Question: has his series ascended to action status yet, or is it still an action RPG?
Another way to ask this: does freedom of expression in combat come from combat mechanics or character build? I'm assuming it's still a combo, but 2 and 3 feel as if they're leaning more towards action than RPG.
I don't necessarily have any problem with action RPGs, but I'd be more inclined to add it to my wishlist if combat takes more from Ninja Gaiden than it does from Dark Souls.
In theory, they are souslike takes on character action games.
In practice? They are what Dark Souls 3/Sekiro/Elden Ring aer working towards where you are weaving your lights, heavies, and special attacks together to build combos. Except that in Nioh you tend to have 6-8 special attacks at any given moment, the ability to toggle your stance to swap to a different set of 3 of those, further mode swapping for some weapons, another weapon you can swap to, and a devil trigger for even more options. And I definitely got the counts wrong because holy crap.
But also? You aren’t meant to do a 900 hit Super Sexy Stylish combo. They are very much inspired by sword and sandals movies (which, in turn, are very much inspired by actual martial arts katas people do while learning) where you might do a chain of 3 or 4 hits before ki pulsing to reset. But, in turn, that means that while you aren’t doing a 900 hit combo you ARE basically doing a constant chain of 3-6 hit combos pretty much indefinitely and it feels so good.
So no, they aren’t Ninja Gaiden Black. But Ninja Theory souls games are more or less unique in that there really isn’t anything like them.
While many where complaining about having to wait for silksong, I’ve been awaiting this game from when it was announced… 2012… even before the original kickstarter of Hollow Knight!
Looks absolutely fantastic though and still well worth the wait.
He keeps saying he worked at Blizzard, which is factually correct, but he was a game tester and not a dev; a position he got because his dad worked there. He keeps using his time at Blizzard as some sort of support for his “authority” on the game industry.
He has had a game in dev for like 8 years and the code is written poorly or heavily relies on AI(exact notation style used by AI), sometimes both. Any criticism of his code is dismissed by saying that it is part of the ARG for the game and intentionally done.
He tried to gaslight his dad about him not calling on his dad’s birthday by saying he did.
He doesn’t support Stop Killing Games from an anti-consumer standpoint.
He does “developer streams” where he puts code on screen and doesn’t actually do any coding(IMO because he can’t actually code with real competence, based on examples of his code).
He should just put the fries in the bag or pivot his meta.
I’m kind of done talking about him or thinking about him, honestly. But this video is good for getting an inside look at a decent sample size of developers’ opinions, especially on the technical side.
I'm honestly a little bit uncomfortable with how much of the discourse around SKG suddenly became focused on dunking on one person. It's a useless distraction from the cause, there's really no good reason to even be talking about him at all. This kind of 2 minutes hate is just never healthy.
I think the movement stumbled into two potholes almost simultaneously and everyone bashing on him got it out of both of them. His discrediting and rejection of the movement didn’t help but in my opinion the far bigger problem was just the lack of advertising.
Until all of the controversy I’d literally never heard about the petitions, nor had I ever heard of anyone involved with it. I was aware of the lawsuit around the shutting down of the crew but I believe that was the extent of it. Even the likes of Lewis Rothman weren’t talking about it until about 2 months ago, so how’s a random person on the street going to know about it?
A LOT of us olds pretty rapidly saw parallels between Gamergate and SKG from very early on. The same “This is obviously something everyone should want?” on the surface that quickly gets a whole lot more complex when you think of nuance and remember that The Bad Guys are actually human beings and not kid sitcom level villains. And the constant worry that it would become about hating and destroying individuals.
Which is why a LOT of us saw this coming when Thor was dumb enough to go on record (devil’s) advocating for developers. And it became even more obvious once Ross et al decided the answer was to make their consumer rights movement all about attacking a nepo baby with a high voice who pissed off asmongold and may or may not be a furry. You are either with SKG or you are with Thor and fucking nobody wants to be with that d-bag.
For what it is worth: I am friendly with a decent number of folk in various parts of the industry and this shit is terrifying. Yes, the EU is a lot better than the US (and a lot more toothless…) but it is still asking Old White Guys to legislate on gaming and… a lot of us remember when fuckers like jack thompson and even frigging Biden wanted to Fix Video Games. Let alone the reality that this is a massive industry and bad legislature could destroy the lives of thousands of people (millions once you consider knock ons). But basically all of us agree that that is just not something you can talk about on The Internet without getting a hate mob sent your way.
Why does anyone care about him in the first place? I really don’t understand why anyone gives this dude any attention, he seems like a loser that’s never accomplished anything.
