Looking for some cyberpunk to pass the time. Here's a reading of Gibon's Burning Chrome on BBC4.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jqrf
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jqrf
So I read that apparently Paradox bought Harebrained Schemes. Here's hoping that means some funding towards new Shadowrun games sometime in the near future. Gotta get my cyberpunk fix.
That being said, I think Project Sense funded yesterday, so at least I'm set for a cyberpunk game to play in 2019.
That being said, I think Project Sense funded yesterday, so at least I'm set for a cyberpunk game to play in 2019.
Next couple of games from Harebrained are going to be Battletech games. the success of the current one is why Paradox bought them.
That said would be nice if CDPR got them to do a CP one for the Kofeiiniturpa's of this world.
That said would be nice if CDPR got them to do a CP one for the Kofeiiniturpa's of this world.
Knowing Paradox, prepare for 20+ nickle and dime DLC's.
Sure, I already expected at least three or four Battletech games total, given we got three Shadowrun games. But I can still hope for something to play maybe 3-5 years from now, seeing as I'm back to waiting a longass while for any major cyberpunk action that I can play anyway.
Who knows. Harebrained is going to stay its own company, with its own teams and such, so maybe they'll just get thrown some occasional money to make some expansions or just fresh new campaigns for Hong Kong that you can download. The entire appeal of the design for the Returns engine was its ability to support new content with ease, after all.
I'm not a big Paradox player, but my boys are and they love all the DLCs. Years of support and stuff for a game they like pleases them.
I'm sure they do their sell to certain people. I've just heard that it's mostly annoying.
The thing I don't like about Paradox's DLC is how hit-and-miss they are. Just look at the reviews for that.
The nice thing is, they release so many of them, that even if you don't like one you might like the next. Overall, no huge problems with the way they do business. They make good base games, I never felt like CK2 was incomplete (barring the Ruler Designer... seriously, come on, Paradox...)
Yeah, I dunno. I look at the DLC list and get tired...but like I said, they enthuse. So, target audience?
Yeah, well, I don't really care one way or another. I used to some years ago, but these days.... Rock'n Roll if you feel like it.
I've gotten a tad picky and tired with my followings. If there's real potential - like we have here - I'm all wolfing around, but if it's something... barely interesting, I'll check it out on release, and I don't reallty care about DLC's or anything. It's just a habit to latch on to certain topics.
I think they do the DLC thing for games like CK 2 because the have a lot of features they want in but nothing like the money to do them all with out releasing a couple years before.
Harebrained schemes tend not to have been building quite so complex games. So probably won't follow that model.
Harebrained schemes tend not to have been building quite so complex games. So probably won't follow that model.
This is what I'm hoping. That Harebrained's unique focus on "simple, but extremely enjoyable" will be left untouched.
OK, this was pretty funny.
You know, I've started to feel the same way myself, and I don't like it. So many games come out that I just... don't care about. I've always told myself I'll always be a gamer, it's my hobby and nothing is going to get in my way (no matter how often my parents used to tell me to stop staying up till 3am...).
But... it's telling when I look at the video game scene right now, and there's maybe 3 games (total) I'm interested in investing my time into. Cyberpunk 2077, Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, and the next SP RPG from Bethesda, whenever that hits the market. Of course, numerous indie titles catch my attention, but I tend to forget about them because of their smaller marketing budgets.
Every other game is a mere diversion for a few hours, or a few days at max. My interest in the gaming scene at large is waning.
I wonder, is it our fault, or are companies just making too much of the same crap that we just filter it out by default?
When you get older, you know what you like and what you dislike. It's less that you are becoming picky, and moreso that you've been around the bend enough times to have fairly well-founded reasons behind your preferences and expectations. Doesn't mean you can't still be surprised, but at the same time if you've tried dozens of games from a certain genre and consistently found them wanting.. the likelihood of there being one special magic release that somehow overturns all that is astronomically low, and becomes less likely the older you become.
This sounds like exactly what's happening.
I've definitely found myself uninterested in, say, the pure FPS (Cod, Battlefield, what have you - Doom was OK) market, so I think I've just started to tune the new games out, no matter how many rave reviews they get (even from people whose opinions I trust!)
I think the same goes for survival games, which is a REAL shame because it used to be my favorite genre (back in the Stranded II days... ahhh, I miss that).
This is a very interesting take. Thanks for giving me something neat to think about.
Yeah, the 20th CoD game or ASSCREED: NO ASSASSINS THIS TIME just pass me by at this point.
I laughed REALLY hard at this. I love paradox strategy games, but so true. At least a fair portion of their DLCs are good ...