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All their good fantasy writers left after DA2, newer devs have only worked on Inquisition (I doubt most of those devs would be remaining at this point).
I have no faith in them.
I have never felt this way about a (mainly) single=player studio ever. That's how badly Bioware messed up for over a decade.
Yooooo! I loved the first Volgarr, this is great! Getting all the achievements in the first one is easily one of my top 5 proudest gaming accomplishments.. I've been wondering what that team has been up to for years.
You know that you posted about this game before, just at the top of this page?
Yeah, it's quite silly. Also because almost every single "unexpected" success story in gaming these days shows that this kind of secrecy is in no way necessary to succeed.
I really wonder if anyone has done any sort of actual research or study on this (which, to me, would be a large part of the job of marketing departments at publishers) or if everyone is just going with it because that's the way it has always been done.
Interesting. Ubisoft released this on Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games, and Steam all today and didn't delay the Steam release till later.
This is good bundle
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I really hope this turns out good. Driving around in Hong Kong would be so cool.
Always online means game doesn't exist for me.
I made an account on icon-era because I saw it pop up on Twitter a couple times and by golly that forum is devoid of intelligent thought. It's all just Playstation obsession and whining about PC gamers
Steam page hasn't been fully updated yet, but this is finally coming to Steam on July 10, approaching three years after its Windows Store/PC Game Pass release. Also getting some QOL changes like combat rebalancing, fast travel, and a quest tracker, all of which it very badly needed, lemme tell ya
Finally Steam has a showcase overview
The pope getting the bag. Honestly I can't even be mad. He put together several good shows after the death of E3 and these shows have millions of eyeballs on them every year. Everything was working against him and he still pulled it off.
Make the pubs pay and its likely very worth it. 250k for a minute seems like a decent deal and 10x more effective than the stupid TV commercials you see for games. I remember Suicide Squad was running PS5 commercials earlier in the year and yea can't think of bigger waste of money than those useless 30 second spots.
The new Dragon Age will most likely suck, like everything since Origins has.
Shame really because Origins is so good and the series deserves decent games.
Shame really because Origins is so good and the series deserves decent games.
My big issue is that compared to E3 Summer Games fest has much lower production. I mean look How E3 looked like back in a day.
God, thank you. It's just depressing watching this stuff and then going online to find some discussion about it, and absolutely everyone is shitting on it. If you're not interested, don't fucking watch it, and move on with your life. It's just not necessary to go online and complain and criticize from your keyboard. Especially, like you said, without considering reality at all. It's just exhausting, and it's no wonder when people say they're just getting tired of gaming, the industry, and the "community." The negativity is oppressive. I think I may be the only person in existence who actually enjoys watching these shows.
Also, I actually do think about my hypocrisy when I criticize anime.
or if you do feel the need to watch it at least try watching it in a different way
like I get it I find Keighley's shows boring without doing something to change them up a little too but there's so many ways to watch things nowadays, try being behind a bit and watching at double speed, try being behind a bit and just skipping over stuff that doesn't interest you, try watching a reaction stream instead of just watching it by itself, try doing something in another monitor and having it on in the background etc
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Tier 1 - 10 USD
The Entropy Centre
Deliver Us Mars
En Garde!
Lost in Play
Ship of Fools
Tier 2 - 15 USD
American Arcadia
Gloomwood
There's a special place in hell to those that announce games and their trailer has absolute ZERO gameplay...
Will praise DA2 (only slightly).
I thought the writing was still good, and how they weaved the story/sub-plots around a very small place was kind of great. Magic was dumb down but I loved playing as mage. Kinda biased towards its artstyle too.
Just got my wisdom teeth taken out at once (all 4) and I'm so glad we live in an era with modern anesthesia. How could people even manage back in the 1800s?
With Opium (prehistory?), Morphine (1800s) and Cocaine (1850s)
Getting high is humanity's time-honoured tradition.
Fan translation is in the works from the kind folks at Classic Persona Modding Discord server.
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Based off what you are saying it looks like I was right the. About my second point. About how last year the sponsors just have gotten pissed off.
Right on cue, here's another article shitting on Geoff Keighley right before the summer event
Is Summer Game Fest the Best Thing to Happen to Gaming—or the Worst?
