MolochAlter

MolochAlter, 16 dni temu

Fuck I hope not, Indiana Jones absolutely should not be a shooter.

MolochAlter, miesiąc temu

You realise this isn’t make believe at all, right? Stocks are ownership.

If a stock dips low enough it’s possible to do what microsoft did with Activision Blizzard and buy out another company wholesale, for instance.

Speculation on the stock market isn’t the reason the market exists, it’s a side effect of its pricing mechanisms, the actual point of it is to gather money for companies and gather stake for buyers.

If a major company like Ubisoft keeps tanking, odds are you can look forward to another major buyout and merger which will make the already horribly oligopolistic game industry even smaller, which is not good for anyone involved.

MolochAlter, miesiąc temu

That’s just generally all of media right now. We are at perhaps the highest level of accessibility for media creation we’ve ever been, but that means that any schmuck with a pair of thumbs and time to waste can make something.

High accessibility means abysmal signal/noise ratio, turns out.

MolochAlter, miesiąc temu

Sure, but the stock is tanking now, and the regulations are not on the books.

Like, I agree there needs to be an overhaul of a bunch of regulations regarding monopolies and such, but this doesn’t help analysing the current situation where they’re not in place.

MolochAlter, miesiąc temu

Yeah I mean, it’s got upsides and downsides, like everything. Unparalleled access means anyone can make something, which means a lot of things that have niche appeal can find their audience, etc.

It also means a lot of things without any appeal will be out there.

It’s not good or bad in itself but it can be impractical on the consumer side of the equation, and it makes even the remarkable stuff very likely to just disappear in the shuffle.

MolochAlter, miesiąc temu

That would be quite smart of them tbh.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

Both of your points are only partially correct.

I think we can state as a truth that they have less potential profit.

Wrong, they just take less effort and have a more constant revenue stream.

Potential for profit means nothing, when so many attempts at milkable forever games end up like Suicide Squad or Concord.

Also you can come into them half baked and pull the plug if the game doesn’t sell (because it’s half baked) like they’re doing with SS and they did with the Avengers game.

They spend more money.

They don’t, you can’t spend money you don’t have, whales are working adults.

Kids spend money for less. Better ROI, not higher payoff.

You make the 18302nd skin and troves of kids will badger their parents for fortnite bucks so they can buy it but not everyone will. The upside is that making a skin costs you single digits percent points of the profits, so even if one or two are a dud, you’re fine, the good ones will make up for it.

It’s a business model you can throw money at once the game’s got an audience base, which is very attractive to companies, because it’s uncomplicated and reliable.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

Worse, they’re a walking sim developer.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

Don’t be, this game won’t quietly peep its way into obscurity, it will be an uproarious fart all the way across the halls of the internet.

If it even does, it will come out and literally nobody will like it because a) it has an impossibly high bar to clear even in the hands of competent devs and b) it’s been made by walking sim developers as their first attempt at a real game with gameplay beyond simple puzzles.

I will literally slice off my own asscheeks, cure them into honey glazed ham, and serve them on rye if it comes out as anything resembling the success of the first.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

They could be your favourite football team, too, that still doesn’t fill me with confidence on their level of preparation for this.

Bloodlines was an extremely ambitious mix of immersive sim and RPG, in the same vein as early Deus Ex, TCR’s most gameplay heavy game has an ineffective monster that takes several seconds to kill you and myst style puzzles.

There’s a mismatch in milieus here.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

Is there a preferred metric to measure this by?

For the sake of my asscheeks’ preservation, I’d say “if in ~20 years (that’s how long it’s been, god I feel old) it’s regarded with the same high praise and fondness as Bloodlines.”

Preferred by me of course.

But honestly, I’m definitely going to at least pirate and play it, and I’m a man of principle, so I’ll own it if i think I was wrong.

Your word picture is just so funny that I want to root for the game’s success just to be the person that quotes this comment and @s you, even if I tend to agree with your assessment.

Nobody ever spares a thought for my asscheeks! Everyone just wants to see me fail! Assless and suffering! But I’ll show you!

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

How big do you think my ass is?!

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

If i had to guess it would be Little Hope. It is a horror interactive movie and the games by that team tend to be pretty edgy for a modern dev.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

The fact that the scene wasn’t mocapped doesn’t mean it wasn’t in the game at all, or that they didn’t get someone else to mocap it instead.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

Dragon age as a franchise showed promise when it was an actual modern take on a CRPG.

