Octopus Overlords

Unagi wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:31 pm I'm sure you are right, if for nothing else but to find things to put into the station wagon.

Someone should redub that trailer with Holiday Road

Unagi wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:31 pm I'm sure you are right, if for nothing else but to find things to put into the station wagon.

Someone should redub that trailer with Holiday Road

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:39 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:31 pm I'm sure you are right, if for nothing else but to find things to put into the station wagon.

Someone should redub that trailer with Holiday Road

I did my own dub by watching the trailer without sound and playing Holiday Road on another tab.

"I've been working on survival games for quite a while," says Seth Rosen as we chat over Zoom. "Funnily enough, I don't like them."

That is pretty funny, because Rosen was technical designer for Klei Entertainment's Don't Starve: Reign of Giants and project lead for Don't Starve Together, eternally one of the most popular games on Steam. Now he's game director at Ironwood Studios, working on first-person driving survival game Pacific Drive, which launches on February 22. That's a lot of survival for someone who doesn't like survival.

But it becomes clear during our chat that it's actually just certain aspects of survival games Rosen doesn't care for, and he's doing his best to avoid them in his new game.

In Pacific Drive you find yourself stranded in the Olympic Exclusion Zone, a walled-off portion of the Pacific Northwest where the government's shady experiments went horribly wrong. Now the winding roads and dark woods are filled with so many dangerous anomalies it makes Stalker's exclusion zone feel like a stroll through Dreamlight Valley. The only way to escape is by driving a quirky customizable station wagon deeper and deeper into the zone, collecting resources along the way to upgrade and outfit your car with sci-fi gizmos and gadgets.

"Honestly, a lot of my pet design things that we put into Pacific Drive were aimed at smoothing out the things that really bugged me about survival games," Rosen says. "Inevitably there is a little bit of a resource grind, but I wanted to make sure that, especially given how much of a focus we have on driving, the survival aspects of the game don't take too much away from that. The heart of the game is the car, and driving it, and taking care of it. And the survival crafting stuff is there to support that."

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:30 pm Horror was just invented about 6 years ago, so let the newness of it fade a bit. I’m sure it’s just a passing fad. Then we can get back to your favorite genre. Amish romance sims.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:07 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:30 pm Horror was just invented about 6 years ago, so let the newness of it fade a bit. I’m sure it’s just a passing fad. Then we can get back to your favorite genre. Amish romance sims.

With or without tractors?

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:13 pm You’ve never even seen Witness, have you?

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:07 pm And why is the woman on the right wielding what appears to be a buggy wheel?

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:07 pm Can you get a screenshot of the moment in Witness when one of the Amish drives a tractor?

Also, what Amish romance sims would you recommend, given your extensive knowledge of the group? And if you point me towards one that has a genital size slider instead of a beard size slider, I'm going to cry foul. Bonus if the butter churning isn't just another button mashing thing.

...shit, now I want an Amish themed Conan Exiles.

Edit: Okay, so having AI generate an image of "an Amish version of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian" results in



and I have questions.

What's with the helicopter in the background? I don't remember Conan ever piloting rotorcraft in any of the books. Was this retconned in at some point? And I find it highly unlikely that outside the Amish Resistance Force, there are such things in THAT community either (but to be fair, I'll reserve stating that as a fact until after Blackhawk has had a chance to check in with every Amish faction in his area). And why is the woman on the right wielding what appears to be a buggy wheel?

The eagle I can see. Amish often use eagles to scout ahead for enemies.

...but I digest...er...digress.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:07 pm
Edit: Okay, so having AI generate an image of "an Amish version of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian" results in