You know, in other industries, sometimes there are [determining factors]. I think in the film industry there’s like, ‘The budget can’t be above this amount of dollars [if it’s an independent film].’”

Sounds like its time for VGA to set up standards too then. its way too arbitrary every year. 

Ultimately, sadly, these problems have been baked into the industry from day one because Osamu Tezuka was a workaholic who worked himself to death at an early age and who thus had unrealistic expectations re: production speed from the studio making Astro Boy.

Really hope things improve for the industry; been reading…

Which is funny because there was a time where they were very very picky about who makes games. I remember Relic devs talking about how much they had to BEG them for the 40K rights to make Dawn of War. 

You can thank Blizzard for that.

The closest I can think of is Warhammer.  They will let anyone try once with it.

Aye get this list farted on

nae limmy means youse dunno what youse is talkin aboot

Not to mention that the developers have that sweet Game Pass moolah, so any future update will be coming out of an Xbox showcase.

Also I think that including a game so anticipated would be a disservice to the other titles. These indie showcases are a good way to give some visibility to less well known titles and having a hyped-up sequel to a popular that would dominate the conversation feels counterproductive.

Maybe it’s the fact that it’s been almost 5 years since an announcement.

Makes me wanna build the “Master Chief School For Players Who Can’t Aim Good And Wanna Learn Other Stuff Too”

This is what made me fall in love with games really. Mods, maps and community modes which fundamentally change what is challenging. Something that creates a new sort of difficulty altogether. Good shit.

Its not like steamdeck excels at those huge games tho. People are more likely to play smaller indie games with a couple of the confirmed working well “big” games. 

SD cards are cheap and while on paper the speed specs are different, there is barely any performance difference in practice.

The forge stuff is really cool. It’s a shame the customs browser is utterly broken.

I apologize for perpetuating that myth.

That’s ridiculous, there is no Halo 5, that’s a myth

Are you saying except for Infinite because they can just ignore it? The only Halo that’s not available on PC is Halo 5. 

Somewhat related, but the AI component of Forge has been fun to mess with. Shame it limits you to 32 characters at a time, but it sure was entertaining making a marathon of elites power jog in circles around the blank canvas map. Next we’re going to tweak a very nice looking Helms Deep map to be more in line with…

Well Chris Metzen only worked on like... one of those expansions... but now he’s back!