Ed123's Retro Reviews

[rusty_shackleford]

What is this?

Accuracy.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

"Infinity engine games [...] cannot be fun"
good video

 

[vortex]

I've played Baldur's gate and Icewind dale on a PC which loaded the game fast. 15 years later Obsidian made a Pillars in Unity and you would think engines got faster and better. But not. Pillars 1 loadings are getting slower, in Deadfire they're just too many and tedious.
Haven't we learned our lesson? It is time for developers to start using Infinity engine again.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Ed123 break your video up into smaller parts next time, ain't nobody got time to watch a 5 hour video on baldur's gate

 

[Tweed]

Videos are too fat.

 

[Jvegi]

The video is pretty good, and not too long, it's actually too short.

The main issue is the fact that the person making the video wasted their entire life playing the game on easy difficulty, so they are not qualified to talk about it.

 

[Tweed]

I would have played it with SCS installed.

 

[Roguey]

I've played Baldur's gate and Icewind dale on a PC which loaded the game fast. 15 years later Obsidian made a Pillars in Unity and you would think engines got faster and better. But not. Pillars 1 loadings are getting slower, in Deadfire they're just too many and tedious.
Haven't we learned our lesson? It is time for developers to start using Infinity engine again.

Bigger file sizes = slower loading and very few people would get enthused about a new game that uses Infinity Engine-graphics (Siege of Dragonspear didn't fly off the virtual shelves, Icewind Dale 2 was considered incredibly dated on release back in 2002).

 

[Arthandas]

I've played Baldur's gate and Icewind dale on a PC which loaded the game fast. 15 years later Obsidian made a Pillars in Unity and you would think engines got faster and better. But not. Pillars 1 loadings are getting slower, in Deadfire they're just too many and tedious.
Haven't we learned our lesson? It is time for developers to start using Infinity engine again.

Bigger file sizes = slower loading and very few people would get enthused about a new game that uses Infinity Engine-graphics (Siege of Dragonspear didn't fly off the virtual shelves, Icewind Dale 2 was considered incredibly dated on release back in 2002).

Not to mention it's fucking Unity, one of the worst modern engines.

 

[Roguey]

Not to mention it's fucking Unity, one of the worst modern engines.

Lightweight Unity games load really quickly and if devs put the work in, they can keep the save file sizes low enough to keep the loading times quick. Obsidian and others didn't put the work in though.

 

[toughasnails]

Not to mention it's fucking Unity, one of the worst modern engines.

Lightweight Unity games load really quickly and if devs put the work in, they can keep the save file sizes low enough to keep the loading times quick. Obsidian and others didn't put the work in though.

It's Unity's accessibility, which was supposed to be its main draw, that ironically turned out to be the source of its bad reputation. It's often the engine of choice for devs with little or no prior experience (or for those with limited capabilities in one way or another).
Weird that UE4 never got the same reputation even though there might be just as many unoptimized and buggy indie and mid budget games running on it, often employing same stock postprocessing effects giving them recognizable look (just as Unity games used to be notoriously easy to recognize).

 

[A horse of course]

Ed123 break your video up into smaller parts next time, ain't nobody got time to watch a 5 hour video on baldur's gate

Based on most clinical research, it takes the average person between 10-20 minutes to fall asleep, but the REM phase does not commence until around 90 minutes in. The ideal length for my videos is therefore between 1hr 30m (to enter the REM phase) and eight hours (to ensure an undisturbed rest).

 

[Tacgnol]

Not to mention it's fucking Unity, one of the worst modern engines.

Lightweight Unity games load really quickly and if devs put the work in, they can keep the save file sizes low enough to keep the loading times quick. Obsidian and others didn't put the work in though.

Unity's default scene management is fucking awful. The scenes end up bloated far past what they should be.

More competent Unity devs write their own scene management system (that's how the ATOM devs kept loading times down).

 

[Tweed]

Ed123 break your video up into smaller parts next time, ain't nobody got time to watch a 5 hour video on baldur's gate

Based on most clinical research, it takes the average person between 10-20 minutes to fall asleep, but the REM phase does not commence until around 90 minutes in. The ideal length for my videos is therefore between 1hr 30m (to enter the REM phase) and eight hours (to ensure an undisturbed rest).

So you admit that nobody is actually watching them?

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Just droppin this off

 

[Black]

Guy has a point, MrEdders123 really dropped the ball with his Icewind Dale restrospective and it's all been downhill ever since.

 

[A horse of course]

Mods, please create an e-celeb containment forum for shit threads like this.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Just droppin this off

One of the things I've noticed is that when searching for mredders123 it doesn't autocomplete, I assume because it thinks that it's a nonsense string, and that he would have better luck renaming it to Mr Edders 123.

 

[A horse of course]

I will rename the channel at some point (once you hit around 1k subs you are allowed to customize your "brand"), probably when I get around to making a new twatter account solely for the channel. I haven't decided wut name to use, something with "Gnome" or "Gnomes" in the title.

 

[Wunderbar]

I haven't decided wut name to use

name it "showah thyme"

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I haven't decided wut name to use, something with "Gnome" or "Gnomes" in the title.

Name it the Gnome Press, after the publisher that preserved Robert E. Howard's Conan stories in the 1950s.

 

[Wunderbar]

I haven't decided wut name to use, something with "Gnome" or "Gnomes" in the title.

Name it the Gnome Press, after the publisher that preserved Robert E. Howard's Conan stories in the 1950s.

or the Gnome Conspiracy, after the sidequest in Arcanum

 

[Tweed]

How about Fat Ed's Insomnia Cure?

 

[Utfärd]

How about Fat Ed's Insomnia Cure?

 

[Boleskine]

Gnome You Tents Aloud
The Gnome Tome
Gnomes 'r' Us
Mad Ed: Beyond ThunderGnome