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BotsRuinedEverything, do games w 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'

Translation: 6 hour playthrough.

jordanlund, do games w 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Infinite was a pretty high bar, they may have intimidated themselves.

I mean, Jesus, even Zero Punctuation liked it and he hates everything!

youtu.be/rciyCHa6J4o

RvTV95XBeo,

Story of Infinite was fine but the gameplay was very repetitive and far too linear for my personal taste.

Had one play through, and baaarely made it to the end - glad I did but it was rough going there for the 1000000000th “Booker, catch!”

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

The SkyHook action was pretty amazing, that’s the #1 thing I remember other than the design work.

Thehalfjew,

That’s interesting. I so appreciated having a useful, independent partner

absquatulate, do games w 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'

Third separate article about this game in a week? I see they’re in the hyping up phase.

toiletobserver, do games w 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'

I’m ok to wait for quality

zero, do games w Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now
@zero@fek.xyz avatar

I wonder if he found his wallet in the game?

SlartyBartFast,

I believe he’s still out there digging to this day

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

He actually tried to buy up the whole landfill so he can continue to search. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/uk/james-howells-landfill-bitcoin-gbr-intl-scli

SlartyBartFast,

Jokes on him, a time traveller beat him off to it

Tollana1234567,

its probably damaged beyond repair, if it got wet, or chemicals got into the drive, assuming its there. plus decaying trash creates a ton of HEAT.

ivanafterall, do games w Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

This guy not only didn’t find his bitcoins, but now other people will make more money off of his story than he has. Oof.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

And still searching to this day and trying to buy the whole landfill: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/uk/james-howells-landfill-bitcoin-gbr-intl-scli

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

I would hope he finds it several years from now and it’s unrecoverable, just because that would be funny. But I don’t actually hope that as I have seen nothing that says he deserves that. It was already kinda sad when he started looking, now it’s just depressing.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

That would indeed be funny. So he can just move on with his life and move on.

Mac,

I heard he was abusive to his girlfriend or something. I hope he burns.

Tollana1234567,

hes desperate for that 800+million, he will spend the rest of his life doing it. if it buried under tons of trash, he will never find it.

Tollana1234567,

he couldve capatilize on this, and sold the game himself.

rauls5, do games w Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now

I laughed at this far more than I should have.

FlashMobOfOne, do games w Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Bummer.

You can still buy bitcoin though, just wait for the next dip and get right in.

Inucune,

To the core! Diamond hands! Don’t buy until it is pennies so you make a fortune in the upswing!

etchinghillside, do games w Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now
Ilixtze, do games w Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'

I like this guys because they are making an Expanse game. Are their Warhammer games fun?

redhorsejacket,

They have made one Warhammer game, Rogue Trader. It is a party based, turn based, RPG based upon a tabletop RPG ruleset. It’s quite good, though I admit that I play it on story mode difficulty cause I can’t be bothered to learn another RPG system right now, and idgaf about build crafting. With that being said, it’s a positively ENORMOUS game, with extraordinary amounts of optional content to interact with. If you go on expecting Space Marine 2, or Dawn of War, you’re likely going to be very upset. However, if you are prepared for something which apes the old Infinity Engine games of the 90s, or games inspired by the same, such as Pillars of Eternity, you’ll likely enjoy yourself.

HuntressHimbo, do games w Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'

I liked this game a lot when I first started playing. Now in the back half of the game its just disappointing. Desyncs, crashes, and uneven balance all over the place. It has its charms but not something I would recommend anymore. Good to see they are on the right side of this though

OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe,

Second time playing through, played before Lex Arbites and picked it up again after.

Genuinely, only had 1 crash on this run, maybe 3 on the last. All happened on Qetza Temer. But the uneven balance I can agree with. I’m playing through on the difficulty above medium (whatever it’s called) and now that I’m in the 4th act, sometimes they knock a party member in the first turn, sometimes my arch-militant will kick one guy down and stun him, shoot 7 more and kill 4, Heroic Action, more shooting, boss already compromised and surrounded by my melee and Cassia is making EVERYBODY whack him down.

