I’ve looked at Vintage Story a few times but I never bite with how difficult everything seems. Even tuned, it seems I would not be able to escape great time needed to do things.
I don’t play as much and so I think I would risk being disgruntled with limited progress. It’s a game I respect a lot though.
I’m excited. I never did anything Hytale related, but I’ve longed for a Minecraft alternative.
Music CDs let me get unique monsters in Monster Rancher on the PS1. BR has yet to come close. There is still growth.
It is a nice quick game to keep around and it’s such a one-size-for-all theme that it makes the table.
The hardware makes it sound like it will still be $1 000 minimum. Mayhaps more with everything going on.
The article didn’t say their stance on opening the device. Does it void warranty to upgrade or repair?
I just wanted to talk to people and less bots. I’m sort of becoming discouraged though. A lot of stuff here that interests me involves reading articles and it feels like most people just go off the headlines. Then there are certain subs that just feel so angry, like the gamer ones.
I’m always toying with the idea of joining some forums but I never know which are still alive. If anyone knows solid game, book, or film ones please lmk.
They replaced the art later, but shouldn’t the bar be high like this? Otherwise, the caution won’t be there. It also could be abused, like games only getting adjusted post-launch if a certain measure of success hits. Plus the final product is not the only part of matters in the was-AI-used discussion, it is also about the process. If AI is the product of stolen human artwork being fed into a machine, and then that machine is used during creation, then AI has been used in the process that led to the final product no less than the concept art that may not be seen in game but was important in steering the ship.
Maybe someone can share their thoughts though. I’m still formulating mine and this is where I am at the moment.
Dastmalchian as Bison. <3 
I once got in trouble because the phishing test talked about a bonus and we had only just a month prior had our annual pay increase become an annual decrease against inflation. I emailed HR, basically calling it bullshit. They did not like that. I did not like them.
I didn’t get canned, despite a few more HR visits for each their own thing, but I don’t work there anymore. It really changed my perspective on what a good job is: as few people above you as possible and as unchanging as possible. Good jobs become bad jobs real quick.
/end-semi-rant
I know almost 0 about Hytale. I played a lot of Minecraft but never interacted with their stuff. I also never got into minigames outside of the old school Mob Arena plugin.
All that said, this looks really cool to me. I’ve wanted to see something build upon the foundation of Minecraft. Now even more so with MS murdering developers left and right at the alter of AI. I have looked at Vintage Story a few times at length, but each time I walk away thinking it looks way too hardcore for me.
This checks out with what Russell Crowe was saying in the interview. He doesn’t name Scott, but he was saying there were forces pushing for inserting smexy time. He rightly had things to say about that, "So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was fucking this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy.”
I used to use a username, for like 10+ years, but had a “personality” use the same name and become popular. That was before Twitch blew up, so I can’t imagine it is any less common now. I saw in the Hytale FAQ that they will claw back names that popular users use. I get it, but also it is strange. I guess that is the world today, everyone wants to be a brand.
It was super disappointing but not surprising. I’ve seen enough of Ridley Scott’s work to see that he is very uneven and unfortunately usually not because he is taking big artistic swings. He has made some of the greatest films and so the exact opposite just really stands out each time.
He was the doctor in Deadwood as well. I believe he was largely a likable person iirc in that. Oh and he being freaky over an alien in one of the lesser Alien flicks. His daughter also plays in the Chucky universe as well.
I had initially assumed it could be sold at a loss and then they would earn off of game sales. Then it was pointed out that people would buy it and put whatever they want on it for a cheaper PC. I know we aren’t going to change the trajectory of things, but maybe someone has an idea to share for fun?
I have not played the games, only having observed a little bit of play. I definitely don’t know the story.
I enjoyed the first movie. Some parts of it were really great and there are some slog moments that I will even skip past now. Overall though, the first is a guilty pleasure. I can’t recall a lot about the second movie except that I hated it. Kit Harrington was super hard to watch, some weirdness with CGI stuff in the end, and something about the big sword boi really upset me. I don’t think I ever watched the second flick again.
I want this new one to be either good for the fans or if it misses then at least fun like the first one was. I really do need to give the remake a try, but I am such a chicken for interactive horror.
I think you just noted why they compared them. Both were huge.
Kinda sad to see the state of them now.
I REALLY wanted to see what they were working on. It would be interesting just to talk to him and his team. ESO was built on the Hero engine and I think SWTOR is the only other MMO to use it. I’ve always wondered how much that inspired them to work on their own engine for Blackbird.
Oh and I love that they independent team calls themselves Sackbird Studios.