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Another story of corporate greed will deprive us of the great rendition of Spider-Man that we finally got, with Sony putting its head up its ass once again.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/20/2082…kevin-feige-mcu

it looks like Sony will bet on crossing Spider-Man and Venom, which is something fans want, but Peter Parker will be completely absent from any future Avengers movie... and they won't be even able to mention his name.

Hopefully they can get their shit together for Phase 5 when a big event that would cross Avengers and X-Men could take place.

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6 hours ago, Zarsky said: Definitely worth playing if you like Spiderman / open world + parkour.

I love the Batman Arkham series, from which they seem they took looot of inspiration. It looks like a perfected Arkham Knight experience in terms of pacing and storytelling, so I’m very excited of playing this.

Hope they don’t get boxed into being “the Spider-Man studio” and will get the chance of maybe making justice to another superhero franchise… or even better to keep bringing new IPs

Seen Spider-Man Far From Home a week ago in cinema, then Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse on digital tonight; this is the most impressive animated movie since the release of Monsters Inc., absolutely captivating in terms of art. Also a very good story

Dunno why they are so stingy in terms of web slinging for the MCU movies.

Also watched for the first time Big Trouble in Little China

So I now understand the meme

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I’d rather have liked them to stay independent and make games for the platform it’s best at the time.

Btw gonna play Spider-Man soon, I’ve bought a second hand PS4 with the game a few weeks ago, haven’t even set it up lol.

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1 hour ago, Radu said: I had been following that guy for months prior to Borderlands 3's reveal. It's a bit concerning just how much info he was able to extract from his sources. When I saw the trailer, all the details, the characters, the villains, the locations etc were just as he said. It's not a simple case of sharing a one time leak occurrence either. I'm not entirely sure, but from some of his videos he made it sound like he was in direct contact with some of the people that leaked the information. While he wasn't directly responsible for the said leaks, he did share a lot of info that was not approved by 2K and Gearbox way ahead of their announcement. And there is also the question of would the leaks have continued if he hadn't been talking to whomever to try to scoup more info? It's understandable that the companies would take action against him and the people responsible for the leaks. I'm sorry, but I don't see him as being a victim in this scenario.

I don’t see how he’s in any way persecutable; in fact If 2K has any legal base they would have slammed him with a lawsuit, which they haven’t. They sent PIs to one’s dwelling and this should be persecutable.

I dunno why the fuck he didn’t slam the door in their face and called the police.

The point is not that the information was supposed to stay secret, the point is that someone else leaked it. He wasn’t under NDA.

By agreeing with what just happened, you are basically saying that it would be fine for every company to intimidate reporters. Just think of all the shit that has come out over time regarding malpractices.

Also why nobody showed up at Shrier’s door when he penned those articles about the well-being of the devs?

This is the classic two-standards method and corporate being bullies toward the defenceless.

More shit surrounding the Borderlands 3 road to release...

2K games actually sent PIs to a YouTuber's home to question about his published content and sources. IGN covers the events as if the youtuber is a criminal that's got what he deserves.

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2019/…-streamer-leaks

Such hypocrisy: when woke urinalists like Shrier cover stories of endless crunch game devs all is good, but if an independent covers on the material of public knowledge (he collated information available) then it's bad.

A publisher behaving like this is outrageous.

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4 hours ago, FMPONE said: Limbo, Inside (is Playdead still working on anything?)

Yes a few months ago they teased the next game

https://www.vg247.com/2019/07/08/new…eads-next-game/

we are going to space(?) baby!

Also it seems to me there are still plenty of AAA-indie coming out…

Like, I forgot to mention –I guess it’s still too far away– one of my top awaited indies is (the controversial) Last Night

It reminds me of Flashback and captures lots of imagery of a short story I had started to write when CPUs had 120Mhz, so this gets me particularly excited.

But I mean there have been other very high quality releases. I guess that many of the studios that made the games you mentioned @FMPONE have banked on the success and stepped up further, so they don’t feel like indies, at the same time there are so many releases that you hardly see any breakout stories unless they are heavily backed by publishers for marketing. I mean technically speaking stuff like A Plague Tale is indie and it’s a success –at least in terms of critique.

