Sales estimations for No rest for the Wicked are at about 1 million units sold. That's quite good for a 40$ early access game. Maybe the fault is with the studio management assuming that every game they make will sell multiple millions of copies before it even ships.

yonder wrote on Apr 26, 2025, 16:43:

NKD wrote on Apr 26, 2025, 15:25:
Really reaching for a way to write a negative article about Oblivion Remaster I see...

There are plenty of ways to write negative things about the remake and talking about promoting the work of, and possibly paying, an alleged rapist shouldn't be categorized as a reach. Why do you?

Terrible take.
First of all, anybody could be labeled "an alleged rapist". Famous people are especially vulnerable to public accusations, especially in today's witch hunt climate.
Second, they are not promoting the composer in any personal capacity, but using his work. An artist's work has value even when he's an asshole, the things aren't even connected in most cases. This is hollow virtue signaling, plain and simple. Half of human culture would be erased if we let moral hysterics and self righteous judges of humanity decide what artists pass their decency test.

There was a Rocky Horror Show game released one decade after the film, although it wasn't a platformer but one of those psuedo-3d action adventures popular on the speccy -
https://www.mobygames.com/game/26227/the-rocky-horror-show/

If we're talking quality over quantity, The Chinese Room have actually demonstrated, IMHO, better writing skills than Larian in both Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's hoping they can keep that moving to a much bigger, branching experience.

Nexon will have to prove that any assets in the game were stolen from them. The developers of DnD seem quite confident that all of the assets used in the game were either self-created or bought. We'll see.

Acleacius wrote on Mar 3, 2023, 11:41:
So push back and lack of interest in paying for better graphic detail, forces a corpo to admit it's really just a money grab, is much f*cking worst.
They were hiding the fact, it's actually a patch and they are trying to trick you into paying for it.
Great Job, obsidian.

This doesn't seem to have a lot to do with Obsidian (or Microsoft, for that matter). The new edition is being pushed by publisher and seeming rights owner Private Division, created by former Take Two people, with development duties handled by an outfit named Virtuos Games.

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 30, 2022, 15:16:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 30, 2022, 15:10:
5 DVDs would have done it. I got my first DVD-ROM drive in 1998.
Now, hard drive space would have been an issue for the average person...

You had a DVD-Rom drive before most had CD-Rom drives.

CD-Roms were relatively rare in 1993. Then Myst and Star Wars FMV games happened and by the end of '94, when Wing Commander 3 came out, almost everybody had a CD in their computer.

Chaplin should have been in the public domain by now. This wringing of money out of long dead artists is a parasitic sort of capitalism.

Acleacius wrote on Nov 13, 2022, 16:17:

ududy wrote on Nov 13, 2022, 00:33:

Acleacius wrote on Nov 12, 2022, 19:31:
"Promptly judged him guilty over these public allegations"

Is there any evidence, there were no meetings or talks with him before two major game companies parted ways?

Who TF cares how much work he did, if it's true. So no possibility, this is his fault, the work didn't get used?

We live in world where the last 10,000 years, one group is responsible for at least 90% of ALL the Violence.

All the violence In the HISTORY of the FUCKING WORLD!
Brutality, Torture, Rape, Murder and War. ALL OF IT.
One group.
Men

Wow, that's genius. Are you claiming that all men are a-priori guilty because they are men? That's what you seem to be saying. You like the witch trials very much, just wish that they would have targeted the other gender?

Nope and nope, got anything else. Cause if that's really what you take from the facts, then I'm sure you can't help yourself?

Don't play dumb. What else would you be claiming? How is your ridiculously simplistic interpretation of history, or what you call "facts", otherwise relevant to the issue at hand? Care to explain?

Acleacius wrote on Nov 12, 2022, 19:31:
"Promptly judged him guilty over these public allegations"

Is there any evidence, there were no meetings or talks with him before two major game companies parted ways?

Who TF cares how much work he did, if it's true. So no possibility, this is his fault, the work didn't get used?

We live in world where the last 10,000 years, one group is responsible for at least 90% of ALL the Violence.

