Carighan

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah, far as I know they also started to struggle with Risen already, as cost started going up for 3D RPGs with open worlds. If you are a niche creator, that’s a problem as your niche cannot be endlessly expanded.

I never tried ELEX or ELEX 2 (kinda should, but eh, bit late now), but they looked fine. Nothing noteworthy, but decent. But the thing is, I have a long long list of just RPGs that I still want to play that are on my backlog, like even Baldur’s Gate 3. And now Dawntrail for FFXIV just released. It’ll be years more before I get around to ELEX. I wish they had gone more something more artsy in style than just generic-3D open SciFi world, as that ages badly. Look at Mass Effect 1 and so on.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Definitely. Age of Wonders 4 was awesome to play at launch, but it definitely feels more “complete” now that all 4 DLCs are out. It feels like it was clearly hacked to pieces to be sold separate.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Oh I meant that, that’s why I worded it that way.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Hrm, you’re not wrong but Hades also exemplifies why quality wins over quantity when in replayability.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Geezus fucking hell, 40 minutes. For the answer that is just “do the same thing as the first Switch because that thing prints money despite what everyone predicted”.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

EA just means “we released unfinished and we’re still working on it”. Because factually that’s what it is.

So Coffee Stain:

• Released a game quite unfinished (but still fun, don’t get me wrong!).
• Actually invested the time and money to get it finished and fix it up after release.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah I was thinking the same.

I mean sure, someone needs to make a decent Left 4 Dead 3, yeah. But that should not be Resident Evil, especially considering how mediocre the action-centric titles were in hindsight (they were good for their time though, granted).

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Just report then block him, don’t feed the troll.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Ugh. How to kill all hype in one headline.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah that’s a fair take.

It is reprehensible and disgusting behavior, but it doesn’t mean we should universally apply labels across vast swaths of different issues, as it devalues said label and poisons future discussion.

Simple labels simplify discussion of course, but that runs the risk of losing nuance for the specific way someone was a disgusting creep.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

I did not disagree with that, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah I do. I disagree with most of their posts, but I agree with the motion that using the same labels indiscriminately is a problem in online discourse.

For example, far as I know so far, I’d call him a pedo, but I am unsure whether I’d call him a predator (of course, language differences apply, too). That’s just because I need words to express the predatory nature of people like Maxwell who prey on teens and YA.

That’s kinda what I meant, there’s too few words to just use the same label across the board sometimes. Doesn’t make something someone does less reprehensible. Rather i prefer to sometimes use full sentences instead of quick labels because it more accurately expresses the matter.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Ugh, I know the games are divisive, but for me they really did not work at all. I can’t even truly say why. They were below-expectations, yeah, but not terribly so. Just didn’t connect.

I got the same issue with FF16, tbh. While FFX worked for me (even though I’m weird, and think FFX-2 is better 😅).

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Nah, it’s not that old.

looks it up

Fuuuuuck I’m old! 😭

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

I’m not disagreeing, although I will say that as I have aged, I started to prefer either of:

• Turn-based
• Real-time-with-pause (granted, this is mostly RPGs)
• Pre-submitted concurrent turns (ala Frozen Synapse)

I don’t know. I just no longer find the extra stress from the real-time element engaging. I used to love it, but preferences shift of course, and now I prefer the relaxation of taking my own time to figure out what I want to do, then checking whether I “solved the puzzle”, basically.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

I think one possible resolution for increasing the popularity of RTS is to take a hybrid real time approach. You can build and do things in real time, but under the hood battles and the economy operate in discrete chunks of at least several seconds.

Come to think of it, I saw two approaches that were similar to this before:

1. In Frozen Synapse, you plan your turn, eventually commit it, then it plays out at the same time as the enemy planned turn. You can even move enemy units while planning to simulate possible movements and attacks they might make.
2. In the fourth Battle Isle game, Battle Isle The Andosia War, you did your strategic turns with your units, then in real-time as everyone else did those turns, built your production base and produced units. So the longer you take for your strategic turn, the more time everyone else gets to work on their economy.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Damn this looks amazing. Like Papers Please but with a cannon instead of two stamps.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Costs 16.99 here. Which locale is this in?

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Oooh, finally a sale on the Shadow Gambit DLC. Time to get both, I heard a lot that while Yuki is of course the “cooler” DLC since well, it’s Yuki, the other one is mechanically smarter as the new unit is overpowered but also quite different.

On that note, cannot recommend Shadow Gambit enough. It’s the perfection of the Commandos / Shadow Tactics / Desperados formula.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

Quite odd that this is supposed to come to Switch just about when the next console will probably release. I wonder whether this will be the switchover (ha!) title akin to Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

It’s great just to see it exist. And not every game needs to reinvent the wheel, especially when the series hasn’t had a game in 15 years.

