They tempted the heroes with wealth beyond measure so that by the time they stab them in the back, nobody mourns.

Making inoffensive microtransactions is such a tightrope walk. Just putting an up-front price is so much simpler on their end.

This looks less like heroes becoming villains and more like villains (who were always villains) tricking the hero and murdering them. Unknown World’s founders and developers of the first game all got fired by the company that acquired them.

Didn’t know about that. I’ll have to check it out.

The best way to play it is with mouse & KB using the 1964 emulator GEPD version, imo.

Studies conducted at my desk and on my couch have also found a downward trend in video game quality.

Below Zero wasn’t exactly great, though.

It was bonuses, added PTO, and a Switch. You’re acting like they were facing a pay cut if the DLC didn’t perform well. If they get a material reward for the big windfall they helped their employer get, that’s a good thing. You could argue they deserve pay raises instead, and I’d be inclined to agree, but then we’re agreeing on the principle and just quibbling over the extent.

Its not a false dilemma, devs getting the boot after release is fairly common in this industry. Also not sure why you keep bringing it back to chuds and bigots, since that has nothing to do with the topic.

As the article says, this should be the norm, not the exception, but how can we expect it to become the norm if they don’t even get positive press for it?

It sure beats “Thanks for your hard work. Now that we’ve released, we don’t need you anymore, so good luck on the job hunt.”

What a grand and intoxicating modding community

It’s such a pleasant surprise when someone changes their opinion in response to new information. I feel like it shouldn’t be. Anyway, good on you.

Gamers nexus did a video interviewing Hyte specifically. They made the assessment that people just wouldn’t buy their stuff for the prices they’d have to list it at to be sustainable.

I said he should be fired, and nothing else. You are putting words in my mouth and clearly arguing in bad faith. Feel free to take the last word if it makes you feel better, there’s no point in continuing to talk to you.

Don’t mix criticisms of how someone does their job with encouraging death threats. He is the head writer. If the writing has gotten worse, it’s his responsibility.

It was a joke, Emil, I’m sorry I hurt your feelings.

Skyrim is the same way. I really hope they adopt combat similar to Mordhau or Chivalry for ES6, but that seems about as likely as them firing Emil Pagliarulo to bring the writing standard back up.

Also, the characters still look vaguely horrifying, just in a more crisp but less charming way than they used to.

I haven’t played the remaster, but the old Oblivion leveling system was exceedingly hard to do efficiently unless you planned in advance. It very much needed a rework, although skyrim dumbed it down way too much, in my opinion.

Basically, among all the skills, like destruction magic, blade, sneak, you pick 7 (I think it’s 7) major skills. Those get a boost at the beginning. When you raise your various major skills 10 times, you level up. When you level up, you get to raise three attributes, like strength, speed, or intelligence. You get bonuses to how much you can raise an attribute per level, with 1 being the minimum and 5 being the max. The bonuses are determined by what skills you raised during the last level. For example, the sneak skill is tied to the agility attribute, so raising your sneak skill gets you a bigger agility bonus on leveling up. So, to optimize it, you’d have to raise your major skills exactly 10 times (so none of them go to waste) and fill out the bonuses by raising minor skills, which don’t count towards a level up, to get the ideal spread of +5 to 3 attributes per level.

The main problem with it in Oblivion was that the enemies grow stronger as you level up, and since a lot of people didn’t understand the leveling system, they’d wind up with horribly underpowered characters in the late game. Some people deliberately remained at level 1 to keep the enemies easy.

They abolished the bonus that is the cultural norm and consistently given out every year, and redistributed it across the workers regular pay. Sony and Bamco now get to advertise a higher salary without actually giving workers any more money.

Did you read it? They abolished a bonus and redistributed it across their regular pay. They now get to advertise a higher salary without actually giving their workers any more money.

Anything to avoid improving the workers’ well-being.

Edit: they abolished the bonus that is the cultural norm and consistently given out every year, and redistributed it across the workers regular pay. Sony and Bamco now get to advertise a higher salary without actually giving workers any more money.

Actual “Why are you booing me? I’m right” moment.

He was pretending to know what he’s doing a few months back.

And now Sony owns them. As much as I like From, I’m getting ready to cope with them enshittifying.

So when they shut down Ryujinx and Yuzu, was it basically “Stop running this emulator or we will ruin your lives with legal bills”?

So grows the backlog.

No matter how you pander, the Chinese market doesn’t want your pizzas either, domino’s.

Never played the OG, but I’ve played the remaster and you can definitely select more than 1 unit.

Well shit, wish they’d posted it before black Friday. It was only an AIO.

Edit: Cancelled. It was the wrong size, anyway. Sad I’m not gonna have a small LCD on the right one, though. NZXT was by far the cheapest in that respect.

For context, a Gameboy is 144p.

I’m highly skeptical the hardware in the switch 2 will even be able to compete with what the steam deck already has.

A new Tony Hawk Underground game set in a fascist dystopia sounds pretty sick, tbh.

In the past games since Dark Souls, the DLCs have consistently been some of the highest quality parts of the games. If they can do that for Elden Ring, that’s good cause for getting hyped.

Still, this is a reminder not to get too attached to any particular developer. Doesn’t matter how sincerely dedicated to producing fun and satisfying experiences From is: when Tencent talks, they have to listen.

You know there are people at tencent unironically thinking “People were happy with how unmonetized Elden Ring was. How can we monetize that satisfaction?”

Can someone ELI5 how valve could possibly be sued by Nintendo? As far as I know, valve had nothing to do with the project.