1500 posted:

Where one side is having fun and the other side doesn't get it? Same thing could be applied to SA and Citizens.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

It's not possible because revealing what people are actually getting would murder CIG's revenue stream faster than you can say "web of lies".


The problem with Chris's Vision is that it resets every time he blinks.

stinch posted:

Well, if you discover your engine does not support shotguns and you are trying to develop a FPS you have to shift gears a little bit.

Bushiz posted:

I dropped like 140 bucks on lifetime pass for Elite Dangerous over the summer, and every time I feel bad about it I look at this thread and see what people have spent money on and who is in charge of that money and I'm always like "boy, spending that much money on a video game isn't nearly as stupid of an idea as it could have been"

Toops posted:

I added exception handling for this in my current project.

code:

  # where are all these goddamn shotguns coming from?
  class ShotgunException < RuntimeError
    def initialize
      super("Fatal Error: A shotgun.")
    end
  end

blueberrysmith posted:

James Brand is the gift that keeps on giving:

http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/feature/the-star-citizen-honeymoon-is-over,413944#comment-2477590302

SpunkyRedKnight posted:

trucutru posted:

I dropped 20 bucks on E:D when it was on discount, realized it is basically cookie-clicker in space, and went back to Puzzle and loving Dragons for a less grindular experience.

I could have gotten like 25 magic stones for those

SpunkyRedKnight posted:

SpunkyRedKnight posted:

quote:

"Hot new computer game maker ION Storm appears to have all it needs for success -- top talent, plenty of money, and legions of anxious fans. So why is its future so cloudy?
By Christine Biederman

Now is the moment to do or die. Again. It's come about pretty quickly. Only minutes have passed since an odd time-travel device, a magical samurai sword, deposited you here in the sixth century. Looking around, you noticed it was snowing lightly, and from the looks of it, a storm was blowing in.

In front of you loomed an ominous medieval castle. Eager to commence your quest--to revise history by capturing the elusive daikatana, the saber you are chasing through 3,600 years--you hurried inside. The castle responded by hurling vermin, fantastic creatures, and deadly germs at you. In short order you've shaken a gang of bats, dispatched a nasty pair of werewolves with your crossbow, and beaten a hostile archer to the punch with a few well-aimed arrows. Then came the pack of squealing, plague-carrying rats leaping for your face. Since you know there are times to fight and times to turn tail, you've just slipped through a secret passage and down an elevator. (An elevator? You're rewriting history already.)

Now you're back outside, and there he is--a plague-infected half-man, half-zombie. And then another. And a third.

This doesn't look promising. Over one side is a drop that looks to be several thousand feet, and in front of you, Black Death. Where are your fellow time travelers, Mikiko and Superfly? Aren't you supposed to be able to page them somehow, to get you out of a fix like this? And where's the damned daikatana--literally, the "big sword," the magical eight-in-one weapon?

Oh, well, black-magic time. Pointing your staff at the three zombies, you draw a circle, then a pentagon, and the gates of Hell fly open, and...next thing you know, the menacing undead explode into a few dozen flying, bloody chunks.

"More gibs for your money," laughs a voice from across the centuries. "That's gibs, as in giblets."

And with that, you're back in the late-20th-century offices of computer game developer ION Storm, located high atop a downtown Dallas skyscraper. It is December 17, 1998--less than three months before the scheduled release date for Daikatana, the computer game that Mr. Giblets, ION Storm producer Kelly Hoerner, has just been demonstrating. It's the game that a tribe of computer gamers is dying to get their trigger fingers on.

It's also the game that could make or break ION Storm..."

quote:

It was a time of giddy optimism.

quote:

the place where the "designer's vision is king" has turned into a toxic mix of prima donnas and personality cults

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The company has run through $26 million and is spending at a rate of nearly $900,000 per month. Every month the number of copies of Daikatana it needs to sell goes up.

quote:

[Tell Wilson], 'You better be loving glad we wrote off your car and house, you loving rat-faced bitch,'

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"Game developers are a special breed," he explains. "They're very loyal, and all you have to do is treat them with a minimal amount of respect, and they'll stay with you forever. But if you don't, these guys have talents, and they're going to go off. You can poo poo on them only so many times."

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"According to seven of the 10 who were at lunch, the Daikatana team was seriously disenchanted."

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"VERY VERY VERY concerned about Daikatana not shipping on time (as well as the other titles)...VERY VERY VERY concerned about people leaving Daikatana--though I tried to assure them that most of [those] who left were poo poo anyway...VERY concerned that John's heart is not in Daikatana...VERY VERY VERY concerned about the AI in Daikatana and that there is a TREMENDOUS amount left to do.".

quote:

"In other words, for ION Storm to reach that mark and survive the dilemma it has created for itself, the company may need all the magic that Romero and pals can muster. It may need a real daikatana."

Prop Wash posted:

lol you play puzzle and dragons and think you have the right to criticize any other game for being grindy

SpunkyRedKnight posted:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Star Citizen is also apparently a revolutionary game that doesn't actually have fun as its core design philosophy. CIG is really pushing the boundaries of what's possible here.

alf_pogs posted:

he ended his last ragepost with a loving "not!" joke. congratulations james brand you are now in the late nineties. i also liked how someone asked him how much he had sunk into the project and his defensiveness escalated beyond all reason

CrazyLoon posted:

Ahh...the bad old days...I still remember the diplomatic efforts after that to patch something up during PAX AUS, but alas...there could be no peas. He left the peas on the table.

Dapper Dan posted:

Sillybones posted:

Are these people unaware that people can lie to them? Maybe not everything they say on these 'open development' videos might actually be true. I can't even work out how they get into this mindset considering just how many times CIG has failed to meet up with their statements. Double-think layered on double-think.

It is mind-boggling how much blind trust they put into everything. 'Oh, he said there will be pants making GBS threads for food poisoning? Makes sense, I am going to join the Space FDA!' Its like they've never dealt with the outside world where people don't always tell the truth. Not to mention this has been a pattern for years. This isn't a recent development.

ZenMaster posted:

Someone explain the meltdown, I can't figure it out other than Bexter or whoever is being weird.

fuzzknot posted:

SpunkyRedKnight posted:

Except Christ Roberts should be Jesus.

ZenMaster posted:

Someone explain the meltdown, I can't figure it out other than Bexter or whoever is being weird.