Cyberspark @ Cyberspark @sh.itjust.works

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Steam's business model is convenience first. If someone wants to do something don't get in their way. That's how they can be a monopoly and no one complains, because there's very few walls or barriers. Every time there have been barriers, steam not accepting games, NSFW games, crypto, AI, they either get out of their way, or take a reasonable philosophical/ethical stance. Even if you disagree with their stance its hard to be angry about it and often their stance changes or gains nuance to it as time goes on.

That's a damn good question

It didn't, there's no children in the first game even.

Not sure why you're being down voted, it's a reasonable opinion to have if you don't like their games. I feel the same about the originals. I tried them and respect them a lot, but they're just not for me.

You'd be surprised how many people don't know about that or think everything is fine now.

Didn't they recently have a free weekend too?

I mean prior you this we also heard that tech companies tend to continuously get in the way of the development process and slow everything down then setting unreasonable deadlines.

That these two companies introduced or at least made common knowledge the idea of unreleasing a game says volumes for their ability to manage a game development process.

Something to note. This doesn't explicitly mention sales, just concurrent players. That isn't to say there weren't sales, but this just indicates people going back to play the games more than it does explicitly mean there was a bunch of new sales.

You don't even need to really misplay, the dice can just screw you. At a table with a GM you can get inventive and try some crazy stuff ( and the GM there doesn't really want a TPK) , but as a game those things are less apparent and less fun. The game is incredibly cheesable.

Take all the talents you want, spend all the time you like planning your build, it'll never be better than tossing an explosive barrel down and just shooting it (for instance). And yet that's not fun for me, it feels like I'm cheating and not engaging with the game genuinely. But what else is there? The goblin camp is a slow slog and every time I see if done without cheesing it comes down to hiding away in a corner, building up your defenses and just slowly whittling them down and hoping they don't out roll you. (don't forget there's nothing bad about going down in 5e, since there's no lasting effects, just get back up, chug a potion and carry on.)

I love the game for the effort that was put in, but the characters don't call to me the way they call to others, and the game's combat seems hell bent on wasting my time and being unsatisfactory.

It's absolutely a great game, but I'd rather play with the Divinity: Original Sin 2 combat system.

It is really good, but it's also over hyped. It is exemplary for its genre and for its price-value proposition. It's definitely GOTY, but really that says more about the competition than it does about BG3. It's filled with lots of intricate little details and is clearly a product filled with passion of its creators.

Its let down a bit by the lop-sided focus of development on the early acts, and poor combat design. It's a faithful implementation of D&D 5e and even does a good job of addressing the flaws with the system. But it's still a shallow system that ends up with far less interesting things to engage with than their previous titles in my opinion.

Some of its best content can only be experienced solo, but requires managing the combat of 4 mechanically complex, but tactically shallow units.

If you like RPGs and in particular D&D 5e it'd recommend it. If you're new to the genre or just curious I'd recommend other titles for your first entry.

We've already seen signs of them in game. I suspect they're probably already in, they're just waiting to reveal them. I'm excited for all the stuff to come and more than happy to go along with the ride they're giving us.

We know there are more enemies than the two we're currently facing.

The major order noted the automatons were sending signals into space. There were shadows of unseen destroyers noted in orbit. There were enough hints, just some people didn't notice them and didn't take it well

I didn't think that and you're wrong, Cyberstan is/was the cyborg home world for instance. What happened was stealth destroyers above Automaton planets for a while. There were hints in the major order text too.

So many did, and yet so many are also salty because they didn't see any hints and it felt like a bullshit rug pull out of nowhere.

Yeah, but in the numbers we're seeing that's of limited weight in negotiation. I'm not saying unions are bad, just this is one situation they struggle to counter.

Even unions can't entirely stop mass layoffs. "we won't work" isn't much of a threat when you're being fired.

These companies aren't in the business of making and selling games they're in the business of increasing company valuation on the stock market. You can't convince them not to do mass firing, it's one of the fastest and easiest ways to cut costs and rapidly increase valuation. You'd need the law to protect the employees.

And we've also got a new generation of graphics hardware in the 4 years since the last gen came out. This isn't new and is always going to happen when you can't upgrade your hardware. 30fps isn't even that bad, even if its not great.

Dontnod gave up the IP when they left. You're not wrong, but that's not the whole picture.