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Compared to the constant CHESS CHESS CHESS nah? I'm sorry but D&D (let alone Rolemaster, bless its heart) ain't the chess of RPGs. Nothing will be the "chess of RPGs" for like, 500 years. Chess is only chess because it survived. It's remarkable that it did. We barely know about the bazillions of...

Spoken like someone who isn't thinking hard about how art actually works, frankly. Artistic techniques don't all magically exist forever. They have to be developed. You have to know they're possible. You have to have the tools and paints and so on to make them work. In the modern era, we have...

Why speculate lol? Why not stop, do some research, and find out facts? There's some much unnecessary guessing and leaping to conclusions with your posts on this lol. What's going on? Is there some kind of time pressure? Tencent have an MO - they cruise around looking for Western game studios...

You can keep saying this but it's going to keep being either: A) Wrong. or B) "No true Scotsman". DOS2 was what "set them up". It made incredible amounts of money. It transformed them from a company who were doing pretty good (as they were with DOS1) to a company who were incredibly...

Yes it is, for designing new games. And you haven't actually argued otherwise, you've just made an insulting comparison and an appeal to traditionalism. Monopoly was intentionally designed to be a horrible game, and that mission was achieved, so you might want to pick a different example. We...

I am skeptical that you believe this comparison. As @Umbran says, this is about understanding and conceptualizing mechanics and achieving goals using mechanics, and we are unquestionably better at that now than 20-40 years ago. (Also, as a classically trained artist, you are a being a silly...

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.