Oh, my bad, I was trying to make the point that vanilla Skyrim has been regarded as less of a good game in retrospect rather than trying to say it fits what OP was asking for.

And yeah tons of people are still playing Skyrim. Vanilla Skyrim might not be a great game, but it’s a fantastic platform for installing mods. I’m literally in the process of setting up a modpack for it right now.

And what the fuck is a textured rehydrated soy protein? A long way from actually just eating soy beans.

Kind of a bad example to pick since TVP and soy curls are just what’s left behind when you squeeze the fat and moisture out of soy beans (ie to make vegetable oil). There are less steps in between TVP and soy beans than there is between certain grains and stuff like pasta made from them.

I guess I mean more in the critical view of the vanilla game (main story quest is insipid and nonsensical, mage progression is very badly balanced and unfun, leveling as a whole is a crapshoot, draugr deathlords and other boss enemies are unfun damage sponges, dragons are easily distracted idiots, world is comprised of 80% bandit population, etc).

Honestly if Skyrim modding wasn’t so mature and (relatively) approachable, the criticisms would be harsher, but considering that these days you can download preassembled modpacks that turn the game into 4KHD SEKIRO COMBAT ENB GLOBAL ILLUMINATION PARALLAX NEXT GEN REALISM HDT JIGGLE PHYSICS AND HARDCORE SURVIVAL that probably makes the average player pretty unconcerned with what the vanilla game is like.

Time wasn’t kind to the perception of Skyrim or Fallout 4, it’s going to be brutal for Starfield

I personally see this opinion pop up just about every time meat substitutes come up in conversation, including on hexbear.

And re: meat substitutes being ‘full of weird shit’ just comes off as silly when the majority of them are basically just fancy bread. Soy protein, wheat gluten and seasoning oooh so scary.

Okay but seriously though, there are a lot of things that are ‘imitations’ of things that are morally repugnant that are not only harmless but enjoyable due to the fact that no one is getting hurt from it. Like violent video games, some sexual roleplay and so on.

It’s less ‘we are imitating the animal harm hooray’ and more ‘we took the animal harm out of this thousand+ year old human food tradition, hooray!’ (or twenty+ year old if it’s the fast food stuff lol)

For real, and if the only thing standing between me and some godly grilled cheeze sandwich and tomato soup is “suffering” through a slice of coconut fat, salt and emulsifiers, I’m going to be enjoying a delicious grilled sandwich and dunking it in the soup.

damn that’s some pretty good imitation baby

I feel like a hbomberguy video would be kind of redundant when the Palworld developers are pointing directly at the media conglomerate across the room and announcing at the top of their lungs “WE’RE COPYING THIS. WE ARE DIRECTLY RIPPING OFF POKEMON BUT EDGY. WE ARE MAKING POKEMON WITH GUNS. WISHLIST ON STEAM TODAY”.

Edit: That being said, if Palworld really did rip geometry from pokemon 3D models (and things are looking pretty bad on that front), they have a lot more to worry about than hbomberguy.

Supposedly the modern pokemon minecraft mod is both really charming looking and pretty fun. Plus it comes with a copy of Minecraft

Hey there was a similar arc to this in Oglaf and things turned out pretty good for the blowjob guy

I have fond memories of playing the game on this likely long dead private server and I barely had any awareness of the game mechanics. All I knew was that I could farm monsters to get cute pets to drop, and that’s what I did, going zone to zone collecting all the tameable monsters.

tbh that’s really all I need in an MMO I think

Do you think that all the animal feed needed to keep your meat and dairy prices affordable is somehow harvested and processed with only the most ethical paid labor or do you only care about that when it’s a gotcha to vegans

Yeah, it would be possible to do something with it. They could also have like three big branching points in the story and have had the different versions you pop into be alternate worldstates that you the player didn’t pick.

Not to hand it to Rick and Morty, but at least that show has a POV cast of characters that are retained between the universe hopping that the viewers can have some investment in. Starfield somehow doesn’t even have that, it’s just the player.

But the player staying consistent the whole time also means that you actually can’t experience the different backstories content even though that seems like an obvious feature to have. WHAT IS STARFIELD

It’s so fucking weird to me that the entire storyline and gameplay mechanics are built around the RickenMorty multiverse nihilism, in which in your relationships with the factions and characters fundamentally do not matter. They’re all just set pieces for you to occasionally go ‘huh neat’ when you roll an interesting multiverse version of them before being tossed aside.

In order for ANYONE to care about the characters and universe enough to mod more content into this game, you would need to remove the mutliverse aspect, but that’s it, that’s what the game is all about and building towards.

But even with the multiverse being the focus there’s still no content to make doing the new game plus loops worthwhile. TWENTY FUCKING PROCGEN DUNGEONS

What the hell even is Starfield. How did this happen

Why are 12 year old Drarry fujoshis from 1999 catching ‘degen’ strays here

You’re taking a swing at Rowling and somehow missing, worstie

pics of microplastics that will be entering your blood brain barrier

If I wanted a brainless autopilot trained on the average gameplay experience but fundamentally struggles to react in time to novel or demanding gameplay segments I would just play the game myself

wait

I also like being able to mod pants onto the trash fire they call female armor in their Monster Hunter games. Like I sincerely lost all interest in playing Rise on the switch since I wasn’t able to do that lol

Yeah it makes sense, modding games has a barrier to entry which filters out people who aren’t enthusiasts, enthusiasts tend to be better at the game (ie more likely to make an install difficulty mods)

But geez…