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Nechesh, do gaming w Larian drops Series S split-screen as "solution" to bring Baldur's Gate 3 to Xbox this year

I thought Microsoft was the one requiring feature parity. It sounds like the real story is MS caving.

soulsource,
@soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yes. It’s in the Xbox Requirements, as in, the checklist of stuff you need to fulfill if you want to release a game on Xbox. To be precise, it’s test case 130-04: Featured Game Modes.

tal, do games w "There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

We’re losing the next generation to TikTok. The competition for gaming isn’t Xbox and Nintendo. It’s everything else in the freaking zeitgeist that can take your time away from your gaming activity.

Round two: the television strikes back.

omarfw,

This is only a problem for capitalist shareholders (aka the ultra wealthy) who need to extract more wealth from consumers than they did last quarter but they’re already at the limit of how much they can do so. Now the largest barrier is time and attention.

TORFdot0,

That quote is just horribly disturbing to me. He’s basically letting the mask drop that their endgame isn’t to make great games, it’s to make you hopelessly addicted to screen time that you obsessively play and spend

LiveLM,

Oh you should read the next part

The pandemic gave us an unnatural pop for gaming, where we thought, ‘oh my god, gaming is the biggest thing in the world’. Yeah, when you’re locked down, it is the biggest thing in the world. But in a regular world scenario, you’ve got to combat against all the other distractions that are available to young people. And I’m afraid that we’re not facing that threat head on as an industry.

Motherfuckers see unnatural conditions caused by a once-in-a-lifetime event, think they’re the hottest shit ever, and when the numbers come back to normal levels they see other forms of entertainment as a “threat” that should be “faced head on”.
Lmao. How can an industry be so full of itself?

LiveLM,

Does this sound stupid to anyone else?
Like, the crowd you’re “losing” to TikTok was not interested in buying a console regardless, am I wrong?

Flamekebab,
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

But... but... the line has to go up! Don't you understand? It's not going up! Panic!

shutz, do games w Crysis 4 put "on hold" as developer Crytek is next studio hit by layoffs

I guess even they can’t run Crysis on full.

Coldcell,

Goddamn it take an upvote.

Makeitstop, do games w BioWare knew the deepest secrets of Dragon Age lore 20 years ago, and locked it away in an uber-plot doc

“A lot of that was in my head until we were starting Inquisition and the writers got a little bit impatient with my memory or lack thereof, so they pinned me down and dragged the uber-plot out of me. I’d talked about it, I’d hinted at it, but never really spelled out how it all connected, so they dragged it out of me, we put it into a master lore doc, the secret lore, which we had to hide from most of the team.”

So, no they didn’t know the “deepest secrets” of the lore 20 years ago. One guy had vague notions in his head, and they only actually fleshed it out when they were working on Inquisition.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

The architect of the series who was actively involved collected plans and notes into a lore bible over 10 years ago.

You are arguing semantics.

Makeitstop,

They’re trying to portray it as something that was done from the very beginning, as opposed to something they only pinned down in preparation for the 3rd game in the series. Nothing wrong with them getting through two games before writing out their bible, but that doesn’t make for a very compelling article.

hoshikarakitaridia, do games w Payday 3 developer likens launch to being a rock band when "the whole stage collapses and everyone leaves"
@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds about right.

The publisher has been pressing hard on paid stuff in payday 2 and payday 3 didn’t have enough content / solid enough gameplay to replace it. Also there’s denuvo, and denuvo is not giving a great first impression.

CluckN, do gaming w More than 100,000 people are currently playing a Steam game where you click a banana

Chance to win rare skins that you can sell on the marketplace

Now I see the apeel.

WayNKG,

laughs loudly with effort

SplashJackson, do games w What is the point of Xbox?

We should go back to Nintendo versus Sega times, give me my Dreamcast 2 and my Virtual Boy Advance

Beetschnapps,

I don’t want to go back to sega fucking up the hardware game that bad…

Blackmist,

I think in this business you can survive a generation in the wilderness. Nintendo had it with the Wii U. Arguably Sony had one with the PS3.

Two in a row? Well you’re out. Saturn followed by Dreamcast. MS are in their second, and tbh, it looks like they’re pivoting towards being a cross platform publisher and subscription provider. They can certainly afford to keep throwing money at the issue, but if there’s no results, there’s only so long they’ll be allowed to continue doing that before the boss pulls the rug on it. He does not seem like a man who is excited by his gaming division.

Savaran, do games w Bungie's Marathon reboot gets new director as part of creative leadership shakeup

Cool, maybe they’ll make a Marathon game then 😂

Blxter,
!deleted4407 avatar

Seeing as the new director is the fella who maid valorant if your looking for a single player experience it still won’t be it.

Voroxpete,

So we’re still going with “One of the most iconic story driven single player experiences of all time is now an extraction shooter” I take it?

GoodEye8,

More like “… is now a hero extraction shooter”. That’s the AAA formula, just add shit until it starts sounding like it appeals to everyone and no one at the same time.

SimplyTadpole, do gaming w Switch emulator Yuzu shuts down as creator agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4m
@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m so mad that Citra was also killed because of this. This means that 3DS emulation is effectively dead, since the next best emulator, Panda3DS, can’t run most games…

dom,

Get a copy of it now. There may not be more development on it, but you’ll be able to keep playing the games that work already on it

SimplyTadpole,
@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I already had it installed via Flathub, hopefully it won’t somehow uninstall itself 😅 (Or that I ever need to wipe my system…)

Chinzon,

Is there any repository that was saved of the latest build? It was pulled off flathub and github…

SimplyTadpole,
@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Not that I know of :c If anyone knows, I’d like to know.

