| Forum Index > General Games |
|
Manit0u
Poland17692 Posts
On November 18 2025 02:08 Gescom wrote: At work right now. I'm getting PTSD, mate. Yeah. Kai is awesome. There's a part 2 of that too: And it gave me PTSD too. I literally had to stand up and go for a smoke with shaking hands  | ||
|
Jeremy Reimer
Canada1112 Posts
It was basically just another bunch of rambling about AI. It ends with Tim saying he needs to "up his AI game" which sounds ominous. Meanwhile Gobsmack is teasing pictures of how they are adding a hotkey to enable autocast for certain units, where you had to click an icon before. Truly an epic, earth-shattering update is in the cards. | ||
|
iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4393 Posts
Earlier this year I bought a game that had AI content.Devs stated it was only used for the 200 odd portraits as they were a small team.It was fine because the underlying game was well fleshed out and it was just for a minor part of the game. Stormgate wouldn't have been better if they had used AI because the design was flawed. Re : Gobsmack, is this guy still getting paid? | ||
|
Jankisa
Croatia1238 Posts
On November 18 2025 00:02 ChillFlame wrote: Remember JoeRay's TV and jukebox? After every mission, you get a unique and fully animated news episode with Donnie. After the Corhal show, you even interact with him indirectly, sending the poor fella to the hospital. We get an alternative Dominion propaganda narrative. There's even a note from the owner after Jimmy debates with the TV in the first cutscene. Jukebox is also awesome. A full set of covers helps to create a cozy atmosphere of a southern space bar. There are even record-flipping and needle-scratching sounds. I love that Elvis record. It plays fitting tracks during the bar cutscenes, and it's even a part of the narrative during the bar brawl. I'm pretty sure TV and jukebox have more character than Amara and Blockade. I'm not ashamed to say that to me, SC2 WOL campaign is probably the best executed one I ever played in an RTS, sure, there are better and more interesting stories, but from a story telling perspective, attention to detail and obvious passion that campaign is fire. I remember when i first created an account here and had all these old heads complaining non stop how cheesy, stupid, bad it is, how much better Brood war one was and I was just gobsmacked, like, I get it, you like the old game more, but come on, from a technical and narrative perspective SC2 is sooo much better. Then, I go to try it's "spiritual successor" 13 years later and it looks and feels so shitty in comparison, not to mention the opening cinematic, characters and story is just bland as fuck. | ||
|
Spirral
77 Posts
It's unlikely to save the game, but it's the only move that would make any sense right now. And then to retain interest they would need to follow up with patches of similar size every few weeks, for which we know they don't have the workforce. Oh and they should also make the whole campaign and all existing commanders free, because no one is going to pay a cent to them after all this bad PR. If somehow miraculously they manage to build a consistent playerbase, they can start reintroducing paid content then, but not the other way around. So yeah, rip. | ||
|
WombaT
Northern Ireland26357 Posts
On November 18 2025 19:37 Jankisa wrote: I'm not ashamed to say that to me, SC2 WOL campaign is probably the best executed one I ever played in an RTS, sure, there are better and more interesting stories, but from a story telling perspective, attention to detail and obvious passion that campaign is fire. I remember when i first created an account here and had all these old heads complaining non stop how cheesy, stupid, bad it is, how much better Brood war one was and I was just gobsmacked, like, I get it, you like the old game more, but come on, from a technical and narrative perspective SC2 is sooo much better. Then, I go to try it's "spiritual successor" 13 years later and it looks and feels so shitty in comparison, not to mention the opening cinematic, characters and story is just bland as fuck. SC2’s narrative absolutely sucks balls at times. Although part of that is just cos BW exists. It’s very cheesy and melodramatic, which is perfectly fine in and of itself, but it really grates when it intersects with BW’s tone and plot. Jimmy goes from vowing to kill Kerrigan to completely flipping being one. Now Kerrigan’s not evil! And we gotta all team up to beat the big bad! I guess I just don’t like some of those calls, I wouldn’t necessarily say they’re outright bad. Evil Kerrigan was fun, and just overall I preferred the somewhat more grounded duelling between factions and sub-factions. I mean it’s still there but with a looming big bad over everything. Mengsk getting his