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Post by smilesja on Feb 19, 2024 17:24:24 GMT
Varric was a better character than Oghren anyway.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 19, 2024 0:40:51 GMT
So the BG3 devs touched on 2 really important issues, AAA dev studios with shareholders have a fiduciary duty to look after those shareholders. Which means that a key part of their game design will be how to make more money. Sometimes making more money and making fun games intersect but other times, and increasingly often, making more money involves design a game around directing players to a cash shop. And increasingly gamers are getting sick of this design priority. And if you're one of those people getting sick of that design priority make sure to give Indie games your love and money. There have been plenty of quality indie offerings this year from Hi Fi Rush to Rogue Trader. Games designed the way games used to be designed. And the other one is we really need more job security for working devs. Most of the time they're treated terribly. Well deserved awards for Larian and a lovely speech at the Dice awards Just hope they don't end up like other studios who said that same speech.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 18, 2024 23:32:47 GMT
I always wanted to see Kal Sharok in Dragon Age. I almost thought we were going to visit it in Inquisition shame we didn't.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 18, 2024 16:14:53 GMT
They better hope this statement doesn't come back to bite them in the future because that statement is something that screams: "That won't age well." Well as long as the ycan continue to mak egames as good as Divinity Origina lSin and Baldurs Gate I don' tthink they'll have problems. The yjus tneed to keep them coming. Fact is I think they'v eshown passion fo rtheir wor kand that's why BG3 won GOTY. The yjus tneed t okeep it coming. Will be interesting t osee what the ycome up with next. Definitely plan on moer BG3 runs myself later in the year as it's a game I want to see more of given I haven' t beaten it yet. All I'm saying is that just be a little wary, CDPR said those same statements and looked what happened to them when Cyberpunk released. The games industry is filled with game companies who said what Larian said only to flame out badly.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 18, 2024 15:46:52 GMT
What's with people starting squabbles out of thin air? If you're in a bad mood, go punch a pillow or something instead of shitting out miles of angry messages. This applies to everyone who creates pages and pages of offtopic text. You think anybody wants to read it? Think again. SMH. All I said is that there were far worse practices that deserve exposure and scrutiny. I didn't think it was going to be a controversial statement.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 18, 2024 15:45:42 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Feb 18, 2024 15:42:24 GMT
They better hope this statement doesn't come back to bite them in the future because that statement is something that screams: "That won't age well."
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Post by smilesja on Feb 17, 2024 18:07:20 GMT
The fact that EA won worst company over companies that enforce child labor is a crime in itself. EA also enforced gambling in adults and children (especially the vulnerable to said addiction) so let's not pretend they're squeaky clean, either. They just didn't get to be so big as Amazon that when people yelled loud enough they could afford to not change their behavior. In my mind, child slavery is far worse than what EA did and I never even said that EA was squeaky clean, where did you even get that?
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 22:24:19 GMT
Adding my two cents worth its hard to know exactly who to blame on this issue. Flynn seems low hanging, and honestly likely fruit, since A. he did end up leaving BioWare and B. isn't Mark Darrah whom most of us around here seem to actually like so we are fairly convinced he wasn't that responsible for BioWare's issues. (Though also worth saying he could've also made mistakes then learned.) All that being said, and in the interest of fairness, it could've easily been an issue of Flynn just making mistakes (if inded he was responsible) as a result from the decisions of higher ups. Flynn was just one cog in the BioWare machine who itself is just one cog in the EA machine and I think its fair to say that EA is a company known for making a lot of mistakes in game dev (though they themselves also seem to be learning in the last couple of years). And if working for one faceless corporation for...awhile...has taught me anything its taught me that it really does not matter the competence or incompetence of your individual managers and supervisors some things can just take on a life of their own.
EA won the Worst Game Company award twice, if I remember correctly. EA may have read the tea leaves just right when the publisher made the decision to switch DA4 from MP to SP. However the company is not about to give up on monetizing the game. In that regard, EA dropped the "player value" to appease the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street.
Now Flynn does come across as if he had little wiggling room in decision making. Then, again, when EA holds the DA4 purse...
