caralimon wrote on May 28, 2025, 12:55:
As briefly as I can:

- I barely post here at all, since ... 2008? . I believe Blues' has yet not become just another echo chamber site for the Media & VG industry - machinery. But the danger is -there-

- This junk, JUNK, has all the french media industry = most of the european media machinery behind to turn it into the semi-indie sleeper hit of the season / year. It all is as fabricated and cooked up as anything can possibly be.

- It comes from the EU country with the worst record in business practices for the Videogames industry, by far and wide. They do shitty business, they scam, they release shit products, they kill games, they break their games, and they get away with it. They been doing it for years, they KEEP doing it and they getting (even more) rich from it.

Stay calm I won't bother anymore.

The amazing part of your full text is the unusual anti-Europe (?) bias, conflating the EU and France in regards to media and business practices - but most importantly how very little has anything to do with the actual game itself.

caralimon wrote on May 28, 2025, 10:42:

Citizen P wrote on May 28, 2025, 09:20:

caralimon wrote on May 28, 2025, 06:41:
There're millions better ways of spending money on than a french developer on a derivative, bizarre, run of the mill RPG.

Yet that is the shit world we live in.

That's terrific you don't think it's cool. You might find your time better spent with all the other people who agree with you, doing something else.

Yup yup, thanks a lot, just like the time I spend to (freely?) voice my opinion here, on how sad I find that junk sells millions.

That's terrific, can you give me a list of your other opinions that I might have missed? I really want to read more of your well-spoken thoughtful responses.

caralimon wrote on May 28, 2025, 06:41:
There're millions better ways of spending money on than a french developer on a derivative, bizarre, run of the mill RPG.

Yet that is the shit world we live in.

That's terrific you don't think it's cool. You might find your time better spent with all the other people who agree with you, doing something else.

Jim wrote on May 5, 2025, 13:13:
I lookup up to see that I own stellaris, then I checked the updates,
$283.02 -> Add all DLC to Cart

Holy hell, I think I'll pass on that.

Ehh, you don't need all of them. There are some great ones that definitely enhanced the experience instead of feeling like tacked on content: MegaCorps, Federation and Utopia. Overlord, Machine Age, Nemesis and maybe Galactic Archives. You don't need Astral Planes or Cosmic Storms. The species and story packs are when you're addicted and want more variety. If you want to play space vampires or robots, then pick those of course.

Jim wrote on Mar 9, 2025, 17:02:
Have you played the original? IMO it has one of the best stories of any game. Additionally I found the grinding and developing of locations to be very satisfying.

I was very pleased with fixing the entire road network on the big map and an over mountain relay. I had a great time.

As someone who put in money, historically, into SC: I'm content with the slow-burn drama, both the vitriol and hopeless optimism of its customers. I'm really curious how much of the innovations and development of SC is salvageable because they're the only ones who have attempted to address certain technology limitations - are previous SC programmers headhunted for their knowledge? I'm curious. Quite frankly in relation to my "investment" in this endeavor - it's been 12 years, if I'm fretting money spent on a game more than a decade ago - that's on me.

Ubisoft, having huffed their own farts for so long, decided that AC gameplay was an exclusive fundamental category of game like a sports game or strategy game. They believed that you could slap on a new skin and push something out every year or two because they had this exclusive product that everyone loved.

I'm sure their brood of analytics people have already told them that it Star Wars AC isn't selling, Japan AC isn't going to sell either. My only speculation is the push back on Japan AC release is purely for shareholders, so they can showcase all the PR bullshit and preorder dosh in a different financial quarter before the dead release. Extra time to dump stock.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 22, 2024, 11:11:
Here's the sad reality:

Homeworld 3 did not do well. Neither in sales nor in reception. BBI, unfortunately, massively bungled it. So what they're doing is dumping all the DLC that people paid for in one shot so they can walk away from it.

Deserts of Kharak was a great single player experience, I was shocked how much this wasn't. Are we talking about BBI's fault, or publisher interference and forced decisions? Probably never know. I tend to lean towards the latter, considering some of Gearbox's choices of late.

Somehow I've always had Hotline Miami and Disco Elysium in the same quantum state where they were both the same game, some how. It's unentangled now, but wow.

Sheik Rattle Enroll wrote on May 10, 2024, 15:50:
Back in the day when Fallout games were about good plot, dialog, and tons of freedom.

It was amazing to see so many different solutions to quests and how the game would correct for you killing key people.

Fallout 3 they just make bullets bounce off key people, because how could they be expected to match game design from 10 years in the past with a massively higher budget?

I guess they blew the entire budget on making you constantly repair things?

I'm not a big fan of many Beth choices for Fallout, but I don't think what you're suggesting is reasonable criticism. Beth has amazing environmental freedoms, with usually mediocre to poor story and characters.

Holywhippet wrote on May 1, 2024, 17:14:
Great, well-executed D&D game? Well, BG3 was that eventually. I had to stop playing for a while twice while they fixed crash to desktop bugs though.

The best way to start making great games at Hasbro.is to fire a large portion of your D&D staff, outsourcing art to.AI and writing a puff piece about riding the coattails of a company.that worked hard on your IP and treated staff well.

Avus wrote on Apr 27, 2024, 15:51:
This thing happen because of Star Citizens (and their own $150 edition) - start of game prices for whale tier. ALL the player who paid $150 (Darkness edition) are part of the reason for this even more expensive edition.
Paid stupid price get stupid game.

I'm going to disagree, spending money on Star Citizen is a hobby for dreamers - not people expecting to play a finished game.

Spark debate? What discount price should you wait for, before you buy?

I think Chris really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with that "not even in beta" zinger. Maybe he said that intentionally knowing where development is. Perhaps my grandchildren will know for sure, only the most faithful will be bequeathed my account.

Must be ramping.up all that AI generated artwork and story and catching as many international tax credits as possible with *shake magic 8-ball* survival style gameplay!

I imagine a strike is doubtful, but generally speaking, the media conglomerates can go fuck themselves - they're making billions after margin, and can afford to pay better. They don't pay better because it costs less money to delay and fight back. The voice actors (in the context of gaming) deserve a fair spot at the table for whatever work they do. The music industry didn't tolerate sampling when it got popular, using technology to emulate someone's talent is worse.

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Mar 3, 2024, 12:55:
Yeah, just checked out the screen shots, Yeah I guess there some nice HD fingernails textures, no so sure that it's a must have, but then again I am not W0KE so I'll be blocking DSOG.COM on my router as well as uninstalling CP2077

What on earth are you talking about? It's incoherent.

Glad to hear it, Control was amazing.

That Borderlands article is written like.being in the worst version of Hotel California. It kept repeating and never ending. I closed it.

No one cares Cliff.