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Pistcow, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

How hard is it to write “pick a color”?

DrQuint,

Depends on how much you get to crunch.

Madison_rogue, do gaming w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun
@Madison_rogue@kbin.social avatar

For a fusion rifle? Meh...

CIWS-30, do gaming w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

Honestly, given how toxic Destiny 2's monetization can be, along with its FOMO, I'm not surprised. That + the grind was why I quit. It got tiring and repetitive, especially the buy to play seasons.

GreenMario, do games w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

On one hand, 😂

The other, aren’t they just gonna delete that gun from your inventory? A simple check if expansion == owned is all they gotta do?

Chozo,

Bungie 100% can remove the gun from people's inventories, but they won't. They're usually pretty hands-off on stuff like this, because your inventory is accessible cross-platform, but your purchased expansions are not. So they'll leave the gun in your inventory because they know that the possibility exists that some people may change their minds on their original purchase and re-buy the expansion for a different platform.

GreenMario,

Huh. Loophole. Well I’ll be 🤣

DagonPie,
@DagonPie@kbin.social avatar

Ive done this a couple times and you get to keep all the pre order bonuses.

Silverseren, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

Well, surely this is a good look for future game prospects and their level of writing quality. Surely...

Chozo, (edited ) do games w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

This is some pretty trash reporting, which is odd considering that Eurogamer usually isn't this bad. But their source for this is a Twitter thread from Luckyy10P? The dude is widely known as the biggest clown in the Destiny community, and every piece of "news" he covers is greatly exaggerated drama that only like three players ever complained about, but he presents as some massive community-wide issue.

Nobody's buying and then cancelling their $100 preorders just to keep one of the most mid guns that Bungie has ever released. Tessellation is not that good of a gun. Maybe it will be good when the catalyst is released in The Final Shape (though you won't be able to even get the catalyst without owning the expansion), but right now pretty much every trusted Destiny community member is confirming that the gun serves little to no real purpose in the current sandbox.

If Eurogamer wants to cover nonsense from Luckyy, they should be inquiring about his child support payments.

Kolanaki, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
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Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide were peak Bioware titles, IMO. The absolute pinnacle of their writing.

Xianshi, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

They’ll probably get an LLM to write their game plots now. 🙄

CitizenKong,

The Reapers have won.

fruitycoder, do games w AMD reveals long-awaited FSR 3 tech and frame gen for every DX11/DX12 game

Any word on Vulkan support?

Smacks, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
@Smacks@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a shame what happened to Bioware, great story tellers only to get canned because they didn’t make enough money for papa EA.

B1ackmsth, do xbox w RoboCop: Rogue City is delayed yet again

Honestly that’s good. From what I’ve seen so far it looks like it needs more time.

p03locke, do games w Uncharted's Tom Holland reportedly set to star in Jak and Daxter adaptation with Chris Pratt
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For fuck’s sake, is Chris Pratt going to take all of the video game male leads?

  • Minecraft, starring Chris Pratt as Steve
  • Hitman, starring Chris Pratt as Agent 47
  • Legend of Zelda, starring Chris Pratt as Link
  • Overwatch, starring Chris Pratt as McCree, even though there’s already a famous voice actor playing him
  • Red Dead Redemption, starring Chris Pratt as John Marston
  • Grand Theft Auto, starring Chris Pratt as Michael De Santa
  • Street Fighter, starring Chris Pratt as Ken
  • Among Us, starring Chris Pratt as The Red Guy
  • Final Fantasy 7, starring Chris Pratt as Cloud
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land, starring Chris Pratt as Kirby
  • Halo, starring Chris Pratt as Master Chief
ElBarto,
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

Chris Pratt staring in movies you’ll never see because they star Chris pratt, coming this holidays.

hummel, do games w AMD reveals long-awaited FSR 3 tech and frame gen for every DX11/DX12 game

Was there FSR 2?

secret301,

Ye a while back

loops, do gaming w Jusant, home of one the best jumps in video games, gets October release date

Cool! I wish I wasn’t reminded of anatomically correct spiderman though…

skankhunt42, do gaming w Fallout TV series "sneak peek" leaks online following Gamescom Starfield presentation

wish obsidian had the rights…as og fallout fan it really hurts to see what bethesda is doing to the franchise

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

why? almost nobody from obsidian has also worked on new vegas. and new vegas was and still is the buggiest fallout game ever made

entropicdrift,
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Buggiest and one of the best written. RPGs need high quality writing.