Suddenly, Geoff Keighley’s June showcase is one of the industry’s most important events. Whether or not it’s a positive force in gaming depends on who you ask—and how much money they have.www.esquire.com
Again, do people realize that Geoff Keighley isn't a game journalist? He does not write reviews or anything else for any site or newspaper. He's not a Youtuber or a Twitch streamer. He's more of an event organizer who organizes three major gaming related events a year (E3, Gamescom, Game Awards). That is his job and his livelihood. Aside from securing funding for the show (including salaries for his staff), it has to pay his salary for the whole year. Who knows what kinds of compromises he has to make just to put on the shows.
What do these people expect is supposed to happen? "Hi everyone. My name is Geoff Keighley. The game industry is shit. The publishers are shit. The executives are shit. Capitalism is shit. Welcome to the ceremony celebrating the industry funded entirely by the publishers and executives who I just called shit. Incidentally, this is the last edition of the Game Awards because nobody who I just called shit will ever work with me again". But hey, at least Twitter will be happy right?
It's so easy to sit in the peanut gallery and launch missiles when you have nothing on the line. You have a problem with him not addressing the war in Gaza in a video gaming show? You should definitely just the raise the million(s) of dollars he does and make your own show and make it all about what you want to talk about. Yes, you are allowed to criticize things you can't do yourself. But if your criticism is insane then it should be disregarded immediately.
Incidentally, the article also talks about how it costs $200,000 per minute to run the show. Or at least, that's what he charges for advertising time. It seems ludicrous to me but it's all in Los Angeles and the world is super expensive these days so maybe that really is how things are.
The thing is that he was a gaming journalist. He was and he did a really great job at it,but that was years and years ago. At least in the west he is one of the few big name gaming journalist, the other being Jason. In regards to Jason, the dude is just terrible (bad takes) but but, he does a great job at providing information, which is why he is now at a big fancy news outlet. Geoff hardly does much journalism at all anymore, the last big thing that he did was for Half Life Alyx but asides from that he now mainly does game award stuff.
Peoples opinions of him seem to have greatly changed after the whole Dorito Pope thing, where instead of proving information about games and other insightful information he was relegated to promoting Halo 3 with Doritos and MNT DEW and also looking at some of thoss videos it looks like it was something that he was uncomfortable. Times have changed and the stuff that he used to do years and years ago is now more common place (sort of) and you have stuff like Noclip and others that have taken the place of Geoff but it's not quite same. The both benefit and bad thing about YouTube is that it's more disconnected than stuff in the past, in the past you had fewer Big news sites and these journalist and other use to belong to some one of them before breaking of and doing their own thing.
(I can't remember if I already asked this question since I started this post hours ago but never posted it) But what exactly is summer game fest and how is it different from E3? Wasn't E3 mainly a big convention (which itself originated form the exist of another convention before it) and it was mainly industry people that would go and show of their games, the press would be there, and just like a lot of older conversations, journalist and others would get posters and other promotional art at these booths and use that to cover the game along with their experience there. These devs/publishers would also have conference where they would show off trailers for upcoming games and these videos would eventually make their way online (was it always broadcast live?) that's the general idea of it. But what about Summer Games Fest? I'm guessing that there is no physical location and it's mainly the later part of them doing a live stream. That will cost money but what other stuff do they need to do as well? Nintendo Directs are just pre-recorded videos that get uploaded online and just get direct to the information that people are looking for right? Which I assume Nintendo would like since it cuts down on cost and also it feels genuine? Indie Live Expo takes place in a physical location, they show games, talk about their sponsors and have live performances, while also being broadcast in 4 different languages. Is there a reason why this one is not a big hit? Or is it because it's too long? During an Inconvenient time and how it's just indie games and not a AAA game from a well know developer.
There is other stuff that I want to rant about but that's at least covers the tip of the iceberg.
Let's not forget the almighty Booze.
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I did a few RL1 Radabeast fights, the last thing left in my RL1 solo run.
It's not too bad, but... I died three times to the beast's stupid rings attack. Once there was maybe 7% HP left.
I'm not certain I ever got hit by it at all before today, in however many dozens of times I fought that thing across all my runs. I was almost surprised to see it could in fact deal damage. Weird.
