Recent content by Ruin Explorer

I have to say, I'm rather skeptical of the timeline here. AFAICT neither BO nor SpaceX are anywhere near developed enough with their lander programs to be testing docking them next year, let alone putting them on the Moon in early 2028. I mean, I'm sure it'll happen eventually, and I'd be happy...

The trouble is the amount of assets you'd need for a StarCraft open-world-ish RPG is dangerously close to the amount you'd need for a StarCraft MMORPG. Sure it's like 50% but... even that is close enough to get wheels turning in the minds of executives, like, why are we going to make only say...

Ruin Causer or Ruin Creator was right there man! I mean, I wouldn't completely rule out SR because I'm like 80% convinced Microsoft are going to blow up their entire games department within the next three-to-five years. I could very easily see them selling off a bunch of stuff, including the SR...

It is. I've finished it like 3 times. and have way more "most of the way" playthroughs than that, and it's the first RPG since the Mass Effect trilogy I think I can say that about.

Nah. 13 million copies sold before bad press really hit. If that's "more damage", may god bless us all with "more damage". Over $780m gross come on. That's not real damage. There were some returns on PSN (which was doing full refunds) but it was like, less than a 100k from later reports. Most...

Kind of. The trouble is 2077 was so successful for three hard-to-replicate reasons: 1) It was intensely hyped for most of a decade. This actually caused problems too, but that's a separate discussion. And this wasn't dev-driven hype really, the was fan-driven (again, which lead to problems)...

I would agree. This feels increasingly distinct from the 1990s broadening out of the market. In the 1990s it really only broadened out into a number of other fairly large, product-heavy games for the most part. But now it seems like huge numbers of people who I thought of as the kind of people...

I mean you've summed up pretty well why SR hasn't done great despite potentially being an IP which was extremely well positioned. It really comes down to two things: Catalyst and Microsoft. Catalyst have handled the property very badly, and had a lot of very bad ideas and poorly-implemented...

You me my wife and about half the people on Bluesky! Not helping matters about two years later I literally saw the plane (or flaming wreck of, rather, not that I knew what it was at the time) hit Lockerbie, from about two miles away. I spent most of my teenage years just expecting basically any...

I don't think it does, actually. I think that's some very "inside the box" thinking, honestly. In fact, it can potentially make such a change a lot easier, because it means you've got a "captive audience" who you can expose to the changed approach, give "free" copies of new core books as long...

I mean, there's two kinds of people who think 6E is on the way. 1) People who have reached that conclusion by dint of what they see as evidence and just what is a likely course for WotC from now. I think that's like, 80-90% of people who think 6E is on the way (and by on the way, I mean on the...

Like the Player's Option, Combat & Tactics, etc.? But for 5E? I'd be surprised if they went that way. I think that's got a much more niche appeal, even though the people it does appeal to, the appeal is pretty intense. However, historically that sort of experimentation has been the precusor to...

Yeah no-one should be believing anything on the basis of that guy, but he's far from the only person or first person who thinks 6E is on the way, just I think possibly the only one claiming Secret Info Only He Knows that it is.

No, actually I didn't. I only saw it this time because I was looking for it. The website is laggy and everything appears slowly, I scrolled right past it before it loaded. Further, it looks unprofessional. It looks amateurish - and not in a good "hobby game" way, but in a sort of "generic web...

I really don't think he's wrong, at all. I think what you're experiencing is the exception. I know a few groups in the UK, and there isn't one of them that doesn't have 3PP adventures in the mix, and often 3PP settings too. Anything else 3E, like classes and subclasses and races (not connected...