He’s a conman and very good at selling his reputation. (Artificially) deep voice, fancy words, and distracting audiences with a blackboard. It’s all it takes to project a strong and attractive image that gather audiences.
He also sells a lot of his “good side” via short form videos on Tik Tok and YouTube etc. So when you only get a snippet or two of him talking or answering questions, and he seems like he’s encouraging people to learn to code or do game dev etc it sounds nice. It sounds like he’s being supportive of his audience. It seems like he’s just a dude. But when you get right down to it, that doesn’t bear out who he is, even his actual online persona in his long form content or streams.
Oh God the thing he does where he just draws random circles in ms paint drives me mental. I was trying to watch some of his videos in order to be able to form my own opinion of him, and that tendency drove me mad there’s literally no point to it.
The problem I have with him is that he just announces things, like with the stop killing games movement, he just said the movement is bad and he doesn’t support it but he never explained himself. Even to this day I don’t actually understand what his problem with the movement is. He isn’t a publisher, so I don’t understand why he cares.
Probably people who are losers and haven’t accomplished anything are his audience. You know like teenagers. His loser vibe resonates with these type of people and at the same time he puts up this fake authoritative personality and people with low social skills or little life experience can’t see it’s a facade. So they treat him as some sort of expert in the game dev field, because they can’t see it’s all just lies.
I appreciate this conversation coming from the developers point of view. Especially, the concerns about the legality conversation. The definitions will be scrutinized by everyone involved.
The Eldenring and Silksong communities’ collective mental health deteriorating bottomlessly up to the release date announcements will forever be one of my favourite parts of internet history.
I’ve played Lunacid! It was good, but the limited equipment slots (just your weapon and two rings) meant it didn’t have the same feeling of gradual progression that Kings Field had. Haven’t played Tears of the Moon yet.
I would definitely have preferred armor but I found the weapon and spell progression to be really good up until it kinda just stops maybe 80% through ending A. Although I think making the “use it until it upgrades” explicit was a mistake since it encourages you to stick with one. Rather than learning, 10 hours in, that the starting sword was actually OP.
And entering the catacombs from the wrong (right?) direction is the kind of bullshit From aspires to. Pitch black, invisible enemies that feel like they are respawning, all just constantly rushing you from every direction as they walk through walls. And you are just struggling to find the torches while feeling like you are getting smacked with a greatsword every step you take.
I’ve heard REALLY good things about that short game where you play as a bug in a bug kingdom but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I was in both communities at the time… Only the OGs will remember when the only thing we had to go off of Elden Ring was a random rumor that called it Great Rune.
I don’t think it will suck. It will just be “more Hollow Knight” - which is perfectly fine and what people should have been expecting. Don’t think it will live up to the irrational hype though unless it’s literally the best game ever made.
I thought him including video of a trump rally was too blunt, the audio was enough. I enjoyed the implication he was making about the game’s difference between the US and south american superweapons, which isn’t openly stated and doesn’t have to be.
Also got a MacBook Air for work because my company recently blocked Linux. Ugh…but I’m loving the MacBook more than I thought. Haven’t gone to Windows for non-work reasons in over a week now and been gaming on Linux with few issues.
I’ll never touch Mac, partly because I have issues with Apple’s business practices, and partly because I manage to break every single piece of software I touch and I’m not confident I’d be able to unbreak a mac, but if not for those factors I actually would be more likely to use it over Windows on the off chance I encounter things I can’t do on Linux.
Security did an audit of everyone’s usage into our network and determined that no one was using Linux, so no reason to keep it unblocked. Most users used Windows and some used macOS, but no Linux usage seen, so why not just block it to close off one possible vector. If you try to connect using Linux, even with the right credentials and MFA, you’ll get a block message that your device is not allowed. I had been planning on switching full time to Linux, but hadn’t yet otherwise my usage would have showed up on their report and they might not have blocked it.
The security at my job is very tight. Most things are blocked unless there is a specific need or use for it. The head of security is very strict on access and keen to block things until multiple people cry for it to be unblocked and for a reason he agrees with.
As part of the larger project of blocking access, he blocked most personal devices to access our systems. My team was excluded with some heavy deterrents to it and an agreement for us to use company managed cloud PCs for all the work we do. Myself and others don’t want company devices while we work from home and prefer to use our own devices so this was part of the compromise.
I honestly probably could have made a stink about it, and maybe not even that much effort since I have a friendlier relationship to the head of security than others, and we may have kept Linux unblocked, but I decided to just go along with it and get a Mac instead. The policy has helped in ensuring unauthorized access is kept to a minimum. We routinely get targeted by malicious parties and our users are often getting tricked by phish and malware campaigns (even with training and routine simulation tests on the users), so I can’t exactly blame him for choosing this.
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