I mess with SC and S42 every few years, have access from the kickstarter from way back when.

They’re fine. They’re even neat. But Elite Dangerous gives 90% of what their original promises were and has much more demonstrable development progress. Planetary systems without a loading screen is not as impressive as it was in the early 2010s. Kerbal Space Program was created and died since then.

If you have to have someone enforce the land registry or the documents, what is the benefit of the database being zero trust?

A problem with AAA games is the development time is longer, the time spent working on the final game is not.

Time and time again when a game as been “in development” for 5/7/10+ years, the game that shipped was only really being worked on for the last year or two, once they finally got the design and gameplay nailed down and worked on the final game. Anthem is one of the more egregious examples in that some of the developers working on the game learned at the E3 presentation a year before launch that the game involved flying.

There’s an iceberg of effort and only a fraction of it gets released.

It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it’s done.

-Terry Pratchett

I spent a ton of time on LotR II and it’s expansion. I distinctly remember finding the box for 3 a few years later and just being confused that they didn’t seem to know what was good about their game.

Had a complicated time trying to get 2 running a few years ago, I think I ended up setting up a Win95 VM specifically for it. But now it looks like they’re just on GoG and Steam. Might have to grab it there.