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  1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

    "This. The franchise is dead now. Not only has TESO thoroughly raped the lore, but there's no way Bethesda will be willing to make another TES game when poor sales of TESO "prove" that "consumers have tired of TES"."

    Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:35:39 UTC from web
    1. adiwan adiwan

      @nerthos I'm afraid that TES will suffer the same like KOTOR when the games went MMO.

      Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:49:10 UTC from Choqok
      1. Scribus Scribus

        @broniebrown So many acronyms...

        Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:49:34 UTC from web
        1. adiwan adiwan

          @scribus That's nothing.I'm learning physics-based modeling right now. There are slides with tons of acronyms like BVH, BV Tree, AABB, OABB, 4-DOP, 6-DOP, 8-DOP, SAT, PDE...

          Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:56:22 UTC from Choqok
          1. Scribus Scribus

            @broniebrown Duuuuude....

            Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:57:02 UTC from web
            1. adiwan adiwan

              @scribus I'm a computer scientist. That means I have to live in an ecosystem that is build upon acronyms, backronyms, recursive acronyms... That's almost my second nature. The problem is that same acronyms have different meanings in a different context.

              Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:00:56 UTC from Choqok
              1. Scribus Scribus

                @broniebrown HURD is my favorite recursive acronym.

                Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:01:32 UTC from web
                1. Scribus Scribus

                  Also it's the only recursive acronym I'm aware of off the top of my head.

                  Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:01:55 UTC from web
                  1. adiwan adiwan

                    @scribus GNU: GNU is Not Unix

                    Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:04:39 UTC from Choqok
                    1. Scribus Scribus

                      @broniebrown Oh, that's right, HURD/HERD is the only mutually-recursive acronym(s) I'm aware of!

                      Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:05:16 UTC from web
                2. adiwan adiwan

                  @scribus Yeah. That's a pretty unique one.

                  Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:03:27 UTC from Choqok
      2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @broniebrown That's exactly what the /v/ guys were saying. There's the fact though that there's no shortage of money when it comes to funding TES games. We can't expect another jewel of complex gameplay and lore, but more games? We'll get them, even if they're basically hollow husks barely resembling the first games.

        Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:51:20 UTC from web
    2. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

      @nerthos Consumers kind of have tired of TES though. Basically all the activity in and around Skyrim centered on modding it to be less of a TES game.

      Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:52:04 UTC from IdentiCurse
      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @ceruleanspark Yet Skyrim has earned Bethesda hundreds of millions. Skyrim's modding community has focused on changing game mechanics because despite the setting, Skyrim isn't strictly a TES game. Not much of the game mechanics of the early games remain, it's more of an action game now.

        Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:57:40 UTC from web
        1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

          @nerthos @ceruleanspark Before release many fans expected Morrowind 2 and instead we got watered down Oblivion.

          Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 09:59:24 UTC from web
          1. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

            @nerthos Do people not remember how awful unmodded Morrowind was to actually play.

            Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:00:45 UTC from IdentiCurse
            1. adiwan adiwan

              @ceruleanspark I loved the unmodded Morrowind.

              Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:02:02 UTC from Choqok
            2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

              @ceruleanspark You got horribly murdered by anything that moved early on, and once you gained some levels and equipment you became a god. Combat was horrible, but quests and having to figure out things by talking to NPCs compensated it. IMO Oblivion was the best gameplay-wise.

              Tuesday, 04-Feb-14 10:04:51 UTC from web