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This is the way.

Oh suure, suure. Right after they were supposed to get their shit together.

I don’t think CDPR’s risk comes from being a “single IP” dev, but more from the fact that they’re stock listed. If they were fully private they probably would’ve had a backup fund ( probably still do ) that would hold them over for a while if their games flopped. But the stock market can really bury you at the slightest hiccup, or push you to make bad decisions. Add to that the fact that they’re also an ambitious company that likes to bet big and grow fast and you start to worry for them.

Paramount? Producing a cyberpunk movie? Ironic

Edit: lol, Pondsmith isn’t even mentioned as a consultant or anything. Yea, my bet is this’ll be PG13 tripe

Yeah, definitely looks like a service you’d want to voluntarily submit id’s and face photos to.

SCS’s truck sims? They’re great games, very chill driving while listening to radio or watching something on a second screen. And you can customize the level of sim-ness you want but it’s ok for both kb+m and wheel. Great community too. My gripes with them are that graphically the games are getting really long in the tooth and SCS seems to be unable or unwilling to do better and have instead been doing piecemeal map dlc for years now ( in their defense their newer maps are a lot better then what the game started with ). Btw, for map expansions you can also get the promods mods, which are huge map and gameplay expansions, but iirc they require the full game+dlc.

Yeah, the record metacritic score was based off of just 10 critic reviews.

Did it tho? On steam I’m seeing a third of new reviews being negative, probably due to the performance issues on amd.

Much as I await this,it’s a bit sad to see my old gtx1660 relegated from the “high” bracket to bare minimum. Hopefully gog keep publishing the old-gen installer kit, for those with potato pcs.

They didn’t “lose” shit, those people got canned by microsoft. After doing great work with Ensemble’s legacy, no less.

Lol, amazing what they can get away with. Imagine seeing a “mods are forbidden you rubes!” statement from ubisoft or EA

Factorio in VR? I mean it’s good news, but why would you? Maybe for people that play exclusively in VR?

we’re starting to get to the point where the financialisation period is taking place in video games in which, you know, basically every level of AAA gaming is managed by these people.

Not sure what he means with this “financialisation” period. Didn’t AAA always mean “big budget” (implying quality but not necessarily delivering) ? Of course they’ll want to manage every aspect, because developing AAA means they sunk a boatload of money into it.

I’m just amazed at the entitlement of people about this, or number of people treating this as some sort of betrayal because he sold out and didn’t want to continue free solo work on it.

I know of his issues, but they hardly absolve him of blame.

I mean two things can be true at the same time.

It’s true that there are a lot of pc games that are trying to avoid the GTA6 release window, to the point it creates a 3 month void of games (right around christmas too!) and I suppose it’s for good reason.

It’s also true that roberts is a scammer and you should not belive his lies because SC and S42 are scams.

Yea l, figured the same. It’s just name, year, status, platform and kit type/size for now. Not like I can recall when I finished Kohan or whatever obscure 20th century game anyway.

Ooh, a fellow listmaker. I’ve started compiling a “past three decade” list as well, mostly for keeping a game kit inventory, but your tracking is way more dilligent. I’ve starte only last year and have been going from memory and old kits and you can imagine how that’s going. Tried a few online tools but none are actually satisfactory for stat purposes, so it’s still in spreadsheet form.

Anyway thank you for the great read, it’s fun to compare and contrast with someone else’s opinions on a couple hundred games.

Edit: Seeing as you liked Frostpunk dare I recommend Ixion? Different vibe but same type of tight decision making and great story.

Edit edit: You have a typo on AoE 2/3

…but they will still buy it.

Don’t think anybody expected micron to return to the consumer market once they got on the gravy train. What I wonder is whether they’re like nvidia now, actually producing, shipping and getting paid, or are those SCAs just promises and more IOUs? Because just reading “micron exponential growth” everywhere does not inspire confidence.