Recent content by nevin

Microsoft the company where game studios go to die. Oh boy that ought to be cataclysmic.

The game won't always run smoothly when consequences come into play. Players actions can cause life to be hard and unsmooth. I agree that considering how fast information can flow and having the reactions to events match the narrative of the story is important. I do not agree, if that's what...

bad guys continuing the story based on events and actions that the players caused or created is not spot nerfing or revenge fudging. Now if you meant to limit the statement to DM's just punishing players for winning fine, but saying the baddies and other NPC's shouldn't come back and react...

well the problem is software companies get those big paychecks every 5 to 7 years and book and game publishers just get mediocre but healthy checks every year. Greed will always pull the executives in that direction. Everyone sees a big game success and they always miss the years of no...

YEP It really does. BG3 punishes you just as much for playing good the stories are so much more bland and they feel hollow.

I just hope they have more heroic but not over the top dark depressing stories. BG3 was just a crawl through broken glass as far as I'm concerned

Or as DM consider that leaving peacefully may only be considered reasonable if the creatures Allies go as well. If they are truly allies is leaving your buddies to die reasonable. Probably not. . Now if he doesn't like his master maybe it is?

They did and they were mostly successful. Shame DC can't learn from that.

no but they effectively own Dr who. multiple groups I'm talking about and Strange New worlds is the oddity among star trek shows and movies over the last 15 years. Maybe they've learned thier lesson maybe not. We'll see. The big studios are really bad about getting mad over a series doing...

I think it's been so successful because it went back to it's originial premise and stuck to it's original premises on scifi.

Yea but I just want a superhero movie where the superhero has challenges, maybe a few ethical dilemma's and then does the right thing. All this watchmen dark, do we really need them stuff is fine for that genre not for Marvel or DC. IMO anyway.

fair enough. I'll amend my statement to Disney and the studios are strongly trying to Stars wars'ify doctor who, and Star Trek. My statement was far too broad. There are other sci fi IP's that have stayed true to thier Scifi .

I bleed sci-fi. And the Directors of several of the Star Wars movies are on record saying they want a more star wars style star trek universe. . Sci Fi shows only work well when if they operate within the fictional science they use. When the writers can just take a strand of the Universal...

The superman willing to do whatever it takes to save lives gives me hope that the old DC verse is dead. The trailer seems to be keeping the dark right in the human condition where it should be. . But I'm not getting excited till I see the movie. Gunn gives me hope. but they've screwed up...

It's even simpler than that. There has been a strong movement by all the studios to "Star Warsify" all sci-fi because they want a simple special effects driven model instead of good writing and consistent stories that stick to their own internal rules. Thus the mess of the current Dr. Who...