Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

There’s someone in Skyrim named Belyn Hlaalu, and a great house in Morrowind is House Hlaalu. I guess that house fell harder than I thought.

Why does PS Now have so many PS3-PS4 games? There are only a few PS2 games, and no PS1 games that I could see.

@Background Pony #9A68  
In fairness, I don’t think the PS4 store even carries PS1 games.

@Silent_Witness
 
Well, that sucks.

Backwards compatibility has not been confirmed for the PS5.
 
Wanna play games from PS1 to PS4? Too bad.

@Background Pony #9A68
 
What I heard was that they were going to have psuedo-backwards compatibility by making a bunch of older games available through PS Now/Playstation Store. Which is still a step up from the PS4 which didn’t have any PS3 games backwards-compatible in any way.

I wonder who had the brightest idea to create a model of a dead cat corpse in the two Bioshock games.

Any great video games been released in recent years? Open for suggestions.

@Jarkes  
So they’re continuing with the typical “try to kill the used game market” they always do with every new console release.

@Gentlecolt  
Skyrim.
 
Buy it.

@Silent_Witness  
I miss the days when backwards compatibility was common… Now it’s like no company does it anymore, even the Switch isn’t compatible with WiiU or 3DS. (Though, a li’l understandable, seeing how it’s much different then them.)

@Background Pony #5A15  
Really?! Holy shit, I just asked someone today about skyrim while playing TF 2. I find it kind of incredible you would suggest it.
 
Guess i’ll finally buy it then.

@Gentlecolt  
Yes buy it.
 
Its fun to play, as I, Todd Ho-I mean this simple normal random user highly recommend it.

@Gentlecolt  
Depends if open-world RPG-lite is your thing.

@Meanlucario  
I’m open to try anything with a hint of greatness and i’ve heard a LOT from skyrim from many sources at this point.

@Gentlecolt  
You can’t go wrong with kingdom come deliverance, mankind divided and human revolution.

@Gentlecolt  
It’s fun, but can easily become repetitive.

@Beau Skunky  
With the PS3, making it BC was one of the main reasons it was so bloody expensive(along with the Blu Ray at the time, though at least with that it seemed more like a risky investment as they still tugged along with it) and they were still taking a loss! Getting rid of the BC was enough to get them to drop the price by have
 
With the Wii U, keeping it backwards compatible made it keep the old PowerPC hardware of the Wii/Gamecube and made it much more of a pain to develop for compared to the 360/PS4/Xbox One, and unlike the PS3 they couldn’t go back and get rid of it to improve things and it ended up biting them in the ass, so much that when going for the Switch they decided to start over completley, which despite still being weaker than PS4/Xbox One is much much much more developer friendly
 
While Microsoft has been riding the BC hype train really hard, they still have the weird compromise of having a limited BC library, only having to get some 360/OG games to work on it, rather than natively with the entire library. There’s still a lot of great Xbox games that unfortunately never got the BC treatment(No BC for games like The Sabotuer, War for Cybertron, Lollipop Chainsaw, or X-Men Origins Wolverine. But Thank fucking Christ I can play Disney’s Bolt
 
I love BC and I think it’s a great luxury, but it’s really obvious they always come with big compromises unfortunately

@Kiryu-Chan  
Actually, WiiU couldn’t play GameCube game software, and the Wii software included was apparently not that expensive to include, as it just emulated the console digitally. (And frankly the WiiU was still cheaper then the competition at the time.)
 
Also, the WiiU actually was said to be easy to develop for, (judging by all the Indie games on it’s Eshop) but many consumers & developers scoffed at it’s “Game Pad” “gimmick,” and some like EA & the creator of Minecraft bashed it for not being as powerful as a PS4, or another “gimmicky” Nintendo system, and such…
 
The name probably hurt as well, as haters of Wii, refused to give it a chance wrongly assuming it was just another “casual” Wii system, and meanwhile the more casual Wii audience was probably turned off of it’s more “hardcore” based games, and more traditional controllers. (One reviewer even stated he felt Nintendo abandoning the Wii remote, even though it was fully compatible with the WiiU, and some of it’s games also hurt the system, as people were more used to it by now.)
 
So honestly, backwards compatibility is not the main problem in game consoles, in fact, it’d be more of a selling point.

One think Skyrim has over Morrowind is that containers don’t have a weight limit.

@Meanlucario  
Dude, The Red Year followed up by an invasion of the Argonians. So yeah the Dunmer where hit pretty rough.

@igotnopicks  
I’m not an expert on what happens between games, so I wouldn’t have known. Also, don’t the argonians have a terrible record outside of their home land? That’s kind of embarrassing.

@Meanlucario  
Well you think that. But the Argonians have the Hist Trees.
 
It’s the Orcs that keep getting screwed over.

@igotnopicks  
I know, and that’s why I said outside of their homeland, since the Hist Trees tend to give them a buff on their home turf.
 
And I’m aware, but it’s not the orcs that defeated the fan-favorite race on their home turf.

@Meanlucario  
Like people said the Hist Trees gave them an advantage basically take over some parts of the Dark Elves. The Dark Elves didn’t see it coming. So most of the Dark Elves didn’t make it through the Red Year too and some of them are now refugees. So yeah.