Epic_News wrote on Feb 4, 2023, 14:49:

The PC release demonstrates one of the weaknesses of Epic's storefront after all these years, as there's no function to report on such news.

If you took your head out of Steam's ass for a few minutes, you might have seen https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news for Epic Store news and https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/blog/evil-dead-the-game-splatter-royale-update-is-out-now for specific news about this Evil Dead game's update.

And where would we have seen this news? Are you going to launch a launcher for your launcher, so we can get news about your news while we read our news? If it was so important for you to create and launch an account, maybe you should done it earlier?

Someone told me and my friends we could see see a dead body in this thread, and it's true. Could someone please standby me, I didn't think it would be true, I feel like a lost boy.

Mr. Tact wrote on Dec 24, 2022, 20:35:
Is there a single movie made based off a game which is actually worth watching except to avoid watching paint dry instead?

The first Resident Evil movie with Mila J was an awesome zombie flick. Probably not canonically.

I fail to see how exclusives serve customers. For example, waiting over a year to play Mass Effect on PC when it was an Xbox exclusive. People don't forget.

I still have my 1080 TI, my 12 year old monitor died yesterday. I pine for the days when I can budget for a new PC that isn't predicated by a hardware failure.

yonder wrote on Dec 9, 2022, 16:12:
I presume everyone here hating on MS for *possibly* having *future* exclusives haven't bought anything from Sony in the past 20 years since platform exclusivity of major games in order to sell hardware is their entire business model... right?

20 years ago Microsoft bought themselves into the console market with the money from their near monopoly of the operating system market that wasn't Apple? Microsoft has always had a good history in the near monopoly market, especially for consumers.

I can't justify the premium Marvel pricetag, otherwise Firaxis is always on my shortlist. The card mechanic adds cinematic randomness in what appears to be a wholesome way, I'll find out when it's less expensive.

Task wrote on Dec 2, 2022, 14:43:

Prez wrote on Dec 2, 2022, 14:07:

If you're an expert then maybe you should go into game design and see how easy it is.

Wow that seemed unnecessarily aggressive.

It's not though. I'm tired of the moaning that game dev is soooo easy, here let me edit some lines. Now I'm a Game Dev. I mod games too, modding ini files too does not make me gamedev. Do you realize how hard it is to release a game to run fine on multiple system types simultaneously?

Same thing with "oh I can't trust reviewers, they all lied again." Again with this moaning crap.
That's on the reader if they don't pay attention to the system the game was reviewed on. Clearly the game runs fine on console, and the publisher may have said to release the PC version despite issues.

We just don't know, BUT the PC version should have been delayed.

Quite a few people on Blues have been in dev, a sloppy release is sloppy. This costs them money, easy money.

Will they be updating the sex cards for a Witcher remake? If I have to make sweet love to a tree lady again, I want my baseball card.

Fion wrote on Nov 18, 2022, 12:52:
Yes Microsoft owns both now, so there's a greater chance than ever that they'd get another shot at Fallout.

Frankly it's amazing just how good New Vegas is considering the time frame they had to make it. And yes, they were fucked over on their bonuses because their contract required a certain meta-critic score to get them and they ended up 1 lower. It was also an incredibly high bar, I think 95%.

It was 85% they got 84%, at the time.

I played in the closed beta and now this pre-release content. The backstory is great, and other than the psyker, which I can't get the hang of, having a great time. As everything always devolves into melee, I choose the Zealot.

Interesting how the last two paragraphs only address potential harrassment, and nothing substantive about the claim itself. The first two paragraphs don't speak specifically to the allegations against Marty - which is mostly what the medium post was about and conveniently.group everyone at iD together indivisibly.

Mostly obfuscation, not surprising with a.big company having a PR team and legal team to construct such a milquetoast response. I'm sure Marty walked into his bosses office like Ellis from Die Hard.

Very complicated to navigate this one. The damage is done, no matter what. If someone was "dazzled" by meeting CA at a convention because of his reputation or past work, or CA is suave that's one thing. If CA intentionally looked for a "type" of starry-eyed fanll and got them drunk that's another thing. Maybe some of both at different times and in either event to an outsider witnessing an interaction there is no way of.knowing which or neither.

I think we all have celebrity crushes, and given the opportunity many would take their shot, knowing you are likely to be discarded afterwards. However, not many people find out what that feels like and how different your celeb crush could treat you after they are done with you.

Contextually at the time the allegations came to light you could argue that if you had a valid complaint, it would likely be justly heard or if you wanted to defame someone it would work in equal measure.

My opinion? Doesn't really matter.

Edit: And having read the posted article above, it would certainly put this whole affair towards an effort to defame someone. Ultimately I believe it comes down to motivation of intent: the belief they were making a sincere warning (justly or not) or an attempt to enrich themselves at someone's expense.

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Don't see RPG mentioned,.but lots.of "it looks like/feels like".

I liked the game, but the demo I played for Floodland during that recent Steam Indy week reported previously was amazingly better in a similar story. Another resource doesn't change the core gameplay much, either you like this kind of sim or don't.

I've played 5 levels of each class on sedition (minimum difficulty) and had a blast. One mission was just four Ogryns together, that was fun. Think I'll focus on the Zealot. Didn't have enough instruction on how the psyker worked.

I remember buying most of my stuff when the automobile companies were being given loans to stay afloat.

Looked pretty cool, if you divorce yourself from all the production baggage. I would call this a collection of pre-production in-engine cutscenes than gameplay footage.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 4, 2022, 13:23:
I hope for the next Cyberpunk that your background choices matter more than just a few flavor options in text. Outside of the prologue, your background didn't have a huge impact on how you played CP2077.

Has there been a game where background choices for your character recently? The only series I can recall is Mass Effect, where in-game choices mattered (until they didn't). The more important your choices the more divergent your budget becomes; you're either crafting custom dialogue and quests or managing dialogue and branching stories; all of which is only experienced by some of the audience.

Much easier when you had only text or an end-game narrated summary.

I remember the Catskills RPG server, the Orcs and Undead in the Yew Forest by the orc fort. The Solarian (the collective name of the world.broken into shards/servers) Socialist Party that would stage protests about alts being exploited for their labour (mostly buying thread, making bolts of cloth and then sewing fancy shirts to tailor shops, amongst the other ways to make money).

That magical day when someone used a lump of coal (the Xmas gift for murderers) with a dye tub and it made jet-black ink for clothing that never existed before.

Stealing ships left unlocked. Everyone yelling the "Guards, Bank" emotes.

The fact that a perfect pickpocket could steal your home teleport rune and house key from your inventory and break into your house, and likewise you could boobytrap chests in your inventory to kill people snooping.

The gang of thieves and killers that hung out at the graveyard in burial robes, so they tempt people to attack them and reveal their full armour and crossbows underneath.

GM assistants that physically teleported into the game to talk with players and help.

A very exciting and unique time.