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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...

I suspect it'll be closer to the former than the latter, but we almost certainly shall not see at the current rate! Maybe someone's great, great, great etc. descendant will though!

Further thoughts: 1) This Xenomorph is like, insanely more dangerous than any Xenomorph we've seen before, and is ruthlessly focused on killing and nothing but killing pretty much as fast and efficiently as possible if there's more than one person present (except when it's the typical Alien...

Yup. WotC top leadership don't understand why BG3 succeeded. It wasn't because of the BG licence, as most people who played it had never played a BG game (and only some had heard of them before BG3). The average player is like, 28. It wasn't because of D&D or the Forgotten Realms - they did...

Meh. In nature that's always a case of "it wasn't true until it was". And "much larger" is very variable based on the exact dragon art/description. The muscles would have to be, sure, but like, if you were in the Triassic, looking at animals then you'd have poo-poo'd the idea of Brachiosaurs or...

No, it could not have been. That wouldn't have made any sense at all. I think you're reading this and seeing a sentiment you don't agree with and not looking at the distinction I'm making. When BG1 came out, companies pretty much never spent years and years working on a game, then ditched it...

I have to admit the one thing I would 100% pay for, for DH, is a big-ass book full of environments, traps, social situations, and so on, by someone who I actually respected the mechanical and thematic competence of, which, with love, is absolutely not the two WotC guys Darrington has hired (I...

Disagree. Bat or bird-style wings would absolutely function at that scale, they're just not that different to aeroplane wings. The issue is more to do with the claimed weights of D&D dragons, and how the game claims they fly. What do you mean by reverse? Because you seem to be using a lot of...

Feels like these are very "patient power user who is happy to spend time learning things" ratings, not at all how they'd be rated for someone taking a more "casual" approach to VTTs. Highly appreciate the detailed reviews and pros/cons though, regardless of the ratings those are very helpful!

DLC means downloadable content - i.e. OPTIONAL content you can, if you wish, download (paid or otherwise). It has to be OPTIONAL to be "downloadable content". Otherwise it's just "content"! The subclasses are not optional. They're just part of Patch 8, literally called "The Final Patch" by...

I'll be very interested to see how successful this is. Fan projects using such toolkits have a long, long history of fizzling out somewhere between 10 and 60% of the way through development, usually after making a big splash and getting people very excited. Very few which aren't simply...

Grounded is even bigger than Avowed/Outer Worlds as an Obsidian IP, it's not as high-profile among "gamers" but has sold pretty wild numbers and Grounded 2 sold 600k copies immediately when it launched into Early Access on Steam. Sorry just thought I should add that in! But yeah definitely...

No-one. There will be no DLC for BG3. Larian are the only people who could, because it's made with a proprietary engine that only Larian employees are trained on. It would be expensive and very time-consuming for Larian to licence that to WotC and train WotC studio employees to use it, and...

I mean, maybe they should, but that's not really how WotC work. Even BG3 wasn't made that way. After DOS1, Swen Vincke approached WotC, as several other companies had over the decades, to ask to make a BG3. WotC rebuffed him, like they had other companies, citing "inexperience" on Larian's...