Creative Assembly

That's just lovely.

yeah okay so what i want to say real quick about content uh before we do last super chats is i completely forgot the whole casket of souls thing um yeah yeah we all everyone's like oh haha dj content no i want y'all to understand how genius the guys over at creative assembly are where also games workshop has gone oh yeah old world you can now put your lich priest on casket of souls because that makes sense even though ca did it first but first of all uh the original casket of souls is literally just stolen straight from the indian jones movie it's the ark of the covenant and they carry it and then eighth edition was like well we're gonna try to make it a little more special so eighth edition i i want to i want to just i'm not gonna read it out because we don't have time but i'm just gonna tell you so eighth edition completely reworked the casket of souls to say no they don't carry it it's a magical casket that's kept inside every tomb king's pyramid that has the souls of the people he hates but they teleport And the way they teleport is that there is a member of the mortuary cult called a keeper of the casket.

Whose whole job is that he knows incantations that are exclusive to his sect of the mortuary cult.

And he lets out this chant and it causes a whirlpool of bones and emerging out of it is the casket of souls.

Thank you.

Parmesia, yeah, Total War lore.

Woohoo! I congratulate Creative Assembly's team's efforts on Warhammer Fantasy.

They definitely looked at the characters and to the world from a third window and they fixed after they identified where it needed to be adjusted.

This one's actually pretty interesting.

An early version of Total War by Creative Assembly.

Yes, because before Creative Assembly was bought by Sega, they had published some of their games through Activision.

And so Total War, I think Medieval Total War and Rome Total War came through Activision.

And so I had actually tested on those as well.

All right.

Creative Assembly says the disastrous Shogun 2 remaster bypassed its normal oversight.

I mean, we're going to be able to copy and paste this story a million times in the next couple of years, Sean.

In

an October

23rd statement, Creative Assembly's Roger Cullum said that the complete edition was externally developed and did not undergo Creative Assembly's usual internal reviews and quality assurance.

This is what led to things like That samurai character being generatively AI'd into this detail-less statue that just had a couple of notches there where her face used to be.

That's just one example of the issues with the game.

In particular, I want to shout out, and you made a note of it too, that some of the...

I think there's more than one person, but... specifically John McKellen, who was the writer and director for this game, worked at Creative Assembly on alien isolation.

And I think that there were a couple other folks at Screen Burn who also worked on alien isolation as well.

It's very evident in the gameplay and in the style of game that they're going for here in the way that you interact or do not interact with enemies, things like that.

Folks were very angry about this as it meant they had to hypothetically install over 130GB of data just to play the port, and launch it from the Ace Combat 8 executable, well, no longer.

Speaking of releases gone wrong, do you guys see this Total War Shogun 2 stuff? Sega released a complete edition port of the excellent Grand Strategy game from Creative Assembly, but it sure as hell did not go down too well.

On Steam, the game hit overwhelmingly negative very quickly on account of bugs, poor mod support, and strong accusations of using generative AI to upscale some of the assets.

The optics for this were even worse due to the fact that Sega removed the original game from Steam.

Yeah, and he's 100% right.

I've sat in on discussions and had back and forths with members of Creative Assembly about their game and how they try and interpret things, and they're like, hey, we found this book, and our community would love to see this feature implemented based on this book, and we'd love to do that.

It's like a printed book that came from Games Workshop, and Games Workshop will look at it and go, no, that doesn't fit our current concept of what Warhammer is.

And that current concept is often is changeable.