games

Unironically they could probably just ureuse that engine

it holds up SO well

i doubt any of the original staff are there though

or most

zero chance

I think a lot of them worked on Hyenas

and left at some point during that mess

Is there a single movie/tv show game that comes close to alien isolation?

idk if those were the "good" devs, but they definitely had some

in terms of horror-suspense, no

even just as like

movie tie-in game

etc.

Alien vs Predator the game is also great, but graphically doesn't hold up anywhere near as well

Alien Isolation argubly is the best horror game made IMO

the AI is insane

there was a post by the Paradox lead dev, saying some bullshit about how it's too hard to make an AI that can reason two-way trade deals

90% of the community called bullshit, and he started trying to explain it by saying noooooooo you don't understand it's an n squared problem, it's too complex for us

I really think devs are scared of doing anything even sorta complex with their AI

it's really sad

because good AI makes games feel awesome

so I hope whatever team SEGA has doing this takes on the challenge

alien isolation's isnt even that complciated

its just put together really nicely

all it does iirc

is just have a big movie director AI, that watches for situations where the plyer would feel tense (alien is around), and then when the player has been "tensed" for too long, sends the alien somewhere else with a hint

then the alien has its own seperate AI

that alone isnt even that hard to do but games can't really experiment enough

yea

i remembered correctly

I really can't think of any other movie/franchise type games that ware anywhere near as good

also Max, did you see Ubisoft is likely looking to sell of some of their studios

expected

theyre dying hard

idk whose going to buy them though

their mass spam slop appeal doesnt really work anymore

Microsoft is out of money to blow, Sony probably isn't overly interested, Embracer popped

it would have to be Take 2

During pre-2020~ ubisoft slop games did fine ebcause everyone didnt really care and most normies ate it up

Nintendo could get the rayman studio

and shitty unfun open world time sinks

dontr really work

*without also being a gacha

the ubi open world shit is just death for these games now

comparing AssCreed to any other franchise is crazy now

I hate open world

well that's not true

I hate massive openworld

i miss densely packed open worlds

sometimes its "oh look at how big the map is wow!" and the map has less stuff than some games 20 years ago

@heir do you know if the new Diablo expansion is supposed to be any good?

hje left

spooky

i dont think it is though

... why does he still show up on my sidebar though

and autocomplete in the server

bro rather play a diablo expansion over grimdawn

I figured he just rejoined

Max, I own it now

half the battle lol

you own phijkchu quest

one day

a new modern arpg will drop

and you'll play it first

I'll probably end up playing it in November, I don't think there are any games that month that I care about

unirronnically

Deadlock cockblocked you

Also, I've figured out how to juice the fun out of deadlock, you just have to play full bully full push

and it's super easy to tilt your opponent

yes

even though early kills

are like

nothing

I literally only play the turret bitch

I abandon if I don't get her

and usually take T1s before 3 minutes

unironically you get more money farming the small camps and pots the first 8~ minis