The fact that EA won worst company over companies that enforce child labor is a crime in itself.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 7:46:48 GMT
I'm happy there's fewer exclusives. Being able to play Playstation RPGs on Steam is really nice. We just need Nintendo to come to the party now ... Nintendo:
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 7:22:40 GMT
Still think Microsoft will create more consoles in the future, It's just that there will be less games in general that will be purely exclusive.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 6:20:45 GMT
For what it's worth, Sony is thinking the same thing as well. To what extent, I'm not sure but it feels like in the future, we'll probably see even less exclusives.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 6:15:04 GMT
Or maybe they were never considered in the first place, and it was just baseless rumors generated by the good old games "journalists." I would gently offer a suggestion of not having any expectations about these sorts of things so you don't get disappointed down the line. IF Starfield goes crossplatform then it goes crossplatform, planting your feet firmly on either side of the fence is just an easy way to get emotional about things which ultimately don't matter. I know, I'm just offering an alternative viewpoint, It's not like gaming journalists has a history of vetting their sources.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 6:08:39 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 6:07:10 GMT
Completion rates always make me so sad. No matter how good a narrative/game is the majority won't finish it. That must be so depressing for the people who worked on them. In light of that I have the utmost respect for devs like Larian who put in so many variables knowing that maybe 1% of players will see a certain scene. That's real passion and dedication and respect for players who do appreciate the details. Coming back to Starfield: I have lost all respect for Bethesda for keeping the same hack writer who openly admits he puts zero effort into his writing because people don't care for the narrative as a lead writer. That's NOT the kind of conclusion you should draw from those completion stats. Good grief, either do your fucking job well, have some pride in your work, or fuck off. This sort of phoning it in is exactly the kind of "good enough" attitude that just ISN'T good enough anymore in 2023. 2011 was a long time ago. The industry has evolved. Games have become so good they're rivalling movies with Hollywood class actors and beautiful cinematography. Just look at Cyberpunk. Bethesda has been sleeping on all this still high on their Skyrim idolization. That's either incompetence, ignorance or complacency. Or probably a little bit of each. Bethesda today feels like they spent the past 12 years in a bunker with a game that does nothing better than the competition because apparently they have not looked at the competition, including their own previous games. Sorry for ranting again but Starfield was supposed to be my new forever game and I'm still salty. Have you seen the insane details in Starfield? I've spent weeks taking pics of the worlds that I've explored throughout my playthrough. I don't what you've heard, but the writing in Starfield is easily some of the best writing that Bethesda has done in years. I was either emotional or engaged with many of the faction questlines. I'm sorry but that's not a mark of a guy who puts "zero" effort. Besides BG3 and Cyberpunk can try as they might, but they still don't offer the things that Bethesda RPGs offer. It is rather funny though how CDPR gets away with pretty much having one of the most disastrous launch in recent memory and are now back to being worshipped again. Gamers are pretty forgiving people lol.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 6:00:47 GMT
4 exclusive XBOX titles heading to Sony, more will head there in the future. XBOX moving away from exclusives believes the industry is moving away from them. Double downing on Gamepass, linking Activision games to growing gamepass starting with Diablo 4 (WoW in the future to gamepass?). To me questions are being raised over their commitment to hardware in the future. And they likely wound back Starfield and Indiana Jones due to the backlash they received but they'll probably make their way over to crossplatform in the future.
Or maybe they were never considered in the first place, and it was just baseless rumors generated by the good old games "journalists."
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 2:58:59 GMT
Hrungr made an appearance in my game Oof. That was cold, Melbella. Cold. Was that alien a Twitter Guru?