comeuppance kinda suffers for being almost a side quest now Amon’s about mucking around. Everything else, core gameplay, mission variety, the customisation element and elective missions, the presentation overall. Just top tier stuff. I don’t blame SG for not matching up, I’ve yet to play a game that has (if anyone has, do let me know!). But it’s just not that close I think the problem is that the stuff that is quite budget-agnostic, is possibly the worst part of it. Ofc you’re not gonna have a bunch of Blizz tier cutscenes, but you could have a zippy plot that’s well-paced and memorable characters and dialogue. Again a matter of personal taste, but it’s so po-faced and serious business. Not many RTS games I’ve played go more light-hearted, I think it’d work well and give it more of an identity. Amara is seemingly set to have the Arthas arc, but for me she’s very Anakin Skywalker which is a problem. The hero becomes the villain is a perfectly fine arc, but you have to have the hero be likeable first. | ||
|
Bacillus
Finland2029 Posts
If you don't have any of that, you'd better nail the rigid stuff you have. You can't get away with sloppy writing or a badly designed mission when there aren't at least a handful of alternative pathways to chase at any given moment. | ||
|
Jeremy Reimer
Canada1112 Posts
On November 18 2025 17:44 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Maybe I am in the minority but I like reading those Tim Morten LinkedIn posts.Not because they have any deep insights, more for the constant ass covering, blame games and him trying to make himself appear more employable to whoever in the business that actually believes any of it. Earlier this year I bought a game that had AI content.Devs stated it was only used for the 200 odd portraits as they were a small team.It was fine because the underlying game was well fleshed out and it was just for a minor part of the game. Stormgate wouldn't have been better if they had used AI because the design was flawed. Re : Gobsmack, is this guy still getting paid? Gobsmack is not being paid. There's no money to pay anybody. He's excited to work for free because there are no more restrictions on what he can do with the game, subject to his own limitations. Work seems to be stalled waiting for additional developer support, though. But according to him, we'll find out more about the future of the game before the end of the year. On November 18 2025 21:40 WombaT wrote: SC2’s narrative absolutely sucks balls at times. Although part of that is just cos BW exists. It’s very cheesy and melodramatic, which is perfectly fine in and of itself, but it really grates when it intersects with BW’s tone and plot. Jimmy goes from vowing to kill Kerrigan to completely flipping being one. Now Kerrigan’s not evil! And we gotta all team up to beat the big bad! That's a fair criticism of SC2, but I think a lot of folks forget what happened in the Brood War story, which in many ways was just as bad. Both Fenix and Jim Raynor team up with Kerrigan for reasons that are unclear. They grumble a bit about helping out the genocidal maniac, but generally just go along with whatever she says. Until her sudden but inevitable betrayal, after which Raynor gets all mad and vows to kill Kerrigan. Okay, but two seconds ago you were following her? I guess Jim changes his mind pretty easily. Amara is seemingly set to have the Arthas arc, but for me she’s very Anakin Skywalker which is a problem. The hero becomes the villain is a perfectly fine arc, but you have to have the hero be likeable first. Except that Frost Giant deleted that entire campaign, and now Amara is Rey Skywalker instead, a magic girl who gets all the powers without any effort, and wins at the end super easily with barely an inconvenience. | ||
|
JimmyJRaynor
Canada17329 Posts
Stormgate snub at the Game Awards. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://preview.redd.it/cv1wcefa362g1.png?width=910&format=png&auto=webp&s=d34589b35ff6518f2a161151fc555aac7f8fa907 more proof that the game awards are just an industry circle jerk and not representative of the true gamers the video game industry is super scummy. The CIA operative Limo Driver turns around and blows JFK's head off from 1 foot away. The moon landings get faked. Vietnam. Bush loses the 2000 election and becomes president. The Bush regime orchestrates 9/11. The IDF instructed to stand down during October 7, 2023 so Hamas can run free for hours. And, now, November 18, 2025 and Stormgate. It is Stormgate-Gate. | ||
|
Jeremy Reimer
Canada1112 Posts
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/9IGei0P.png) Highs of 25 people online, lows of.... four. FOUR. Had to post this here because Spartak will delete any Steam Charts posts now that the magical barrier of 10 CCU has been breached. | ||
