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papabobolious, do games w Grand Theft Auto 5 turns 10 years old

I really love the world of GTA V, it has a lot to explore and is beautiful. I just wish the driving physics to explore it weren’t so utterly boring. GTA IV had great arcade driving.

thorbot, (edited )

When you say “Arcade driving” if you mean “zero friction simulation” then yes, sure. I went back to GTA4 recently because I loved the story and after 2k hours in GTAV, driving in 4 makes me want to kill myself

ummthatguy,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

Many fond memories tinkering with the infamous GTAIV swing glitch.

https://media.tenor.com/SERMRCcoHBQAAAAC/gta-gta4.gif

Kolanaki, (edited )
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After coming off San Andreas when 4 came out, I figured it was the same as SA with the skill system that made the cars less slidey the better CJ got. But nope. It’s just like that. It gives the vehicles more sense of weight, but it’s too slidey unless the road is meant to be black ice. I feel like 5 has the best arcade like driving. Especially with the addition of being able to control your pitch and roll in a car and not just on a bike. It’s not too real, but it’s not super cartoonish. It’s a perfect middle area.

papabobolious,

I mean real damage, spinning out, hitting a curb actually feeling like hitting a curb and overall feel. Gta V has too much grip and you can easily just take a sports car up a mountain offroad. It’s soulless.

n3er0o,
@n3er0o@lemmy.ml avatar

And I though I was the only one that enjoyed the more skill-based handling in IV! In V every car has Trackmania levels of grip lol

Kiosade, do games w Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth gets a February 2024 release date on PS5

They need to stop limiting these games to the PS5 and release them on PC as well, and not 2 years late.

Pavidus,
@Pavidus@lemmy.world avatar

I’m a massive FFVII fan, and that 2 year wait ALMOST lost my interest. I finally picked it up, where it remained the most expensive game I had purchased for a good long while. I was happy with that, because I heard “the other installments will be included!”

Guess I heard them wrong. They lost me. I won’t pay 90 bucks again for another chapter of a 2 year old remake of a 30 year old game.

the_q,

I heard it’ll be a 3 month wait so not too bad.

Kiosade,

Oh good, 3 months is not bad at all, if that’s the case

Fixbeat, do games w Starfield review - a game about exploration, without exploration

Eh, Bethesda has always been incompetent at making games. Always full of promise, but so clunky and amateurish all the way back to Arena.

LEDZeppelin, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

SEC: we don’t see nothing, we don’t hear nothing, we don’t do nothing.

Arcane_Trixster,

It’s been a day since the announcement, and a few hours since people noticed the stock dump. What the fuck do you want them to do? Fully research the case, send out subpoenas, call hearings, listen to testimony and level fines all in less than 24 hours?

Cosmonaut_Collin, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more
@Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world avatar

This is stuff that should be available on release day for all fps games. I can’t believe companies keep getting away with releasing beta version of games as a full release.

redcalcium,

Could’ve been worse. Microsoft actually delayed Starfield for 2 years so Bethesda can supposedly fixed as much bugs they can before release.

wesker,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

But if you don’t preorder, you wont get the special costume and mount.

NOT_RICK, do games w Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

They’re idiots for this policy. You alienate your devs, you ruin your platform.

Saledovil,

Most businesses get ruined if you alienate your customers. The exception would be monopolies.

Havald, do games w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

Thankfully paradox are making a contender. Although paradox overdoes kt with dlc, too, but they’re not a scummy company like ea so it should be better. Plus they’re trying to take marketsharr from es so doing the exact same thing would be counterproductive.

Also paraloves might not be too far out either.

Nibodhika,

Usually Paradox has some content DLC but the vast majority is cosmetic, so you don’t have to buy it but that money fuels their development of future content. Also with every content DLC they almost always release updates and extra content for free for the base game, I feel that Paradox is one of the only companies that do DLCs right.

Also they always allow mods, and a lot of their cosmetic DLCs can be immigrated by mods, so it’s not like they block people from doing what they want with their game just to shove cosmetics.

Havald, (edited )

For me for a game like Sims I need a big variety of cosmetics to keep me playing, new game mechanics are kind of secondary.(Although, if I trust any company to recognize that and adjust accordingly it’d be paradox) But still, you are completely right, paradox doesn’t abandon players that don’t buy the dlc but release content patches at the same time. Plus if you happen to play with other people only one person needs to own the dlc, which is one of my favourite things paradox does and more companies should do.

Also, I completely forgot about mod support. That makes a huge difference, too.

Caligvla,
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That paradox game looks horrible though. I think I’d just rather pirate Sims instead…

NJSpradlin, do xbox w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

I haven’t played The Sims since the first installment. But having heard the nightmare stories… sure, the game might be free… but everything, 99% of the game content, will be locked behind a paywall.

You want wallpaper? $2 for colors, $5 for designs, $10 for this holiday pack.

Katana314,

That doesn’t match with what I know; they make lots of individual expansion bundles, each with a fair amount of content.

The metric of “How to buy EVERY scrap of content for the game” is generally disingenuous, since most of its expansions are best enjoyed on their own, and you’d likely get tired of them after a few unless you really enjoy The Sims.

Pratai, do gaming w Apple's new iPhone 15 Pro getting Assassin's Creed Mirage, Resident Evil 4 Remake, more

Can’t a phone just be a phone? For the love of god. Do we need to game on everything?

knokelmaat,

Can’t a phone just be a phone? For the love of god. Do we need to listen to music on everything? - some person 10 years ago

A phone is just a portable computer. Just like people not wanting both a console and a PC in their homes, I can understand wanting to use your phone as a Nintendo Switch alternative for portable gaming. Paired with a decent input device it could solve that craving without the need for both a phone and a separate portable game console in your pocket. I honestly think a decent implementation of this would be amazing (current phone gaming market is too focused on gacha mechanics and timers)

Pratai,

Sure thing.

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!

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