Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 55•10 months agoA minute of silence for the DE designer, writer, artist and devs that were discarded after the game got popular. 😑
Elegast ( @Elegast@lemmy.ca ) 24•10 months agoYep…that entire situation is so crappy. The devs deserved better.
yaminoEXE ( @yaminoEXE@ttrpg.network ) 8•10 months agoI mean yeah, I feel bad but he was kinda hard to work with and other devs didn’t like him but what the company did was scummy.
sharpiemarker ( @Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ) 3•10 months agoThanks for saying it. I was going to bring it up, but I wasn’t clear on all the details.
teft ( @teft@startrek.website ) 3•10 months agoWhat is DE designer and what did I miss about them being discarded?
Veraxus ( @Veraxus@kbin.social ) 13•10 months agoClassic gaming industry IP theft. Investors underhandedly forced the founders/developers out of their own company and stole the IP.
XTornado ( @XTornado@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months agoHow do you “steal” an IP?
Veraxus ( @Veraxus@kbin.social ) 3•10 months agoGuy comes into the company and uses illegal, fraudulent methods to take it over. He then demoted the co-owners (and founders) to mere “employees” so they could be fired. The plan was to then sell the company to a big publisher and walk away with all the money.
XTornado ( @XTornado@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months agoOk… But I still not quite get how you take the company over with il·legal, fraudulent methods.
Veraxus ( @Veraxus@kbin.social ) 1•10 months agoThere’s a bunch of articles and videos that go over how it happened. It’s not too different from what happened to Interplay back in the day. Here’s one overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Xu4GvpN9U
ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months agoBought the company/ip then didn’t keep original owners on
irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 2•10 months agoIronic
Eggyhead ( @Eggyhead@artemis.camp ) 20•10 months agoA half life game in 3rd??? I’m sure we all know what that confirms!
phi1997 ( @phi1997@kbin.social ) 11•10 months agoHalf-Life 2 Episode 3!
oʍʇǝuoǝnu ( @nueonetwo@lemmy.ca ) 14•10 months agoI should get around to playing Disco Elysium one of these days
HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 7•10 months agoI should try to complete my current playthough. xD
OutlierBlue ( @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months agoI passed up the latest Humble Monthly because I know I’ll never get around to playing it.
Rayspekt ( @Rayspekt@kbin.social ) 11•10 months agoI didn’t realize that Disco Elysium was up there, what a happy surprise. Absolute masterpiece.
Hutch ( @antony@lemmy.ca ) 7•10 months agoI’m conflicted by this, I struggled to like Disco.
HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 13•10 months agoDE is a great game, just don’t be trapped by the genre. It’s a combat-less RPG, basically. You still RP a character, which conveniently starts with amnesia so you can slot in and RP.
Veraxus ( @Veraxus@kbin.social ) 6•10 months agoIt bums me out that GTAV is anywhere near the top 10, but otherwise I am so happy to see the Top 2 slots going to deep, reactive, old-school-style CRPGs.
ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 6•10 months agoTo me V was worse than IV and IV was worse than Sleeping Dogs
HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 7•10 months agoMore people should play Sleeping Dogs. What a fun and enjoyable romp.
ezures ( @ezures@lemmy.wtf ) 3•10 months agoIf a man doesnt eat whole buns, he’s not a whole man
HellAwaits ( @HellAwaits@lemm.ee ) 5•10 months agoBaldur’s Gate 3 > Tears of the Kingdom
Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) 2•10 months agoHaving played though BG3 a total of 4 times now, it’s way too highly rated. It’s an 80 at best.
Planescape Torment is far better.
off_brand_ ( @off_brand_@beehaw.org ) 19•10 months agoThis is like seeing a negative steam review with 1.2k hours of playtime.
PS:T is good though, no guff there.
Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) 1•10 months agoWell 58 hours and the game is 100% completed.
sigmaklimgrindset ( @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ) 6•10 months ago4 times?? Am I just slow? I am still on my first play through and I got the game release weekend…
Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) 2•10 months agoI was one of the 350 that beat the game in the opening weekend. Just really good at this type of game and had a week off.
If you are taking your time and completing every quest then you can easily get 30 hours out of a play though.
sigmaklimgrindset ( @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ) 1•10 months agoAh that makes sense, I could see experienced players being able to run through the content easily.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is only my second experience with the real time cRPG genre, so I’m definitely in awe of all the other players min-maxing their stats and abilities like it’s nothing lol. I’m having a lot of fun though!
HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 1•10 months agoOh wait, what, 30 hours? It’s not a 100 hour Larian RPG? This might change my stance on it.
AFallingAnvil ( @AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months agoCurrently 65~ hours into my first playthrough. Being a completionist help, but that dude has to be smoking crack and be a pro level speedrunner to have completed it four times with anything more than the most bulldoze through the plot approach.
Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) 1•10 months agoAlso you can’t do a true completions run as aspects of the game are locked off once you progress down a path.
Cope, you’re just slow or bad at the game.
Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) 1•10 months agoDefinitely not a pro speed runner. This guy’s are being the game in 10 minutes with only one small glitch near the end.
Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) 1•10 months agoYou can replay it for 100 hours if you make the same choices over and over, sure.
Right now the game is heavily dependant on the modding scene, which is pretty weak.
CrabLord ( @CrabLord@beehaw.org ) 1•10 months agoMy wife and I barely got through our first one and that took us 45 hours alone. I don’t think we’d have a hard time milking it for another 100.