pjknibbs wrote: ↑Wed, 4. Aug 21, 06:19
It should be pretty obvious why they do that, and pretty much everyone else does it as well. A mod can change the game in any way it wants, *including* making it easier to gain achievements. If you care about achievements at all (which I don't, personally, but ymmv) then you presumably also care about getting them on an level playing field with everyone else, or else what's the point?
This actually really bothered me on Xbox because while achievements are disabled by mods, the "Stats" page is not, so the two friends that decided to play and mod up their saves when Special Edition came out, who both had level 250+ characters and every discoverable location shown on their map before getting off the wagon in Helgen, completely ruined the stats for me because I was looking forward to our group of 5 or 6 friends who all bought the game and some of us were trying to complete the game/dlc/every achievement and now some of the stats only showed who cheated the most lol.
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As for what I've been playing recently, I just finished going back to an old Playstation classic JRPG called Legend of Legaia, a game I loved when I was a kid after stumbling across it on sale used in the mall but never truly finished. Actually I never even progressed beyond the first kingdom of the game without a Gameshark because back when I was a kid I didn't understand gameplay concepts like "grinding" for levels and money that are so prevalent in Japanese RPG's of the time period so when you reach the games first "boss", which is a rather big difficulty spike compared to the jabroni's you've been beating up to that point, you just get wiped out and I never understood why I couldn't beat him so I cheated lol.
It was actually refreshing to return to it and finally beat it now, without any cheat codes. It has a kind of simplistic story if you compare it to the likes of Final Fantasy 7 which is regarded as one of the best JRPG's of the time, but Legaia, unlike FF7 or Xenogears, was a single disc JRPG so there wasn't as much disc space to go off the rails and completely convolute the storyline like those other two games notoriously do. What I really enjoy about Legaia though, as opposed to FF7, is the gameplay/combat. Unlike FF7, you don't just select a generic attack to do over and over until you build your limit break, or sometimes use an item or cast a materia spell. Legaia has items and spells similar to FF7 and other JRPG's but attacks had so much more nuance to it.
Legaia, I believe, may be one of the first JRPG's to have more than one defensive stat, having both an upper and lower defense stat to your characters as well as every enemy, in addition to elemental strengths/weaknesses enemies would be strong/weak in their upper/lower bodies or even completely immune to high/low attacks if they were either flying (immune to lows) or too short (immune to highs). In addition to that you also had a "Combo" system to the combat, so when you decide to physically attack an enemy (this is turn based JRPG style combat, akin to all the other JRPG's with random encounter battles and dungeon boss fights) you could string together attacks in a specific order, for example High Low High, to unleash a special move, or "Art" that would then spend your Attack Points to unleash a more powerful attack on the last input, in this case a high kick, low kick, and then special attack somersault kick.
The sense of discovery in not only exploring the world and the story but also finding new combos that will unleash more powerful arts was a very fun part of the game for me, and you could learn new Arts from NPC's you talk to in the different towns, or simply from trial and error in combat. It's a cute little game and if you're a fan of classic JRPG gameplay I would certainly recommend trying it out, I would even say the simpler story as compared to games like Xenogears is more of a strength than a weakness, Legaia was well received when it came out and as much as I like and look back upon Xenogears fondly, Disc 2 of Xenogears sucked and the story was a chore to follow.
Having finished that I actually have been in the mood for a game like Ark or Conan Exiles, but unfortunately my group of friends I used to play games like that with fell apart over the past 2 years, now attempting to play games like that alone just isn't very satisfying so I've been watching other people play them on Youtube instead.
I just find it a bit boring now.
