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Moola posted:Citadel is really cool and good if you're cable of enjoying things and having fun look at this filthy casual
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I used to know someone who got hired at CD Projekt. I didn't talk to them much after that, but they only ever had nice things to say about it, which leads me to believe that CD Projekt is some kind of hosed up cult because there's no way.
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Dan Didio posted:I used to know someone who got hired at CD Projekt. I didn't talk to them much after that, but they only ever had nice things to say about it, which leads me to believe that CD Projekt is some kind of hosed up cult because there's no way. You hear horror stories about most Eastern European dev environments, but I've never heard anything particularly bad about CDPR. The fact that they do quality, quality work and have an amazing rep probably helps too.
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Their crunch time is supposedly particularly exhausting.
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CF Projekt also owns GOG.com which gives them (if I'm not mistaken) a pretty significant source of income which can go into making cool poo poo
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I'm gonna say that "selling for Western prices while having non-Western working conditions" is a complete bogus explanation. It's immediately recognizable as dumb simply because if you think it through then that would mean any studio based in Poland, or China, or Brazil, or whatever shithole would have the same advantage. The poor Western game development market would be put out of my business by legions of sold-for-$60-but-made-for-peanuts titles flooding in from the 3rd world. And yet that doesn't happen. Western and Japanese developers still dominate the market while studios like CD Projekt Red are a rare exception. And why is that? Because, quite simply, almost every other video game that's made outside the Western world or Japan sucks rear end and could never sell for $60. CD Projekt Red is successful because they make good video games while other people make not so good video games. That is the root of it and if you try to hand waive that away in lieu of some hairbrained economics you're really missing the forest for the trees.
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CDPR is an exception because they own GOG, which helps to sustain their own development in a way that other small European studios cannot do without the backing of a big publisher. Blizzard, Valve, et al. all get to do what they want to do because they have their own lucrative distribution service.
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Reclaimer posted:I'm sure in the centuries since the genophage was unleashed a female krogan or two got tired of Space Sharia and dipped out on a passing freighter. Not to mention prior to that, they lived on many worlds that weren't Tuchanka. Also what is some other Krogan gonna do? Tell her, a most likely fertile female, she can't go wherever the hell she wants? Good job, idiot, you just pissed off one of the few ways your genetic line will ever continue. As we saw on Tuchanka, the female Krogans hold pretty much all of the social power, and the threat of never having a chance at children was incredibly strong. A female Krogan saying "Hey, let's go check out this other galaxy full of adventure, new worlds to see, and things to fight" would get a ton of male Krogans tagging along, especially younger ones who aren't quite as jaded as their elders.
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The Two Worlds series is better than the Elder Scrolls series so IMO every game should be made in Eastern Europe
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Soon they're gonna release a sci-fi RPG as well. Might become a direct competitor with Mass Effect 
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exquisite tea posted:CDPR is an exception because they own GOG, which helps to sustain their own development in a way that other small European studios cannot do without the backing of a big publisher. Blizzard, Valve, et al. all get to do what they want to do because they have their own lucrative distribution service. Pretty sure GOG is a rather small part of their revenue. Their general game distribution business is bigger (they were pioneers in Eastern Europe, very effective at competing w/ rampant software piracy by offering good value/quality localization), and at this point game development might eclipse even that.
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I just had a horrible thought what if your female Turian squadmate is the "reach and flexibility" one 
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Pattonesque posted:I just had a horrible thought That would actually be loving hilarious.
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Pattonesque posted:I just had a horrible thought Yeah, wouldn't want Garrus' sloppy seconds.
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Mymla posted:Yeah, wouldn't want Garrus' sloppy seconds. The new Tali sweat. 
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Mymla posted:Yeah, wouldn't want Garrus' sloppy seconds. same, I want the waifus to be pure
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I wouldn't really describe Turian breeding as 'sloppy' though. 
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NmareBfly posted:I wouldn't really describe Turian breeding as 'sloppy' though. I wouldn't be surprised if a crisp salute initiated foreplay.
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Is she seriously wearing eyeliner so you'll know she's female. 
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frajaq posted:
So bad . So so bad.
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I don't get it? Turians wearing face paint has always been a thing, why would it matter if they're male or female?
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Bloody Pom posted:I don't get it? Turians wearing face paint has always been a thing, why would it matter if they're male or female? Look at her eyes, not the bone plate. She's wearing eye liner - cat eye style - those thick top wings. Drifter fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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In other words, she looks fine, but if you study the picture carefully you can find something to get offended about.
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The aliens are not going to be alien enough to satisfy many posters in this thread, and what's more, they will use some human-like gender signifiers.
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And the asari will be a loving embarrassment as always.
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Lets explore differing standards of beauty.
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where are the female Elcor goddammit
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Cythereal posted:And the asari will be a loving embarrassment as always. Not if they die
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Alain Post posted:Not if they die the genophage was used on the wrong species
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Cythereal posted:And the asari will be a loving embarrassment as always. marshmallow creep posted:the genophage was used on the wrong species
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Moola posted:Citadel is really cool and good if you're cable of enjoying things and having fun This man speaks the truth. Also are you guys getting upset about barely visible make up on an alien dino lady?
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The way bioware chases progressive gender nonconformity in their romances while simultaneously failing with their setting to think even vaguely about how different aliens species might not comport with conventional human standards of masculinity and femininity is hilarious to me and very revealing. What does it reveal? When it comes to loving people ("character development") they can think a little outside the box. When it comes to writing a creative sci-fi setting around interesting ideas (in which those characters exist) on the other hand??? they can only think of a tribute to the action-adventure films of the 1970s and 80s within the template of the same fantasy plot they've always written. Don't get me wrong; the MEs are fun games to play. Just don't expect too much from them -- because you won't get it. Zane fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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I'm still mad neytiri had breasts.
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I don't think people are upset, it's just another thing that shows a lack of imagination. Why are human cosmetic customs crossing the racial divide down to eyebrows? Why not the other way? It'd be pretty neat (though admittedly a lot of work) if other races tended to have their own discreet fashion trends, especially because you then get to have human weeabo-equivalents that refuse to leave the ship without fluffing up their fake feather epaulets in the Turian style or whatever. You run into mercenaries with face paint but that's just regular tribal poo poo. E: Hell, don't make it a weeabo thing. Make it a fact of high society that you have to put plugs in your nose because Turians think big human nostrils are gross or whatever. NmareBfly fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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Maybe she knew she would be running into her ex-girlfriend, a non-turian, and wanted to look her best even if she didn't necessarily want to get back together with her.
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The aliens are ciphers for humans anyway so they're always gonna be anthropomorphised, but Bioware is still very lazy about this.
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Zane posted:The way bioware chases progressive gender nonconformity in their romances while simultaneously failing with their setting to think even vaguely about how different aliens species might not comport with conventional human standards of masculinity and femininity is hilarious to me and very revealing. What does it reveal? When it comes to loving people ("character development") they can think a little outside the box. When it comes to writing a creative sci-fi setting around interesting ideas (in which those characters exist) on the other hand??? they can only think of a tribute to the action-adventure films of the 1970s and 80s within the template of the same fantasy plot they've always written. Honestly, they know their market. Most people aren't going to want to gently caress an interestingly non-human alienoid (that's not a dragon or pudding monster or some silly furry bullshit). Familiarity is what their majority of the romance fans want, and they're pushing it with the Garruses as it is. I don't think you'll ever find Bioware going for the creative look over the 'is this mostly fuckable'?
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