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Black and White 2 was also fun

Are you using proton experimental?

But Hunt Showdown exists

I agree that Pitchford is a dick, but I sincerely disagree about the art style comments: I don’t think it’s morally correct to “copyright” (or, reworded: claim exclusivity of) art styles, especially in this context.

I think the two works are completely independent, and Gearbox being inspired by the short film is completely appropriate.

Anything else would be no different (in my opinion) than cases like Roger Dean (the cover artist for Yes’ early albums) suing James Cameron for the floating islands in Avatar.

It’s not stealing to be inspired by someone else.

Yeah, I recently bought the GL-MT6000 and it’s been great.

Those responses on Twitter are surprisingly wholesome. Sucks that there was a leak, but I doubt it’ll affect the launch much.

Really hoping this’ll be a great game; fingers crossed.

If you don’t want to pre-order, don’t. But don’t just assume that the cancelation of a playtest means the game is broken.

Announcing they’ve gone gold, two months prior to launch, is surely to assuage doubts that the game is being rushed or incomplete.

It’s the correct move, and shows that they believe in their product. Hopefully it isn’t a deception.

Genuinely hope this one turns out great, as I loved the first game.

That’s not what “going gold” means.

It means that they’ve completed development and are prepping their final release CDs/builds.

Functionally, it means development has stopped because the dev team has deemed it complete enough for physical release builds.

While I grew up playing the original Crazy Taxi (in arcade machine form, no less), I’m certain it would fail if released with the same gameplay formula today.

Some changes were necessary, for sure.

Having said that, making it massively multiplayer with a persistent open world definitely seems like a step in the wrong direction.

Something more akin to a modern roguelike with an expanding gameplay area and meaningful vehicle upgrades between runs probably would have been enough.

But, having said that, I’m hoping the studio is able to make something great. I’m very-cautiously optimistic.

Because it annoys me deeply when people nerd out over difficult-to-search-for acronyms without ever bothering to explain it for people not in the know:

The web comic’s called “the Parking Lot is Full”.

It ran from 1993 to 2002, and while the original site has been down for years, you can still browse parts of it via archive.org.

It has a little something for everyone.

As a player who’s played 4U, GU, World, and Rise; I’m kind of okay with that loss. The hunting side of things was always very weak and unintuitive (to me).

I think putting more emphasis on interactions with the world kind of help justify the existence of the open world - but more emphasis on finding and tracking monsters just seems like a step in a direction the teams - historically - haven’t been the best at.

This is just my opinion, though - shame to see a part you liked about the games being reduced.

Well, that just looks incredible. 2025 can’t come soon enough.

Other than the slightly similar camera angle - and emphasis on slight: those games have very different styles of camera - those are completely distinct games.

I get the idea that you’re not a fan of those titles for their design choices which led to mainstream success, but holy crap give them an iota of credit.

That was Sony’s site. Super shitty what they did there.

But on the Steam Store page it was always “a PS account is required”.

I’m totally with you on that latter point - Sony needs to do something about that.

Well, to be fair, they did write - in bold letters - on the Steam page that a Playstation network account is required to play.

They simply didn’t enforce that rule up until now.

A game where you pay up front for access, as opposed to a free-to-play/freemium title where the initial download is free.

Ooh, I’ll tell them to try it out - looks cool, cheers!

Conduit sounds very exciting - but my synapse installation (and its concomitant database) is too old and big for me to make a switch to anything else just yet.

But I’m hoping Dendrite will one day allow me to migrate over - I don’t like how one of my most mission critical programs is a Python program running out of a packaged venv. 😅