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Empire of Sin - Brenda and John Romero's turn-based Mafia strategy
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Actually a lot of people still have an eye on John. But Brenda? It is a mystery.
Less than 20, unless you want to fight me over Wizardry 8. Still a long time. Anyway, nobody with any sense expects any game dev to crank out hits year after year. Sometimes they can come back after a dead (or worse, mediocre) period with something strong.
Reflecting, I agree with you ... the Romero personality cult doesn't carry a lot of weight. (Did it ever? Seriously now.) But the fact that they are marketing this off their personal "fame" opens them to criticism on that basis. If this exact same project were being made by a team of anonymous nobodies, it would look pretty damn good. I'm interested in learning more on that basis.
The new Doom episode (Sigil) from John was pretty good.
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Paradox released a song called "Empire Of Sin" and it's surprisingly quite good: https://open.spotify.com/track/77wyqh3TS3R4AExIX2OtC8?si=Rcjw89ADQ_a4HPWZTH0L5w
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Empire of Sin at PDXCON:
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Has there been a dev that came back from the dead and didn't produce absolute shit yet?
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When they introduced John I was half expecting them to lead with "here's Brenda's husband", but the awkward half-laughs and yellow smiles kinda made up for it. "I'm uh, the audio guy, I'm working on the audio..."
What an absolutely pathetic end of career.
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You probably missed the part when he said that he works on the game in a lot of different ways. And from that the biggest part is the audio. And in the next interview he tells that the is doing design. So no, there is nothing pathetic here.[/QUOTE]
Well there are certainly a lot of moving parts to manage, so it's complex at least. Just looking at the different main characters you can pick shows mechanics involving:
* Police raids, you can influence how camouflaged you are
* Trading w other factions, you can influence prices
* Income from various types of businesses, that can fluctuate per type
* Control unions
* Faction relations (ally, neutral, enemy, ?) that change through gameplay
* STD gameplay
infection chance can be influenced
* Businesses can offer different quality levels of product/service
* Base upgrade prices can be influenced
* Businesses must be staffed, skeleton crew or fully staffed?
* "Favors" exist and may be bought
Watching the devs play was excruciating and I skipped a lot of it, but there is a lot going on here. The demo ended up being mostly a lot of XCOM combat, which isn't a bad thing particularly if the actual game is balanced like they said instead of the lame cakewalk we saw here.
Still interested to check this out.
* Police raids, you can influence how camouflaged you are
* Trading w other factions, you can influence prices
* Income from various types of businesses, that can fluctuate per type
* Control unions
* Faction relations (ally, neutral, enemy, ?) that change through gameplay
* STD gameplay
infection chance can be influenced* Businesses can offer different quality levels of product/service
* Base upgrade prices can be influenced
* Businesses must be staffed, skeleton crew or fully staffed?
* "Favors" exist and may be bought
Watching the devs play was excruciating and I skipped a lot of it, but there is a lot going on here. The demo ended up being mostly a lot of XCOM combat, which isn't a bad thing particularly if the actual game is balanced like they said instead of the lame cakewalk we saw here.
Still interested to check this out.
I don't know if it's a good idea to copy nuCOM combat when all enemies are basically the same. Each enemy in nuCOM has their own quirks and behaviour, but in this setting the difference is having a shotgun or a machinegun. Hope it doesn't get old too soon. The "Geoscape" at least looks much more interesting than nuCOM.
For what it's worth, I played all the way through Omerta and its DLC The Japanese Incentive which had similar limitations. The combat stayed interesting (or at least interesting enough) throughout both campaigns.
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Now on YouTube:
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what happened to Blackroom?
What the fuck? I like pretty much everything they say about this game. Am I starting to have renewed respect for John Romero?
Is he, finally, going to make me his bitch?
Is he, finally, going to make me his bitch?
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