Rendakor
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Fabricated
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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jakonovski
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Rab Florence wrote an angry blog post about rich & influential industry figures starting Kickstarters: http://effingarcade.tumblr.com/post/36277287313/molyneux-and-fucking-kickstarterHe's got a point there, at some point it's all just a glorified preorder where the packaging is used to make people think they're special. Also it's a nice way to manage financial risk, having an army of not rich people take the potential fall.
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Fabricated
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Isn't that what Kickstarter recently kinda came down on? Unfortunately I think that might apply to physical products only.
I'd say a lot of the old-timey game devs that came out of the woodwork to discover Kickstarter in the wake of the insane DoubleFine/Wasteland 2 ventures actually needed Kickstarter to get a product made (I could literally see Rob Lowe getting Al Bundy'd out the door of a publisher trying to sell another Leisure Suit Larry game after what happened with the last few), but fucking Molyneux?
Penny Arcade's Kickstarter was the first one that really fucking annoyed me. You dickslaps make probably a quarter to a half a mill a fucking month and run the conventions that make E3 seem quaint. You're literally shopping scripts to a kids CG movie that I think might've been greenlit and you're asking for a million fucking dollars to get rid of ADS?
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Soulflame
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Who'd give Molyneaux money at this point?
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Xanthippe
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Who'd give Molyneaux money at this point?
Yep. It's like giving money to Romero. (Oh look, his Kickstarter was canceled, what a surprise). But I don't get the rage here. Kickstarter isn't specially limited to only unknown or little people doing what they love; anyone can do it. What's the problem with people who voluntarily want to throw their money at Molyneaux? I wouldn't do it, but I don't care if other people do. Nobody has to contribute to any Kickstarter. Sure, Molyneaux can come up with financing but maybe he doesn't want to have to be answerable to his investors. People do all sorts of silly things. Do we need Rab Florence to protect us from ourselves in his self-righteous rage?
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Sky
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Critics are hilarious. 1. For all the Molyneuxs and Romeros and Wing Commanders that build up pre-order/proof of interest for investors, there are thousands of great little projects and companies that get life breathed into them thanks to KS. I count that as a win. 2. If people enjoy what you do and have made you in any way relevant in our culture, then YOU owe THEM something. Go fuck yourself until you create something relevant in our culture. YOU owe ME one minute of my life wasted on stupid, misguided rage.
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jakonovski
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...said Sky, wading knee deep in Kickstarter-bought miniatures.
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Sky
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That's how I know Molyneux isn't 'destroying' the KS ideal.
If Andy Hopp can successfully release post-apocalyptic Twinkie warriors, the dream ain't dead.
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rattran
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http://www.gamershell.com/news_146383.htmlDragon Age 3, now coming in 2014, for next-nextgen consoles from Bioware MythicEA Shanghai. I'm sure this newslet interests one person here. And likely almost no one else.
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Rasix
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I can think of at least 3.
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Ingmar
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EA Shanghai guy doing some work on it != primary development happening in Shanghai. I know the writing team is basically the same as Origins and 2, so Gaider's group in Edmonton as usual.
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koro
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I thought DA3 was primarily being worked on by a team in Montreal, with some supervision from Edmonton?
Or was that Mass Effect 4 I'm thinking of? All these new Bioware RPGs I can't muster any enthusiasm for blend together for me now.
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Ingmar
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I think that is Mass Effect 4whatever-the-next-game-is, but I don't know for sure where the level and systems design and such for DA3 is happening. The writing team is the part I pay attention to as that's the part I care about most. I suspect they have bits and pieces of stuff farmed out to various studios, pretty sure they were already doing a lot of art in other places already on other games, for example.
We do have a DA3 thread where this could go, by the way!
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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rattran
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But, it's more useless than anything else! Plus, I couldn't find the da3 thread.
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Sjofn
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2014 is so far away.
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God Save the Horn Players
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satael
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Ingmar
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More like a writer of Torment, but still interesting.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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rattran
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HaemishM
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A Warhammer fantasy game with the Total War battle engine would be the tits.
We'll probably never see that though.
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Paelos
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A Warhammer fantasy game with the Total War battle engine would be the tits.
We'll probably never see that though.
Why not? I would play it. I'm a TW Whore though. I'd play pretty much any TW IP. Total War: Wheel of Time? I'd still play it, even though I had to spend a lot of time wandering around the map waiting for something to happen.
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HaemishM
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We probably won't see it because Games Workshop has a nasty habit of refusing to just do an digital adaptation of their tabletop games because they think it'll hurt the physical sales. Blood Bowl is a HUGE exception, mainly because Cyanide made a game that was actually a ripoff of Blood Bowl, got sued for infringement and part of the settlement was making Blood Bowl games.
Games Workshop are dicks, in short. And Total War: Warhammer would be too good for them to release.
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kildorn
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Total War: Warhammer would totally work, too. The 15 minute load screens will accurately model people taking out the box of minis and setting up the table for a battle!
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Paelos
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Then why sell it to Creative Assembly? The only successful things they've ever done were the Total War games. Have they even done anything else?
<Paelos goes to look at Wiki>
Looks like a crappy hack'n'slash game called Viking:Asgard, which I'd never heard of or played. Spartan:Total Warrior, which I'd never heard of or played. Also a mediocre action game. Oh, and a disaster of a game called "Stormrise" which was a console RTS; shockingly it had a shitty interface.
Yep, if they do anything BUT a Total War game, this is stupid.
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Signe
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2014 is so far away. I know, right?? Why do they do that to us? They shouldn't announce something we want to play until moments before it's released. It's cruel and unkind foreplay that only gets the sadistic developer off and leaves us frustrated and depressed.
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Shannow
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EA is having some sort of sale with 40% off everything. Useful for picking up that copy of Fifa 13 for the nephews for Christmas. Cause its EA and evil I won't actually put up a link.
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satael
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Total War: Warhammer would totally work, too. The 15 minute load screens will accurately model people taking out the box of minis and setting up the table for a battle!
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Just give me Dark Omen that's updated to today's (or last 5 years) level of graphics etc and I'd be very happy
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MisterNoisy
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So, according to the Maxis dev AMA on Reddit, the next Sim City will have always-on DRM like Diablo 3. Naturally my interest in the game went from 'Day 1!' to 'Fuck this shit'.
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koro
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It's also got always-on multiplayer (hence the DRM), because what I always want in a SimCity game is a half-dozen other chucklefucks in surrounding towns fucking around with me.
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Ceryse
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Yeah.... no.
Sim City, for me, would be utterly ruined by that kind of forced multiplayer. Thankfully, despite some interest, I'd already written off the possibility of getting it because of, well, Origin.
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Sky
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Apparently there's a new Space Hulk video game in the making.
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Ingmar
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Shannow
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spacehulkspacehulkspacehulk? I hope it has gameplay like the original honestly....tactical top down, pause and give orders etc.
I remember that mission where all you had was chain guns , which only got like 10 shots and you had to pick up ammo on the way. twas a hard game. early 1990s ftw!
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Someone liked something? Who the fuzzy fuck was this heretic? You don't come to this website and enjoy something. Fuck that. ~ The Walrus
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