Castle Magus

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Thanks, Sony, for giving me yet another reason to never buy this game, on Steam or PS5 or anywhere else. Not that I would have bought it to start with, mind you, since it's a multiplayer only[1] "live service" game. Fuck to hell forever with that asinine horseshit. About the only thing they could do that would be even worse than this would be to add in Denuvo after the fact.

I mean, hell, even ignoring the facts that (1) I had no interest in this game to start with, and (2) I even have a PSN account already[2], and (3) I've bought games on Steam in the past that required a third-party account, I still think it's terrible, just on general principles, for them to add this shit in after the fact.

I don't mind watching other chucklefucks play it, because it's funny (more because of the chucklefucks than because of the game itself), but that's about it.

[1] - Or, at the very least, it's a game where you still must be online even to (try to) play it """""singleplayer/solo."""""

[2] - Well, I had one a decade ago, though I haven't tried to log into it at all since then... *pause to check* ...yeah, it's still there, though I had to reset my password in order to access it. I set up 2-factor authentication on it, as well, which I hadn't done before, so I guess it was a good thing I bothered to try it, regardless. And now, back to forgetting that I have a PSN account that I'll probably never use for anything again. In the increasingly unlikely event that I ever do buy another Sony console at some point, at least it should be there, for what little that's worth.

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Full headline, yet again, because Dreamwidth's subject field length is still too small and/or PC Gamer's headlines are still too long: "Hello Games' grand follow-up to No Man's Sky, Light No Fire, is an open world the size of the actual Earth"

Riiiiiiiight. I'll be honest, I didn't even really read that article much past the headline. I'm not going to believe a single word that is said about this game until well after the game is released and other players have gotten the chance to be the guinea pigs who see for themselves what it's really like. Then, 4 or 5 or more years after its release, when the game is actually in a state that even halfway approaches all the absurd, unrealistic promises that Peter MolyneauxSean Murray will undoubtedly make about it before release, I might consider buying it at that point, if I see it on what I consider to be a good enough sale.

That's what I ended up doing with No Man's Sky, after all. I don't regret having bought it in 2020 (four years after its 2016 release), at around half-price. I've played through NMS probably around 2.5 times now so far, including 2 or 3 aborted attempts I've made both before and after the couple of times I actually completed it, and they've added even more to it since the last time I played it. That said, I'm pretty sure NMS, to this day, still hasn't yet managed to fulfill all of the promises/lies made about it before it was released, though.

If this new game eventually ends up being of around equal quality as current day NMS, then fine. I'll probably get it, eventually. But like I said above, the proof is in the pudding. I'm not going to trust any of Peter MolyneauxSean Murray's pre-release hot air as far as I could pick up and throw an open world the size of the actual Earth. I would say once burned twice shy, but thanks to my usual policy on buying games in the modern era, I wasn't actually burned on NMS myself. That same policy applies to this new game, too, of course.

Or, who knows, maybe I'll be proven wrong, Peter MolyneauxSean Murray will have learned his lesson from NMS, and this new game will actually live up to any hype made about it before it is released, when it is released. It's just that I'll pretty much be completely ignoring this game until then, either way, that's all.

So, in contrast to owsf2000's post over here, in which there are a couple videos from guys who actually kind of know what's going on with this whole situation, above is a video with two bumblefucks who know next to nothing about it, outside of what they've seen about it online (same as most anyone else who is on the outside looking in). Pat seems to know more than Woolie does (with great emphasis on the "seems to"), but that's not saying much. Still, they shit all over Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast in this, same as most everyone else lately, which is nice, I guess.

To follow up on owsf2000's post on this topic:


Ian and Pat found this to be just as fucking asinine as Mord and I did.

As always, fuck EA, and fuck anyone who defends EA.

Via owsf2000 here. As I said over there, "games as a service" is horseshit, always has been, and always will be.

(This is yet another instance in which I wish I'd called the "asinine anti-singleplayer trend" tag the "asinine anti-offline trend" tag instead, but oh well, as I've said before and will probably say again, it's more effort than I'm willing to commit to in order to go back and change every instance I've ever referenced or used it in previous posts now.)

Full headline is "The Walking Dead developer Telltale hit with devastating layoffs as part of a ‘majority studio closure’" but that didn't fit in the Dreamwidth subject line.

Anyway, owsf2000's post, with my comments, and all that.

owsf2000's post, my comment.

As always, to hell with the modern video game industry. That is all.

Mord's post my comment.

For about nine minutes there, Pat and Ian just shit all over Digital Suicide, and it's great. I love it.

Blargh. Said all I wanted to say about this ever increasing horseshit over there.

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