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Bioware's been a shambling corpse for years. Things can get better for them, or they could make a lateral move, but it's hard to imagine things really getting worse.

Playing launch day seems like a bad time all around these days. It's basically for the superfans. People who wanna pay extra for the privilege of playing the early unfinished version. I'm not as harsh on that as I used to be. I think there is a genuine market for it. I'm sure a lot of Beetles...

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Guild Wars 2 has a beta going on right now, to test out the new specializations for the upcoming expansion. But also you can use it to just try out any of the specializations, which is handy for me because I haven't unlocked them all yet. Was able to put together a couple builds I really...

I mean, games are fun. I'm nowhere near like, cutting games out of my life or anything. The business behind games can be kind of shitty sometimes, but that's true of pretty much every industry.

That's how it goes. In 10 years having classes and races locked behind Day 1 DLC will be the norm, but some new even shittier permutation of the idea will be the thing that takes it a step too far. They introduce the fucked up new thing, work it into the market until it's just an accepted fact...

Yeah, I think I was kind of similar when I started. Wanted to 100% explore every map before I moved onto the next. Think I did all of Caledon Forest and The Brisbane Wildlands before getting frustrated and roaming free. I wasn't looking up any guides so that took like a solid couple months...

I've been getting back into Guild Wars 2. Been maybe 11ish years since I had a computer that could play it properly. My brother got himself a fancy new computer and he gave me his old one, so now I can play modern pc games. Having a blast! This game was my breakfast, lunch, and dinner back in...

https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3ls2m44sjyc2x Never heard of the workers being rewarded for the success of their game before. Half the time it seems they make a hit game and immediately get laid off.

I think a lot of that stuff comes down into the "No man is an island" thing. Nobody does it all by themselves. They drive on roads that others paved, in cars that others built, so on and so forth. If you really want to get into the weeds of everybody who contributed to a project in any way...

That development team is about the same size as the team that made Final Fantasy 5, which is one of my favorite games of all time. It was like 31 or 32. Something like that. Haven't recounted the ending credits recently. Of course, it had another 90ish names in the "Special Thanks". I've seen...

Everything's getting more expensive so fast. Price Gauging Inflation is getting out of control. Luxury goods like videogames are the first to go. A lot of people realizing they can't really afford to enjoy their hobbies like they used to anymore. You're right that it shouldn't really be hard...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evergreen We're probably using definition number 2b here. "universally and continually relevant : not limited in applicability to a particular event or date"

That's funny! And yet, so much gaming discourse surrounds how such and such game isn't "modern" enough. Any game that doesn't give super clear numbers for how their skills work for example, you'll hear so many people saying that "Modern Gamers don't put up with that sort of stuff. It needs to...

Maybe they did it that way to accomodate weapons like throwing axes that can be used as both ranged and melee weapons.

It sounds like missile damage generally can't gib, but since you were using darts in melee range it worked, meaning that the game checks your distance from the target for the gib, rather than the kind of weapon you're using.

Seems to be a bit of a trend in the gaming industry. You'll make a name for yourself with a very high end product. And then rapidly come to resent the expense that goes into making a product like that.

The player character in BG3 is a bhaalspawn? Christ, can you imagine all the discourse that would've been avoided if they'd included that in the marketing and not made it a plot twist?

Interesting! I'd heard that apparently the way that Hasbro tried to monetize BG3 was so scuzzy that Larian refused to work with them again. But I guess not. Don't know what Hasbro did that was so terrible but it sounds like they're both running a business here and things can be mutually...