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Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

drat, genius

# ? Mar 16, 2021 22:41

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# ? May 31, 2024 07:23

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Propaganda Hour posted:

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1371938015375937547?s=19

Gift cards

They made recordbreaking profits too, so there is absolutely no need to lay these people off. Just have them help host digital esport events.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 22:42

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

Hey that's like 70 Hearthstone packs.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 22:42

Convex: Aug 19, 2010

When did this sort of thing become commonplace in game development? Was it mainly from the 360/PS3 gen onwards? I ask because that's when games seemed to suddenly require much larger teams and longer development periods so presumably led to increased crunch time etc.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 22:42

Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

I bet some of those people were the Vicarious Visions devs they absorbed in, too.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 22:44

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

I need to memorialize here the fact that Video Games just killed himself in Dark Souls 2 by jumping off a high ledge with no health, and it made Lady Video Games so mad that she got out of bed and came into the room to yell at him.

E: poo poo I should have clipped that, I don't know how to Twitch good

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:00

Draga: Dec 9, 2011; WASHI JA!

One hell of a way to end the stream too. Good times.

EDIT: Clipped for posterity

Draga fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Mar 16, 2021

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:02

RazzleDazzleHour: Mar 31, 2016

Convex posted:

When did this sort of thing become commonplace in game development? Was it mainly from the 360/PS3 gen onwards? I ask because that's when games seemed to suddenly require much larger teams and longer development periods so presumably led to increased crunch time etc.

Before this game studios had their own problems, in that it was exactly the same except the slave labor was just an explicit part of the job before they had to start pretending they didn't grind people into dust.

But yeah, this is basically a result of game dev companies becoming an exact mirror of film companies except you don't have a constant line of work. This is why on-disc DLC was a thing for a while, because after a team had finished their work, if you didn't have another game you were working on (which is now way less common due to massive studios also having multiple offices, each relegated to a single project), you'd just have them start DLC before the game was even out because they had the free time. Now you just boot the massive teams you don't need anymore because game companies have figured out the new solution to this problem, which is to not actually have any employees at all and just outsource as much of the work as you can to third-party companies.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:03

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Had a great time watching VG die a bunch jumping off of things in Dark Souls 2 tonight :3:

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:06

LawfulWaffle: Mar 11, 2014; Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.

Soysaucebeast posted:

So I hate to Kramer in here, but does anyone have a recommendation for a website/app/whatever that will consolidate all my game libraries in one place? Mostly I'm looking for something that will show both Steam and Playstation libraries, but if it does other stuff that's cool too (like RetroArch, but I know that ain't going to happen). Google popped up with AllMyGames, but that refuses to sync with my PSN games. It shows Steam just fine, but not anything else and according to their discord it gets maintained sporadically. I also saw that GoG is going GoG Galaxy now, but that's only a windows launcher and I wouldn't be able to see my combined library on my phone when I'm out and about. Does anyone have any other recommendations before I go nuts and start an excell doc on my Google Drive or something stupid?

Basically I'm just tired of accidentally buying games twice because they're on sale and I remember thinking I should play it at some point.

I�d recommend rawg.io for this. It�s a website where you make an account and can sync up your Steam, Xbox, PSN and GOG accounts and it�ll put them all in one spot. You can put in simple reviews, too, like saying if you gave up on it or giving it a thumbs up.

The biggest downside I can think of is that when you search your library for a game it doesn�t tell you what service you have the game on. So, for instance, I can tell that I own Joten but I don�t know where.

LawfulWaffle fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Mar 16, 2021

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:06

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

Draga posted:

One hell of a way to end the stream too. Good times.

EDIT: Clipped for posterity

Lmao thank you

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:09

Convex: Aug 19, 2010

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Before this game studios had their own problems, in that it was exactly the same except the slave labor was just an explicit part of the job before they had to start pretending they didn't grind people into dust.

But yeah, this is basically a result of game dev companies becoming an exact mirror of film companies except you don't have a constant line of work. This is why on-disc DLC was a thing for a while, because after a team had finished their work, if you didn't have another game you were working on (which is now way less common due to massive studios also having multiple offices, each relegated to a single project), you'd just have them start DLC before the game was even out because they had the free time. Now you just boot the massive teams you don't need anymore because game companies have figured out the new solution to this problem, which is to not actually have any employees at all and just outsource as much of the work as you can to third-party companies.

That makes sense and also makes me sad. I feel like the PS2 / GC generation was the last one before development seemed to turn into a meat grinder

On an uplifting note I was just looking for an Xbox controls mod for Wind Waker HD in CEMU and turns out you can now mod the game to be a female character! https://gamebanana.com/gamefiles/16862

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:12

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

I said come in! posted:

lol the final boss fight for the Legend of Dragoon is not a fight you want to lose (it takes over 1 hour to beat).

I love how you go from the weird primordial beginning of time to like the end of the world apocalypse throughout the fight; it's great

yes It Long though

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:16

Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

There�s the option to switch the dark souls 2 jump button back to dark souls 1

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:19

RazzleDazzleHour: Mar 31, 2016

Convex posted:

That makes sense and also makes me sad. I feel like the PS2 / GC generation was the last one before development seemed to turn into a meat grinder

Nah, there's tons of interviews about like, people sleeping overnight at their offices for weeks on end to make like, lovely Sega Saturn racing games and stuff, this has always been what the process is like. Like, think about all of the big tech bosses now like Zuckerberg, and now imagine them running a game dev studio. We know about all the weird poo poo Carmack did at Id and what kind of conditions those guys were under, but now think of all the studios you haven't heard about where you just know that exact same stuff must have been going on because all those tech obsessives are all the same breed of psycho.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:19

Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

That's awesome. It's really pretty stupid and lovely of Nintendo for not having made this a thing long ago. Link was named link expressly to memorialize the link between player and game avatar... so let people change the goddamn alien elf to better link to it! I think in 100% of Zelda games the change could be accomplished entirely with dialogue changes. Link's already got beautiful eyes and eyelashes, long flowing shiny hair, a dress, carries a purse of bombs and gems, wears pantyhose, forced to grunt while fighting against the world alone, etc

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:20

Convex: Aug 19, 2010

Update to previous post, you can also mod the original GameCube version of WW in Dolphin to be a female or gender neutral character

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:21

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

MonsterEnvy posted:

Do you guys remember this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXgaEGpfHc

Well it got an update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1smbjIVJI

Can't tell if this is gonna be any good but I am excited for a competently-executed character-action-ey D&D game

what I would really appreciate is an SPRG that just imports all of the battle system crap from 4E and automates the process and lets me play around with the plethora of fightin' options that game had though

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:32

Acerbatus: Jun 26, 2020; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Propaganda Hour posted:

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1371938015375937547?s=19

Gift cards

Is the year of health coverage legally required or something? More than I would've expected from blizzard at this point.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:34

Soysaucebeast: Mar 4, 2008

LawfulWaffle posted:

I�d recommend rawg.io for this. It�s a website where you make an account and can sync up your Steam, Xbox, PSN and GOG accounts and it�ll put them all in one spot. You can put in simple reviews, too, like saying if you gave up on it or giving it a thumbs up.

The biggest downside I can think of is that when you search your library for a game it doesn�t tell you what service you have the game on. So, for instance, I can tell that I own Joten but I don�t know where.

You know, this is basically a fancier version of the one I was looking at earlier, but it looks like this one is better upkept. If I can figure out what the heck is making my PSN games not sync, I think I'll stick with it. Worst case scenario, I add my PSN games manually, but I have way less of them than I do Steam games at least. Thanks for the recommendation.

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:45

Acerbatus: Jun 26, 2020; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Barudak posted:

I used to delete saves as a kid as an acknowledgement I was done with a game. Having 15 years of cloud saves with xbox has messed me up when I boot up something like Feeding Frenzy and it knows where I left off.

thats hosed

# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:48

RazzleDazzleHour: Mar 31, 2016

So it seems like the enhanced version of Strangers of Sword city is only a part of the new successor/sequel/??? game that came out and isn't available separately, which seems weird

# ? Mar 17, 2021 00:28

hatty: Feb 28, 2011; Pork Pro

Is the sequel good? Interested in Sword City

# ? Mar 17, 2021 00:32

RazzleDazzleHour: Mar 31, 2016

There's 11 reviews for the game and zero of them are about the games themselves and are mostly just people getting into passive-aggressive arguments with each other about how the port is bad because you have to watch the first cutscene in the game to get to the options menu to exit fullscreen, or how controllers don't work, or how actually controllers do work or how the fullscreen thing isn't a big deal. I hate Steam reviews.

