Star Trek actors are the most robust actors. They’re everywhere. I watched all of Boston Legal without realizing it wasn’t Star Trek. Our boy Frakes plays adult Finn in the adventure time episode Puoy, George plays Ricardio. You can’t escape it. Star Trek encompasses all.
Edit: sort of unnecessary edit but when I use actors here it is gender neutral.
I’m gonna watch it. Plot-wise there is so much you could do. What will really make or break it is the props and atmosphere. All you gotta do is have some 1950/60s retrofuture.
As long as we are capturing the world and not the grind. Could you imagine partying up and your DM narrates chopping yews for 4 hours? Lmao “you failed your one tick check”
How would you continually add meaningful content season after season when these games are heavily story driven? You’d run into the same problem Destiny is having but faster as you try to keep a story running infinitely.
Thing is, thats not what attracts us. Its the way the world is alive. Lords finally did it too. The world is built to where it tells a story.
The Fire Giant is imprisoned by the kiln, left to be the last lone guard.
We arrive at the Temple of the Deep, only to hear i passing from an NPC that Aldritch isn’t there, when we arrive where he should be he is not there.
The weird singing beasts around Liurnia can have their song translated, and they sing of being persecuted by the “Golden Ones”.
These things are crafted with care, knowledge, and purpose. All of this is antithema to the quick bursting format of GaaS, where content is live for all of 3 months before becoming dead. It does not serve the art form, and you’ll be left with hollow shell of a game as devs don’t have time to breath life into each boss. You’ll also end up getting even more reskins and people already complain about that.
Mans has gone hollow, doesn’t think the atmosphere and lore are a major draw of FromSoft Souls games. So much so that nesrly every other Soulslike has tried to have a mind blowing story. Look at the genre dude, its painted in Miyazaki’s favorite colors.
Edit: and soulslikes really refers to two things:
currency experience
dropping it when you die
That seems to be what the industry has decided on when they tag a game “soulslike”. But they’re missing the most vital pieces. Thats why “2D rpgs with deep lore” are role playing games and not soulslikes.
You can, but specifically, soulslikes have currency experience, you drop it, and there are checkpoints that refresh the area. Its a specific gameplay loop and mechanical feel that makes it a soulslike. Yes, they are technically RPGs in the same way an IPA is also a beer. Idk what you’re pulling at. I can frame Fallout as a survival horror. These bins we put games into are slightly arbitrary, but it means they contain systems that are alike and provide much of the same feel or user experience. Fallout does not provide the same user experience as dark souls. If you want to discuss in good faith I’m all for it. But you seemingly want a battle of wits, and have arrived unarmed.
I was arguing for the opposite. A GaaS soulslike would be filled with garbage content and uninteresting bosses due to the development environment created by the unending stream of new “content”. You can do it, but its not going to taste good.
Then make it dude. Make that big pile of shit. Stress your devs out so they can’t place all the tiny details in the environment that connect the boss to the area. Shit out new areas and bosses so fast they have no lore. Watch, as your game sells none because soulslike players aren’t there just for the mechanics. Which, speaking of mechanics, they will be garbage too. Do it. I won’t stop you.
What is your point? I’m telling you a GaaS Soulslike will fail. You won’t make any money with this idea because it lacks the things that make us keep coming back to FromSoft year after year. This isn’t an FPS where razor thin attention spans must be constantly stimulated. Soulslike fans will scoff at constant microtransactions and skins and your stupid in game store. Wanna know how I know this? Because there is a soulslike GaaS! Wanna guess the fucken name? Since its such a good idea you should have heard of it, right? I will honestly wait for your reply to tell you the name.
Soulslikes are very popular. We watched the genre explode ourselves.
I don’t like GaaS, you probably know that by now. But I don’t see anything wrong with it giving free access to players. There are plenty of genres that are geat. Racing games, Shooters, sports games could probably do it easy.
