What bothers me most is the reversion to what we were all having a blast with in the first place.
Thanks for the report.
A long time ago I reviewed it and said some negative things. The PR people for that game were the only ones to ever send me a nastygram afterwards. Well…there was that one adware company that wrote to my editor after I included them in an article about adware, but in the games world it was the only one.
Well, that’s pretty lame. Especially since I remember 12-15 years ago you guys talking about that game and it sounded really cool. Some of your write-up still inspires that as well, it’s a great idea for an online game. It’s a shame what it has been reduced to. Nothing ruins online experiences like other gamers, I suppose.
I think it’s a 50/50 mix of players and the developers this round. I mean, seriously, a cell phone-type contract to play a game? Never seen anything like it.
CRS has always been a handful of pricks. They’re just bigger ones now.
I didn’t understand much of it, but it was a fun story.
I had written a pretty positive preview of the game for CGM that never got printed. I’m sort of glad of that. The fun in the game seemed to be what you made of it at that time. I’m the type that finds the fun so it was cool. IIRC, I had a dogfight with Gordon Goble where we shot each other up pretty good but neither one of us could bring the other down and we ended up flying away from each other with holes in our planes and bingo fuel. In my head I saluted him from the cockpit as we both flew home. It was a blast. I didn’t even know it was him until a day later.
It sucks that it ended up releasing right after I wrote that preview (way early… it wasn’t even close to done) and that it has never evolved into what it could’ve been.
It would have taken me forever to spell out everything I was talking about to someone that’s never played. :) Sorry.
No, it’s not your responsibility to explain all the game’s mechanics to me. It just sounds complicated, and I’m not all that good at war games to begin with.
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I will be attempting to finish Deus Ex Mankind Divided. This will be the only thing I play, for two reasons.
One is I’m close to the end, and I tend to lock in on narrative games like this. The other is that Wednesday I’m flying out to Portland where I will be two weeks, fly back to Chicago, then a day later flying to California for a week and a half. Basically I won’t be home for almost a month. So it’s now or ever since there is no way it’ll run on my Surface Pro ;)
My biggest challenge is my thorough nature. I tend to be the type to scour every corner. I love digging into every little hidddn area, and that takes time. But time well spent. The level design in MD is miles beyond Human Revolution. The Pallisades bank should be taught in game design classes, it’s that good.
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Well I may have another challenge beyond my completionist tendencies, game stability. It seems that the further I get, the more problems I have. Any time I change zones I am rolling dice if my system crashes. Full system crash restart 3 times while playing since my post yesterday.
Also loading a zone for the first time each time I play takes like 2-3 minutes.
If I didn’t really like the setting…
Edit: turns out the latest wasn’t a train related system crash, but rather my one and a half year old daughter hitting the reset button on the computer while I took a bathroom break, due to long train rides. Oh baby girl…
Between my kids and the cats, I unplugged the wire to the reset button :D
Bought Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy on a whim the other day. The menu music, ELO’s “Living Thing”, has me fired up to get going.
What I did play: Nioh, Injustice 2, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition, Blazblue: Central Fiction.
Yeah, I guess I’m in a “fighting game” mood lately. ;)
I was able to get in a lot more gaming time than I thought. I spent a bunch of that time trying to record the DVD version of Wing Commander IV – which GOG kindly provides – but it was no joy, so I had to downgrade to the DOS version. I also streamed some Drox Operative.
For myself, I finally got over the hurdle in The Division and am now really enjoying it. I’m getting better at Steep too, though that one is a process, but I’m loving said process. I also, of course, spent time with Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor - Martyr, which is sadly losing some of its allure for me.
Overall, a great weekend.
Spent most of the weekend playing Slay The Spire. Not sure about longevity but in the ~20 hour range it’s a helluva game.
Also, playtesting on DERPPG.
I played a ton of Fortnite and only Fortnite. With only 14 days left in the current battle pass, I’m trying to get to Tier 100. I don’t think I’m going to make it, but it’ll be close.
I won a few Solo matches and one Duo, too. Had a lot of high finishing games. I definitely am more accomplished at playing it that ever before. I won two Solo matches in a row in fact, which felt pretty good.
…have you abandoned Derpspace for…waves dismissively at thing…whatever this is…?
Now what sort of a barely-code-literate indie game developer would I be if I could only make 1 game at a time??
I’m pretty sure that will be a part of Derpspace. Kind like Star Marine and Star Citizen, you know? ;)