Plus it’s a MetroidVania. Well, kinda the MetroidVania, or half of it. Trying too much with it would feel weird IMO because I’d want the two grandfathers to focus more on the central tenets, not some inventive genre-spinoffs.

Carighan, 4 miesiące temu

This recycles the graphics from the Link’s Awakening remake, for which it was already divisive, yeah.

OTOH, it’s a great way to make it look teensy-tiny, especially with the built-in tilt-shift.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah that’s the point of the video.

He’s not wrong, Valve does have a lot of power over the PC gaming market. Worryingly so. But Hi-Rez of all possible asshole companies with an asshole boss should be very very quiet about such subjects.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah but that game is either (depending on how you view early access) woefully unfinished and shat out in such an incomplete state, or not released yet and possibly years away from release.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

I mean considering that single skins cost 20 in Overwatch or Dead by Daylight, 7 for an actual mission is almost generous.

Fuck gaming is fucked…

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Certainly not the players, given current costs - where Steam is virtually always cheaper than elsewhere.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Of course it is.

All those large online action/claim sites are commercial in underlying nature. When you saw all the small farmers protest in Germany it was primarily driven as an action by about 5 large farming conglomerates because they are the ones getting ~85% of the grant money that was being cut. The whole point of the cut was to not funnel money that was supposed to go to small farmers to large megacorps after all. Who in turn instrumentalized the small farmers to protest it.

Probably what’s going on here, too. You can bet somewhere deep deep down, this is something Tim Sweeney cooked up.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Even if you believe that all privately owned capital is intrinsicly evil, you still ought to go after companies from most to least problematic within a specific category, no?

That is, for digital storefronts, start with the likes of Epic or in a broader digital gaming space in general, Microsoft or Ubisoft. Go after Steam when you’ve cleaned up the rapists, backroom dealers and collusionists.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Oh that’s awesome! It took a long time, but they’ve been asked for a universal menu and they actually did it. Nice! 👍

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Wow, an actual new Mana game. Looks quite rough from the trailer but going to keep an eye on it. If the dress-spheres, sorry, class-changes, work mid-fight I could see myself enjoy that combat system.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

I genuinely did, either. Not actually making fun of it. Everyone hated X-2, and there I was seemingly having a better time with it than with X!

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Ha, 460k to create a modern huge scope game. Uh huh. Very trustworthy KS this is.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah, Daggerfall was cool. I can’t really tell nowadays whether it impressed me more than Arena did or not because obviously the first one got me when I was younger and it was my first experience of an open adventure game, constrained as it was.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

“Fun” doesn’t pay C-suite bonuses or shareholder payouts. Ain’t nobody got a reason to work on that!

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

I did!

It’s … actually damn good. I know, I know.

Okay so caveat first: It is just Far Cry wearing a Pandora mask. That’s it. I’d say it’s even slightly less than that because they had to thin some mechanics to make space to fit the theme a bit more.

But, that theme? It… it makes it work! Even the mechanics being watered down works, because making it fit the theme just ends up being more important. Yeah, you play this for playing on Pandora. But fuck does the game sell this well! Incredibly well. I found myself just stalking the jungle (or plains, or forest, of which the plains are the weakest but still incredibly beautiful) half the time, genuinely doing the grindathon entirely willingly, just because of the lush atmosphere the game presents and how it feels to be roaming in this alien nature.

Plus, I played Horizon Forbidden West right after this, and while I give HFW that it has much higher fidelity overall and is really pretty, the actual jungle and forest in particular are leaps and bounds above it in Avatar. You can notice the artists focused their entire effort on that, and even at daytime it looks amazing. Nighttime and they did the bioluminsensce we know from the movies incredibly well.

So erm… recommended? In a weird way? It’s really just Far Cry: Pandora, but it turns out that despite not expecting to, that’s kinda what I wanted? 😅

(Caveat though: I don’t think it’s worth €70. However given how much I liked it, €50 or so seems perfectly adequate.)

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

And it’s a nothingburger even for a teaser. Peak Ubisoft.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Hrm, not sure what to make of this.

From a vibes-level, this is “We got Wolfenstein at home”, UK edition.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah sadly absolutely no clue so far.

Although, to be honest, that just means I’m neutral so far. Could also be awesome. The vibe is definitely there and unlike South of Midnight, they do their low-FPS motion well here by contrasting it against the super-smooth camera.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

Yeah it seems like a remaster. Or more specifically via a re-implementation as a sort-of official mod for Age of Empires 3 (thanks for the correction) I imagine, and judging from the graphics.

Excited! This bodes really well for AoM2.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Oh, 3 even not 4. TY

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

This looks… fantastic. Especially from a small studio. Love the setting they’re going for, something quite fresh.

Carighan, 5 miesięcy temu

Probably done with the console version I’d assume.