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Yeah but that's what both MOO3 and Stellaris started with and after testing and after launch respectively both abandoned. Also Sword of Stars was cool but pretty much the opposite of accessible - not that you said it was, just pointing that out.

Sorry but this is so vague as to be without meaning and doesn't address games which don't really have "a narrative" yet are RPGs. The issue is the opposite of assuming that. It's that we're assuming you mean the conventional literal meaning, in which case what you're saying doesn't prima facie...

I think outright orthogonal to the medium might be slightly too extreme a position for my taste in 2025 AD, because some subgenres of games absolutely rely on a strong story as part of their package of what makes them work, but certainly there always have been and still are games and even RPGs...

The theory - and this isn't my theory, note, but one a lot of different designers have come to, all of them starting off wanting non-star lane designs - is that once you have a large map, if you have no predictable paths at all, ships just able to go from anywhere to anywhere (maybe within a...

This begs the question of what you mean by "story". The conventional understanding is a tale with a beginning, middle and end. With videogames we might add that it needs not be linear and might have choices leading to different variants of the story (which may be of varying quality). But there...

Wow I just got hit by a flashback like I fought in Vietnam. I know exactly why MOO3 used star lanes, because MOO3 did this bizarre thing where they basically blogged the WHOLE of the development of the game, with both the lead designer and art director blogging genuinely regularly and in detail...

I mean, I guess that's true isn't it? I feel like the odds of getting a good story in a novel are higher, but the complicating factor is that most RPGs are essentially story + game kind of superglued together, and thus you can end up with quite disparate levels of quality, so you're more likely...

But yes really it did. DA2 is fascinating because it's a good example of how constraints can make for both a stronger product and piece of art, and how they can also do the opposite! Like, DA2's story is stronger because they had to cut out some decisions and possibilities, almost all of which...

This only makes your position drastically worse, because it means you must necessarily aware of how you're not being accurate at all re: datacenter energy usage. I don't see how you think this helps your position.

Nothing in your post supports this generalized claim. In particular, absolutely nothing you've said contests the point re: costing significant energy. It seems like you just have no understanding of how AI works, so believe because it's not using much computing power on your end, it isn't...

I think that's what it's intended to do, though in reality I find it is frequently inaccurate, and I've seen it have all correct search results, but the summary is some complete off-topic nonsense! So it seems like it must also be drawing from sources which aren't the shown results (indeed...

People often talk about EA's greed but I think their almost greater sin is their rather draconic hoarding tendencies and lack of vision beyond short-term acquisitiveness. You can be greedy and smart (like a lot of Japanese publishers), but EA are just greedy. Other beloved game franchises, even...

Like, what the heck is Solo doing there lol. I can totally understand, even if I don't agree "ESB and ANH are the only good SW movies", that's the least bold take possible. People have been saying that since forever. I can understand adding Rogue One if you really, really loved SW for the...

I would definitely agree that the main story in BG3 is far weaker than the rest of it. I mean, I'm not him but off the top of my head and recent, Expedition 33, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 (esp. Phantom Liberty, but maybe that's considered separately - still even if it...

It really isn't "crazy and bad" in the "nerfed" sense at all, because of the other choices that they made, which generally advantage the exact same classes who need their jump. They're also very generous with how high and far you can jump. In 5E, you can long jump half STR score (not mod) if...

I played a little bit of Air Riders with my nephews recently, it was fascinatingly bizarre, I do kind of appreciate the one-button control scheme, but I wish they'd been more keen to play Smash Bros, which I am bad at, but bad at in a way which makes sense to me rather than just being confused...

I do think the Jedi Kill Zone is the major reason for creating the clones, because from the get-go, they were built with chips to control their behaviour, including a secret option which wasn't "kill all Jedi", but was communicated to the Kaminoan designers as "Oh Jedi might go rogue, we need...

New year new thread! What videogames are you playing to escape The Horrors this year? For the very first time I can, to my own shock, recommend what is technically a gacha game, Limbus Company. This is a very strange, very literary like TRPG/VN hybrid (a genre we are admittedly seeing more...