eighnuss wrote on Mar 12^th, 2017 at 9:08am:


Nice, Witcher 3 was about 130 km^2 by comparison, maybe around 200 km^2 with the expansions.

5 Foot Step wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 12:46pm:


Nah I'm on MTGO still. have been for like 13 years now, here il grab ya a link:

http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/download

5 Foot Step wrote on Jul 21^st, 2017 at 5:11pm:


Except for it being a console game, yeah, it looks really good. Its nintendo, too, and I'm actually contemplating buying a Nintendo switch for the zelda game, so that all works out. Who's have though Nintendo would be the ones to lead the way in open-world?

Plus, you can play switch games on the shitter, and that's just awesome.

lostthenloved wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 12:52pm:

client is such trash. so are the team that runs mtgo. the online game has the same level of secondary market collusion with sellers as does the paper game. The bot chain brands are the walmart of mtgo, just like star city games and channelfireball for paper.

They finally put leagues back after a many years long hiatus. with leagues; you can find matches around the clock, and there are no timers until your next round opponent. Daily events are around the clock for standard and modern, but the other only manage to fire weekly-ish. there are magic online championships in standard and modern that offer qualifiers to large paper events.

many current constructed  formats online; standard, modern, legacy, vintage, commander, and pauper. there are also a wide variety of drafting or sealed formats ranging from the current standard format, to old sets, and to modern/legacy/vintage cube drafts. 

check reddit for news on the game and general help. https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/ ; ~200k subs and has links to other smaller subreddits.

I'll join the necro

Fallout 3 & New Vegas - the obvious choices.  An untold, interesting story behind every rock.
Fallout 4 & Skyrim - Big, beautiful, insanely detailed and hollow shells lacking the same depth of the earlier games.  Enjoyed them, but both felt like they were missing key ingredients (actual substance for example).
Witcher 3 - gritter, more realistic and more depth than Skyrim, but not as many interesting, untold stories hiding behind rocks.  Still better and more satisfying quests and combat though.
State of Decay - more minimalist graphics, but they put a lot of detail into that world.  Downside is you're so busy fighting for you life it takes months before you really start noticing the little details.
Gothic 3 - Piranha Bytes tends to design just insanely detailed and beautifully crafted games.  Not nearly as empty as Skyrim and even though the world is smaller, it's so well crafted it actually feels much, much larger.  For that reason it's one of my all time favorite games (and to a lesser extent, Risen).
Pro's - designed that it gets tougher the further out you get, forcing you to level up to explore.  Slowing your progress gives you more time to really live in and exist in the world instead of just flying by and catching glimpses out of the corner of your eye.
Con's - graphics were well ahead of your time (most people didn't even have computers that could support it when released), but now very dated.  Level progress is too slow.  Could take damn near a year of working in each town to raise gold to advance enough levels to move on.  You really do have to use cheat codes to compensate for this flaw.  You also have to find a torrent with the fan patches to have a stable experience.
Bonetown - embarrassingly juvenile, but when you get past the not so mature, mature subject matter, it's actually an insanely well-crafted open-world game.
Assassin's Creed - Not really an open world game IMO.  Gorgeous game, insane amounts of details, but the linear story lines and wonky combat style of the earlier games vs Turbine level of glitches of the new games made me lose interest in the series about half-way through (plus the whole "computer simulation of a computer simulation" thing destroys immersion for me).

I've been enjoying Ghost Recon : Wildlands recently, it's a massive map, and quite fun to explore.  Nothing beats racing a motorbike up a mountain jumping over a military compounds fence and fucking their shit up for so long that eventually they stop sending re-inforcements.

Except maybe, jumping the fence fucking their shit up then bailing with an entire countries military chasing you, ony to watch drug cartels freak and start engaging the army for you.

Skoodge wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2017 at 10:30am:


Well 3 would have been based on the Oblivion engine, which IMO was 1,000 times better than the shit they used for Skyrim. I remember being miles away and still being able to look out and see the capitol city in Oblivion. In fucking skyrim I could barely see 10 feet in front of me. Seriously fuck that game.

Skoodge wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2017 at 10:30am:


Gothic I couldn't seem to figure out, the games are deffinitely worth another go around. Witcher looked really good but the tutorial/opening sequence took for-fucking-EVER and I was just straight up done with it by the time I got through that. My savegame is probably still good though and I'm sure its worth another looksee.

Well, at the moment I gotta figure out why my stupid 6-monitor Gaming machine refuses to do the right resolutions, then I can give it a shot. So far we've narrowed it down to my DP adapters not passing EDID information DDO on 6 screens was funny, though, even with the fubared resolution.