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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't always work. I had to do a lot of technical writing for docs that ended in a table for acceptance signatures. I eventually figured out how to drop the blank page at the end, but I'm not 100% convinced I didn't summon an elder god at some point when I was fiddling with it to get there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Outer Worlds is way closer to a Fallout spiritual sequel (or beat Starfield to the punch) than an Elder Scrolls game.

Did they ever fix the reputation system? I managed to instantly piss off an entire city while I was in the middle of it because I accumulated one too many "We don't like you" points in the middle of a quest. Completely ruined my immersion and was a hard stop for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

To clarify, the FTC is being urged to craft this regulation. They have not recently urged for this regulation. Gotta love the English language.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I also don't buy his take that the game started development in 2016, this is what was big culturally in 2016, and the team just retreated into a bunker until launch and didn't have any way to course correct.

That's not how game development works. I guarantee the headcount for this project didn't peak in 2016 and stay steady. This was a low-priority item on a few people's kanban boards for a couple years, probably had multiple starts, dead-ends, and reinventions.

I have to think Sony saw the writing on the wall, pushed the project out the door because they didn't think it would get any better barring significant reinvestment, and braced for the impact. I credit them just a tiny bit for not writing it off on their taxes and canning the project like Hollywood has been doing lately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mostly unrelated, but I was curious what the other series were featured in Secret Level and found this list.

Ooh, Unreal Tournament. I would love it if this generated some buzz and brought Epic back to the Unreal franchise.

Also oof, I thought God of War was getting a whole episode based on the trailer, but it looks like it's going to be part of a Playstation mix-up. Because who wasn't dying to see Kratos trade quips with Nathan Drake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, my introduction to her music was riding in the car with my late fifty-something year old coworker and he had her album playing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Imagine 12 2-liters of soda. It's a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't have downvote arrows in either my browser or Jerboa on Android.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I disagree. There is no ignoring Trump between now and the election. If the Dems stop now, then the only messaging out there will be GOP messaging which can put a spin on his hissy fits and work to salve his ego.

He's a weirdo and we shouldn't let anyone forget it (until it's time to forget him).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fair points, but I can't participate in this thread because I'm on an instance that doesn't allow down votes. The up vote solution is at least a bit more inclusive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You, like the author, are just falling for console war nonsense

You are sprinting to the defense of a multi-billion dollar company to call me a console war partisan. That is some American-politics level projection right there. I was a Sega kid. We lost the console war at the turn of the century. Now I go where the games are.

If the Xbox is a console for people to play games, it's not the only console on the market, so it needs to compete. If it gains feature parity with its direct competition...except that said competition has a quality stable of exclusive titles, then the console is going to struggle. Like say, moving 20% of the volume that their competitor does. Microsoft's answer to this seems to be to forego adding the value of console exclusives to their own platform and instead releasing more of their first-party titles on Playstation and PC.

That's good for gamers, yes. It also flies in the face of any attempt to develop the Xbox as a platform choice. If I can afford one console per generation, why would I choose the Xbox over a Playstation? If I can afford multiple consoles, what does the Xbox offer that I don't get already with the Playstation?

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