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Crazy that a bunch of people with no respect or understanding of the creative process would fail to produce anything of value.
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exquisite tea posted:Crazy that a bunch of people with no respect or understanding of the creative process would fail to produce anything of value. Embracer cancelled 29 games and closed 7 studios after bungling a $2bn deal with the Saudi government. No one involved respected anything.
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Feb 16, 2024 19:27
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even when they announced the expansion and sequel, in my heart I knew we were never getting more disco elysium. it was too perfect for this world
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Feb 16, 2024 19:46
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What gets me is Embracer bought of most of THQ after they went bust and several years later they're on the way to repeat THQ's demise.
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Feb 16, 2024 19:48
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I'd like to form an opinion on the whole ZA/UM fallout, but it's difficult without Measurehead to provide me with the necessary historical and scientific context.
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Feb 16, 2024 19:50
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TuxedoOrca posted:What gets me is Embracer bought of most of THQ after they went bust and several years later they're on the way to repeat THQ's demise. Capitalism is an ouroboros. A snake eating and making GBS threads and eating itself forevermore.
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Feb 16, 2024 19:51
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Waffle! posted:Embracer cancelled 29 games and closed 7 studios after bungling a $2bn deal with the Saudi government. No one involved respected anything. Honestly, it's surprising that they didn't just shut down everything after that deal failed. It's clear that Embracer only exists to bundle a bunch of studios together and sell them to the Saudis. Now they're stuck trying to run this gigantic publisher when they have no interest or expertise. I'd be shocked if they ever released a game under that label.
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Feb 16, 2024 20:03
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ErrEff posted:[*]You will experience crashes. I had to do replay several boss fights because the game would crash during the cutscenes that followed them, and the game rarely autosaves progress outside the designated meditation spots. This can be due to many things, but one big issue is that the game is extremely demanding on all of your RAM. Oh yeah, that too. Once the story sent me back to Jehda after a big event it started crashing just moving around all the time. This is apparently a known issue and somewhat solvable by disabling ray-tracing and maybe reducing other graphical settings, maybe to take load off the CPU?
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Feb 16, 2024 20:03
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I'm gonna just say it: This is the worst thing the Saudi government has ever done.
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exquisite tea posted:I'm gonna just say it: This is the worst thing the Saudi government has ever done. RIP the video games flushed down a basement drain like so many journalists
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Feb 16, 2024 20:08
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exquisite tea posted:I'm gonna just say it: This is the worst thing the Saudi government has ever done. Hacking up Khashoggi with a bonesaw was bad and all but I really wanted a new Timesplitters.
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A couple weeks ago, the Nextlander podcast had Will Smith as a guest (Developer of Firewatch Will Smith, not the rapper/actor) and they were talking about all the Embracer stuff and the fallout from it, and he made a good point. Most if not all of the devs embracer picked up were the mid-budget developers and developers who would be contracted by EA and Ubi and whatnot to work on smaller IPs. Embracer pretty much ripped out the middle of the video game industry, and we're gonna start seeing the effects of that within a couple years, since the beginning of the year is around when contracts and IPs and ideas would start to be discussed for the smaller budget games.
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Thanks for all the posts on Jedi: Survivor, folks. I really enjoyed the first game, so maybe I'll give this one a shot. Not sure how excited I am about the performance issues though. I'm running a 3080, so hopefully if I use DSL it might make things run better/properly. The first game hitched a bit too, which is never a good sign.
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Feb 16, 2024 20:20
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If you have a current gen console its honestly best to play on that. I have to walk back my previous post with a caveat that I played it on PlayStation 5, where the performance problems were mostly fixed. And that is my bad for not clarifying that to begin with.
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My performance issues in survivor were fixed by patching, but clearly ymmv
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBHl6kHFogquote:"We have big plans for 2024, and we’re starting the year off with a very different kind of update. We’re calling it OMEGA, and for the first time No Man’s Sky will be available to play for free! Full patch notes here.
