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Kaldo, do games w [Rumor] Mass Effect 4 will ditch an open world and return to its "classic format", insider teases
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

The issue is not open world. The issue is bioware. At this point the only thing that could get me interested in ME or DA again is if someone else gets the rights to the IP.

TigrisMorte, do games w Peter Molyneux says he regrets over-promising his games

He kickstartered a PC game and made a mobile microtransaction PoS for a Chinese phone game scammer with the money.

lobut, (edited )

Didn’t he do or worked on an NFT crypto game too? Oh wait, from the article:

His most recent game, Legacy, is described as a blockchain business sim in which players buy non-existent plots of land with cryptocurrency.

TigrisMorte,

Chasing those buzzwords really shows the depths of fail.

DarkWasp, do games w Peter Molyneux says he regrets over-promising his games
@DarkWasp@lemmy.world avatar

Seems too little, too late. I’ll never forget the showcasing of “Milo” for Kinect which seems almost undoable even today.

TrenchcoatFullofBats, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3's companions were overly horny due to a bug

Butterfly Guy: Is this teenagers?

tinkeringidiot, do games w SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry

Sad to say, but the union probably won’t get many meaningful concessions from this one. The technologies to fully generate model movement (motion capture) and emotive voice (voice acting) are already reasonably mature and constantly improving.

The artists will (rightfully) get strong control over their own likenesses, but if they think they’re going to stop mass adoption of AI in video games they’re dreaming.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t underestimate the power of celebrity actors in games in terms of sales. There are people who buy games specifically because certain actors are in them.

tinkeringidiot,

That’s true, and there are people who go see movies specifically because of whom appears in them. But I’d hesitate to call that the majority, especially in gaming. The set of people that play games and the set of people who follow the industry are certainly overlapping, but are far from identical.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever,

I think this is pretty much the perfect time to be doing this.

Plenty of actors and actresses do motion cap, or even full FMV acting, for a lot of smaller tier games. And plenty of major games outright market themselves on getting “real actors” involved. Remember how Patrick Stewart was in 30 seconds of Oblivion and Sean Bean was in five minutes? And not to mention the likelihood that GTA6 is publicly revealing fairly soon.

And looking forward: Anime games continue to be a thing and… that is an ongoing area of concern where the american VAs are openly acknowledging they are afraid to even SAY “union”. And while dubs are very much a third class citizen as far as studios are concerned, they are still a lucrative one and a lot of the major VAs have branched out enough that this could be an issue.

As for “AI”: All signs point toward The Law being about training data. In part because that maps best to the existing structures (if you steal a clip of a movie and don’t credit it, you get DMCA’d) and is something that benefits the actual major studios. With most of the SAG negotiations being about a performer/creator’s rights to their own media. The outcome will almost definitely end up being “all previous content is off limits for training. An actor or a writer can ‘agree’ to having their performance be added to a training database X years from now”.

But in games? Kojima is infamous for just making Snake look like (and be named after…) Kurt Russel’s performance in Escape from New York. And plenty of versions of Lara Croft and the like have looked eerily similar to some actresses. Same with studios over the years accidentally openly acknowledging that they are using episodes of Days of Our Lives or whatever as motion cap to model face emotion and the like. Hell, how many thirsty bois were wondering who the face model of the new soldier lady Jane in FF7-R was?

Right now, that is a wild west. But if that gets your studio put on the shitlist then it starts being a real issue. Especially with the ongoing acquisitions (even if we are in a lull). Get caught training your AI off of Anna Kendrick’s performance in 50/50? Your studio has now become radioactive.

Toribor, (edited ) do gaming w Uncharted's Tom Holland reportedly set to star in Jak and Daxter adaptation with Chris Pratt
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

Someone probably heard ‘Crisp Ratt’ and thought “Oh, perfect for Daxter, he’s already a rat.”

JillyB,

He’s so cool!

bionicjoey, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 review - a critical success, with critical failures

One qol improvement I’d like to see is faster team roster selection. Like every time you leave camp, you should get to select which companions will go with you (similar to many other CRPGs). Right now I find myself not using certain companions as often, mostly because I don’t want to go run around my camp for a minute rearranging my squad. It should be a simple drag and drop interface.

FarceMultiplier,
@FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca avatar

I never change my group because Gale and Laz’ael are annoying as hell.

bionicjoey,

How dare you badmouth Laezel you Tskva!

OtakuAltair, do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

This is such a good deal I feel like I’d be losing money by not getting these lol

echodot,

I already have one, but now I’ll have to buy another to save money

Cryst,

If you buy 10 you’ll save even more. It’s like getting your steam deck for free! Hah, valve must be stupid or something, they’re giving steam decks away!

shadowbert, do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3
@shadowbert@kbin.social avatar

I really wish someone would teach these companies how to count.
My only guess is that they want to hide the insane amount of COD games there are.

gk99,

In this case, it’s because it’s a reboot. Calling MW (2019) “MW4” would’ve been arguably more confusing because the new and old games are completely unrelated to each other. Totally different stories, part of a single timeline built off of the Black Ops universe, and a reset of fan favorite characters that have been brought back. There are already a surprising amount of people who don’t understand that, I’ve seen people shocked to find out it’s not just a prequel and that new Ghost is likely to stay alive permanently for those big bucks.

Besides, it’s not like the numbers used to properly correlate, either. Despite Doom 64, there aren’t 63 other Doom games, and Doom 3 is a Doom (1993) prequel. That kind of craziness happened way before DOOM (2016).

shadowbert,
@shadowbert@kbin.social avatar

I think one of the reasons people don't understand that is because they've pulled the same trick multiple times with far less logical reasoning, so they've kinda done that to themselves.

But thanks for explaining it.

Hadriscus,

But is Doom 64 a prequel to Windows 8 ?

Fizz, do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Mw23

giloronfoo,

Everyone trying to reuse names…

The original third MW2:

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/MechWarrior_2:_Mercenaries

IONLYpost,
@IONLYpost@kbin.social avatar

This is MW2:M.

Hdcase, do gaming w The Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios lays off 32 employees

That’s a real bummer, especially as I ended up really liking Callisto. I hope everyone lands on their feet.

RonnieB, do games w Saints Row reboot developer "didn't know what they were building", Saber CEO says, criticising shuttered team

‘We have American talent [at Saber.] And who could do this for, you know, a quarter of the price in Poland?’

What a shithead

Stovetop, do games w Ubisoft reportedly considering fresh business to own Assassin's Creed and other big franchises, co-owned by others like Tencent

Translation: We can’t find a buyer for our failing company, so next we’ll try to prop ourselves up by selling/leasing our IP.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think they want to sell the company. I think the family that owns the majority of it is doing everything possible to stay in control of the company called Ubisoft, regardless of how many of their IPs they still have left when the dust settles.

lath,

Tencent is supposedly low-key interested in buying something. It’s a rumour though so credibility is unknown.

13igTyme,

Really, tencent is going to buy something? Whoa!

lath,

Anal beads and rosemary scented lube.

Etterra, do games w Sony shows off conceptual immersive gaming tech that lets you stand in a TV box and sniff The Last of Us

Smell-o-vision? Again?

hal_5700X, do games w Sony shows off conceptual immersive gaming tech that lets you stand in a TV box and sniff The Last of Us

…Why?

radix,
@radix@lemmy.world avatar

The Future™

catloaf,

The sense of smell is very powerful.

mostlikelyaperson,

Headlines. This is literally just a marketing thing, just like every other instance of the tech before it. No one is ever actually going to build this for home use

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