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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
If Mother Brain from Metroid is going to be a thing, they should also start using that biocomputing to develop the Power Suit.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
Unless you know that guy working on both API management and the identity provider.
If, hypothetically, someone came to that person with a problem like that, they might do it just for fun. Allegedly.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
“Prompt yourself with some bullshit so that it looks like you’re doing something productive.”
Who knows, maybe that’s how you attain AGI? What is a more human kind of intelligence than looking for ways to be a lazy fuck?
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
Nothing tells that AI is a clever use of your ressources like making a mandatory AI query quota for your employees, and having them struggle to find anything it’s good at and failing.
- Comment on EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead 1 week ago:
That cycle was artificially squeezed into one year though.
If we’re staying in the area of games that don’t rely on story or lots of new manually crafted environments, a game like, say, SimCity could have had a minor update and be released slightly better every year. That didn’t happen, it got 3 games in ten years despite being quite popular.
- Comment on EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead 1 week ago:
They litterally did 4 years of re-releasing the exact same FIFA on Switch with only a roster update, just slapping a “legacy edition” on them for good measure. If it’s the same game, by comparison, making it a DLC of the previous edition is slightly more honest.
Annual sports game editions are just a wet dream a marketing genius had back in the 90s. A shame that it must still work on a significant part of their audience.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
Well, thank you very much, because of that last sentence I’ve parsed your message three times wondering if some of it was sarcasm.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 1 week ago:
I have done semi complex move combos with Cappy in SMO, not sure what you consider “the” tech though.
Doesn’t matter. It’s cool to pull off, but it’s not required in any way. And most importantly in the end those combos are not programmed that way, they’re a string of independent moves that are directly associated to their button.
I have no idea what is supposed to connect “get a boost” to “rapidly alternate left and right direction buttons while you drift”.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 2 weeks ago:
The way to make MK more skill based was to balance item distribution, which they started doing decently after MKDS.
It’s not like drifting is automatic in modern MK (well, it is in auto mode, but it’s meant for complete beginners and it sucks for anyone that knows how to play). You’re still calling all the shots in when to drift and for how long. It’s just less annoying to do.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 2 weeks ago:
You’re calling that “dumbed down”, but I’d call the old input arbitrary. I don’t see the point of hiding a major gameplay mechanic behind a complex input. You don’t use a cryptic button combo to jump in a platform game.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t like MKDS very much.
I like how they got rid of the left-right-left-right bullshit on drifting after it. It’s just annoying and achieves nothing. And it’s especially bad having to do that on a d-pad.
I also think Wii is the one that really started balancing items a lot more fairly, though 7 and 8 refined it even more.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 2 weeks ago:
Poem for your sprog, right? Not been on reddit for a while, but encountering a post from that guy was generally a fun moment.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 weeks ago:
My parent’s TV is absolutely atrocious, and the source menu is a big part of it.
It doesn’t show sources that have not sent any input. So when trying to get the Switch on it, I’d need to start the console first, then push the source button… and the menu is so slow to appear that the Switch has gone back to sleep mode before I can reach it…
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 weeks ago:
Most remote design is honestly atrocious. Somehow they keep hiding “source” in random spots, when it should be one of the most important buttons. The obscure pictograms are all over the place, and most buttons will never be used by anyone.
- 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" 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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’ 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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] 5 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 5 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 5 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" 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
Friday’s what now?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games 1 month 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) 1 month 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 1 month 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.