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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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573 points Philpax | 14 comments | 15 Nov 24 22:18 UTC | HN request time: 1.623s | source | bottom
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eknkc ◴[15 Nov 24 23:18 UTC] No.42152405[source]▶
20-25 years ago a handful of companies had a weird hold on me. I’d jump on anything Google made back then. Blizzard could sell me any game they came up with. If it was from Blizzard, it was gonna be great.

Lost all of it obviously. Not a single company has my loyalty anymore.

Except if valve were to release a mystery black box with faint lambda symbol on it. I’d pay whatever they asked for it.

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1. balls187 ◴[15 Nov 24 23:24 UTC] No.42152458[source]▶
> Not a single company has my loyalty anymore.

FromSoft

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2. Groxx ◴[15 Nov 24 23:32 UTC] No.42152524[source]▶
I gotta have my poison bogs
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3. marginalia_nu ◴[15 Nov 24 23:34 UTC] No.42152531[source]▶
Besides FromSoft as perhaps the exception to the rule as a subsidary to Kadokawa, private companies seem to be keeping their shit together fairly consistently. Larian and Wube are a pair of solid examples, although Valve is probably the most outstanding example.

Game developers and publishers start shitting the bed when they IPO and need to juggle the conflicting interests of managing investor relations as well as customer demands; that or when they're acquired and turned into a subsidiary.

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4. balls187 ◴[15 Nov 24 23:41 UTC] No.42152597[source]▶
Wondering when they show up in AC: Fires of Rubicon.
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5. cgh ◴[15 Nov 24 23:45 UTC] No.42152625[source]▶
I've never understood the saying "the exception that proves the rule" until now. Possibly one of the greatest runs in game company history?
6. drumttocs8 ◴[15 Nov 24 23:55 UTC] No.42152734[source]▶
It's Larian for me
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7. boomboomsubban ◴[16 Nov 24 00:48 UTC] No.42153099[source]▶
Really? Most of the people I know that are huge Souls fans weren't big on Armored Core. Then I've never heard anyone mention 2018's Déraciné and if you go a couple more years back their track record becomes fairly poor.
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8. balls187 ◴[16 Nov 24 01:05 UTC] No.42153229[source]▶
Yes Really.
9. Groxx ◴[16 Nov 24 02:17 UTC] No.42153555{3}[source]▶
Every time I see "AC" I just think "Animal Crossing". Fires of Rubicon would be an interesting entry in that series.
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10. philistine ◴[16 Nov 24 03:44 UTC] No.42153960[source]▶
Wube at this point could announce they made an arsenal of thermonuclear devices and I'd trust them with it.
11. PittleyDunkin ◴[16 Nov 24 06:04 UTC] No.42154716[source]▶
I liked armored core well enough, but it's not like I can build my skills over multiple games like I can with fromsoft
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13. 0x073 ◴[16 Nov 24 09:37 UTC] No.42155511{4}[source]▶
Same for me with assassin's creed:D
14. balls187 ◴[17 Nov 24 17:00 UTC] No.42165259[source]▶
Several commenters have mentioned Larian. I raged quit BG3, but maybe I go back and check out their other titles.

I couldn't deal with my one of our party members, but have no issues with COD PUG's. Go figure.