jasonschreier.bsky.social
Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | NYT bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | [email protected]
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I think every game should come with a little tag saying how much it cost to make
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One of the things I really love about Avowed is that it never feels like it's wasting your time. It knows exactly what it wants to do — no more, no less. Reviews docked it for not offering innovation or sprawling systems, but that focus is what makes it great
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I think maybe people expected it to be something it's not
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The second region especially is very Morrowind
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No :(
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Yes, Bungie's Chief People Officer and then Chief Operating Officer was a woman
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(Filing spotted by @stephentotilo.bsky.social)
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Yeah you're spot on. One fun comparison: by that point GTA4 had sold 25 million copies. As of this month GTA5 has sold 210 million copies
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The industry definitely wasn't healthier back then (THQ had just imploded and all the analysts thought consoles were dead and Zynga was the next big thing) but nobody really expected GTAV to do what it did. People just thought it'd be a big new launch. The online was an after-thought (and came late)
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Take-Two owns it
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One of the most tragic parts of this story is that it's left throngs of artists and designers with massive gaps in their portfolios — work both old and new, sometimes years in the making, that can't be shown to prospective employers, even if it was probably discarded by now
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Haha
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I covered Irrational in my second book Press Reset and I wrote a story for Bloomberg about Ghost Story a few years ago. Lots in both stories about Levine's management style
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You lost me
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Posing tough questions to interesting people is what Bloomberg pays me for!
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Haven’t played it
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Zero crashes
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Bugginess was a common complaint yeah, but there were also a ton of critics saying it was more of the same, the side quests were too mundane etc
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I've been taking my time, exploring as many hidden passages as possible, and doing every side quest, so it hasn't been an issue for me
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Nah, I think even Alpha Protocol's most loyal defenders would acknowledge that it's a pretty busted game. But New Vegas having an 84 Metacritic while Fallout 3 has an 93 and Fallout 4 has an 87 is a fascinating departure from widespread consensus
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The mainline story is never as interesting in these types of RPGs as the little narrative moments, anyway, and Avowed is full of those
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I bounced off it pretty quickly. Didn't grab me like Avowed did
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I'm a little surprised reading some of these reviews but I suspect that Avowed could wind up like Fallout: New Vegas, where there's a vast gap between the critical reception and overall player consensus
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It's a deluge of proper nouns but there's a helpful glossary function that lets you look them up mid-dialogue
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It's why I bounced off Starfield (and even The Outer Worlds) but Avowed has the juice
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Oh Dan and I agree on most things, except for maybe the merits of vegetables
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I reserve raving for games that truly deserve it!
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Some have treasures behind them, others have gangs of genocidal maniacs
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I'll be there. will also have an interview with Avowed's director up next week
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I will have lots to say about it!
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
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In this case the developer is owned by the publisher, so they'd need approval from their corporate parents before a project can get funding
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I don't remember... I think it was right away tbh
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He said the update will hit in 2025, but I got the sense it's still a ways out
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Yeah that article left this out, but here's the original source: