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fez_machine posted:The timeline is Kennedy does some hinky poo poo at Failbetter (Fallen London and the Sunless games) then leaves to form Weather Factory with his now wife after it blows up internally and his co-founder (the artistic lead) turfs him out. Weather Factory creates Cultist Sim. Further details come out that make the hinky stuff look much much worse and exposes him as sex pesty during the pandemic. The chinese mobile market basically saves Cultist Sim and they have the money to create this sequel which is now out. Huh, that explains it. There is a bunch of requests for Chinese translation on Book of Hours page and recommended reviews in Chinese
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fez_machine posted:The timeline is Kennedy does some hinky poo poo at Failbetter (Fallen London and the Sunless games) then leaves to form Weather Factory with his now wife after it blows up internally and his co-founder (the artistic lead) turfs him out. Weather Factory creates Cultist Sim. Further details come out that make the hinky stuff look much much worse and exposes him as sex pesty during the pandemic. The chinese mobile market basically saves Cultist Sim and they have the money to create this sequel which is now out. Wish I'd known this before I bought it. I guess vetting developers to make sure they're not scum is just something I have to do now before buying something. Oh well, hopefully steam lets me refund it.
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FWIW the specific allegations against him were more innuendo and being a bad boss to someone he cheated on with a coworker (who's now his wife)/broke up with than being an outright sex criminal. If you don't want to support him that's fine, but people referring vaguely to him being a sex pest makes it sound like he was out there sexually assaulting people.
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunkquote:Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is 1 second per second of advanced funkstyle. Battle rival crews and dispatch militarized police to conquer the five boroughs of New Amsterdam. Become All City.
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XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256917737/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1683077269 quote:FEATURES: The sequel to Demon's Tilt (which was itself, something of a remake of Devil's Crush pinball from the TurboGrafx-16), with a few new mechanics and an alien theme instead of demonic horror. Still in Early Access although if it's anything like Demon's Tilt, it's basically a finished product and EA is just used for some balancing. $13.49 on 10% release sale until the 25th.
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:FWIW the specific allegations against him were more innuendo and being a bad boss to someone he cheated on with a coworker (who's now his wife)/broke up with than being an outright sex criminal. If you don't want to support him that's fine, but people referring vaguely to him being a sex pest makes it sound like he was out there sexually assaulting people. I mean, he dated two of his employees (not good), lied to FailBetter about the fact that he was doing so in order to remain their bosses, and has had several others accuse him of sexual harassment (worse) and retaliation (even worse) https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/alexis-kennedy-denies-allegations-of-abusive-or-coercive-behaviour You’re right that he has not been actively accused of sexual assault, but jesus
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Snooze Cruise posted:yeah, i think it's fair to refer to that as being a sex pest. But can we connect him to Russian Oligarchs?
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DropTheAnvil posted:But can we connect him to Russian Oligarchs? what.
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Snooze Cruise posted:what. There was more fervour and arguments generated in this thread when someone objected to a game cause it could be connected to Russian Ogliarchs, then over The Book Of Hours
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DropTheAnvil posted:There was more fervour and arguments generated in this thread when someone objected to a game cause it could be connected to Russian Ogliarchs, then over The Book Of Hours Maybe because more people wanted to play Soviet Bioshock than this game
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Oh right, I thought it was the Battlebit, "Some oligarchs live in Turkey" thing.
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Fatty posted:I think that might have been because it was completely spurious. Yeah. there's ample evidence of the singular developer being a piece of poo poo. To me, there's little to discuss.
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ultrafilter posted:Affogato I'm about 2 hours into this and it's almost an exact copy of the Persona series except for the reverse tower defense, you even get tarot cards from forming bonds with NPCs. I'm liking it so far.
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5050quote:Each time you press the button, it will either double or lose all the points you’ve put in. How much will you risk? No reviews yet. Free.
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ultrachrist posted:Black Skylands: Black Skylands is p good actually. A fun little RPG gameplay loop with some decent top down gun combat, ship combat, and exploration. I played it in EA and didn't like it, they've cleaned it up a lot and simplified certain things which was a good move. Shard posted:Any word if the new Madden game is good? No clue. Seems to be getting reviews between 'okay' and 'dogshit'
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almost1337 posted:I have been hearing a lot of good things about HoloCure as a surprisingly deep survivors game, despite the choice of subject. Yeah, it's a good game. But some of the references are very cringe.
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HopperUK posted:Yeah, it's a good game. But some of the references are very cringe. Yeah, I thought some of the weapons had funny and goofy names, but one of the weapons has a name/design that makes it kinda seem like a butt plug. That's a "Dead Dove, Do Not Eat" situation.
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It is a buttplug. Short story long a now former Hololive Vtuber has a real dirty sense of humor.
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Shard posted:Any word if the new Madden game is good? I don't think there's a chance of a madden game being good until they lose the exclusive license. until then regardless of quality it'll remain in the top 10 yearly bestsellers, why improve on a winner?
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bawk posted:Yeah, I thought some of the weapons had funny and goofy names, but one of the weapons has a name/design that makes it kinda seem like a butt plug. That's a "Dead Dove, Do Not Eat" situation. Yeah that's the one I was thinking of. I don't know what I expected
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684270/Its_a_Wrap/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256965558/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1692815807 quote:It's a Wrap! is a challenging puzzle game about making movies in 1980s Hollywood. Figure out the perfect timing of props, actors, and special effects as the Director. Then jump into the scene as the movie's star in a traditional 2D platformer. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2114740/Blasphemous_2/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256964913/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1692893336 quote:The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888160/ARMORED_CORE_VI_FIRES_OF_RUBICON/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256964285/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1692783069 quote:A new action game based on the concept of the ARMORED CORE series that uses the knowledge gained from FromSoftware's recent action game development. Also The Last Faith which looks pretty interesting has a beta playtest up.
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I like the combat and exploring in Sea of Stars about an hour and a half in but the two main characters have absolutely no personality despite having dialog that I'm surprised they didn't go with silent protagonists or even a create-a-character. The opening also pales in comparison to the last throwback RPG I played, Chained Echoes, too. I assume it gets better because most of the reviews praised its story telling
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Lakbay posted:I like the combat and exploring in Sea of Stars about an hour and a half in but the two main characters have absolutely no personality despite having dialog that I'm surprised they didn't go with silent protagonists or even a create-a-character. That's definitely intentional (the game lampshades it an hour or so later) and will probably pay off at some point. Remember these kids spent the last 10 years doing pushups/crunches in a hovering textile sweatshop with no outside human contact. Of course they're a bit weird.
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Thoom posted:That's definitely intentional (the game lampshades it an hour or so later) and will probably pay off at some point. Remember these kids spent the last 10 years doing pushups/crunches in a hovering textile sweatshop with no outside human contact. Of course they're a bit weird. I mean, even if it is intentionally you still have to sit through line after line of dull dialogue.
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aparmenideanmonad posted:Sounds like a perfect excuse to make every line of dialogue "..." In true classic JRPG fashion.  ಠ_ಠ
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