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[Velkoski]

Zato što je to svijet kojeg se ljudi ne mogu zasititi. Još više dobija na popularnosti zbog kampanje koja se vodi protiv Rowling. Ja sam čitao članke i neke diskusije po forumima koji govore kako se ova igra ne treba kupiti. I naravno, prirodno je da odmah ljudi potrče da kupe.

transfobu brrrrrrrrr

[ferratilis]

Ni collector's edition nije sto je nekad bio, sve jeftina kineska plastika, nema ni diska, ni manuala


Ovo je bila prava stvar

[Tito_i_Partija]

Late stage capitalism baby.

Ja sam im'o onaj spiralni manual za BG2, koja je to gotiva bila. K'o cijela knjiga za sebe, vidiš da je uloženo tonu truda sa opisima i ilustracijama. Al' kurac, sad je samo daj da ljudima uzmemo što više para a da im damo što manje.

Ista stvar je sa preorderima, koji će ti kurac preorderi ako igra dolazi u elektronskom formatu sa neograničenim brojem primjeraka? Sada samo služi k'o dodatni budžet da se igra koliko-toliko završi, jer publisheri ulažu sve manje svojih para u development. Al' sve dok ima ovaca koji svojom kupovinom nagrađuju ovakvo ponašanje, stvari će bit' sve gore.

[vaučer]

Kako je jebeno dobar Disco Elysium.
Otkad sam prvi put prije sto godina igrao Planescape Torment me nije ovako oraspoložila igra kvalitetom dijaloga, likova i građenjem svijeta.

[ferratilis]

Lijep detalj u Hearts of Stone ekspanziji: ako se Geralt vrati u mauzolej familije von Everec nakon onog questa sa vjencanjem, na Vlodimirovom grobu se nalazi cvijece koje je vjerovatno ostavila Shani. Ovo je nesto sto 99% igraca nikad nece skontat, ali su ipak ubacili. Jos uvijek otkrivam nove detalje, iako sam ga igrao milion puta. Steta sto Cyberpunk nije dobio ni 1% paznje od developera kao Witcher.

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[Tito_i_Partija]

Steta sto Cyberpunk nije dobio ni 1% paznje od developera kao Witcher.

Witcher 3 ti je k'o kad se ženiš zbog ljubavi, a Cyberpunk je k'o kad se ženiš zbog para.

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E'o tema video igre u Agelast podcastu.

[Tito_i_Partija]

Wizards of The Coast je ukin'o kamaru D&D igara.

(Bloomberg) -- Hasbro Inc.’s Wizards of the Coast, best known for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop games, has cancelled at least five video game projects as it scales back its ambitions in the industry. 

Wizards of the Coast is still “committed to using digital games,” a spokesman said in a statement to Bloomberg, adding that the company has “made some changes to our long-term portfolio to focus on games which are strategically aligned with developing our existing brands and those which show promise in expanding or engaging our audience in new ways.”

Fewer than 15 people at Wizards of the Coast will lose their jobs due to the shift and will be given a chance to apply to new roles within the company, the spokesman said. 

But the reorganization will land hard for several independent studios such as Boston-based Otherside Entertainment and Bellevue, Washington-based Hidden Path Entertainment, both of which were working on games for Wizards of the Coast.

The company, which also publishes the popular card game Magic: The Gathering, spent the last few years investing to make a splash in video games. It signed contracts with several gamemakers and built at least six of its own game studios in cities including Austin, Texas, and Montreal. So far, the results have been mixed. A 2021 game called Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance was received poorly, but one of this year’s most anticipated video game titles is the Dungeons & Dragons-themed Baldur’s Gate 3, made by the Belgian developer Larian Studios. Early versions have been received well by players.

The growth at Wizards of the Coast has come alongside financial difficulties at Hasbro, whose shares fell 40% last year as higher prices led to lower toy sales.

The company also cancelled an internal project code-named Jabberwocky and two other external games that were early in development.

