TurtleFish

I don't know if you can have a "good" story if the end result is that you've had to cut back or completely curtail your gaming. :)

@liquiddragon said:Christ, I made this thread 6 years ago? Time is a real mother f-erDon't think about how long ago the N64 launch was. :)

Heh, all my console experiences go the other way since I've always been a PC gamer first and foremost -- I think the Switch is the only console I ever bought within the first month (and for that one,...

Man I would love a Switch port (or any port) of Harmoknight and Pocket Card Jockey.

Wow. My kid just turned 4, and between PBS and YouTube, we've watched a lot of Sesame Street together in the past couple of years, going all the way back to the 70s -- and a lot of "Hey, look at th...

Depends on the context. Sometimes I think they're okay, sometimes I won't engage with them because I think they're too egregious. The devil is really in the details - paying for cosmetics is diffe...

Also don’t forget that smaller teams / smaller projects tend to passion projects, whereas larger teams tend to more consensus type designs. A small team means it’s more likely the lead designer pe...

@finaldasa said: @turtlefish: I think being empathetic in your argument about subscription cost, content creation, or anything else helps. It's not about excusing the flaws, it's about understanding t...

@finaldasa said:This is a really on point...point. I'd go even further. Especially with the transition to work-from-home, creating top-quality video game videos is exceedingly difficult. Audio sync, a...

One important thing people need to remember here - these threads keep happening because for a lot of people GB was special and unique and the direction swerve in the past year has been pretty radical...

@hughj said: This is an example that I actually see as a 'win' for consumers -- we get to have it both ways. Elite Dangerous gives us the product of an ad hoc development model, with all the benefits ...

@efesell said:But here's the problem I have here. They're not unaware of this, they can't be. Nobody knows how fucked up a project is better than the people working on it.I've worked on more than one ...

@lego_my_eggo said:@turtlefish: Not sure if you are aware, but Elite has a single player mode, but the trading/economy/factions is still tied to online. You can still chat with other people online, bu...

The solution is obvious, they need to take their lead from Cloud Imperium Games and stop publicizing any sort of development goals any more than a single quarter out! Like, that's the key to success, ...

@inspectorfowler said: If not Star Citizen, other games are starting to get close to this. I don’t like the combat in Elite much but their world has gone from boring with nothing to do all the way to ...

@onemanarmyy said:At least that's what i hope. Because the cynical alternative is that they know that once they put this game together and release it, people might come to terms with what the actual g...

@topcyclist said: @shindig said: When Vinny and Drew checked it out last year, it looked surprisingly large. Hollow but you could see what they were at least working on. You could see where the money ...

@bigsocrates: Oh, I'm sure my numbers are wrong - like 15 minutes trying to parse earnings reports back of napkins late at night wrong. :) But think about it - even if they manage to increase ARPU...

@bigsocrates said:This is about building a Netflix for games. That's very close to Microsoft's core business model and they're pretty open about this. The announcement of the purchase came with discus...

@oursin_360 said:@turtlefish: eh, for the past few years Xbox has been transition into a software/service company more so than a hardware company. (well basically transitioning more into Microsofts co...