Love it. It frustrates me. If it wasn’t Warhammer, it would only be a 6.5-7/10, but it’s so jam packed with lore tie ins that if you like the universe it’s at least a solid 8-9 for the love they put into it and continual update/community feedback. But that’s just like, my opinion, man

Whitebrow,

Not sure if this applies to you, but when it just released early on, there were difficulties between versions and save games from earlier ones didn’t play nice after updates, so I struggled to get through act 2, but then I disabled the auto update and played through it pretty much flawlessly, granted I had to start a new save file.

HuntressHimbo,

It hasn’t been the worst on my solo play through, mostly on a group one. There are a variety of issues that are workable, like how you will frequently start combats separated unless your group has the discipline of saints, or how one character will literally never be able to join combat because the terrain is impassable for him and him alone once initiative starts. These things we dealt with, but when combined with hours of lost progress from crashes and desyncs we threw in the towel

BuboScandiacus, do games w Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

And short loading times !

ShaggySnacks, do games w Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'

Yeah, if someone is going to lose access to a game that I bought. It’s going to be me.

Katana314,

accidentally drops rare copy of indie game into a sewer grate

aw, fuck. I can’t believe I’ve done this.

acosmichippo, (edited ) do games w RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

what ever happened with the sequel? i thought it was nearing completion years ago.

edit: supposedly to be released in october

SoleInvictus,

Allegedly it’s supposed to release in October. The original release date was in 2020, so I suppose we’ll see!

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

Supposedly the first studio failed to make a fun game and they had to restart with The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Still Wakes the Deep).

I think they are on track with it, but we got to wait longer.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Don’t get your hopes up. The Chinese room version looks to be a straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Also like, the whole selling point initially for making a Bloodlines 2 was getting Brian Mitsoda back to write the script. But they’ve thrown it out to make their own story and it will be like BG3 in that sense - a sequel in name only but no actual connection to the original game(s).

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

This does not sound good. VTMB is not supposed to be linear, you want to explore a living world.

I haven’t been following the release trailers or previous, just saw some concept art from both the first studio that failed and The Chinese Room.

At least now I can manage my expectations.

zzx,

Is it just me or is the first game fairly linear?

Agent_Karyo, (edited )
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

It’s no open world. But there are hubs, often there are multiple ways to finish a quest and there are quest lines that are limited by your skill and clans selection.

But the main story quest is rather linear.

zzx,

Second game better be at least this level, but doesn’t have to be significantly more open imo. What do u think?

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

I would be fine without a full-on open world, maybe a bit more content and larger maps than in VTMB (I always thought the Santa Monica map could have been larger and more expansive).

The writing, world-building and ambience must be top notch in a sequel to VTMB.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com avatar

The Chinese Room invented the modern Walking Simulator genre so I have hoperectile dysfunction with them.

original_charles,

What’s your basis for believing that it’s going to be linear? Was there a leak or something?

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

If you look at the official gameplay (even if this real) you can tell it’s not going to be a sprawling RPG like the original

You can’t even choose your character and are forced to play as an elder vampire named 'Phyre."

Looks like the biggest thing is that you will decide what faction gets to rule (multiple endings)

They appear to be taking the launch cyberpunk way and are saying this is more of an action game instead of a sequel to the RPG original

Allegedly if no further delays occur, it should be coming out in October of this year

Zagorath,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

I’m also quite disappointed at the change from playing a thinblood to an Elder kindred. I thought the idea of exploring thinblood lore could be really interesting and it would be much more interesting to roleplay someone who starts the game mostly human, compared to a completely inhuman monster right from the start.

Truscape, do games w Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'

All Warhammer game devs try not to be based challenge (impossible)

Menschlicher_Fehler,
@Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org avatar

In January 2019, Tencent acquired about a 36% stake in Fatshark in a deal worth approximately 500 million kr (around US$56 million). Later, in January 2021, it was reported that Tencent had acquired a majority stake in the company valued at around 2.2 billion sek (around US$260 million).

Truscape,

Dammit. Always a catch after all… ;-;

Menschlicher_Fehler,
@Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org avatar

That one really stings, because Darktide is a damn good game.

Sylvartas,

I was gonna say, I love fatshark’s games but unfortunately they’ve been pretty fucking far from based lately

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