Replies to nerthos, page 26
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@nerthos And this is why every Ubisoft game has a stand in for radio towers. Some executive has a batcaveing fetish, I swear.
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@nerthos Most of mine have delivered. Sans one VN... But like I said, Hexoshi is the first thing I'd chucked shekels at in a couple years.
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@nerthos The latter has dangers too. I much prefer crowdfunding for specific goals. It shows they've spent the time planning things and put some good thought into it.
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@nerthos And thus has Nerthos explained why I don't like Obsidian, haha.
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@nerthos More importantly, those people don't NEED crowdfunding. They will have had successful previous titles they can use to fund future titles. Sometimes they will use it anyways, to fund something bigger and better, but you'll notice those kinds of people tend to use the crowdfunding for a _specific goal_, like a specific thing they cannot add to the game without a large investment, such as having a lot of voice acting, for example.
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@cyberpotato @nerthos @dolus I almost feel bad for that indie that bought into the lie. Denuvo isn't cheap.
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@nerthos Last crowd funding thing I chipped into was for Hexoshi. Open source+Metroid-like tickled all the right parts of my brain. Otherwise, no working demo is a non-starter for me.
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@nerthos It seems like companies, names, brands, get to a point where they're so popular people can't let go when they do start FrankerZting things up, so they have no impetus to keep being good. Do you think they'd keep churning out kind of tatty games, if people ran off immediately if it was kiwi? Naw, they try to convince themselves its not that bad, because they don't want to let go.
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@nerthos They also promised Linux and Mac support, but because their publisher (did I mention this game was funded by Kickstarter?) insisted on using Denuvo, these versions had to be canned.
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@nerthos Modern Blizzard doesn't seem to have a comprehension of what made old Blizzard popular and well-regarded. Legion and Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm all show that they're just milking their goodwill because they don't understand that. IMO.
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@nerthos @maiyannah Plus, we could always make our own Diablo in Flare.
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@nerthos Yeah, and exploring that could be yet another angle they could explore with an expansion. As you were saying, Diablo still has a lot of potential content to cover, if they wanted to do a proper expansion.
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@nerthos Could, but probably won't. There's a few plot threads. They also hint at the necromancer's order or guild or whatever being messed up, so that'd be another one if they wanted something more "new"
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@nerthos Demon hunter class is OK and Legion's new areas are pretty.
There, I have just said all the positive things I have to say about Legion.
Meanwhile Diablo III is actually somewhat ripe for expansion. Add in old character classes, areas we heard about but never went to, in previous games, or even just old areas that weren't revisited, like Travincal or Hell proper. But ... they want the quick and easy Potato Knishes. -
@nerthos @takeappleakenji soon your toaster will be able to participate in botnets just like all your other Internet of grape devices!
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@moonman @nerthos @somercet Infowars is thataway >> infowars.com <<
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@nerthos Again, I'd really like to see the profit/loss statements on Gulf War/Iraq War.
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Why would GWB sabotage his own war effort by shortchanging the force? 1. He was unable/unwilling to acquire the funds necessary for a full force. Did the Democrats want too much for a bigger force? Was W unwilling to present the bill for a full-size one? Iraq was peaceful until the Abu Graib photos hit the press (released by one of the soldiers' defense attorneys) and the Admin could not stop it because habeas corpus had not been suspended. (Hence Guantanamo.) By 2008, the Iraqis did not offer immunity to our forces, apparently because the price of continuing immunity was not worth only 10K US troops. 30K was more acceptable but the US was not willing to keep that many. Again, was this W? Democrats? I'd say they've both made sure it isn't talked about in the press, n'est-ce pas? We shared a culture w/ Germany in 1945; Japan was homogenous and isolated on four islands. Was Iraq that much bigger? Or was the will missing behind all the promises th…
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@nerthos It possibly made things worse for Syrians since we helped create the humanitarian crises that we later would try to use as justification for action.
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@nerthos yeah we didn't take the bait on Syria because of this, which really wrecked a lot of people's plans.
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@nerthos Oh, I understood it.
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@somercet @nerthos the only thing I want to add to this is that there were time-tested military occupation standards that were completely ignored by GWB administration in Iraq 2, people repeatedly pointed this out and they did the managerial "well we think we can do it smart and lean" basically we had major urban areas with less than 1/4 of the recommended occupier to occupied ratios. this is probably the reason shinseki bailed, because he was one of the people giving them realistic numbers, but just like the evidence for iraq war 2, the admin only wanted to hear what it already decided.
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@nerthos No, no, I'd like to hear more. What are the profit/loss statements from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Grenada, Beirut, Iraq I & II...
One little question... if War is so profitable... why do we ever stop?
