Man...I keep thinking there's a new feature or something, but it's just GB's increased attention to social media and tweeting out individual clips from their podcasts
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Man...I keep thinking there's a new feature or something, but it's just GB's increased attention to social media and tweeting out individual clips from their podcasts
I hate to say this but GB needs a dedicated social media person. Their stuff is somewhat charming occasionally but...very bland.
Couple things:
-Kojima apparently really does get his fingers over all parts of production. He's very particular like that.
-Ground Zeroes controlled pretty much the same but with less gizmos and his Konami relationship wasn't as strained then, so he was there for that
-Even though he does seem fairly...full of himself, MGSV had the credits for the various designers and performers in every mission. That's more granular credit-giving than you ever get with anything else
I've never believed it personally. Maybe I need to read more about it, but I've always gotten the impression he's the worst boss ever. He sounds a lot like a boss I used to have, so I admit I'm mostly projecting. Is there any of the people on his team coming out and saying he gets involved like that or is he always talking about himself?
My boss used to "get involved" by coming over to your desk and micromanaging your work. They wouldn't know how to code or do professional work like painting, so it was always just over the shoulder criticism and commentary. "That doesn't look so good". But typically they wouldn't have the skills to actually point you in a good direction.
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I think the answer to all this is "How much of his old team came along with him?" Because if it's a large percentage, I think you have your answer there as to whether people like working with him.
I genuinely don't know the answer to that, though.
Totally, I think that would be the answer. And I would love to know as well. Would frankly just love a technical perspective on working with the guy. Because he's never seemed like a programmer type.
To add to this I don't think a large amount of your former colleagues would jump ship to your new studio if they were scorned previously.
Edit: Looks like you guys are already talking about this and I didn't refresh the page.
Yeah that's easily what MGSV should have been. Stick a bunch of goofy missions to do on the maps in-between major releases and every 3 months put out a new episode of Camp Omega-sized level. This way your "canon" game isn't stuffed full of repeating bullshit to no end and you can still have hours of material for players to do on each map.
O, what could have been.
Hitman 2016 really impacted what I see as good long-term game delivery. What a good-ass game that was.
Bold of you to assume that Kojima would be able to get out episodes that quickly.
i find it funny that death stranding and metal gear survive seem so similar, like survive could have been a kojima project, despite how it's seen as konami just shitting on the series.
I feel like they're only similar on a very superficial level
the solitaire mode is kind of harder than any of the others i think
still fun though
Finished with Outer worlds.
I liked it but i think it falls short of being great. The narrative, especially in the second half, has some good moments and i liked the companions a lot.
But I also felt that a lot of the systems the game uses are pretty halfbacked. The combat, the loot, crafting and upgrading and stealth are all pretty meh. It's not that they are terrible but they are also not interesting to engage with. I played through on hard and after the first hour, the game difficulty was trivial.
I liked it but i think it falls short of being great. The narrative, especially in the second half, has some good moments and i liked the companions a lot.
But I also felt that a lot of the systems the game uses are pretty halfbacked. The combat, the loot, crafting and upgrading and stealth are all pretty meh. It's not that they are terrible but they are also not interesting to engage with. I played through on hard and after the first hour, the game difficulty was trivial.
Yes, insofar as I completed all of the levels (minus that new resort map) at least once alongside several elusives/escalations/etc. I just played a whole hell of a lot less than I did of 2016 because I could just go right through it instead of hanging on for new drip-feed of game every few weeks. I really enjoyed that drip-feed. Why?
All the food stuff was dumb... I barely ever used it. However, as it starts picking up.. and it PICKS UP, I loved it even more.
Someone needs to shop Reedus' character into Cole
Adam Cole in Death Stranding with his Bridge Bay-Bay
Hopefully BB doesn't grow to be as much of a fatass as him
Pretty much the same as was. Brad had not played much more though.
Does the west coast not have prep days like east? Seems like west coast in general just gets through way less games.
Brad is holding off on playing until the servers are back up as the social stuff interests him quite a bit. He was lamenting during the Extra Life stream that he wants to play more but doesn't want to play offline.
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i'm still pretty early on into it (at roseway) and playing on hard but i've been finding it mechanically underwhelming. there's so much loot, and because of that so much vendoring. the inventory management sucks (i don't want icons that i need to hover over to know what i'm looking at), the whole food tab is pretty bunk because it's a hassle to look through everything and so many things have redundant effects. it's super easy to get generalist in your skillset, and being able to have a high enough lockpick skill to pick things for free feels cheesy, and uses for shunts are so few and far between.
i'm not really feeling the dialogue stuff so far, mostly because it's hard to get invested into a lot of the characters because of how corporate most are. aside from the generator at emerald vale i haven't made anything i'd consider a meaningful choice, and i feel like i'm really going through the motions when talking to npcs.
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