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Agent_Karyo

@ Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

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  • Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed

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  • I remember playing Jill of the Jungle in early 1997, it was on one of those "100 in 1" pirate CD that were common around the time the CD-ROM was introduced (became somewhat common in my region).

    That same pirate compilation had Commander Keen, Dune 2 and many other games.

  • Dawn of the Tiberium Age mod v14.5.0 released.

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  • No, I am not the author, just sharing. :)

    This is an engine for running older C&C games (including multiplayer support):

    Dawn of the Tiberium Age (DTA) is a stand-alone mod that combines and enhances Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert using a heavily customized Tiberian Sun engine. Featuring all 4 factions (GDI, Nod, Allies and Soviets) with extremely polished gameplay, DTA allows you to mix and match the factions as you'd like in tons of new multiplayer maps and challenge yourself in dozens of original missions.

    Since DTA is a stand-alone mod, you don't require anything but the mod itself to be able to play: the original game is not required.

  • Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

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  • Baseline research on support for the fullscale invasion:

    https://www.levada.ru/en/2024/05/17/conflict-with-ukraine-assesments-for-march-2024/

    The level of support for the Russian armed forces has not changed significantly since the beginning of the conflict – the majority of respondents (76%) support the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine, including 48% “definitely support” and another 28% “rather support” the action of Russian army. 16% are against.

    Research with preference falsification adjustments with respect to support for the full scale invasion:

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680221108328

    when asked directly, 71% of respondents support [full scale invasion of Ukraine], while this share drops to 61% when using the list experiment

    Support for annexation of Crimea:

    https://www.levada.ru/en/2021/05/19/crimea-3/

    The vast majority of Russians (86%) consistently support the accession of Crimea to Russia – this indicator has fluctuated slightly since 2014. 9% do not support the accession.

    Research with preference falsification adjustments with respect to support for annexation of Crimea:

    https://www.jiia.or.jp/en/column/2022/09/russia-fy2022-01.html

    Using the list-experiment technique, Timothy Frye and others showed that Putin's approval rating after the annexation of Crimea was actually high, at around 80%. In their study, they made a list of famous Russian politicians and had respondents answer how many of these politicians they supported. They then estimated Putin's approval rating by adding the name "Putin" to the list for only one group[*]3 and thus concluded that the high approval ratings after the annexation of Crimea were not very different from the findings of opinion pollsters.

    A high level overview of russian support for the invasion of Ukraine (a summary, but with links to relevant research, albeit some sources will be in russian):

    https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorrow/reluctant-consensus-war-and-russias-public-opinion/

    Younger people still support the war in high numbers, though their support is lower than that of the older generation: 75–80 percent of people fifty-five and older support the Russian army’s actions in Ukraine, while 61 percent of young respondents in Levada polls share this sentiment.

  • Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down

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  • Let's agree to disagree in that case.

    I hope I was able to at least share my own reasoning (even if you don't agree). And I think we can both agree that TCR does not have any experience in RPG games.

  • Bruce Wayne won good person / divided opinions. Which adventure game character is morally gray and has fans divided?

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  • Larry Laffer

  • Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down

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  • It's not like that at all.

    I enjoy walking sims (Soma is one of my favourite games of all time) in general and TCR's releases as well.

    That doesn't mean one can't recognize that TCR tends to struggle even with relatively simple gameplay and that a game like Bloodlines requires strong gameplay design/implementation skills.

    While I loved the atmosphere of Still Wakes the Deep, there were many situations where weak gameplay undermined the ambiance and immersion.

  • Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down

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  • An earlier statement from one of the Paradox PR reps (before release):

    "I actually played Bloodlines 1 quite recently, and it is a good game, but it is also an old game, and there are many things that would not fly today," Lilja said. "But I understand why people were super psyched by it in 2004, because it had a lot of cool [elements], and the feeling of being a vampire is really strong, regardless of other features. But I think people, they remember their feelings about it. And if they replayed it, I think they would see that it's a competently good game by 2004 standards, now that it's patched.

    Seems like their approach to Bloodlines 2 isn't much of "high flyer" in the year 2025.

    In defence of the PR rep, they were open about Bloodlines 2 not having much to do with the original and that it was more of vampire themed linear action game.

    But in that case, why would you have internal targets of 2M+ initial sales if your plan is to have a radical departure from a well known cult classic RPG known for its roleplaying and strong writing?

  • Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down

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  • Chinese Room is clearly a bad fit for Bloodlines. They have zero experience with RPG games.

    They make good walking-sim style gaming experiences with strong atmosphere and world-building, but they've never made any RPGs. Bloodlines was a living world full of dynamism (remember the Voerman twins missions?).

    Their gameplay also tends to be subpar. The original Bloodlines had some flaws with gameplay (combat), but you still had a lot of different gameplay options and approaches.

    Why shouldn't people have expectations for a strong roleplaying experience and player freedom for a Bloodlines game?

  • Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon

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  • That's so true. Murray's publicity game become so much more cautious and focused after the initial disasterous release of NMS.

    Respect to them for supporting the game for so long for free while having a simple and fair monetisation approach.

  • A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd

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  • Cheers!

  • Horror games of 90s - 31 scary PC games from the 90s that left terrible scars of delight and nightmare on my soul

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  • although my neighbor/crush liked to come to my place to play it so that's mostly how I got to know it.

    That's funny!

  • A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd

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  • What's the Euro population like? With the timezone and all.

  • Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

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  • Honestly, that's very surprising.

  • Dispatch's success shows a way forward for a struggling AA narrative genre

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  • I am also happy for their success. That being said, I hope we see more of this "formula" but with other settings/characters.

    I am not a fan of American-style superhero/comics, so I would appreciate a different creative direction.

  • Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low

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  • They are not running out of oil money.

    They have the best cost per barrel economics out of all countries (at scale) and they still hold a stupid high % of the market (10%+).

    Their game investment strategy is of course a massive failure. They will exist in 24-36 months. You don't need to be a financial analyst to understand this.

  • Epic CEO [Tim Sweeney] says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development

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  • Wannabe American oligarch.

    The things he allegedly argues against (Apple/Google app store restrictions) is what he would implement (word for word copy/paste arguments) if he was in their position.

    Typical corrupt scum.

  • The median price of best-selling new games on Steam has dropped in the past 2 years, research finds: "Charging >$25 is getting trickier, as players compare value to the $10-$15 indie titles"

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  • I work in market research. Data at this level of granularity (price band view) is extremely expensive.

    Around 300K per year and that would also likely only include a few retailers GameStop, BestBuy, Walmart. I don't remember off the top of my head, but I believe Steam data wouldn't be included.

    It's very likely Valve doesn't share the full dataset with anyone. Maybe partial data with some of their biggest partners.

  • Saturnalia creators Santa Ragione will "wind down operations" after Valve ban horror game Horses from Steam

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  • That's in terms of games.

    If you look at the content on Steam, there is lots of pro-russian genocidal imperialism messaging (even in charity DLC releases), Nazi stuff and annoying fake anti-woke posturing.

    They don't do anything about it because of their alleged committment to "free speech". I find that unconvincing, they simply can't be bothered.

  • Horror gaming community!

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  • I am more into the indie side with psychological/existential horror and horror RPGs, but I do like the early Silent Hill and Resident Evil releases.