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HidingCat, do gaming w Volition (Saints Row developer) shuts down

Descent doesn't get mentioned enough, along with the true gem, Descent: Freespace. Long and storied history there.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I doubt any of the guys that worked on Decent or the Freespace games are part of Volition at this point.

But damn are those games good.

If any game deserves a remake/remaster, it’s Freespace. Doesn’t need much, just bring it up to par with Freespace 2 mechanics wise and polish the graphics a bit.

No reason to change anything else.

Cybrpwca,

Have you tried FreeSpaceOpen?

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

A looong ass time ago, I did. I don’t think I ever got it working right.

lloram239,

Not sure if anybody of the original team is left, but Red Faction Armageddon had a little Descent tribute level, though that was already 12 years ago.

Some of the original devs made Overload.

raptir,

I honestly did not know Volition was Parallax.

lloram239,

Some of the original developers made a modern version with Overload.

There is also Miner Wars 2081, a criminal underrated Descent-like game from the makers of Space Engineers, has great story campaign, destructible environments and a lot of other really nice touches. Failed however on the mulitplayer aspects that were promised in the EarlyAccess thus lots of negative reviews.

NotYourSocialWorker,

Freespace 2 with a force feedback joystick. When you got a bit too close to a capital ship’s beam weapon and the whole joystick started to shake. One of my most immersive experiences in a game.

BlinkerFluid, do gaming w Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo
@BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

I just… man, this isn’t my first rodeo with Bethesda, or the 25-year-old game engine they’re still using.

If there’s more than one major town and five different things to do, I’ll be surprised.

Madison_rogue,
@Madison_rogue@kbin.social avatar

No doubt...

Are we going to get 25,000 planets with repeating assets and only one town? I'll have to take your word for it, I don't have a platform to play it.

ono,

Maybe the planets are more like asteroids, just as Skyrim’s cities are more like neighborhoods. ;)

osarusan,

25,000 planets, but only 10 faces and 5 voices shared among all the inhabitants of the universe.

BlinkerFluid,
@BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

“Is that Patrick Stewart?”

“Yes, and so is he, and him, and that guy, and that dude, and those guys, and that lady…”

luthis,

Yep same. I’ll wait till I read reviews from gamers I can trust if it’s worth playing.

I really hope it is.

Facebones,

I enjoyed them through Oblivion, then Skyrim gives us generic fantasy land with generic fantasy lads and watered down gameplay…

… Then nobody shut the fuck up about it for 12 years. 🙄

alternative_factor,
@alternative_factor@kbin.social avatar

As someone who started with Morrowind, I prefer Skyrim over Oblivion. The Oblivion setting is better but the scaling just made it SUCH a slog.
However, I hated Fallout 3 and didn't even bother with 4 so I agree bethesda games have become less interesting over time.

RaineV1,

It doesn't use the old engine.

Tarte,
@Tarte@kbin.social avatar

Unreal Engine is a 25-year-old game engine, too.

BlinkerFluid,
@BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

One’s a company’s pride and joy and the other is a crutch because they don’t want to spend the money to move forward. Good comparison of a bad example.

*Apparently they actually modified Creation for this game. Color me surprised.

smeg, do games w Why console makers can legally brick your game console

Assuming this article is talking about the USA? This doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that would fly anywhere with half-decent consumer protection laws.

Ulrich, do gaming w Why console makers can legally brick your game console
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“Although users own the hardware, the software that’s needed to run it is subject to a license agreement,” attorney Jon Loiterman told Ars. “If you violate the license terms, Nintendo has the right to revoke your access to that software. It’s less common for software makers to revoke access to software in a way that disables hardware you bought from them, but the principle is the same.”

theangriestbird,

i guess that sort of makes sense, like if you’re hacking the thing to install your own software, Nintendo says “have fun outside but you can’t come back to our garden”.

But it also doesn’t because Nintendo has the power to remove functionality that I already paid them for. Even if I tinker with my device, why does that mean that I can never go back to the stock Switch experience that I paid for?

