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What did they mean by this?

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ZMOT said:
to be fair some grunt workers can take the piss, but this is 2020 so you never know

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I used to work at Saturn, pretty much the same store as in the picture.
We sold No Mans Sky for 5€ once the shitstorm hit and basically gave Fallout 76 away for free with any game you bought, because Bethesda/Zenimax refunded the entire stock and didn’t want the games sent back to them.
 
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Rei is shit said:
I've watched quite a bit of stream footage, and here are some very autistic things I've noticed;

1. I don't think I've seen a single spiderweb anywhere, even though spiders are everywhere irl and make webs like crazy.
2. There are basically no animals in any of the outdoor environments, no birds, no squirrels, ect. let alone swarms of bugs.

Is there some canonical reason for this or has no one at ND actually spent time in a forest?
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You really think they'll put forth actual effort to make the environment immersive?
 
soft breathing said:
This might be a stretch but Hotline Miami was also a game about someone on a path of revenge killing everyone in their way. So maybe because of that...?
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If they were trying to tie the two games together, it's a very poor comparison.
For one, HM does it way more tastefully.
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
What gets me is that this "game" was in full tilt production, crunch time and all, for what? 7 Years? And they had access to $100 million dollars to make this entertainment project a successful reality. Yet, they were still able to piss it all away in such a fashion that the franchise will be permanently hobbled.

To give another perspective, I am going to talk about military R&D and procurement. It is field that is thought of universally as slow, and expensive. The specific example I am going to use is the JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) Here is a 3 minute video primer on the subject for those uninitiated:


It was/is an utterly revolutionary design, implementing GPS guidance on a mass produced conventional weapon system for the first time in history. It needed to bolt onto a half-dozen different bombs, and be able to integrate seamlessly into a dozen different military aircraft. The point of what I am saying is that this is no quick and easy job.

The JDAM went from it's first paid Feasibility Study in 1988, to the DoD asking for it in 1991, to First Functional Prototype in 1992, to Production in 1995, to Operational in 1997. So, from Confirmation of Interest to delivery of the first JDAMs was SIX years. The budget for the development of the JDAM was more than the game's budget, but if I recall correctly it was only around $400 millions dollars.

Bringing this all together McDonald Douglas/Boeing managed to bring a game changing weapon system into the world less time than it took ND to put out it's latest abortion, and they did it for a sum of money that wasn't an order of magnitude higher.

Man, this world is a wacky place.
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The crazy thing is their are worse examples in the field of military innovation made in less time with a smaller budget that revolutionized warfare for decades such as proximity fuzes, submachine guns, gas operated ejection for semi-automatic rifles, infrared vision scopes (granted infrared was understood for awhile), radar guided bombs, and so forth.
 
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Sekirodiealot said:
Playing it right now. Looking at it right now, it'll probably be me guilty pleasure despite being pissed. I just hope factions mode gets released and people would likely focuse on that.
However...
I'm on the part leading up to mah bois demise

Joel: what? you're acting like you know us.

Man: it's because we do.

Abby: *shoots Joel's leg, causing to scream in agony*
Abby: Joel Miller.
Joel: who are you?
Abby: guess.

Me:
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WHY THE HELL WOULD TOMMY AND JOEL WALK INTO A ROOM WERE ONE THOSE PEOPLE CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND THEM WITHOUT RAISING BROW?!?! AND WOULD YOU PEOPLE KNOW THAT WAS JOEL SPECIFICALLY? HOW MANY FATHERS HAS ABBY KILLED UP TO THIS POINT?!

Joel, bro you've experienced ambushes on 4 occasions in the last game and came out with several injuries, but lived to fight another day.
Neil, what's your beef against your star of the franchise?... Why did you make him this stupid? It's like gta v all over again with trevor killing johnny, except Trevor has redeeming qualities.

Sorry, guys. I just can't... wooow. Just... wow.
How does "it's mam!" know joel's name? Not just his first name, but his last name at that? Did she magically travel all the way to his old house in Texas and just so happen to stumble across his birthday certificate? The hell kinda answer is "guess" after joel rightfully asked Abby who is she? I'm supposed to pity her, yet she repays their kindness with assault? Fuck off, ND.

Joel and Ellie deserves a better story. If TLOU3 were to be made, i hope neil druckmann isn't involved, assuming he's still around naughty dog at that point.
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I brought that up last night, it's stupidly lazy writing and I fucking despise it. But people will sing it praises because 'muh shock value'
 
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Marissa Moira said:
It's not even 10 am and we're to the point where people are buying the game multiple times over and asking people to match them to own the haters.

This didn't fucking happen with the final fantasy 7 remake, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
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Excuse me? Can I get a link or something?
 
Dopey Cunt said:
Wait, what the fuck? Is that Hotline Miami?

What message are they trying to convey here? HM is a very violent and bloody game.
It's also a much better game than this trashheap of a AAA title.
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I do remember there was a moment where you could hear this song in the background of TLOU 2.


At first I brushed it off as a coincidence, but seeing as how there's an actual Hotline Miami easter egg I guess it was more than that.
 
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Rei is shit said:
What did they mean by this?

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> "Uh, sweaty, violence and revenge is bad, m'kay? Stop having fun killing video game enemies, okay honey?"
> decides to include a (great) game that glorifies violence with over-the-top gore and many brutal ways to kill as an easter egg

Excuse me if I'm being stupid, but won't ND get in trouble for including this easter egg? That looks like a full blown screenshot of the game. Unless they got permission, I doubt Dennaton would be happy to have a snapshot of their game included in Tranny Fucker Part II.

ETA: IIRC, the plot of the first Hotline Miami was literally one giant revenge plot, both in a large scale (revenge on the Russians for San Fran getting nuked and Beard dying) and a smaller scale (Richter, though I believe he lived canonically). That's just fucking amazing.
 
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