Touche!

Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load.

That sounds rough. I follow a few devs/projects on Itch, but I don’t really use their discovery features.

Oh wow. Itch is also involved even though I would assume they have less than 1% of Steam’s gross revenues.

The risk with this approach is that tax breaks go to projects like Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen.

UK public is in a sense subsidizing Star Citizen.

And the formal justification for their current tax breaks (not related to the announced initiative in the article) is that SQ42 and Star Citizen somehow represent (promote?) British culture. I am not even joking.

I would be fine without a full-on open world, maybe a bit more content and larger maps than in VTMB (I always thought the Santa Monica map could have been larger and more expansive).

The writing, world-building and ambience must be top notch in a sequel to VTMB.

It’s no open world. But there are hubs, often there are multiple ways to finish a quest and there are quest lines that are limited by your skill and clans selection.

But the main story quest is rather linear.

straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

This does not sound good. VTMB is not supposed to be linear, you want to explore a living world.

I haven’t been following the release trailers or previous, just saw some concept art from both the first studio that failed and The Chinese Room.

At least now I can manage my expectations.

When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought this was some DOS racing game.

I don’t remember the N64 version having a semi-realistic looking map. But it’s been over 20 years since I played it at my friend’s place.

Supposedly the first studio failed to make a fun game and they had to restart with The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Still Wakes the Deep).

I think they are on track with it, but we got to wait longer.

Funny to see this posted by a user named “Incel migrant”. 😄

EDIT: Do you guys not get a joke? Maybe it wasn’t that good, but still…

Very cool interview. Sensible software were very forward looking for the time. I say this even though I played their game in the mid to late 90s.

Ok, that might actually be worth watching.

Might have to check it out tonight. Thanks for the recommendation!

I Am Not A Lawyer, this is (used to be?) a pretty common internet acronym.

Wait there is a space fast and furious?

I only watched the first 2 movies back in the day. They were OK, but I never felt the need to watch them again (or the desire to watch the later ones).

I am not the dev, just sharing.

IANAL, but IMO there is no confusion between an MMO guild management game and a marvel comic book concept. But then again, I would never trust an American court in such situations.

Congrats on the 365!

I mostly play indie games, so it’s fun to see some of the bigger titles and get some brief commentary!

Lemmy under the current devs (especially Dessalines) will never see string growth.

Dessalines is too busy banning people for daring to say that North Korea has a bad government to do any coding.

No worries ) Didn’t think anything was aimed at me so to speak.

Cheers!

That’s true (I am here after all), my point was that the Lemmy devs’ tankie position is a liability for the growth of federated networks.

Not everyone is going to be spending time to understand the details and nuances.

All good, I was genuinely curious. I just don’t remember anything particularly racist 2-3 years ago, it was pretty regular posts, some politics of course, but if anything it was more anti-right.