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Beat the game and the after-game, and... agh dammit. Wasn't expecting the sudden "pick a gen 2 starter now!" thing, and I haven't saved. Picking a gen 3 starter is fairly easy, but gen 2? Much harder. God forbid they force me to pick a gen 1 starter...
In fairness, the Nixon pardon was also never challenged and was issued by Ford, not Nixon himself. Congress never passed the redline of charging him with something, and so Trump's ambition remains legally unexplored.Yeah. I was under the impression that the point being made in the post I responded to was Trump pardoning Manafort rather than Trump pardoning himself, given the talk of Manafort going to jail for violating bail. Is that incorrect?
I saw Forded and thought "you have died of dysentery" which makes me old I think?Well, that depends. What do you want on your tombstone?
Still within the God Emperor’s domain, no?
Ah, so it was. For some reason I thought it bought Bethesda. Still, it's more of a question of available expertise in each studio, unless there is a lot of cross-migration between the two studios. That's a question I don't actually know, though; I wouldn't think there's a lot, else they'd be the same studio, but I could easily be wrong on that.To be fair, ESO wasn't actually developed by Bethesda: it was ZeniMax Online Studios, which was more or less explicitly founded for the purpose by Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
I mean ZeniMax Media was founded by Bethesda. So there's not really any reason to differentiate between the two.
To be fair, ESO wasn't actually developed by Bethesda: it was ZeniMax Online Studios, which was more or less explicitly founded for the purpose by Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media. By contrast, Fallout 76 is being directly developed by Bethesda Game Studios. How 76 goes will suggest quite a bit about how well Bethesda proper can handle multiplayer.Skyrim has made over a billion dollars for Bethesda (and that's before the Special Editions). Elder Scrolls Online's launch was super rocky. There are people who will blindly buy a game with Elder Scrolls in the title because of brand loyalty. There are also people who will refuse to because of multiplayer, like a lot of people who bought Skyrim and not ESO. Unless Fallout 76 does as well as Skyrim or Fallout 4, which I'm pretty confident it won't, they're going to stick to single-player main titles, and multiplayer spinoffs, because its working for them and is making them billions of dollars.And I'll happily take that bet. Fallout 76 will need to sell a lot of copies and whatever other transactions Bethesda offers with it to top Skyrim money.
This only makes sense if there was another studio that was producing the same sort of games which could put them at risk. They're the only shop in town for this kinda game, and no one can even attempt to get close.
As such, they have no risk to just plough ahead with monetization, and as long as it doesn't flop it'll be fine. People can say 'I don't like this enforced multiplayer' and they can say 'well if you want to play an ES or FO game that's what you're getting' and that's the end of the story.
Oh, and here I thought their RES/DEF preferred stats just weren't protecting them.I'm mostly voting for it because I keep thinking they have Light anyway
They're called Holy Guards! It just makes sense!
It's kind of funny that people keep saying they want Paradox games to go from Rome to CK. It'll never happen for the same reason CK2 will never be pushed back any earlier than it is: Paradox will not mimic the rise of Islam. It'd get them a lot of flak, and alienate them, from Muslim players and Islam-majority countries.I can safely say I've never heard of this before. They've always seemed fine with Islam rising before, given that they even added playable Muslims early to CKII and given how powerful the Ottomans are in EU4. Do you happen to recall where they said this years ago? The only quirk in CK2 I've heard of that is tailored to (primarily Sunni) Islamic sensibilities was Muhammad's portrait.
To be honest, I'm pretty sure they even said as much years ago.
And I think mainstream American sitcoms of today and of the last decade are less ensemble driven affairs, and are more celebrity icon driven. For every Grey's Anatomy or Always Sunny there's a Roseanne, Home Improvement, Mr. Belvedere, Bill Cosby Show, Martin Lawrence Show, Fresh Prince of Bel-air and so on. None of those shows could withstand canning the lead because they're the bed rock it's built on.Aye, but it's not a new thing: imagine The Dick Van Dyke Show without Dick Van Dyke, The Andy Griffith Show without Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy without Lucille Ball, or Hancock's Half Hour without Tony Hancock.
