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mox, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 director says he thought the game would be too short because of all the cut content | VGC

“This is a really random tidbit, but Moonrise Towers used to be two towers,” Vincke explained. “And now, we shipped with only one tower. And for a long time, there was actually the ruins of the second tower, and then we removed that also.

I was wondering about this all through that part of the game. I scoured every path I could figure out how to reach, inside and out, but ultimately found no second tower. Welp, that explains it.

swab148,
@swab148@lemm.ee avatar

Moonrise Towers

Looks inside

Only one tower

SteveFromMySpace, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 director says he thought the game would be too short because of all the cut content | VGC

They should’ve cut all the nonsense outside of the city at the top of Act 3. 90% of it felt like Act 1 appropriate content.

Kaldo, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 director says he thought the game would be too short because of all the cut content | VGC

In some ways I wish they cut even more, act 3 felt bloated and very badly paced to the point it felt like a slog to get through.

SnugZebras, do gaming w Modern Warfare Remastered climbs Steam charts as MW2 multiplayer mod prepares to launch [VGC] EDIT: C&D by Activision, so nvm i guess

C&D from Activision 😔

theangriestbird,

Nice, and they waited til the end of the Steam sale, too. Real classy.

CaptainBasculin,

This mod was hyped previously. DMCAing it right before its release date is a different kind of dick move; especially considering the game is vulnerable to an RCE exploit and the mod would likely patch it to have things move more securely.

theangriestbird,

The timing of this move makes me want to never buy another game from Activision (or Microsoft, by extension). Just such a blatant exploitation of the community.

bastionntb,

I think that’s been the move for awhile now. I have not or will not buy anything Activision or Blizzard, I would rather pirate if I wanted it that bad. But I’m finding that their games now a days are just copy and paste someone else’s usually. This really was a dick move though.

theangriestbird,

you’re right about that. I just thought maybe things would be different under Microsoft, but clearly that is not the case.

GingeyBook,

They had to have known about it for a while too.

So they sat and let the devs get it to a finished state only to pull this

theangriestbird,

They’re happy to let it drive sales for their game.

teawrecks,

I mean, apparently not. They could have had even more sales once the mod released, but I guess they don’t like money.

pipariturbiini,

Fan projects or mods should be never pre-announced, just released once they’re ready. Once it’s out there the big companies can’t stop it.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w Developers reportedly told not to expect Switch 2 to launch before April 2025 [VGC]

Jesus Mary and Joseph just announce the fucking thing already. GamesCom was perfect to do so and they want to wait longer.

Switch sales are in the decline so now would be the time to do it.

I wonder if the rumor that “Nintendo is waiting for the Yen to go up again so their localized profits outside of Japan aren’t halfed.” Is true

Telorand,

Tbh, as importent as they were to the nacent development of the games industry, based on past and recent behavior towards fan games, I kind of hope they eat their hats on this.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Too many Nintendrones will make sure that doesn’t happen unfortunately

Donut,

Nintendo said they will announce/reveal something this fiscal year, that’s it. No word about launch.

The rest are just rumours and just a bunch of dudebro’s who replaced 2023 with 2024, and now have to scribble in 2025 pretending they never said they were 99% sure it was releasing earlier.

Excel,
@Excel@beehaw.org avatar

No reason to announce it when it’s well over a year before launch. If you believed any false rumors to the contrary, then that’s your fault.

Moonrise2473,

They’re waiting that the tech is becoming the past gen. They can’t launch something from the current gen, it must be 3-4 gens behind and compensate that with their coding geniuses that can still make masterpieces with the limited resources available. Maybe it’s going to be something as powerful as an iPhone 11 would be mind-blowing 🤯

Kichae,

If it’s still 9 months away, there’s no real reason to announce it publicly before the Christmas season. The fact that the original Switch’s sales are flagging is not a reason to announce, since it’s not launching in time for the holidays. Its announcement isn’t going to spurr Switch 1 sales.

When it’s announces will be entirely deoendent on when retailers need to know launch details. Once it’s outside of Nintendo, they’ll have to announce things publicly or risk losing control over the narrative.

Flamekebab, do gaming w Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases Borderlands 4 [VGC]
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

Oh yeah, they made a third one, didn't they?

BumpingFuglies, do gaming w Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC]

Such a dumb move. This won’t help sales, but it certainly will hurt them (though, to be fair, probably not much). Sex sells. And the people who are offended by this wouldn’t have bought the game in the first place.

