54_and_counting Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 2 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Delete AAA gaming industry please Aye he's taking an absolute hammering for it, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConcernedReferee Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 On 02/01/2022 at 12:58, Steve_Wilkos said: I have purchased Disco Elysium again, this time on Stadia for £7. Runs much better than it does on my PS4. @NotTheParsI have managed to hit an "all time low" with Kim before 13:00 on Day 1, and I'm playing through as a fascist, racist, misogynist this time. Many I need to replay that one since they put the full voice acting in, such a terrific game from a style you don't see much of thesedays 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, ConcernedReferee said: Many I need to replay that one since they put the full voice acting in, such a terrific game from a style you don't see much of thesedays They added in some new quests as well around 'specialising' in a specific ideology. Well worth a pop, mate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 6 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Delete AAA gaming industry please Just saw Jim Sterling's rant about that. These folk live on a different planet. I'm probably thick, but I'm not seeing how NFTs are of such interest to game publishers anyway, other than just, "ooh, somebody's making money from something techy, so we should be too". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 As BFTD mentioned, Jim Sterling's video is well worth a watch, and actually their channel is worth following because it goes to show how shitty the gaming industry is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Mr. Brightside said: As BFTD mentioned, Jim Sterling's video is well worth a watch, and actually their channel is worth following because it goes to show how shitty the gaming industry is. I'm studying programming at the moment, and there are a lot of youngsters on the course who want to go into game development. They're used to the length of school days, and there's an occasional bit of moaning about being tired where we're in class for more than six hours. Oh, you poor innocents. Just wait until you're sleeping at your desk in one of the EA gulags, pishing into a wastepaper bin under your desk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 That video is one of the rare Jimquisitions where the inspiration for it is consistently more unhinged and surreal than the video. Quote I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so. However, I believe that there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to “play to contribute,” by which I mean to help make the game more exciting. Traditional gaming has offered no explicit incentive to this latter group of people, who were motivated strictly by such inconsistent personal feelings as goodwill and volunteer spirit. This fact is not unrelated to the limitations of existing UGC (user-generated content). UGC has been brought into being solely because of individuals’ desire for self-expression and not because any explicit incentive existed to reward them for their creative efforts. I see this as one reason that there haven’t been as many major game-changing content that were user generated as one would expect. What kind of reaction are you supposed to have to this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 This isn’t in any way a good thing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 13 hours ago, NotThePars said: This isn’t in any way a good thing Guess it depends on whats in they 500hrs, if its 50hrs of original stuff that you essentially need to repeat 10 times then aye (never played any of the series so haven't a clue what they are like) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 19 minutes ago, 54_and_counting said: Guess it depends on whats in they 500hrs, if its 50hrs of original stuff that you essentially need to repeat 10 times then aye (never played any of the series so haven't a clue what they are like) It absolutely will be. Nobody has the resources to create 500 hours of engaging original content in a game. For a while now, publishers have been desperate to lock players in to their games for as long as possible, usually to maximise the amount of extra shit they can sell them. It seems to be universally detrimental to the experience. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 15 hours ago, NotThePars said: This isn’t in any way a good thing Yeah, as @54_and_counting says, it really depends what that 500 hours is made up of. But then, like @BFTD says...well, I doubt they've packed it with engaging content, and it'll likely be more on the Fallout 4 level of busy work. Although whether it's a good thing is subjective. There have been a lot of games going down that route, and some have been a lot more tolerable than others. And there will be people that genuinely enjoy that kind of stuff. 2 hours ago, BFTD said: For a while now, publishers have been desperate to lock players in to their games for as long as possible, usually to maximise the amount of extra shit they can sell them. It seems to be universally detrimental to the experience. Not sure I agree with the last part in all cases, but the first part is very true. Ultimately your time is a commodity, and there are a million things vying for that these days. You could either craft a brilliant narrative and product that demands your time just by how good it is (hard and time-consuming) or you could copy and paste content to take a decent experience and pad it massively (easy and relatively quick). Unfortunately not enough developers make much of an effort to go for the former. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 8 hours ago, BFTD said: It absolutely will be. Nobody has the resources to create 500 hours of engaging original content in a game. For a while now, publishers have been desperate to lock players in to their games for as long as possible, usually to maximise the amount of extra shit they can sell them. It seems to be universally detrimental to the experience. Aye tbh I expect that, unless its MP nowadays games don't seem to be too long unless its padded out with absolute pain in the arse quests lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 It's 2022 & Star Citizen is still technically in alpha. Just the $400 million in crowd funding plus selling ships for silly money that may or not make it into the game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I could not be less surprised by this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 22 hours ago, Mr. Brightside said: I could not be less surprised by this. You know what makes me roll my eyes about this? The "you can hate" part. If marketing your product now has to add an element of talking about the "haters", then you can get in the fucking sea, and that's before thinking about whether it's a really good idea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Troy Baker creates f**k all anaw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 This is a, "these guys are giving me money, so bollocks to the lot of you" situation, isn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) It looks like Microsoft have got the wallet out again. This is a gigantic deal, especially considering how many people buy consoles pretty much just for COD Edit - it's been made official by MS. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/ Sadly it means that arsehole Kotick can slink off into the sunset without answering for his behaviour. Edited January 18, 2022 by Sherrif John Bunnell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Hopefully it means better working environments for those at Activision Blizzard. Maybe they will re-hire the QAs they disgracefully sacked a few months ago which would allow them to fix the absolute state of Warzone. As for Kotick he was never going to face any sort of justice, but I hope he's quite annoyed that he'll (hopefully) be ousted. Fucking c**t that he is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 A quick Google suggests they’ve paid more than the annual budget for Scotland 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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