Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
BertramDitore@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m deep into Immortals of Aveum. I don’t know what all the hate is about, I’m having an awesome time with it. The combat is tight and satisfying, the writing is sharp and witty, and the plot is refreshingly original.
It runs like shit on my high-end gaming PC, so that sucks, but it hasn’t detracted from the insanely fun gameplay and great story.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Allow me to inform you. It’s an EA Game which is supposedly Wizards Call of Duty and it costs $125 USD. When it released to mixed reviews and low sales numbers they laid off half the staff.
BertramDitore@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you’re describing the hype, not the reality. It cost $59.99 at launch, I paid $23.99 last week. Very typical pricing these days. It is genuinely not Magic Call of Duty, I think that was just a hook the developers threw around so people had a frame of reference for a game that no one knew anything about. The only similarity is that it’s first person.
The layoffs are shit, I wish that hadn’t happened. Companies need to have a little grace and keep some damn employees on salary, the whole release and layoff cycle is completely ridiculous. But to be clear, that was EA’s decision, a huge evil megacorp, not the creatives who made a really fun new game.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s hard to feel pity for the creatives who sign on to work for the huge evil megacorps.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, this is a perfect opportunity to practice feeling empathy for artists pursuing their dream which as we all know often requires biting the bullet and doing something like working for a big soulless company to get enough industry experience to do the thing an artist really wants to do.
Also a great opportunity to just practice empathy for fellow workers, we get nowhere without solidarity.