Banrik

No but that’s what the article is talking about, even touching on that there were indie releases in April but pragmata has a wide birth, with only the Diablo 4 dlc to contend with.

I’ll bite; what are these six other AAA games in April?

I’ll be honest & think between their tiny team, it almost certainly wasn’t much of a priority at all. Though from what I’ve seen of Ed, I don’t think he’d care enough to change it if he was made aware

The article itself seems to state that they were most likely asked before the people became problematic. Given the game has been in development for 12 years & Ed most likely asked a huge plethora of Internet personalities, I’m surprised there aren’t more.

Regardless of controversial meows, the escapist starting the article with “a backlash is rising” feels like they’re admitting they’re fanning the flames of Internet drama for traffic to their site.

Honestly what I think happened is, in the lead up to the game awards there was a lot of talk about the cost of slots & I imagine the final of the show cost a pretty penny. Then I think no one was willing to buy said slot so the haphazardly shoved something in a lot closer to the event then the usually would. I doubt this was anyone’s first choice.

I just think this is going to be a bit of a mess no matter what way it goes. People have such a different idea of what this game is now based on the riot drive.

& I can’t help but think that’s kinda the point of buying it, because you only need to sell it in one burst of hype to make a quick buck, look at cube world for example.

Also the game has been sold off once, if someone like M$ came knocking, even just to kill it, you think if he makes a huge profit off the purchase, he’ll say no?

I think a lot of people have been waiting for this & the hype around it is just going to lead to disappointment.

Except we already know that he’s willing to sell, so if MS came knocking, i bet it’d be just a question of how much. If it can get off its feet of course.

I’m excited for kenshi 2, even if I’m beyond wary of it being made in Unreal engine…

I thought it was a good lighthearted community in-joke, better night posts at all

I think I’m like 1 of 5 people that played and enjoyed midtown madness 3 on xbox. Last time I looked emulation had forgotten it, wonder if this can run it!

I had such high hopes for starbound but it just kept falling short through development to its current release.

I got in on the crowdfunding they did on their own website & enjoyed the idea of the road map they laid out. Unfortunately one thing that became apparent fast through development was how much they wanted to distance themselves away from terraria, to the point it felt they took worse development paths if it meant they achieved this.

I had a lot of fun with the first version of the game which was a lot more aggressive with the survival, heat & food & drink mechanics but I understood why they revised that because to capture a larger audience I could see those mechanics needed to be toned down. Then the game just kept getting revision after revision & every time it just felt worse for the overall game.

What we have now is a fine & competent game that feels rather disinteresting overall & a shadow of the concept it was trying to reach.

Even the modding scene can’t really elevate it too much & the game has a horrid taint after the unpaid contributer stuff.

Train

Goddamn, those wolves with high beams are a menace!