|
Manit0u
Poland17692 Posts
 It has 1v1, 2v2, 4p FFA special mode (all with ranked ladder), survival mode (challenge mode), automated weekly tournaments for 1v1 and 2v2, different unit skins etc. ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/eQrRWw4.png) Difference between a cash grab and actual passion project. All of the Mechabellum devs are quite high on the ladder, constantly battling among the top players in the world. This is what you get when you're making a game you want to play yourself. | ||
|
Miragee
8646 Posts
On November 21 2025 23:55 Manit0u wrote: Haha. Meanwhile, a strategy game made by like 2-3 developers It has 1v1, 2v2, 4p FFA special mode (all with ranked ladder), survival mode (challenge mode), automated weekly tournaments for 1v1 and 2v2, different unit skins etc. Difference between a cash grab and actual passion project. All of the Mechabellum devs are quite high on the ladder, constantly battling among the top players in the world. This is what you get when you're making a game you want to play yourself. And the community has trashed the Mechabellum devs for months now, saying they don't care about the players or their game. It's a circle-jerk, reinforcing the idea that this game is dying. Online discourse is such a shit show. | ||
|
THIRD_DEGREE_
United States19 Posts
It's interesting to see the parallels: www.reddit.com (link to a post about C&C 4 from 2 years ago) www.youtube.com (an unexpected video I found) "It was an Asian markets F2P spinoff that EA pushed to be made "mainline" and paid for extra sales, on a shoestring budget for cinematics. It was always-online, and worse yet it tied both campaign and multiplayer progression to grinding levels that would then unlock you new units, with starting roster being modest and it taking ages to max out. Also, apart from lackluster writing and story delivery, the art direction was way off too, really stylized, moreover multiple unit designs like original wormlike Nod engineer were mocked so hard they were redesigned! And even those that stayed in game were quite goofy, like Nod scorpion tank imitating real scorpion, claws and tail. Gameplay was to be honest conceptually fine but since you could get bored grinding for fuller loadouts and since it was way less of traditional RTS that didn't mean much since you'd need persistence and time to fully appreciate it." Man, I miss old Blizzard and Westwood. | ||
|
JimmyJRaynor
Canada17329 Posts
Seeing all these guys from Mike Morhaime to Rob Pardo to Tim Morten go on to incredible levels of success after leaving that shithole Activision shows us all what an incompetent video game executive Bobby Kotick was.  | ||
|
WombaT
Northern Ireland26357 Posts
On November 22 2025 01:30 JimmyJRaynor wrote: I can't understand why Bobby Kotick did not want to fund this amazing game. What a dumb move. He could've had a 2nd Call of Duty level franchise in Activision-Blizzard's portfolio. Seeing all these guys from Mike Morhaime to Rob Pardo to Tim Morten go on to incredible levels of success after leaving that shithole Activision shows us all what an incompetent video game executive Bobby Kotick was. I’ll never understand why you bemoan industry trends and love Bobby Kotick at the same time. Pick a lane maybe? | ||
|
JimmyJRaynor
Canada17329 Posts
On November 22 2025 01:36 WombaT wrote: I’ll never understand why you bemoan industry trends and love Bobby Kotick at the same time. Pick a lane maybe? Kotick funded my favourite RTS game of all time. 6 foot tall Jim Raynor statues at Electronique Boutique//GameStop. And this... the greatest game genre put up on the biggest stage ever. | ||
|
WombaT
Northern Ireland26357 Posts
| ||
|
JimmyJRaynor
Canada17329 Posts
https://www.twitch.tv/stormgatearchive This is Brave New World, 1984 level dystopian. On November 22 2025 01:43 WombaT wrote: Lmao @1:03... sleeping in sleeping bags on the office floor. what a great time to be alive. i've had my share of 40 hour work weekends. would not trade them for anything. | ||
|
WombaT
Northern Ireland26357 Posts
| ||
|
Manit0u
Poland17692 Posts
On November 22 2025 01:13 Miragee wrote: And the community has trashed the Mechabellum devs for months now, saying they don't care about the players or their game. It's a circle-jerk, reinforcing the idea that this game is dying. Online discourse is such a shit show. What? I'm part of this community, checking the discords and stuff (except the official discord) and I haven't really see people be too disgruntled. | ||
| ||
StarCraft 2 StarCraft: Brood War Dota 2 Super Smash Bros Heroes of the Storm Other Games |
|
Sparkling Tuna Cup
RSL Revival
ByuN vs SHIN
Maru vs Krystianer
WardiTV Team League
Patches Events
BSL
Replay Cast
Replay Cast
Wardi Open
Monday Night Weeklies
OSC
[ Show More ] |
|
|
EPT
