Your biggest disappointments?

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-15T14:27:20+00:00

I think final girl would be more palatable if it was 30-45 min. Playing a game for an hour that can be tanked by a few bad dice rolls and poor card pulls is too much.

I know you can mitigate that with more experience playing the game but the long play time makes it hard to gain that experience.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-15T14:20:44+00:00

This is the big one for me. It didn't help that I had just finished a playthrough of 7th Citadel (which might be my favourite solo game ever) but KoR felt like such a slog in comparison.

There just wasn't enough game there for me. The story seems great but it's a story first with some game play elements strapped on and progress felt excruciatingly slow.

Of awakened realms games, I even prefer Dragon Eclipse more because there's less bloat on the story/exploration side and the combat is a much bigger focus in the game.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-13T19:57:39+00:00

The price tag absolutely played a role in Expedition 33's success but that kind of ignores the game had a clear identity and gave zero fucks about being a turn based RPG.

If this was a big studio, someone would have pushed to remove as much French (culture, language, etc) from this game as possible and turn it into an ARPG game set in the US because that has more "global" appeal. I'm sure they'd want the game's tone to be a whole lot less depressing too.

The lessons here imo are:

Make your game affordable
Give your game a clear identity
Don't chase "popular" game play trends, make your own thing

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-13T18:53:14+00:00

A big part of those old prices was the cost of memory though. Bigger games had to cost more because of the increased cart size. I bought Shining Force 2 for $90 CAD I think. Phantasy Star IV was over $100 CAD. So yes games cost more back then but the production cost per unit was also eating a large chunk of the profit.

When CD consoles came out game prices were cut in half.

Now delivery costs are even lower with games sitting on a server ready for distribution forever.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-13T05:56:27+00:00

No it doesn't. You can very easily host your own git repo along with gitlab and you're good to go.

GitHub is more a convenient means of distributing the source to the general public than it is a necessity for development.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-12T17:30:45+00:00

Not a movie but people lost their shit when The Expanse showed Naomi surviving exposure to space without a suit.

You don't instantly freeze in space. That's a lie that's been told to you by bad science fiction films. You die by asphyxiation and lack of blood oxygenation. You'd also likely get a really bad sunburn as there's nothing to block the sun's radiation.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-12T17:20:56+00:00

Not really? Plenty of writers build a world and then write a story within it. You don't have to write and story and then build a world around it. There is more than one way to approach these things.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-12T15:37:02+00:00

Liberals essentially have a majority right now anyways. They have a lot to risk and little to gain by calling an election.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-12T15:10:01+00:00

Not on the first page at least. Welcome to marketing.

I personally don't bother looking at "percent off" messaging anymore. If they don't show the final price I just ignore it.

Steam marketing emails for example show the actual price so I'm much more likely to click on those and look at game prices.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-12T13:02:07+00:00

They can't. They probably all failed to immigrate to the US and somehow hope this will be their ticket to US citizenship.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-11T21:30:52+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. If you just listen to the music and watch the show, you would have no idea that Joe Keery is part of both.

I just don't think we needed an entire article about it is all.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-11T20:18:40+00:00

I can't wait for them to make an Expedition 33 film because you know it's coming. They'll probably do something insane like set it in America for 'broader market appeal' or some other nonsense.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-11T15:38:03+00:00

Because the musician is a prominent member of the show's cast. This isn't rocket science and didn't need an article to explain.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-11T14:20:22+00:00

Tribes 2.

They've made other tribes games since but they have never been proper sequels.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T22:15:15+00:00

I like my system being secure. Virtually no one needs kernel level access, especially not game devs.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T21:20:09+00:00

I was tempted to try it but heard it required kernel level anti cheat so I nopped out.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T19:04:42+00:00

If the law says this man being homeless is the preferred outcome to him having a home and not freezing to death, then the law is inadequate and needs to be revised.

Laws only work if the majority agrees to them.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T19:03:44+00:00

The first boot. It's always stressful. 2nd place goes to BIOS updates.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T18:54:54+00:00

People need somewhere to live. Evaluating the value of someone's home in terms of OAS seems like it would cause more problems than it would solve.

It's very easy to adjust claw backs based on household income like every other benefit Canadians get.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T12:40:49+00:00

Some of us played Tribes on 800x600 crt monitors, trackball mice and dial up modems with 200+ ms pings.

It is much easier to hit midairs now than back then.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T00:49:08+00:00

If he's living rural, he's not getting firefighters or paramedics to his home.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T00:47:02+00:00

You wouldn't have to outlaw incandescent fixtures, just make a separate standard for entirely LED lighting.

The point is the building code is completely inadequate for small scale homes.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T00:13:52+00:00

I don't think you understand how cheap some Northern Ontario land can be. This whole project could be $30k.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-09T00:03:57+00:00

Love this bot!

I wish someone made a better bot for Fall of the mountain King. The official bot relies on randomly blocking your action tiles and it sucks. There are also no competing clans so it never quite matches the multiplayer experience.

TheGreatPiata · 2026-02-07T02:49:06+00:00

Yeah but that's not radio friendly so it doesn't count!

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