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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre and harass their employees while being protected by HR and their higher-up.

  Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

  At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean “it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus”, not that rufus itself is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.

  The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations on not having an addiction problem. If you can “not notice it” and still play the game, you’re not the target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.

  Spoiler

  The giant is a very melancholic, dignified old servant who’s feeling betrayed and disappointed in the player (long story, happens before the game, you don’t remember it and you’re only just piecing together what happened). When he dies, he starts slowly sinking in lava with a very sad expression, with a speech about how “You were an example to us all”, lamenting about what happened, etc… And just before being completely immerged, with just his hand still reaching out of lava… “You…” “…are an ass!” And he flips you off. Perfect delivery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).

  “there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.

  In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Ōkami get better? [Spoilers for first half of game inside]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that game, but if you are not enjoying it at that point I am not sure I can see it getting better for you for the rest of it.

  Though if you just beat Orochi, that’s more like a quarter of the game if memory serves. Ōkami is quite longer than your classic Legend of Zelda game, I’d say for me it took a bit more than twice as long to complete the first time compared to, say, Twilight Princess.

  Its story is more like a series of legends rather than a unified storyline, which didn’t bother me since it fits the mythology theme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.

  I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “and you can buy that exact SD card model for the low, low price of $62.99 on Amazon!!!”

  That might not be the weirdest, most awkward product placement I ever saw, but close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have at least one dev from Motion Twin, who explicitely wanted to stay there and work on new games, being told to leave the company after trying to get them to do something for months.

  deepnight.net/blog/going-rogue/

  So yeah, even the part of Motion Twin that wanted to move on seems to have been messy post-Dead Cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Friday’s what now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “A great AI-generated game before the end of next year”

  Mark those words, and prepare to have a good laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.

  The first game ends on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.

  BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.

  BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Famicom Disk Writer Kiosk Advert⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Castlevania 3 sounds quite better on FDS indeed, but cartridge Metroid is by far the worst case of this in my opinion.

  Part of the soundtrack is missing channels that contribute to the main melody. Even the now iconic item fanfare was barely recognizable in that version.

  Also of course there’s the fact the FDS Metroid had actual saves on the disk, and they just didn’t implement them in the cartridge version, unlike Legend of Zelda. Instead we got that painfully long password system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about the concept of AI, it’s about current developments in generative AI, which is just one approach for it but has largely hijacked the term. This one could burst and disappear, hopefully replaced by something better, but the general field of AI would not.

  Also, I’m not sure where you are going with that argument. Despite being the subject of stories for millennia, nobody has invented dragons yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as “made for kids” against the creators’ will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it’s not).

  So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you’ve got a new batch of idiots just “contributing” to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn’t even read themselves.

  So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn’t ask for a LLM’s opinion, they’re like “what’s the problem? Is any of this wrong?” Because it’s entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have zero interest for Bloomberg in general, but, that’s Jason Schreier.

  He’s one of the very few you could reasonably call a videogame journalist non-ironically, and I really don’t think “conservative” describes his views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My kindle is from 2011, got it for free from someone getting rid of it. It’s old and dumb as shit and Amazon fortunately doesn’t care about it anymore.

  Since I got it, it never had an Amazon DRM-ed e-book loaded on it. I intend to keep it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that’s bullshit. A freaking sports mafia has the power to cripple the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new Rayman physical cart for GBC thanks to Ubisoft and Modretro, and it comes with new music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rayman’s GBA port was… not good. I wonder how this one compares to it, sounds like a lot of effort went into that one. Sure the screen is smaller, but if they adapted level design/sprite size well, that might work. GBA mostly tried to port the level as-is, and ended up just removing some of them and having stuff hidden off-screen when it shouldn’t.

  They’re also praising the soundtrack, and GBA’s take on the Rayman OST was absolutely atrocious, so I can only imagine they did a better job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.

  Even if they went that way (good luck with that), doesn’t that mean farming gold regularly and for profit should still be registered as a professional activity? Or at least the result of it declared as revenue?

  I don’t think they want that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I wasn’t even aware of the term SPA, but in this case I’d have simply called that a form. Form web pages are almost as old as the web itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow the thing is pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played the first two Discworld point and click games. Let me tell you, I might have believed you if you told me that was a true hint for the first one.

  Even knowing the books it got its inspiration from won’t help you with some of its “puzzles”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  About 3DS IR and pokémon, partly :

  m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Infrared

  Apparently it could be used to initiate communication, in gen 6 and 7.

  Some Pokémon DS cartridges had their own IR port. Madness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? Everyone knows humans have evolved a second thumb on their palm to play NES correctly in the 80s.

  It’s like the panda’s thumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very different from an IR controller though. The wiimote has an IR camera and the console looks for two static light points to triangulate a position, it doesn’t transmit anything to the console through IR.

  If you’ve used an IR TV remote, you can imagine how bad an actual IR-connected controller would be. Needs a perfectly unobstructed line of sight to wherever the sensor is, can’t turn your controller too much or you’ll miss the sensor, might occasionally be subject to wrong input/light interferences…

  One of the weirdest use of video game IR I know though : the 3DS had a IR port. It was used for almost nothing.

  BUT. At some point Nintendo released the Circle pad pro. It’s a thing you clip on your 3DS to add a right stick and a pair of triggers.

  It was not plugged into the console at all. It was just using the IR port which it was touching. Of course it didn’t have the reliability problems from remote IR, since it was basically shining an IR LED directly at its sensor with nothing in between. I guess they didn’t have a lot of options for communication ports, but still, using IR for communication between two devices that are in direct contact is weird.