives.
@Amadeus good thing you can just spam "Hello"s and "How are you"s in the last act to recover from being a terrible person and go back to the light side
Wait,wut
Saying hello to random people increases your Honor. Do it couple dozen times and you convert from super bad guy to the nicest guy ever
Just using FXAA makes the game pretty sharp, not perfect. It's that TAA that blurs it. MSAA kills my framerate, even with 2080 super @ 1080p, can't use it, have to use fxaa instead.
@LeoNatan I agree aswell. But I'm just too rich and the game runs fine for me, so I don't care about having paid 35€ in the Ukrainian store. There are many things I do, that I find ethically questionable and have real life consequences as opposed to gaming, but that I feel compelled to do anyway (like driving my car when I could use the bike or eating meat almost every day etc. etc.).
Any way, mea culpa.
I mean, as all honest rants go, there is an element of self deprecation in it. We all do it. We've become terrible consumers. No demand of quality. Some less than others, but as a whole, we are terrible. In some way, we are the reason everything is such shit.
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If a game had a bug back then, you'd just had to play around it 
