Hdcase

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Hdcase OP ,

The whole piece is worth a read but to me this paragraph sums it all up:

"Who even knows what would please these people? They say they're focusing their resources on bigger games, then they say they need smaller games. They say they love your games, then they shut your studio down. They make more money than they've ever made before, then they cut costs repeatedly, drastically, and cruelly. They buy more studios than they can manage, so the answer is not to use that aforementioned money to hire more (or perhaps better) managers, but to have fewer studios so management's job can be easier."

Hdcase OP ,

Shutting down entire studios should not be a part of normal cost saving.

Hdcase OP ,

Give it a year. Thankfully Toys for Bob was able to buy themselves out, otherwise surely they would have either been shut down or put to work in the Call of Duty mines.

Hdcase OP ,

Me too. The writing is on the wall, especially if you're at a small studio working on "small" games like Ninja Theory or Double Fine.

Hdcase OP ,

No one's asking you to trust them.

Hdcase ,

I heard they were basically forced into that situation after Bethesda canceled their Prey sequel (which looked great BTW.)

Hdcase OP ,

There have been rumors and speculation, but that's not what MS is saying.

"More interestingly, [Xbox President Sarah] Bond teased a roadmap focused on next-generation hardware.

"'And what we're focused on there is delivering the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation, which makes it better for players and better for creators and the visions they're building," Bond explained in the recent episode of the Official Xbox Podcast.'"

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-next-gen-console-confirmed-business-update

Hdcase ,

I hope everyone who plays Call of Duty next year on Game Pass takes a moment of silence for the ~2000 people that had to lose their jobs to make it possible.

The Inside Story Of Fable 3, The Game That Broke Its Creators' Hearts ( www.thegamer.com )

This is a fascinating deep dive into the development of the game, with many people involved giving interviews. Instead of being in a long development hell, Lionhead knocked out the game in a stunning 18 months - which made Microsoft happy, but resulted in the cutting of a ton of content.

How the Baldur's Gate 3 character creator brings modern flair to old school fantasy ( www.gamedeveloper.com )

Crucially, the creator allows players to make modifications that aren’t always possible in other RPGs, letting them modify a characters genitals (choosing between preset options), identity (male, female, non-binary/other), and voice. [Lead character artist Alena] Dubrovina says including those options was about giving players...

Starfield group fixing Bethesda's bugs say their job is tough as mods feel an afterthought ( www.eurogamer.net )

“What’s more frustrating for those working on SCP, and the wider Starfield modding community, is how difficult it is to work with Starfield’s code without official modding tools and support. This isn’t helped by the delayed mod tools from Bethesda, which the company says are coming at some point next year.”

Hdcase OP ,

I’m sorry, my next post will be about your balls getting blown off to better accomodate your specific needs.

Digital Foundry - Redfall's 60fps patch works - but this isn't the redemption story we were hoping for ( www.eurogamer.net )

“Assuming Arkane will continue development, clearly there are many areas for technical improvement, with some annoying visual glitches, oversights and outright bugs remaining in the updated code. I’m not sure that any amount of patching will make Redfall a truly good game, but Arkane has at least delivered the performance...

Hdcase ,

400 million payout as I understand it. And odds are very good he’s going to go to some other video game company. People like him don’t just disappear.

Hdcase ,

How is that ironic?

Hdcase ,

Supposedly the whole Fall Guys team at Mediatonic, who Epic just acquired, were let go. Including the game director.

Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous" ( www.pcgamer.com )

While Elon’s then-partner Grimes was recording her part in the game as cyborg popstar Lizzy Wizzy, the erratic tech billionaire turned up with an antique firearm to “insist” on being included in the game. “The studio guys were like sweating,” Grimes is quoted as saying. Musk adds “I told them that I was armed but not...

Hdcase OP ,

I assume it happened at a recording or mo-cap studio in the states.

Hdcase OP ,

Some people believe he showed up briefly in one scene in the background but it was never substantiated.

Hdcase OP ,

For real? Where, when?

Makes sense, there are some big Cyberpunk Easter eggs in Death Stranding so he must get along with CDPR.

Hdcase ,

Embrace, extend, extinguish. That’s MS’s strategy, by their own words.

Hdcase ,

I am interested in a Series X some day, but no disc drive is a deal breaker. My only hope is the regular Series X will some day see a price cut.

Hdcase ,

It’s honestly hard to look at and one of the reasons I stopped going years ago (one of the guys’ repeated transphobic social media posts was the other.)

Hdcase ,

No Fun Allowed

Hdcase ,

The lolbugthesda meme exists because it’s true. There aren’t many games I’ve had to completely start over because of a game breaking glitch in a side quest, but that was Skyrim and the infamous thieves guild glitch.

They’re good games but pretending there are no bugs, either funny cosmetic ones or serious progress blocking ones, helps no one.

What's wrong with the Saints Row reboot again?

I got it expecting to hate it, but as I kept playing, I found myself legitimately enjoying it. Not begrudgingly enjoying it, not enjoying it outside of one or two small details, but actually being engaged in the story and gameplay. Which leads me to wondering why people had a problem with this game in the first place again?

Hdcase ,

People mostly didn’t like the story I think. Personally it was my favorite game since the 2nd one due to the day night cycle and the expansive world.

Hdcase OP ,

Got a link?

Hdcase ,

Phil Spencer, be disingenuous? Well, I never!

Hdcase ,

Phil, dressed in a hot dog suit: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”

youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo

Hdcase ,

I’m interested but I’m thinking it may be too difficult for me.

Hdcase ,

I think my friend Mike Zimmerman and I may have beaten it… But it’s been so long it’s impossible to say for sure. All I know it was one of the hardest games out there back then, and hard games were not in short supply in the 80’s.

Hdcase ,

Holy shit I had no idea. The Xbox One X really is more powerful, at least in some regards, than a system that came out 3 years later.

Hdcase ,

Yep and a lot of times, we won’t even hear about it. It’ll just be another game that happens to be on Playstation and not Xbox, a defacto exclusive of sorts.

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