I was hoping the game was further along but that gives me time to save GPU money.

I’ve learned to be happy the games I love got made. So thank you to the devs for your hard work. South of Midnight was a treat!

Rise of Nations! My love!

Woo! I am so hyped!

I was hoping Blade would still find a way but I doubt it at this point. While I didn’t like Deathloop’s story (or I guess the twist) it was an interesting game. I would hate to see them close.

Normally I would say “never gonna happen” but MS was BioWare’s publisher before EA bought them. getting Jade Empire, ME and DA might be interesting to them. I doubt it but hey never know.

That being said I kinda don’t see the point. ME3 caused a lot of backlash (dudes were even mad that FemShep was put on the cover, and everyone forgets the issues folks had with ME2’s roster, combat changes and the opening story set up) , Andromeda failed; Bioware hasn’t been a mainstream “darling”for longer than the “antiwoke/PR” brigade is saying. It’s just now that their ability to hit on aliens (or stare at Miranda’s behind) is gone and now they are worried about the “good old days”.

Bioware can’t survive in today’s gaming market even if you teleported the devs that all of a sudden folks worship now back in. Bioware games have always allowed for diverse characters and sexual identities no matter if the player base agrees with them or not. They also tended to change up every sequel (for better or worse) and left huge plot threads unanswered/half answered. That kind of experimentation will not survive in today’s market. Gaming is going to get really rigid and really rote for a while as all these studios die (even Nintendo who has a lot of B list/experimental games has still done less over the years and focused on the hits) and gaming profit needs have matured to the point that devs have to produce a certain game or face sales backlash in a way they can’t endure anymore. Bioware has always been notoriously mismanaged/unfocused with too much reliance on “Bioware Magic” as well. EA made it worse with multiplayer and live service mandates (and microtransactions). People would rather others have nothing and they have everything and then lament when everyone loses out. Oh well. As always I hope the devs land on their feet.

Would be cool if a comic or book gets made. I normally don’t like multimedia focus split (and complained heavily about it for ME and DA) but since there is no game now… Liara really was the backbone of the series.

Sucks to be mandated in this economy to have a commute when your job can be done remotely. Limits the ability to move to lower COL areas (or save transportation costs) but still have a decent job. If you don’t trust an adult to do their job; that’s what pink slips are for.

Not every game lends to or requires a sequel. That being said the way Starfield is built it would do fine with new expansions for a few more years. While I want to know more about the starborn that is because I am simply lore obsessed. The underlying hook of the game is repeating itself with no beginning or end so technically the starborn are simply a symptom and not an answer. (NMS does the same with its setting really since the entire game is a endless but doomed timeline) I’ve been enjoying the updates to Starfield and while I would like more, there is enough to do in the game to last me years.

I’m pretty queasy about all of this news and I’m scaling back hype for TES6 pretty hard at this point, but I am hoping that Starfield’s roadmap is completed in the near future (as in the next two years). Looks like Starfield and maybe TES will be my last bethesda games.

As a massive Age of ____ fan (AoM got me into PC gaming), absolutely F you Microsoft. I endured the loss of Ensemble and still showed up for 4 and the Definitive Editions but I am done. For me, this is like saying PC gaming just died.

I want to be cynical, but I work every tier of my department and prefer that (even though I am likely killing myself with stress) so I can see someone requesting to do that especially if they rose through the ranks as a tech person and not a pure business person. So I hope whatever Ms Sharma gets out of this, is useful to her.

@Llamageddon

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp

I swear sometimes I feel like devs pull 3-6 themes out of a hat or use a dartboard.

I bailed on gamepass because it was a poor time ROI. I can watch many, many movies in a month, even play them as white noise while I do other things. I can’t do that with video games. Or worse if I have an endless game I am playing on gamepass (Coral Island) it is cheaper to buy the games I can beat in that time than keep gamepass. If game pass was cheap (like 10 bucks a month, yes I know that is unrealistic) I would keep it as a demo station as it was great for that. Lots of interesting games that I would not have tried or known about otherwise. But terrible if I actually wanted to play and beat a game on the service. I like game pass, but for me it isn’t a good value.

I had the dragon because it ties to my username. Switched to an avatar as soon as I could.

Eh. Different audiences (and consoles). Nintendo isn’t thinking about GTA. (I also dont think rockstar is worried about market share from Nintendo either….)