I’m just so annoyed by this recent resurgence of Puritan-esque prudishness. Humans are sexual beings! We shouldn’t be ashamed of or offended by sexuality; we should embrace it! And if people are worried about unequal representation, the solution is simple: put sexy men in the game, too, and maybe an option for players to toggle either. Everybody wins.

Midnitte,

Sure, but promoting the explicit sexual exploitation of women doesn’t seem to be the answer.

Like, maybe not pushing for taking sexually explicit photos of un-consenting persons?

One of these categories was Erotica, which gave players PP for taking photos of women’s cleavage, underwear or any other revealing clothing.

If you dont want to buy the game without that, then you don’t want to buy the game, you want to buy Girls Gone Wild.

ShroudedScribe,

Yeah, I think the people arguing for this don’t understand the full context. You get extra points for taking the equivalent of upskirt photos of women who are being attacked by or in fear of being attacked by zombies. It’s textbook exploitation.

I can’t immediately think of a context where it would be better, but… it isn’t this.

BumpingFuglies,

I don’t know the game well - never played its original release and I likely won’t play this remake - but from what I understand, the women in question are zombies, so consent isn’t really a factor.

If anything, removing this feature slightly reduces immersion and significantly changes the main character’s personality. I can understand why someone who was a fan of the original would be hesitant to get the remake, since the main character is a different person, morally speaking.

It’s like Star Wars - Han shot first, and changing that doesn’t change the story in any real way, but it significantly changes Han’s character.

Midnitte,

So necrophilia is cool…? 🤢

BumpingFuglies,

Cold, actually.

Midnitte, do gaming w Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases Borderlands 4 [VGC]

“So what you’re saying is: You like what my friends and I do with our Borderlands video games even more than you like what some of the biggest and best cast and crew of film makers on the planet have done,” he wrote. “I’m super flattered! We’re working extra hard four you on what’s next….”

…what? Lmao.

Having the best crew doesn’t matter if you’re trying to race the Daytona 500 with a box car with a monkey that was only trained to turn right and to have an actress in her late 50s play a character in her early 20s.

theangriestbird,

wasn’t Randy responsible for the “box car” part?

Midnitte,

You’d think he would have discussed it when he was negotiating.

But, I can’t help but include this hilariousness. https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/502f42e5-cc63-4ad2-a580-cad9c35d67f3.webp

averyminya, do gaming w Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases Borderlands 4 [VGC]

Now starring the cast of the movie?

jagermo,

Its a tie in!

terminhell, do gaming w Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC]

Is it me or has the term remastered been changed to remake/redesigned?

To me it’s always meant that its just a visual fidelity and maybe audio updating. The rest of the game mechanics remain. Only extreme bugs should be fixed that would lead to corrupted saves or something.

Sidyctism2, do gaming w Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake is in full production, Control 2 is now in a playable state [VGC]
@Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

didnt know a control sequel is in the works

Midnitte, do gaming w Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake is in full production, Control 2 is now in a playable state [VGC]

Please sell them on Steam. 😔

Haraknos,

Please sell them on gog so that it’s DRM free…

strongarm,
Haraknos,

Damn, thanks for enlighting me “thumbup”

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m in no rush to play Alan Wake 2, if Control 2 goes to Ebin Aids Store I’ll be in no rush to play it either.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Ditto. Alan Wake 2 looks like a cool game, but I have 32 games on my Steam wishlist, and I can make it 33 when they decide to put it on Steam.

hagelslager,

Ehr? It is on Steam? Or is that EU exclusive?

store.steampowered.com/app/12140/Max_Payne/

Midnitte,

That’s the original. Remake isn’t out yet.

Remedy has been taking a lot of money from Epic (they were the publisher for Alan Wake 2, hence why that isn’t on steam).

Not sure why a company so successful needs a publisher… :/

SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC]
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

Good.

LukeZaz, do gaming w Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC]

Equal representation’s good, and I never liked this mechanic to begin with. Works for me!

I still won’t buy it, but that’s because it lacks T.J. Rotolo, not anything to do with this.

MagicShel, do gaming w Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC]

I have a very feminist outlook on things, but I enjoy some problematic things. I know it’s not very progressive of me, but it is what it is. I acknowledge they are problematic.

Which is just to say, I don’t like this. I understand, but I’m not a fan.

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