zikzak025
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- Comment on Farewell, BioWare: The End of an RPG Giant 10 hours ago:
The KotOR remake is still supposedly in development at Saber, but they’ve been radio silent on it. They are also fresh off of being acquired and have way too many concurrent projects. I expect news of its eventual cancellation any day now. That or they rush out a half-assed port with a bit of lens flare to capitalize on the Bioware void.
At the same time, Casey Hudson from Bioware spun up a studio last year to begin working on Fate of the Old Republic, which is intended to be a successor to KotOR. I wouldn’t expect to see that project come out for a while longer, but at least there’s a second project in the same realm if the first one doesn’t work out.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 10 hours ago:
“People keep complaining that the Citadel is only seen at the end. New York is actually within budget. I liked the Empire State Building scene with TIM tbh.”
“Plus they go to Vancouver and London in the third game, what makes the time spent in New York any different?”
“Reimagining the Geth as the Borg was a master-class move. Geth-Jenkins was the best! Maybe he’ll come back as Legion in the next season?”
“If they just had the robot faces, you couldn’t see the actors properly emote. This is much better for the format of TV to let the performances shine and deliver the emotional nuance of the Geth.”
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 18 hours ago:
I stand corrected, looks like EA bought them exactly 1 month before Mass Effect’s release. But yeah, by that point the game was already being printed on discs, with Microsoft as the initial publisher.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 18 hours ago:
Fitting, in a way. An illustration of the direction they went and what effectively ended them.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 18 hours ago:
I hate how plausible this is.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 19 hours ago:
Yep. They bought Bioware after Mass Effect. Dragon Age Origins was already late in development, so that was essentially unaffected.
It’s the games that followed where the writing was on the wall. Mass Effect 2 was mostly fine, but it was one of the first games to introduce the model of “Buy new for the complete experience, pay extra if you buy used.”
Dragon Age 2 tried to be more action-y by deviating from what people liked about the first one. It was just fine in retrospect, but I don’t think it was what anyone was looking for.
Mass Effect 3 had one of the most egregious on-disc DLC examples, coupled with its very controversial ending that was honestly never really fixed, but just carried by the rest of the game.
Dragon Age Inquisition at least won awards, but I think it was boosted by being an early next-gen title in an otherwise slow year, not having to compete with GTA5 the year prior or The Witcher 3 the year after. But I remember a lot of the “singleplayer MMO” discourse when it came out, and I don’t think it succeeded at being a bigger hit than ME3 before it.
Every game that follows can speak for itself.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 19 hours ago:
Apparently day 1 of Firefly filming he told Alan Tudyk to go buy an Xbox so they could play Halo. Day 2 he asked Alan “so what’d you think” and Alan was confused, having thought it to be a joke. That day he had to go and buy said Xbox.
And then both of them ended up in Halo as Buck and Mickey in ODST.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 19 hours ago:
That was my last experience with the Mass Effect setting and it felt like a very appropriate sendoff.
I was initially looking forward to Andromeda, but I’m glad I waited for the reviews. I would have been disappointed if that was my last Mass Effect experience.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 19 hours ago:
The talent that actually made BioWares reputation probably havent been at that studio for a while.
Exactly. A few key figures left not long after the EA buyout. The rest trickled out over time. The Wikipedia article for Dragon Age Veilguard has an entire section dedicated to the revolving door of key staff leaving or being laid off over the course of its development.
It’s far from everyone, but a few names from the old Bioware are currently working on this game set to release next year, which is billing itself as a sort of spiritual successor to Mass Effect:
- Comment on No. I'm undercover as a private investigator 2 days ago:
Don’t even wear a red t-shirt. The polo appears to be optional these days, as long as whatever you’re wearing is still red. Or even red-ish.
- Comment on Should I keep the Zelda OLED for the forseeable future? 3 days ago:
Speaking for myself, I would keep it, but that’s just because I tend to hoard my old hardware as a sort of personal gaming museum for sentimental reasons. Which I admit is not a stance taken by everyone.
The Switch 2 can run every Switch 1 game, so from a practical position, the old one is not truly necessary anymore. But some multiplayer games work between Switch 1 and Switch 2, so it might be worth keeping the Switch 1 if you want to play those kinds of games with others. Or even if you just want to trade Pokemon with yourself.
- Comment on Bread 4 days ago:
Only if they get bread for it. Most are just in it for the love of the game.
- Comment on US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" 5 days ago:
The Tech industry lobbyists will crush this idea before it ever sees a sincere vote, but at least someone out there is trying. Though the cynic in me still can’t help but feel that this is just an empty gesture in a bid for reelection.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 6 days ago:
The medical relevance just involves the parts you have, though. Instead of just documenting someone as male and female, just keep an inventory of the parts they have (especially when there are differences from the norm).
- Comment on Pfft 6 days ago:
And sometimes they’re not. The point is to know how to recognize when there’s a difference.
