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grumpo_potamus, do games w Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch

Is this really a problem for people - not knowing about new game releases? Especially for things you may already be interested in watching outside of a video game? If someone is a fan of sports, racing, etc. it seems they can find new releases in those genres pretty easily already.

The article mentions creating a custom game or in-game items based on the content… Wow, great - more in-game hats. And I bet that generated game is going to be top quality.

echo64,

Yes, or rather its a problem for publishers trying to get their product noticed. Marketing in the past decade has fast become the most expensive part of making things, just getting people to know your thing exists, yeah its hard.

It’s not a problem for people, people don’t care. Companies do.

On the other side of things, it’s why we have so many sequels and franchises now, it’s much easier to market franchises. No one can make a Call of Duty killer, primarily because even if you make a game people would love, it’s hard to get people to even know.

MrMcGasion,

It’s also arguably a bigger problem for the bad publishers like Activision, who have been trashing their own reputations for so long that even if they buy a huge “World Premiere” ad spot at the Game Awards, once I see it’s an Activision game, my brain just automatically turns off any interest I might have had in a game, because I know that even if the trailer makes it look interesting, it will ultimately probably be a disappointment due to greedy management. There are plenty of good indie games to play, and if and when Activision does publish a good game, I’m much more likely to believe word of mouth of the people I trust, than the recommendations of publishers, who are generally just out to push a $90 deluxe edition preorder of whatever is coming out next week.

makyo,

And even if they did know about it they wouldn’t have room next to CoD on their harddrive

Carighan, do games w Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Damn, I’d get not a single recommendation. That’d be wild. 🤣

MolochAlter, do games w Former Mass Effect lead writer says new narrative-focused studio will "avoid painting ourselves in a corner"

To write yourself into a corner you should be writing in the first place.

What Walters does hardly qualifies.

Cheskaz, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

Yes, if it meant that Sony made PlayStation exclusive games available on PC immediately, rather than upon remastering.

No if it meant I’d just never get to play any of thos games.

Trainguyrom, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

I’d argue that video games need remakes and remasters far more than movies do. Video game technologies change a lot in 10-15 years, so a remake/remaster is an opportunity to improve controls and fix issues with running the game on hardware that hadn’t been concieved at the time of the game’s release. Plenty of old games have severe bugs, outdated controls or general issues with newer hardware (can’t handle widescreen monitors, buttons don’t scale for high resolutions, etc.) which can make replaying them a pain.

You sit down to watch a 25 year old movie and it’s pretty easy to watch, but you sit down to play a 25 year old game and it’s going to vary wildly if you can even get it to run in the first place, let alone if it’ll run well

GrindingGears, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

Yes. Just move on and make new games worth playing, instead of rehashing the past. And more often than not, fucking it up in the process. Only our modern society would accept and accommodate a remade game that’s 100% worse than the original.

Faydaikin, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Nah, there’s just not enough of actual old titles that could do with a remake or remaster.

Eggyhead, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?
@Eggyhead@kbin.social avatar

For older games that are difficult to install or run by modern means., I think remakes and remasters are completely justified. Upgrades for older games to support newer technologies is nice, but something like TLoU Part 1 getting two remasters on a platform that has no issue running the first remaster already seems more exploitative and a waste of resources than conservational. If it sells like hotcakes, though, who am I to judge?

sub_, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

I don’t like remasters, especially those which are usually just re-release with hi-res textures. They are charging like $30 and above for hi-res texture, and some of them has unstable framerates. At certain point of time, using emulator yields better graphics & performance than some of those remasters, especially for PS1/PS2 games.


On the other hand, I actually like remakes way more.

First of all FF7Rshouldn’t be considered as remake, it should be considered as its own spinoff / sequel

Remake not only exploits that nostalgia, but also tend to make game plays better with added QoL functions, sometimes with new gameplay mechanics. Some of the remakes that I really like:

  • Yakuza 1+2 Kiwami
  • Crisis Core
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
  • Resident Evil 1+2 (have not played 3+4 remakes yet)
  • Live a Live
  • Mass Effect Trilogy (thankfully it’s not just a hi-res port)

Remake is great when there’s a significant technology and time gaps between the games, which is why TLOU remakes drew some ires.

xerazal,

First of all FF7R shouldn’t be considered as remake, it should be considered as its own spinoff / sequel

Fucking finally someone gets it!

bane_killgrind, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

Ok is this eurogamer cookie request a fucking joke? They care about privacy and they will share information with their 756 partners?

HawlSera, (edited ) do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

My only problem with the remakes and remasters is that they keep censoring shit that wasn’t even controversial or offensive in the first place.

Heck, with patches these days, you don’t even have to wait for the remaster for censorship CoughSkullGirlsSuperHotVRcough

CleoTheWizard, do gaming w Tekken 8 PC requirements pack a punch, requires 100 GB available storage space
@CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t envy the space that fighting games are in. They need to make games that run extremely well on hardware to remain competitive but also need great graphics capability while still having a varied move set with plenty of effects.

And RAM is not scaling the same as storage or graphics so that’s why this is happening.

Kraivo,

There is no excuse to ANY game, even the biggest open world, to have such a huge size. And we all know why it happens, because of uncompressed music and textures that people don’t want to waste time compressing nowadays.

And having a game take 100gb of size instead improving loading times and jumping from fight to fight on instant is stupidity. Gosh, graphics isn’t all

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

LODs take up a lot of space. If it were just a matter of compression, everyone would be compressing their assets. In this case though, Tekken is going to have a lot of story mode cutscenes that wouldn't have a prayer of running in real time on modern hardware, much like MK.

SteposVenzny, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

Plenty of new stuff is still coming out so I can see no reason to be upset about remakes and remasters.

terminhell, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

I just wish the games that are remade/remastered are basically just graphic updates, with some bug fixes and minor qol additions. That’s it. Not like what they did to ff7.

Hell, diablo 2 Remaster was good. The addition of being able to swap between new and old graphics on the fly is amazing tbh.

BudgieMania, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?

Until I get my Legend Of Dragoon remake, there aren't too many, no. After that ya'll can do what you want

mxcory,

Taps foot for MegaMan legends 1 & 2.

I so want remakes of these two games.

TwilightVulpine,

Those need some serious rework. They manage to look beautiful even today with clever stylization, but the gameplay is ROUGH.

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