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Re: Extra Evil Endings Planned for Baldur's Gate 3

Jaz007

Dark urge aside, there is only a joke of an afterthought for an evil ending right now, so this is good news.
It should have been there at launch and we should be be acting like this is a "great example of going above and beyond", this is base expected content being put in the game over half a year after launch. Every site I've seen has terrible reporting on BG3 stuff added after launch.

The current evil ending a bad cartoon, so imagining something more evil is not hard. I also hope it actually respects your choices (certain evil alliances at the end will actually carry through and you see what happens) and doesn't require me to restart the game but just use one of my already late-game saves that I've kept so carefully.

Re: No Baldur's Gate 3 DLC from Larian Studios, and It's Not Making Baldur's Gate 4 Either

Jaz007

@mazzel Assuming it’s like the two Divinity DE, it would redo Act 3 big time. There would be more endings, more consequences to choices, more choices would follow through, companion side quests for Minthara and towers would get added, Gale’s and Karla’s quests would get finished, more dialogue between companions like the first, act 3 would also have a lot more camp cutscenes, a few blatantly unfinished quests in Act 3 (the firework shop) would get finished.
It would be huge.
Act 1&2 would also be changed to accommodate for Act 3’s changes too.
So essentially all the cut content would get added back in.
Saves from the original game would just be incompatible because the story would change so much.

Re: Feb 2024 USA Sales: Helldivers 2 Kills It as 2024's Best-Selling Game So Far

Jaz007

@Ralizah too many games look to see what they can add what they should be seeing what they can cut.
For budget and for game quality. Many games for example would have made the ship in Helldivers 2 far too big and with stuff far apart, spending more money on making it and pushing up the budget.
The game is both better and cheaper for keeping it so small and concise.
"content" in some ways has become a terrible buzzword.

Re: Sony Allegedly Pausing PSVR2 Production Due to Surplus of Unsold Stock

Jaz007

@NEStalgia this is quarterly market share for PSVR2, so no PSVR1.
Here’s where I saw it. I haven’t looked deep into its reliability, but trust it more than Bloomberg’s guy. (Faint praise, I know.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/comments/1bemj0c/psvr2_market_share_by_quarter_units_sold_psvr2/

I agree about Jim Ryan, I think he knows how to boost some profit short term, but he doesn’t think out of the box enough for the long term.
Sony got where it is now by taking creative risks and building up exclusives very well.
I think the direct only thing is a good example too. It was a shortsighted decision that doesn’t take into account any ways to actually solve the problems (PS4 has no issues when pre-orders launched). It just moved it away from risk of that one problem without considering what was sacrificed in the process. Very short-term reactionary thinking.

Re: Sony Allegedly Pausing PSVR2 Production Due to Surplus of Unsold Stock

Jaz007

@NEStalgia I think some proper marketing could help a lot. Making the launch only the for the hardcore willing to buy from Sony direct no extra warranty was an awful idea. They got rid of free marketing from stores and them hyping it up wanting pre-orders.
but what if it sold out? GOOD! You think making sure the "loyals" get one in the first 3 months will be better by any real metric in the long term?
I think a price drop with some new games could do a lot as long we get support from Sony like the PSVR1 did.
I did find a VR market study that more or less said Sony sold about 2M so far and it was holding a 35% VR market share consistently outside when the Q3 launched.

Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Red Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Valhalla

Jaz007

@nomither6 Those aren’t stealthy ninjas, those are loud kill everything ninjas. AC should not have that kind of Ninja, but the quiet ninja, the one that blends in through social stealth. Blending in with the people and social stealth was a very common ninja tactic. This much gore takes the focus away form that. It shouldn’t gorie then Mirage or Unity.

Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now

Jaz007

@Flaming_Kaiser They cry it’s too short, then they cry it’s too bloated, they cry cry and cry. People go on this same “I want to only $0.50 per hour of gameplay”.
If you have that much time, but that little money, you might want to reconsider how your time is spent. Exceptions apply, but as rule I think I’m probably right.

Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now

Jaz007

Games are too long these days. Some game shall be long, but take a look at God of War Ragnorok, great game, but it needed 33-50% of it cut. That’s stuff that didn’t even need to be made for the game and costs that cover been avoided, but it’s bloated and that probably bloated the cost of the game by millions too.

Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Sales Apparently Top 10 Million

Jaz007

@breakneck I thought combat was great, I like it more than D:OS’s, and think BG2’s is a disastrous mutilation of DnD combat.
But if you think act 2 is stalling, you’re not gonna like act 3…
It starts easily as one of the greatest games ever made though. Them starts to stumble away from that as it progresses.

Re: Video: One Year Later, Is PSVR2 Doing Enough?

Jaz007

@UltimateOtaku91 FP support is lacking, but it’s still getting a lot of third party, indicating VR devs see money on the platform. If it’s like the first PSVR, while Quest sells more, the attach rate for software here is much higher.

Re: Poll: What Do You Think of PSVR2, One Year Later?

Jaz007

I quite enjoy it but Sony should have another game announced for it and bring some ports of PSVR1 games on over.
It has gotten pretty good third-party support and seems to be pretty profitable for them, which is a good sign.
I regularly play and buy games for my PSVR2.

Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year

Jaz007

I'd love this. I have a few things on PC I want to try out, not sure how my graphics card will hold up, but this would just be awesome. I've been wanting this for a while. It also gives me hope that Sony really does have some plans for PSVR2 and they're just not communicating to their own detriment.