Sure, you could probably write an awesome new AI for black and white but you could also write an awesome 3d renderer for the original Mario World.
My point was that the AI is really core to the game, and I am not sure how they would replicate it in an accurate manner. If you wrote a new AI it would be a different game.
I wonder how they will translate over the AI from the original. That was a huge part of that game, so much so that I would say Black and White with a different AI isn’t the same game.
Good quote. Here is more of it for context:
Fable was profitable - “highly profitable”, Lionhead’s Simon Carter told Eurogamer - but in a now too-familiar story, it and its genre was seen by Microsoft as just not profitable enough. “That category is not the biggest category on the planet,” said Robbie Bach, who was the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft before Don Mattrick assumed the role. “It’s not soccer. It’s not American Football. It’s not a first-person shooter sized category. So at a commercial level, I would say it was successful, but not wildly so.”
Wildly successful was what Microsoft was after. A pitch for Fable 4 was rejected. “It was like, you’ve reached your cap of players for RPG on Xbox and you need to find a way to double that, and you’re not going to do it with RPG,” Fable’s art director John McCormack told Eurogamer at the time. “I thought, yes we can. I said, look, just give us four years, proper finance, give us the chance Mass Effect has, Skyrim has, the games at the time. They’re getting four years and a lot of budget. Give us that, and we’ll give you something that’ll get you your players. Nah, you’ve had three shots and you’ve only tripled the money. It’s not good enough. Fuck off. That’s what I was annoyed about.” (Worth noting: Skyrim went on to sell 63m copies, as of June 2023, The Witcher 3 over 50m.)
It’s cool people are doing this - but it feels weird that they want to get X number of levels done and polish the assets to a level before releasing anything playable.
Seems like they should be releasing a few levels to folks with a few characters, get feedback and iterate from there.
I get your point but I think you are off base with this one. The lead designer of this game, and the reason it’s getting a press cycle in the first place, is most famous for Bioshock. The comparison to Bioshock is absolutely called for in this case.
If you aren’t familiar with it, then fair enough but it’s more then a game design point of reference, this looks like a spiritual continuation of that series.
I haven’t played a lot of Divinity but I will say the DnD character creator is much more interesting to me then the skill system in Divinity. I don’t know if Divinity’s skill systems gets better as it goes, but BG3 starts out with a lot of really interesting classes and choices.
Wait, anti-cheat? Wtf?
I have some bad news for you about the sales of Midnight Suns….
Quick addition, I think for the messy argument the way I would articulate it for folks running servers is it helps you move from pets to cattle.
As someone who bought a Steam Deck this summer, feels bad man
Any thoughts on the PC version vs the console versions?
What made it so bad?
This is such a useless article, no details at all with what they are selling in the shop, no analysis on its effect on the game, just a quote from the developer.
Direct link to the YouTube video to avoid the article which adds zero value,
Maybe a dumb question, but how do I go about getting heroic launcher on the deck?
What do you mean?
Any good guides to setting up streaming from Desktop to Deck?
Why do I need to do that to the battery?
It looks interesting, I am not opposed to paying for search but I feel like the bar works high for me to continue to pay for it.
What makes it better then other search engines?
It feels like a real low bar to cross for an article on the subject, especially given that comments were public