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[–] Hotdogman 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Blue, green or red. Please no more of that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At the same, does “painting our selfs into a corner” loose having true ending to stories?

Constraints and limitations drive creativity, but you have accept a final product at some point and move to another universe/story.

[–] Carighan 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah this sounds like modern serials, end everything on a cliffhanger and never commit to anything. Which was basically their problem already.

[–] Sanctus 3 points 7 months ago

They couldn't accept that 3 games in, some people would be locked out due to their choices in 1 or 2. Who cares? We have our lives to play them. Lock 'em out. Thats why 1 & 2 were cool, your choices came with you.

[–] Katana314 5 points 7 months ago

This is exactly what I’ve wanted. Anytime we get a plot point that fits in the following lists, I feel like it severely handicaps the writing potential of any other stories you could tell.

  • Humanity was created for the sole purpose of ???
  • Everything you’ve experienced is part of a simulation.
  • Our entire lives are lived for the fight against the ???. But it turns out that whole war was a conspiracy by the patriarchy.
  • There are many enemies around us. But we may as well throw our swords and guns in the trash, because the only ones who can fight them are the chosen ???, born with special powers.
  • Not much of humanity is left, so we need to preserve what we can and never ever get into any major conflicts.
[–] EditsHisComments 4 points 7 months ago

This sounds like it could work well, just hope they aren't given short or unrealistic deadlines by NetEase. The people he's assembled thus far have released amazing material during their careers when they were given enough time.

[–] MolochAlter 2 points 7 months ago

To write yourself into a corner you should be writing in the first place.

What Walters does hardly qualifies.

[–] Defaced 2 points 7 months ago

I see articles about ex-devs standing up studios and then they never have anything to show for it, even years later there's nothing to show. This has been happening for years and the first game I've seen from any ex-dev team is stormgate from ex-starcraft devs.