- Comment on Pfft 6 days ago:
Author intent stops meaning anything outside the head of the author anyways. Individual perception is the only source of meaning. No one can understand a subject without the context of their culture and personal experiences. Hence why two people can interpret the same subject in different ways that are both valid.
That may sound overly reductionist, but that’s genuinely what it boils down to. Someone’s artistic intent could be pretending to be stupid to prove a point, but if the audience only sees a stupid person, the author has no control of the message.
- Comment on God of War Laufey's $150 Collector Box Includes a Light-Up Faye Statue but no game 1 week ago:
Sony did it for Spider-Man before this: tech.yahoo.com/…/collectors-editions-without-game…
Happened for Dragon Age Veilguard: kotaku.com/dragon-age-veilguard-collectors-editio…
Diablo 4 as well: psu.com/…/diablo-4-limited-collectors-edition-cos…
There’s a bunch more, but that’s just what I grabbed in a couple mins of searching.
- Comment on God of War Laufey's $150 Collector Box Includes a Light-Up Faye Statue but no game 1 week ago:
Yep, hence the “may or may not” part of my statement. The practice not entirely new either, since a few publishers have been doing that for a while now as a “platform-agnostic” way to handle collector editions. Just weirder for Sony, since they only have one platform they’re releasing on, but presumably they want it to be interpreted as giving the “choice” (read: opportunity to give us more money) for people to also choose between the standard and digital deluxe edition.
- Comment on God of War Laufey's $150 Collector Box Includes a Light-Up Faye Statue but no game 1 week ago:
Does two high profile releases make a trend?
I mean, from Sony’s own mouth, it is. They’re done with discs, it’s the whole big controversy lately. Physical collector editions will be nothing more than a bundle of game tchotchkes that may or may not come with a code to download the game itself.
- Comment on Relish every moment 1 week ago:
Right, I just mean that, unless including the X is a prerequisite, this is simpler:
- Comment on Relish every moment 1 week ago:
I feel like you could do that in a much less complicated way without the weird X going through it.
Just draw a square starting from the top left going clockwise, and then when you close the square back in the top left corner, keep your pen on the page and cap it with a triangle.
- Comment on Sleep paralysis demon. 1 week ago:
Moisturize me!
- Comment on I hope woke grok is okay 1 week ago:
I believe so. It’s some solid sci-fi. I’ve heard grievances from a lot of fans of the book because it is not a very faithful adaptation in the slightest, but I think they managed to put together something that works better for TV and manages to tell an interesting story in its own right.
Some parts of the narrative fall a bit more flat than others, but the highs of the series have (so far) done more than enough to make up for the lows for me.
And I’m just thankful to have more space sci-fi that isn’t trying to be another Star Wars.
- Comment on I hope woke grok is okay 1 week ago:
Knights of Guinevere is an animation series by Glitch, the creators of some other amazing works that are freely available on YouTube.
Just to add some more context, the specific creator behind this series is Dana Terrace, who also created The Owl House.
Knights of Guinevere is easy to interpret as something of a hit piece against Disney, who canceled The Owl House for not being “on-brand” despite being a commercial and critical hit.
- Comment on Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg 1 week ago:
This. I played it a bit at launch and gave it another fair shake recently. There were some QoL mods that fixed a few major issues I had with the game, and some of the updates they added since were appreciated.
But I think the game is just flawed at its core. It’s got a lot of neat set dressing around it, but it’s missing some key central pillars to support its gameplay loop. I can’t say it’s a bad game because I still ended up sinking a good few hours into it, but both times I walked away from it, it was from inability to find motivation to continue.
For me at least, I think I couldn’t stop comparing its various systems to better games.
I could play Starfield for the story and RPG mechanics, or I could play Cyberpunk 2077.
I could play Starfield for the planetary exploration, or I could play No Man’s Sky.
I could play Starfield for the base building and resource economy, or I could play Satisfactory.
And now none of those other games individually attempted to do what Starfield did, which you think might still give Starfield a niche of its own. But when all of these systems in Starfield just don’t really cross one another and just sit in isolation, it means you’re basically playing several “meh” games instead of one decent one.
- Comment on Sleep paralysis demon. 1 week ago:
When I was younger, I always found it comical when you have alien characters in movies and such disguise themselves as a human. Because you think “Haha, that disguise is so bad, there’s no way anyone would believe it,” but then hilariously a lot of people do.
This is that moment.
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Sadly?
- Comment on Star Citizen answers select player questions about flight, damage, and bugged missions 2 weeks ago:
Of course they will! For as long as people keep paying them for it.
- Comment on Brady Inspires us all 2 weeks ago:
This is the link contained in the QR code:
- Comment on Destroying the myth that parents and their kids can't agree on anything. 2 weeks ago:
One side has declining quality of life and the collapse of the society they knew happening around them.
The other is incapable of envisioning any positive outlook for the future at all.
Makes me wonder where Millennials fit. Little of column A, little of column B depending on which end of the generation one lands? Or just resigned acceptance.
