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Rinkles posted:I mean Epic having the means to quickly divert resources to capitalize on an emerging sensation in a polished F2P form certainly helped. Fortnite I think might be the closest thing to an example of a synthetic hit. What? Fortnite was not polished when it came out. It was very, very rough.
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I said come in! posted:The next GaaS dumpster fire is Skull & Bones, on February 16. This one is gonna end with a court case with Singapore.
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Mr Hootington posted:What? Fortnite was not polished when it came out. It was very, very rough. I thought that very quickly improved, but you can ignore that bit.
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Rinkles posted:I mean Epic having the means to quickly divert resources to capitalize on an emerging sensation in a polished F2P form certainly helped. Fortnite I think might be the closest thing to an example of a synthetic hit. Fortnite absolutely wasn't that though. Fortnite was intended as a character-based horde shooter with building elements. They threw in the knockoff mode because it was relatively easy to do (other developers tried doing the same thing around the same time period.) It just happened that "F2P PubG" was exactly what people wanted at that exact point in time and the fact that it was tied to a completely different game that they spent the next 2 years gradually cutting away just happened to be luck.
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Shard posted:This one is gonna end with a court case with Singapore. Yeah I would be surprised if UBISoft isn't in deep poo poo over this one.
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We've all noticed a lot of them release in incomplete/lovely states as well (Redfall) which just immediately tanks them and whoops you just lit the entire dev budget on fire it's bad and everyone knows it now- maybe should have waited a few more months or something so you could release something that at least wasn't so transparently a piece of poo poo when everyone else is also hysterically knocking one another out of the way in the GaaS goldrush
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ImpAtom posted:Fortnite absolutely wasn't that though. Fortnite was intended as a character-based horde shooter with building elements. They threw in the knockoff mode because it was relatively easy to do (other developers tried doing the same thing around the same time period.) It just happened that "F2P PubG" was exactly what people wanted at that exact point in time and the fact that it was tied to a completely different game that they spent the next 2 years gradually cutting away just happened to be luck. I know about Fortnite’s origins. My point was that what Epic did was an example of successful trend chasing. It just took a lot of money, and a quick reaction time. And yeah also a lot of luck.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:is there a thread for the new suicide squad game? curious what people who are now actually playing it think I stand corrected. Some poster in BSS dropped at least a $100 to play it today.
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Shard posted:This one is gonna end with a court case with Singapore. I said come in! posted:Yeah I would be surprised if UBISoft isn't in deep poo poo over this one. How's this?
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Infinitum posted:How's this? Development was funded entirely by Singapore to the tune of $180 million dollars.
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Rinkles posted:I know about Fortnite’s origins. My point was that what Epic did was an example of successful trend chasing. It just took a lot of money, and a quick reaction time. And yeah also a lot of luck. I doubt it took a lot of money, they said developing the mode took about 2 months initially. The huge money investments came after its initial success when they began to reinvest in it.
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I’d do anything Singapore would want me to for a measly million dollars
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1752453312715313640?s=20 Spec Ops The Line has been delisted from online storefronts due to likely expired music licenses, and 2K does not sound like they intend to renew them.
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Gonna add it to my steam profile showcase that's entirely just delisted games like Dark Souls Prepare to Die, Cart Life, Dawn of Discovery, Alan Wake...
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Propaganda Hour posted:Gonna add it to my steam profile showcase that's entirely just delisted games like Dark Souls Prepare to Die, Cart Life, Dawn of Discovery, Alan Wake... Cart Life might be coming back in a new form, actually: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2324660/Cart_Life/ Can't wait to try to subsist on granola bars while getting screwed by the man!
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Hwurmp posted:Vier From over 10 pages ago, but I just wanted you to know that I appreciated this joke.
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Infinitum posted:How's this? Ubisoft was contracted and funded by Singapore to make the game, with the idea that them opening up a big studio in Singapore would create new jobs there. And it did, but Ubisoft used it as a vacation spot and all the top positions are filled with French Ubisoft employees while they only hired locally for lower and lesser paid positions. Also they basically didn't actually develop the game for years until the local officials started putting more pressure on them. And there is a very good chance that if it doesn't make enough money back, Singapore is gonna want their portion back one way or another. This lays it all out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BoyT6HjwPc
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^^ Cheers, will check out. Alright Castlenerds, here's what I'm planning on playing. Basically the series in release order, and the best versions of the games if possible. Castlevania (NES) Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES) Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth (WiiWare) Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES) Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (GB) Super Castlevania IV (SNES) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (TurboGrafx-16 CD) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1) Castlevania: Legends (GB) Castlevania (N64) Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA) Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA) Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) Castlevania: Lamant of Innocence (PS2) Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (NDS) Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2) Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (NDS) Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (NDS) Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate (3DS) Only one I'm not sure about is Legacy of Darkness on the N64. Maybe just one of them is fine? Lords of Shadow 1+2 for the PS3 I'll likely play on my PC afterwards, but the rest I can play on handhelds.
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Infinitum posted:^^ Cheers, will check out. Go for Legacy of Darkness instead. The gameplay is improved over 64 and you can unlock the characters from it and play though their story, though it does lack the voice acting from 64. Khanstant posted:Why was the music changed? The Japanese cartridge has a special sound chip that the US version didn't have.
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hatty posted:The Japanese version of 3 has better music and more forgiving checkpoints if that stuff matters to you yeah absolutely play the jp version of cv3. The dificulty changes are relatively minor, but the music is much better in jp
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Khanstant posted:Why was the music changed? The japanese version had a custom chip on the cartridge just to handle the music. I don't know the details, but producing that chip for the NA release wasn't feasible for some reason.
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Khanstant posted:Why was the music changed? iirc the japanese release included extra sound hardware on the cartridge, sunsoft-style, which was removed from the overseas release for cost-saving reasons e: f;b
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hatty posted:The Japanese version of 3 has better music and more forgiving checkpoints if that stuff matters to you
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cheetah7071 posted:The japanese version had a custom chip on the cartridge just to handle the music. I don't know the details, but producing that chip for the NA release wasn't feasible for some reason.
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Lawman 0 posted:Started up with the Witcher 3 finally and I'm enjoying it so far. Do heart of stone dlc in the middle and wine and blood absolutely last
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Gaius Marius posted:Yen? Sounds like you made a wrong move somewhere in geralt voice: hmmm
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Shard posted:Do heart of stone dlc in the middle and wine and blood absolutely last
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Rinkles posted:I know about Fortnite’s origins. My point was that what Epic did was an example of successful trend chasing. It just took a lot of money, and a quick reaction time. And yeah also a lot of luck. and also aggressively targeting children to get them to spend their parents money
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Shard posted:Do heart of stone dlc in the middle and wine and blood absolutely last Thanks!
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Gaius Marius posted:Yen? Sounds like you made a wrong move somewhere Hey, if you went with Triss instead, that's fine even if I don't understand it. After all... 
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