Denis Sinner, Creator of Monster Sanctuary, joins us to discuss his recently released monster taming meets metroidvania title.
What was most interesting about our conversation though was how mainstream monster taming games like Pokemon have sacrificed strategy, challenge and innovation, for simplicity and to make their games as accessible as possible to a young audience.
If a game is too easy, can it truly be fun?
The Epic Games Store is giving away two Styx games this week.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Where's the lie though
Even GameFreak have gotten a point where they don't seem able to make big Pokemon games without them sacrificing a shit load of features that came below. They just think adding a new silly gimmick will bring people in.
What I've started doing for challenge in pokemon games is constantly swapping my pokemon out. In early games you had to choose and build up your team, but Pokemon games now make that too easy and OP. Swapping out your pokemon gives you a challenge and helps you fill in your pokedex.
Still, wish there was a hard mode.
S&S isn't balanced out well enough. I've played plenty of JRPGs and most feature a shared EXP system so that unused characters don't become complete useless later on, but this just doesn't work well in Pokemon. I stopped playing after Fire Red and with those games I always found myself sticking with my starter for everything. In Shield I had the same problem cept I rarely bothered switching my team and went on to beat the game basically just using Inteleon.
Then there's three different EXP candies on top of rare candies on top of jobs ontop the excessive amount of exp you can already get from wild battles. There's no to battle at all. There's no need to even breed cause you can get perfect stat pokemon in raids and just use a mint. I guess this helps get to the online competitive modes much quicker but I just can't get into Pokemons boring turn based battles, and it's impossible to play in co-op battles with friends with the awful link code matchmaking and lack of messaging on Switch
I don't mind these other monster collector games becoming what pokemon can't. It actually gives other monster collector games a way to stand out apart from Pokémon. Pokémon for me personally is a perfect experience that us older fans needs to realize will never be what we want because the game is for kids and they make this clear ever iteration. So instead of complaining about something we literally can't change lets put that desire for something more into these indy games like temtem and others.
I'd settle for being able to skip the cutscenes. They're miserable.