Halosheep, do games w Rock Band 4 DLC support ends next week, after eight years

For those of you who do not know, Clone Hero is a free game developed to fill the void that guitar hero and rock band left behind.

It’s not perfect but you can download custom songs and there is a pretty active community if charters.

KinNectar, do gaming w Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs
@KinNectar@kbin.run avatar

One has to wonder if they just split off adult content into a separate platform using the same Amazon logins, and including cross-platform notifications one way from the twitch site to the adult site whether it would solve both their cash flow and advertising problem.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Or just buy Onlyfans. 😅 For Onlyfans it’d solve their payment issues: Amazon allows using it for payment, and Amazon is big enough that Visa and MC cannot just threaten it.

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

Amazon is so damn big that they could sell the service for OnlyTwitch via Amazon. Amazon sells loads of sex toys and adult products so they just sell a virtual balance card that you redeem on OnlyTwitch. OnlyTwitch itself could be effectively a business that doesn’t have to manage payments at all and just uses balance.

Slithers,

I want to do the math here, but I’m already late to the party. Amazon sells sex toys as health and beauty products. It’s a thin vaneer of plausible deniability. I’d be curious if Amazon is actually large enough financially to actually leverage the large processors. I would be honestly surprised if Amazon is handling a large enough stake by themselves to offset literally every other vendor on the planet combined. But they might. I don’t actually know.

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

That’s kinda what I mean that they could hide it in giftcard sales so the payment processors wouldn’t really be the wiser just like how they hide adult products.

sirico, do games w EA working on player-voiced characters in games, patent shows
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Updated EULA incoming to all online games. Please allow us to create a model of your voice for our own uses that will promptly be leaked at some point

DarkThoughts,

TicTokers do this already, along with their facial data.

Aielman15, do games w Dead Space 3 producer "would redo it almost completely"
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

I enjoyed DS3 for what it was. The lore went surprisingly deep and the story was fun, although the love triangle was too distracting and the co-op partner was pretty much absent from the story if you weren’t playing with another player.

It was yet another game that tried to stray from its roots to chase the CoD golden goose. That generation was full of them (I remember being extremely disappointed by Resident Evil 6 and Ace Combat Assault Horizon). Dead Space 3 was, IMO, the game that managed to strike some semblance of balance between its two souls, at least compared to all those other COD copycats. Of course, that doesn’t mean that it was a great game, or even a good game, but I appreciated it for what it was.

hot_milky, do gaming w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion

I would be satisfied if Bethesda did stick to their “ancient ways”. Focusing more on environments and immersion rather than character-driven storytelling like any other RPG. Of course they did neither for Starfield unfortunately.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I don’t remember who said it, but in some youtube video they said something along the lines that fallout 76 could have been the ultimate bethesda game if it was actually finished on release and didn’t have that stupid “no human NPCs” gimmick, as it REALLY embraced that environmental design that they’re actually good at.

They can clearly make fun games, look at skyrim and fallout 4 which tons of people love to just run around doing quests and fighting stuff in, but then they always bollocks it up by forcing in a story that barely makes sense upon closer scrutiny and they never capitalize of the potential of really truly interacting with the world.

I think bethesda could actually make the best VR game so far, the format plays perfectly into what they’re good at since as valve realized people just want to rummage around drawers for hours on end and explore the environments.
Hell even as is skyrim VR seems pretty sweet, imagine if they actually designed the game for VR from scratch!

termus,
@termus@beehaw.org avatar

Skyrim VR modded to hell is nuts and incredibly fun.

Cethin,

Fallout 4 VR was a cool experience. I don’t know about a good game though. It doesn’t help they didn’t even seem to test if it worked. For example, red dot sights don’t really work by default (though there’s a mod to fix it). By default it’s just a texture on the center of the sight, which isn’t how that works. The mod just makes the dot display (near) infinity forward. That’s just one minor issue that’s obvious. I don’t think any of the DLC works with it and most mods don’t either, so it’s pretty limited.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Well a lot of people had very fun with fallout 4, which is my definition of a good game.

It’s not a great game, nor a competent one aside from the environments and functional gunplay, and it’s a fucking terrible fallout game, but it is pretty fun if you just run around shooting things and looking at the environments and laughing at the environmental storytelling.

Cethin,

I mean Fallout 4 VR I don’t know if I’d say is good. It’s got a lot of comicatioms that the regular game doesn’t have.

Sentinian, do games w Cuphead receives Xbox exclusive anniversary update
@Sentinian@lemmy.one avatar

Bonus menu of artwork, music, and behind-the-scenes videos, showing never-before-seen concepts and unused art as well as the entire Cuphead soundtrack

all stuff that’ll be online within 24 hours, no new gameplay content

Wolpertinger,
@Wolpertinger@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m glad this is the case, but still, exclusivity is bullshit.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

seriously, i want to play spider-man without spending a fortune on a ps5 or a computer that can run it

but, i have the old spider-man 2 i can always play on both xbox and ps2

520,

I mean, the new Spiderman games were made by a Sony studio and funded by Sony, so I can definitely see why those are exclusive.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

but spider-man used to not be exclusive

520, (edited )

Spiderman is a licensed property. Marvel sold time-limited video game licenses. The Activision games were never exclusive to any console because Activision had no particular stake in any one console. Then a video game license, a non-exclusive one, mind you (which means that other people can get the license and make games) was granted to Sony, who obviously does.

Thus, for the same reason 007 Goldeneye never came to playstation, Insomniac's Spiderman games aren't coming to Nintendo or Xbox.

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