@FMPONE @[HP] can you ban this fake profile? Messaged me one of those “my husband is dead take my money” messages

https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/profile/37169-thomas-anne/

also can we pin this topic?

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17 hours ago, Interfearance said: @blackdog Having thought of every uncompetitive idea at least once in my life, this was a thought I had as well. However:

-Prefiring is killed, especially if randomization is at choke

-New players might be very confused when learning the map due to its key battlegrounds changing each round.

-Many smokes and other nades lineups are rendered impossible due to lack of certainty of cover placement.

I actually enjoy these ideas, but a good rule of thumb is to keep things predictable and controllable by the player. Randomness is very tilting to play with in a competitive environment (think uno).

Those are of course concerns, but that’s why I said players need to understand from the start (spawn) which scenario they are in. If done well you can still have lineups… just of course you’d need to learn more. Also prefire you’d have to learn more angles but it would be doable.

Of course I imagine most people would be against it players are somewhat lazy when it comes down to this

PS: maybe with the unraked matches there’s a bit of space for more “brawl” maps

Just checking since you were talking about randomization. I could see carts switch spots every map load to give a couple different looks to choke points. I would at least like to try and see how some (slow) moving cover would affect the gameplay.

I know most CSGO players like things set in stone, although I remember good ol' Havana: it worked really well imo.

I was thinking back to it as well, and I think that if randomization is kept to a minimal, and players can see from the very start what version of the map was loaded, it is possible to play even competitively.

Think the indie that stuck with me the most in recent years was Inside: brilliant 2.5D adventure-platform by the makers of Limbo. Such an unexpected ending

I liked Firewatch but I think it loses itself a bit and the tension it builds.

On my "coming up next" list I want to play

Rime (above), The Witness, Abzu

The ones I'm most waiting to be released are:

The new game by Hello Games, The Last Campfire

Dead Static Drive

Beware

and our very own Prodeus, first game I ever kickstarted

Very eager to find out what gameplay Europa will have @[HP]

Looks great!

do some of the carts move? I was trying to imagine recently how moving bomb sites would be like. Guess was because I looked at some TF2 screens

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11 hours ago, [HP] said: I never played the American Nightmare DLC, guess we can take it for a spin for now.

Yeah going meta for this one really worked. I think in the main game felt forced, but here it’s self-referential within its universe, so it’s fun.

Also the upgraded graphics were nice.

i played many many hours the wave mode challenges… think its still installed on my Xbox because I might have an achievement or two to unlock ?

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“Discount Jake Gillenhaal” ?

love this guy

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9 hours ago, AlexM said: Played the demo a couple weekends ago and finally bought it. I like the way the game is structured. I can play a level for a couple hours on a weekend then walk away easily.

I realised this too late, I wish I jumped in when the first season came out and played along.

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23 minutes ago, Radu said: Since everyone is talking about anime lately here, have some kenshiro for maximum satisfaction

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I discussed Fist of the North Star with colleagues couple weeks ago! I never watched it properly, as a kid I wasn’t into it… but is funny to see the generational disconnect of all these anime that I’ve seen or know from my youth, and ten years younger people that are/were into a new set of shows.

Also distribution of anime seems to be so different between UK and Italy. In Italy they were all considered kids stuff, they would dub and censor the explicit bits

This is better than Game Informer’s specials

Have a Alice in Wonderland crazy golf set somewhere in the map, so you have the flamingo connection

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On 7/4/2019 at 1:09 PM, Sick_TwinN said: Italy in naples(napoli)

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Just want to point out that the reference you are using is not exactly Naples: that's a shot of Procida, one of the three islands just in front of Naples.

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the layout reminds me a lot of Mirage, with swapped sides

Oh yeah, saw trailer the other day and put it in list.

ive bought a used PS4 recently so gonna hunt down these exclusives hopefully soon