I still maintain a city sim game set in 40k, running a Hive or Chapter Fortress would be amazing. Niche within a niche, but I'd play the fuck out of it.
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Chapter Master of a newly founded chapter could be an interesting take... Build and run your chapter's new fortress, shit like that, while dispatching your battlebrothers off to various conflicts, trying to balance all the calls for assistance against available manpower and so on.
Balancing the idea of a single recruiting world giving your warriors a fellowship bonus, vs having multiple planets that straight up increase the number of recruits, but at the cost of a more fractured chapter. Calls for assistance from parent chapters, inquisitors, rogue traders, etc...
It would be amazing.
You know what? Fuck it, I'm done with these Awards. I never put too much stock in them, but I did appreciate Geoff trying to turn things around at the start of 2014, and not doing what Spike TV did. Only to become like them and ever worse. Since this is where it all leads to, I don't want any part at all. Not even the announcements are worth it anymore, with this much suffering, grandstanding, and hurting/ignoring those in need and those deserve their speeches for their awards.
Could even give the choice of parent chapters to give advantages and disadvantages, stuff like that.
Right? So much potential. Instead of random acts of nature, like an earthquake or tsunami, you get a random Ork Waagh that rampages a nearby sector, or a Chaos fleet breaks into high orbit over your recruiting world and you have to respond. An Inquisitor shows up and conscripts, I dunno, your Chief Apothecary into the Deathwatch and now you're training and implantation is slowed for a century. An expedition into a space hulk finds a rare piece of tech, or an artifact from another chapter who now owe you a blood debt. So much could be done.
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In all honesty, it's not a great joke.So apparently Christopher Judge made a joke about his speech last year being longer than this year's CoD campaign. Some folks who work on CoD are salty over it
Could've been a grown up and taken the L, but no, this is fine too
I mean, this year's Cod campaign is not good, but it's not actually short by CoD (or general shooter) standards. It's still like 6 hours unless you're speed-running it, which is typical of CoD campaigns which tend to range 6-8 on average. It's not good quality, is has basically no set-pieces, and was clearly rushed out the door. It's a pretty normal length though.
Are you saying it was an error in judgement, and/or that he may have judged too harshly?
Eh…who am I to judge.
I feel like the biggest problem with game awards has always been that they've never felt like something made for people that play games, just a sort of discount Oscars. The way something like GDQ or various fighting game tournaments were done at their inceptions feel much more like "gamer events".
And even GDQ managed to fuck that up. All the more ironic, as most fighting game events and EVO got their shit together and did something useful or got rid of people who are causing nothing but trouble.
From what little I've seen its very much just a product junket. The awards are meaningless and are just there to give the patron AAA companies an excuse to force feed advertisements to a guileless gaming community. Even just looking at the awards it was all just the top 3-5 AAA games of the year. Its just them handing awards to themselves. It wouldn't seem so blatant 10-15 years ago, but with indie development on the rise it's kinda laughable that "these" were the best games of the year in whatever category. These days you can't can't throw a rock without hitting an indie game with better "narrative" then....*looks*.....Fucking Final Fantasy XVI? That's hilarious.
It's funny because you see Hi-Fi Rush in there, which would be considered an outsider, but again it was published by a AAA studio. It's like Pepsi being awarded best Soda of the Year at the Soda awards, hosted by the YUM corporation.
I think the worst part is that most gamers just want the ads too. We know the awards themselves have very little merit and are really just there for the new game previews anyway.
An almost slavering hunger for hype. This is why people who called The Day Before bad were derided as "haters"; some people are desperate to be hyped for something.
I'm really curious as to whos managing the forums, might as well just rename it and wait for them to notice at the main site.
One thing that kinda annoyed me is when they stopped even bothering to post content discussion threads. I like Nick, but I really get the impression he wanted the forums to die.
Well, no they’re Industry awards and have little to no merit for people outside that industry. Like me I don’t give a fuck who won the last Pulitzer or Hugo award because I’m not a novelist despite being a reasonable enjoyer of books. Likewise I love my music but whomever gets the gong at the ARIA or Grammys isn’t going to stop me from listening to The Wurzels or the High Kings.
