Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer

• addicity@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Morrowind: An oral history on Polygon is a wonderful read.

  All the little stories Kirkbride tells are great. My favourite is him designing progressively weird shit to dupe Howard with. He’d be like “Hey Todd, can we put this in the game?” and after he knowingly got knocked back he’d present him something more palatable.

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a classic negotiation technique abusing the psychological anchoring effect.

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    • addicity@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve heard of writers on shows like the Animaniacs doing it, insisting heavily on a more outrageous joke having to go in knowing it’ll get knocked back as a Trojan horse to slip the real jokes they want in.

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• Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s like the super bowl champs giving the next decade to the Bears.

  nowhere is safe 😫

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol if it makes you feel better I was going to say Buffalo originally

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