Don’t Think, Just Jam
The official answer seems to be: CIG trying to get as many people to the Manchester office and he may or may not be unwilling to relocate. That’s just my guess though.
GamesIndustry has additional comment from CIG on the matter.
For what it’s worth, he’s been replaced by Richard Tyrer (director of Squadron 42).
I mean, they’re adding big box delivery so…
Jokes aside, non-aggressive unlawful gameplay could be focused on pure stealth, for example: to steal or plant something without being seen as an intended goal of the mission giver. Maybe add racing on a private property? It’s definitely something more difficult to come up with and implement than just shooting people in a different location but they will have to do it if they really want to make the game into a sandbox for everyone and not just action players.
Sure, as the name suggests unlawful gameplay will always skirt the law, I just don’t think everything has to be about murder. That’s just me though, hopefully peaceful game loops will make their way into the game at a more reasonable pace after recent development shift.
Sure but they specifically talked about non-aggressive approach to unlawful play style.
Besides, it’s not really a huge deal. Just making fun of how everything in SC has to be related to combat in one way or another.
I love how good chunk of “non-aggressive” unlawful gameplay consisted of killing without rising alarms. Very cool…
No problem, hope you have fun with it!
This ended up way more rambly than intended but hopefully will be of some help. I might clean things up a bit if I have some time later.
First game is a bad Dynasty Warriors clone and can be a really rough experience.
It has very repetitive gameplay and pretty much requires the use of a guide if you want to get the true ending due to things like “get to this already cleared part of the map at this specific time” if I recall correctly. Final boss is… an experience.
It’s a rhythm battle with no checkpoints.
It has a great story (with ending E being a direct connection to Nier Gestalt/Replicant), though depending on how resistant you are to the monotony and jank, getting there might be a challenge. There are some absolutely bonkers ideas here, beyond anything you’ll find in later games and that’s honestly the biggest draw for this title.
Finally there’s music. Oh boy, the music. It sounds like a cacophony of a madman and not in an enjoyable way. Don’t expect anything like Nier OSTs.
All in all, don’t feel bad about switching to/going with an LP - this text one by The Dark Id is a classic, with everything you could want (it’s pretty much a play-by-play, with lots of screenshots and music, just without the tedium).
Main thing to keep in mind is that this game is kind of its’ own thing and one I remember the least about.
Taro had no involvement beyond helping with a few CG cutscenes and the producer (I think?) of the first game had only a limited power over the development. Because of this writing can be a bit more generic and flat.
It’s not all bad and story has some connections to the first game but it was intended to be a more streamlined experience.
Gameplay is mostly improved but has some issues, like certain bosses requiring specific weapons (you can beat them otherwise but they’ll require a lot of hits).
Play it if you really want to complete the collection but it’s not necessary to experience the “main” series.
This one is technically a prequel to all the other games.
Yoko Taro is back in the writer’s seat for this one and the overall story is better than D2 in my opinion. I already mentioned the humor in this one - it can be a bit crude and vulgar so your enjoyment of those parts will depend on how well it clicks with you.
Story has the usual Taro flair and can be further enhanced with the DLC which expands on each of the antagonists (I don’t know how easy it is to get these days).
It’s not a great game from a technical perspective - it runs like garbage on the original hardware (framerate can fall to single digits at times) and can look a bit dated even compared to other games from 2013. Some of it can be improved with emulation but I’m not sure to what extent.
Gameplay is further improved (there’s still a lot of jank) and way easier to fully complete so there’s that. If you survived the original Nier you should be fine.
It can be an interesting experience if you like stories by Yoko Taro, just don’t expect a good game (this sentiment can be extended to all pre-Nier Automata games to various extent).
If you’re looking for something relaxing there’s Afrika - a photography game with a (light?) sim focus.
If you’re fine with kind of mediocre gameplay, rough performance and interesting writing: Drakengard 3. The occasional humor may or may not be your cup of tea but the overall story is worth it - it does require replaying stages and some grinding if you want to reach the true ending however.
It does! They showed it off during CitizenCon and talked about it in this video.
It also suppose to have a list with various POI located in the system (stations, moons, planets), custom markers (not sure if they’re targeted for 3.23) and some other stuff I’m probably forgetting right now. It should be way more usable than what we’re used to.
I think it’s just a reference to a bit in the chapter.
There’s manga?! Is it a straight up adaptation or does it expand on the show in any way?
Glad to be of service.
Isn’t this a Christmas tradition by now?
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Online focused, with battle royale and possibly co-op campaign (store page mentions pilot stories).
While I don’t care about using alien ships Syulen looks really cool. C1 too, I guess.
Storm on the other hand… this thing should be like half the size it is now. I may be exaggerating a bit but one-man “light” tank should not be this big. I also can’t get used to the track pods being completely static - they look like they should be split in two and act like suspension (even though it wouldn’t make sense with tracks).
Hell, at least make them move in relation to the main body.
That said, MLRS variant looks cool - if only for the rocket barrage.
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It did, this is apparently a one off and won’t be continued any further (｡•́︿•̀｡)
Not a bad episode but I find it really funny how Nate talked about Idris being “packed” - it’s a space ship and a military one at that, shouldn’t “packed” be the goal here?!