Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

[Ol' Willy]

Josh should buy Fiat 124, lol

 

[Tihskael]

Guess who Josh ran into in his Lambo?

 

[vonAchdorf]

A fucking Fiat? What a fag!

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Fiats will never be cool.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

 

[Desiderius]

Stuck in the Make America 1966 Again mindset.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Fiats will never be cool.

Say it again

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Say it again

No need.

 

[Desiderius]

You'll have plenty of time to be cool when you're dead. That car is elegant.

Not so much Soyer's.

 

[Efe]

reminds me of anadol which used compressed wood for body and cows literally ate the car

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Diggfinger]

Josh put up a 2h Twitch-Stream of him playing Prey.
Why didnt you potato-heads post this immediately?

Did anyone play this?
Seems like a decent-enough 0451 game, but holy fuck that enemy-design is generic, boring and idiotic as fuck.
Mimics (aka headcrab wannabes) turn themselves into chairs, medkits etc. and attack you when you interact with those things.
Like seriously!!??? Did the fucking alien-Thalos whateverthefuck council sit there and go "let's disguise ourselves as office furniture and finally overrun those petty humans MUHahahau".

Dude wtf.
Josh also points it out. He's 30 or so hours in here, basically seeing the same enemies over and over again. And to make it better they added in some backtracking.
To visit old areas. That are repopulated with those same 3-5 enemy-types. Awesome.

Puts me straight off from playing it.

 

[Butter]

Prey sucks. It's like SS2 if every part of SS2 sucked.

 

[KVVRR]

I'm pretty sure the aliens in that game were just space animals until they mimicked an actual human being

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which is basically the whole plot

 

[Rean]

Josh put up a 2h Twitch-Stream of him playing Prey.
Why didnt you potato-heads post this immediately?

Did anyone play this?
Seems like a decent-enough 0451 game, but holy fuck that enemy-design is generic, boring and idiotic as fuck.
Mimics (aka headcrab wannabes) turn themselves into chairs, medkits etc. and attack you when you interact with those things.
Like seriously!!??? Did the fucking alien-Thalos whateverthefuck council sit there and go "let's disguise ourselves as office furniture and finally overrun those petty humans MUHahahau".

Dude wtf.
Josh also points it out. He's 30 or so hours in here, basically seeing the same enemies over and over again. And to make it better they added in some backtracking.
To visit old areas. That are repopulated with those same 3-5 enemy-types. Awesome.

Puts me straight off from playing it.

It's a great game

Spoiler

For falling asleep

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

First 2/3 of Prey are really good. Last 1/3 is pretty bad. Enemy variety is indeed one of its biggest problems.

 

[Sizzle]

 

[Spukrian]

Did anyone play this?
Seems like a decent-enough 0451 game, but holy fuck that enemy-design is generic, boring and idiotic as fuck.
Mimics (aka headcrab wannabes) turn themselves into chairs, medkits etc. and attack you when you interact with those things.
Like seriously!!??? Did the fucking alien-Thalos whateverthefuck council sit there and go "let's disguise ourselves as office furniture and finally overrun those petty humans MUHahahau".

Mimic work as unscripted jumpscares, keeps you on your toes!

Dude wtf.
Josh also points it out. He's 30 or so hours in here, basically seeing the same enemies over and over again. And to make it better they added in some backtracking.
To visit old areas. That are repopulated with those same 3-5 enemy-types. Awesome.

There's about 15 types of enemies or so... And both SS1 and SS2 have backtracking and respawning enemies.

I feel Sawyer might've enjoyed the game more if he was better at it. He doesn't seem to be in the right mindset.

 

[ferratilis]

The man who designed New Vegas is driving a fucking Fiat. I really have to stop reading this thread and his Twitter or I'll never be able to play his games with a straight face. Even Italians hate Fiat.

What was his salary, 100k? You'd think with that kind of money he'd go to a car dealership and get a car fit for a boss, not a fucking sardine can. Not to speak how dangerous that thing would be on American roads. Imagine him getting hit by a typical American truck, he'd be crumpled.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

His salary is 200k. He's a faggot.

 

[Ninjerk]

Someone tell Akira Kurosawa he put too much detail in his storyboards. Lyric Suite you might appreciate how much of a troglodyte this man is.

 

[Infinitron]

Josh: "lol idk"

 

[Infinitron]

lol

 

[gurugeorge]

Josh: "lol idk"

I would only be an impossible problem if both sides in any conflict didn't have access to magic - which in a magic-laden world like Eora, with magical "classes" and set progressions in spell types, they obviously would.

So (since a poke in the eye with a sharp stick could still put paid to a magician, and you still need "Boots on the ground" to hold a place) normal martial arts and tactics would still have a place, and there's still an interesting nerdy question there to be answered.

All bets would be off only if magic were more truly Vancian - i.e. if spells could be constructed that did really weird things that weren't just the equivalent of relatively predictable medieval superhero powers.

But even that could be balanced (as it is in Vance's writings themselves) by the super-rarity of magicians who could do that kind of stuff, and their general lack of concern with human affairs. (But then you wouldn't be able to have magic use as a common "class" in a videogame context.)

 

[Quillon]

HUGE juicy info about sawya's next game:

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