If it is ranked on fun, then yeah Stronghold Crusader deserves to be there. If it is for being effective? Maybe not. I did a naughty thing when a friend played with me the first time. He was a hardcore turtler, and I knew that. I must have hired a bazillion ninjas by the time he told me he felt his base was impenetrable. Sad to say I never got to use the tunnelers or anything else I had.
Wonderful game.
I think there are more interesting parts of the read.
“My producer Victor Hadida told me when we finished the film that it cost $23 million,” Gans says. “We had 50 days of shooting, it has 67 sets, so it’s quite huge. But I spent one year just designing everything, storyboarding everything, making tons of artwork. When I came on the pre-production, I was very well prepared. Sometimes, what was difficult was to make people who are not players understand why some elements were so important. Sometimes I had to fight because the fans would be pleased. When I’m doing a film, I’m obsessed by the detail, so that’s the fuel of my work as a director.”
Cross-progression will certainly be a nice one. I haven’t played console, but it stacks on top of them adding addon support a little while back. I wonder if there will be a way to unify those addon-specific settings and saved info.
I REALLY wanted to see what they were working on. It would be interesting just to talk to him and his team. ESO was built on the Hero engine and I think SWTOR is the only other MMO to use it. I’ve always wondered how much that inspired them to work on their own engine for Blackbird.
Oh and I love that they independent team calls themselves Sackbird Studios.
I’ve looked at Vintage Story a few times but I never bite with how difficult everything seems. Even tuned, it seems I would not be able to escape great time needed to do things.
I don’t play as much and so I think I would risk being disgruntled with limited progress. It’s a game I respect a lot though.
I’m excited. I never did anything Hytale related, but I’ve longed for a Minecraft alternative.
Music CDs let me get unique monsters in Monster Rancher on the PS1. BR has yet to come close. There is still growth.
It is a nice quick game to keep around and it’s such a one-size-for-all theme that it makes the table.
The hardware makes it sound like it will still be $1 000 minimum. Mayhaps more with everything going on.
The article didn’t say their stance on opening the device. Does it void warranty to upgrade or repair?
I just wanted to talk to people and less bots. I’m sort of becoming discouraged though. A lot of stuff here that interests me involves reading articles and it feels like most people just go off the headlines. Then there are certain subs that just feel so angry, like the gamer ones.
I’m always toying with the idea of joining some forums but I never know which are still alive. If anyone knows solid game, book, or film ones please lmk.
They replaced the art later, but shouldn’t the bar be high like this? Otherwise, the caution won’t be there. It also could be abused, like games only getting adjusted post-launch if a certain measure of success hits. Plus the final product is not the only part of matters in the was-AI-used discussion, it is also about the process. If AI is the product of stolen human artwork being fed into a machine, and then that machine is used during creation, then AI has been used in the process that led to the final product no less than the concept art that may not be seen in game but was important in steering the ship.
Maybe someone can share their thoughts though. I’m still formulating mine and this is where I am at the moment.
Dastmalchian as Bison. <3 
I once got in trouble because the phishing test talked about a bonus and we had only just a month prior had our annual pay increase become an annual decrease against inflation. I emailed HR, basically calling it bullshit. They did not like that. I did not like them.
I didn’t get canned, despite a few more HR visits for each their own thing, but I don’t work there anymore. It really changed my perspective on what a good job is: as few people above you as possible and as unchanging as possible. Good jobs become bad jobs real quick.
/end-semi-rant
I know almost 0 about Hytale. I played a lot of Minecraft but never interacted with their stuff. I also never got into minigames outside of the old school Mob Arena plugin.
All that said, this looks really cool to me. I’ve wanted to see something build upon the foundation of Minecraft. Now even more so with MS murdering developers left and right at the alter of AI. I have looked at Vintage Story a few times at length, but each time I walk away thinking it looks way too hardcore for me.
This checks out with what Russell Crowe was saying in the interview. He doesn’t name Scott, but he was saying there were forces pushing for inserting smexy time. He rightly had things to say about that, "So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was fucking this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy.”
I used to use a username, for like 10+ years, but had a “personality” use the same name and become popular. That was before Twitch blew up, so I can’t imagine it is any less common now. I saw in the Hytale FAQ that they will claw back names that popular users use. I get it, but also it is strange. I guess that is the world today, everyone wants to be a brand.
It was super disappointing but not surprising. I’ve seen enough of Ridley Scott’s work to see that he is very uneven and unfortunately usually not because he is taking big artistic swings. He has made some of the greatest films and so the exact opposite just really stands out each time.
He was the doctor in Deadwood as well. I believe he was largely a likable person iirc in that. Oh and he being freaky over an alien in one of the lesser Alien flicks. His daughter also plays in the Chucky universe as well.
I’ve been using exclusively Linux for about two years now.
I only ever use the terminal when I need to fix something, usually by searching for a fix and trying it out. I know more about its use now but just enough to hurt myself.
I think it gives me strong UI opinions though. What works better for me. There is still a lot of choice in that.