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

They refer to Sony’s ToS:

If SIE Inc determines that you have violated this Agreement’s terms, SIE Inc may itself or may procure the taking of any action to protect its interests such as disabling access to or use of some or all System Software, disabling use of this PS5 system online or offline, termination of your access to PlayStation Network, denial of any warranty, repair or other services provided for your PS5 system, implementation of automatic or mandatory updates or devices intended to discontinue unauthorized use, or reliance on any other remedial efforts as reasonably necessary to prevent the use of modified or unpermitted use of System Software.

Although I’ve never heard of any reports of that, and I’d love to see it tested in a courtroom. Deliberately bricking someone else’s hardware because YOU believe for some reason that they’re not using it properly is on a whole other level than just disabling online accounts. It’s vindictive.

Bronzebeard,

That’s a very different privilege, one that is in direct contradiction to the consumer’s right to repair

state_electrician, do games w First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80

Just like their prices, Nintendo will never change.

Pregnenolone, do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

Shut up Ars

breadsmasher, do games w Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

It probably won’t look exactly like this, but could you imagine if it did?

yeah. its looks awful.

Kelly,

Xbox one era d-pad shows a real attention to detail

onlinepersona, do astronomy w In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

I do my best to block any news regarding the new administration, so this comes at quite a surprise that it was even considered. Always thought NASA was one of the great prides of the country, but it seems like those days are long gone.

Anti Commercial-AI license

ruk_n_rul,

NASA peaked during the Apollo project, after which budget plummeted and never reach the 1% mark on the national budget again

clay_pidgin,

In the mass firing they lake of the people who maintain nuclear weapons and the people working on bird flu. Once they realized they need those people they started trying to rehire them.

casmael, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Okay so how big is this meteor then

everett,

Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?

dellish,

Is it meteoric?

everett,

The meteorest.

Norgoroth,
@Norgoroth@lemmy.world avatar

130 - 400 meters

GooberEar,

It’s around 1000 millimeteors

threelonmusketeers,

Listed in the article:

Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide

spongeborgcubepants,

How many giraffes is it tho

threelonmusketeers,
Comment105,

Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.

psud,

Were it to hit it would hit like a large nuke

downpunxx, do astronomy w The Hubble Space Telescope has lost a majority of its gyroscopes

ground control to major tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong, can you hear me major tom

XTL,

We can’t really say that we’re

Surprised

It’s a shame

There’s always something that gets compromised

tonyn, do games w 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5

I use both. I have the PS5 upstairs, and the PS4 down in the family room. I can remote play the PS5 from downstairs, which is nice. And the PS Portal is nice when I’m taking a sh…

umbrella, (edited ) do astronomy w NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan
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  • SoleInvictus,

    Seriously. The United States just sent nearly $60B to Ukraine. Nearly 18 times more than this. If humans weren’t so intent on fighting with each other and instead spent that time, energy, and resources on advancing as a connected society, we could do amazing things. Instead, we’re barreling into the future as predicted by RoboCop.

    DoctorWhookah,

    I’ll buy that for a dollar!

    JohnDClay,

    You can’t just cut keeping tyrants at bay though. I totally agree starting a war is stupid, but defending against invasion definitely isn’t. And it prevents future wars from starting or spreading. So as cool as it would be to invest trillions into space exploration, we can’t just leave Ukraine out to dry.

    SoleInvictus, (edited )

    I totally agree with you, I’m all for funding Ukraine’s defense. It’s just my idealist fantasy that everyone one day wakes up and realizes we’re being collectively quite stupid for the benefit of a very small segment of the population and we could do so much more if we cut them out.

    boredtortoise, do astronomy w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

    Wanted to but the flight prices were too much

    FreudianCafe, do astronomy w The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy

    Cant wait to see how they will use moon real estate to produce a new kind of homeless people

    RamblingPanda, do gaming w “It‘s kind of depressing”: WB Discovery pulls indie game for “business changes”

    So if they write it off, can they claim any rights if you pirate the games? There’s no harm done.

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