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You know, one could just as easily question where did you get that 25% number from. It's oddly specific and reputable people that promised to benchmark the thing didn't deliver so far.

Well I'm not terribly surprised. I loved the ideas that went into Phoenix Point but the game was nowhere near ready and had almost no following to speak of. It wouldn't sell anywhere in it's current state. If Epic store can have them survive to make a sequel it may well be worth it.

What makes you say that? DMC5 is supposed to conclude the 'Sons of Sparda' storyline according to developers. Which also would explain aging Dante so much.

And that new life will likely be formed around better micro-transactions in another battle-royale. Bioware may never come back to traditional RPGs but let's not kid ourselves that any replacement for them would either.

To be fair, they did try with the former.

Both corpses and stalling are fantastic ideas dealing with issues that many turn-based tactics games never quite managed to get resolved in a reasonable manner. Bleeding to disintegration a corpse of bleed-immune skeleton is neither a fantastic idea nor a cornerstone of developer vision. It's just an ugly crutch that's necessary to save a badly thought-out targeting mechanic.

Nah, one of the things I admire about Red Hook and their development of Darkest Dungeon is that regardless of hate they receive, they'll stick to their creative vision and create a game they want created, not a castrated version their community would force upon them. I'm quite hoping that's what they'll do for the second one as well. Sorry, but if they have to deal with nonsense like corpses or stalling that's because the mechanics were bad to begin with.

Darkest Dungeon 2 is coming: Now if only they would fix the underlaying mechanics.

But that's a Fortnite install base, the overlap in target audiences can't be that great. As much as I'd like to see Valve cut down a peg I doubt timed exclusives will cut it. Yes. There are plenty of mods for Warhammer Total War.

For a beginner Civ IV would be easiest. Unless you are strongly into warfare in which case try Civ V.

The ending of original Fallout. One of rare moments in gaming when I got upset at game world and characters and not writers and designers.

Sad, but the audience was just not there. The game was effectively dead long before battle royale craze.

This isn't about us. We will be gone by the time climate change turns serious. The question is how much investment do we have in the far-off future. If you attack the speaker and not the speech it's all I have to know. If there was anything in that speech might actually discuss it. But I'm sure they will have a counter-report ready relatively soon.

Is this really the consequences, its very extreme and paints a grim picture of the USA and the potential damage to many aspects to civil society? Potential consequences if by 2090 we follow the RCP8.5 instead of RCP4.5. The obvious problem being that there are more responsible parties than just the US.

IIRC that's mostly from Chinese sources. If so you might need to drop a zero from that number.

Might be the first civ expansion to get a pass from me. Civ 6 launched strong but Rise and Fall was a big disappointment, and this sounds even worse.

So an end of an era. All the best in the future.

Ah, but at one point so was stars and stripes. That's the funny thing about symbols, they change meaning overtime.

Risen 1 is good for Gothic 2 nostalgia. Risen 2 was trying to up-date the concept with somewhat mixed results. Risen 3 is largely retread of 2 only with bad mini-games, perfectly skippable.

Did they really said that? I assumed a port was a given, just a long way off.

I'd argue on the AAA part. Obsidian never delivered top of the line production values. And that's usually what it takes to get people into a new console.

I don't get it. Unless Microsoft plans to rebuild Obsidian into AAA developer, they are not about to produce system selling titles. Or was that stormlands concept that promising?

An apt time for some necromancy.

The student debt situation is a unique US experience, AFAIK collage diplomas a very much a must for decent employment in most of Europe. Without it you are not regarded middle-class and making a decent living becomes much harder. And almost nobody pays attention to the field of study anyway. Like hereditary back in the day, diploma is supposed to demonstrate you are of the right sort rather than indicate any skills or knowledge.

I'd argue that quite a lot. Franz Ferdinant had different policy in mind for Austro-Hungary and his survival wouldn't make for such a strong casus belli. With rise of Germany and decline of Ottoman empire some conflict was inevitable, but it took a special combination of politics, industrialization and advances in military technology to produce the war on that scale.