peteshea.bsky.social
Veteran Game Designer Glasgow, Scotland
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The reason publishers are so obsessed with Live Service games, for better or worse and contrary to anecdotal wisdom, is because that is what the vast majority of "hardcore" gamers are spending their time playing:
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Without Lynch choosing Dune over Return of the Jedi, or Dune flopping we may never have got Blue Velvet.
I like to think he would have made these films no matter what. He was that singular.
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Lynch famously turned down Return of the Jedi to make Dune. Deeply flawed film, but I also loved it at the time. The production design is amazing, better than the recent versions in my opinion.
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Play Echoes of the Eye next! Somehow, it's even better, or at least as mind-blowing. Still haunts me years later.
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Hello, veteran (old) dev here 👋
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We've had this up in our kitchen since lockdown. It has an Atari 800 in it for some reason 🤣
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Another point, history was written by the victors, but having as much testimony as possible, no matter how seemingly trivial could perhaps change this.
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Maybe man/ai will eventually learn from history? 😑
I agree there is an insane amount of worthless content, but see no harm in trying to preserve it in case great stuff gets lost
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Newspapers were ephemeral too, but we kept most of them. Having an entire record of history/culture can only aid future civilisations.
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Sacrilege but preferred the Speedking at the time. The Comp Pro was super tough but too big.
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Witcher 4 as well, obviously. Witcher 3 in my top 10 all time. Just 😀