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- Comment on Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players" 2 days 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] 2 days ago:
Friday’s what now?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games 3 days 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) 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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. 2 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 2 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Wow the thing is pathetic.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That wrong “commando” kinda looks like the logo from the tactical series “Commandos” instead.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I am sure that’s what happened too. That’s part of what I called executives justifying their paycheck, because it’s a direct consequence. Make sure everyone below gets in on the program, or get rid of them.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic, then maybe it has the potential to be very confidently wrong about everything!
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 3 weeks ago:
Oh. So it’s an unintended quirk in Steam’s interface and basically nobody knew about it.
I guess they wanted that free version hidden and only accessible for people they knew had purchased the game before.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 weeks ago:
Who asked for this? Beyond Microsoft executives who want to justify their paycheck, I mean.
Though really there might be good entertainment value for a few streamers out there. Use it on a niche game or a fairly complex one and laugh at the inevitable hallucinated bullshit as the assistant pretend to know about it.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 3 weeks ago:
Not sure I want that after the reviews, which is a shame because a good fantasy city builder is something I’d pay for. But I wouldn’t want to invest time in an unfinished game that’s turning to a mobile idle thing model.
But I am a bit curious about how they are doing this. I don’t think Steam allows different pricing from the wishlist, do they?
Did they just hide the free base game purchase leaving only paid options on the store page? It’s looking like that, technically you can’t buy “Leviathan’s fantasy” alone from the store, only paid bundles (with the new version? and weirdly, this makes Leviathan’s fantasy cost money inside that bundle making it more expensive? so confusing).
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 4 weeks ago:
In two months Skyrim will be 14.
And don’t get me started on F-Zero.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Was he? Was that a long time ago?
Seems to me him and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)
And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit fun to imagine that. People of the future playing a game that would be sci-fi to us, but really to them it’s like Oregon Trail.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
Joke?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
By the time they launch, they’ll have a game with 8k textures and everyone else will be releasing games for Star Trek’s holodeck.