That's actually a improvement from Deadfire where there was zero men in leadership position.
I have a hard time believing that someone would dislike KOTOR 2 but like the first one they play pretty similar from what I remember. You just dislike the writing in the second game right?
I guess you’re right insofar as Bethesda DEI shit feels more like a blatantly soulless cash grab for Blackrock money, whereas Obsoydian DEI shit feels like it was made by true believers, but I subscribe to a philosophy that any DEI shit is bad and companies that promote it should not get your hard earned money unless it is absolutely necessary. People have been doing well by not buying most DEI slop as of late, but it’s actually more important that Bethesda have that lesson hammered home since they have IPs like Fallout and TES that will probably sell like crack anyways. Obsoydian just has boring IPs no one cares about like this game.
Doesn't Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 count as one?
it does. really wish I could find the molyneux interview again where he pretty much says as much, think it was after magic carpet and EA just showered them in money with no goal or deadlines and shit just never got anywhere because of it. or look at levine with bioshock infinite.
the happy end would come at the end of some arc, not as some kind of unearned reward. like, even in a 90's sitcom where you just had the "unlucky in love gay" finally finding "the right one" came across at not pandering, if not outright endearing because people could empathize with that and not think about HAHA FUCKING MAN ASS.
Pretty sure Zeschuk said the same thing about EA, that they gave Bioware more than enough rope to hang themselves. Creativity requires constraints otherwise you get slop.
I'm actually gonna go to bat for this game. I picked it up on sale almost a year ago and while I haven't put that much time into it (less than 8 hours), I think it's the best Dark Messiah type game out there. It's definitely not Dark Messiah 2.0 with all the same features but it is the closest thing to
Because wokists are creating these games and wokists need to shove their ideology into everything they touch.
YOU VILL NOT HAVE ESCAPISM IN YOUR VIDEO GAMEWhy does every fucking game need to be involved in some god damn culture war bullshit? It's just exhausting at this point.
I don't even care if that's a lie. Woketards did that shit to normal people for years, it's time they get a taste of their own medicine.
They had a better track record when they were known as Black Isle Studios (the original, not the revived one from early 2010s)
Its a damn shame that only way to truely get the best out of the creatives is to thread that fine line between giving them enough money to succeeded vs everyone is now fired, go home. A permanent case of being the scrappy underground that pushes and flexes every cent they have to make the vision work.
the other good part is IIRC the science weapon's damage is based on the skills so investing in that lets you use all different types of weapons instead of having to invest in melee, long guns, etc.
the problem is there's no consequences for it and most people are too fucking afraid to let there be any. Like John Carmack was fucking pissed that some lefty lost their job for mocking the trump assassination meanwhile he sat on his autistic hands and let every right wing person in silicon valley get fired or any person preaching a possibly non-lefty opinion like James Damore. There's no consequences for tanking a company with your shitty views, in fact there are more consequences if you stay silent as GG has shown us.
thats a cope, if you just give yourself a budget or limitation then as a creative you can still get the best out of yourself. David Simon has been king of hbo because he sets a budget and timeline for himself even stricter than the ones the company gives him and it causes him to have made a lot of interesting stuff. You can't really say a tv show about New Orleans' music scene isn't very creative.
You're probably confusing the Diablo-like Divinity 1 aand 2 with the excellent BG3 like Divinity : Original Sins 1 + 2.
This was my biggest issue too.
Good point, but they didn't portray the designated communists on Monarch to be good either.
This is true, but a lot of video game writers, artists, or designers have inflated egos.
