Watch Dogs. Ugh, I was soooo looking forward to that game too. Glad I waited for the reviews! I smelled a cynical money grab from the first whiff of Elder Scrolls Online though. I hope Mr. Zenimax (Altman) learned something from that one.
I don't spend much effort on the physical appearance of my characters in RPG's but I do find that I feel most comfortable playing an old pragmatic mage that uses his wits to talk his way through obstacles before resorting to violence. When things go kinetic it's also fun to wield powerful aoe magic. I find that character heroic and a lot of fun to play. I like Gandalf, basically.
I should mix it up and play a hot elven thief girl or something occasionally but those builds just never feel right. Naturally, I really enjoy CRPG's that focus on dialog and convoluted non-violent ways to complete quests.
@Dannystaples14 Go back and reread Shakespeare in 30 years. You'll be amazed at how witty and insightful that prose is. Forcing kids to read it in high school before they've really experienced living is the real tragedy.
Interesting hearing the reasoning behind the staffs' platforms of choice. I started gaming on a pc and enjoy building and upgrading them as much as actually playing the games. Steam's cheap distribution for independent developers means there's so much weird and interesting stuff available for cheap now. My friends all have pc's. The pc will continue to evolve and grow in power leaving the current gen consoles further and further behind. Consoles lock you into future purchases from the manufacturer of the platform.
So no, it's not time to buy a PS4, or an XB1. It's time to build your first pc!
I'm surprised that was so entertaining. It's interesting to see our America through the fresh eyes of a foreigner. That bay bridge was oh so familiar, then suddenly wasn't! The new Oakland side of the bay bridge I'd never seen before. Thanks for keeping that in. I always miss the bay area until I remember how crowded and expensive it is. That I-5 to LA is a straight line for 7 hours. We used to joke you could tie a rope to the steering wheel and take a nap along the way.
@m_a_t_h_e_a_d_ Be careful when making those "obvious" conclusions initiate. In my early career I ran concept teams similar to this gal. Back then we called it a "matrix organization" where people share time among several different teams and come and go as needed.
Young engineers often don't have a lick of business sense but the team manager's most important job is to be the cheerleader and keep sr. mgmt. interested (and resources flowing to the program). How? I always looked for customer feedback using focus groups and demos to support our business projections. But concepts are risky and don't happen in a vacuum. Sometimes you hit a technical wall, competitors are at work too. When things aren't trending the right direction it's sr. mgmt.'s job to preserve the company resources and shut it down. Every technical organization has a ranked list of projects they could be working on. There should be 2 or 3 times as many projects as resources and the projects get shuffled constantly based on new info. I'm sure Valve has a HUGE list!
Gabe Newel was no doubt excited about hardware a few years ago (steam machines, haptic controllers, virtual reality, etc.) He has since cooled on most of that stuff after seeing the crowded marketplace, huge capital outlays, and meager margins choosing instead to double down on digital distribution etc. The ex-Valve lady should have seen the writing on the wall and jumped ship to Oculus or somewhere like everyone else did. Instead, she dug in and became a martyr for her project. Now the entire industry knows her and for all the wrong reasons.
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