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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · Nov 20

Goemar floated this idea, and since I already had everyone's handles organized in a spreadsheet from the last migration it made this (relatively) easy to make #blutoid go.bsky.app/K6xaMDZ

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 32m

Have you tried getting good?

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 34m

I mean, it's not like they put the game on Plus for free 😂 Sony is cutting them a check for it. The game is two years old now, I doubt it's seeing many sales at MSRP

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 2h

It's honestly a miracle they're still around, and I'm glad they got the bag from that CrossfireX single player thing. Maybe more contract work is the play from here. There seems to be more IPs with demand for new releases than there are studios to make new installments these days.

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 2h

Yea this is not a massive sum of money. I think the real issue is that AW2 did just okay, not incredible relative to its cost, and that revenue stream dried up this year. They were hoping fo FBC to fill the void until Control 2 and the Max Payne remakes but it didn't.

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect the actual investment in FBC was pretty minimal, but they were hoping on it to generate some revenue instead of flopping the way it did.

So I think it's less "FBC hurt Remedy's financials" and more "Remedy's financials are bad and FBC didn't help at all"

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 8h

Natural diegetic sign posting is unironically great!

The goal is to draw your eye without breaking your immersion in the game world. The only reason this is post worth is because of how terrible many developers are with this stuff by comparison lol

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 17h

While I'm very happy w/ Romulus and AE, I'm also curious how his film would have turned out.

(Can't have been worse than Covenant 😂)

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not sure that's true? The Xbox was marketed as a PC for console gamers, from a company established in the PC space, and the FPS had long been established on PC. It's why they bought a PC developer to make one. I don't think Goldeneye had any impact on that or Halo's ability to succeed.

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 20h

Yea that seems to be the case, and there's no functionality in the OS to install a game from cart so that's not an option either.

I would expect every multiplat game w/o a a PS4 version to either be a key card or a code in box

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 21h

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 21h

"the franchise is cooked" and they're a year removed from the best film since Aliens plus a really great TV show 😭

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 21h

Yea I played the first one like 3 years ago, figured that was enough of a gap where I'd be into the sequel. I think I'm approaching the end of the second "chapter" and it just hasn't grabbed me yet

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 22h

#blutoid thinking I might drop A Plague Tale: Requiem.

I really liked the strict linear nature of the first game, where each scenario was like a small puzzle you had to solve. Making it wide linear encourages you to explore, but the game fights you if you try, and I kinda hate that?