Like a News Thread 8: Infinite Welp

virgin human vs chad goldfish

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someone call taco bell, i got a new marketing campaign for them

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yes

hook me up to the skinner box

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June 11th.

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ooooooooohhhhhhhh!!!

Maybe one problem they had is the fact that I am a guy whose primary hobby is videogames and I’ve never heard the word Redfall before

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Left 4 Dead but vampires I think it was

Left 4 Dead but with vampires and the Snatcher metal gear apparently.

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More accurately it was Borderlands 3 with less coherent weapon stats, a dubiously functional stealth system, a broken network infrastructure when only a few thousand people were playing, and significant graphical issues on all hardware. Of its 3 or 4 enemy types 2 of them had the ability to just stop taking damage for awhile, and the dialogue in the game was written with the expectation that you were going to skip all of it.

I heard the notes you find scattered around were well written though.

Oh, and it was the first US$70 game.

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Ah so it’s one of the many games whose lunch got eaten by Helldivers 2

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I love the idea of someone trying to market a game on the back of Left 4 Dead and opening immediately with “check out these Overwatch ass character designs”

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It didn’t help that it was a game that launched with like half the vampires t-posing (Dragon Ball taught us all this is lethal to vampires), and had a heavy emphasis on sneaking but no stealth kills or attacks?

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The former Akurra finally has a release date and it is two weeks from now, I am all in for Link’s Awakening-esque sokoban.

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I think the best way to run a studio owned by one of these mega corps is to just never release anything. they’ll kind of forget about you while you bounce ideas around and make promises and move the chairs around, because no one gives a shit. once you ship you don’t need employees, so you get layoffs. then they look at the sales numbers and you’re done if they don’t see fortnite or some shit. release a game that isn’t part of a 30 year old series or a Cross Universe Cinematic IP Experience? no fucking way, that’s illegal. I’m keeping my head down if I’m whoever the fuck is running id these days.

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Half Life 3 when

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I stumbled upon this today and it appears to not have been mentioned on SB already but there is a new Droqen & friends (Pancelor and Gabe) “nonlinear indie pixel art platformer metroidvania” seemingly coming out later this year?

Seems to be a game that gives you a ton of powers and lets you use them to smash the game world as you see fit, not sure if it’ll reach Strawberry Cubes levels of madness but I am intrigued.

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On the one hand, I think if Xbox hadn’t bought Bethesda they’d probably have also shut down Arkane and Tango years ago (and probably even Machine Games, I don’t think any of those new WOLF3D games made much money). But on the other hand, what da fuck Microsoft you coulda bought 60 Arkanes withe the money you spent on fish!! Anyway video games are dead.

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maintenance purgatory on elder scrolls online is a fitting end for those jackals formerly of human head studio

arkane and human head should’ve been tasked with joint-redeveloping the canceled prey 2 to have it revealed as from the mists of time like last guardian and shenmue iii

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