Honestly, I hope for the best for them. What the people developing this game must have been put through, if the rumors are to be believed, is just inexcusable.
Hhhmm I was taught to never go out of one of the colour harmony rules but that may very well have been a "learn how to walk before you can fly" thing, so you may be right.
Next up, tell her about color theory in general and how valid color combinations for characters are more limited than you thought. Show her how green goblin, piccolo and the joker share color identity due to this. That's why Spider-Man and Superman go to the same tailor! Etc etc
One of my biggest regrets in life is studying storytelling and scriptwriting because it made me aware of the freaking save the cat thing and ruined movies (and a lot of modern storytelling) forever for me. Well, "biggest regret" may be a bit of hyperbole, but you get it.
I can't watch a movie that is following the model non-cynically, and since most movies do follow it, well...
It's also made me dislike when an industry tries to push that there's an objectively correct way of doing something in an artform, but that's another story entirely.
As someone who has never fully clicked with turn based JRPGs, Chained Echoes would be my answer as well, I've been enjoying it a lot. The combat system is one of my favorite executions of turn based combat I've ever played.
I think there's barely been any info about this so far. The rumors were mostly "hey, somebody's making a game based on that story" and not much else. I think this trailer is actually the first confirmation we have on who's making it, even.
There are too many great games in the Indie/AA space, so something will always fall through the cracks, unfortunately! The only thing we can do about it is to try to spread the word about what seems cool
Damn, BF 1943 and BC2... I played both of those quite a lot. Now they are lost forever, never to be revisited (because, realistically, the multiplayer is the main, core experience of a BF game), unlike the 90s/2000s games of my youth that are still available in some form or other.
For me this is kind of a grim reminder that one day BF1 will be on this kind of list... Damn.
There really needs to be a better understanding at a consumer protection level that new entries in a property are not valid absolute substitute products for previous entries (you shouldn't be able to sunset any online title with no resource to play it again under the reasoning of "well, there's a newer one, just buy that dude"). Ideally some form of measure should be in place to be able to preserve or recreate the online functionalities of any title (especially if those functionalities are the core of the experience) before its functionalities are taken down.
"It's old"/"there's a newer one"/"only x people are playing"/"we might remaster/remake it in the future" shouldn't be valid excuses to erase any possibility of ever playing a game again, just release a minimum of resources for people to try to get it running again in some basement if they ever want to in the future. People are still playing Resident Evil Outbreak from fucking 20 years ago online on reverse engineered infrastructure, eventually there's ALWAYS demand.
But then again, right now the tv and film industry are facing a similar situation with streaming only shows getting taken down from their platforms with no alternative, basically being erased forever, and no measures have been taken against that soooo
I mean they were clearly (and still are) in their penetration stage, anybody could have told you that the current conditions and pricepoint are only temporary.
It's obvious that the endgame for Gamespass will look a lot worse for the consumer than the current offering, mostly because it probably doesn't make a lot of business sense for them otherwise.
The paradox of homogeneization... The more the industry trends towards chasing what's considered to work and be safe, the more room it leaves for the truly bold like these guys to be successful by doing what's considered to not work anymore.
Always beautiful to see.
I'm reminded of the story of William Davis getting hooked on cigarettes because he insisted on smoking real cigarettes instead of props in the first episodes of X Files
I feel so bad for them, there are few things in software dev worse than having to devote significant time and effort to a project that is failed at a concept level
Honestly, I hope for the best for them. What the people developing this game must have been put through, if the rumors are to be believed, is just inexcusable.