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- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 day ago:
I do think there was a lot to like in the bones but the execution was just so bad :(. The combination of 90% of the content of the game being doing ubisoft map slop and the story being broken up across media made it pretty miserable, but the moment to moment writing/character development for the party was top notch for sure. I really wanted to like it but actually playing it felt like a chore :(
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 day ago:
A lot of people have the hallway complaint, and honestly I think it mostly came down to visuals and sound design. So many games people love have exactly the same level design, including FFX, but there is normally enough to look at, and you don’t have the “high heels on tile” footsteps exacerbating it. I’m also pretty sure a large part of it was a YouTube video pointing it out and people jumping on the bandwagon.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 days ago:
I’ve never played dragon quest, but as a long time final fantasy enjoyer, final fantasy 15 sucked so much I put it down and I never went out of my way to play 16 because of that.
FF7Remake was amazing. FF7Rebirth was good in many ways but also had way too much garbage and goofy shit so I have very mixed feelings about it. Also like the post said it’s a very long wait for a complete story. It also is not really an entry point because FF7 is a huge franchise in itself.
If you take those out of the equation, the last FF games were 13 lightning returns in 2013 which I think is probably good but very different (I didn’t end up finishing but not because I didn’t like it) and 13-2 which in my opinion is one of the best in the series but gets slept on because it’s gated by 13 (2009) which I like but I wouldn’t call amazing or transformative.
I think FF12 might would qualify as a worthy childhood formative game, which means (excluding 16 since I just don’t know) the last good FF that is also an entry point came out in 2006. 20 years ago.
Tldr; I don’t know if FF16 is a worthy childhood formative experience, but if it’s not, the last candidate is TWENTY years ago, so ofc young people aren’t getting attached to the franchise. They’re probably playing jrpgs that are actually good instead.
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 2 days ago:
No website is certainly a choice
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
I don’t dislike that art style in other games but nothing about that trailer gave me castlevania vibes
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
Animation and sound design reminds me of blasphemous and moonscars, which are games I like, but I wouldn’t say feel very castlevania-y
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 1 week ago:
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has Cristiano Ronaldo and Salvatore Ganacci in it. Having a goofy soccer character as a character is out of place in that game, I don’t want real people in fighting games at all, and to top it off, Rinaldo is a piece of shit anyway.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 1 week ago:
Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.
Yeah I’m not playing a game when I’ll have to see a real life rapist in the character select screen
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
It seems that way, but they smell awful to me and at best taste neutral
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It definitely seems different than the rest of their “unappealing” list.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Demon Slayer
It looks like they don’t really watch battle shounen. It’s not really my genre either but I sometimes try them out if i have a lot of friends watching them. Demon Slayer has good art but it also has Zenitsu being insufferable and other hallmarks of the genre that put people that aren’t into it off.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Mahou Shoujo Site is just an excuse to watch little girls suffer.
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Haibane is my favorite but I never succeed in getting anyone to watch it T.T
- Comment on Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features 2 weeks ago:
A local option with enough sophistication to impress anyone would have terrible performance on the vast majority of PCs and laymen would takeaway a bad impression without understanding why
- Comment on Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG 2 weeks ago:
This was apparently enough to get that music stuck in my head
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes. And using the LLM to generate then developing the requisite understanding and making it maintainable is slower than just writing it in the first place. And that effect compounds with repetition.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
✨ especially this one ✨
- Comment on Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features 2 weeks ago:
The sidebar chatbots is something you have to explicitly interact with, so no it’s not using remote LLMs without your input. Every other feature is local.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 weeks ago:
Proton is a combination of technologies. The main ones are wine and dxvk
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 weeks ago:
Ehhh I know a lot of people that play indie games, but generally they only play one or two genres of them. Part of it is that the terminology gets confusing because people mean different things. Like, other than baldur’s gate, I couldn’t tell you the last western AAA game I played. But I played FF7 rebirth which is definitely AAA but not what people are always talking about when that talk about AAA sinking. There are also tons of studios that you probably wouldn’t call AAA but you also wouldn’t call indie. Like, I probably play more games from Falcom than any other studio. They’re not huge headcount-wise or cutting edge technology-wise but they’ve been consistently making games since the 80s. I think a lot of people don’t bucket those types of developers in their heads at all.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 weeks ago:
The question is who funds these theoretical new studios? Indie studies more often than not have to make deals with the devil so they can eat. Then, even if their game is a smash hit, the investors take the lion’s share of profit and still control the actual devs by the purse strings. This society is sick.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 3 weeks ago:
For DS/2DS/3DS specifically, there is no emulation hardware that has resistive touchscreen, which I think is superior to capacitive for many games. For 3DS, the same thing applies to the 3D capabilities. Additionally, I’m under the impression that 3DS emulation isn’t fully reliable for the full library, but I may be out of date.
TLDR; emulation may not be as feature complete or as quality as original hardware.
- Comment on Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp 3 weeks ago:
Desperation
- Comment on US controls 90% of AI chip markets and produces far more advanced AI models than China, yet it has lost much of manufacturing capacity needed to build at scale and depends on rivals for materials 3 weeks ago:
Everyone knows you want as much income inequality as possible. That’s why it’s a win condition in civilization games right?
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure if you can install without an MS account if you don’t use Rufus anymore. Rufus requires literacy for sure, and even if you can still do it without it is designed to make it impossible to know you can from within the installer itself.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 3 weeks ago:
Every time I say this to someone offline, they act like it’s literally impossible. It’s so frustrating
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 weeks ago:
Why would “all this talk of AI not being profitable” be what triggers discussion about LLM use in games? I would think making games fun and interesting should be what triggers any discussion about using anything in games. Are you Satya Nadella trying to find some way to make LLMs profitable? All this ignores that people have actually been talking about exactly what you described for 2 years already.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 weeks ago:
Why would we?
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 weeks ago:
People shouldn’t use google pay in the first place. All of these things being tied together by the same group is a problem in and of itself.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 weeks ago:
They won’t kill side loading (the fact we even call it side loading instead of simply installing software is a problem). They’ll just shoot it in the knees a little. No big deal.