It looks fun, but from the preview builds they've had streamers play for the past year,
I wouldn't expect the writing to be anything to write home about.
Best to set expectations properly.
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I'm finally playing Witcher 3. I bought it like a year ago, but the first couple of times I tried to play it the wildly swaying trees made me extremely motion sick for some reason. This almost never happens to me in games, but it was enough to keep me away from it since then.
I must have been going through a bad inner ear week at the time, because now it doesn't bother me at all.
if you're playing the Zodiac Age version, you can easily frik over a character build
Yeah I'm playing ZA but the class train already left the station a long time ago
I tried to go with what I felt was thematic to what I knew about the characters when I got them instead of agonizing over what might be best, I strongly suspect this has left my Balthier properly fucked since his damage is so much lower than everyone else's right now
Vaan is Shikari/Foebreaker cause he is a little street rat who also wants to smash stuff
Basch is Knight/Buschi because he is a knight samurai that is what he is
Penelo is WMG/BMG cause she cares I guess? And also lights stuff on fire? Also girls do magic???
Fraan is Archer/Uhlan because bunny people are archers (this is a fact) and spears are just giant arrows
Ashe is red mage/time mage cause she seems like she's got a bit of magic going on but she would definitely want to use it in well rounded and time bending ways
...Balthier is Machinist/Monk cause he can't not be a machinist and also he's a very zen whatever happens happens kinda guy
as I switch back and forth to keep exp even my parties usually end up being Vaan/Balthier/Penelo and Basche/Ashe/Fran
I guess I'll take a second and look at what class gets what for belias I was hoping there was a more themey answer though, I liked how all the summons in FF13 were tied explicitly to a different character
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I suspect whatever tiny skeleton crew is left, should they go on to finish it, will get paid for the work to put out episode 3 and 4
The 200+ people who have already been laid off will, regardless of what happens, be totally one hundred percent shit out of luck
So I mean, if they finish it that is neat for people that already bought it in advance but maybe strongly contemplate whether you want to give Telltale money for it going forward even if they do put out a finished season
Skeleton crew is apparently working on the Minecraft project for Netflix.
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Correct, but who knows how the fuck this new "Maybe Walking Dead Final Season?" thing plays out
They could stay on long enough to finish both, they could farm out the assets of TWD to another developer to finish it up, they could just make their tiny team crunch until they literally die at their desks doing both, the world may never know
Everything I've heard from the devs on Twitter says the entire TWD team is gone, so yeah, I'm highly skeptical of them finishing the game. Even if they secured more funding from, I don't know, a charitable millionaire dying to see the ending, they'd need to farm it out to a new team to do it.
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Predictably, Twitter is almost all people going "Praise the Lord, our long suffering is over!" mixed with like one or two people going "Uh hey guys they just fucked over hundreds of people"
EDIT: I don't know why I just did that to myself, in hindsight, now I'm just exhausted and want to drink forever
Chris Avellone is involved in some capacity I think?
That's enough to get my interest, at least
I think he only really wrote one companion, the goblin rogue. And did some consulting on storylines.
Owlcat games is a Russian studio.
Yeah he did lots of consulting and wrote one companion
last I saw of it was quite a while ago but the playtest videos I saw had apparently finished dialogue and stuff and it was... pretty bad. it was clearly not Avellone's writing for some of those characters at all.
Going public with your company seems like a terrible deal for your employees.
Probably better to be smaller, more stable, being able to ensure ethical treatment of your people,
than risking Liongate replacing your CEO with a closer, and throwing 200+ people under the bus.
I'm finally playing Witcher 3. I bought it like a year ago, but the first couple of times I tried to play it the wildly swaying trees made me extremely motion sick for some reason. This almost never happens to me in games, but it was enough to keep me away from it since then.
I must have been going through a bad inner ear week at the time, because now it doesn't bother me at all.
Hey, this is a pretty good game, isn't it?
I had a hard time focusing my eyes on the game until I disabled some bloom and other advanced graphic settings. It's something I've never had happen with a game before.
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edited September 2018
I only started Witcher 3 in May and just finished it last week, but I had such a baller time with it. One thing I found improved my time with the game was playing with the HUD off - it took me too long to realise that it was a crutch that didn't add as much to the experience as being more immersed in the world did. Provided it doesn't re-trigger the motion sickness.
There's a let's play together thread around here that has low but steady traffic for a game from 2015 and is pretty positive towards updates from first-timers. They managed to completely sell me on grabbing the expansions, so that's apparently replacing The Walking Dead final season on my wishlist.
Going public with your company seems like a terrible deal for your employees.
Probably better to be smaller, more stable, being able to ensure ethical treatment of your people,
than risking Liongate replacing your CEO with a closer, and throwing 200+ people under the bus.
Taking a company public is the exact point that nobody above entry-level in the company will ever care about anything other than quarterly profits ever again. Sure, they'll spend money on marketing campaigns to SAY they treat all their customers like family and quality is their primary focus, but it's all complete bullshit.
It seems wild that they couldn't find more success with their other games. It certainly feels like they had decent clout, and they don't look like they should have been too expensive to make (relative to AAA)
Part of it too was after TWD season 1, they started pumping out so many even those that liked them couldn't keep up
11 games in six years really isn't that many to follow. I play more than 11 games in a single year. I think there's a few things at play, one of which is something we've started hearing more and more: episodic games are actually bad for business. No matter how much we may say we like the delivery system of episodic games, the market has shown that the result is people just wait for everything to be out. And once you have people waiting for something to be fully out, you've lost all the "launch" marketing buzz.
