Pierre is conflating 'more Halo' with 'more Halo (corporate) drama'. Entirely unsurprising.

That said, if 343's (bite me) track record is anything to go by, a move to a new engine can only lead to chaos in the short run, and likely just more chaos in the long run.

I'm not even a Halo fan, but this is getting grotesque.

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelSo they relabeled the GOY editon to Anniversary edition and doubled the price? Or am I missing something?

Something's wrong. People who didn't own everything got everything, but that's it. You get a Relic account login prompt, but it does nothing and is not reflected anywhere, seemingly. The game that installs when you install base DoW1 is still the GotY, there's also no extras, and when I tried installing Winter Assault manually I got an error.

Someone screwed up, looks like. Don't do releases on Friday, people.

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Quoting: DrakkerIf at least they fixed the buttons order and made it like the Nintendo layout. There's no way I can unlearn that layout after having used it for so long.

Who's 'they'? SteamOS does offer the option to switch to a Nintendo button layout.

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The art style is a bit of an eyesore, though.

Quoting: DrakkerI love HOMM*, but its way too time consuming for the adult version of myself. It would need some serious quick play options for me to consider it at all. I can't spend hours watching slow walking and combat animations anymore...

They're planning shortish session multiplayer modes.

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: suchSo, it's back to the original, without the "Director's Cut" changes?

would be sad. i do not need these puzzle games for opening a door, but the DC also has some nico gameplay i wanna play

I like the idea of additional gameplay in theory, but that DC beginning is completely botched. Inert, mostly superfluous, just doesn't fit.

That'd be my condition: it needs to make the game better, instead of just more and usually worse...

I'm happy if it's just the original, but upscaled (well).

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Quoting: The_Mystic_TriptychWhat an absolutely beautiful looking game!

More of an extremely limited toy, going by the first demo.

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So, it's back to the original, without the "Director's Cut" changes?

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...is this Paradox trying to capitalise on the movie Twisters?

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: such

Quoting: ArehandoroWould love to see Gabriel Knight 4, or even series based on it. This documentary will suffice for now 😅

Apparently, there is willingness. Just a matter of, y'know, getting the license (and not having it yoinked from them mid-development as was the case with their Activision deal), the funding, and the team to make it.

And then there's the fact that Jane has been writing garbage in industrial quantities for over a decade.

And then I look back at Moebius, which is horribly written and, somehow, designed even worse than that, and I'm not sure a GK4 is safe with Jane Jensen anymore. I'm hoping that new GK story will be sensational... but it probably won't be.

All this said, I'm excusing the terrible art direction in the GK1 remake. They had a tiny budget and Activision screwing with their deal, so I'll let issues like a comic book page with three different and clashing art styles pass. Although... that is also concerning, seeing as a potential GK4 would also be very much indie.

Yeah, you're right, most likely won't be any good and maybe leave it as it is for now.

I'll still be reading that story, because I really would like more GK...

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: tfkI've never played it. Is it good?

If you built a base on the planet, it was still there upon your return. Still, it happened to me once that while exploring a planet in my starship I 'accidentally' found another crashed ship, so I landed nearby, repaired the found/crashed ship and took off with the new one to test it. I was never able to find my original landed ship again :-(

I don't know if this was always the case (got it at launch, refunded it, came back years after), but for a good few years now at least it's been possible to summon all owned ships through the menu thingy. Whatever you hopped on last is your main ship, but you do have access to all of them.

Quoting: tfkI've never played it. Is it good?

Highly depends. If you feel like just exploring planets and gathering stuff to maybe build/improve stuff is fun to you - then yes. If you're expecting a game with crunchy mechanics - no.

My take is that at launch NMS was terrible at the former, and now it's quite good at it. It'll never be good as a "proper" game, though, because that's clearly not the goal. It's more of a chill experience with some gamey bits that provide some sense of direction and progression, but that don't tie you to them if you don't care for them. Maybe grab it on sale and try it out then?

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