I would if I could, but Dying Light didn’t have that option. It also didn’t have the option to let me quit a mission after I got softlocked behind a room full of bullet sponge enemies, having run out of every resource because those stay gone for good even when you die and reload.
So yeah, I quit that game.
These games can be good, but I’ve always felt that selling a game primarily on being “fun with friends” is an extremely weak point. Everything is fun with friends. Watching grass grow is fun with friends.
Would be nice if this place could refrain from sliding into reactionary conservatism even ironically.
any studio
This is one with his name on it.
Depending on how detailed the material he leaves behind is (or how detailed they want to pretend it is) they could likely still get some mileage out of it. We might end up with a Tom Clancy situation.
I live in constant dread of the day Gaben kicks the bucket and Steam is carved up by bloodsucking profit-chasers
I don’t really think it’s a problem at all. It’s on the level of game mechanics being taken too seriously like “why does a sword in my backpack weigh enough to slow me down but not a sword in my belt?” or “how come these vegetable merchants are willing to buy random crap I found in a cave?”
Fallout 1 has a hard timer you have to obey before it is too late to do your main objective and you lose the game. That shit stressed me out so much I just didn’t continue playing.
Is one year really that long considering the dev cycles of big video games?
It’s just a journalist thing to replace an ‘and’ with a comma. The devs are dissatisfied with AI and pay.