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    Incline The Second Video Game Crash.

    Spectacle requested a citation. If you want solid numbers, you'll have to become an investor. But for the layperson, you can get a decent, basic overview by simply going to one of the games database websites and sorting by year. Or better but requiring more work, you can go the old reporter...
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    Incline The Second Video Game Crash.

    So, number-of-games-being-released-per-year, that number only crossed 2008's number like the year before last. Which means, this is nowhere near saturation. There is one actual difference between now and 2008, though. Back in 2008, all of the stores were curated, so YOU didn't ever have to see...
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    How big a difference was 1st to 2nd edition AD&D.

    2e cut the original table and replaced it with the 3 weapon types that should be familiar to all 3e players. So, less each weapon to its individual prime usage, more take the weapon that best helps you self-identify as the gay BDSM drow you know you are on the inside. And well, it had to happen...
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    How big a difference was 1st to 2nd edition AD&D.

    I'm not dead yet.
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    How big a difference was 1st to 2nd edition AD&D.

    So, 2e is basically a version of D&D that represents how most people played 1e. And the video games are the same way, doing a version of the rules based on how most people played. But 1e pen and paper edition still had a number of holdovers from the game's strategy game roots, so there was still...
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    race popularity

    Elves were called gay before the 80s, way back before a lot of the people on this board were even born, and way back before 3e, or even 2e, or even AD&D. Now, the fact that tween boys of the 80s and 90s called anything they didn't like "gay" certainly added to the stigma, but it was a stigma...
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    Make elfs manly again

    Elves are drawn to be prissy on purpose, in order to excite certain feelings in the viewer. And for that same reason, drow are always drawn with whips, chains, leather, and cat-o-nine-tails. -- It's all sex. You know how they say sex sells? It does. But that "sex sells" thing, it's not all T&A...
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    Incline Jagged Alliance 2, Victory and Thoughts

    High powered scopes break the game. You can shoot people at such range that the AI can't handle it, and so the enemies just mill around instead of fighting back. Thus, maps like the hospital, which feature some of the most intense interior fighting in the game, can be rendered a walkover simply...
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    2K Games Begging Fans to Support Loot Boxes

    No. It might delay it for some months while they adapt one of the other, many psychological techniques for extracting money from the emotionally vulnerable. The whole lootbox craze adapted from collectible card games is terrible. It was terrible many decades ago, and it will continue being...
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    Interview Fargo, Sawyer, McComb and others weigh in on the future of RPGs at Rock Paper Shotgun

    There's another little piece to that. Like a lot of people, holla_cabezas_de_mierda has treated all audiences as being equal. But they're not. To put it in RPG terms, each audience has certain strengths and weaknesses. And one of the advantages that strategy game makers have is their audience...
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    Interview Fargo, Sawyer, McComb and others weigh in on the future of RPGs at Rock Paper Shotgun

    If you sit on an engine and don't make major improvements on it, then you can expect that each new unit you make on that engine will sell about 30% less than the previous unit. Yes, there will be ups and downs, some units doing better than others, but if you plot out all units on a graph, that's...
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    Intelligence as a stat

    The thing with D&D style stats is none of them affect the game directly. They are there simply to illustrate minor modifications to the ways in which a character actually interacts with the game world: weapon abilities and/or skills. So, all of the game systems that rely on a D&D style system...
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    People News ObsidiLeaks: The Chris Avellone May of Rage Archive

    Gender swapping as people are discussing it here is something that a franchise story goes through when it's nearing its last legs in the zeitgeist, but to be sure it's actually one type of twist amongst many that the creatives have used since the beginning in order to keep making a buck on a...
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    if 1999 was this bad.. what would Williams say now?

    The quotes from Ken Williams are more cutting. But what the two of them were lamenting about back when was the fact that as my generation was aging out of video games, the Nintendo generation (that would be you guys) were enamored with flashy graphics and action and couldn't be arsed to sit...
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    What's the logic behind games being 80% off on Steam?

    Those were still the brick and mortar days, so limited number of spots on the shelf. So, would you as a store owner rather devote that shelf space to something that only has a print run of 200,000, or do you want to put Tomb Raider there, which is going to do 6,000,000. And remember, you only...

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