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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I mean, Idle Champions Of The Forgotten Realms is right there already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Depends on whether your plan is to right the ship (sensible, boring, doesn't interest investors) or to take that money and gamble it elsewhere in hope for big returns (chaotic, potentially disastrous, shareholders love it).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, it's 2K publishing.

Which means that the game disappearing from storefronts is one of the better case scenarios. It's entirely possible that they'll patch out the licenced songs from the soundtrack from every digital copy of the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's Rocksteady, so it'll be higher than 40s. Heck, it's almost impossible to get a score lower than 40 on metacritic...

Mid 60s I'm guessing, perhaps as high as 69 if reviewers are feeling generous. The kind of score which would be absolutely fine if it were a cheap and cheerful B-game made by a scrappy team of underfunded devs, but which is an absolute embarrassment when applied to a multi million dollar tentpole. The kind of score that implies 'meh'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I would suspect that the real draw to working with Starfleet for non-federation personnel isn't any concept of wages, but a comprehensive benefits package. Presumably Starfleet membership confers some level of personal federation membership, possibly for both you and your immediate family, which may mean that you get to move your loved ones to a mostly-utopic federation world.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

How would they fucking know? The article is behind a paywall!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's an American-Japanese co-production, so I'd say it was anime, but you have to say it with a rising inflection like it's a question.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep. The show was written by humans, humans are flawed, therefore the show is flawed. It's constantly undone by an unholy mix of things that seemed okay at the time, things that were written to try and correct the things that previously seemed okay at the time (but which made things worse), the personal flaws of the creators seeping into their works, and a pile of crappy tropes that TV can't help but lean on. It's weird that you think this is something that isn't a consideration of the show 'anymore'; this all goes back all the way to the 60s. Original Trek is occasionally misogynistic crap, and once went so far as to describe Nazism as the most efficient form of government. TNG had episodes that were straight up racist, and characters that are accidentally written as creeps. This is a problem the show has always had, and sometimes you just have to deal with that to get to the good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

The game released on the 19th September, Nominated games had to be released before the 29th September. Golden Joysticks voting was from the 3rd to the 20th October, and the premium DLC that made everyone angry was confirmed on the 24th and then released on the 27th. The timing could absolutely not have fallen more perfectly for MK1.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not AI-based. Articles like this are generally repeatedly republished with extremely minimal editing every six months or so to keep them 'fresh' for the search engine optimisation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Especially when it released almost immediately after the new Harebrained Schemes game flopped. Paradox was absolutely not in a position to let a tentpole slip, re: investors.

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