• revoopy@programming.dev
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      3 years ago

      Nah, with mods the lack of threading makes oblivion and fo:nv unplayable once you add on enough eye candy

      • GreenMario@lemm.ee
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        3 years ago

        How much can upgrading a computer cost, $10?

        – Todd “I haven’t had to buy my own groceries since Morrowind dropped” Howard.

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      3 years ago

      It absolutely does, though. Vanilla crashes all the time and has several game-breaking bugs. I don’t recommend that anyone plays New Vegas unmodded – especially on a newer machine that’ll be less compatible (like my 7700X + 4090 rig running Windows 11) – unless you just hate yourself. You need community patches to get it in a playable state.

      Same goes for Fallout 3. It’s not nearly as buggy as NV, of course, but try running it Vanilla on a modern Windows 11 machine and let me know how well that goes for you lol. You get massive framerate dips and it literally crashes every 5 minutes on a brand new PC if you don’t install any mods to make it compatible.

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      3 years ago

      I wonder what would happen if Bethesda gave a few of the best modders full access to the game’s code and to the latest version of the engine. I bet they could come up with a current gen remake in under a year without the involvement of a single Bethesda dev.

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        3 years ago

        I think you’re severely underestimating how much time, effort, and resources game development takes. Especially when the devs aren’t doing it full-time.