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scrubbles, 13 godzin temu

That’s a huge problem I have with the franchise though! It’s been their cash cow so every game has some sort of riff on the whole future story bit, but they can’t commit to any of it and there’s no end in sight. So I refuse to get attached to their overarching story because I have no confidence that it will every complete!

The two scenarios that will play out are (and I’m not saying which one is likely, just these are the only two):

• Assassins’ Creed continues to be huge -> They will never end the overarching story and it will keep trickling in
• Assassin’s Creed dies out -> They won’t know it until their last one bombs so bad that the suits never make another, leaving it open

So why be invested in the story at all?

scrubbles, 6 dni temu

For me it’s the arrogance. It’s the calling of themselves “AAAA” gaming and trying to push base prices of games past $100 and then making bland boring games. They think they’re amazing. This is their reality check. Their games are what I play when I have nothing, and I mean nothing else to play

scrubbles, 6 dni temu

Hey maybe shadows will finally turn them around, I’m sure they did I’m something interesting and new with the game to get us to take notice.

scrubbles, 7 dni temu

I would never expect anything day 1, ever. Scalpers ruined day 1. And though I would be surprised if they were out of stock a week later. Unlike Nvidia they actually want to sell cards.

scrubbles, 7 dni temu

Unfortunately it’s pure capitalism. No matter what company got paid. They don’t care about it users got the card they wanted, or even if the scalers make a profit or go bust, they already got paid.

scrubbles, 10 dni temu

I’m very sorry man, I’ve been through that, and I have friends that have been cut at unity before. They treat their workers terribly.

Focus on getting better first, just process it for a bit. When you’re ready to start looking, the market is warm right now. I’m more than happy to help review resumes.

scrubbles, 9 dni temu

Good then, glad you’ve made it through, but obviously stay frosty. Those execs will cut every engineer as long as they still look good. Be ready for anything

scrubbles, 10 dni temu

Romanian trains are always so pretty

scrubbles, 12 dni temu

Archived. Of course they have no legal reason to take it down, but I’m sure that won’t stop them.

scrubbles, 14 dni temu

I hate questions like this. How would anyone but you know if it’s fun? Fun is completely subjective. Some people didn’t have fun in Veilguard. I had a lot of fun in Veilguard. Was Veilguard A good game? Now that’s a bit different question.

Things can be both not good but also fun. Among Us isn’t going to win game awards for narrative, but it was fun as hell to play.

Only way to tell if it’s fun is to go and play it, and return it if you don’t like it. Stop letting other people tell you if you’re having fun or not. Just, go enjoy things

scrubbles, 14 dni temu

Your disclaimer is what I really like tbh. We’re all just random people online with our own opinions, why would anyone take our word for if something is fun?

I’m glad you’re having a good time though!

scrubbles, 14 dni temu

Then it becomes 10.

I raided 6 2tb SSDs for my games now. It’s great, but it’s almost full.

scrubbles, 15 dni temu

In Halo they’ve given up on moderating unranked. Unranked is where ranked people to to “practice” now, you can see their shitty clans running around and 360 no scoping all of us just trying to chill. Inevitably every game is crazy one sided, they high five and move on, and we get swamped 50-13

scrubbles, 21 dni temu

So EA put way too high of a sales target on the game, obviously held it back from becoming what it could be, and now are blaming the studio with layoffs, ensuring the next game will flop.

I don’t care what their “numbers” and “projections” were. The game was on the top 10 list in Steam. Even if it wasn’t an A+ game I’d say it looked like it at least hit Assassin’s Creed numbers, I’d hardly call that a failure. Sounds more like a failure to accurately predict, maybe they should fire their business analysts instead of the people who you know, make the games.

scrubbles, 21 dni temu

I’d like to see how they measured success. Was it to break even? Well from what point? Including the time that it was supposed to be a live service game? Through the committees and executives shutting down ideas? It was in the top 10 for games on Steam that week and had generally favorable reviews. If that didn’t match their plan, that’s on them.

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

Taste the meat, not the heat - Pro-Pain

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

Oh great, they’re “modernizing” the gameplay, sailing, and more. It’s literally one of two AC games I enjoy, why change anything?

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

What a horseshit article. 90% of the “comparisons” are “We don’t know yet”. “It’s up in the air on the switch”. Only concrete thing I saw is that it has 2 USB-C ports.

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

I’d say also it depends on the franchise. Depp rock? Be a funny space dwarf yelling rock and stone? Hell yes imma do that with some friends.

God of war? No. Much more serious tone, I want to do that alone to explore the narrative

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

I always felt Andromeda got a bad rap. It’s not a great game. It’s not on par with mass effect. But it’s fine, I had fun. I never felt like it was a waste of money. Not a masterpiece, but I enjoyed it

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

Definitely, instead we only got a kinda crappy book

scrubbles, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

As someone who works in corporate America this is 10000% true. Giant corporations are hugely bloated, inefficient, slow, and stupid. I honestly can’t believe they are somehow the best way to do things in groups of people. I have never had less work to do than working in a huge corporation.

It’s no surprise that indie games can compete with them. Working in startups compared to huge corporations, I did more code and we got more done in shorter amounts of time vs big corps. There’s no red tape, there’s no committees or directors or people you have to please. There’s no political games, you just do your work. As simple as that. You come in, you code for 7-8 hours, you push your feature, and you go home.