Ever since DA2 it became worthless, casualized dreck gameplay attached to a story written by and for a very specific californian millennial crowd and, frankly, they can keep it.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

Unironically, good for you.

Enjoy it while your taste is still where it’s at, it probably won’t stay there but more power to you in the meantime.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

I came into origins because it was in a branch I liked, so yeah, I have eaten well in the past and there’s more than enough for me to keep eating well for a good long time.

To me it’s mostly the obvious lack of care of DA2 towards the lore and even the internal consistency of the world and characters in that same game that made me acutely aware of the downfall of BioWare.

I’ve since moved on to other things. Mostly indie stuff, and stuff like BG3 which is much more in my general direction.

I’ll miss OG BioWare (Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 BioWare, to clarify) but I’ll live.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

I just have noticed a trend of Origins people that come into any dragon age thread just to talk smack, and I think it’d probably be better to just play a game you like instead of focusing on how much you hate ones you don’t. ya know?

Eh, there’s plenty of time to do both and the games are absolutely worthy of a good thrashing.

I am annoyed at them because they show an utter disregard for the user’s time and money. I wanted to like them, and I was exceedingly disappointed in the product.

especially considering how excited people are for the new game.

Are they? All I’ve seen is suspiciously defensive articles about BG3 comparisons not being fair (despite DA having the full might of EA and the >!soulless husk of the!< company that made BG1 and 2 at its helm) and shittons of astroturf and fluff pieces.

You are the first person who openly calls themselves a DA2 fan I run into in the wild.

MolochAlter, 2 miesiące temu

As I said, good for you. Play it, enjoy it.

Not once have I tried to persuade you otherwise, I just explained why I won’t and don’t.

I expressed my preference, same as you, except apparently my time could be better spent.

Make of that what you will.

MolochAlter, 3 miesiące temu

Or the kawawii

MolochAlter, 4 miesiące temu

Soon to rebrand from “game” to “merch”

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

This feels very “just found out about politics and damn” tbh.

The game isn’t really teaching anything of note beyond “private entities have their own interests,” which anyone who would even find this compelling already knows.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

Everyone consumes whatever they agree with with less critical thinking, it’s an absolutely normal bias to have and nobody is immune.

That’s why when you hear someone say “I do my own research” you don’t think “this person must be highly educated” but rather “this person listens to ‘alternative’ media.”

Just because you consume a different kind of propaganda, doesn’t make you wiser, it makes you have a different set of biases.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

if you want something on media , censorship, spin, ect? I’d say Not for Broadcast is pretty good.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

First, shitting on folks who are new to left politics and (god forbid) harbor excitement for these new insights. At least we have folks leaving comments like this to grind that eagerness out of them.

Christ on a pike, “enthusiastic about politics” is probably the worst thing you could ever be, it only leads to pie in the sky idiocy and utopianism.

Yes, please let’s grind that down as fast as possible, politics is a pragmatic exercise like doing groceries and taking a shit, you shouldn’t be excited about it. The only people excited by politics are fanatics and zealots and we could do with a lot fewer of those on all sides right now.

Then, it failed a narrow expectation you fully put on it. Maybe it was using an a medium to express an idea in a novel way. What a concept. Let’s call it Art. It can be something other than homework.

Yeah, God forbid I use my experience of the medium to judge a piece of art.

All this is, is a more biased, more cut down version of games like Papers, please, Not for Bradcast, or The Westport Independent, that doesn’t even use its gameplay loop to really give any direct experience of the issue it’s trying to showcase.

Having played it until I got bored of it, the only feeling reinforced through the gameplay is “boy i wish I could read faster”.

It doesn’t even leverage the idea that you need to send newspapers to print, allowing you to plan your front page to build a more coherent narrative, you literally just need to constantly swap articles in and out of the paper as if people’s copies would change in real time. It doesn’t account for the appearance of bias or conflicting interests between the parties you want to keep happy. It lacks nuance and a proper understanding of how to evoke what feeling through gameplay.

So, yeah, I think it’s banal and aggressively poorly thought out, not even mediocre but genuinely bad. Are you going to argue otherwise or are you just gonna say I’m being too harsh or unfair?

And before you highlight that this is free, so is The Westport Independent, and it’s been out for almost 10 years (god I feel old).

But essentially saying “I’m above the target audience and it’s pointless”…cool, share something you made

LOL I’m not about to dox myself to prove a stranger wrong, if you want to feel like you have successfully defended your point because you want to think I couldn’t have pulled this crap off, feel free to do so.

