Short of giving the IP to FromSoftware, I'm not sure who has the experience to improve upon MW5, which is pretty good. I'm more bummed about BattleTech dying because Paradox mismanaged Harebrained Schemes and declined to greenlight a sequel, forcing them to do Lamplighters League instead

Woundedmoon wrote on Dec 28, 2024, 16:39:
Its Jib its always been Jib, gib doesn't even sound as good. When I was playing team fortress in Quake on Roger Wilco, running game spy it was Jib for the people on the team speak.

It's gib and it's always been gib. The death announcements would say you were gibbed and we'd laugh about it on RW. And instagib mods for Quake and Unreal were called instagib, not instajib.

Cutter wrote on Oct 22, 2024, 14:50:
I don't know if being a vexatious litigant applies to arbitration or not. You'd think there was some mechanism in place to prevent this sort of nonsense. If not, there soon will be. Fucking ambulance chasers, man. This is why we can't have nice things.

Arbitration is basically taking it outside of the system. I don't think there will be a mechanism because that's the risk you take by forcing arbitration. They want to avoid small claims court and class action lawsuits, so this is what they get

Lilricky wrote on Sep 4, 2024, 21:57:
Would love to see how much $$$ Lightspeed had to "donate" to SAG-AFTRA in order to keep working. But that info will never see the light of day.

During the previous SAG strike, productions were allowed to proceed as long as they agreed to all terms and rates from SAG

To prevent accidental infractions, in-game binds that include more than one movement and/or attack actions will no longer work (e.g., null-binds and jump-throw binds).

30 years of Quake engine and 25 years of Counterstrike core functionality thrown out the window with a single sentence

Overon wrote on Aug 5, 2024, 13:20:
Well it's at least a new game from Valve whatever it is, right?

Probably just be subbed out like everything else these days

ChaosEngine wrote on Jul 26, 2024, 08:58:
The natural endpoint of games is where characters can react to unscripted situations. By definition, this is going to require AI voice generation. That, or you literally get the voice actor to record a line for every possible situation in every possible tone.

Which is what many good games do already.

the tactical shooter sequel

as in sequel to the Novalogic voxel games?

While I appreciate the games, the fiction ebook bundles are what I'm enjoying most from them right now. If that goes, that's kind of an irreplaceable bit of the company (where gaming bundles can be had from Fanatical and others with comparable games at comparable prices)

Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Jul 9, 2024, 17:37:
I've lived in Europe for more than half my life. I've worked (basically lived) on the ocean for a couple of years and now live in Connecticut. I still feel like the weird European sometimes though. Our cultures are massively different. There's tripwires during debates that just aren't there from where I come from. I'm not pissing you guys off on purpose.

Oh okay

Slick wrote on Jul 6, 2024, 12:46:
It's crazy how much better it is in Japanese.

Except that's not true. The English VO is just as good

Xero wrote on Jun 27, 2024, 11:01:

Prez wrote on Jun 27, 2024, 10:32:
More games should allow us to brutally murder intensely annoying celebrities.

lol, I was thinking, did he give his approval for this? I have to assume so in which it shows he doesn't take himself so seriously at the end of the day? Perhaps he laughs off the concept and thinks it's hilarious? I don't know, just kind of wild that someone would want to participate in this type of cameo where you let the world attempt to assassinate you...

He revels in it

Overon wrote on Jun 27, 2024, 14:39:
It wasn't Tribesy enough. Many veterans of Tribes told them this and begged them to change their ways, but they refused to do what the veterans were recommending.

It was the same with Tribes: Vengeance and pretty much everything else since Tribes 2, so it's not really unexpected

Razumen wrote on Jun 20, 2024, 19:52:

bhcompy wrote on Jun 20, 2024, 19:34:
That's all death of individualism stuff. You're part of the in-group(bugs are the outgroup, literally xenomorphs for xenophobes). You're one of us. It doesn't matter what your differences are (until it does).

Okay? And what's wrong with that? EVERY functioning society that has existed and will exist requires a group of like minded individuals. You can't embrace values that go against your society and actively threaten its existence and expect it to survive, much less thrive.

I didn't say anything was wrong with it, but it's a very obvious tell of what the movie is pushing when combined with all of the other circumstantial evidence that's slapping you in the face (which is why it obviously doesn't fail to convey this message)

Jonny wrote on Jun 20, 2024, 17:17:
I get it and I understand what he set out to do, I just think he failed. Weirdly obsessive biology teacher aside the society he shows here doesn't just evidence traits that are the antithesis of fascism, they're ones we're actively working towards in bettering our own society right now.

