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Recent content by Hammer Of The Heretics

  1. Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    I got to watch the Fire Phone debacle from the inside. Sometimes otherwise decent organizations do make really expensive mistakes.

  2. Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks shut down by Microsoft

    It's revealing that he says "A great game is a $500M-1B+ profit generator" - his definition of a great game is one that makes a lot of money. That means his argument reduces to "Xbox will be profitable when it makes games that sell well". Truly brilliant insight there... to make money, you...

  3. Dragon Age Dragon Age: Dreadwolf - full reveal in Summer 2024, Solas fangirls rejoice

    As I recall, the "exit game" option was consistently effective. Not once did I have any difficulty not playing the game.

  4. NSFW Best Thread Ever [No SJW-related posts allowed]

    Guys, you've already convinced me to never buy or play your products. You don't have to give me any more reasons - you can't get any deader to me.

  5. Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks shut down by Microsoft

    I think the last Dragon Age game is slated to come out later this year. I'll be very surprised if there's another.

  6. Helldivers 2

    You are confusing a battle with a war. The players won this battle; Sony did not get what it wanted. But the war goes on, as I noted in my first point, and the enemy gets to learn from experience too.

  7. What game are you wasting time on?

    This sounds a lot like that goose simulator game - basically Being A Dick To Acceptable Targets: The Game.

  8. Helldivers 2

    My quick thoughts on this: Sony hasn't changed. They still have the same goals and incentives that led them to try to force account linking. They were blocked this time but they will try something similar in the future, on this or other games. Sony didn't back down due to outrage. They...

  9. Avowed/Pillars of Eternity

    I have that reaction with just about every AAA RPG these days. It's like anti-marketing - the more you know the less you want it.

  10. Savor the Mundane: Trifecta of Gaming Monotony

    If you aim for a mass audience, as these very expensive games must, your design goals pivot from maximizing appeal to minimizing offense. A game that can be loved has a strong identity, and that identity will be off putting to others. A game with no strong identity can be mildly appealing to a...

  11. Xbox Allegedly Wants to Speed Up Fallout 5 Launch

    This is what modern executives get far reacting instead of planning. The time to start developing a Fallout game to sync with the TV series was a few years ago. The problem is that doing that back then, before the show's somewhat unexpected popularity, would have required risking a lot on its...

  12. The Rise and Fall of Embracer (aka THQ Nordic)

    The cynical part of my brain suspects that a dive into the details of the split would reveal that the bulk of the valuable assets wound up in one company while a disproportionate share of the debt wound up with another. But that's pure speculation.

  13. Game News The Wayward Realms coming to Kickstarter in May

    Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

  14. KickStarter The Wayward Realms - upcoming Daggerfall-like RPG from original Elder Scrolls developers - coming to Kickstarter in May

    I usually think people are too quick to accuse things of being scams. Game development is not simple or automatic; sometimes things are started with the best of intentions and go wrong anyhow. That said... This is a scam.

  15. The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition - Obsidian's first-person sci-fi RPG set in a corporate space colony

    My theory is that the core plot conflict was conceived by someone who thought in terms of ideas, while the actual script was written by left-wing tribalists. A conflict of ideas can have nuance and tradeoffs. A conflict of tribes just has the Good Tribe and the Other Tribes Who Are Evil. And...

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