Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I watch every ATV and wait anxiously for star citizen to come out , but today while talking with friends a weird Idea struck my head. If the devs have created a tech which allows to create w whole planet and so on wouldnt the star engine be great for a medieval kind of game ( Like star citizen, where you can play a mercenary, bandit, pirate, traveler, pilgrim, monk, merchant, trader etc. but in a fantasy setting ).

I mean we could have a whole planet with continents , cities, villages, player housing, traveling on horses, fighting with swords and bows. I think it would be AWESOME as hell. And I know star citizen is being created because so many people geek out when they see a starship but it would be just amazing to travel through a enormous living breathing continent with its own economy and quests and activities and monsters to slay and princeses to save.

IMAGINE.

I hope someday after they finished star citizen someone will do something like this. It would blow my mind I would love to travel for hours on a horseback just to get somewhere where I havent been before !

Morningwoodpecker posted:

If your partner has the right sort of sense of humor take her with you next time to maximize the comedy outrage.

DarkRefreshment posted:

You know when I wasn't caught up and I lurked more in this thread I saw all the food posts and thought "How the gently caress does that even happen"

Now I find myself balls deep in cheese.

Sappo569 posted:

Which is what most of the whales are usually saying , they just forgot to include that it will probably be a horrible fmv movie game presented by Chris Roberts a Chris Roberts game from the mind that brought you Chris Roberts

HycoCam posted:

At this stage, I'm really hoping the release comes soon.

The Titanic posted:

PS: Incel talk is creepy. Making me feel like a target of horrible things.

Hav posted:

C? Like integer C? And Lua?


Same generation, although we didn't quite have the same 'you're worshipping the devil in secret' in the United Kingdom, and we managed to talk some girls into playing Call of Cthulhu, so it was _all good_. But I'll level with you, I brushed the MRA during a spell when I wasn't quite hitting on all cylinders, but a good dose of exercise and _getting the gently caress out of my own head_ worked wonders.

Sappo569 posted:

To be fair to the scam that is cloud imperium games

I fully believe they can and will release a game eventually , it's merely a question of how bad it is and how much longer they can continue to kick the development can down the road until they're forced to release something or Chris loses his swanky office

But its like putting 100 bens into a room with 100 copies of the entire beach body DVD set. Eventually at least 1 Ben will come out ready to walk onto the set of bay watch ...

Just through sheer force of amount of people involved and the supposed bank roll they have they simply can't NOT poo poo something out

Which is what most of the whales are usually saying , they just forgot to include that it will probably be a horrible fmv movie game presented by Chris Roberts a Chris Roberts game from the mind that brought you Chris Roberts

Beexoffel posted:

The Titanic posted:

Some interesting things I've figured out and experienced:

- Nobody asks you to play because they assume you don't want to.
- Somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- If you're there you've been forced to play.
- Somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- You are the girlfriend of somebody there doing them a favor.
- somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- Unless you've been there many times your play experience will be censored.
- Somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- People who do play will make jokes about the guy who tries to play the game regardless of gender and goes after you without apologizing for an action.
- The above makes that one guy less likely to play the game as he should be, helping to censor your experience.
- Asked many times of you'll be back.
- forgot to add somebody thinks they are getting laid.
- Bring a girlfriend to bounce off of because it makes the experience 500 times more enjoyable.

This was 25 years ago though so probably the demographic experience is different now, but it was not the most gender welcoming community and there were many pre conceived notions you had to work through before people got somewhat cozy. But it never felt like an open arms welcome, sort of like being a cat in a store that normally only sells dogs. Sure you're kinda welcome but nobody is going to be totally comfortable and you'll always be making somebody feel awkward or feel like the jokes you want to be in on aren't explained or flowing.

But enjoy my perspective!

DarkRefreshment posted:

Pretty accurate description of mine and my friends time playing with ladies during Vampire: The Masquerade as well. Except people would get laid in character and that was just weird.

Richie Stardust posted:

You have illuminated me. I grew up in East Houston, in Denver Harbor. My friends Jose, Josue, and Juan and I played pen and paper games in secret like we were gay Al Qaeda drug dealers. When we got a dialup connection we played MUDs. Fast forward, and I joined the Army, made some money, travelled the world, but every time I went into a gaming store in any city for Friday Night Magic or to check out rule books, or to try and meet cool guys with similar interests, I would one hundred percent of the time face hostility. Not like karate fight hostility, but more like a condescending demeanor with eye rolls and cold hard dickishness. It was like I was a loving cop showing up to a park dominos game. Those little fucks thought I was the reason that the world was unfair. Real talk, there were times when being left out affected my feels. But I didn't start a hate group over it so scrod.

