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Gavinmad

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Mist said:
I wonder if the reason we haven't gotten an X-Com 3 is because X-Com 2 + DLC still sells pretty well.
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They've been working on Midnight Sons since shortly after X-Com 2 launched and a chunk of the dev team eventually got sick of it (presumably) and left to form Bit Reactor, which immediately got tapped by EA to do a Star Wars strategy game.
 
Malkav

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Mist said:
That sounds either awful or terrible.

Hope you can shoot gates you could otherwise just walk around, and block sith with walls of fire.
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Could definitely see them doing a Stormtrooper game. Still missing targets with a 95% chances to hit.
 
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Daidraco

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Malkav said:
Could definitely see them doing a Stormtrooper game. Still missing targets with a 95% chances to hit.
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Ha, you beat me to it. Thats all I could think of when Xcom and Starwars came up. Fucking god awful when you miss 95%+ like three times in a row. Rage inducing.
 
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Hey guys remember when Linus hired an absolute oxygen thief that was pure simp bait?



Who could have guessed it would end in a sexual harassment claim?!

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spronk

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no real shock but that pretty much leaves fall as god of war 2 and the usual shit sports games and COD
 
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spronk said:


no real shock but that pretty much leaves fall as god of war 2 and the usual shit sports games and COD
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Elden Ring DLC should be somewhat soon-ish? Might be winter though, no news so far but would kinda line up with their usual DLC release pace around november.
 
Hateyou

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I don’t understand why game companies give release dates at all anymore. It always leads to a date pushback or two, then you have people butthurt or “take all the time you need” types arguing on the internet until the release happens. Just give previews and updates and work on your shit and announce when it goes gold.
 
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Tmac

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I don’t understand why game companies give release dates at all anymore. It always leads to a date pushback or two, then you have people butthurt or “take all the time you need” types arguing on the internet until the release happens. Just give previews and updates and work on your shit and announce when it goes gold.
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But this is an internal doc. And they would still use them for their internal teams, bc if there's no goal it'll never get done, even with pushbacks.
 
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Vlett

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Tmac said:
But this is an internal doc. And they would still use them for their internal teams, bc if there's no goal it'll never get done, even with pushbacks.
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Agree. Especially if you're using split resources and people are fighting for the bandwidth to completion.
 
Hateyou

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But this is an internal doc. And they would still use them for their internal teams, bc if there's no goal it'll never get done, even with pushbacks.
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Yeah the one above it for evil west wasn’t. I understand internal docs needing dates. I don’t understand companies announcing dates to the public.
 
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gauze

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Imagining a world in which not knowing when things being release could be pretty wild.. Just wake up one day and find out a new console came out that day, or a movie just came out.
 
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Daidraco

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gauze said:
Imagining a world in which not knowing when things being release could be pretty wild.. Just wake up one day and find out a new console came out that day, or a movie just came out.
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Shit like this is already happening. Games are launching as "Epic Exclusives" and people have no idea theyre launching. Marketing is a complete cluster fuck right now. But on the bright side, Epic paying these developers to launch as an exclusive for 6 months under Epic is basically giving them the extra opportunity to create more content from that money, much less have that extra 6 months to refine game play from a much small playerbase.

But to the point of whats being talked about - no, hiding release dates is fucking retarded. Even though he may have said "why do release dates at all?" I think he really just meant "why give a release date when you arent even near the polish stage of a game?"
 
spronk

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based on retailers already discounting saints row and it doesn't even release for a week, thats another game that seems to launching into a void lol

but damn this is cool, kids today have it too good we had to imagine everything
 
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