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Ard
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And the other part is that the game is actually good. The music and atmopshere of the game is well done, and the environments have many nice details. The combat is a good middle ground of twitchy/rpg/combo. The story is silly and the main character is unvoiced, which I like. Lots of quests, lots to do, and it reminds me of DA:I in that regard, but less grand.
I'm going to disagree pretty strongly with you on this one. The game was really repetitive and boring. I found it a great deal more tedious than fun. I quit playing it around halfway through, and I've forced my way to the end of some pretty shitty games.
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Paelos
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That is in no way revisionist. THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Big Huge were already working on the game that became Amalaur, they got bought out and the game in progress was adapted to fit the MMO's lore. The only revisionism is you saying that that is revisionist, because it fucking is not.
He said he didn't produce the game. He did produce the game. The game went from going out of business to actually producing a product. That's what I mean by revisionist. You can say whatever you want about a guy, but saying he didn't produce the game is like saying "well we beat ourselves" rather than giving the other team the credit. It's ridiculous.
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Paelos
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And the other part is that the game is actually good. The music and atmopshere of the game is well done, and the environments have many nice details. The combat is a good middle ground of twitchy/rpg/combo. The story is silly and the main character is unvoiced, which I like. Lots of quests, lots to do, and it reminds me of DA:I in that regard, but less grand.
I'm going to disagree pretty strongly with you on this one. The game was really repetitive and boring. I found it a great deal more tedious than fun. I quit playing it around halfway through, and I've forced my way to the end of some pretty shitty games. I totally understand that. That's also the knock on DA:I, which is why I compared them.
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Typhon
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I liked it, especially the combat. While the different take on the fae didn't wow me, I didn't think it was complete crap. Tried to play DA: O and fucking hated it, haven't tried any of the others.
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Ard
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My point initially was that I would put very good money that Shilling has next to nothing to do with KoA:R. I'd be surprised if much of anyone outside of Big Huge Games had any impact outside lore and art. I'm not going to give him credit for a game another studio made.
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Paelos
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I don't think you pick up a company for 3 years and have nothing to do with it. I'd take your bet.
Again, the game doesn't see the light of day without them coming on to buy it. The rest of it just sounds like piling on when you have so many better things to take shots at the guy. His company released a game.
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Rasix
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Ard
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It absolutely is me piling on. I can't stand that dude, and I'm not willing to let him take credit for something another executive producer located in a completely different state shepherded out the door.
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Paelos
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Knowing so many baseball players, my takeaway from this is, "What did people expect?" Then I remember people get blinded by celebrity and are exceedingly stupid.
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UnSub
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Let's remember that KoA:R sold really well for a title from a new studio, yet still didn't make the money Schilling thought it would in his EA deal.
So you can still be angry at him either way.
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hah; I wonder what he thought was the purpose of that Hitler picture and direct mention of the "Nazi ratio" in the picture he retweeted.
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Malakili
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« Last Edit: September 24, 2015, 08:46:05 PM by Malakili »
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Margalis
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Their "worst case scenario" was to create a hit new RPG every 2 years, each being more successful than the last. WORST CASE.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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schild
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clicked link
saw emails written in comic sans
closed tab
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schild
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I'm really upset that for $1,000,000 I could've told them all the same reasons they were going to fail.
Or they just could like, learn something about the industries they're gonna get into fucking bed with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whichever is easier. Probably the first one though.
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Tannhauser
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Heh 'executive level shenanigans'.
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Yegolev
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I don't know what's better: schild's Comic Sans comment or IBM using the word 'shenanigans' in a document.
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Heh 'executive level shenanigans'.
Is shenanigans Gaelic for gross incompetence and/or malfeasance?
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Yegolev
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Draegan
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The comic sans email was from the state government communications person.
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schild
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The comic sans email was from the state government communications person.
So, what you're saying is, they deserved to take a bath on the investment. Got it.
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Pennilenko
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Someone educate me, why is comic sans hated. Why does anyone care about fonts?
Totally asking seriously, no sarcasm.
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IainC
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Someone educate me, why is comic sans hated. Why does anyone care about fonts?
Totally asking seriously, no sarcasm.
This explains it reasonably clearly and without pretentious art-school wankery. Fonts are an important part of how you communicate through text. The choice to use Comic Sans (and it is a choice because no professional email client uses it by default) says a lot about how someone wants to be interpreted. I appreciate a nice clean, well-designed font; not because it looks nice but because it is better for its purpose.
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Kail
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Their "worst case scenario" was to create a hit new RPG every 2 years, each being more successful than the last. WORST CASE.
Well, thank God they managed to avoid that, then.
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Chimpy
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I love how the Powerpoint slide posted above says "m ess-matched priorities". (Not that anything IBM does would surprise me these days. )
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Draegan
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The comic sans email was from the state government communications person.
So, what you're saying is, they deserved to take a bath on the investment. Got it. Everyone got what they deserved actually. It's a pretty happy story.
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HaemishM
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Except for the taxpayers of Rhode Island, that is.
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Yegolev
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That has to be a very small population.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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Someone educate me, why is comic sans hated. Why does anyone care about fonts?
Totally asking seriously, no sarcasm.
This explains it reasonably clearly and without pretentious art-school wankery. Fonts are an important part of how you communicate through text. The choice to use Comic Sans (and it is a choice because no professional email client uses it by default) says a lot about how someone wants to be interpreted. I appreciate a nice clean, well-designed font; not because it looks nice but because it is better for its purpose. You should read the summary it's the best one I've seen so far. BUT the TLDR version is: Comic Sans is like bad handwriting in crayon. Yes, you wrote a very well-crafted and relevant sentence. Did anyone take it seriously?
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Margalis
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I love how the Powerpoint slide posted above says "m ess-matched priorities". (Not that anything IBM does would surprise me these days. ) I really want to believe that it's not a typo and is instead a snarky phrases that IBM regularly uses.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Shrike
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Except for the taxpayers of Rhode Island, that is.
They got what they deserved when they voted a shitbird like Chafee into office.
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Chimpy
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Except for the taxpayers of Rhode Island, that is.
They got what they deserved when they voted a shitbird like Chafee into office. Chafee wasn't the one who extended the loan to Schilling. That was the guy before him.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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