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Carighan, do games w 'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077'
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Ah yeah, definitely.

As someone who personally enjoys a told story more than a lot of directionless freedom (because I get bored after a few dozen hours, so I want the game to get its thing told and then I’m ready for the next game, basically) I of course enjoyed Geralt’s directed character more, but the two are definitely incompatible at a very basic level.

And honestly, none is inherently better, though I wish studios understood more readily just how different the underlying approach is. If someone creates a defined story then give me those fully defined characters. Give me a cool story through which I learn of them. With a few surprises. Make it like a book! On the other hand, if something is freeform, then go hard the opposite way. Make it sandbox-y! Allow me to create narrative myself through what I do, don’t hold my hand and try to guide me back onto rails.

(That is, the main story was just about the part I enjoyed the least in CP2077 next to the bugs, and I really don’t think V’s character fits the gameplay and what we players do in it very well. V is an interesting character, but not for an open world do-whatever-you-want game, and the game they created doesn’t fit a character that is supposed to have a specific design very well.)

Carighan, do games w Final Fantasy 16 actor criticizes job security in the games industry amid thousands of lay offs: "Honestly, are we going to get serious?"
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As long as laws don’t constrain this rampant drive for short-term profit maximisation, and as long as laws permit the only truly valuable customer to be the shareholders and the C-suite’s own bonus programs, this won’t ever change.

Which in turn also already implies what needs to happen: Companies need to be prevented from caring more about the above two groups than the actual workers.

But this is difficult to pull off. The CEO (etc) should ultimately have the responsibility for the overall direction, but directly tieing them to the stability fo the workforce is tricky. It would be a way of doing it, of course. As in, loss of income of individual workers is directly judged against whatever payment/share program the C-suite managers enjoy, making them directly reponsible for not fostering an environment in which regular mass-layoffs are desirable.
Likewise, if shares automatically lost value whenever personel cost is cut (instead of gaining), firing workers would be heavily discouraged as it would decrease short-term profits and (correctly) flag a destabilizing event in the company.

All really tricky though, especially on an international level. But something ought to happen to keep this shit in check.

Carighan, do games w Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog
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Master Chief, Conker, Commander Keen and Vault Boy in Heroes of the Storm, got it!

Carighan, do games w Elden Ring May Be Getting New Content Soon, Judging From Recent Behind-the-Scenes Updates
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It’s FROM, they still loathe PCs on a personal level. Or at least it always feels that way. They get ordered to release on PC, and they do, but they curse them every step of the way and fuck it up as much as they can without getting fired.

Carighan, do games w Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible
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“GamePass Deck you say?” <– MS Exec

Carighan, do games w Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4
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Yeah but one of the biggest pitfalls is seeing another company catch lightning in a bottle, then thinking that this can be freely recreated. Just that BG3 could do a user-created character with a good story does not at all imply that any other company can do it. Nevermind will. Or even that Larian can do it again.

Carighan, do games w What moment from a video game made you cry?
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Puuuh, a fair few over the years.

  • Same one as you, Rosalina’s backstory made me tear up a little bit. It was really really well done, and so unexpected in a Mario game of all places.
  • When first reading through Katawa Shoujo, Shizune’s path (botched as it is) still hit me really hard with Misha being an aside that can’t fit in, then later Rin’s neutral ending also got me really bad.
  • Teenage me at the end of disc 1 of FF7, of course.
  • The ending of Signalis just recently.

And probably a lot more. FFXIV has a lot of sad and emotional moments, although none of them hit me quite as hard as some other games did.

Carighan, do games w Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4
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That sounds really bad on paper, tbh. The cool parts about the player character all stem from how it’s a defined person with an existing personality and place in the world. If it becomes Skyrim: Witcher Edition, we’d probably also inherit the shallow~inexistent storytelling of that.

Carighan, do games w Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4
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Not sure I’ll be into Ciri based gameplay.

I’d love that. Sure they’d have to really re-do her combat style since it was only a brief intermission before, but it feels natural to progress to her eventually. And honestly, it’s high time Geralt takes a bow after 3 games as big as they are, and as awesome as those were. Exit before they eventually ruin him. 😅

Carighan, do games w Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4
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Cyberpunk’s patching has showed me that ~1-1,5 years after release is a really good time to jump in.

By which time, between patches and mods, the worst stuff is dealt with and the experience can be really nice, if a bit tepid due to bad design decisions that mods cannot fix. Still, enjoyable game after patches and at a discount.

Carighan, do games w Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam
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Starfield, the epitome of scientifically correcty simulations. Why would I expcet my Starship Travel Simulator 2000 to be a fun-focused game after all, durr.

Carighan, do games w SteamWorld Build - Review Thread
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I tried the demo months ago, and this is one of my big hype games for December.

It’s so relaxed! And on top of that, it oozes style the same way the other Steamworld games do. And it sounds like they added a whole lot to it.

Carighan, do games w US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas
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Unchecked “free market” capitalism, if I had to guess.

Companies should never have been able to run outside of a very tight yoke. Yeah sure, capitalism. But not unchecked and especially not unchecked-across-borders so they can start escaping shit by moving legal entities around. Oh and speaking of that, maybe “corporations as entities” is another really really big one we fucked up, allowing the people who make the truly shitty decisions to shirk responsibility for them.

Carighan, do games w Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch
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Damn, I’d get not a single recommendation. That’d be wild. 🤣

Carighan, do games w Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
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Plus, since he’s just testifying, it sucks on a climate level to make him jet around for absolutely no reason, too.

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