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The thing about good writers is... it doesn't really work with 10-year development cycles.
Either you are passionate about it and despise that your vision for the story isn't coming out for a decade with constant changes
or it's just a job for you and you make whatever.
Writing the story for a game shouldn't take longer than 6-12 months. Narration, lore, and story shouldn't get affected by longer development cycles (apart from waiting for the developers to finish the outline of the game or development changes that need rewrites.
We had fantastic stories in the 90s and 2000s in games that took 12-24 months to develop.
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Played it on PC. It was a fun Ubisoft-style open world game. Repetitive gameplay with breathtaking scenery and great car combat. If you like the movies you will like the game, too. There is an unobtainable achievement because of online server closure.
I played it on Game Pass and it was pretty bad. Dialogues end abruptly and inactive party member not gaining experience is dogshit when the game does not provide a means to grind level. Hopefully they will address all these things in this new version.
Moving to Lithuania soon, which is on the region restricted list for Sony games.
Can they be played at all? Recently bought Helldivers 2... Will it just be a digital paperweight now?
Can they be played at all? Recently bought Helldivers 2... Will it just be a digital paperweight now?
You can play Helldivers 2 if you bought it beforehand. But not GoT of GOW Ragnarok. They have such hard locks that they've even refunded my GoT preorder unilaterally. I recommend that if you have a friend in a country with no restrictions give them your account so they can buy a game for you (with a payment method from that region) and change your shop region. I did that now I'm in the Spain region which has all the games (At least I think so)Moving to Lithuania soon, which is on the region restricted list for Sony games.
Can they be played at all? Recently bought Helldivers 2... Will it just be a digital paperweight now?
PS: If you change regions to an unrestricted one you won't be able to pay with your regional payment method so you'll need to activate Steam keys or add funds to your Steam wallet via Steam Wallet Gift Cards for that region.
Cheers.
Currently in Romania (unrestricted country), and have been paying for games with a Revolut account tied to the country, so I guess I could just buy something as soon as we get to Lithuania and it'll assume I'm still in the old country?
Correct, if Romania is unrestricted then continue paying with your old Romanian payment method. The store shouldn't change region unless you buy something with a Lithuanian payment method.Cheers.
Currently in Romania (unrestricted country), and have been paying for games with a Revolut account tied to the country, so I guess I could just buy something as soon as we get to Lithuania and it'll assume I'm still in the old country?
Lol I thought you were memeing. You WERE NOT.Steam furry festival sale
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Development for Dragon Age started in 2002 and released in late 2009. Those devs stuck around for the project.
Issue is when your veteran staff leaves, there is no one to mentor junior staff, and that affects the final game.
Please look forward to the future of Chao
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I don't really think the biggest issue per se is SP studios trying to make MP (GaaS) games, though it sure doesn't help.When single player studios were forced to make multiplayer games. Nearly a decade and they haven't learned.
- Anthem
- Avengers
- Redfall
- Suicide Squad : KTJL
I hope publishers learn (it'd be a miracle if they do) to let studios play by their strengths. SP studios make SP games, MP studios make MP games.
To me the root issue seems to be poor project management and unclear vision, cause you can also point some big SP flops to that, like I remember reading about how Forspoken got rebooted multiple times during development alongside story changes. Even beyond this often leading to poor results, the sheer amount of wasted time is just madness, especially given the long development times these days to begin with.
Like when I'm reading that the Rocksteady studio head at one point randomly thought "let's add vehicles" to a game that at that point already had a focus on character-specific traversal options, wasting a couple months on it only to shelf it because it didn't work, as devs pointed out at the very beginning I'm just... flabbergasted.
At that point it didn't matter that this was going to be a live-service game, that shit would have been an equal waste of time if Suicide Squad had been a single player game.
That's just incompetence.
I'm going to be that guy and state the Dragon Age was never good, even Origins was mediocre at best.
But looking back at the dark days for RPGs, somewhere between 2003 and 2015-ish, even a mediocre game like that could be considered good when seen in context. Just thinking about it's contemporaries makes me shudder...
Still DA2 and DA3 were even worse.
So DA sucking isn't exactly a surprise, it's expected.
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