Ova igra na kojoj je Hidden Path radio je treb'o bit' MMORPG, baš sam je iščekiv'o jer sam davnih dana kamaru vremena provodio na Dungeons & Dragons Online (koji još uvijek nekako fercera, al' je previše ostario).

Pet igara, kakva šteta jbt.

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Ova igra na kojoj je Hidden Path radio je treb'o bit' MMORPG, baš sam je iščekiv'o jer sam davnih dana kamaru vremena provodio na Dungeons & Dragons Online (koji još uvijek nekako fercera, al' je previše ostario).

Pet igara, kakva šteta jbt.

Imam osjecaj da WOTC vode ljudi koji nemaju pojma o video igrama, a ni o tabletopu (iako nemam iskustva sa TTRPG).

[Tito_i_Partija]

Ova igra na kojoj je Hidden Path radio je treb'o bit' MMORPG, baš sam je iščekiv'o jer sam davnih dana kamaru vremena provodio na Dungeons & Dragons Online (koji još uvijek nekako fercera, al' je previše ostario).

Pet igara, kakva šteta jbt.

Imam osjecaj da WOTC vode ljudi koji nemaju pojma o video igrama, a ni o tabletopu (iako nemam iskustva sa TTRPG).

Sa ovim promjenama oko Open Gaming License, oni će ukopat' cijeli D&D, ne samo video igre.

https://www.cbr.com/dnd-fans-demand-ope ... e-new-ogl/

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Imam osjecaj da WOTC vode ljudi koji nemaju pojma o video igrama, a ni o tabletopu (iako nemam iskustva sa TTRPG).

Sa ovim promjenama oko Open Gaming License, oni će ukopat' cijeli D&D, ne samo video igre.

https://www.cbr.com/dnd-fans-demand-ope ... e-new-ogl/

Nebitno.

Kao prvo, WOTC otvoreno krsi zakon, jer u originalnom ugovoru za OGL stoji da se moze koristiti "in perpetuity." Nema tog suda koji ce to ukinuti. A cak i ako pronadju nacin da nametnu OGL 1.1, onda...

drugo, Pillars of Eternity je savrsen primjer da se ne mora sve vrtiti oko D&D-a. Ionako procesor radi sve kalkulacije u pozadini, mogu developeri napraviti svoj ruleset ili, jos bolje, sigurno ce se pojaviti community ruleseti koji ce biti jednako dobri, mozda i bolji.

Tako da, ko jebe WOTC.

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Toussaint <3

[House]

brutalan expansion pack.

[Tito_i_Partija]

Prelijepi pejzaži nema govora, al' karakteri su mi bili tanki. Pogotovo negativac Detlef, on mi je baš nekako bio kar'na.

On the other hand, Olgierd von Everec i Gaunter O'Dimm iz Hearts of Stone su bili spektakularni.

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Šta bi na kraju, jesu li svi dobili Director's Cut Death Standinga?

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Prelijepi pejzaži nema govora, al' karakteri su mi bili tanki. Pogotovo negativac Detlef, on mi je baš nekako bio kar'na.

On the other hand, Olgierd von Everec i Gaunter O'Dimm iz Hearts of Stone su bili spektakularni.

Isto misljenje imam o oba DLC-a. Meni je kraj u Blood and Wine u kojem svi poginu licno bio najbolja opcija, iako ga igra smatra za "bad end". S druge strane sam se borio da spasim von Evereca i taj zavrsetak mi je bio spektakularan.

[Tito_i_Partija]

Ubisoft je haman još malo pa gotov. Samo je pitanje vremena kad će uletit' Vivendi il' Tencent da ih pokupi.

Ubisoft announced earlier today that Skull and Bones is delayed yet again, and naturally we took the opportunity to have some fun with it (opens in new tab). But word of the delay came as part of a much larger update reflecting real trouble at the company: Ubisoft is struggling, and has opted to cancel three more unannounced projects in order to focus on its existing brands and live services.