HotDogFingies,
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Yes. I love New Vegas. Fantastic storylines. I started off with 2 and I'd say that New Vegas is the title I remember with the most fondness. The Fallout franchise is in my top 3. Just a joy to play.

Have I tried unsuccessfully to revist it several times over the years? Also yes.

BigBananaDealer,
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rpgs also need to be playable. and the writing is very exposition heavy

entropicdrift,
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Never said it was perfect, but the game got great reviews and won a bunch of awards because it’s good despite the bugs.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

it actually made obsidian miss out on a bonus because it was so buggy it affected reviews

storksforlegs,
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

I dont know, I would argue Fallout 76 was much buggier.

AttackBunny,

IMO it depends on the system, and they are buggier in different ways. I’ve never not been able to play 76, but New Vegas would just shut down, or freeze, and you’d lose a bunch of stuff. Even 3 I still have never played the alien mothership DLC because it just wouldn’t let me. I’d get to the beam me up part, and it would freeze every time. I’ve also only played it on playstation, I’ve heard less issues with other systems.

BigBananaDealer,
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bethesda had a lot of problems making their games work on ps3, its why the dragonborn dlc for skyrim was released way later than it was on xbox

skankhunt42,

the only bugs i remenber are related to running it on newer tech.

but the story and characters are awesome and it actually captures the fallout spirit, unlike f3/4/76.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

there’s no way f3/4/76 fail to capture the fallout spirit haha. what a weird statement to make

skankhunt42,

I guess you never played 1 and 2. And 76 has obviously no other connection to fallout than the name, some words and assets. It is like the anti-fallout.

BigBananaDealer,
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so for fallout to feel like fallout it needs dated cringy 90s related humor? despite the fact the game takes place hundreds of years after the 90s? cause that’s fallout 2

and im guessing you never played 76

skankhunt42,

og fallout humor is timeless…

to my utmost shame I have to admit that I preordered it. it was not only a slap in the face for all fallout fans but also all gamers. bethesda put zero effort into this cashgrab.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

theres no way you can see the detailed world and say thats zero effort. its like the best world bethesda has ever crafted. its huge, vaired, and interesting. regardless of the games own failings, its definitely not a zero effort release, otherwise they would have given up on it years ago

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Oh no, there’s absolutely effort put into the graphics. It’s just everything else that’s missing.

The overall writing and direction in Bethesda’s games is piss poor as they haven’t prioritized it in some time. Even TES suffers from this. But I guess that’s more about the crowd they’re trying to appeal to.

It’s all cool if you like Bethesdas version of the Fallout world. But not everyone else subscribes to it.

And for reasons that are quite valid. As Beth’ has deviated far from the roots of the franchise.

skankhunt42,

directly from my heart. on point, wish I could upvote more

bermuda,

There are plenty of games that feel true to their roots without needing to feel like the same thing. 1 and 2 came out almost 30 years ago. While they’re good games, there are other ways to explore those kinds of stories than by just replicating those two.

skankhunt42,

thats my point for new vegas, different but still giving you the good vibes of the original.

f3/4 is missing that completelly. feels more like fanfiction, but not the good kind.

bermuda,

You mean interplay? New Vegas is good but I’ve never thought it was so fundamentally different that bethesda was “hurting” the franchise as opposed to them.

skankhunt42,

new vegas was pretty close to the roots while bethesda just borrows terms and artwork, but is never able to combine it with a story and chars that give you that fallout feeling.

not arguing that they basically took a dead ip and created games loved by millions. but if you are looking for og fallout new vegas is the way to go.

pbjamm,

Interplay…feel like I am in the Wayback Machine. I worked there for a few years at the time of Carmageddon, Fallout1/2, Descent, and some other classics. A lifetime ago.

I still have my Vault13 flask from Fallout2. Sad that I can not really use it anymore though as the printing is very fragile now.

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