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Post by Wrathbone » Thu Jun 20, 2024 8:55 pm

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Thu Jun 20, 2024 6:27 pm
XCOM meets Star Wars? Colour me intrigued...

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/ ... the-genre/
That looks like it has real potential.

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Post by Raid » Fri Jun 21, 2024 5:45 am

It does, but then with Star Wars games I tend to wait until they actually get released before getting excited. It feels like 90% of them get canned.

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Jun 21, 2024 6:49 am

Raid wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2024 5:45 am
It does, but then with Star Wars games I tend to wait until they actually get released before getting excited. It feels like 90% of them get canned.
Haha, yeah, I didn't want to say it, but this crossed my mind as well [-o<

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Post by Lenny Solidus » Fri Jun 21, 2024 2:05 pm

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-em ... ing-studio
While the transferred Project Black staff carried out wider research on Red Faction, the existing Project White team worked on a "visual prototype" or "fake trailer" created with Unreal Engine 5, to present to Plaion. At this early stage, there were many ideas about the project's direction, some of which would likely have been abandoned as the game evolved. But the basic ambition was to create something similar to 2009's open world third-person Red Faction: Guerrilla, in which you can tear down whole bases with a sledgehammer, while ignoring the events of the under-loved fourth Red Faction game, Red Faction: Armageddon. "We were trying to look at what did Guerrilla do right, what did Armageddon do wrong, and how can we marry the two and continue on with it," one source explained.
Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

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Post by ManBearSquid » Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:31 pm



Now this is something that is of interest! Of course, it's not actual gameplay yet, but the concept is very much my thing. Loved Dark Messiah.

One to watch for me.

Edit: oh, and a Tremors worm!

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Post by Sly Boots » Wed Jun 26, 2024 8:36 pm

Looks pretty cool!

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Post by Wrathbone » Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:44 am

ManBearSquid wrote:
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Loved Dark Messiah.
Same, and I've always wanted a sequel or spiritual successor. Looks like it's here! :o

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Post by Raid » Thu Jun 27, 2024 7:54 am

It looks great, but unrealistically fluid. Is it really going to control well enough to play like that?

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Post by Wrathbone » Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:05 am

Dark Messiah managed it. In fact I'd say it was a masterclass in how to give players a huge array of things they can do (with tools, the environment, etc) with a very simple interface. If you were facing off three goblins, you could stab one, dropkick another off a cliff and pick up a box to lunge at the third with minimal effort.

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Post by Raid » Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:57 am

I'll have to give some gameplay of that a watch, I only vaguely remember the name and I certainly never tried it myself.

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Post by Wrathbone » Thu Jun 27, 2024 9:41 am

I tried replaying it on PC a year or two ago. It's a little unstable (there are probably fixes) but the gameplay holds up.

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Post by Animalmother » Thu Jun 27, 2024 9:56 am


Never played Dark Messiah but it looks very interesting.

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:49 am

Anyone been following the Dr Disrespect stuff over the past few days?

It's wild how quickly it went from a tweet that didn't name him directly, to him denying it, to him admitting that actually yes, he did do it, but as it wasn't technically illegal guys it means it was fine, to now being dropped by every affiliated sponsor and organisation and getting demonetised on YT.

Sums it up pretty well:


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Post by DjchunKfunK » Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:51 am

Sly Boots wrote:
Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:49 am
Anyone been following the Dr Disrespect stuff over the past few days?

It's wild how quickly it went from a tweet that didn't name him directly, to him denying it, to him admitting that actually yes, he did do it, but as it wasn't technically illegal guys it means it was fine, to now being dropped by every affiliated sponsor and organisation and getting demonetised on YT.
It's just as shocking that Twitch allowed this to all be hushed up at the time, he should have got his commupance years ago. The guy was in his 30s ffs.

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:53 am

DjchunKfunK wrote:
Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:51 am
Sly Boots wrote:
Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:49 am
Anyone been following the Dr Disrespect stuff over the past few days?

It's wild how quickly it went from a tweet that didn't name him directly, to him denying it, to him admitting that actually yes, he did do it, but as it wasn't technically illegal guys it means it was fine, to now being dropped by every affiliated sponsor and organisation and getting demonetised on YT.
It's just as shocking that Twitch allowed this to all be hushed up at the time, he should have got his commupance years ago.
I think it's likely they were keeping it quiet to cover their own backs and possible liability.

It's sad that the victim - and future possible victims - did not enter their thinking at all.

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