Also management is clearly just, huge problems there, if they're staying the course that hard despite producing one profitable game after TWD
Part of it too was after TWD season 1, they started pumping out so many even those that liked them couldn't keep up
11 games in six years really isn't that many to follow. I play more than 11 games in a single year. I think there's a few things at play, one of which is something we've started hearing more and more: episodic games are actually bad for business. No matter how much we may say we like the delivery system of episodic games, the market has shown that the result is people just wait for everything to be out. And once you have people waiting for something to be fully out, you've lost all the "launch" marketing buzz.
Also management is clearly just, huge problems there, if they're staying the course that hard despite producing one profitable game after TWD
Episodic games are like nega-DLC-season passes to me. Rather than paying upfront for DLC I may or may not engage with but know will come out, I can pay upfront to get a bunch of future content I have to engage with but have no clear idea of the timeline for.
Yep. I'm very interested in Life is Strange 2, but I hate the episodic release model, so I'll just wait for all the episodes to be out before getting it.
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That's enough to get my interest, at least
I think he only really wrote one companion, the goblin rogue. And did some consulting on storylines.
Owlcat games is a Russian studio.
I wouldn't expect the writing to be anything to write home about.
Best to set expectations properly.
I must have been going through a bad inner ear week at the time, because now it doesn't bother me at all.
Hey, this is a pretty good game, isn't it?
if you're playing the Zodiac Age version, you can easily frik over a character build
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Hope it comes out in some way.
Depends on class, since different summons unlock different stuff depending
Belias doesn't unlock anything too bonkers, you're looking at Potion Lore for Knight, Libra for Samurai, or Horology for Breaker
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Yeah I'm playing ZA but the class train already left the station a long time ago
I tried to go with what I felt was thematic to what I knew about the characters when I got them instead of agonizing over what might be best, I strongly suspect this has left my Balthier properly fucked since his damage is so much lower than everyone else's right now
Basch is Knight/Buschi because he is a knight samurai that is what he is
Penelo is WMG/BMG cause she cares I guess? And also lights stuff on fire? Also girls do magic???
Fraan is Archer/Uhlan because bunny people are archers (this is a fact) and spears are just giant arrows
Ashe is red mage/time mage cause she seems like she's got a bit of magic going on but she would definitely want to use it in well rounded and time bending ways
...Balthier is Machinist/Monk cause he can't not be a machinist and also he's a very zen whatever happens happens kinda guy
as I switch back and forth to keep exp even my parties usually end up being Vaan/Balthier/Penelo and Basche/Ashe/Fran
I guess I'll take a second and look at what class gets what for belias I was hoping there was a more themey answer though, I liked how all the summons in FF13 were tied explicitly to a different character
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I think the way it's phrased makes this incredibly wishful thinking, sadly
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The 200+ people who have already been laid off will, regardless of what happens, be totally one hundred percent shit out of luck
So I mean, if they finish it that is neat for people that already bought it in advance but maybe strongly contemplate whether you want to give Telltale money for it going forward even if they do put out a finished season
They could stay on long enough to finish both, they could farm out the assets of TWD to another developer to finish it up, they could just make their tiny team crunch until they literally die at their desks doing both, the world may never know
EDIT: I don't know why I just did that to myself, in hindsight, now I'm just exhausted and want to drink forever
Yeah he did lots of consulting and wrote one companion
last I saw of it was quite a while ago but the playtest videos I saw had apparently finished dialogue and stuff and it was... pretty bad. it was clearly not Avellone's writing for some of those characters at all.
Probably better to be smaller, more stable, being able to ensure ethical treatment of your people,
than risking Liongate replacing your CEO with a closer, and throwing 200+ people under the bus.
I had a hard time focusing my eyes on the game until I disabled some bloom and other advanced graphic settings. It's something I've never had happen with a game before.
There's a let's play together thread around here that has low but steady traffic for a game from 2015 and is pretty positive towards updates from first-timers. They managed to completely sell me on grabbing the expansions, so that's apparently replacing The Walking Dead final season on my wishlist.
Taking a company public is the exact point that nobody above entry-level in the company will ever care about anything other than quarterly profits ever again. Sure, they'll spend money on marketing campaigns to SAY they treat all their customers like family and quality is their primary focus, but it's all complete bullshit.
Wait, they shuttered the studio mid-development of the final season of their biggest game?
I naively thought this was all done and they were just making the vast majority of the people redundant.
The only things that made them any money whatsoever since TWD season 1 were 7 Days to Die and Minecraft Story Mode
So they're finishing up Minecraft Story Mode to meet some contractual obligations
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This I did not know. When I think of telltale, that's the first game that comes to mind
they just didn't have any financial success
I've only ever played the Borderlands one, so I don't know if that's the rule or the exception.
I can't imagine there has been a huge demand for that really
11 games in six years really isn't that many to follow. I play more than 11 games in a single year. I think there's a few things at play, one of which is something we've started hearing more and more: episodic games are actually bad for business. No matter how much we may say we like the delivery system of episodic games, the market has shown that the result is people just wait for everything to be out. And once you have people waiting for something to be fully out, you've lost all the "launch" marketing buzz.
Also management is clearly just, huge problems there, if they're staying the course that hard despite producing one profitable game after TWD
I'm not seeing their connection to 7 Days to Die?
They are one of the publishers for it.
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Episodic games are like nega-DLC-season passes to me. Rather than paying upfront for DLC I may or may not engage with but know will come out, I can pay upfront to get a bunch of future content I have to engage with but have no clear idea of the timeline for.
It’s just not how I like to engage with the medium.
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