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shyguyblue, do gaming w Original Final Fantasy programmer reappears after years of silence, casually says writing his legendary code "was pretty simple" and it could even be better

Imagine, a time when a full game studio was a dozen guys/gals in a cramped windowless room. Wish we could go back…

MrScottyTay,

Those cramped windowless rooms are open offices. They didn’t have cubicles in them rooms.

RizzRustbolt,

There’s a difference between an Open Office, and a Pit.

shyguyblue,

Yup. I can sit next to a fellow programmer for hours in a pit, but you put me next to some Account Service jackass who’s on the phone all day and I’ll snap!

cm0002,
@cm0002@lemmy.world avatar

It’s still a thing,

That_Devil_Girl, do games w Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff"
@That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml avatar

Is this game… fun? Everything I’ve seen and heard about it doesn’t seem fun at all.

narc0tic_bird, do games w Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff"

I actually fell asleep playing the original, so…

(not hating on the game, it literally happened though)

simple, do games w Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff"

This has to be the dumbest clickbait I’ve seen in a while.

It’s literally based off a tweet where Kojima said he fell asleep twice trying to test because he hasn’t slept well. This says nothing about the game itself or “testing not going well”.

L0rdMathias,

And these people demand that we take their job seriously while at the same time writing what is essentially just bad fanfiction about popular game developers/studios.

gcheliotis,

Ah and for a moment there I thought it would have been so cool if a developer were to publicly admit they fell asleep during gameplay…

newthrowaway20,

At the same time, this could be your typical Kojima fuckery where he makes it seem like he’s talking about himself, but he’s actually talking about an exhaustion mechanic from Death Stranding.

ms_lane,

He’s ok.

Don_alForno, do games w Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content"

The core of. ©RPGs that makes them special is the feeling that you decide what’s going to happen or at least that your choices have an effect on the world. That’s the core appeal of TTRPGs and it doesn’t change for video games.

LovingHippieCat, do games w Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content"

Breaking News: RPG does what all RPGs do but we will compare it to only what one well know RPG does instead of simply saying it’s an RPG that does RPG things.

They could have said any other recent RPG game and it would have applied. Using Baldurs Gate 3 is probably just because Avowed is in the Pillars of Eternity world which was another isometric game, but still it’s just an RPG. It could just be channeling Pillars of Eternity instead of Baldurs Gate 3. Why do we have to use Baldurs Gate 3 for every comparison out there?

MarcomachtKuchen,

Because people like the game and like reading about it.

teft,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

BG3 is a great example simply because there is so much content you can miss. I’ve put 1300+ hours into it and I still see things I haven’t seen in any prior playthrough. Granted they aren’t large story things or quests anymore but still, even the little stuff adds up.

fushuan,

So, like skyrim, or oblivion, or pillars of eternity 1 and 2… BG3 is used because it’s famous.

teft,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve played those and BG3 has much more content. Especially missable content that depends on the choices you make.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

There’s at least an order of magnitude difference between how many people have played one versus the other.

Kolanaki,
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Personally, I find it frustrating to see the buzz Baldur’s Gate 3 gets because I remember a time when games like BG3 weren’t a rare sight. I mean, shit, BG3 is just a logical evolution from BG1 and 2. It’s got modern graphics, modern UI, modern controls… Same basic gameplay, same kind of choice that can lead to many replays because there are so many ways to do any given quest, etc.

It isn’t that BG3 isn’t deserving of praise; it definitely is. But the fact it is like a breath of fresh air shows just how awful the industry itself is. They didn’t do anything that hadn’t been done before, and instead went back to old-school roots and fucking dominated the scene by simply not making their game watered down garbage with a lack of agency.

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

That’s the thing though - bg3 isn’t praised because it’s good relative to the state of the industry. It’s a game that did everything right, not just comparatively but in general

grrgyle,

I hadn’t really thought of it that way, but you’re right. I think it happened around the time every action genre starting introducing “RPG éléments” to the point that they became de rigueur.

