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Those platforms should be competing on accessibility, price, and features, not exclusives. They always say they are selling hardware at a loss or at no profit. If that is actually true then they make more money on people who play would be exclusives on PC. They might even be in the red on...

Same, but if I also knew some games will take 5 years to get to PC, I'd have bought it anyway. I don't regret buying it, as I could get out of it at a good price at the tail end of the lockdown induced demand. I almost got paid more for it in 2022 December, than I paid for it five years earlier...

I'm not worried about the overall profitability of the industry. It could be the biggest it's ever been with the most revenue ever recorded. But if most of the product are remasters of past glory and trend chasing live services targeting whales, then I consider that very much destroyed. High...

You don't have to play them to know these are some of the most popular multiplayer shooters ever. I didn't play any of the modern ones either. The only fair and objective way to define success is financial success or popularity for F2P games. Everything else would be subjective. I'm not cherry...

What is the backstory of Unreal Tournament, Quake3, Quakeworld, PUBG, Fortnite, Overwatch, Marvel's Rivals? Do they even have one beyond some codex entry hidden somewhere? I can't think of a single successful multiplayer game where the story has a significant role, not even in co-op titles.

These high concept pitches are better reserved for single player games. If you look at the most popular multiplayer games, most of them have very little to no story behind them. It is a waste of effort trying to make up some elaborate backstory which will inevitably just get in the way of...

I missed it too, but I'd just have pointed and laughed at it even if I knew about it. The only thing dumber than making an MP only game is making one from a single player IP.

Sunken cost fallacy then? I don't think they've put even minimal effort into changing the design.

I don't think it is explained by greed. Is it greed that makes you follow in the footsteps of something that made negative 300 million?

"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe" Why do they always do this and then blame the fans when it fails? They shouldn't be doubling down they should be scrapping it. Frankly if they had an ounce of self awareness they should've quietly scrapped it when they saw how concord did. I mean how...

I kind of get it, but I don't. Because by the same definition even the characters in live action movies are fake. So does that mean you can't empathize with any fictional characters? My conscious brain knows it's fake but still I can suspend my disbelief if the story is compelling regardless of...

I just don't get it why some people are acting weird about it. As if it is somehow against the rules for games to make their women sexy. When up till the 2010s, that was the norm. The only difference is the graphics fidelity. I don't remember anyone outside of activists complaining about Miranda...

I've never seen any gratuitous crotch shots in the game, you have to deliberately manipulate the camera in a very specific way to achieve that, I assume. Do you think better looking female characters have no purpose beyond seeking out awkward upskirt camera angles?

The entire game world just 3d models with textures and shaders, IDK why would you draw the line at characters. That's what I thought as well, the parry and dodge implementation is really underwhelming. I saw no difference animation wise between a successful parry and a failed one. Combat is not...

I've tried the demo, it's a pretty generic hack and slash game. It really only stands out due to the whole waifu dressup angle. But it's clearly enough to impress tons of people. I personally would like a bit more depth gameplay and storytelling wise. I didn't even finish the demo, because it...

So I checked it out,, these are individual mods, not random mod packages. They are curated and only a few are available now.

So basically like steam workshop?

It seems to me like they are vetting their subcontractor. First give them a major but non-story update to make, and now the final test a fully featured mission with new VA lines and story.

That's a myth, you can't seriously believe that you can increase poly count ad infinitum with no consequences. Polygon topology very much matters and affects a ton of other things like lighting and texturing as well. And that is exactly what nanite is doing, adding a ton of complexity to...

What if I hope against it? I mean UE has been cranking up polygon count and detail in places where it matters very little for the image quality. Or the same or better result could be achieved on a lesser computation budget by optimizing. UE's approach is brute force and use tricks to make up for...