It’s a shame. The GamesCom in Europe seems to be doing quite well so it’s not really a matter of “conferences are dead”.
I know conferences are no longer a place for big announcements. There’s no more need to gather all the press in one place, they can just do it online now, at a dedicated time when they’re not competing with other announcements in the industry. But as a visitor I really enjoyed going to GamesCom. Never been to the US so the E3 is not a thing for me but I’m sure this will have knock-on effects globally.
I can't speak for Gamescom, but PAX East has been shrinking, too. Exhibitors don't want to show up. They've been doing that thing you did in high school to pad your essays by increasing the margins on the side to make it look you wrote more than you did. Except instead of an essay, it's a show floor.
When they add support it would be cool to see if they add the ability to turn on / off strumming as that was a big part older rock band / guitar hero fans have gotten so used to strumming as someone new might not want to do strumming.
Also would be cool to see Fortnite Festival controllers being sold in stores and I'm sure the game will keep to grow and develop over time.
So little we know, but just based on her previous stuff I’m tentatively excited. Hope she gets to finish this and doesn’t have it ripped out beneath her.
Man I miss the early days of lan parties. Struggling to figure out how to plug my friends computer into mine via BNC cables (didn’t know we needed terminators) when we got our first ever network cards. Then later the big lan games of blood, duke 3d, quake, even starcraft.
Your comment unlocked repressed memories of having to rewire ethernet cables for direct connection between PCs. And to make my father take me and my desktop+CRT monitor to my friend’s house for a weekend of HL+mods, AoE, and whatever new game one of us had found that month…
Fun times, online matches are great, but the feeling of a Lan party is something that I think it’s mostly lost.
Same. It was a good read though. Getting old sucks for everyone, but I can’t help but feel like we grew up in a particularly magical time where you can remember dial phones all the way through smart phones. It kind of set the wow factor baseline a little high. I don’t know if other people in history have had a similar experience, but I kinda doubt it.
Maybe, or maybe in another 30 years people will just be commenting how nice it was to be alive during the birth of the metaverse and giant corporations.
My first memories of “LAN” parties was playing Doom, OMF2097 and other DOS IPX games over a null-modem cable (which I made myself by hacking up a regular serial cable - was so proud of myself when I got it to work lol). Of course, it was only limited to two PCs, but still fun nonetheless. After the DOS era, my first “proper” LAN party was over 10BASE-T (Cat3) during the Win 9x era, and then we quickly moved into the Cat5/100Mbps world. So somehow I completely skipped over coax LANs, even though I started with MSDOS, RS232 and BBS door games. Or maybe I used them unknowingly at school or something. But it feels really strange to hear others reminisce “fondly” about T-connectors and terminators, when even though I’m from the same era, I never even saw them. Or maybe I’m from an alternate timelime where they didn’t exist at all…
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It’s definitely a black mark on Xbox that they couldn’t get splitscreen on Series S; but it does seem like that specific feature needs a lot in the way of CPU power. Hopefully that doesn’t spell trouble for future releases like GTAVI.
I’ve played through with a switch controller. It’s good, only downside is when you need something specific in your inventory, typing to search isn’t there, which comes in handy when you need to insert specific quest items. But like I said I played it through, very usable.
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