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Between Spartacus and Black Sails, Starz has actually made some pretty decent television in recent years. If you're into the period, or you like cable historical dramas and all that implies, Black Sails is great. DaVinci's Demons is also a thing that happens, but that's mostly enjoyable to me because I like charismatic roguish characters doing dumb bullshit, rather than it being a good show. E: Really though you should be watching The Borgias because somehow the writers of The Tudors escaped their summary execution and got more jobs. Orv fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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I think this first test is just Xbox, so I don't think I even had a chance of getting in. 
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You'll either like Billy even more eventually or really dislike how his arc goes.
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That game somehow actively got worse after coming out of Early Access, it was kind of impressive in a way.
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So they released some stats from that first set of testing. First player to use a Mermaid: Hmm.
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Who loving cares?
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The wording for the Closed Beta seems to imply that they've been/are holding a ton of content back for release, but I'm wary of how that'll actually play out. This game would be great with more content, right now it's not really worth money.
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Kitchner posted:Yeah agree in the idea it needs more than the alpha, but the multiplayer games I've probably played the most online are Halo 3 and Civ 5, and there was no progression beyond cosmetics and rankings in one and nothing in the other, other than beating your friends. Somewhere in the last decade there became a not insignificant portion of video gamesmen that do actually think about games that way. Back when CoD introduced progression and I was still on that yearly train, I had not one but two friends who would quit playing once they'd hit cap and unlocked all the guns/skills. There are a ton of people for whom progression is a large reason to continue playing a game past the initial time investment, and while I agree that it's pretty terribly uninteresting to you and me, it's (relatively) little work to lock content behind an XP system to keep people playing/paying money. In the case of Halo and Civ (and many, many others over the years), those are games with tight, self-reinforcing gameplay loops and solid basic design. Halo has shooting that feels good, and shooting other dudes online never stops being good on its own. Civ is (was?) the premier One More Turn series for years because that was what it was built to do. Sea of Thieves, while cool initially, doesn't really have the same inherent quality in its loop. PvP is fun, stealing or sinking someones ship is neat and assholes like me can derive perhaps more enjoyment from that than most. But the moment you log on and go "Ehhhh... maybe not tonight" and log off, SOT is one of those games that makes it extremely easy to never come back because it just doesn't change. Civ or Halo you can play another civ, use a specific weapon to challenge yourself, play a new mode, whatever. Unless they're planning to significantly support the game post launch with content additions, most people are going to slide off SoT pretty quick once the rush of stealing somebody's ship gets old. It's not No Man's Sky in terms of over promising and being hailed as the next messiah, but it's on exactly the same trajectory (from what we've seen so far) in terms of being a nothing of a game past the first ten hours or so. E: Holy poo poo especially for $60, which I'd only just now seen. Orv fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Oh I'm not saying progression is the answer. Actual content is the answer, some of which will be bound in progression by necessity, but we need more than three activities to do across the entire game (Ship PvP, find chests, wrecks) as it currently stands.
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AirRaid posted:There’s more than those 3 activities. Not a hell of a lot more, sure but you are way simplifying it. I am simplifying by like, two things, four if we're being generous with variations on a theme. It's a thin, thin game right now and I hope that changes.
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AirRaid posted:Absolutely. I'm in the pioneer thing and there's a build for testing up for the last few days until the beta starts, and its still kinda the same. Yeah, that stuff is rad and why I play games like this, and properly tuned and delivered it can absolutely give you hundreds of hours of gameplay. We'll just have to see how everyone else feels. Definitely intend to at least sink a ton of time into the CB if nothing else.
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As long as it's not too meme-y or whatever, informative is good for something as open-ended as this. Goons are directionless fuckers.
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Doggir hasn't posted in over a month so probably go for it.
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12PM GMT Wednesday. 6 hours from this post, basically. Orv fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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