As far as I can tell, it was the original creators that they handed the franchise back to that fumbled it. I think there was a rumor that a classics collection was in development a while back, but that could be one of dozens of projects that got cut when Embracer lost that Saudi deal.
Sure, but trying to lose weight without exercise is still hard mode. I’ve done it with and without the exercise part.
Well, the reason I suspected it was this instead was because, with ray tracing turned on high, it looked like shader stutter, but that problem had actually been solved a long time ago.
Microsoft is a wrench in the works, but they’re not building a game any larger than they’ve been doing for some years now. This is still a game that is scoped so that it doesn’t need to sell 10 million copies to break even.
If you’re going to get that pedantic about it though, you may as well say weight is lost in the bathroom.
Calories are burned through exercise though. Come on. You know how they’re connected.
They enabled ray tracing on high by default, after I hadn’t played it in months. It wasn’t there before. When I turned it off, performance was back to where it ought to be.
Nah, man, I’m a capitalist, and this is stupid.
Thus far, Obsidian has been very good at creating games within reasonable constraints, which means they’re typically not overscoped relative to the size of the game’s actual audience. And they do all of this while being a multi project studio that’s allegedly good to its employees.
It’s not the engines’ fault that game development got longer. It’s that most AAA games over scope and go open world when they don’t have to, which not only takes longer to make but often results in a worse game. Make games smaller and iterate on them quickly, like the industry did 20 years ago. That’s how you make this make sense.
If you like Fallout: New Vegas and wanted to like Starfield, you will like The Outer Worlds. It’s compact and satisfying.
Celestial bodies that orbit a star, but there are lots of ways to represent them in video games, and KOTOR’s implementation was not what most people would call open world.
Gotcha. Yeah, if the season passes aren’t paying for that, then what’s the point? Though to be fair, Street Fighter does the same thing, and all of that stuff is in a part of the game that doesn’t appeal to me, so I hardly see it.
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
You might be able to hack your way around this, but this prevented me from playing Jedi: Fallen Order on a train on a Steam Deck. Buyer beware. Dragon Age: Origins is on GOG.
I’ve got my own issues with Tekken, but what are you referring to? The scummiest thing I saw them do was locking replays against characters you don’t own the DLC for.
Hallelujah! This was always the worst part of an otherwise fantastic game.
No, it wasn’t. It was a series of very small maps.
Good point. I don’t know how ongoing that is or if steps have been taken to improve things.
I’m sour about how Nintendo makes it hard to get old games on their platforms because it’s the history of this medium and worth preserving, even if they were bad. I don’t care what their reasons are for making bad hardware when they could be making the best decisions for the consumer rather than for themselves. If it was the best decision for both of us, it would be the idyllic model.
That line about “only 20% stick around for the multiplayer” isn’t exclusive to RTS. Usually I hear a number like 30%, even for other RTS games, but that’s the case across every genre, even for games like fighting games that you think are only there for multiplayer. Only about 30% of people of any game’s player base will stick around to play online matches against other people.
StarCraft II is one of my favorite games, but to get back into RTSes, for me personally, I’m looking for two solutions: I want it to work well with a controller, and I think I want to get rid of the fog of war. The controller thing, done well, solves the APM complaint already, since there’s usually a speed limit on it. Tooth & Tail, Cannon Brawl, Brutal Legend, etc. give you a “cursor” character such that it doesn’t matter what input device you’re on, since that character can only move at a set speed. This isn’t the only way to do it though; it isn’t coded to use controllers, but Northgard operates on distinct tiles and things move at a slower pace such that a game like it could work on a controller without compromise. One of those compromises that games like Halo Wars or Battle Aces have made is that you can’t really place buildings strategically, and that feels like they’ve gone too far. As for the fog of war, I recognize its strategic value, but it wrecks me mentally and emotionally. It’s just so stress-inducing, even when I understand how to thoroughly scout. Cannon Brawl does without it entirely, and I can enjoy that game in a way that I can’t other RTSes. You still have to split your attention paying attention to all of the different attacks in motion that your opponent has thrown at you, and so it doesn’t feel like it’s missing something. I’m the star of my own story, so these things definitely feel important to me, but I do feel like both of these things would do wonders for making the genre feel more approachable.
And of course, for me, it’s a non-starter if the game is online-only. The two big RTS revivals with the most marketing right now are Stormforge and Battle Aces, and both are online-only, as is that Beyond All Reason game right now. These games have been cooking for a long time, and they’re going to be launching into a live service game crash. Their lead developers may take away the lesson that the genre can’t be saved when I hope that the actual reason is that customers hate putting time and money into a game that will likely be deleted off the face of the earth in a matter of months, not even years.