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I have actually done what they showed him doing in that scene before. When I was a teenager I worked at CVS and my supervisor locked her keys in the office, so I had to climb through the drop ceiling to get in (but with a ladder). My boss gave me incorrect instructions though. What I was...

I'll be honest, I can't believe how big that studio was. That size studio is usually pushing out major full priced titles that sell millions of copies across all platforms. At their peak (~350) the burn rate must have been nearly 4 million USD a month, supported by games that are niche and...

THQ Nordic is a completely different company than the old THQ, formerly known as Nordic Games. They are pretty well known for scooping up properties from defunct companies, including a bunch of stuff from when THQ went under. Notably they also bought the THQ name and then rebranded as THQ Nordic.

I find it far more irritating to try and follow a single post that multi-quotes except under certain conditions.

Correction, you were completely right. This happened to them as well apparently. https://kotaku.com/heres-what-a-publishing-deal-with-ea-looks-like-1732940729

You are thinking about Obsidian and New Vegas. For Amalur, and my memory is somewhat fuzzy at this point, it was more along the lines of in order to agree to publish the game EA insisted on recouping their end completely before paying out to the studio. Since the game did well but not...

Big Huge Games made that, not the main 38 studio. It was also bought mostly complete, and that studio finished it. So the only part of the company that had even a modicum of success was the part Curt was least involved in. I say modicum because in the end the game was roughly a financial wash...

The deal itself was made so that the financiers whom put it together would benefit at the expense of the taxpayer using Curt as a desperate patsy. But here is the thing, Curt let himself be said patsy knowing full well what was going on. He agreed to all of the ridiculous conditions because...

While Chafee was (rightly) against the deal from the start, the fall of 38 was 100% on Curt. He ran out of money and started missing loan payments (but first he quietly stopped paying health care premiums), and then asked to borrow more money. The state said no, you haven't gotten anywhere...

Or, more likely, they would have just lost more money. RI made the right call to cut their losses rather than just keep throwing money into the fire.

Is this just a piracy thread now or do we still talk about games here?

Eh, I don't work for free. My consultation rates are very reasonable though. ;) But they really do need a good designer, which are surprisingly hard to find and they take another good designer to recognize them. So if you don't have one already it can be hard to find more.

I've played quite a bit at this point, I've certainly gotten my money's worth, but I can't help but be reminded of the general sorry state of game design as a skilled profession. It still feels that it isn't respected or considered, as I am playing I keep finding questions that they clearly...

I meant the games we were working on, I never played Soma. :D So far I'm not really enjoying NMS, they really need to hire an experienced designer to smack them upside the head when they have dumb ideas like everything has a small and constant use meter and you click lots of buttons all the...

In fairness that game wasn't anything particularly special, it was just notable that when you take the same game and stick it underwater instead of in space it becomes a much more interesting and dynamic game because of the level design. They (maybe correctly) didn't think a "not space" game...

Subnautica really benefited from its setting, it was a great idea. At one point we working on a space ship game and ended up using that to make a prototype of what was effectively a space-ship game but set underwater. It was way better but the publisher didn't like the concept and we could...

Starting Strength There is also a DVD set available and an App with some nice features. Other people think there are better beginner programs available, but my experience is that they are all basically the same in effectiveness, SS's advantage is how much good, detailed information is...

Alright, I'll pick it up. Thanks for the help and advice.

So this is why I am unsure. I dislike most crafting-survival games but I really enjoyed sub-nautica. The environment, art style, building system, and vehicles for me made up for its lack of death and I actually appreciated that the game had a beginning, middle, and end. I don't need games to...

Thanks!

Is there anyone that has played enough to judge whether it is worth half off now? I would buy and return it but I have a feeling it would take more than 2 hours to figure it out.

You might still see them, but November is early in the season and Iceland is a little low. The deeper into winter and the more northerly you are the better your chances of seeing stronger auroras. We get them down here too (more south than Iceland) but they are rarer and weaker, the only time...

Enjoy your trip, the Nordic countries are beautiful in the summer, but... If you want to see the Northern lights you have to go in the winter, and to increase your chances of seeing them usually more north than Iceland.

Does anyone mind giving me a rundown on what the game actually is right now? Last someone mentioned it you could fly around in empty space, drive around on empty planets, and there was really no game to speak of.

If the economy needs balancing then you just change some numbers, you don't create a pointlessly complex system of NPCs to do things when the player isn't around. A multi-point interactive system is likely to go all chaos theory on you and make things far worse. So no, the underlying problem...

The problem with that story, and it is a truly terrible story, is that just a couple of months before literally every single person with an augment suddenly and unexpectedly flipped out ans started murdering everyone. So the entire narrative is completely undercut by the fact that every single...

You are actually proposing a place to use it where it is least useful. What purpose does an NPC going to the store to buy something from another NPC serve? NPCs derive no pleasure from interacting with each other and if there are no players around either they are just taking up resources for...

You absolutely, 100%, do NOT want smart AI NPCs in an MMO. NPCs are mini-puzzles that exist for the player to solve. You create variation by having more puzzles, and sometimes by combining them into more interesting meta-puzzles. There might be some use to AI "learning" but it would be as a...

Oh FFS, gaming addiction is a real thing. There are multiple criteria to qualify, with the number of hours being only one of them. It is one of the (many) psychological addictions that people can have, and is closely related to gambling addiction. Gaming has traditionally been a relatively...

As someone that only occasionally dips into the politics thread partially because it moves so fast, I say don't change it. It is obviously very popular, has plenty of unique posters, and likely even more unique readers. There are other, more specific, threads that revolve around political...

And I'm out. Witcher 3 was an overly long movie interspersed with utter tedium. Maybe one day they will make a game.

No, but they will occasionally "gather" items for you. Searching for and bringing back resources it pretty much the core gameplay loop, it would be strange if they automated that.

I have a max stealth hero that can take out hearts right quick with C4 and Thermite grenades.

Thanks for the info. I've been "completing" each map so I haven't moved yet.

Alrighty, so. I had what was essentially a 5 day weekend due to well placed holidays and my girlfriend was going away for a couple of those days. Despite myself I ended up just buying the UE so I could play over the weekend, I loved the first one and saw enough streams to know I would like...

So he always has been completely clueless. I'm not exactly surprised, but that is such a monumentally ignorant thing to say I continue to be perplexed why anyone would pour money into this scam.

Well, yea, I mean, in theory any asset that can be moved through Max is technically compatible with any other engine that is also compatible with Max, so I probably spoke too broadly and decisively. That being said the simpler something is the better doing this works, but then you really aren't...

I get why people wouldn't like the first one very much, but I played it way more than the content warranted, something like 100 hours. For me it just ticks all the right game boxes, so I am looking forward to it. The only thing giving me pause is the MSFT store. I have just been replaying the...

This is just false, SoD2 is built in Unreal 4 and the first was Cryengine 3.1, even if they wanted to they couldn't reuse assets. As for being very similar to the first game but improved in every way, umm... good? Wouldn't that be what you wanted if you liked the first game?

Did he actually say something that clueless and retarded? I would love the source for it if anyone knows it.