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Jay Rust posted:I think EA hates BioWare and wants them to die a bloody death Realistically they don't want any studio to get too popular and strong that they wouldn't be able to crack them open like a pinata for shareholder value and also to scatter the employees to other subsidiaries to prevent them from getting too organized
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Internet Kraken posted:I mean after Andromeda I think most people wanted that. They got their wish, because the BioWare studio that focused the most on Andromeda (Bioware Montreal) got launched into the sun. CharlieFoxtrot posted:Realistically they don't want any studio to get too popular and strong that they wouldn't be able to crack them open like a pinata for shareholder value and also to scatter the employees to other subsidiaries to prevent them from getting too organized So what you're saying is Respawn is doomed
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Phantasium posted:assthem sounds like what a race of rear end people yell at the intrepid explorers that discovered their rear end people realm before the rear end people chase them Bioware let us make contact with the rear end people long ago 
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That’s actually the most efficient way of playing Crusader Kings 2: as a king, you’ll want to imprison any duke who’s gaining too much power too quickly, then strangle his children so his lands default back to to you
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The first Call of Duty expressly tells you not to try and open closed doors, hoo boy how that game shaped the environment of fps games for like 10 years. Also it feels like these early games had better sound design or maybe it's poorer sound mixing and everything is just equal amounts of loud.
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Internet Kraken posted:Bioware let us make contact with the rear end people long ago in a bootopian society everyone has a big rear end but no flabby cottage cheese thighs so phantasy star basically
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al-azad posted:The first Call of Duty expressly tells you not to try and open closed doors, hoo boy how that game shaped the environment of fps games for like 10 years. Feel like that was a big part of why it left such a big impression on me. The first mission starts out real quiet and then that window with the MG42 opens up and it feels like all hell breaks loose. The loudness of the gunfights gave the battles an intensity that you didn't see much in FPSs previously.
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axelblaze posted:This just reminded me that Matt Damon wouldn't allow his likeness to be used in that Bourne game they made because he thought it would be way more suited as an adventure game. No it’s because he’s against violent video games
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Finally finished Valkyria Chronicles 4; I actually had been more or less finished already since I had wrapped up the Two Valkyria DLC and was just sitting in a cutscene. 77 hours, finished most content except for the Expert Skirmishes and a few of the post-game ones that don't unlock new characters. I like the game quite a lot in that it probably represents the best overall combination of map design and mechanics; in terms of new units over the original game it's the first time where it's felt truly right with regards to Grenadiers. I had a lot of fun taking advantage of them, even though their interception fire usually sucked (both when it was your own and from enemies). The plot is suuuuuuuper whatever. When you go into that game, pretty much every preconception you might have beforehand will ultimately play out exactly as you imagine it will. No imagination whatsoever. But that said, for the most part the cast isn't terrible outside of Raz, and even he has his moments. 7/10
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The whole Anthem demo situation is really fascinating to me. The fact that they were showing off a bunch of the game before launch and had a public demo weekend suggested that BioWare was pretty confident in Anthem. If they weren't, I think they'd have been a lot more guarded in what they let people see and play before the game came out. But they weren't--they clearly thought it was going to go over better than it did. Then the demo itself hit and was a technical disaster and showed off a really boring section of the game. A lot of people, very rationally, came away from it feeling like the game was set to be an absolute disaster. But now that it's out in early access, it's... good. The performance is night and day from the demo. The controls are massively improved. So far the story and missions are pretty good, too. It's like they precisely calculated the worst possible demo to show off and that's what they put out there for those weekends. There are bugs and a few server issues but that's not exactly unique to Anthem's launch, and there's another big patch planned for the "real" launch day on the 22nd that will hopefully clear up at least some of those. It's obviously way too early to tell but I wouldn't be surprised if the demo weekends ended up being a serious mistake in retrospect. I think a lot of people I've seen posting (here and on other sites) came away from the demo having totally written the game off, and I can't really blame them. And now that the game costs money to play, there's no way they're earning most of those players back. What I wonder is how many of the people turned off by the demo might have bought the game and enjoyed it if the demo hadn't been such a trainwreck. (At the same time, I also think it wouldn't have been the end of the world if the game got a few more months' worth of dev time before being launched...) Harrow fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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The biggest issue is that the missions in the demo were loving boring. Does the main game have anything new or more exciting, or is it like Destiny where it's a barely disguised loot treadmill and you just put up with it for colors?
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a thing no one asked for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9NpXee958 i did hear justin mcelroy do a random persons voice in it and that's all i remember from watching it
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Feb 16, 2019 00:27
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Nate RFB posted:But that said, for the most part the cast isn't terrible outside of Raz, and even he has his moments. I liked Raz a reasonable amount but as like, a character. Wouldn't particularly want to be friends with him irl.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake kicked outstanding amounts of rear end, Apex Predator turned out to be a fantastic Battle Royale game nobody asked for or expected, Catherine showed up for PC, Anthem isn't a complete trainwreck and Yakuza Kiwami is out on PC tommorow. 2019... Good?!