All the violence In the HISTORY of the FUCKING WORLD!
Brutality, Torture, Rape, Murder and War. ALL OF IT.
One group.
Men

Wow, that's genius. Are you claiming that all men are a-priori guilty because they are men? That's what you seem to be saying. You like the witch trials very much, just wish that they would have targeted the other gender?

This comment was edited on Nov 13, 2022, 00:54.

RogueSix wrote on Nov 12, 2022, 11:50:
Where there is smoke, there is fire... and the guy has a known history of mental instability so I'm inclined to believe the gals instead of the goon.

God knows there are enough groundless and exaggerated accusations against people to never adopt a judgmental attitude like that without very, very good evidence.

If I remember correctly, MDK 2 already had quad wielding, although maybe not as customizable as it's going to be here.

Lies and damned lies. They want to give back power and ownership to the players? Very easy. Let people own the games they paid for and mod them at will. Fat chance of that happening.

Fantaz wrote on Nov 3, 2021, 23:47:
why can't game companies come up with new original ideas nowadays?

Blizzard were never about originality. Even in their early innocent days, if they were ever innocent, they were mostly about copying successful formulas and sticking very closely to the original mechanics:
Blackthorn - Prince of Persia/Flashback hybrid
Warcraft - Dune 2 clone
Diablo - a simplified roguelike
Lost Vikings - probably the most original game in their history

Looking for original, daring ideas from them now, as a huge conglomerate catering to the masses and shareholders, is like searching for undiscovered animal species in the NY metro.

You want creativity? If you can dig past the piles of trash, Steam and Itch.io have it.

TheBigVlad wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 00:01:
If this CEO was a woman who was praising laws that banned contraceptive methods for men only (vasectomy, etc.) then she would rightly be called batshit crazy and asked to step down I think. I don't think it's too much to ask from a CEO that they don't treat the opposite sex as second class citizens. Just because a significant portion of the US believes that women are indeed second class citizens doesn't mean that we have to just accept it and move on. Believe what you want, and feel free to share those beliefs all you want, but as many have said already, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. This guy was not banned from Twitter, or jailed for expressing his opinion. He's still free to say whatever hateful garbage he wants.

A false analogy; you really can't compare killing someone's gametes (of which he has an unlimited amount) to killing 20-28 week old fetuses (20-28 weeks being the maximum allowed age of a fetus at the time of abortion in most US states). Of course, being against abortion from the moment of fertilization is an extreme view, and I don't know if this ex-CEO's support of the law is indicative of such a view, but abortions close to the outer edge of what the law allows are arguably not much different than taking a newborn baby and throwing him/her in the trash (well, maybe an abortion is a quicker death than hypothermia or dehydration, so in that regard there is some difference).

NamecaF wrote on Nov 29, 2020, 21:44:

bigspender wrote on Nov 29, 2020, 20:46:
6 foot tall bald caucasian should be perfect for blending into the crowd hah

Not only that... he has a fricken bar code tattooed on the back of his head, clear as day too. For a genetically engineered world class Assassin, and a game all about blending in, they really didnt think through his whole "look", did they?

They probably did, and then arrived at the conclusion that the average looking joe doesn't make for a compelling video game main character.

As far as I know, she's guilty of the terrible crime of reminding people that gender is a biological reality and not merely some social construct. Yes, burn her at the stake. Our society is crazier than ever, and the internet mob - those venomous people allegedly protecting tolerance and humanity - is the ugliest phenomena of the times.

i have no sympathy for the cheat sellers, but why would they be bothered by Activision's terms of service? As far as these are binding, don't they only relate to Activision customers?

TenNapel could be wiser, humbler and more humane in his criticism of others. No doubt about that. But he's also motivated from seeing some obviously dark sides to the phenomena discussed - if you can't see any you are blinder than him. BLM, for example, is a movement ripe with racism. Farrakhan is a hero of many of the people swearing by BLM (sorry for any generalizations, I'm sure there are many there who aren't fans), and he is an unabashed antisemite who operates freely on social media. People everywhere need to de-escalate themselves and stop demonizing other people - whether they are cops, black, white, christian or homosexual.

Didn't personally like Kingdoms of Amalur and it definitely didn't reach the knees of Skyrim's success, but it still sold 1.2 million copies in its first months, so unless most of these buyers hated it, they may have some audience.