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 1:35:20 GMT
Exodus won't kill it, because Andromeda already did. Yet there's still excitement by the fanbase for the next Mass Effect. Sorry you felt that the Mass Effect franchise is dead but I'm looking forward to the next game.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 1:32:31 GMT
Fuck! How did that happen? Are there any cloud saves? I don’t know. I waited until it was done saving so it shouldn’t have been the firmware issue. And it did have a Cloud save but it’s gone too. Xbox It's been a problem for Xbox users since launch, which is why I haven't played in a while. Surprised the bug is still there.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 16, 2024 1:29:58 GMT
So all that drama surrounding Xbox turned out to be an exaggeration. The presentation felt boring and rushed though.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 13, 2024 17:02:18 GMT
They've always relied on modders to fix their games. I don't expect that to change and from what little they've done so far looks like people shouldn't get their hopes up. The again there's FO76 that is actually a much better game now and actually fun for a while. But it's their MTX cash cow. So I guess it depends on how much they expect to be able to monetize Starfield. They'll put just as much effort into improving it as necessary to get people to buy paid mods and maybe DLC. Game remains unfixable mediocre stuck in the past to me personally. If base building takes off with mods I might fire up the game and play around with that. Otherwise it remains a one and done experience for me. No doubt though that mods will keep hardcore fans engaged. That's not the majority of players though. Most play vanilla on console, so if Bethesda wants to keep those engaged they gotta do SOMETHING at some point. Like really great DLC. Or maybe a survival mode like FO4 got eventually. Or actually great paid mods for a change. Yeah, I don't fully understand the complaining about lack of support now, Bethesda games I have always found to be a buggy near unplayable mess and it could take months if not years to make them playable. Not sure why people expected a massive shift after Microsoft got involved for wasn't the concern that Microsoft would change too much? I mean Starfield is actually Bethesda's least buggy game and it's funny how people say that Bethesda is stuck in the past when people now and days are gravitating towards remakes lol. At least with Starfield, Bethesda is trying something out of their comfort zone.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 12, 2024 21:33:04 GMT
Yes u strongly disagree with every point you make I have no problem with the world design itself. It’s pure laziness -the mage encounter could be so much more -the dealer is a chore filled with unremarkable encounters that are lifeless such as the dog merchant -if you meet an npc. You recruit them and never see 1/2 of the hinterland recruits again. The rest are lifeless bots. There’s zero roleplaying! It’s 1 step above Minecraft and it’s poor compared to dragon age Forget Bg3 as people can’t accept that dai is mostly a forgotten game as the Witcher 3 just swept it into the bargain bin Dao dwarven origin alone has more life than anything in dai. The franchises foundation is based on some of the most memorable characters in that setting alone. We have a dwarven npcs for dai and we got 2 memorable npcs. I’d argue that leske is more memorable than renn and only a fraction of dao players have ever met leske The mad hermit in dao. That should be been the minimum character type we should have encountered in the stormcoast Fallow mire we get 2 memorable npcs Hand of korth-it’s a cool fight but pales in comparison to awakening baroness of black marsh Amund-shows up and joins you but once again where’s the beef Now I just watch an awakening video of black marsh. They come across a body and characters comment and you get cutscenes and fast combat So other than graphics how is the fallow mire more interesting than black marsh. Da2 references black marsh with anders and varric having a conversation. There’s none of that in dai If I were running BioWare I would redo dao except dialogue. Add todays graphics and combat and you have a complete game Keep arguing please Why are people are so obsessed in going backwards lol? For all the talk of wanting different games, people always seems to go back to the old ways.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 12, 2024 17:30:15 GMT
Speaking of SteamDB: Starfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/player-declineThis must be one of the reasons why rumors of Starfield being ported to the PS5 came about. I mean single player games tend to lose interest after a few months of play anyway.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 11, 2024 1:38:22 GMT
Probably be waiting for FF7: Rebirth. Be nice to play it after being turned off by FF16's GOT esque artstyle. (Not that I'm much of a fan of FF7's style but I do love the characters!). Also waiting for Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 loved the gameplay trailers!
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Post by smilesja on Feb 10, 2024 7:04:59 GMT
People have been hyping themselves up for an imminent release date for 3 or more years now. Relaaaaaaaax and play some of the amazing games that have just released (Palworld is still pulling a million daily concurrent players for example. The hottest thing in forever) why not both? Or all three really. Playing Saints Row right now, and have been keeping somewhat of an eye on BG, the new Dragons Dogma game, and the Avatar game. There is enough time to do a lot of different things in the day. Play Starfield, been playing it lately and it's an amazing game.
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