The game industry in recent years has shifted toward "mega-brands and long-lasting titles that can reach players across the globe, across platforms and business models," Ubisoft said in the update. Over the past four years, Ubisoft has attempted to do the same with its own major properties, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and The Division. But it hasn't paid off: Games announced during the "investment phase" of this strategic shift have yet to come out, and its most recent releases have not met expectations.

"We are clearly disappointed by our recent performance," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in a statement (opens in new tab). "We are facing contrasted market dynamics as the industry continues to shift towards mega-brands and everlasting live games, in the context of worsening economic conditions affecting consumer spending.

"Despite excellent ratings and players’ reception as well as an ambitious marketing plan, we were surprised by Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope underperformance in the final weeks of 2022 and early January. Just Dance 2023 underperformed as well."

But Ubisoft's troubles run much deeper than a couple of holiday flops. At the risk of oversimplifying things, it just can't seem to make anything happen. Skull and Bones is maybe the highest-profile example of Ubi's recent inability to get games out the door, but don't forget that the three unannounced projects cancelled today come just six months after Ubisoft pulled the plug on four other in-the-works games (opens in new tab), including Ghost Recon Frontline and Splinter Cell VR.

Frontline was a particularly stinging loss. It was unveiled in 2021 as a military-themed battle royale (opens in new tab) game, presumably aimed at giving Ubisoft a presence alongside games like Call of Duty: Warzone, Apex Legends, Escape From Tarkov, and Hunt: Showdown. Now, not much more than a year later, Ubisoft is still on the outside looking in at the success of those games, with no imminent prospect of getting in on the action itself.

But the bigger issue for Ubisoft is, well, a lot bigger. The company has canned seven separate projects within a single fiscal year and has nothing to show for their absence. Nor does it have any major live-service games, like Apex Legends or GTA Online, to keep the money trucks rolling between releases: Efforts on that front including Ghost Recon Frontline, Hyper Scape (opens in new tab), and XDefiant (opens in new tab) have all fizzled, while The Division: Heartland (opens in new tab), which is supposed to be out later this year, has already been almost completely forgotten. (Heartland, by the way, was also delayed—it was initially supposed to go live sometime in 2021-22.) Ubisoft’s best bet for a live-service hit is likely Assassin's Creed Infinity (opens in new tab), which sounds promising but is also years away. 

Some of Ubisoft’s troubles, to be fair, are just plain bad luck. Rainbow Six: Extraction (opens in new tab), for instance, was an interesting extraction shooter that was almost immediately forgotten after it launched in early 2022. 

But as we noted in December (opens in new tab), Ubisoft can’t even seem to make the games it’s already made. The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake that was supposed to be out in early 2021 appears to have become trapped in limbo (opens in new tab), and the only real news we’ve had about the Splinter Cell remake announced in 2021 is that the director quit (opens in new tab) in October 2022.

The bottom-line cost for Ubisoft is ugly. The company has depreciated roughly €500 million ($538 million) in capitalized research and development expenses related to "upcoming premium and free-to-play games and the newly cancelled titles," which essentially means that money spent developing those games is down the toilet. It's also revising its net bookings target for the third quarter of the current fiscal year way down, from €830 million ($893 million) to €725 million ($780 million). Beyond that, Ubisoft is looking to cut another €200 million ($215 million) in expenses over the next two years through "targeted restructuring, divesting some non-core assets, and usual natural attrition."

Ubisoft's ongoing struggles also make it a tempting target for a takeover. The company successfully fought off a drawn-out acquisition bid by Vivendi in 2018, and the Guillemot family, which founded Ubisoft in 1986 and continues to hold a controlling stake, has repeatedly emphasized its desire to “remain independent.” But Ubisoft's share price has tailed off dramatically over the past five years, from a high of €103 in July 2018 to less than €24 today, and that makes high-priced offers like the one tendered last year by Chinese powerhouse Tencent very difficult to turn down.