It was only natural that RPGs themselves would borrow back from the action genres that were borrowing from them.

Anyway yeah, it’s nice to see a big RPG bring just an RPG.

theunknownmuncher,

So what you’re saying is that it’s a valid comparison?

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

Man you sound really bitter over nothing

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Of all the callow villainry, I wish a comparison to Baldur’s Gate 3 was the worst I’ve heard. I have seen such articles talk about Avowed in terms of Skyrim, which was released closer to Banjo Kazooie than Avowed. No irrelevant remark is beyond them, no matter how patently inane.

edgemaster72, do gaming w The Simpsons: Hit & Run dev says they could've made 3 sequels without paying a penny for the license: "Some crazy person at the publisher - we never found out who - said no"
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Technoguyfication, do gaming w The Simpsons: Hit & Run dev says they could've made 3 sequels without paying a penny for the license: "Some crazy person at the publisher - we never found out who - said no"

Ah yes, Vivendi games. The same publisher that tried to put Valve out of business for having the audacity to want money for Counter-Strike. I’m shocked.

PunchingWood, (edited ) do games w Black Myth: Wukong is your Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024

All kidding aside, I personally enjoyed Helldivers 2 most this year. I had a good feeling about the game before it launched, but it was nice to have it confirmed. I tried Black Myth, but it’s really not my type of game, to me it just feels like yet another Souls-like game in a different theme, like so many others that came before in the past decade. Feels like HD2 added something new to the table as opposed to BMW.

somebodysomewhere, do games w 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games

these also showed back up on my wishlist

slazer2au, do games w 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games

Bets on music licence related.

lustyargonian, do games w 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games

MSFT potentially planning to bring these back?

einlander,

Or adding Xbox logins

Jeffool,
@Jeffool@lemmy.world avatar

I do wonder if they’d garner enough attention to pay for the licenses to add them to Game Pass. I loved the MUA games.

yamanii, do gaming w Popular Female Skyrim Modder Has Abandoned Her Work Due to Daily Harrassment
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

After reading the article, I’m not entirely on her side, most people don’t want to be cucked in a videogame since it probably brings up bad memories. The mod didn’t release like that, she kept going in that direction and people voiced their disdain.

JasonDJ, do gaming w Popular Female Skyrim Modder Has Abandoned Her Work Due to Daily Harrassment

This isn’t even about gaming, necessarily.

Girls who code are rare. There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female. And a hell of a lot more men.

And I’m in a progressive city in a progressive state.

I work in IT, and I think there is one woman out of 50 employees on my corner of the org chart, and that’s the CIO’s admin assistant.

I’m certain it’s culture, and it doesn’t just go for programming, it goes for almost all of STEM. There was a recent “Stuff You Should Know” episode about toy chemistry sets, and they made it a point to talk about the marketing, and how it always was with boys, for boys. My son, 8 year old kid, says “that’s just wrong! Girls can do all that stuff!”. He’s got it figured out.

JackbyDev,

There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female.

Did you get this backwards?

JasonDJ, (edited )

No…but I am being hyperbolic. I definitely interface with more transmasc and nonbinary coders than I do with cisgender female coders. This may also be because, again, cultural reasons.

There certainly are more cisgender female coders, but they are still a minority group by a big amount, and they tend to not draw much attention to themselves.

JackbyDev,

I was asking because the usual stereotype is than many younger programmers are transfemme.

johannesvanderwhales,

Which does not reflect my experience in the working world at all.

JackbyDev,

That’s fair, I was just making sure I read you right. 💜

LordGimp,

As a welder, I’ve had a female coworker ONCE in 15 years working in the industry. My current work doesn’t even have a bathroom for women in the same building as most of the workers. If we did hire a female welder, she’d have to walk across the parking lot to the administration building to actually use a women’s bathroom.

marcie, do gaming w Popular Female Skyrim Modder Has Abandoned Her Work Due to Daily Harrassment
@marcie@lemmy.ml avatar

the boob jiggle physics are genuinely ridiculous on this mod, i just watched the preview. gamers are brain broken

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