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Scaramouche posted:Well, you can learn writing from the man himself: Jesus christ that sure is a tits and butt pose
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I cannot fathom how horribly awry someone's sense of storytelling must have gone for them to state that it's a good idea to foreshadow the opposite of your major plot developments.
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Aug 23, 2022 14:35
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"Black Geyser: All the impact of a silent, scentless fart."
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Aug 24, 2022 03:54
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ZCKaiser posted:I cannot fathom how horribly awry someone's sense of storytelling must have gone for them to state that it's a good idea to foreshadow the opposite of your major plot developments. That's the funny thing in that Black Geyser doesn't even do that. It foreshadows NOTHING.
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Aug 24, 2022 04:01
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Epilogue: A Studio in Crisis After the conclusion of this LP, the developers of Black Geyser made an interesting announcement. Their studio was in crisis and they either need to do another kickstarter for Black Geyser DLC or shut down the studio and stop making games. They're trying to launch a DLC along with a free "fixpack". The Black Geyser Dev Forums posted:DLC Content Now, the fixpack stuff includes items that blatantly should have been the game at launch. I am not saying that this stuff is mandatory for a fantasy CRPG to have, but the game when I started this LP included in the wizard class description that you could craft golems. Alumu mentioned that you could have a stronghold, but they never implemented that feature. Some of this is mandatory: "Item descriptions list the classes that can use the item"? Really? Of course, we need to remember this is the same team that posted on their steam forums that ideally you should have an SSD to cut down on the absurd amount of loading. Thus it's not a surprise to me that this studio is frantically posting about being dissolved, or that they post they could not shift this game with a 40% off sale, because quite frankly this game is terrible and it's all their fault. They even state as much on their Steam forums.  This game is bad because the people who made it made it bad. Yes, we can point and laugh at Nick Macari - and his other game I'm LPing is similarly incoherent - but GrapeOcean Studios ultimately decided to hire him and accept the script he wrote instead of making him revise it so it was consistent. The quest that destroyed magic items got called out in early access and the developers responded by having it only destroy some of your items. The developers left Helgenhar's half-completed quest and the text claiming wizards can make golems in the game. The Developers, on their steam announcement posted:Q: I'm not satisfied with a number of things in Black Geyser. These include loading times, QoL things, lacking depth of characters, too few romances, empty and boring maps, unsatisfying epilogue, and way too many fetch quests. How come you didn't you get these right? I'm sorry, but no. At the end of the day you decided this game was complete and released it with lying class text, incomplete companion texts, and a bunch of fetch quests the game would frankly have been better off without. The problem is not your budget, it's your scope management, and I don't buy for a second that you had the skills to do this. Let's look at romances. The two romances we showed off in the LP are frankly terrible. Bjalla's questline involves harassing a bunch of people about her destiny to wear a magic hat, THEN you are forced into an arbitrary choice between two of your party members over who gets the third tier upgrade on her hat, and if you pick the boring rich waifu instead of Jade you immediately bone down in a lich temple. Hamlin's romance is a farce where you talk him into growing a spine, murdering his former friends, and then pick the right dialogue option to gently caress in the thieves guild because massacring his childhood friends turns him on. I will concede that building your own Infinity Engine knockoff isn't an easy task, and I won't throw shade at them for that - even though Owlcat and Pillars are slowly including turn-based mode, but whatever! I do not care that this is their first videogame, I care that the product they are selling is bad, and I think it's kind of pathetic to grovel and beg that if we get more money we'll get it right this time, when they don't address the incoherent story in the slightest! I can tell from the original kickstarter the developers are passionate about this project. I just think this game demonstrates that they do not have the appropriate talents to create anything good.
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May 23, 2023 03:30
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The Epilogue of this is rather sad yet well-deserved. It shows of a group of people, excited about the project, watching it fall apart around them. They scramble to prop it up, fix it, but there's a distinct sense of too little, too late. But ultimately, as the consumer public, we're not obligated to subsidize people's dreams. We don't know these people personally and have no stake in their success. So if things are collapsing because they're not making enough money, then it's ultimately a result of their product not selling well enough. The LP overall has pretty convincingly showed several reasons why this may be. My take on it is that they want to recreate the stories they previously loved, without a good idea as to why they ended up loving those stories in the first place. And they have no idea as to how much work it takes to create those loved stories. Of course, we have the ??? cherry on top of the cake when I looked at the steam reviews and it popped out mostly positive. I have no idea why that would be the case and it just confuses the issue.
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Yeah I'm not going to dance on this grave but I will recommend people learn from all the many mistakes that led to this tragedy of game design.
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