Mirificus posted:

ggangensis posted:

However as a social experiment it's interesting: "What happens if you give a Narcissist unlimited money?". I think every single publisher would have canned this project, at the latest in 2015 and cut the losses. But now with crowdfunding, who knows, I think the title of the most expensive failure in video game history is all but safe. The message announcing the end of the project will blame other people and factors, that's a given with Chris, but it will be a funny read nonetheless.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/CloudImperium/status/1277645817084403713

TheDarkFlame posted:

I think it's secure in this title, because nothing as dumb as this will ever happen in this way ever again. Some things might be attempted that were destined to never work, but nothing on the scale of this. Nobody is going to be this recklessly stubborn or obliviously optimistic, or have this level of insane funding without reproach. This project is going to be the "There are no good deeds commemorated here" of video game development and crowdfunding.

Oh who am I kidding, we had Daikatana, we had Duke Nukem Forever, there will always be more awful half-baked botchware games. But hopefully, it's going to be easy to shame bad project leaders into changing their ways when you can give them an existential crisis just by calling them "Mr Roberts".

Scruffpuff posted:

The era of the "video game auteur" is over, Roberts is a fossil (and was never actually a member of that club anyway), so it's unlikely anything like this will repeat again in this particular way. It was a perfect storm of narcissism, ineptitude, and mental illness.

What bothers me more is what the CIG people and the backers are going to do once this closes and they wander out of their paddock out into the world again. They're not going to suddenly become good people - they're going to need something new to be getting on with. At the moment this project is keeping them sequestered.

Scruffpuff posted:

The era of the "video game auteur" is over, Roberts is a fossil (and was never actually a member of that club anyway), so it's unlikely anything like this will repeat again in this particular way. It was a perfect storm of narcissism, ineptitude, and mental illness.

nurmie posted:

It just looks generic. Like a collection of clip art of all the usual sci-fi tropes and ideas. It doesn't go into any interesting directions. There is nothing eye-catching about the designs. Somehow, even Mass Effect Andromeda looked more interesting, not to mention the original trilogy. No Man's Sky has a much more well-defined and well-developed aesthetic. CIG have all this money and resourses, all these artits and talent, and they managed to produce the beigest beige of sci-fi.

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Star Citizen. It is the culmination of a generation. It is the last game some of us have and will play.

It's a game some children have and will grown up with.
It's a game that has overshadowed some, and enlightened others.
It is a project so grand, people go through the famous "5 stages of backing".

It's not just a milestone along the road. Star Citizen IS the road and runs parallel to our lives.

So do yourself a favor, and live some. Live beside SC, not for it. Enjoy SC as an exciting novelty in our age and time.

We live in an age where things come and go so quickly, fads and events ever so fickle. It's nice to have a constant that progresses. Grows with us.

I know watching a plant grow isn't the most exciting use of one's life, but being part of the journey, that's a story only our generation gets to tell.

There are 7 games in my life (I played over 376 AAA games), that changed the world of gaming for me. 1. Ultima Online 2. Wing Commander 3. EverQuest 4.Deus Ex 5. SWG 6. WoW

7 is Star Citizen, because it's going to be around for the next 30 years, and just keep growing.It's one of those games you are going to be maining because everything else is boring compared to it. It's the one game I'm confident will out-live at least half of us.

Defiance Industries posted:

There's still a few people I'd call a "video game auteur" who are still active, but they're making games with smaller budgets, like the guy who made Nier. And unlike Croberts, they make games that are really loving weird, whereas Chris only has ideas that someone else has already had.

IAbsolveMyself posted:

Star Citizen. It is the culmination of a generation

Quavers posted:

So... um... how long until Amazon shitcans Lumberyard?

Spiderdrake posted:

Yeah this is something a lot of us have made points on. The art style just isn't. I don't think it looks terrible, generally, but it's like... A nice set of generic art assets. "Sci-Fi 2050 pack"

But, without going into a full Scruffpuffian rant, it's because Roberts isn't any good at his job and there's no artistic leadership to speak of. There is no spark of creativity because there is none.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

Lucas Pope is an auteur. He doesn't make big-budget games but he does make exactly the game he wants to create.

Scruffpuff posted:

There's something special about being an "idea man" who has no ideas.

Dwesa posted:

This is why SC will never release. This is why that SQ42 video will be delayed until it's forgotten.

AbstractNapper posted:

The SQ42 video has to show beta -- and close to release -- level of developed *gameplay* which is also fun.
It cannot show just cutscenes again. They did that two years ago, they need to show something new.

Arguably, they don't have it. They could edit together faked and heavily scripted footage but being misleading in year 8+, the year of your supposed release of the (multiple times postponed) beta, is a big risk. Not to mention that for any of their devs left that still put effort into this, it is also insulting.

If Lumberyard goes down the tubes, SC will switch back to CryEngine, since they never actually transitioned to Lumberyard anyway, and they and Crytek conveniently mutually backed out of the court case.

rePool posted:

Teach me obi-wan. I'll buy an Idris!

On a serious note, I'm lucky to be able to use a computer anymore. I had a stroke in early December, but quick response and a dose of TPA, I was very lucky.

peter gabriel posted:

SQ54 is gonna be so lovely I can't wait for the metacritic reviews.
A new dawn of comedy will emerge once people can stand back, hands on hips and say 'yup, it sucks' when it's a retail game

peter gabriel posted:

SQ54 is gonna be so lovely I can't wait for the metacritic reviews.
A new dawn of comedy will emerge once people can stand back, hands on hips and say 'yup, it sucks' when it's a retail game

Inacio posted:

what's in the 14th? SQ42 beta?

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Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal.

The Rabbi T. White posted:

Do you currently work at a corporation and constantly make vague claims about what you do in an effort to seem like you have any idea what you're talking about in unrelated topics?

I Greyhound posted:

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Sandweed posted:

I'm hoping for this to but everything points to it being just so incredibly mediocre nobody is going to bother.

peter gabriel posted:

SQ54 is gonna be so lovely I can't wait for the metacritic reviews.
A new dawn of comedy will emerge once people can stand back, hands on hips and say 'yup, it sucks' when it's a retail game

Hezzy posted:

The worst thing by far about Star Citizen is that they've single handedly potentially destroyed any faith people will have in a project like this. I used to play a game called Jumpgate back in the day which was a skill based MMO with factional warfare. It was amazing and a direct copy of the game would have probably been insanely successful given the potential for whaling in this genre / market.


big yikes from me

I Greyhound posted:

In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.