My criticism stands on its own regardless of my own output or even of myself as a source for it.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

Yeah, pain is more tangible and actually experienced, whereas what society actually looks like is 99% vibes and personal biases.

So this applies even more to sociology than to painkillers.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

What the fuck are you talking about? These two things aren’t even remotely alike.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

It should still work fine with SteamVR right? I’m not too pressed.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

It currently does, I still use mine both standalone, and linked with my desktop on the oculus platform and SteamVR, since i disliked how cheaply made the oculus 2 was.

Right now I’m waiting for a competitor to the quest to even appear on the market, since there doesn’t seem to be any other standalone option right now.

MolochAlter, 7 miesięcy temu

Yeah I’m not eager to go from sending my floorplan to zuck to sending it to the CCP, lol.

MolochAlter, 8 miesięcy temu

Looking at the curator list, whatever the intent, it’s actually a very handy list of titles with mid to astoundingly poor writing, a lot of which apparently even SBI seems to disown, since they’re not on their website (but they are credited by the games themselves).

So yeah, I don’t think I need it cause I already didn’t waste my money on any of those on their own merits, but it’s funny to see there’s a common thread.

MolochAlter, 8 miesięcy temu

Speaking as a huge fan of firefly, I’m not even gonna pretend that the writing doesn’t have a very specific set of issues, and that cancellation might have saved it from becoming aggressively mid and boring.

If Serenity was more or less the intended ending to the season (specifically revealing the alliance actually created the reapers and are unequivocally villainous) I’m actually happy they didn’t get to put that in the show.

Same for the Shepherd Book backstory comic where he was actually a brown coat double agent in the alliance, because god forbid we have to accept that your enemy isn’t ontologically evil.

But the best criticism I’ve seen of Whedon is that all his dialogue has over time exceedingly forgone character voice in favour of funny quips.

So much of his later production’s quotable lines are almost impossible to attribute correctly just from the lines themselves.

MolochAlter, 8 miesięcy temu

It really depends on the kind of encryption being used. I’m pretty sure if it’s a common algorithm that logic does not stand.

MolochAlter, 10 miesięcy temu

Lol where’s the sinophobia? They didn’t even mention China.

MolochAlter, 10 miesięcy temu

Simple, just do what AEW is doing.

Just, please more women’s matches than that.

MolochAlter, 10 miesięcy temu

Can’t remove a tax without lobbying or breaking the law.

MolochAlter, 10 miesięcy temu

Correct, but those are both expensive in their own ways.

If they don’t see a return they won’t do either.

MolochAlter, 11 miesięcy temu

To write yourself into a corner you should be writing in the first place.

What Walters does hardly qualifies.

MolochAlter, 11 miesięcy temu

This is where I feel modders could get a very decent final say.

There will definitely be enough material to TTS the dialogues that don’t exist in Relaod, and the text, sprites and models already exist spread between p3p, the rhythm game, etc.

I’d wager it’s pretty doable to mod the content into the game once it’s out.

MolochAlter, 11 miesięcy temu

Sounds about right yeah. This would make it the 5th release of p3, by the way.

P3, then P3 fes, then P3P, now Reload, then that.

Which would mean that there would be as many versions of p3 as there are episodes of the Persona series itself.

MolochAlter, 11 miesięcy temu

Gaming journalism being an incestuous pit of incompetent buffoons? No way.

MolochAlter, 11 miesięcy temu

Ah yes, mister “more bigger”

MolochAlter, rok temu

Nah that’s essentially the same as buying and refunding. If you can’t afford a purchase it’s perfectly fine.

MolochAlter, rok temu

They found their Ellen Pao.

Don’t buy this, the idea came from the board, Riccitiello has been selling his unity stock to the tune of 50k stocks over the last year, he knew the ship was sinking and was just coasting until the inevitable golden parachute.

The rot has set in deep, the issue isn’t him and firing him won’t fix anything.

MolochAlter, rok temu

Former CEO of EA does EA things, color me shocked.

MolochAlter, rok temu

Sales are typically not going to be followed up by refunds in a meaningful way, however poor public reception will hurt the sales of the next iteration.

The sales were ok but the consensus is that the game is shit, or ” the udders are dry, time to slaughter the cow"

MolochAlter, rok temu

That’s simply the Pareto distribution in action, or sturgeon’s law.

Most games aren’t that good and will not make a lot of money.

MolochAlter, rok temu

Civ 5