Both of my kids do this.
Cylusthevirus
joined 2 years ago
Yeah right? I imagine it saying something like, "DO YOU NOT LOVE ME, MASTER?"
Because the things they're knowledgeable in and valued for have fuck all to do with consumers or the product.
So ... the German is boycotting the Jewish guy's event over his statements regarding the morality of war crimes. The Onion is doomed, we're out of satire.
Actually I played my sorcerer this way and it's hilarious.
Luckily nobody said there were zero well design AAA games, only that I don't much care if the big studios eat each other. You can always make another studio. It's happened before, it'll happen again. This isn't like car manufacturing where startups face overwhelming costs and regulatory burdens to begin work. Get some capital, hire some good devs, come up with a thoughtful concept, and people will pay for it. Shit, they'll pay for virtual goods with no expectation of seeing a finished game (coughStarCitizencough).
but there are experiences that cannot be replicated in the indie sphere at the moment
The key phrase there being "at the moment." And frankly the reverse is a lot more true for more enduring reasons. AAA development is entirely too invested in graphical fidelity at the expense of everything else and entirely too beholden to shareholders to take meaningful risks.
I do not give one tiny, insignificant shit what corpo entertainment goons do to each other or what hats they wear and neither should you. Blizzard as you knew it has been dead for years. This acquisition means nothing. The people that made the Blizzard you knew great can make their own company and probably will if they're still working. Stop caring about companies and start caring about the human beings that make good games. Remember their names, look at who they work for.
Game dev has to grow up just like Film did and you can expect the same market driven patterns to emerge. Indies take risks, the big boys iterate on the formulas they establish, and occasionally they stumble into something legitimately good. So it goes.
But for every big budget film that's good, you'll have a dozen Michael Bay style 'splosion and lens flare fests. That's the expected pattern.
There's a real missed opportunity by Larian here where if you get up high enough and pass a DC30 perception check the skybox turns into a DM screen on one side and four nerds looking down at you from the other.
Do people still like the shambling husk that is Blizzard at this point? I've been playing their games since Rock N' Roll Racing and they're not even close to the same company anymore.
Let them eat each other. I'll be over here playing indie games with actual depth, real care, still getting updates for free years down the line.
How about because they're not actually particularly Marxist-Leninist, but simply red flavored fascists and everyone with two neurons to rub together can see that?
Croc Martens