I coincidentally played it during covid lockdown and the thematic connections to the moment were really special. Bird flu is coming, maybe wait for the next pandemic lockdowns and try it then?
minecraft and rimworld too
Mainstream gaming, is on aggregate, getting worse and worse over time. Everyone wants to feel empowered to stop that from happening.
You could punch upward, targeting management of stuidos and publishers.
You could look inward, and make a commitment to sincerely boycott games from companies that consistely release games in an unfinished state, use dark patterns to exploit gambling addictions for profit, mistreat their staff, etc.
Or you could punch down, and target LGBT creators, who are largely individual contributors and completely unrelated with any of the root causes of the decline in game quality. But this one is SO much easier than the other two, so maybe you'll do this one so that you can feel like you're doing something without really having to do anything. Especially since it confims some things you heard from politicians that need to distract you from how their only policy is to make life better for rich people.
I understand that a rather large portion of the active players of FFXIV are subbed mainly so that they can participate in the mod-supported ERP community. Yoshida is also the director of that game so I'm pretty sure he knows precisely how futile this request is.
he's known for ages and had this one in his back pocket just waiting for the moment when you finally come out
lol ok sure is terarria a dead game? what about mario 3? agree with the devs on this one who gives a shit if people aren't mainlining it every day of their life
They are and they must. There is no path forward that doesn't massively disinvest from personal vehicles.
the enemy placement isn't exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?
due to the way causality works it would be pretty difficult to tell a story in any genre where someone's opportunities in life are not strongly correlated to circumstances from their past that are outside of their control (like their birth)
And he's right! It might not be as good as the games that came before it or after it but that bar is so high that it can still be a great game despite it
"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding 😎"
Indie games are kind of this, but it's hard to make the "paid more" work consistently at scale. Largely because there's a shitload of people making really good indie games and I can only play so many of them.
and the funny thing is that these games launch in such a bad state because the publisher paid for the marketing push to happen on a specific date, so come hell or high water, the game is gonna ship by that date
don't get me wrong, deadlines are extemely important or your project will just end up with infinite scope creep, but games are a massive artistic and technical endeavour, which are two things that can be extremely difficult to estimate
there's gotta be a better way