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Yeah I feel like by making mental stats, especially INT (which was the biggest problem for race/species, too!) just part of your upbringing or somehow worse, occupational background with 5E 2024's Backgrounds (again, I can reiterate this enough, something nobody asked for, and that wasn't...

Yeah it's also possible that "looking like an eye" is only one trick it can pull. That thing scares me a lot. More than the vampire shrimp-spiders, kinda more than an adult drone Xenomorph (which in adult form is really not that different fundamentally from a very smart and aggressive big cat or...

Older design was often or even typically not well-informed by actual understandings of how to design things to meet specific goals. It often didn't think about what actually worked or how it worked and frequently just indulged a creator's whims mechanically, or arbitrarily did things a certain...

It mean, I don't think it would, personally. The Empire has existed at the point A New Hope happens for what, 19 years? It surely wouldn't make much Watsonian sense for an accent to be specific to "Imperials" at that point? Doylistly you could use to "mark out" Imperials but I think you're...

What that makes me think of is that I'd really like to see a simulationist RPG like Rolemaster (in conceptual thesis), but built from "first principles", without assumptions, without "Well this is how Rolemaster did it so...", and with modern design knowledge, modern design standards (which are...

I don't see it as "tonal whiplash" because fascist dictators are often insane clowns (not the good posse kind). Just look at Hitler. An absolutely weird freak. Even if we ignore all propaganda and only look at we know as facts, what he said himself, what people very close to him said, he was...

I wouldn't assume Wendy has any knowledge of how to sword-fight beyond what you'd expect from a twelve-year-old kid. Like, you were a kid, right? You might well have picked up a sword if you were going on what you saw as an "adventure" when you were 12, right? I might have. Did either of us...

Yeah so that's actually an interesting suggestion. inXile don't have the same high-profile record of CRPGs as Larian/Obsidian/Owlcat but they are on essentially the same Indie-AA-AAA arc, with Clockwork Revolution clearly being an AAA game (albeit a smaller one I'm guessing, from the trailers -...

Oooooh man how did I miss that. But yes there's another. Which begs the question, if the Xenomorph is metaphorically the "Bear", which alien is metaphorically the "Crocodile" and as such will eat him? So I think there's potentially a very good reason for that, and the show actually explains at...

In the sense "there's a chance" a random billionaire could have written you into his will without you knowing, sure. This is not true, and you certainly did not hear the first part from an interview with Swen. The studio was absolutely not "on the ropes". That's literally the opposite of what...

There's seemingly something odd going on there. The flashbacks are also to them and the father seemingly wearing 1950s/1960s clothing (and the furniture looks old-fashioned too), which raises even more questions. Also how young is Joe, exactly? Like, 18? 20? He only seems a few years older than...

I said that wasn't the case so not sure where you're getting that from... The difference is you make your own mistakes and thus don't randomly cancel games just so some upper-mid management exec can get a larger bonus. Which happens constantly now, and which longer dev cycles make a much bigger...

I like DIE but this is kind of my one hang-up with the system lol.

AAA ASSETS baby. In the broadest possible sense. That's the main thing. Assets are just so much more work to make with more requirements for quality - not just like, 4K textures or higher, but like, detailed, complex, flexible animation systems. Reliable scripting systems which allow for...

Hopefully she doesn't mind uh, a fair bit of gore because whilst it's not super-dwelled on, there definitely a lot in episode 2. But that said I watched Alien/Aliens at like 12/13 and it was fine so...

I mean, they were in charge of the majority of 5E's products, one or the other of them, but I don't think that shows much. Independent of 5E, Crawford is the original designer and creator of the Blue Rose RPG, which was an RPG for what used to be called "romantic fantasy" (not "romantasy", very...

When? When in the last 15-20 years did an independent studio do that? Because I can't think of a single example of an independent studio doing that. And every example I can think of, the actual cause, contrary to your "it just happens man" implication, was directly traceable to the publisher...

Bioware are probably locked up for the next 5+ years with making ME5 or dying trying (especially as they have to essentially rehire back up to an AAA level after being made to fire everyone), and then DLC if it's not a complete flop. Also if it's not a flop, I would fully expect EA to say "Ur...

I think Larian's next one is a bit more of a dice-roll than "probably a masterpiece" because Swen is both very influential within his company, an agent of chaos, and has bad taste (but also seems like a good guy apart from that), and Swen has sort of implied he wants more influence again (than...