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Feb 16, 2024 20:40
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I think its just a free weekend
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Velocity Raptor posted:A couple weeks ago, the Nextlander podcast had Will Smith as a guest (Developer of Firewatch Will Smith, not the rapper/actor) and they were talking about all the Embracer stuff and the fallout from it, and he made a good point. Most if not all of the devs embracer picked up were the mid-budget developers and developers who would be contracted by EA and Ubi and whatnot to work on smaller IPs. Embracer has concentrated a lot of these smaller developers with long histories of doing contract work for larger publishers under multiple umbrella brands such as Saber Interactive, Asmodee, THQ Nordic, etc. It definitely isn't good that so much stuff is under one roof. But that's just how the industry is changing. Look at Virtuos (3.5K employees, 21 subsidiaries) and Keywords (12K employees, 70+ subsidiaries), both huge outsourcing companies that do work on all the AA/AAA games. Consolidation is happening everywhere. These guys will happily step up and pick out the remains of Embracer if they get the chance.
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quote:Said principal writer, Dora Klindžić, agreed to speak to us on the record as well. She joined ZA/UM in 2022, which she likened to “being born into Yugoslavia in the '90s: you've just missed the party and now all you get is the bloodshed.”  e: quote:We asked how the studio culture changed at ZA/UM after the departure of most of the original writing team and the airing of the People Make Games documentary looking into the legal battle that ensued afterward. “It’s like transitioning from the Soviet Union to the fascist Russian Federation,” Tuulik said. “Wearing the dead cultural movement like a skin costume, roleplaying communism, lying for dollars and yen. PMG doc changed lots of things in the studio. Personal dynamics. None for the better.” Antigravitas fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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Holy poo poo, half of that article is just quotes, and they're all fire
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I said come in! posted:what all is included in the free to play version? From what I saw, the F2P part is literally just the Omega storyline, everything else you need to pony up for.
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I said come in! posted:If you have a current gen console its honestly best to play on that. I have to walk back my previous post with a caveat that I played it on PlayStation 5, where the performance problems were mostly fixed. And that is my bad for not clarifying that to begin with. Unfortunately, I don't so I'll be giving it a try on the PC. Maybe putting it on a solid state drive will help. I saw there is some sort of mod on Nexus mods that's supposed to improve performance, though I'm not sure how excited I am to try that.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Holy poo poo, half of that article is just quotes, and they're all fire It's almost sad to see that there were still people at ZA/UM that still got it, but clearly not for much longer. quote:“It's the people on top – the motherf*****s in sailing shoes and bowties – that f****d Harry, f****d Kim, f****d Robert, Rostov, Helen, Olga, Cash, f****d Elysium, f****d you and me too. They are not artists, they are professional f*****s,” he said.
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The pissf****t jacket but its professionalf*****s
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A whole bunch of assassin's creed games are on sale on steam. Which ones are good and don't have long lovely openings. I never made it to the gameplay loop in syndicate and AC3 because I couldn't give a gently caress about whatever slow walking story they were trying to jam down my throat.
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Black Flag still the best IMO.
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Odyssey is good. Also it's the only AC I've played in the past 10 years
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ninjoatse.cx posted:A whole bunch of assassin's creed games are on sale on steam. Which ones are good and don't have long lovely openings. I never made it to the gameplay loop in syndicate and AC3 because I couldn't give a gently caress about whatever slow walking story they were trying to jam down my throat. Origins and Odyssey are both good, and are sort of a soft reboot. Valhalla is the same style but frankly I thought it was too boring.
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lol https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/05/t...able-to-access/ quote:The Embracer Games Archive Wants To Preserve Video Game Industry History, But Can’t Say How Much The Public Will Be Able To Access In practice Embracer has out EA'd EA in shutting down studios. There's serious  in a programme for "preserving" video games.
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In an effort to preserve video game history and combat a generally negative public image, Embracer Group has hired noted game preservation activist and popular YouTuber Girard "The Completionist" Khalil as their new spokesperson.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:In an effort to preserve video game history and combat a generally negative public image, Embracer Group has hired noted game preservation activist and popular YouTuber Girard "The Completionist" Khalil as their new spokesperson. lmao
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teethgrinder posted:lol quote:That point aside, it’s heartening to see a major talent hub put resources behind a project like this What credulous moron wrote this lmao
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:In an effort to preserve video game history and combat a generally negative public image, Embracer Group has hired noted game preservation activist and popular YouTuber Girard "The Completionist" Khalil as their new spokesperson.
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The biggest crime of Embracer, you know aside from casting thousands of innocent devs into the fires of trying to find a new job with the world hosed up so bad, is that we finally got acknowledgement that they know we want a new Legacy of Kain and now we won’t get it. We probably weren’t going to get it anyway but I’m still sad about it.
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