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Internet Kraken posted:Bioware let us make contact with the rear end people long ago [Investigate]
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Grapplejack posted:The biggest issue is that the missions in the demo were loving boring. Does the main game have anything new or more exciting, or is it like Destiny where it's a barely disguised loot treadmill and you just put up with it for colors? It is literally just EA telling Bioware to make a Destiny clone because Destiny was raking in big bucks when dev work on this started.
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Grapplejack posted:The biggest issue is that the missions in the demo were loving boring. Does the main game have anything new or more exciting, or is it like Destiny where it's a barely disguised loot treadmill and you just put up with it for colors? I mean I just started so I can't really comment on the whole scope of the game's missions. The early ones definitely have more flair and interesting things going on than the demo ones, though. The vibe I got from the demo missions was that they were basically side quest-tier missions which, if that's the case, was a hilariously bad idea. Like I just can't overstate how much of a misfire that demo was on BioWare's part. It's like it was precisely calculated to show off the game as poorly as possible. It's certainly not a revolutionary or truly great game but I don't think the devs were bullshitting when they stressed how much the launch version would improve on the demo, and it's to the point that I'm not sure why they did the demo at all. Internet Kraken posted:It is literally just EA telling Bioware to make a Destiny clone because Destiny was raking in big bucks when dev work on this started. Frankly it has more in common with Warframe than Destiny, right down to mech suits, builds that let you stack modifiers on a bunch of gear pieces up for crazy effects, and an endgame that looks more like a Diablo-style random loot treadmill than Destiny's raiding-focused endgame. So I guess if BioWare was under orders to make a Destiny clone they hosed up right from the start. Harrow fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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The 7th Guest posted:a thing no one asked for Real talk Netflix has created a little animation renaissance these past few years because they can afford to throw money at a couple episodes of something that couldn't be marketable on TV. Like I didn't think anyone would care about an adaption of Luke Pearson's Hilda comics but drat that cartoon was better than the source material and Rilakkuma is going to kill me with cute overload. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atpyjjgBhCA uh video games
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The Netflix Castlevania cartoon is legit super good too, it fleshes out the cast of Castlevania 3 and Curse of Darkness a ton.
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Does anyone know where I could possibly get this beer mug https://twitter.com/yukakuramoti/status/1096236036848377857 Also her Twitter account is  you've been warned
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Taintrunner posted:Does anyone know where I could possibly get this beer mug Since she tagged it EvoJapan I'm assuming they're selling them at Evo as part of the whole "oh right we're SNK we can make money off that" push. They'll probably be available somewhere online pretty soon.
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I liked the Carmen Sandiego series. Easily top five game adaptation
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I liked the Carmen Sandiego series. Easily top five game adaptation I'm not even mad with how they use the player name\character in it. Really really enjoying it.
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Oh hey looks like Apex Legends fanart is already happening https://twitter.com/Konnestra/status/1096547292058927105 Can't wait for the Anthem fanart
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Oh hey looks like Apex Legends fanart is already happening Already more successful than Battleborn.
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bushisms.txt posted:I'm not even mad with how they use the player name\character in it. Really really enjoying it. How do they use it
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It's 2019 and Undertale music still slaps
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FirstAidKite posted:How do they use it
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I would never help carmen sandiego.
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What if Carmen Sandiego is a thief who only steals from other thieves and returns artifacts to their rightful countries I also appreciate that Zack and Ivy, who were the ACME detectives in an older animated series, are her sidekicks in this reimagining Edit: Also I believe Carmen Sandiego uses a katana at one point
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Macaluso posted:It's 2019 and Undertale music still slaps I spent a lot of time wondering if Toby would start composing again so Deltarune was a lovely surprise for that alone
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I assume she steals from rich people and thwarts cops, so a net good.
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I was worried it was going to be a generic hero series, but after the first two episodes they start laying on the historic and geographical facts and it becomes the show, you know and love. The chief is still black although not voiced by Carl tart, unfortunately. Secret best part was the old intro music used as elevator musak. chumbler posted:I assume she steals from rich people and thwarts cops, so a net good. Kind of, they're a corporate thief guild and she snipes their targets Indiana Jones style, even grouses continually about things belonging in a museum. bushisms.txt fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Man don't talk to me about Carmen Sandiego unless she steals geographical landmarks or the world wide web
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In those alternate timelines Carmen also stole the concepts of medicine, language, and zero
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chumbler posted:Already more successful than Battleborn. A lot of Overwatch's push came from porn so we'll see what happens with that.
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Didn't she steal the atmosphere once too
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Pretty sure that was Dark Helmet
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