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I don’t like this, more because I can see how this would be a route to making games shittier long-term by forcing you into a perpetual subscription to the game you bought.
Like, I can see how it’d be useful and fun. But I can also see how, if this new type of save takes off, game design would change so you would no longer be allowed to have old school local saves that don’t require an internet connection. I think my alarm bells go off because you COULD work this into a local single-player game experience, but the way it’s constantly tied to streaming in the article suggests they won’t bother.
So it smells like bait–they’ll do something cool, but also pretend it could only be implemented with this attachment to streaming and subscriptions.
I liked Black Book more than Inscryption. it’s about a young evil witch in a fantasy version of eastern europe, and you cast spells by stringing a combination of cards together that are curses or blessings. There are some encounters that use puzzle decks, but mostly you build your own deck as you progress and get new cards.
it’s heavily steeped specifically in slavic mythology, which is different from most worldbuilding using viking or celtic or the like. So you meet things like leshys instead of trolls.
As far as I understand it, most folks growing up these days do everything on their smart phones or tablets. Like, teachers sometimes have literally gotten entire essays written on a phone. (I would go crazy trying to do that…but people make do with the tech they’re given when young, and get good at it.)
So, for some segment of the population–yeah, touch-typing on a physical keyboard is no longer a thing. And even when I was young, people getting truly good at it 80+ wpm was pretty rare. You had to be into writing, either as a hobby, or as an unavoidable part of your job.
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Actors have unions. Actors also get royalties or a percent of sales.
Afaik video game workers have neither unions nor do they get a % of the profits.