For instance I have no interest in GTA (I just want it out so folks move on) but I’m reworking the budget for Zelda.

The release date is likely more to do with mirroring a Nov OoT release like the original game. At best it is so early to avoid GTA but that’s it.

Focus on Okami please.

I wonder if these folks had been saving the entire time, waiting on a GTA release date.

Ok. I mean I knew they were gonna be in there but… ugh Balverines. So annoying.

The gameplay looked a bit damage spongy so I will likely stick to the default difficulty.

MS not having a good week. Had the authentication issue that hit exchange (and bled into other services) on monday. I have barely slept in two days.

I own it on everything already, but I always recommend VF5!!!

I’m so excited for this game. However Fire Emblem swooped in and will kidnap me for the next few months. I will pick up in october.

How long does it take to earn enough money to buy all the property? That’t the real length of the game lol.

That being said I do like that Fable has always been focused. The hero is pretty much there to solve the story problem (especially since all of them have some sort of time skip to the story) and since you aren’t grinding to level you don’t have to spend more time on combat than you want to.

Hmm a bit damage sponge type enemies. Facial animation is off as well.

Humphrey sounds bored.

Nothing is run out and buy right now for me but I am interested in: rainbow 6, warlock, tarae, ToA and maybe lego skylines. But all of it looks like wait a few years until cheap for me.

100 threads maybe, but co-op has got me backing away from that one. Will wait on reviews.

Good luck. I will be standing by with popcorn in hand to watch the show. Next gen is going to be wild.

This is why I feel Nintendo doesn’t really bother with star fox beyond a very nice tech demo each gen and cameos. There isn’t a ton to do creatively and slapping better paint isn’t enough to garner enough customer buy in. The genre is a good one but it is very constricted.

I wish they would stop making controllers that don't have the button labels (or have them in some fake language like the doom controller).

That’s cool that the other employees care and remember these are people with lives and financial obligations. It won’t change anything but at least some people still remember.

They already have diamond achievements. You pop it when you do something rare.

How does one prepare/build a future with job instability like this? I have left jobs, worked multiples, been furloughed and have student loans but I feel like I I was in this industry I would be in a cardboard box by now.

I will never understand Achievements/trophies.

Gonna give this one a year, hoping it will go to switch 2, but I am very interested.

It is Monday. As long as Azure is up, I am zen.

only loud consoles I have are the PS5 and series x. Every now and then the switch revs up, but I have moved the more stressful games to switch 2 so it is pretty quiet.

Makes sense, go where the money is. Jobs don’t value people or loyalty and will often actively sabotage your growth and wonder why you are unhappy. Especially in IT which requires constant personal investment (constant education/certs). Happens at all levels.

Have over 1000 hours in Starfield. Keep it coming, Bethesda!

Noodling around on Vectera hunting starborn.

Yes more Starborn content! I’m camping my current universes for now so I should be ready for the new release next year with a new Unity jump. Glad Starfield still has a roadmap, which is all I had been hoping for.

(Hoping the starborn content doesn’t end up being a bootstrap paradox (there already are several in game as is)…)

Halo Wars. Since I don’t like FPS games this was pretty much the only Halo game I am interested in. I detest Halo 3 however.

I care less and less about technical ambition. Is it good? Is the game fun to play?

South of Midnight was fantastic so I am looking forward to whatever compulsion builds next. I hope they get the backing they need.

Crunch is likely going to get worse in the future. Also they likely had a brain drain.

With MS having lost the format war, I suspect licensing for bluray will go up after sony ends production for playstation. Can’t imagine MS wanting to subsidize that unless people are willing to keep physical if games started at $80-$100.

PushSquare logs this as a rumor. Interesting. Anyway.

That sucks. Rather than polishing avowed as a series (I didn’t like avowed but could tell they put a lot into it), something that they seemed to be passionate about building out… hoping to capture old glories. More remakes and retreads. Oh well I get it, art is art until the bills are due and the patrons have demands. Good luck Obsidian.

This has to include mobile. Otherwise …how?

(Gaming is about to get more boring)

So happy the studios weren’t closed down. Compulsion in particular. I do hope a new game in the south of midnight world can be created. I would love to join Hazel on another adventure. Hoping all the people that lost their jobs land on their feet.