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I'll pocket my $300 bucks + divies from IJS and get out.

Gonna try a ranged rogue maybe? IDK.

Are they on 13th or 14th gen Intel? If so, it's not the game. They need to update their bios (which will downgrade their CPU for stability.)

Because you don't need "AI" to do that. Tons of games already generate procedural quests. Hell, Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall did it forever ago. But you'd need a very, very good model to dynamically learn what makes a good quest and to use that info to generate better quests in the future.

And yet you still come here.

Finally getting around to starting this, still in S1. I fuckin' died in the nursery scene where Billy uses the baby as a weapon.

Truth. "DEI" isn't what's killing these big companies, it's the Big 4 Consulting companies. "DEI" just comes along for the ride, part of the packaged deal, but these consultants do so much other damage to their "clients" that "DEI" hardly registers as the root cause. It just one branch of the...

They could be AI, but would you really want them to be AI? Wouldn't you rather play with real people who might be interesting, and then let the game fill in the rest with AI? It'd be interesting to see a game someday where you don't immediately know which other characters are real players or...

Right, so you have some kind of procedural or generative model that comes up with interesting combat (and other PoI) encounters on the way to the quest.

You'd need to design an MMO where the fun part is getting TO the quest, rather than just looting the Obelisk of Bear-Butts and going back to town.

There's just a lot of different games that scratch different parts of the MMO itch but at different intervals. Want a game where you loot a bunch of shit and if you get lucky you pwn a bunch of newbs for free? Play Fortnight or any other BR with colorcoded loot levels. Want a...

Voice acting was good, gameplay was good, story was a little generic but fine.

Was my comment in any way restricted to catholics? You realize there's a lot of religions, right? And they're all the exact fucking same when it comes to grooming and exploiting kids? Let's not forget Muslims... The only thing "unique" about catholics in this regard is that they have, for...

Yeah, nothing is ever going to beat churches and bible camps for grooming and/or molesting kids. Nothing. Ever.

Technically all of this is already possible, with dynamic/procedural "monster ecologies" planned for the earliest MMOs. This was possible back when MMOs first started, but abandoned in favor of a more static DIKU content model. Obviously, tech has improved since, but design philosophies...

Again, WEIRD, not BAD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_fiction

So, speaking of the games industry being turned upside down, apparently the first game that Dunkey's publishing company Bigmode released is actually incredible? This is the shit that needs to happen. I'll wait a few days to see how the reviews shake out, but I'm already impressed.

So apparently some Microsoft Exec was quoted today as saying they need more games like HiFi Rush on Game Pass, lol. The video game industry fucking sucks lol.

I think they can turn it around at 60. I was really wary about this phase going into it, expecting all of the problems that showed up. There's no point in hardcore gear grinding because all of the content is pretty trivial, and I don't expect it to be very hard at 60 but I could easily be wrong.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Deadlands and Weird West meets Firefly.

I was referring to Starfield about the bad. Read the quote my quote was quoting.

This looks fun, is there a FoH server?

I said WEIRD not BAD.

Someone needs to come up with a good genre that's particularly suited to what MMOs make possible. 3 words: Weird Space Western

yes but AI doesn't poop

I want to see this, but in a different setting like Eberron.

Good career. #1 choice I'd say for anyone who doesn't want to go to college. The AI overlords will keep the HVAC techs around for servants long after they liquidate everyone else.

I only wanted Legos and stuffed animals for indoor toys growing up, aside from the occasional SNES game (which were fucking expensive, when you think about it now.) Art and drawing stuff too. I had my own architectural/drafting tools and was obsessed with stationery, which we now know as a...

I find this crazy because Hi Fi Rush was a big Game Pass title, wasn't it? Doesn't Microsoft need studios like this to create value for Game Pass? Unless they plan on getting rid of Game Pass.

Hestia was always the least sexy and most controversial goddess even for the day. These people are memeing you. You're the punchline.

lol i was gonna post this

In this ONE case I am okay with PE firms destroying a US company: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/private-equity-firms-circle-peloton-for-potential-buyout.html

I feel like this is almost possible but no one, not companies or players, want to invest in it.

Oh yeah, I constantly forget that a whole bunch of mobile games are just clones of WoW with most of the pathing automated.