This sounds to me like the right way to combat secondhand sales. Rather than making the game shitty and/or locking features behind online-only, unlock-keyed connections, they added a content mechanic that was actually fun.
I mean, this is basically the entire premise behind roguelike games, just applied to an action RPG instead (in a small way).
Yup, this is the one.
Shoulda called it Rainbow Seven then.
Your responses truly highlight your ignorance of his “process”. Seriously, read ONE chapter of that ONE book and then you’ll be back here to apologize.
He wants to release his next game, but he has no clue how to get to the finish line on his own because he avoids structure when it starts to require personal accountability. Were it not for personal financial pressure (and the pressure he was putting on his partner), the first game would have never released. Now he doesn’t have that pressure.
I give zero shits about his next game, as we’ll still be seeing articles exactly like this two years from now.
Read the book and come back when you’re actually informed about the topic. I’m not saying anything new about this dude.
LOL okay dude.
Check out the book and read this whole story about his first game, then come back to this thread. The guy has some real - arguably self-imposed - psychological struggles in his life, and they cause hardship for both him and the people he loves (esp. his partner). He’s now showing that he learned nothing from making Stardew and didn’t emotionally grow from that experience, and this creates a further cycle of pain for him.
After reading about the making of the first game in Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, I’m convinced that this dude NEEDS a publisher, or at least some kind of producer or project manager. He actually needs structure and deadlines, even if they’re a bit soft, or else we’ll never actually play the Haunted Chocolatier.
Damn, 2025 is looking like the year of Game Pass. Very excited to try this one, too.
Fucking git gud. It’s Mario. Not a hard game.
I enjoyed the hell out of Odyssey, in large part because it has these kinds of combos and such. Nintendo did a great job of making a game that anyone can play and beat, but yet still offers some challenge for the folks who want to reach for 100% completion.
This game is hella fun, and on top of that it has tons of style.
The game featured a series of balance updates after its original release. It’s overall in a very good state right now. Not sure what you would expect.
A lack of adequate planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
I honestly don’t understand why they didn’t go the other direction and make this game free with a PS5 Pro purchase. It’s super old and the remaster could be a great tech demo.
I guess people will buy it anyways, so there we go.
For real. This is like saying that Project Gotham made Mario Kart feel like trash.
The article talks about this. tl;dr- very unlikely that’s what’s happening here
You’d think they learned their lesson re: that approach with the whole Halo Infinite mess, but here we are.
Does Halo Infinite let players do this now? Or are you “only” able to run your own game/lobby on a dedicated cloud server?
Going to the video rental store was hella fun. My partner and I were going to a local Family Video up until it closed a bit after the start of COVID.
It’s conceptually just like listening to music on vinyl; the ordeal, the inconvenience of it makes it special… even fun. It turns something that has become so simple that it’s boring (i.e. picking out a movie) and it makes that thing into an event.
Consumers explain why they don’t give a fuck; too expensive is too expensive.