Why does it say this post was made 3 years ago?

I don’t organise it 🥲

You can still buy the games outside of Game Pass.

Skyrim.

1491 by Charles Mann has good reviews, I still haven’t got around to reading it yet though.

I’m not sure this is true. Like imagine someone posts their address in a Lemmy post - I’m pretty sure that counts as PII and they have the right to request its deletion.

The Case for Space by Robert Zubrin. It’s really interesting and he clearly has thought a lot about how humans could live in space. The parts about the orbital mechanics of maneuvering about the Saturn system etc. can be pretty confusing though.

I really liked The Plantagenets by him, and he was a good guest on The Tides of History podcast. He really knows his stuff about the Hundred Years War so I expect it’s very realistic and accurate.

Cadaver Exquisito, known as Tender is the Flesh in English. I read it in the original Spanish.

It’s about a future where a virus infects all animals and so they have to be culled. But people still want to eat meat, so they begin farming humans.

It’s basically just standard factory farming stuff, but when it’s from the point of view of humans you see how horrific some of it is. It makes you think a lot about how animals are treated in agriculture.

e-books. I listen to podcasts while I do chores though. Usually about History.

The Kindle is just so much more convenient - I can carry some 1500 page fantasy book in my hand and it weighs very little as well.

It makes sense, the police should be allowed to use facial recognition software but not any private enterprise.

Similarly the stuff about migrants seems weird as it’s just using AI as a tool to enforce the law. It seems strange to focus on the tools being used for enforcement rather than the law itself if that is what they consider to be unjust.

I don’t get the controversy over 30fps. Like I played RDR2 at 30fps and didn’t even notice it.

The gameplay itself is far more important and on that front Bethesda has been second to none. There isn’t even one single game that comes close to what they have achieved in The Elder Scrolls. Kingdom Come: Deliverance was close but much smaller in scope (which makes sense given the size of the studio).

I’ve played every single one of their games since Morrowind and while Fallout 76 was a flop and Fallout 4 was perhaps a bit disappointing, at least without DLC, almost all of their games have been incredible.

In Todd we trust.

The Return of the Obra Dinn is one of my favourite games. It’s an indie game but quite well known so I’m not sure if it counts as a hidden gem.

I really liked The Case of the Golden Idol too, and its DLC.

You can see I like detective games haha…

I was playing it in xbox. I think I may already have it on Steam from some sale or something but I just prefer to sit on the sofa as I work behind the screen all day already.

RDR2 has the best open-world in my opinion in that the world really feels alive. Skyrim is probably second best.

I’m playing it at the moment. Today I smacked a poacher to death with my mace. Great game.

I started playing it on Game Pass but got stuck and then it got taken off of Game Pass. I like detective games though so I’ll try to finish it at some point.

Yeah, the sad fact is that no one has even come close to creating a Skyrim-like. The Witcher 3 had imitators like the recent Assassins Creed games etc. but there is still nothing quite like The Elder Scrolls.

Even Microsoft wasn’t happy with Redfall - I don’t think it was like they decided to release it in that state because of Game Pass, it seems the whole project was a greed-driven disaster that started prior to the Microsoft acquisition.

Hahaha, GTA San Andreas had that right? You could get super fat and then you had to go to the gym, you could even have a heart attack if you did nothing, that was pretty hilarious.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has the stuff where if your clothes are dirty or ragged people will comment on it and treat you differently, and that’s like an AA studio, so hopefully they can manage it.