@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
@Cobaltasaurus said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
I heard changeling.
We're waiting to hear back on a query Melpomene sent to @Thenomain - Taika said Changeling CG was done, Thenomain's notes on github say "nearly done".
I am a bit tipsy from cider right now, which makes me more poetic, so let me say:
Yeah, it's done, but it's breaking core CoD code.
Two games have dibs. Working on it.
I am:
Let me describe where I am right now in The Outer Worlds.
This game is Bioshock + Borderlands as applied with an RPG element from the inventors of Fallout. I don't mean this is literally what it is, but even if some other people made it this is exactly what it feels like.
There is a bit in Mass Effect 2 where you have to make an agonizing moral decision (having to do with free will). There's the part in Bioshock where the big plot-twist hits you alongside the head. The Outer Worlds is doing this in its introductory scenario.
I stopped on purpose because that's how hard the decision is for me. I'm playing the typical goodie-two-shoes and yeah, no, you can't.
You. Can't.
Play this game over a month for one dollar.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/pc-games
Or buy it outright from Microsoft.
Why are you still reading this? Go!
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Thenomain Yeah, BL2 is Troika/Activision joint.
Goddamnit. This just pushed it to “shut up and take my money”. Too many exciting games out there!
Are Troika peeps involved in Bloodlines 2?
And we should take Bethesda with an albeit mild caution from this point forward.
I sincerely hope there’s enough out there that nobody needs to be the “go to”. We need people trying different but interesting things, as many as possible.
@Auspice said in Which text editor?:
I've come to love Atom for code.
Ahhem.
Auspice [Today at 2:09 PM]
goddamnit atom why are you being stupid
@Alamias said in General Video Game Thread:
@Thenomain I thought it didn't come out till Thursday? At least that is what my xbox keeps telling me.
Close enough.
And I won't be playing it on XBox anyhow. I'm a tried and true PC gamer.
So, Outer Worlds is out. (edit: Close enough to out, geeze.)
On Epic. Hard pass.
On Windows Store. ... I...should I be tempted? Or should I wait for Steam or hopefully GOG?
@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread:
@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
We need to stop expecting the world.
I feel like that's not just people coming up with unrealistic expectations, though. That's the company promoting and trying to create hype and pitching their product as though it is the world - then struggling to meet the raised expectations they created.
That's their problem, not ours. To quote Yahtzee Crowshaw: "Stop pre-ordering."
Both Cyberpunk and Bloodlines 2 went on presale like a year in advanced based on little more than fancy trailers.
Good on their marketing department, then! While I am a strong proponent of public schools focusing on critical thinking, "A fool and his money are soon parted."
It felt less like your usual presales and more like late-term crowdfunding / market testing. If they get a lot of presales, they keep working on it. If they don't, they fix as much major stuff as possible and release it as is to the smaller market.
I don't expect this out of CP Projekt Red. They have proven themselves, and it's now their trust to lose. The same being true for Larian Studios (Baldur's Gate 3). I don't know Hardsuit Labs (Bloodlines 2) but even if the game is a train wreck I will probably get it as long as it has even moderately good writing.
Same with Outer Worlds. I don't expect it to be great, but I expect it to be fun.
Shadowrun Returns? Not great, but refreshing as hell.
Battletech? Not even all that fun after the first twenty missions, but I'm glad I played it.
And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival.
Which is possibly why Hello Games continued working on No Man's Sky until it's the game they wanted to make, as opposed to the timeline that Sony wanted them to adhere to. No Man's Sky is closer to the kind of game where the marketing outright lied, and there was almost a successful lawsuit out of it, but even there the suit was denied because people need to stop expecting the world.
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@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:
@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread:
And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival.
Why not? Star Citizen keeps bringing in ALL the cash.
I laughed. Hard.
But Blizzard is currently the lesser of two evils.
The lesser of ten evils, if you include EA.
This discussion happened at work yesterday:
Person A: I'm out of Blizzard.
Person B: Yeah, me too. Look at all this stuff Riot doing!
Person A: Umm...
@Seamus said in Tablet keyboard:
To be fair some of the hate on Apple is due to the way Apple presents themselves and isolates themselves from the main stream. A prime example of this is that Apple has gone out of its way to make sure that gaming on a Mac is a less than full-filling endeavor. This is not to say that I have a hate for Apple or anything, just that they've done enough marketing to encourage this OS war stupidity.
I disagree!
Not that Apple doesn’t isolate itself from the mainstream, but that isolating oneself from the competition encourages anything. People will always have problems with the Other. As an Apple user, I have gotten used to things like Derp’s nonsense, that the idea that someone is borrowing ideas that work as a bad thing.
This was funny at the time, but in retrospect this was at the height of the OS Wars Part 2 (part one involved OS/2) and it is embarrassing to look at in retrospect. It’s very Steve Jobs, but since the iPhone first came out, Apple has barely mentioned any other system but Android, and Apple has shareholders to please and marketing to do, and it’s very rare that Apple insults Android as an OS. Mostly it’s about security and privacy and, hey, I want my companies fighting over security and privacy.
So, no, Apple is proud and headstrong, but they aren’t encouraging anyone anymore, and haven’t for a decade. Most people who seriously think this are insecure to the point of needing a hug and ice cream.
Mmm, rum raisin.
@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
Bloodlines 2 is getting delayed.
I mean, for understandable reasons, but I can still express a brief
So I was curious about this, and the first hit I checked out was from Gamesradar+, and included this gem:
While news of the delay is definitely a bummer, it would be an even bigger bummer to get a Bloodlines 2 that's as buggy and unplayable as the original.
I don't think that people remember that the limited selection of buggy games gave us classics like Bloodlines. Good writing, developed world, and a game that was buggy and yet somehow still playable? We should be so lucky to get games that we want to play this badly.
Witcher 3 still would have been an amazing game with half the polish.
We need to stop expecting the world.
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Rimworld was so captivating that I didn't get any sleep last night.
@Ghost said:
The task at hand is to break down these behaviors to minimize damage to innocent people and maintain neutrality.
This was in the middle of a longer statement, so I wanted to draw it out.
I don't even think neutrality is critical. Neutrality in breaking down the noise, yes, but sometimes what is exposed is a problem that needs dealt with. e.g.: Venomous, not-cool people.
@Ganymede said in Mobbing in Text Games:
@Trix said in Mobbing in Text Games:
There's this thing called 'academic mobbing' that can be freaky accurate when applied to how people behave in mud communities.
We sometimes call this "dogpiling."
And sometimes it's easy to drag yourself into dogpiling someone.
The people who I directly told this to already know, but for everyone else: If someone says they're feeling dogpiled, stop and think about it. If your first reaction is to tell this person how wrong they are for feeling jumped on, then it's not uncommon that you're making the situation worse.
The best thing to do if you're feeling dogpiled on a game—if you can recognize it—is to find the original point and take it private.
The best thing to do if you're the one singled out for discussion is to be honest up front, either engage or say you're not the person for it.
Staff should have jumped in by this point, but @Ganymede's numbered suggestions implies this. But a dogpile should be stopped as soon as possible. It's often the worst behavior from all of us.
@Macha said in Dead Celebrities 2019:
Rip Taylor.
I was trying to remember who "Taylor" was. R.I.P. Taylor.
No, Theno, it's Rip Tayler!
https://deadline.com/2019/10/rip-tayler-dead-hollywood-comedy-icon-obituary-1202753636/
There goes a hero.
Nice, man. I don't know who pissed in your Cornflakes, but it's good to know that you're not interested in having a conversation.
