jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC 45 minutes ago:
There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.
I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 5 days ago:
Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.
Let me explain:
It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.
It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.
The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.
The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!
Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
65" and it’s impressive with ONE drawback… Samsungs HDR implementation SUCKS. Suuuuuuuucks.
Without HDR, everything is bright, crisp, and clean.
With HDR, it’s dark, muddy, and unwatchable.
I’ve done all the firmware updates, RTINGS calibrations, NOTHING works.
Well, nothing except disabling HDR on every device attached to it.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I bought one on the premise of both PS5 and Xbox Series X releasing 8K content.
We got:
The Touryst - Not a bad game, but not needing 8K either.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps supported 6K, GREAT game.
On the PS5 Pro (through PSSR upscaling)
F1 24 (at 60 FPS)
Gran Turismo 7 (at 60 FPS)
No Man’s Sky (at 30 FPS)
Pure Pool Pro (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)
[REDACTED] (at 60 FPS)
The Callisto Protocol (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)
And that’s it…
- 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 1 week ago:
They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉
- 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 1 week ago:
Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.
I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉
But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.
Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.
- 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 1 week ago:
It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.
But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.
- 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 1 week ago:
Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣
- Comment on Guitar technology 1 week ago:
Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.
- 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 1 week ago:
I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.
“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”
Took about a minute.
But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 studio boss calls out "hurtful", "personal" videogame reviewers - "sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for critics to be scored, Metacritic-style" 2 weeks ago:
Some reviewers are just stupid people. I remember seeing a review of a game where they continually complained about the camera… the camera that was 100% player controlled on the right stick.
Did they just, not once, ever, try to move the camera? Yeah, that would be a bad experience in a 3rd person game…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There was a quickplay where someone figured out how to beat the game in something crazy like 10 or 12 minutes.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
What the column has you do is disable Gemini access in Mail, but it is still on for search.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
I tend to agree with this. I had given up on PC gaming by 2004 so did not play HL2 until the Orange Box on Xbox in 2007 and my reaction was “Jesus this is boring!”
I’ve tried to replay it a couple of times since then, most recently on Steam Deck, but it just doesn’t click with me and I give up around the Canals.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 4 weeks ago:
After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 weeks ago:
One of my favorite artists has his gear list on his website:
“Pickup Who knows what they put in those things?
DI Who cares?”
LOL.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 weeks ago:
It’s part of the creative process, but it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. 😉 I do like having 42 simulated amps and 56 simulated effects pedals on tap without spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but fiddling with them is it’s own deal aside from playing and is, apparently, never ending. LOL.
But OTOH, if I want to try my hand at a specific song, I can get there without having to research every last bit of tech that went into it.
You’re right though, locking in “my own sound” is still do-able. The manual selection is all still there.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 weeks ago:
There is an AI angle that COULD work it’s just unfortunate that nobody is using AI in this way.
Instead of replacing creatives the way it does now, it could be used as a tool to inform creatives.
For example, not linking the product because they aren’t paying me to shill for them, but there is a brand of AI enhanced guitar amplifier. You use the prompt in the app to tell it what sound you’re looking for and it will do all the amp and pedal settings to make that happen.
“jazz guitar tone with a touch of reverb” or even specific bands and songs.
You STILL have to be able to play the guitar, it’s not going to do that for you, but it will save you hours of knob twiddling and pedal swapping to get the sound (or an approximation of the sound) you’re looking for.
Applying this to other creative fields, a novelist could use it to generate character names, or an artist could use it to come up with a color palette. I don’t think either of those would be objectionable because the creative still controls what happens after the fact.
It’s when the slop starts writing, painting, or playing for you that it becomes a problem and that’s where we are now.
- Comment on Every anime ever… 4 weeks ago:
Babylon 5. You don’t fully appreciate season 1 until you watch season 4.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 weeks ago:
The question I put to management is “What do you want me to use AI for?”
I can’t get a consistent answer. Lots of stuff unrelated to my job duties. “Well, it’s so easy to make Facebook ads!” - “You know that’s not a thing I do, right?”
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
I’ve said this for years… There was no “gaming crash”, people just started playing games on the C-64.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 4 weeks ago:
Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 weeks ago:
Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but you don’t give pirated goods as gifts. 😉
I still have the OG Advance Wars carts for my GBA.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 weeks ago:
I picked up Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for my kid for Christmas. $60 still after coming out in 2023.
nintendo.com/…/advance-wars-1-plus-2-re-boot-camp…
(* “My kid” - He’s 29, he should br buying his own games! LOL.)
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 weeks ago:
The Switch 2 is the first console I’ve just outright skipped in… well… years now. I guess since the Wii U?
Just every piece of news about it as it was coming out made it sound less and less appealing…
$70 games (that never get discounted because Nintendo.)
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Special SD cards that are more expensive.
Microphone support requires a subscription after 1 year.
Charging $10 for a hardware demo that should be included, like Desk Job on the Steam Deck.
And, like you say, the remote detonation option, which is burning legitimate players:
gadgetmatch.com/nintendo-switch-2-lawsuit-bricked…
Generally with new hardware it’s “Hey, what’s not to like?”
With the Switch 2 it’s more “What is there to like?”
- Comment on Cannot get genesis cart to work 5 weeks ago:
Looks like you’re right, it used a password system for saves.
- Comment on Cannot get genesis cart to work 5 weeks ago:
Only games with save features and I believe Star Control was one of them.
