Jimquisition: How Skyrim Proves The Industry Wrong
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Because the toolset isn't released yet.Vamast said:
Once it is, you cannot only ride dragons, you can marry them and have 12 dragon whelps with them.
And when they grow up, you'll be able to make them go conquer and enslave villages for you.
And you can also become a daedric prince and create the oblivion plane of everlasting cake.
When I heard Mass Effect were considering a multi-player element I boiled with rage, thanks for keeping the bullshit out of the genius factory Bethesda.
As much as Bethesda the publisher seems to make some ill advised decisions, Bethesda the developer continues to amaze me.DracoSuave said:
Speaking of which, I laughed out loud when I found the Minecraft reference in Skyrim. That was awesome.
Jim, you win the internets. Honestly I don't even think companies believe their bullshit themselves, it's just there to please shareholders who don't know anything about the actual gaming market.
Nice to see Jim gloating unashamedly. Imo its nothing new that the games industry is run by risk averse jerks that follow the Hollywood school of creativity (i.e sequelise everything to the nth degree, give people what you think they want rather than what they actually want etc). But its nice Jim calls them out on it.
I really want to Deus Ex with him.
Oh, I got that wrong?
Whoops.
Great episode, Jim. We really do need to slap your mindset into the gaming executives. Hell, why can't you try and take their position? That would make games awesome again.
FUS RO DAH!
Oh, I got that wrong?
Whoops.
Great episode, Jim. We really do need to slap your mindset into the gaming executives. Hell, why can't you try and take their position? That would make games awesome again.
FUS RO DAH!
The game isn't perfect, but its rich and engaging and yet non-restrictive in how you play it. Fully deserves GOTY, I feel kinda of bad now for making a fuss over the 35 pound steam prices and getting it physical copy for 28 quid. From Morrowind to Skyrim I loved this games.
the first point is already strange to say the least, there is a difference how people perceive a big SP rpg ala Skyrim where they know they will get at least 20-30h worth of gameplay out of it and how the perceive a linear FPS or action game where the average gametime most probably won't exceed about 12h-ish hours (and no, it's not just the fault of MP that those games are shorter, there are no side quest in mostly liner affairs ala DS2 that wold pad out the game, you are telling a story and you can't draw the whole thing out into 40h otherwise you might as well throw any semblance of pacing out the window)
and the length of SR3 is another problem beyond "lololol DLC", it's a new engine and that requires work and money too
online pass, yeah agree
and the length of SR3 is another problem beyond "lololol DLC", it's a new engine and that requires work and money too
online pass, yeah agree
My god, he's right. Jim Sterling really is right about everything.
Well, about Skyrim and how it proves a lot of publishers deeply held business beliefs wrong at any rate.
But really, that's the best thing to be right about. Take note publishers, I want to see more games that do what Skyrim does, and you want to see sales like Skyrim has.
Well, about Skyrim and how it proves a lot of publishers deeply held business beliefs wrong at any rate.
But really, that's the best thing to be right about. Take note publishers, I want to see more games that do what Skyrim does, and you want to see sales like Skyrim has.
Well, you're wrong about the wanting to sex you part, Jim. Everything else is pretty much spot on. Especially Naughty Dog's lame excuses for online passes (they just released a patch today, and one of the things the patch does is keep medal streaks going if host migration occurs because the current host leaves the game... WHY THE FUCK IS THERE AN ONLINE PASS IF IT'S NOT USING DEDICATED SERVERS FOR THE MATCHES?!) and Saints Row The Third being painfully short but with plenty of DLC coming soon.
Of course, I learned after Fallout 3 on PC not to buy their games for that platform (PC is the way to go so you can use mods and the console to get yourself out of bugs that Bethesda will never bother to fix), but some people are fanboys with only one platform and will keep buying these things on PS3. And Bethesda keeps shafting them, which makes it really hard for me to take them seriously as a developer. I don't look at them and see "hey these are the guys who made Skyrim, they're awesome", I see "these are the clowns who keep releasing nearly broken games for PS3, what's wrong with them?!".
And what Valve shows about not having your games bugged to shit. That's a good lesson too, especially for Bethesda. It's not like they released 4 PS3 games in a row with the same "your game starts running like shit if your save file gets too big" bug and never fixed it until the 4th game it was in, and even then it's not fixed and people are saying that Skyrim still lags but just not as often, right? Oh wait...Qitz said:
Of course, I learned after Fallout 3 on PC not to buy their games for that platform (PC is the way to go so you can use mods and the console to get yourself out of bugs that Bethesda will never bother to fix), but some people are fanboys with only one platform and will keep buying these things on PS3. And Bethesda keeps shafting them, which makes it really hard for me to take them seriously as a developer. I don't look at them and see "hey these are the guys who made Skyrim, they're awesome", I see "these are the clowns who keep releasing nearly broken games for PS3, what's wrong with them?!".