The Gaming Den

Reading through some of my older Shadowrun stuff, I realized that Lone Star (another Findley book) is actually pretty good. Suffers some of the early Shadowrun structural issues, but it's written pretty well.

Are you drunk?

I mean, I am, so I'm not holding it against you.

My old Shadowrun GM was one of them. I think it's the novels/fiction of the universe that make people think that's the way it should be. It didn't quite click for me until I played Shadowrun Returns, but in that game you start out dirt poor, make chump change for missions the entire time, save the ...

For fuck's sake.

They're unconventional, character-focused stories in a series that is largely about event stories--in most FF games, For me it wasn't that it was unconventional, it was that the characters were bad, or dumb, or annoying, or all three. The systems in 8 sounded good but ended up being broken. The com...

Jesus, I wasn't expecting you to start in on it.

Should I mail you some liquor?

That FF13 outsold FF6 makes me a little bit sad. It was maybe the saddest excuse for a game I've ever played. It saddens me to see 8 on the top 10 at all. These (and I lump them together because they're very related complaints) particularly surprise me around here. FF8 and FF13 (and to a lesser deg...

Has anyone properly eviscerated SR5 yet? I mean, I know it's a turd, but I haven't seen a really good shitting-upon-it as of yet.

That naked man does not know what an illithid is.

Speaking as a guy who is starting on a computer graphics course, graphics coding is made of pain and not having to do it is a perfectly good reason for just about anything. I mean, when doing graphics coding you have to actually care how long multiplication takes compared to addition instead of dec...

There aren't really any meaningful choices this time around. An LP probably isn't a bad idea.

When Identity Crisis first came out I said that if they wanted to really do a serious rape story the victim should have been Superman. I stand by that conviction. It already happened, though Superman was named Apollo[1] at the time and revenge occurred via jackhammer. [1] - yes I know Apollo is sup...

Even if you really, really liked Analogue, I'd suggest waiting for a sale. I bought it day-of (and then ran headlong into "wasn't tested on Mac" problems and some not-awesome technical support) and finished it two days later--you can only play so much in a 12-hour period before it shuts yo...

Exit Fate got finished? The more you know.

I dig the status-effects-over-damage thing a lot. My JRPG is going in a similar direction. Combat is real-time, and so I have a lot of continuous variables to play with: HP regen, magic regen, action gauge regeneration, and so on. Like, all characters constantly, slowly regenerate HP--healing spells...

I think you're being a little too harsh, Frank. "MAKE FAT STACKS OF CASH hopefully without doing any work" is a pretty compelling design goal.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:So the Virtual Tabletop imploding wasn't, I think, so much 4E D&D's fault as incredibly terrible luck.

How soon we forget that these chucklefuckers thought Gleemax was a good idea.

$1.5m for Inafune in four days. Damn.

And I'm probably gonna get insane static asking for $65K.

Corsair114 wrote:Mechs in MW4 would not self-destruct from heat unless you overode. No matter how high you pushed it, as long as you left the override alone you'd be fine.

There was a MekTek mech for MW4Mercs that let you put five ERPPCs on it. It by all rights should have nuked you with one shot, but, hey.

Continuing with lighter notes, if you haven't played Saints Row 4 you really should. It's all the shooting-everyone-while-wearing-a-hotdog-suit of SR3, but now you can jump skyscrapers. And it spends a lot of time goofing on a lot of modern games in a way that's really funny and approachable.

Naw, the problem is that western devs promised too much. The narrative at the time was "Japanese games are deaaaad!". These western studios were suppose to prove that Americans prefer western games, but they've failed to do better than the Japanese studios. I do think that's part of it. J...

What's weird is that every publisher seemed to have decided to go for 5 million simultaneously. I don't think that's that weird. They're all publicly traded companies that are sensitive to PR and investor confidence. Even if your expenses are low enough that a mere 3m sales would do you just fine, ...

But the rest of the internet still wants to call people out as being incompetent shitbags, and the term of the decade is Asperger's , an actual condition where people have difficulty interacting with others socially, or Autism where people still think of fucking Rain Man. They want to be very clear...

The insult is used to describe someone without social skills. So you just answered your own question.

I'd consider focusing on an online generator and (cross platform) mobile app, first. Primarily because if a generator is written in HTML5/JS it can be (relatively) easily ported to all the mobile OSes. I have to disagree here. I'm a mobile developer/product lead (well, that's what my business card ...