But the soulslike genre in particular, the true legends of it, are not the GaaS games. Thats why FromSoft is still the biggest dog in soulslike, they know what the genre fans want. I guess Nioh 2 could be considered GaaS with its dailies and all. But I am more specifically referring to the cancerous revolving door of content type of GaaS. That would not serve a soulslike too well imo.
They don’t? I tell my kids flatout if it costs money NO. Mine don’t really play anything without me but Sky: Children of Light, though. The steam deck w/ dock does not work as well for them as I had hoped.
A lot of factors go into that though. If the parent allows it, the child will think it is acceptable. I’ve bitched so hard about ads and season passes that my kids actively avoid them.
If you look it up it is apparently a common issue with the dock. There is an issue after being put to sleep with detecting hdmi input. You have to unplug the AC adapter for 30 seconds, put it back in, and then the tv and dock will play nice.
From what I read, its not the TV. But who knows, six year olds aren’t really going to do that every time to play games. They like Spyro, Rain World, Untitled Goose Game, just random stuff they’ve seen me play.
Thats just one of those bullshit things that will have to be a matter of willpower. They are legally allowed tk target children with their products. I have the downloads restricted on their tablets and just never approve Roblox when they ask for it. They did uninstall runescape when I gave them that tho :(
Edit: and these examples I give are just to show how easy it is to monitor without monitoring. I set this stuff up once.
Can’t break what isn’t there. My fogged, weed-addled mind is perfect for creating the loose structs needed to comform to the destructive tendencies of players. Whose that guy they just killed with the village leader’s head dress? I dont know either.
He gas a daughter. His death shattered her mind to survive, the pieces made a pact in the depths of despair. They rationalize his death as being set free. She now roams the land liberating the needy, with her ultimate goal being the liberation of the great party who turned her to this realization
A solid strategy is to build as many research stations as possible and grab everything that increases reswarch speed when its there. If you do it right you’ll start fielding your first battleships while others are still outfitting their first destroyers.
I just want it to stop (startrek.website)
The surprisingly robust careers of Star Trek stars who became video game voice actors (arstechnica.com)
"This is only the beginning..." (startrek.website)
I love shit that lasts a decade of use! (lemmy.world)
Remember: 9 months until we build a statue of this guy. (lemmy.world)
Fallout - Teaser Trailer | Prime Video (www.youtube.com)
Battlestar Voyager (lemmy.world)
It Waddles My Dees (lemmy.world)
What do you mean I have to learn a new system?! (lemmy.ml)
5e is fine but I also love indie games and creators
18+ Wounded Russian soldier attempts self-elimination in front of his comrades. (streamable.com)
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The Binding of Isaac: Repentance Online Beta Has Begun! (store.steampowered.com)
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So what the heck is an 'indie game' nowadays anyway? (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC (www.vg247.com)
Edmund McMillen: Isaac online faq to prep for Friday. (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/edmundmcmillen/…/1729893999711023593...
"Daily Affirmations" by War and Peas (lemmy.world)
All the links...
Lords of the Fallen is learning the worst lessons from games as a service [ongoing live service game is not suitable for a Souls-like game] (web.archive.org)
Cult of the Lamb devs said they'd make the 'sex update' meme come true if they got 300,000 followers and, well, you can guess what happened next (www.pcgamer.com)
The fans really rose to the occasion.
[Punchy] People Don't Actually Want Game Preservation - Metal Gear Master Collection (www.youtube.com)
The best roguelikes and roguelites on PC (rogueliker.com)
US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas (www.gamesindustry.biz)
The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans (www.businessinsider.in)
As long as everyone is having fun (startrek.website)
Peace is too much effort. Suffer in silence. (startrek.website)
How i met your mother(ule). (lemmy.world)
I have bad news for you... (lemmy.today)
Left 4 Dead Got A Sequel So Fast Because The First Game Was Extremely ‘Broken’ (kotaku.com)