All of this, of course, comes on top of high-profile allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct (opens in new tab) at various Ubisoft studios, the lessons of which still don't seem to have entirely sunk in (opens in new tab).

It's not necessarily a death knell for Ubisoft, but the company is clearly in a bad spot. Turning that around will be a major undertaking, requiring not just cost-cutting measures but a meaningful change in the company's ability to actually make and release some dang games—all while trying to convince circling sharks to leave it the hell alone. As we like to say in farm country, that’s going to be a tough row to hoe.

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Meni je Blood and Wine neka vrsta nagrade, ne samo za nekog ko je igrao W3, vec i W1 i citao knjige. Gomila referenci na W1: armor, Lady of the Lake, cudovista itd. Najbolji itemi u igri, nove mehanike, vinograd, prelijepi krajolici, borba koja je bila prelagana u glavnom dijelu je ovdje teza, za ljubitelje knjiga tu je Regis, novi gwent spil. Fan service do maksimuma, ali pozitivan. Cijelu igru sam se radovao ovoj ekspanziji. I najbolje od svega, ovaj save file ce dobro posluziti za new game+ u buducnosti.

I pravo mi se svidja novi grandmaster armor. Nisam gledao drugu sezonu serije, ali se odlicno uklapa u igru.

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Jedino sto mene od Ubisofta interesuje je Assassin's Creed serijal, a to je zlatna koka na kojoj se nece stedjeti i za koju se ne bojim da ce biti otkazana.

[DonieBrasco]

Copy paste rade za AC i Far Cry serijal, da smisle nesto novo orginalno a ne jedne te iste stvari.

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Copy paste rade za AC i Far Cry serijal, da smisle nesto novo orginalno a ne jedne te iste stvari.

Slazem se da ima puno copy-pastea, ali nijedna druga igra mi ne daje osjecaj putovanja kroz vrijeme u odredjeni historijski period i lokaciju kao sto to rade Assassin's Creed igre. U skoro svakoj igri mozes samo hodati kroz gradove i gledati oko sebe, i da ti to bude prijatno iskustvo. Dokle god to budu zadrzali, zadrzace i mene kao gejmera.

[Tito_i_Partija]

Nisu loši što se tiče igara, nego mislim da je tu najveći problem menadžment, k'o što je slučaj i sa CDProjektom. Ovaj tekst mi govori da je bilo i više nego dovoljno pokušaja da se napravi nešto novo, međutim menadžment se usr'o i povuk'o ručnu. Jeb'o nove stvari, daj da mi napravimo 3-4 AC igara u komadu, daj jedno 4-5 Witcher igara, tako ćemo preživit' sledećih par godina.

Al' to nije put naprijed, jer su davno rekli da se od stare slave ne živi. Ovo će ih koštat' više para i respekta nego što misle.

[DonieBrasco]

Treba li da napomenemo da se jos prave igre za starije konzole PS4 i Xbox, automatski limitra mogucnosti igre u pogledu grafike, fizike i svega drugoga, i kako da developeri budu inovativni - naravno nisu oni krivi nego ih bizni strana gamina remeti.

Realno ovo od Ubisfota, AC i Far Cry je smece repetativno, jos oni kao lgbt kompanija, woke - gender pokret to je posebna prica.

[Tito_i_Partija]

Auuuu, vidi na Epicu daju džaba Gamedec, jedan dobar cyberpunk RPG. Mog'o bi odmah nastavit' sa cyberpunk tematikom čim završim Shadowrun Hong Kong.

[SmokingMan]

Da hoće više izbaciti Heartland, rastegli su i sa beta testiranjem, ne znaju ni ono kada će raji podjeliti ključeve. Ja sam se već prijavio, mislim da ima pola godine, nema nikakvih vijesti kada bi mogli zaigrati testnu verziju, ništa, niti ijedan oficijalni news update.