Here is the final entry in this series. It’s a bit of a downer. Sorry. I edited it quite a bit trying to make it less depressing. But then I realized that while it’s a downer, it’s also honest, and honesty is the whole point of a postmortem. Let’s start with Arvind’s final thoughts:
I've already written about the need to promote your game in an earlier blog post. Now, it is time to discuss the result.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Good Robot Postmortem #4: Promotion”
Hosts: Josh, Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster.
Episode edited by Issac.
Show notes: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast #161: Death Road to Canada, FTL, Starbound”
Six years later, I’m happy to see that LOTRO is still with us. It seems like the move to a free-to-play model was a good one.
Also, how about that Leeroy Jenkins reference in the header, huh? That meme was already way past its sell-by date when I wrote this, and that was six years ago.
Ellie Cutleaf is sending me to Chetwood to attack the bandit hideout. I promised (lied) that I’d bring some friends along. I don’t actually have any friends, but I’m pretty sure I can take care of the bandits anyway. The place is also guarded by killer guard dogs. I have a bottle of poison that I collected at great painsThe pains were actually experienced by the bears and wolves I had to kill to get it and not by me, but the point stands., which Ellie tells me I’ll be able to drop into the dog’s food supply so I don’t have to fight them all.
To get to their base, I just need to go to…
Chetwood. AGAIN.
And now that I’m on the doorstep of the bandit base, I realize a fatal flaw with Ellie’s plan which we both should have realized right before coming up with a new plan and right after slapping ourselves in the forehead: The food is inside the base. I have to go in there to poison the food, but to get to the food I have to fight the dogs.
Well, the only thing worse than having a stupid and self-defeating plan is doing it halfway. Let’s make with the puppycide.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Shamus Plays LOTRO #22: Welcome to Chetwood – Again!”
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Mumbles commented that the blood mechanics in this game are crazy. This seems to be a thing with late-period Bethesda games: Ragdolls act like balloons full of strawberry jam. Which makes it all the more inexplicable to me that “high-definition blood splatters” is always among the most popular mods. There are a lot of things visually wrong with how people die in this game, but “the blood decals are too low-res” isn’t one of them. If anything, the extra detail would draw attention to the problem.
I dunno. It’s just strange, is what I’m saying.
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Here’s a spoiler for Josh: I watched the episode and I SEE WHAT YOU DID.
I never teamed up with former mayor MacCready, so I can’t really comment on what they’ve done with him. I hear people say that he’s actually a pretty good companion, but I favor stealth gameplay and companions do not mix well with stealth. I thought it was surprising that he was in the game, but it doesn’t even make my list of top 100 Fallout 4 gripes. I mean, if I was given the choice between:
I will take #1 every time.
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“Does this game look good?” is the question. I had a bunch of nice things to say about it when the game was new:
But that’s praising the game by pointing out how awful Fallout 3 looked. A more fair question would be, “Does Fallout 4 look good for a game in this time period, with these system requirements?”
I don’t know. I’m just glad that wretched green filter is gone.
So after last week’s fun, painless, and intuitive teleportation process, I’m now standing in the “Shade Perilous.” So far every other place I’ve gone has been named for how much it’s going to kill me, so maybe I’m not as scurred as I ought to be.
Time for an in-game story update! Gather the wee ones and cuddle around Grandma Cahmel’s rocking chair as I regale you with another classic tale of actual rather than assumptive narrative. You can tell which is which because one’s broken and the other one’s just complicated.
As you may dimly recall, the one living humanoid still in the mix is a woman named Vatasha Trenelle. She’s left various notes indicating she’s shadowing the invading party and seeing what happens. Anyway, this is what happens.
It’ll be a bit of a shame to see her go, because she was a novice who was, like us, putting it all on the line in a desperate situation. And she probably had pants when she showed up today, so that puts her one above us on professionalism. If she was a little bit better at exploiting bugs she’d probably be the main character.
Whoop, gotta go, the level’s greeter is on fire.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Ruts vs. Battlespire CH19: Hot, Cold, and Hott”
What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
My first REAL published book, about a guy who comes back from the dead due to a misunderstanding.
This is a massive step down in story, gameplay, and art design when compared to the 2014 soft reboot. Yet critics rated this one much higher. What's going on here?
A big chunk of the internet went down in October of 2016. What happened? Was it a hack?
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
This series began as a cheap little 2D overhead game and grew into the most profitable entertainment product ever made. I have a love / hate relationship with the series.
The comments on most sites are a sewer of hate, because we're moderating with the wrong goals in mind.
No, game prices don't "need" to go up. That's not how supply and demand works. Instead, the publishers need to be smarter about where they spend their money.
What was the problem with the Playstation 3 hardware and why did Sony build it that way?
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