Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

Honestly, I wouldn't disagree on that. The only difference here is that the project was practically buried for the public eye. Which I suppose wouldn't be a surprise as it is taking forever. You'd be lucky to see someone talk about it if it even makes it.

For those curious what Yea said about it, here is the video.

edited 10th Apr '18 7:56:57 AM by UltraWanker

It's not as public because the sneaky bastards behind it didn't go out of their way to publicize and hype it. It becomes pretty clear throughout the vid that this project was more or less a Kickstarter scam from the start.

The funny part is that now another company, Little Orbit, is trying to clean the mess and do the impossible of salvaging it. Which, for me, sounds like something out of a Hercules Labor. Makes you feel sorry for them, Little Orbit obviously.

If they somehow do it and come out with a decent game, I'm gonna have to keep an eye on them.

edited 10th Apr '18 8:20:55 AM by UltraWanker

While they've got passion and transparency, even Yong Yea questions whether they can actually do it. They don't seem to have the experience to pull off something like this, especially since they're apparently going to do the whole thing from scratch. Which admittedly would be better than trying to work with what the assholes threw at them.

For all the shit, usually justified, people heap at Nintendo over being behind the times with the Internet, sometimes that's for the best.

This is what I was pointing at earlier in regards to bigwigs running the AAA industry having no clue on video games.

This is a 4 year old video back when Jim was on The Escapist, but it basically talks about how corporate doesn't care or know about other games if it wasn't Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, or Call of Duty.

There also was that strategy game about playing as great old ones which did reach beta state, then the sole programmer of project seems to went down some sort of burnout crash down(refusing to contact anyone or give further updates on project) alienating the other friend who worked part of the project and making everyone on dev forum really unhappy and depressed.

There are lot of failed kickstarter stories and lot of successful ones too, its not really much different from game development in general really, except in that people remember failures much more than successes while failed game projects that never got finished are something you usually don't hear about unless publisher started hype for it way in advance.

edited 12th Apr '18 12:13:38 AM by SpookyMask

I'm guessing you're talking about That Which Sleeps. Yeah, that was a letdown since the premise of the game was one I found interesting. Big Cosmic Horror fan here.

As for the point about hype...yeah, that's one of the major reasons Mighty No. 9 was such a problem. Inafune hyped it up like crazy and made a big deal about how it would the Spiritual Successor to Megaman.

I didn't back That Which Sleeps, but I was looking forward to playing it when it came out. Then I heard about one of the developers cutting off all contact with others, and it hurt.

Idubbz has a series devoted to weird kickstarters and Retsuprae has one for failed Kickstarters.

Pop quiz- what game is the roguelike named after?

Builder games that make you plop down blocks to build things, what are those a copy of?

Now, how about games where 100 players duel to the death in a shrinking map? What do you call those?
...oh, just "battle royale". Alright then...

Identity is important, of which Jim assesses Player Unknowns Battlegrounds has none. Where Fortnite's sense of style and unique art direction carved it into something the mainstream will always instantly recognize to the tiniest detail, PUBG's contentment to just use premade assets makes for a game so generic that it can't lay claim to anything outside of popularizing- not making, popularizing- the battle royale genre of games.

Imagine if Mario, king of platformers he is, didn't have colorful or instantly recognizable graphics in his first platformer outing and looked like a normal Atari game or something. Sure, he'd still be the forefather of platformers, but would he of been memorable? Such is PUBG's fate, the frivilous lawsuits regarding Ubisoft-iconic frying pans only further damning it as being a bland-looking game with no real identity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vahXVj3lK4k - EA Vows Not To Make Another Star Wars Battlefront II 'Mistake'

No they'll make worse mistakes

All this means is that EA will try to be more subtle when it comes to monetizing games. They certainly aren't going to stop monetizing games.

Nah dude they will totally get better, just like Destiny 2... for the fifth time.

According to a Dutch study 4 out of 10 games were shown to be egregious enough (it seems to be dependent on if the items can be traded/sold for real currency) to actually be breaking the (Dutch) law, while the remaining 6 were still criticized for their lootbox system. The 4 offending games are given about 3 months to chnage their games or risk fines or being declared media non grata

edited 20th Apr '18 9:45:16 AM by MorningStar1337

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjWHYXmv2Y - God Of War

BOY

Figured the Jimpressions for God of War would catch the interests of this thread given it's the new Big Game. To surmise the video: it's not the Citizen Kane of video games and the combat flow is a bit wonky at times (Jim compares it to Hellblade a lot, saying that game was overall clunkier but had a better flow to its combat) but those two things aside? Yes, it's a very good game. Good combat, enjoyable Norse setting, pretty environments, and BOY being a good companion are all strong suits in the game's favor.

And it's also a Triple A singleplayer game that just focuses on pacing a story well instead of giving you a ton of stuff to do, so bonus points! Not that there isn't a ton of stuff to do, it's just that the main story takes priority and the little secrets are stuff along the way instead of being one of a million directions you can stumble in.

Jim's a bit overworked this week so have a Jimquisition Remastered instead.

It's a 100% objective review of Final Fantasy XIII. No, seriously, he only makes objective statements about the game.

This is basically exactly what I expected. Not necessarily a masterpiece, but it never needed to be one. Being just a good, solid game is completely fine.

That means God of War truly is a must buy.

Jim's a smart guy so I trust him & the fact he actually has a critique or two about the game compared to everyone else who's saying the game is absolutely flawless gives him all the more credibility on this matter.

Thank Jim my copy from Gamefly arrived today.

Your right.

edited 23rd Apr '18 3:24:50 PM by slimcoder

Shouldn't you be thanking Jim? For him? :P

From what I gather, the new God of War deserves praise for doing something different with Kratos, as opposed to the previous games repeating themselves with "he goes angry, kills some more gods, and maybe kicks Zeus in the shins").

Even if the result is yet another "dad game", at least you are escorting a reasonably capable boy, as opposed to the usual "conveniently attractive and helpless girl".

I wonder if all the Dad games coming out or out are because some people who grow up with games are becoming Parents or is it because the developers are becoming Parents.

It's a 100% objective review of Final Fantasy XIII. No, seriously, he only makes objective statements about the game

Didn't he already remaster it.