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not stealing Lotro's music system... Crafting was a good base too iirc. Highly interdependent on other professions to make anything.

wonderful 101.

I think cut content has a massive impact on game story and narrative as we know it. especially for bigger games. its probably not surprise that most of the super effective narratives are by indie devs who are writing and programing the game themselves. Bastions, cave story, those you...

plancescape is actually not a good example of narrative and gameplay coexisting. The gameplay in that was completely second string to narrative, and the game suffered from it. It would have been better if the combat was stripped entirely, and the game was a puzzle/adventure game.

yeah after playing Darkout, vs Starbound/terraria. or Diablo etc. Darkness can have its place. and can be done well. but often, its just more oppressive and annoying then actually a good mechanic. It often will just make the game ugly and will just make the game tedious. like weight and food...

huh. this does bring up the question of show don't tell, vs telling in games. you are arguing the story should be simply told. in the background. PoE flavor text. TF2 comics, and dialogue. Metroid prime data logs, etc. Thats... kindof atypical. We can look at bioshock for this. Bioshock...

yeah. im inclined to say pulling and static spawns are a tactical gameplay design players like more then dislike.

Gameplay should pretty much never be forced to serve narrative. No fuck you 20min start of Last of us. as much as you people want to defend that shit. its not fun. go watch a movie. if you want to put me into a scene like that, let me go wander off and change the narrative. much like...

well, they don't ALL do this. But you are damn right, too many do. Its as bad, as "playing" a mmo by staring at hp bars and cooldowns.

im pretty sure its a volume problem. The AH is not D3's problem. its the AH with 2million players/bots or whatever it is. POE with its 14k concurrent just will never hit that oversaturation of the market. and AH would be fine. And designing an AH with a bartersystem wouldn't be THAT hard...

"soonish" on the "last" wipe. next patch, within the next few weeks. Not sure whats up with the link .I think their site is down or something. Newsletter | Starbound it was the January newsletter. but even this direct link from their site is not working atm. It talks about wipe and next...

http://playstarbound.com/wp-content/...lejanuary.html This is apparently mostly just me bumping. is everyone that is playing/interested in this game, already keeping on top of patches, etc? so bumping is no real point?

yeah, but thats more of a general superpowers thing. not just mutants. Everyone was subject to that. Even people with tech superpowers like Ironman. And yeah, seem to be trying it over again with Inhumans. A bit odd. Mutants civil rights in general have moved to a much more lgbt...

anecdotes are not evidence. hell, the Xbone could have just had more units to sell in the first place. Vgchartz says 5m wiiU's, 2.5m xbones 3.4m PS4 as of the 21st. Obviously they are also, not official sources, and can be very much wrong. But still not quite as much of a blowout...

yeah my first 10min of Valdis was very favorable. Standard metroidvania layout. Before the first savepoint, theres like 3 "secrets", and locked doors, that you will have to come back too. platforms you can't reach and will have to come back for etc. If it stays anything like those first...

yet at the same time, mutants pretty much need to be in their own mini universe to stand as equal rights allegories. In a world with spiderman, and mutants. It makes no sense at all, no one is calling spiderman a mutant, or Hulk, or anyone else, whose origins are not well known public knowledge.

well you say that as if, I can go buy wizardry 6-8, or any number of those games in a store. Brick and mortar don't exactly keep a library of games either.

- Bleeding Cool In Conversation With Shia LaBeouf - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors "Authorship is censorship" possibly relevant? Also, holy shit, that guy is a giant douchebag.

Most recent expansion changed starter decks, and let you even pick stronghold, which you couldnt before. I started before, so Im not entirely sure what is in the current starter decks. previously, I heard haven was a bit weak. as it required some higher teir cards, that weren't really...

yeah, the best comparison is of course Final fantasy. While that has been dwindling and TES is on the way up of course. But, someone get numbers for FF 7-10 sales and compare to FF 11's subs/sales. And then do the same for 12/13 compared to FF14's subs/sales. WoW of course may have been...

yeah. Have to specify by media, and even then its not quite a good comparison. Its silly to say starwars IP vs TES IP. I mean lets use another example. Twilight as a franchise versus starwars. A Twilight movie, a twilight book and a Twilight video game. Vs. A starwars movie, book...

But what if you know man.. it really brings the room together?

let me try it this way. Its the artists job to connect with the audience. Not he audiences job to connect with the artist. If the artist is creating art for themselves, and expects the audience to come to them, or jump through hoops to understand it. they failed. Art is communication...

yeah. 20.27m at $60 each would be $1,216.2m so, that figure is saying they made MORE then $60 on each copy. $63.6 each DLC? This is where he got that number. Skyrim : The Elder Scrolls V Statistics | Statistic Brain The thing with that is, dev, producer and merchant. Bethesda game...

nah. anyone can create art. A skilled craftsman can create GOOD art on purpose. An unskilled artist can get lucky.

Fame. Famous for being famous.

i think saying a video game is art might be the wrong way. A video game can contain art. And I don't mean it as a literal painting in a game. I do mean as the experience, in the same way a movie, book or song might be. And there is certainly skill required in crafting an experience that the...

Anyone know exactly how much Bethesda is on the hook for the production? how much investment is from them?

what even the fuck? who is that guy, that, that number is taken for granted?

ouch. That sucks.

Finishing this up now. yeah. wow. hilariously bad/good. "This movie is like Red Alert 2 made into a film" Netflix needs a better review system. The guy that said that in his review needs some +++.

It is incredibly insular. its like this giant baseball card scheme. Where the idle rich just throw money at shit to ensure exclusivity. the REAL art of the 21st century (and 20th), is in advertising, illustration, and architecture.

TV cop dramas are the worst at most of the cliches. The following and mentalist are among the worst for just shitting on plausibility. A show like Monk or Psych does it, and the intent is to be more funny then serious, so its more acceptable. But in a show like the following, with people...

hrm. I didn't know the pay version of desktop dungeons was like 10 generations beyond the free one I had on my system. Kindof hate when games do that. They should go full on with 2, or whatever and call it a sequel.

i have 3 extra 3's. a 6, and an 8. mbirk on steam

haha right? I was just looking at that. am I tired? or is that correct?

Todays was really enticing to me. almost bit on fallout:NV, spelunky, risk of rain, m&m6 and swapper. Ended up holding back on all but swapper. Risk of rain only 33%, I'll wait for lower, If I ever get it. NV would have likely just went on my big list of games I have, but never got...

Sometimes troll builds are surprisingly good, or lead to new builds in general. Classic AD annie. Stun on call. long duration ar/mr buff, with damage reflect. really fast/ideal attack animation. and one of the longest base ranges in the game. all of that also lead to support annie when...

Top sellers are weekly or monthly I think Starbound is still up there too. Also, early access, and hasn't even had a sale. Although is new at least.

Another, stop playing for a couple weeks post apparently.