@tributary said in A Regency MU (Conceptual):
Honestly? Just limit people to 1 PC.
I agree with this. I'm not the biggest person when it comes to tons of alts, but I'm not sure why every game sees the need to have an alt policy either. Sometimes only having one character can fit the desired size of the game better than allowing alts.
@derp said in General Video Game Thread:
That's basically what they're saying. They're saying that CDPR lied to investors about the product they were putting out, resulting in substantial losses.
ETA, again: Even though it was very likely those same investors pressuring them not to delay again, so I'm not sure that this is a very meritorious claim.
Yes, plus the whole "Lets not put console review copies out and release on console anyway" combined with the fact that they lied to Sony AND Microsoft to get through certification just so they could get the game out, well, there's a lot that CDPR management did that you can point to and say "Ya done fucked up."
@insomniac7809 said in General Video Game Thread:
Not to get too snippy, but... to do... that...
When, exactly, did we collectively decide that "well, it's day one release" was an excuse for a game to be buggy?
Like, I realize we're past the days when cavemen needed to chisel the ones and zeroes immutably onto a kar-chrij to ship out, and the ability to go back and patch a finished game is on balance a good thing. Same with content expansions that don't need the physical media and shipping expenses you'd get with an expansion pack.
But I'm a bit peeved at the fact that this has been taken as license to, generally, treat release day as "super special open full-priced beta testing." Especially when combined with the industry's... focus? emphasis? unsettling fetish? of deluxe ultra preorder things.
You're not alone. Honestly some studios should just embrace the Early Access tag and say that the first year of release is for community bug fixing or some shit. Do what Larian did with the last couple Divinity games.
@ominous said in General Video Game Thread:
Jim Sterling of the Jimquisition talks about it a lot and has for about four years now, but he isn't exactly a mainstream games journalist anymore.
Yeah, I'm aware of Jim. He and Jason Schreier tend to be the two biggest voices in games media about this. I know some other publications follow their work, but the two of them have also had to deal with people giving them shit for daring to talk about studios like CDPR in a way that isn't glowingly positive.
@ominous said in The Celebrated Company of Mongrels:
. I don't know what a Stress hit is
The only gaming contexts that come to the top of my head are Call of Cthulhu or Crusader Kings 3, lol.
@tnp said in General Video Game Thread:
Ah, that makes sense. The context implied something like that but I'd never heard the term before.
It's a pretty big issue in the games industry, but some journalists have been working hard to try to shed light on it. Even though they get shit on by fanboys for doing it. 
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1339974516034965504
One of the best quotes of 2020 right here:
One (dev) asked: How could they make a game about exploitative corporations while forcing devs to crunch?
What a fucking baller.
@roz said in General Video Game Thread:
@auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
I think there are two big reasons it had bugs and it all comes down to 'people are shitty'.
CDPR employees were receiving death threats, regularly, after the game was delayed. Lots of them. Some of them with very specific details of home addresses and the like.
I imagine their management was very afraid to delay a second time. I forgive the bugs on that alone.
I get there's been a huge amount of CDPR apologism from gamers because of a belief that they're somehow an ethical step above other video game companies, but "we had to put you through shitty crunch conditions for months for your own safety" is definitely a take.
Yeah, if anything the absurd crunch is what led to a lot of these problems. You work people 100 hour weeks for like 9 months straight (or longer) and fucking mistakes are going to be made. I do hope crunch ends up going away for the industry sooner or later, but it's also been over a decade since the "EA Spouse" blog that brought up shit working conditions and, well, here we are.
In news that I don't think I've ever seen before:
https://www.playstation.com/en-ie/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/
Sony is offering blanket refunds and de-listing the game from their store. Which is.. holy shit.
FATAL.
(/s before anyone wants to stab me)
edit, to be more constructive: Honestly, L5R is up there. Same with Blades in the Dark.
I'm curious. Why not use Ares with FS3?
I guess I can get the desire for D6, it is a system I enjoy, but yeah, curiosity got the better of me. 
@Ganymede Eh, I can't blame them for not 'remastering' Dragon Age when Inquisition was a PS4 game. And yeah, their last few titles have been kind of garbo. Andromeda had a shit ton of issues, I pretty much loathed Inquisition and it's Mobile Game Wartable design, and Anthem, well...
But Darrah was a guy they put on Anthem to make the game playable like 9 months before launch. The studio has gone through all sorts of leadership issues and it just doesn't look like things are going to be getting better. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if EA renames the studio in a year or two.
@theznar said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):
Totally basic I think...but a Star Wars game set during the early days of the Rebellion. No force users, no FCs, and set in a corner of the Empire to start with no regard for future canon. Most fun I ever had MU*ing was probably at SW: Uprising in the early 2000s. Let's go steal some X-Wing prototypes.
That or a game focused on a place like Nar Shaddaa where people gotta work through the criminal underworld. Or something.
I wanted to like Greedfall.
I wanted to really like it but a lot of the characters just fell so flat to me and the dialogue was rough to get through sometimes.
A part of me wonders what an Obsidian DA2 would have been like.
Since every game BioWare made and Obsidian made a follow-up, Obsidian made a better game.
Knights of the Old Republic 2 > Knights of the Old Republic
Neverwinter Nights 2 > Neverwinter Nights
Hell the trend even followed with Bethesda since New Vegas > Fallout 3.
Then again, I'm an Obsidian fanboy.
Man, AC Valhalla is such a step backwards from Origins and Odyssey in so many ways. The parkour especially drives me up a goddamn wall.
I think another one of my problems is that England is just a boring shithole, no where near as interesting as Egypt or Greece. Plus Odyssey had the benefit of having a crew of amazons sing dope ass Greek hymns while all that happens to me in Valhalla is some dude starts singing, then shuts up and says, WE CAN RAID HERE or whatever. Ugh.
I actually loved sailing around the map in Odyssey just chillaxing to my crew singing while going from island to island.
Eivor hasn't really grabbed me either, not in the 75 hours I've put into the game so far.
Probably doesn't help that I think Bayek but I did find his overall story pretty compelling. shrug Oh well, I'll beat the game and get the platinum trophy, but still can't help be disappointed. At least the load times on PS5 make it more bearable, heh.
I see @Aria talking about a Philly WoD game, and now all I want is a Philly WoD game where Gritty is some sort of supernatural creature that beats the shit out of alt-righters.
But I've also pined over 7th Sea for quite some time too, so I know @Cobaltasaurus's feels there.
@Arkandel According to the link in the 2nd tweet --
As Plaintiff-Creators subsequently learned, Defendant's arbitrary decision to terminate the Licensce Agreement--and thereby the book publishing contract--was based on events that had nothing to do with either the Work or Plaintiff-Creators. In fact, at nearly the exact point in time of the termination, Defendant was embroiled in a series of embarrassing public disputes whereby its non-Dragonlance publications were excoriated for racism and sexism. Moreover, the company itself was vilified by well-publicized allegations of misogyny and racist hiring and employment practices by and with respect to artists and employees unrelated to Dragonlance.
I honestly don't know why, at this point in time, you'd use Rhost over Ares for a traits-based game. You could have Ares up and running along with most of the game done in like a week. The only real work would be theme.
This is just my own rando thoughts though. But yeah, it just seems like Ares would save a lot of time and you'd have a codebase a lot more people are becoming very adept at using.
