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Post by VFerreira93 on Feb 24, 2021 20:04:15 GMT
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Post by VFerreira93 on Feb 24, 2021 20:09:09 GMT
*snips* At least Bioware's art director started following me + liked some stuff very recently on my professional portfolio site! Maybe there's a chance to get there in like 1000 years lmao I will design you a beautiful gay companion guys, just waitYou're the hero we needed but dont deserve Joey   |
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Post by VFerreira93 on Feb 24, 2021 20:14:43 GMT
Shitty news if you've been waiting for Dying Light 2 This article is a literal goldmine, I had no idea it was THAT bad there www.thegamer.com/techland-report-bleeding-talent-autocratic-management-bad-feedback/CEO is in charge of everything, he micromanages EVERYTHING. Have some complaints? His wife is a lead HR manager (got that job without any experience obviously) absolutely disgusting and this guy even has a say in stuff like character design... the article says he can step up and say "this character looks too f*ggot-like"... this really makes me think... because 2 years ago I was interviewed at Techland for a character concept art position. Everyone at the interview was genuinely happy and this conversation went really well, at the end they said: "so, we will send you that art test!". And then absolutely nothing. This isn't normal, because sending an art test is cost-free and I didn't fail the interview at all. Back in the day, I had only fem chara design in my portfolio and one male. And an idiot like that CEO could definitely describe that design as f*aggot-like and decide not to sent me an art test. I know the person who got that job instead. She was really, really bad. But I'm happy it ended like this because now I'm realizing how shitty this studio is. I'm just worried... if I will ever want to change my job, there's nowhere I could go in Poland. CD Projekt is screwed too. It really sucks that this is still a current reality within the gaming industry. Instead of pushing boundaries, striving to be better and pro-consumers, it reluctantly stays in the same spost often making the same mistakes over and over as if it's nothing to worry about :\ Although Im not that fond of Dying Light 2 (ragequit the first one 'cause the zombies always succeeded in killing during the last mission xD), I did enjoy another one of Techlands games - Dead Island. And so far nothing new on its sequel, Dead Island 2 which makes me believe it's going through the same hell development spiral Dying Light 2 is currently going through as well :\ |
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Post by Lee on Feb 25, 2021 3:43:42 GMT
RIP whoever that is. I don't know her. |
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Post by Joey on Feb 25, 2021 5:55:44 GMT
I know a lot of work went into this, but... good |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Feb 25, 2021 6:48:07 GMT
I still really feel like there is SOMETHING to Anthem as an overall IP. I just think that the mistake was in mapping it to the MMO format, especially without the focus on really making it pop in an oversaturated market of MMO shooters.
Too bad, though, that it's just not going to get that kind of shift, over to single-player. That's one of the great frustrations I have with MMOs in general - when the games inevitably shut down, when the servers go off, that game is effectively lost, rather than creating any kind of single-player variant for individual play. Like, yeah, it wouldn't be the same as playing against or with other people, but it still means that hard work and effort is allowed to continue to exist in some format.
Too much of video games as a medium is just allowed to die out.
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Post by Joey on Feb 25, 2021 20:18:42 GMT
GOOD!
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Feb 25, 2021 20:35:09 GMT
 The fact that they were even trying to make this a multiplayer-based game is ridiculous when Dragon Age has always been a single-player story-driven experience. I'm glad they learned their lesson and are shifting back to what they are good at. Hopefully this paves the way to a better future for BioWare and a return to what made these games so great to begin with....AND HOPEFULLY NO MORE 5-10 YEAR GAPS BETWEEN GAMES. Now the gay content on the other hand...that's a different story and still an uphill battle for us...but DA has always been better to us than ME... |
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Post by Joey on Feb 26, 2021 2:28:04 GMT
literally posted that above lmao |
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Post by Lee on Feb 26, 2021 2:38:36 GMT
Well, that's one less thing to worry about at least. Though-the fact it was rebooted twice is not the best of news. No wonder we haven't seen anything from the game yet. Sigh...someday a company will make an rpg game I want, and it won't be from a series of development hell. (probably not, but one can dream)
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Post by mediocreogre on Feb 26, 2021 4:22:39 GMT
It’s good news that leaves a slight nagging feeling in your gut. Definitely.
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Post by Scottphoto on Feb 26, 2021 6:38:26 GMT
It’s a convenient article, but not enough to help Bioware’s really tough spot right now. The reception of Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem wasn’t great overall (as much as I think the andromeda one was overblown, romance situation aside of course) so you already have the more casual bioware players skeptical. On top of this the fans that did love and defend Andromeda were betrayed with the lack of dlc content. Likewise, the fans that believed in Anthem and its potential, are now also betrayed after the fact. But additionally to all this, we have the situation of the trilogy rerelease, where they managed to piss different people everywhere. From us feeling very disappointed (uhderstatement) at not restoring gay content, to the weirdos mad at miranda’s butt changes, and overall people not totally sold on the visual changes, like there’s not much positive they landed.
