I never understood how simple numbers can be so hard. It's like when X-com players expect to always hit at 90%, and then get mad about it when they don't.
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Should had picked an example that didn't had a broken RNG to make your point. 
Anyone who sees PoE's passive tree and is not excited no matter what genre of game it is should be hanged.
inb4 Mordheim: City of the Damned
Anyone who sees PoE's passive tree and is not excited no matter what genre of game it is should be hanged.
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They really had no reason to believe any games by Troika would be big sellers. There were a number of Conan video games before the early 2000s, none of which sold particularly well.
I never played Conan Exiles, I'm just aware of it as a Conan fan and I know it sold incredibly well but I bet that's more because of the type of game it is, it's not an RPG. The Conan titles that came out in the mid to late 2000s were arpgs and didn't sell very well so it wasn't a stretch to think in the early 2000s that a Conan game isn't a sure success.
I also don't think too many arpgs in general sold that well back then anyways though there were many clones, Diablo ruled that market for a long time. From what I know, as I don't play arpgs anymore but have family members that still do, arguably still does.
I bet none of you edgelords ever take the shopping cart back, because it's too pozzed or too beta or some fucking made up spastic bullshit.
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Was any of these actions RPGs these publishers pushed good thought? I was playing Divine Divinity the other day, old action RPG made by Larian, and everything about the game was comfy except the dumb action combat where you spam click at trash mobs
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That was the golden age of consoles, PS2 and its battle against XBOX kinda narrowed down the choices for games and gamers. PC gaming took it really hard back then. Most of the classic pc genres were dying, and if it wasn't an MMO, it had to be a diablo like or a shooter. The DD project was kind of a mess, starting as a Dark Eye rpg, then moving into its own thing, and Swen trying to make an Ultima but having to make it more like Diablo to fit into the publishers' demands. Those were weird times... I remember quitting gaming altogether back then.
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Meanwhile japs were in the golden age of jRPGs with final fantasy 7 and turn-based combat. Ironic.
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Well arguably it had been since a long time. The SNES had plenty great TB titles. But yeah.
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The gay jokes write themselves. Is he doing this on purpose?
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Still not quite as prophetic as Deus Ex...
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No actual discussion of games, just 10 minutes of lib-midwittery from a guy who can't understand why people disagree with him.
Every system has trade-offs. There are a lot of people who have problems with the health care systems in the UK and Canada. I've spoken with a bong recently who believed that their personal experience with an uncaring, negligent staff is due to the "conservative" government, as if simply spending more will surely make things better. Over in Canada, people will go to the emergency room for headaches because making a doctor's appointment will put you at the end of an incredibly long list. The Canadian government recently decided that encouraging their own citizens to commit suicide is more financially feasible than treating them. The United States has a different set of problems, and most people here would rather have the problems they're familiar with than the problems these other countries have. A switch would be better for some, and much worse for others.
Every system has trade-offs. There are a lot of people who have problems with the health care systems in the UK and Canada. I've spoken with a bong recently who believed that their personal experience with an uncaring, negligent staff is due to the "conservative" government, as if simply spending more will surely make things better. Over in Canada, people will go to the emergency room for headaches because making a doctor's appointment will put you at the end of an incredibly long list. The Canadian government recently decided that encouraging their own citizens to commit suicide is more financially feasible than treating them. The United States has a different set of problems, and most people here would rather have the problems they're familiar with than the problems these other countries have. A switch would be better for some, and much worse for others.
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always has been
This is Tim Cain now.
Probably has been for a long time.
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I only listened with half an ear, but did he say Fargo was badmouthing him to the competition? Epic
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He refused to name names but someone at Interplay succeeded in blacklisting the Troika three, forcing them to make their own company.I only listened with half an ear, but did he say Fargo was badmouthing him to the competition? Epic
Some publisher guy also yelled at Tim for working in C and not C++
Tim liked Sierra and wished he could have made more games for them if not for their financial difficulties.
Interplay sent three legal threats, and after the last one Cain got a good lawyer to threaten them right back. They also lost the Fallout code and asked Tim if he still had it (they ended up finding it on one of their old machines).
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Some people might not know this but you can still view lots of old mid 90s Usenet content about Interplay and Tim Cain including responses by community managers regarding Tim leaving during development of Fallout 2. And also lots of random posts by Tim himself, many about the GURPS RPG and his GNW(GNW's Not Windows) windowing system.
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