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- Comment on Xbox Next-Gen Console Confirmed, Will be 'Largest Technical Leap in a Hardware Generation' 8 months ago:
It’s possible with high end PC hardware today. Consoles aren’t nearly that far behind PC when they launch.
- Comment on Xbox Next-Gen Console Confirmed, Will be 'Largest Technical Leap in a Hardware Generation' 8 months ago:
A lot less work for developers, smaller game sizes, and map and game design no longer needing to be built around the onerous limitations of raster lighting and reflections.
Ray tracing is a bigger deal than most people realize. It feels like a gimmick because the games that support it today are still ultimately designed around rasterization.
Path-traced lighting in particular is a huge game changer, and means developers will no longer have to choose between rudimentary global dynamic lighting and very static and storage-intensive baked lighting. You can get the benefits of both without the drawbacks of either, assuming the hardware is up to snuff.
- Comment on Xbox Next-Gen Console Confirmed, Will be 'Largest Technical Leap in a Hardware Generation' 8 months ago:
Ray tracing performance that’s actually good enough for games to fully ditch rasterized lighting and reflections
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
But it is possible to recover, and many do. There is no recovery from being murdered.
Murder also has further externalities. When you kill someone, you take them away from their friends and families, who now have to live forever without that person in their lives.
But this whole conversation feels a lot like we’re asking “who was worse, Hitler or Genghis Khan?”, and it’s weird to put either side on the defensive even if there is an objectively true answer to be found.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
It was also an established IP with name recognition.
- Comment on Helldivers 2’s concurrent Steam player record is PlayStation Studios’ highest yet 9 months ago:
What percentage of PC players care about couch co-op?
- Comment on Persona 3 Reload sold 1 million copies worldwide within its first week, becoming the fastest selling game in Atlus history 9 months ago:
It’s rated M, children shouldn’t be playing it.
- Comment on What game fits this? 9 months ago:
Starfield (like other BGS games) does a lot of things that no other games do. So it’s frustrating when they put out a game that is largely mediocre, but also your only real option for scratching those particular itches.
- Comment on Recommendations for Pirate Games? 9 months ago:
I rented PotC from blockbuster once back and all i remember are insane loading times and super janky combat
- Comment on Why does this even exist? 9 months ago:
Food, especially fresh food, used to be a lot more expensive when adjusting for inflation. A canned chicken like this doesn’t look super appetizing right out of the can, but it probably tasted OK after you shredded it and put it in a casserole. And it was significantly cheaper than buying a fresh whole roasted chicken, assuming you lived somewhere that fresh whole roasted chickens were even readily available.
Nowadays, between industrialized farming, highly optimized supply chains, and a buttload of government subsidy, fresh food is comparatively cheap. You can get a whole roasted chicken right off the spit for $5-10 at just about any grocery store. So for most people the value proposition of a $3 canned chicken isn’t really there anymore.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
“Arithmancy” is their name for math classes and is mentioned several times throughout the books. It is one of Hermione’s favorite subjects.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
“Arithmancy” is what they call their math classes and it’s mentioned a fair bit in the books, though understandably never really shown in the movies.
- Comment on Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang 9 months ago:
Right, but ultimately their complaint is that a game has actions bound to a scroll wheel and they could simply rebind those actions to something else.
Though the complaint does become legitimate if they are playing one of the handful of poor PC ports out there that lacks key remapping (cough*transformerswarforcybertron*cough)
- Comment on Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang 9 months ago:
That’s like using a Dvorak keyboard and complaining that games default to WASD bindings. This is the exact reason why key remapping is a standard feature on PC games but not on consoles
- Comment on Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang 9 months ago:
They’re also SOOOO HEAVY, though maybe I’ve been spoiled by my G Pro Superlight.
- Comment on Doing the important work 9 months ago:
there were still some industries not already ruined by millennials?
- Comment on Doing the important work 9 months ago:
If there’s one thing i’ve noticed about lemmy it’s that people here really like finding things to complain about
- Comment on Lemmy MAUs climbing back up! You love to see it. 10 months ago:
kids are on winter break
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 11 months ago:
his other works include twisted metal and drawn to death.
not bad games, but also not games known for their ahem quality storytelling.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
i don’t really count remasters that were outsourced
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
there are gta v mods that add rtgi and hair simulation?
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
When has Rockstar themselves put out a bad game?
- Comment on Google Play Store operates at 70% profit margin, Epic v Google court case reveals 11 months ago:
the play store, like other download stores, provides discoverability, trust, and all the infrastructure to distribute and automatically update your software products.
this is not a worthless service, otherwise publishers wouldn’t have flocked to Steam on Windows in the late ‘00s/early ‘10s. only the very biggest ones like EA and Ubisoft felt like they could make more money by rolling their own.
- Comment on Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has? 1 year ago:
I can see that.
However nothing I’ve ever seen at a Chinese buffet in America has made me think of real Chinese cuisine.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
This is Lemmy, nobody reads the article. They just react to the headline they know is cherry picked and find a way to work it into whatever circlejerk suits their fancy.
- Comment on Grown Adult Coward: 'I'm OK With Just Watching Alan Wake II' - Aftermath 1 year ago:
it is ok on a 2060. the high minimum spec is not because of performance, but because older GPUs do not support mesh shaders. that is why it runs ok on a 2060 while being unplayable on the much faster 1080 Ti
- Comment on When is Lower Decks Season 5 Starting? 1 year ago:
next summer at the earliest
- Comment on Why is Steam (Windows PC version) the only program (to my knowledge) that natively snaps to windows displays? 1 year ago:
I find this behavior annoying, I actually like to place windows in corners with a small margin
- Comment on StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS 1 year ago:
You can play the two “finished” level from beginning to end, but the actual gameplay is very rough.
- Comment on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Devs Say Miles Morales Is the 'Main' Spider-Man From Now On - IGN 1 year ago:
Well this is sure to piss off the snowflakes. Grab yer popcorn.