To be fair it wasn't everyone I met. I made a lot of friends and played a lot of games, it was just every store had a sizeable population that hated me on sight.

The Titanic posted:

Some interesting things I've figured out and experienced:

- Nobody asks you to play because they assume you don't want to.
- Somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- If you're there you've been forced to play.
- Somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- You are the girlfriend of somebody there doing them a favor.
- somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- Unless you've been there many times your play experience will be censored.
- Somebody thinks they are going to get laid.
- People who do play will make jokes about the guy who tries to play the game regardless of gender and goes after you without apologizing for an action.
- The above makes that one guy less likely to play the game as he should be, helping to censor your experience.
- Asked many times of you'll be back.
- forgot to add somebody thinks they are getting laid.
- Bring a girlfriend to bounce off of because it makes the experience 500 times more enjoyable.

This was 25 years ago though so probably the demographic experience is different now, but it was not the most gender welcoming community and there were many pre conceived notions you had to work through before people got somewhat cozy. But it never felt like an open arms welcome, sort of like being a cat in a store that normally only sells dogs. Sure you're kinda welcome but nobody is going to be totally comfortable and you'll always be making somebody feel awkward or feel like the jokes you want to be in on aren't explained or flowing.

But enjoy my perspective!

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Game stores are the original recluse for socially-inept nerds. I'm about as close as you can get to the prototypical gamer nerd (overweight, white, pale) and even I feel... weird going into most gaming stores. Maybe it's because I'm tall. Or because I brought my toddler in the last few times because she had to pee and I needed paint. Either way I'm convinced that the best gaming groups happen outside of stores, and involve beer and not giving a gently caress.


So what you're saying is that there's a chance I'll get laid?

Beet Wagon posted:

My favorite part about this whole thing is that I occasionally remember they made a big deal out of the fact that they were gonna make branded joysticks for like six months and then we never heard anything about them after that, to the point that I often forget it was even a thing.

The Titanic posted:

This is my opinion as well. I see you read my July missive from start to finish while taking detailed notes.

Virtual Captain posted:

I don't follow it anymore because the lone dev seems to have gone Chris lite. Sit in development hell, throw out some irrelevant news or technical bullshit to kickstarter backers once or twice a year between mental breakdowns. Same kind of re-invent the wheel mentality half the time.

Hav posted:

C? Like integer C? And Lua?

Beet Wagon posted:

My favorite part about this whole thing is that I occasionally remember they made a big deal out of the fact that they were gonna make branded joysticks for like six months and then we never heard anything about them after that, to the point that I often forget it was even a thing.

DapperDon posted:

I used to have access to the meeting minutes from the execs about that project. Apparently Chris and Sandi treated the company like poo poo and gave them no direction to go in because they could not commit to any design specs. So the Marketing SVP basically mothballed the entire thing until they got concrete direction in writing from them since they refused to answer the phone or emails that were sent.

teh_Broseph posted:

Known good released game Overwatch is about to add a moon map with a low grav section that OBVIOUSLY came from Christo Roberto doing a tour of Blizz and throwing them a freebie idea cuz it sounds like what SC is trying to do with their nipple jets at the Stimpire Marine arena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3gN7v8Ehg&t=151s

"As you're approaching point A on this lunar map you'll notice that there are some airlock doors off to your right if you're an attacker. Now if you go out those airlock doors, don't worry. For whatever magical reason, you can still breathe out there and you won't instantly implode. But, we've enabled the low gravity on that section and we think we've stuck a really good middle ground here where it's a rare, kind of out of the way flanking route, but it will allow for some of those cool player story moments where the low gravity is enabled and you're out there on the surface of the Moon."

DapperDon posted:

I used to have access to the meeting minutes from the execs about that project. Apparently Chris and Sandi treated the company like poo poo and gave them no direction to go in because they could not commit to any design specs. So the Marketing SVP basically mothballed the entire thing until they got concrete direction in writing from them since they refused to answer the phone or emails that were sent.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Either way I'm convinced that the best gaming groups happen outside of stores, and involve beer and not giving a gently caress.

Goobs posted:

sounds like your gaming community is garbage. there are 2 LGS's near me and both are great and homes away from home. the guys that are "those guys" get weeded out quickly. we had a guy that was not all there in the head and one time at a tourney he punched another guy in the stomache. hes banned from every store in the surrounding area as well now.

Dementropy posted:

MedicineHut posted:

Five years after, we have reached "peak transparency":

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/1-81-million-backers-and-growing

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Funny how even actual backers don't know that the number is bullshit.

Chev posted:

3d decals were already in Alien Isolation, published in 2014, before the SC guys explained their similar use of it in 2015 at GDC. Don't mistake a technique they merely advertised their use of with one they invented.