And generally, I’m the one that always like to look at the bright spot of things despite all of it, I’m just not sure Bioware can come back from this. I’m glad they want to go back to what they know and love to do, but is a really tough road ahead to really convince such a large portion of players that left behind. They really need to knock this out of the park. Of course, hoping for the best, just more on the skeptical side for once.
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Post by VFerreira93 on Feb 26, 2021 8:15:04 GMT
literally posted that above lmao you ninjaed me and i didnt even notice  sry about that tho x) |
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Post by Lee on Feb 26, 2021 10:44:31 GMT
Also, I have a sneaking suspicion the true reason that MP is gone from Dragon Age is that loot boxes are now pretty much a no-fly zone for games. Both Mass Effect and Dragon Age relied heavily on that to make them profitable. Felt like I had to say it.  |
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Post by VFerreira93 on Mar 2, 2021 15:09:49 GMT
Apparently we'll be able to create trans characters in this game  |
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Post by mediocreogre on Mar 2, 2021 15:19:17 GMT
At least there’s that. I never thought I’d have to deal with a franchise about witches and wizards being real and good actually and the villains being purity obsessed people who dislike anything different, being haunted by bigoted closed minded people. But this world is gross in its hypocrisy.
And I know we know about this games issues but many, many wonderful people won’t, and will buy this game or be given this game, so I am glad they’ll at least have that.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Mar 2, 2021 20:03:50 GMT
That really screams “damage control” - “we know you’re upset, but please still give us your money, even if, by law, a portion of it will still go to her and her anti-trans advocacy.”
Sorry, not enough for me to spend any money on this directly. Just because there’s the veneer of inclusivity, that doesn’t change the fact that ever dollar of this game puts dimes (or pounds or sickles, however you want to apply the metaphor across exchange rates) in her pocket, which she will then gleefully throw at anti-trans organizations and causes.
My anxiety gives me enough grief, I don’t need to add the idea that I’m in some way helping her support things that kill trans people.
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Post by Lee on Mar 3, 2021 3:28:15 GMT
HP rpg is such an emotional landmine for me. I hate that it has to play out this way. I have never loved the idea of a game so much that I now feel guilty at even thinking about possibly wanting it. I wish J.K. Rowling would somehow just grow as a person and stop being shit. That would help so much! It won't happen, but damn it!
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Mar 3, 2021 6:01:12 GMT
HP rpg is such an emotional landmine for me. I hate that it has to play out this way. I have never loved the idea of a game so much that I now feel guilty at even thinking about possibly wanting it. I wish J.K. Rowling would somehow just grow as a person and stop being shit. That would help so much! It won't happen, but damn it! Harry Potter as a whole franchise is so tainted by all of this for me, I swear.
Like it's been one thing when it comes to individual actors or even showrunners, or hell some company like BioWare, because the things they're involved in are collaborative works. It's not any singular shitty person who makes the whole thing shitty, even if that shitty person is at the head of the table, all these people leave an imprint on the finished product, and even if they're technically financially benefiting from my interest and purchasing of these things, it still feels like pennies out of the whole purchase because of how many other people share that paycheck.
But the whole series is FIRMLY hers. She maintains such tight control over it, and makes every effort to keep that tight control. You know, spreading out what is "canon" years after the fact, doling out these various tidbits that are now a part of the world once she says them and everyone is expected to accept them. Plus as I reexamine what she has done and said, the things in her works, there are a lot of things that become so much more evident, so much LOUDER - the antisemitism, the classism, the fatphobia... It's all so much harder to just let that go, knowing that this is all HER. That supporting it supports her.
I've been rearranging my bookcases and getting ready to put a lot of books that have been freestanding for years in shelving proper as of late. And as I look at my Harry Potter books... Honestly, I am genuinely, DEEPLY tempted to instead sell them, not even able to take them, open them, go through and read bits that I loved, or even put them in that place of honor on the shelves at this point, knowing what I do about the writer. And it HURTS.
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Mar 3, 2021 18:33:26 GMT
I never got into Harry Potter myself other than watching the odd film or two back when I was a tween but it sounds like an awful situation to be in if you're a fan - I'm sorry it turned out that way for you...to have something you once loved tainted so much by a single person...
I totally get it though - that you're considering selling them instead of putting them away because of what has happened over time with the author. Shame it has come down to that with the franchise. My fiance wants me to get into it but I just have zero interest in really giving it a chance knowing all of this.
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