MindFreak

Mega evolutions are live! But they killed it. Completely. Raid about 5 times to Mega-evolve 1 Pokémon for a duration of 4 hours - want more? Raid more! But the raids require at least 5-6 people to complete. They should have made it free to Mega-evolve after collecting the initial 200 Mega energy at least and then have some cooldown period on it instead. I really hope I don't have to bother about Megas in GBL, though. That would be a pain in the ass. Last season I got to rank 8 just before it stopped, as I'm doing quite well in Master League Premier Cup.

How many did you manage?

It does look good, yeah. I've never played any of the games (never owned a PS-console so that's why). Spellbreak looks good and is a great concept but I don't do MOBA.

I know. But it's out now. That's new.

The Last Campfire out now: Looks quite good!

So it's a monthly show? Then I can accept the lacklustre content

I'm playing Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Switch at the moment. A little over halfway in and well, I'm sorry to say that the game is rather boring to play, isn't it? The combat is repetitive - dodge/slam X or Y, dodge/parry, slam X or Y - and the puzzles are purely environmental, meaning that you only have to look for stuff in the surroundings to open a door, and the game even tells you when your near (at least the runes). Then they tried to make this more stressing by adding a monster that chases you but the thin is - you can't really look around much faster? So I just ended up circling the area again and again until I finally found the runes. Yeah, not fun. I'm debating with myself whether to finish this or not. It's a short game but I can only handle playing it in small bursts of 30-60 minutes and I keep thinking about wanting it to end. It's a shame, the game is visually really good looking and the audio is excellent but I'm just not really feeling it. I have Metro 2033: Redux sitting there, waiting for me, and I feel that it pulls harder than Hellblade at the moment.

Really great trailer, would totally watch that as a movie. It seems to be either inspired by or set in the Injustice universe which is cool, it's going to be exciting following this game, though it's still far into the future.

DC Fandome, a DC event, takes place this weekend.

I liked the tone of The Batman. Pattinson seems like a more emo like Batman but it's also supposed to be like Year One where he hasn't quite settled with the role yet. Not quite sure that Znyder's cut can actually save JL. But will probably end up watching it.

Looks alright to me and I think they will make it look better in the final version of the movie (if that isn't done yet, at least). ALso, good trailer.

Must not see it. Must resist! Got my tickets booked for next Sunday evening. Excuted to finally go to the cinema again and very much looking forward to seeing the movie.

Watched the first three episodes of High Score today on a sickness leave (just feeling under the weather and such) and I'm actually enjoying it. Given the name, I had expected it to be about arcade games and the people competing there but it's much more a complete history of video games. Episode 2 is almost only about Nintendo, quite interesting to watch. The third episode is a bit too narrow, I found, as it focuses solely on RPGs and early adventure games that I don't know about but it also references newer games that I have more knowledge of and have actually played.

It'll bee interesting if they can get Bale as well.

1-2 Switch would have to be - 90 %for me to pick that up!

Yeah. And later, it gets even more obvious.

Oh, just saw someone mention that games can have multiple lead producers. They would probably just like to have another one.

It's really hard to compare two different devices as they could measure distance differently. They could use a different algorithm or method to compute the distance as it's relatively arbitrary to measure distance on a static machine. Also, you say that the wheel is larger? That could mean quite a lot if that isn't taken enough into consideration.

So - an update is due. They finally finished analysing on Wednesday and they found three things: One line of cells with totally normal chromosomes (for a boy, XY). One with another X chromosome (Klinefelter, XXY). And one line with another Y chromosome (XYY). When they see this combination of cells, they know from research that 87 % of the fetuses that have this are completely normal. So the case was that the placenta has some chromosomes and cells different from the fetus itself (and the mother, which is seen in 1-2 % of the cases they analyse). On Wednesday, the doctors will take a sample directly from the fetus (or rather, the amniotic fluid it swims in) and hopefully, we are in the 87 % with a normal baby. While this wasn't quite the answer we hoped or expected, it was a relief. 87 % is quite a lot so our hopes are rather high. It will hurt if we fall into the 13 % and we shall see to what extent the condition amounts to (i.e. Klinefelter or double Y syndrome or just a small mosaic which doesn't mean much). We'll get the final answer to that in about 3 weeks - meaning that my wife will be halfway through her pregnancy at that point.

(Why isn't this in the Metroid Prime 4-thread, by the way?) There is a number of reasons that a previous Lead Producer could resign that don't have to be due to bad development - pension, moving away, wanting to try something new, better offer, etc. I agree, it's not an overly good sign, just something that is a possibility that I haven¨t seen anyone mention at all. It is also very reasonable to hire someone from the outside as a good project leader will easily be able to facilitate any project within a domain that they are familiar with. I've met several of them in my work (IT development on large projects, both small scale and large scale). They do wish for someone with 10+ years of experience with the role so that would entail that they need someone who can step in relatively quickly, and give such a person a month or two and they should be quite as capable as the previous lead. I do think that the game was completely restarted with none of Namco's assets being reused. Reusing them could actually take longer than just making new ones I'm not saying that all of this has to be the case but it very well could be nothing to worry about. It could also mean that we are in for another delay.

To be fair, the current Lead Producer could have resigned so they need to get a new one. And that this doesn't mean that the game is not in development. What is the role of a lead producer? As I read it, it's a project leader or supervisor that ensures that production is going well but development can easily be continued for some time without one.

It's funny to use Mario as an example here. Look at all the Mario goodness we've got so far...

That is a truly great intro. However, I'm just not that interested in the games from the arcades and the high score battles at the time so will probably not watch it.

I'm unsure if I actually own Braid on Xbox 360 or if I just played it elsewhere. But that must mean that I'm ready to play it again.

I get them as well and have not visited any naughty sites (at least only as incognito :D)