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Sabata11792, do games w Ubisoft's customer values
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

I haven't touched a Ubisoft game in years. I don't even want to pirate that crap, let alone pay monthly for it.

Glide,

I tried to pick up Rayman Legends when it was I’d cheap over Christmas. I ran the game from Steam was greeted with the UPlay launcher asking me to make an account to access my game, and immediately closed and refunded the title.

Enshittification is real.

yamanii, do games w Ubisoft's customer values
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think a single publisher platform has any future, AAA games are taking longer and longer to make, there’s no benefit to stay subbed when you can go months without a new game, compared to gamepass that has deals with other devs and publishers so there’s new things to play every month.

I already saved a lot of money just by playing cocoon, jusant and like a dragon Gaiden in the last months since games in Brazil are 10x more expensive than a gamepass sub, and can’t wait for the Persona 3 Remake.

Rentlar, do games w Ubisoft's customer values

Somewhat ironic is the pitch for IGN+ at the bottom.

Why would gamers want to be comfortable with a scheme where:

  • Ubisoft decides when you can and can’t play a game
  • Ubisoft sets the terms of the deal (i.e. how much they can extort you each month, what data collection you must agree each time you play, etc.)
  • Ubisoft determines the quality of what you get, and its variety (if it’s some gamepass-like bundle)
mofongo, do gaming w Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age Rise at Last on Nintendo Switch Online - IGN

Never heard of it is it any good?

detectivemittens,

Might just be me looking at the game with rose colored glasses and the game may not have aged well - but I remember having a blast playing Golden Sun as a kid. I think you’d enjoy it if you like JRPGs.

mofongo,

Thx

Schaedelbach,

Na, no rose colored glasses needed! The first Golden Sun is one of my favorite top down “classic” jrpg. I replayed it a couple of years ago on my old Ds (the one where you can play your Game Boy Advance games) and it aged really great!

JakenVeina,

The only thing I can think of not aging well by today’s standards is the level grinding. I recall having to do quite a bit of it my first time playing it, just to keep up with the difficulty curve, and it’s not like I was skipping all the sidequests. That was a fairly common aspect for RPGs of the era, I think.

It’s also possible I wasn’t very good at the game, I was like 11 or 12 at the time.

GhostMatter, (edited )

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JakenVeina,

I made a romhack at one point to increase all gained XP by 10x. Might still have it somewhere, and it’d be easy enough to adjust for reduced XP.

TwilightVulpine, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark - IGN

I'm curious what AI Shark is supposed to do. If it's just an LLM with hints that's not gonna "eclipse the original GameShark's triumphs tenfold". I'd still rather have a cheat tool than a glorified Clippy for walkthroughs.

Empricorn, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark

Can I get a bigger headline that reads “GameShark still exists!” Because that is bigger news.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Next you’ll tell me Game Genie is still around!

son_named_bort,

I have bad news…

magic_lobster_party,

That the Game Genie IP now belongs to EA?

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4,

A la carte

0 through 8: $0.99 each

9 through D: $1.29 each

E & F: $1.99 each

Individual codes: $4.99

Bundles

Master code (per game): $9.99

All available codes (per game): $49.99

Extras

Ability to quick enable/disable codes: $19.99

H_Interlinked,

Wiki says they’re under ownership by Mad Catz, which made me think “Mad Catz still exists?”

PotentialProblem,

Apparently it’s called AI Shark now! Because it uses AI to cheat!

CerineArkweaver,

“GameShark… Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a looong time… a long time…”

Carighan, do games w Smite 2 Announced, Alpha Playtest Coming Spring 2024
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Bit sad they aren’t exploring removing the - IMO unnecessary - broadness of the item + skill-up system for something like the talents HotS had (or even better some sort of small branching talent tree), just to keep evolving the genre.

But I can also understand it, since well, they have an established playerbase and this is probably more a refresh than a “true” successor.

InquisitiveApathy,

Yeah I wouldn’t expect them to reinvent the wheel at this point. I think the only major difference that should reasonably be expected is in the change to the newer Unreal Engine. Better graphics, better optimization in the codebase(hopefully), and better performance. Otherwise I expect everything to be similar, but it’s too early to say anything for certain I suppose.

Computerchairgeneral, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark

Honestly, the fact that Gameshark is coming back feels like a bigger surprise than the fact that we might be getting a Switch successor this year.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug,

"Formerly known as GameShark, AI Shark is set to redefine the gaming landscape with its revolutionary AI-enhanced technology,”

Also the date has been “debunked” as “just a guess” by ai shark.

XTornado,

It’s a pretty good guess tbh… At worst is October or similar but I expect later on the year but earlier enough so it’s before the holidays but after they showed demos and games in summer conferences.

CooperHawkes, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark

September 2024. Saved you a click.

Kit,

Doing God’s work

UprisingVoltage,

Thank you

XTornado,

Unsurprising if it’s true, announced before E3 dates, demos on E3, release on September and ready for the Holidays sales.

(When I talk of E3 I mean the dates where most companies are doing their conferences, I know E3 is not a thing anymore, so June-July)

GammaGames, do gaming w Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age Rise at Last on Nintendo Switch Online - IGN

FINALLY!!

blargerer, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark

This assumes they have inside knowledge (which maybe they do), but they could also just be guessing, I think everyone thinks its going to release in sept-nov this year.

Chozo, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark

OP's avatar is very fitting for this headline.

skhayfa, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark

Maybe AI blunder… or foresight. Either way in September we’ll know if the prophecy was true!

CharlesReed, do gaming w Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Will Have a Character Voiced by Text-to-Speech at Launch - IGN

I feel like if this was truly an accident because the character was overlooked, then wouldn't they just not have any voice at all? Even copy/pasting dialogue into some (free, according to the article) software and then inserting it into the game takes some effort.

chloyster,

The article says that often during development they’ll put in simple text to speech stuff for characters as a placeholder. I’d imagine to make sure certain audio hooks work and sound isnt broken

nekusoul,
@nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de avatar

A bad voice probably also just feels much better and complete than having no voice at all. At least based on the observations I’ve made when adding sound effects to my games as a hobbyist. A silent game just feels bad.

savvywolf, do gaming w Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Will Have a Character Voiced by Text-to-Speech at Launch - IGN
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

I’m reminded of old video games where they had the developers help out with the voice acting. Like, couldn’t you do this here? Just have someone who happens to have a high quality microphone do the lines? Maybe even pay a starving artist on one of those “voice acting for hire” sites?

I get that deadlines are usually way too tight on games, but this is just poor quality control. I guess that is the AAA games industry noways though.

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