Bettering it for who? Learn about the bugs weaknesses so you can kill them, then get sent to bug planet to kill them or die, and then you can be citizen. If you don't, well, we'll let you live here with limited rights.

Buenos Aires in the global south being as soft and wealthy as the nicest dream US suburb?

It's a very obvious reference to where the Nazis fled.

Utter equality across the sexes, to the point they shower together without harassment and weirdness?
One of the most powerful officials in the world immediately stepping down after a catastrophic mistake and being replaced by a black woman and nobody bats an eye?
I get he was trying to get messages across with the blond haired and blue eyed cast, that he made the shower scene to show that they were sexless robots etc etc, but what he's done is show a society that's done a lot of the things we're actively trying to do and draped a "military=fascism" coat over it.

That's all death of individualism stuff. You're part of the in-group(bugs are the outgroup, literally xenomorphs for xenophobes). You're one of us. It doesn't matter what your differences are (until it does).

And to pile on with Beamer as to it being right under one's nose, there's Verhoeven's own words:

So I decided to make a movie about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism.

The society they exist in espouses a lot of concepts associated with fascist ideology, and pretty much all of it was played like they didn't know it outside of one character: Rue McClanahan, who spent a few minutes chewing scenery like she was Dr Strangelove playing their biology teacher, while talking about how great the bugs are because they're "perfect selfless members of society" and dismissing art, math, and science as if they're trivial pursuits because the bugs don't give a shit about any of that and just send their obedient selfless drones to die while colonizing other planets at will. Fascism is very anti-individualist, and this biology teacher strongly admires the bugs because of it

Jonny wrote on Jun 19, 2024, 16:54:

Teddy wrote on Jun 19, 2024, 00:46:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 18, 2024, 23:11:
It's all heavily influenced by the movie, with almost nothing from the novel.

That's a good thing. The movie was brilliant satire. The novel was a steaming pile of fascistic military worshipping garbage. The game itself, I couldn't speak to as I don't do RTS's.

I enjoyed the movie, but it wasn't satire, it's a masterpiece in outing people who fundamentally don't understand what fascism is.

Militarism isn't fascism. Having an eagle on your flag isn't fascism. Uniforms do not make you a fascist. Fascism is extreme authoritarianism sustained by ultra-nationalism whipped up by the fear of external enemies.

The Federation in Starship Troopers is a parliamentary republic in which you earn the right to vote via public service. That makes it a democracy.
When it encountered the bugs it threw up a wide quarantine zone around their territory to leave them in peace. Not something a fascist state would do.
The quarantine was breached by civilians because the Federal military had no jurisdiction over them and couldn't stop them ignoring the warnings. Not something you'd see in an authoritarian state.
Finally, the bug war starts when the arachnids launched a pre-emptive strike on a civilian population centre with a weapon of mass destruction. Show me a nation in history that wouldn't react with extreme militarism to something like that.

It's as fascist as WW2 era America or Britain, the militarism and jingoism is a result of being attacked and being in a war for survival. That it's so readily mistaken for fascism indicates an alarming lack of knowledge of what fascism actually is.

Verhoeven very deliberately incorporated Nazi inspired iconography and influences in the Federation. He drew from Riefenstahl heavily. He's spoken about it at length. Why do you think they feature a bunch of blue eyed blonde haired white kids from Buenos Aires?

theglaze wrote on Jun 19, 2024, 23:28:
So many other FPS franchises have come and gone in 25 years. Or morphed into something so different it's unrecognizable to the original.

And yet CS2 is still unmistakably Counter-Strike. Over 10 million active players a month. The current iteration is probably the most profitable online shooter of all time, perhaps the most profitable of any online game, because the weapon case gambling and Valve getting a 15% cut on every market transaction. The new content and upkeep is minimal, compared to the massive resources that go into CoD or even Fortnite.

All because Valve decided to be friendly with modmakers rather than antagonistic

Prez wrote on Jun 18, 2024, 12:48:

**BUY THE BASE GAME NOW AND GET ALL DLC FOR FREE (LIMITED OFFER ONLY). ALL DLC ARE INCLUDED IN THE BASE GAME AND YOU DON'T NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE DLC SEPARATELY**

Living with an "Escape From Tarkov" player when I hear this I automatically become (perhaps unfairly) very skeptical.

It's not a bait and switch. The only purchasable item on the page is the bundle that includes the DLC. Even if they end the promotion and charge for the DLCs, you own the individual DLCs

Sepharo wrote on Jun 5, 2024, 14:28:
Makes me wonder if one could abuse Steam and GOG as an upload service...
Like disguise something else as a save file to get uploaded and downloaded.

Wouldn't be the first time people abused a service like that