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@broshmosh: Chrono Trigger didn't charge $20 for New Game Plus, unlike another Japanese RPG that released this year.

I disagree.

@bigsocrates: Look, I'm clearly in the Bargaining stage. Sadly/Luckily, I'm not a hedge fund manager and there's no bargaining to be had here, so it looks like Depression is right around the corner.

@ben_h: According to a story Grubb broke it performed below expectations. What those expectations were, who knows.

I'm not 'kinda' worried about Double Fine. I'm immensely worried.

Like... what the fuck is even happening? Am I not buying enough games? Am I not playing enough of the games I buy? Should I have spent a few bucks on loot-boxes last night instead of playing Dragon Age Inquisition? Surely there are some stakeholders out there who are like "Yo, you spent all that money, my money, to acquire these studios, and now you're going door to door, excising them like that internet meme? What the fuck did I even pay for"

I played through the entirety of 2006 Prey in a weekend and don't remember a single thing about it except that the Blue Oyster Cult song Don't Fear the Reaper is in it. I didn't even remember the context the song was played in until I rewatched a video of the opening.

@bigsocrates: I think your and I are talking about two different games made under two different sets of circumstances. A successful and honorable followup to the Larian banger? CDPR or one of the Microsoft studios, sure. But I personally doubt WotC and either of those companies could agree to terms.

EA, however, is a company that I can imagine is looking at their little stepchild and wondering what to do with them for the summer. Dragon Age 4 is shipping soon, the publisher would love to be in a relationship with another big IP following the Star Wars kerfuffle, it would look good from a PR perspective ("Hey remember that thing from years ago that led up that thing you liked?").

To be clear, I don't think it's a good idea for Bioware to do another Baldur's Gate (I live in the greater Edmonton area and have a lot of fondness for that studio), but I think it's exactly the sort of project EA would shop them out to with a limited time and budget, with a press release about 'returning to their roots' written by someone who's never played the original games.

It's insanity at it's highest, but I can think of only one studio out there with the talent, financial backing, and raw desperation to ever undertake a project like Baldur's Gate 4.

Bioware.

Honestly I 1000% prefer losing a fight in a cutscene to winning the fight, then having the boss decide they might as well unleash their true form, then having to fight the same dude for the same reason and roughly the same stakes all over again. As a Final Fantasy fan, this drives me to insaneness.

Not to hijack this thread but the first Dan Plays Sonic '06 episode is likewise busted:

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/dan-plays-sonic-the-hedgehog-2006/2300-18014