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    Guild Wars 1

    Other way around, in my opinion. I found skeleton necromancer in Diablo 2 a lot more fun than GW MM builds. Especially because of the whole "minions decompose over time" shit which is just balance by tedium. In both cases you're mostly just watching your minions engage in combat while you fire...
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    Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

    Gradually chipping away at defining operations and products. Now focusing on defining population needs, which I'm probably going to handle in a manner broadly similar to Victoria 3's system (basically, there are several wealth brackets that populations fall under, and they can shift up or down...
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    Starsector - RT 2D indie space goodness

    Not the first time a modder has thrown malicious code in. The Starsector modding community is absolute garbage and I'm amazed at the shit Alex lets them get away with.
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    Starsector - RT 2D indie space goodness

    People don't want to install Tencent Timmy's store in the first place, especially after he tried strongarming people into using it. Steam, people actually like and want. But Starsector's not coming to Steam until it's done.
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    Starsector - RT 2D indie space goodness

    Why put it on a store nobody wants to use, lol?
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    Guild Wars 1

    That's a really pleasant surprise; I hate the entire EotN soundtrack (no idea how Jeremy Soule did such a terrible job considering how good all his other work is - I suspect nuAnet was very particular about how they wanted it to sound) and having it as the login music for so many years was...
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    Games that impressed you with technology

    Guild Wars 2 uses the same architecture and also doesn't have downtime for patches, while having the open world that you mistakenly think is a prerequisite for being an MMO. It's not because GW isn't an MMO (although it is an MMO), it's because other MMO devs are incompetent and/or lazy.
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    Incline Arkane is working on an immersive sim

    I think the main deal was that you play as basically anti-fascists, and the vampires are meant to be "the Man" (that's the vibe I got from the trailers and reviews I've seen - I haven't played the game), so naturally you, and the characters on your side, are going to look like anti-fascists -...
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    Incline Arkane is working on an immersive sim

    It's not the fact that they're making an "immersive sim" (I hate that term by the way), it's the fact that modern Arkane fucking sucks and any announcement of any game they're making is negative because they're going to make a bad game, that's what they make these days, bad games.
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    Incline PlayStation Exclusive (also on PC day one)

    If it's on PC it's not an exclusive, everyone has a PC, the whole point of a console exclusive is to get you to buy their walled garden shitpile.
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    Games that impressed you with technology

    Guild Wars. Mostly the way they had zero-downtime patching by using an active vs standby server system (something that's apparently too hard for many modern MMO devs, who have to take their servers down to patch), but also the whole deal with only sending assets to the client when actually...
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    Guild Wars 1

    The difference between PvP in Guild Wars and PvP in other RPGs is so massive it hardly even feels right to treat them as being in the same genre.
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    Guild Wars 1

    I don't have any "documents from the devs" type evidence, but look at the game itself. - Release schedule of 1 campaign a year (edit: faster than that actually, I think). That's rather a lot. Now, fair, it's less work than making the core game because you're reusing code and just adding...

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