In a megacorp you come in, you get 5 minutes for coffee before 3 people are pinging you on slack for some stupid downstream thing they didn’t read the manual on or was never documented, and then you have 5 hours of meetings, lunch, 2 hours of ad hoc meetings, and then Shirley has to swing by to ask you to take another HR training. So you get maybe 20 minutes of coding done in a day.

For you engineers who have never coded in a megacorp - As an example, most megacorps have an ID service (usually named after a comic book character). This is usually a real service deployed somewhere that nobody maintains anymore, but it’s where you get your… IDs from. Really wrap your head around that. It’s a microservice who is in charge of returning Guid.NewGuid(). Then they get pulled into meetings because the ID service doesn’t support this or that, they never thought of this case or that case, how can we upgrade off the old ID service to the new one. In a startup, you’re calling Guid.NewGuid()

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

rings

Yeah this is X over at Microsoft. Kindly asking, what the actual fuck are you doing? Minecraft 2? You realize you don’t own any of those rights anymore. You have pretty much one chance to go back on this or you’re sued into oblivion. Regards, Microsoft.

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

I’ve always thought they do such a good job at building worlds but are absolute shit on story and content. I wish there was a way they’d just build worlds and then hand it off to someone who knows how to make a decent story. Valhalla and Odyssey had amazing worlds that deserved better stories

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

Got assassin’s creed mirage. Was a decent game. For the $20 sale price I mean. Wouldn’t spend more than that

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

They’re just so risk-adverse. It’s the same as Andromeda, and Ubisoft is another great example. They’re so worried about getting the most players that they’re afraid to take risks. What if players don’t like this, what if the audience is smaller? Everything is done by committee and it becomes a fairly flat game.

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

How hard is it for them to realize this? Graphics are a nice to have, they’re great, but they do not hold up an entire game. Star wars outlaws looked great, but the story was boring. If they took just a fraction of the money they spent on realism to give to writers and then let the writers do their job freely without getting in their way they could make some truly great games.

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

Satisfactory for me. 2000 hours and counting

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2 still wasn’t that long ago, Dragon Age Veilguard was actually a success convincing even EA, Star Wars Jedi series, the list goes on. It just has to be a good story, you can’t just slap some boring ass story in there.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Any overlay is going to add some level of performance degradation, it’s just how much is noticeable or acceptable. Claiming it doesn’t do anything seems more like this comes from the marketing teams vs the technical teams

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

She aged naturally! Ugh, she was my hot sexy daughter in Witcher 3! Why would they… Have her grow up?! /s

Only thing I’m hesitant about is the actor, but I’m willing to give her a shot. Minor thing.

I doubt CDPR went into this without knowing how incels would react, and knowing they’ll still buy it. After CP2077 with the whole customize genitals issue (that I’m sure most people had forgotten about), I don’t think CDPR cares. They’re Polish, I hope they laugh at our stupid ass “culture war” bullshit

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Fucking preach. Entire problem with Ubisoft is their “formulas”. Zero risk, zero creativity. Boring games that all are the same. SO just started playing ac mirage and it looks and plays exactly like Valhalla. Which was exactly like Odyssey. Which was exactly like Origins.

Then they’re all like “why are people bored with our games?!?!!”

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Well they just started playing, I’ll let her know it might be changing. The UI and engine are just exactly the same, so they have pretty low hopes so far for it getting better.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

The games take place after the books, so it’s green field. Although it sounds like I canonizes the ending of witcher 3, (but honestly there was only one “correct” ending to the witcher 3 unless you’re a heartless bastard)

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

I’m sorry, you’re saying you’re unable to get into a game simply because it’s a female protagonist? If it was a male you’d be fine?

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Exactly lol, it has nothing to do with some weird gender thing. It’s a role playing game. You’re playing as a role. Even in Skyrim the role you’re playing (even if you choose a white male human) is someone living in Skyrim, a fictional place fighting dragons and draugr. So I think gender is one of the smallest differences.

God forbid you play a different perspective and see what it’s like.

Female V in cyberpunk is one of the best gaming experiences. You feel being catcalled and hit on directly - and you beat the ever loving shit out of them for doing it.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

It seems like it from the trailer, but I’m nervous about the voice actress, she does sound different than 3… But I’m willing to give her a fair chance

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Ha, one of the first times I saw someone playing as a woman (in third person) I asked why and he joked and said “dude why would I want to stare at a man’s ass for 60 hours?”. Not a bad argument tbh…

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Which to that I’d say women have been able to “get behind male protagonists” for decades now.

I think choice is fun, for some games, but some games like the Witcher tell a specific narrative, and it makes sense that they are tailored for a specific character, and I think we all know the sort of abuse that Ciri is going to see in the world of the Witcher.

I think of any gender has trouble “identifying” with a character of another gender that’s 100% a them issue, they need to figure out why they have such a problem with it, because that says more about them then it does game makers. (I know not you, the original person).

Seriously all it says to me is that you’re insecure with yourself if you can’t even play a fictional fantasy game as a woman.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

You really need to look internally and analyze why you feel that way.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Many games are just better IMO by choosing the female POV. Femshep >>>> Maleshep

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

We’re a pretty happy bubble here, which is why I’m here

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

They just start frothing at the sight of a powerful woman

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Ah I see you too are a “true” gamer

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah I don’t understand why people want to play themselves in a video game honestly

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

I’ll say both. Registrar was shit for just giving in and taking it down on what was essentially a “please take this down” note. Funko was shit for requesting it in the first place

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Same my friend, same. I’m starting my new factory on Friday and I’m getting ready for the math.

Btw if you’re not already, we’re here at !satisfactory