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MisterBibs posted:Way back in the day, I remember fans of the Descent series being absolutely convinced that the future of first person shooters - which they dismissed/insulted by calling them groundpounders - was in games like Descent: full degrees of motion, joysticks as the main form of control, etc. The original Descent team from Volition "got the band back together" a couple years back and did a successful kickstarter for a new game (Overload) and successfully released it to good reviews last year, but sales were "disappointing" and the devs have mostly moved onto other stuff. The Descent IP itself got licensed to some people off the Star Citizen forums who did a halfassed job of making a MP focused game (Descent: Underground) and appear to have shut down development since their website is gone, the publisher isn't saying anything and there have been some "had a great time working at this place but they stopped paying me so I quit" style posts on Glassdoor. 6DOF shooters are just kinda niche in general, back in the day they had a "wow" component to them in that they were also tech demos to show off how powerful new video cards were, and it's not exactly enough to entirely carry a game these days. Maybe once VR gets more market penetration they'll see a resurgence but that's just speculation on my part.
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:Speaking of, Megatokyo is still going and somehow has enough eyes on it to pull in $2k a month on Patreon. FilthyImp posted:MT is kind of what Penny Arcade would have been if the guys had a little worse work ethic and never hired a competent (basically magic) financial manager. On that note Gamestop just announced they're killing ThinkGeek. I'm picturing a "sad anime girl in snow" blanket and a case of Bawls energy drinks being symbolically burned at a anime convention, only for the shroud to fall away and reveal the lovecraftian visage of a Funko Pop, sending the mourners fleeing in terror.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is the Starship Troopers fandom. That single I recall seeing a Starship Troopers fan wiki once where they went to great lengths to rationalize all the differences between the book, the movies, the TV show, and the tabletop games. Though the OVA predated the movie by a decade (1988) and was a more straight faced adaption of the book. I vaguely recall that fansubs didn't show up until like 2008 because it was only ever released on Laserdisc and was a niche title even in Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuYyVZ2qvzk The armor also appeared earlier in the DAICON III fan animation, which is basically everything Japanese nerds thought was cool in 1981, because the design had already been used on the cover for a Japanese edition of the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQjruwkyOaU
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film somehow inspired a full 4 garbage-tier sequels, an anime, multiple games (including a tabletop RPG), and a lovely TV show. There was even a fan campaign to revive the lovely show after it died an ignoble death.
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guess we can preemptively add The Something Awful Forums to the list.
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