That being said 45$ is a lot to roll the dice on this. Might try out a """"demo"""" before you buy

# ? Mar 17, 2021 00:37

wuggles: Jul 12, 2017

VG, I napped with your stream on. But I�ve been sick, and it was a nice nap, so I needed that thank you.

# ? Mar 17, 2021 00:55

bone emulator: Nov 3, 2005; Wrrroavr

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

There's 11 reviews for the game and zero of them are about the games themselves and are mostly just people getting into passive-aggressive arguments.

There should be a checkbox om Steam reviews to indicate if a review is
1) a hilarious comedy review
2) weird technical issue that only affects Linux users with Voodoo videocards
3) someone upset about the latest gamergate style pretend outrage
4) at least somewhat relating to the actual game

# ? Mar 17, 2021 01:04

The Black Stones: May 7, 2007; I POSTED WHAT NOW!?

Dark Alliance looks like poo poo but that�s because I was hoping (more like dreaming) they would actually make something like the old Dark Alliance games and have it be a hack and slasher but it just looked like a faster action souls type game. No thanks.

I just want a hack and slash game like Dark Alliance or Champions of Norrath, but I don�t think it will ever happen.

Diablo 3 is the closest thing but something about it never grabbed me.

# ? Mar 17, 2021 01:21

Rinkles: Oct 24, 2010; What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Also that aesthetic (DA trailer, not D3) just isn't for me

# ? Mar 17, 2021 01:27

Propaganda Hour: Aug 25, 2008; after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

Acerbatus posted:

Is the year of health coverage legally required or something? More than I would've expected from blizzard at this point.

I don't think it's legally required in this case. CA has their own rules (CA's "mini-WARN Act" does apply here) and I have no idea what their leg passed with covid monies, but typically you get an invite to pay into COBRA which loving sucks. Hey you just lost your job and have no money, want to pay ~$2600 a month to keep your health insurance? I do HR as a living and the US is so cruel.

# ? Mar 17, 2021 01:45

Dr. Fishopolis: Aug 31, 2004; ROBOT

I've somehow never played Prey so I nabbed it offa gamepass and wow.

it's like "what if bioshock, but we make a good game instead"

# ? Mar 17, 2021 02:41

Simone Magus: Sep 30, 2020; by VideoGames

I'm thinking about how drat good The Game Bakers are and how I wanna replay both their games

# ? Mar 17, 2021 02:48

Nate RFB: Jan 17, 2005; Clapping Larry

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

I've somehow never played Prey so I nabbed it offa gamepass and wow.

it's like "what if bioshock, but we make a good game instead"

I played it for the first time in 2020 and it was honestly a "Jesus why wasn't everyone losing it over how good this game is in 2017?" sort of feeling. Like yeah that year was crazy stacked but god drat, people should have been shoving it down everyone's throat that year.

# ? Mar 17, 2021 03:05

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

goon tax

# ? Mar 17, 2021 03:06

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

angle tax

# ? Mar 17, 2021 03:10

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

I played Prey last year and thought it was decent but nothing to gush about

# ? Mar 17, 2021 03:11

Barudak: May 7, 2007

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

There's 11 reviews for the game and zero of them are about the games themselves and are mostly just people getting into passive-aggressive arguments with each other about how the port is bad because you have to watch the first cutscene in the game to get to the options menu to exit fullscreen, or how controllers don't work, or how actually controllers do work or how the fullscreen thing isn't a big deal. I hate Steam reviews.

That being said 45$ is a lot to roll the dice on this. Might try out a """"demo"""" before you buy

Stranger of Sword city has some great art and a neat hook but it has a lot of rough edges almost all in tedium due to poor QoL. The updated version eases this some, for instance nerfing a dungeon so cruel I can't believe they shipped like that, but plenty of other stuff is still not actually fixed. You will still be making insanely long runs back through dungeons and grinding mindlessly while always facing a chance to just sort of have all your time wasted due to critical hits.

Rerelease is like a 7 out of ten to the base games 5 or 6.

# ? Mar 17, 2021 03:15