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I’m sure this will lead to a flood of quality content on Reddit. More seriously paying people to make content for your social media site while you sell information about them to advertisers is an interesting business model, to say the least.

Curious to see the differences between the “real” plans and the leaked ones. Obviously, some of the dates are off since some of those games haven’t been released yet and I have a hard time believing Elder Scrolls 6 is coming out next year. I could see some of those games being canceled, but it’s hard to see plans around the midgen refresh changing up too much. It makes sense to have something to compete with the PS5 Pro that Sony is probably going to release next year and an all-digital Series X would be a good way to test the waters for going completely digital next generation.

Not surprising that DC is pushing back on this, although I’m not sure if there is anything they can do if Willingham is right and he can put his characters and world in the public domain. Although I suppose they could just send out cease-and-desist notices to anyone trying to use the property and hope no one challenges it.

It would be a shame if they were forced to follow through with this threat. Cult of the Lamb is a great game. I’d be curious to know if this changes their plans for their next big content update, which they’d tentatively moved to late 2023 back in August.

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. But seriously this has to be one of the odder bugs I’ve seen in a Bethesda game.

Honestly, I’d completely forgotten that Embracer had bought out Gearbox. Curious to see who ends up acquiring them, if anyone actually does. Also have to wonder just how many studios Embracer is going to end up selling off or shutting down by the end of this.

Not that interested in Indiana Jones as a franchise, but I’m curious to see what MachineGames can do with it. I could see some interesting traversal and combat gameplay with the whip, but I guess we’ll learn more next year.

Not all that surprising honestly. Starfield is going to be Bethesda’s focus and main talking point for a few years at least. And who knows how many games are scheduled between it and ES6, whenever it comes out. Given that Bethesda generally likes a short window between reveal and release I’m wondering just how much they regret teasing a game that might not release for another three or four years.

Yeah. I’m sure laying off staff who have been crunching on Dreadwolf for who knows how long is really going to “unlock the creativity” of everyone left. At least some of the people laid off will be able to find work in other parts of the company. Honestly, if Dreadwolf and the new Mass Effect aren’t successes then I feel like it will only be a matter of time until we hear about EA shutting the studio down. Hopefully, Dreadwolf is good and sells well, but the people working on it have to be under a lot of pressure between the layoffs, Biowares last two games failing, and BG3 setting a new standard for RPGs.

Really excited about Alan Wake 2. So far it’s looking like a great mash-up between the first game’s more traditional horror elements and the more surreal stuff introduced in Control. Looking forward to release day.

Just finished Cult of the Lamb, but might have to pick it up for this. The survival mechanics sound interesting and it seems like they mesh well with the base game. Also, the crown having its own little tent when you sleep is a nice touch.

I am morbidly curious about how this movie will turn out. Will they try and make it a family-friendly adventure movie influenced by the first game? Or base it on the sequels, which tried to make everything darker and edgier? Also, why? Like, I would love it if there was a resurgence of interest in Jak & Daxter, but of all the IPs Sony wanted to adapt for film they chose one that hasn’t had a game released since 2009?

Glad to see Sony supporting bigger storage options, given how much space AAA games are taking up these days.

I’d say so, but then again Morrowind has a lot of quirks that make it hard to get into for modern players. Like the fact that the game doesn’t have quest markers. Instead, you get directions like “follow the road and turn left at the fork, it’ll be the first cave you see” and you have to follow those directions if you want to find anything. Or how the game uses a dice roll-like system to decide if you hit with your weapon or succeed at casting a spell. At the same time, there is a lot to like about Morrowind if you give it a chance. Unlike a lot of modern RPGs, you don’t start out as anyone special. You’re a nobody and you stay as a nobody for a good chunk of the game. To advance in the various guilds you have to actually level up your various skills and do enough quests to earn a promotion. So when you do reach the rank of guild master or complete the main quest and people call you a hero it feels like you’ve really accomplished something.

So yeah. Definitely worth playing, but it’s not for everybody and you have to remember that it’s an RPG from the early 2000s. If you play it with OpenMW there’s a great site called Modding OpenMW that catalogs mods that are compatible with OpenMW.

Exciting stuff! Not having to manually edit the files when setting up mods is a welcome change and I’m excited that they have started implementing the Lua scripting. Obviously, there is still a long, long way to go until OpenMW reaches parity with MWSE when it comes to Lua, but it will be interesting to see what mods people come up with as the features expanded in subsequent releases.

Not all that surprising that piracy has become so big in Russia. If people can’t access something legally they’ll still find a way. Wasn’t there a proposal to essentially legalize piracy back when Western businesses started pulling out of Russia? Or at least loosen the restrictions against piracy? Not sure if it ever happened, but it’s hard to see that percentage of piracy go down unless relations between Russia and the West normalize. Or unless Western businesses quietly start doing business there again once they think no one cares.

Well, the opening is good. I always enjoy the animations Sega puts in their more “classic” inspired games. Hopefully, the rest of the game is as good.

There’s something oddly nostalgic about Peter Molyneux hyping up a game that will never live up to those expectations.