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Oh for sure it would have had a ton of blowback. But Disney made loads of bad to extremely bad decisions in a row, so it wouldn't have been hugely surprising. Luckily as the bad decisions piled up and COVID acted as a brake on their ability to output shows, they seem to have gained a better...

Personally I suspect that this is more a result of the pandemic slowing things down and Disney itself changing, together with the relatively lower than expected success of some very safe project than early discussions being over reported. Obviously we don't know but it looks to me that had...

Yeah though it's completely unclear how much, like, was EUR100k? Or something more significant for an AA game like that, like EUR4m? Exactly. The annoyance just wouldn't be worth it unless it was serious money.

The EU has regulations about fair competition (between European countries) and part of that is that the state can only do so much if it's promoting some industry within a specific country. Something like creating a state-funded/run games company would be very likely to fall afoul of those rules.

Yeah, and that'll require them to maintain some kind of real investment/subsidies/tax breaks for developers for at least a decade or two to get them going. It's unclear from the article what the current approach is, as the claim of "huge public funds" is super-vague and could mean anything from...

It's pretty meaningless, sadly. Unless the German government is willing to find dozens to hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, it's just wishful thinking. Like, yeah, that'd be nice. The reality is that, as far as I am aware, there are no teams with real recent CRPG experience currently...

Here's another angle of it I do not know what that is - it's very faintly familiar but...

Somewhat ironic given the one journalist the film thanks is entirely unprincipled, and two of the people they took footage from are literally provocateurs who try to make themselves into the story, or create the story. I don't think it's a particularly good message, either, because journalists...

Yeah pretty much my reaction. I don't mind cutesy farming games and so on - Stardew Valley is very cute - but this is a bit much, even by those standards.

I'm not convinced the cocaine stuff will actually make it it into movie - we'll see - there's some speculation it's specifically for the trailer. Also lampshading that you're being asked to tone it down is usually a sign you're being toned down. You don't really conventionally lampshade things...

She literally does it in the first episode of the cartoon - like, the first ever one, back in 1992. And she's done it ever since. Yes in the comic books she definitely doesn't have the mutant power to do that - yet still does it at times - but in the TV cartoon, her power set has always...

It's not from the game. The walking on mangled foot thing I mentioned earlier I think - I'm pretty sure that's just the result of the foot-mangling being entirely VFX, and the actor being told that he had an injured foot, but it not being conveyed quite horrifically injured it was. That said...

That's the most recent report, but earlier ones were very different. Earlier indications (like 3+ years ago) were that Fiege and Disney were pretty keen to bring it down to PG-13, and this lead to some "discussions". But at some point that changed - I think Disney particularly started realizing...

Because of this qualification you're actually agreeing with his thesis.

Looking them up, presumably you mean because they're significantly more reliant on roleplaying and story than really any official D&D adventure of that era? I see that both have some "dungeon crawl elements" but people today recommend skipping those bits or playing them down. I think it's fair...

I feel like Traveller was very much the "other" culture though, with the randomized chargen, replete with setbacks or even death. That's much more in line with what 1970s D&D was doing, and less in line with what Champions and later '80s and '90s games were doing. That doesn't really make sense...

I don't think Pendragon has - I think Pendragon is doing something different and more true to Arthurian myth. I think D&D could absolutely use and have used a really chivalric setting, one that's completely ahistorical and not strictly tied to Arthurian myth, but obviously heavily inspired by...

Interesting. That sounds like a valid read, but I'd need to read it in more detail to see if I agreed. It certainly doesn't have the super-good vibes that WotC advertised it as having.

Interesting, I can believe it. 2E seemed to work drastically better from about L3/4 onwards. 1991 but yeah.