Don’t understand the desire for games to essentially offload their databases to the blockchain. Security concerns and blockchain manipulation (depending on what flavor of blockchain they are using) alone would make it undesirable.

You have a database. You have player IDs. Implement player trading in your game. Done. Why you need to crowdsource ownership for game data is a mystery to me.

If you want to monetize trading just do what Warframe does and make it cost a paid currency.

Blue wrote on Sep 8, 2024, 10:28:

Cutter wrote on Sep 8, 2024, 10:13:
Sure they do, so long as its their ideology. The problem is we now live in an age where people feel they have the right to be outraged over the slightest thing - and I do mean slight.

This is sadly super common. People will follow a chain of logic or make an observation that is bordering on true insight, but then completely miss that final step to relate it themselves and their actions.

Prez wrote on Sep 7, 2024, 18:06:
In the meantime I am considering a breast reduction

Your back will thank you.

Having talked with a former coworker on the dev team, it was supposed to be F2P except that management changed their mind in the last year. It was designed a more of a Counterstrike/Valorant style game, but again the lead designers pivoted in the last year to more casual. 4 characters had years of design done for them, but the rest came in hot with a lot of complaints internally as they failed to have distinct silhouettes and were not recognizable in fast paced gameplay. Designers didn’t listen to feedback thinking they knew best even after the horrible playtest.

Lastly, tremendous amount of time, effort, and money went into the cinematics. They had a year of cinematics backlog made. The reason for this is suspect, but my friend said the cinematic director was sleeping with the game director (married at the time) and received three promotions in the space of the year to creative director.

If you want to make a year of cinematics, locking down the look of the entire roster early and with no room to pivot is what happens. Characters had to be rushed to make movies for them and then they couldn’t change since their “look” was locked in.

Ignoring the gossip about the affair, that alone would cause your character design to be flawed. Using the Sony Motion Capture studio is expensive and probably also another reason the additional characters were just generic humanoid as you don’t have the cash to do motion capture for extreme body types.

Why someone thought a multiplayer game needed weekly movies is beyond me.

Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Aug 19, 2024, 05:26:
It's kinda cute 😂

Thank you. I am kind of cute. And I just don’t buy into the Imperium’s propaganda. My Thousand Sons regularly work over marines by the squad.

I mean, lore accurate marines are monsters when they are taking down normal troops or backwater corrupt governors, but against a Chaos Marine it is a pretty even match. Tyranids have been know to wipe out entire battalions of veteran Terminators. Hive Tyrants and Daemons are no joke either. Just depends on what they are fighting.

Game looks like it is going to be solid, but that feels like pretty weak reasoning to not have 4 player co-op.

Just saw it. It is a “fuck you” to fans of the series, but the PG-13 rating and decent production value will probably garner the appreciation of the 10-13yo demographic who haven’t played the games.

Plot is very predictable, acting inconsistent, but Pandora is spot on and the action is almost Marvel quality.

jdreyer wrote on Aug 1, 2024, 21:36:
Hmm, looks pretty derivative and uninspired.

Yeah. Nothing here looking interesting. Just WoW Mythic dungeons. Even the combat, skills, and art style could of just been Burning Crusade era

Not really defining a new genre either. MODA? Ugh. If I take WoW and remove everything but Mount riding is that MOMA then?

Awesome. Looking forward to 1.0. I went heavy into this a year or two ago and played for a week solidly but stopped when I kept running into the WIP narrative stuff. Wanted to hold off that that point till the full game is out. Minor quibble, but I honestly take any reason I can to hold off on playing an EA game and waiting for full release. Really paid off on BG3 and hoping the same with Hades 2.

Solid animation, story, and surprisingly fun gameplay, but that is all just window dressing for the highly tuned Skinner box and money extraction system that is Gacha games.

I want to recommend it to friends, but at the same time it is like saying “you should really give this new designer heroine a shot.”

To be fair, if anyone was going to write an Elden Ring show, George would probably be the best one for the job. He did the world building and the story is all about fucked up family drama fighting for a throne.

As far as the books though, that ship has sailed. George will work on side projects till he dies and then someone will pick up his notes and finish the last two books. They will probably be written just how the TV series played out, but with better pacing and dialogue.

I didn’t get a chance to play during the event (to busy Final Shaping), but I’m glad this is the result. Children are the future, and likely the true deciding factor in this, anti-tank mines are a trash stratagem that the community has rejected 3 times now.

If it was a new mech with flamethrowers for arms now, I would have feared for those children’s safety… from the comfort of my walking bug BBQ machine.

Leahi84 wrote on Jun 15, 2024, 09:18:
I didn't have fun with Elden Ring, so I wont be buying this. These games are just too hard for me and it's not worth it to waste my time trying to get better at them when I can play a billion other games and have fun.

If difficulty is the only reason you wouldn’t play it, but other aspects of the game intrigue you, there are a number of “easy mode” mods you can install to customize the difficulty more to your liking. Infinite XP, upgrade materials, overpowered weapons. Tweak things as you need during gameplay.

Is it just me or was the main allure of Dune the political intrigue and not so much the idea of having to survive on a sand planet? Not entire sold that a survival game on Arrakis is all that interesting.

Sadness. I miss the complexity of the old TCGs. I think I only played the original one a handful of times and don’t remember it well, but I was big into Legend of the Five Rings. Sad that never got a proper video game.

Meh. Titanfall 3 is all we want, Respawn.

Kongregate has traded hands multiple times at this point. They are owned by a holding company and GameStop owned them before that. Site had its moment in the sun but I don’t think it has been relevant for a few years now. Itch.io has probably eaten most of its lunch at this point.

Farther away from Feb the better. This is already a stacked month.

Just in time for Bethesda to release a patch and break it.

For people this game hits well with, good deal. Game could of been a raging trash fire, but hearing a lot of positive buzz and, for someone who played Destiny religiously until this last season, I know how good it feels when a game like this clicks with you.

It’s not for me though. I think I still have some pretty heavy superhero fatigue and although Suicide Squad was probably the best superhero movie I’ve seen, outside of Endgame, I can’t see myself getting into this. Looks too random and the combat doesn’t look satisfying to me.