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melkathi

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Meh, about the Dune game.

Devs making a huge deal about having Atreides in green because they are "true to the book" then make Harkonnen red instead of blue (or blue/orange). Some of the advisors also are the farthest any depiction of the characters has ever been from the book.

Take your liberties. But then don't spend all that effort patting yourself on the back for having green uniformed Atreides because you are staying true to the book.

Water-fat devs...

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Chilloutman

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  On 2/15/2022 at 2:22 PM, Katphood said:

@Chilloutman Someone out there did read our minds. 

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It looks like mobile game TBH

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marelooke

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Well, it was bound to happen. Some new MMO launched (Lost Ark), and it's not available in Belgium/Netherlands due to the in-game gambling, or "surprise mechanics" if you're EA.

Can't wait for the EU to finally get its **** together and ban this garbage outright, union wide (before any game I might care about is affected, preferably ;) )

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Sarex

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  On 2/15/2022 at 9:49 PM, marelooke said:

Well, it was bound to happen. Some new MMO launched (Lost Ark), and it's not available in Belgium/Netherlands due to the in-game gambling, or "surprise mechanics" if you're EA.

Can't wait for the EU to finally get its **** together and ban this garbage outright, union wide (before any game I might care about is affected, preferably ;) )

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It's not a big enough market to force that kind of changes, at that point you will just lose access to games.

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marelooke

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  On 2/15/2022 at 11:20 PM, Sarex said:

It's not a big enough market to force that kind of changes, at that point you will just lose access to games.

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Eh, so far nothing of value is being lost. Which, really, isn't surprising given the types of games that tend to include these "mechanics". Still, would be nice to stomp this predatory behaviour out. Last I heard quite a few countries were looking into updating their legislation to deal with predatory practices in games, not the least of which being France and the UK.

Sarex

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  On 2/15/2022 at 11:34 PM, marelooke said:

Eh, so far nothing of value is being lost. Which, really, isn't surprising given the types of games that tend to include these "mechanics". Still, would be nice to stomp this predatory behaviour out. Last I heard quite a few countries were looking into updating their legislation to deal with predatory practices in games, not the least of which being France and the UK.

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Right now yes, but in the future it may become a trend. To a large extent it's the US and Chinese market that dictate these things.

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BruceVC

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  On 2/15/2022 at 8:43 PM, Oner said:

 

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Nice, BG3 is looking amazing. I cant wait to play it 

I laughed in the video at the " look another barbarian, all brawn and no brain " comment :grin:

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BruceVC

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  On 2/15/2022 at 8:51 PM, Zoraptor said:

Netflix is making a Bioshock movie. Wonder if Ken Levine will bring all that experience from MASH to the party...

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Great news, hopefully we have a beautiful Isabella lookalike 💞

Edit : Oh wait you said Bioshock, not Bioware :(

 

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Mamoulian War

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Sighs. As much as I love Dune, I would prefer something in the vein of the first game by Cryo :( Why is no one listening 😭

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Katphood

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Man...I hate it when a new entry is VR. Just make an adventure game similar to season 1-3.

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Mamoulian War

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  On 2/16/2022 at 3:44 PM, Katphood said:

Man...I hate it when a new entry is VR. Just make an adventure game similar to season 1-3.

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My oh my, I should use my glasses more often. I read the small YT title as Sam & Max: It's Time to Virtue Signal, and I was awaiting some over the top hilariousness. Then I noticed the Sony logo and with a small scroll down all of my hype was gone 😢

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Hurlshort

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  On 2/16/2022 at 3:27 PM, melkathi said:

The Conan reskin Funcom is doing sounds even worse

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It doesn't seem like there is much info on it, but considering Conan Exiles is the greatest game I have ever played, I'm willing to give Funcom some benefit of the doubt.

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melkathi

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Conan lend itself to that kind of game though. Dune, as a setting, really doesn't.

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Hurlshort

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  On 2/16/2022 at 6:04 PM, melkathi said:

Conan lend itself to that kind of game though. Dune, as a setting, really doesn't.

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It does seem like the lack of biome diversity will be an issue. I've read pretty much every Robert Howard story, so bringing his vision of the world to life was a big deal for me. I'm not nearly as well versed in Dune and all the houses, so I have no clue what it might look like. It just doesn't seem like there is enough info to even make a judgement at this point.

Chilloutman

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Emperor: Battle for Dune solved it by spreading to multiple planets.. I really liked that game...

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HoonDing

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Last good Dune game was the adventure/strategy game from Cryo Interactive. The pure strategy Dune games are all crap.

Funny enough I bought the 2001 "action adventure" Dune game "Frank Herbert's Dune" on release and even finished it. It's one of the worst games of all time.

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HoonDing

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You're supposed to be stealthy in the game. IIRC if you're detected, you can't even fight back with your tiny krys knife even though Paul Atreides is supposed to be a prana bindu master. You're forced to stand around until your health is low enough to be able to do "the Voice" Bene Gesserit shtick which stuns the enemy. Then you can instakill them.

Now that I think of it, "Stolen" was another stealth game with such terrible design decisions. I finished that one too.

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