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Jacoolh, do gaming w Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D, focusing on live service.

Fuck live services. Just another subscription model.

BubsyFanboy, do gaming w Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D, focusing on live service.
@BubsyFanboy@szmer.info avatar

Sony is investing $2.1B in gaming R&D

Yes!

focusing on live service.

No!

rafoix,

More like investment in FOMO game design.

Rynelan, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch

So basically he only needs the rights and it’s ready for release? Wonder how hard that’ll be to accomplish

BrooklynMan,
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I suppose that they could release it for free as an open-source project and not brother with all of that

Kichae,

No, they'd still need IP rights for the characters/world/name. Releasing it for free doesn't alleviate that issue in any way.

They could strip it of all of the Simpsons related stuff, but they'd also have to create new levels, since those are owned by the epriginal publisher.

Sabata11792,
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

Yep. There would be a line of lawyers at that guys door the next day to ruin his entire life. I'm surprised they haven't already. Would love to play it but unless there is a "leak" it's not happening.

whataboutshutup,

And if a company wants to fuck with you, it can sue you anyway over minor likeness until it exhaust you from money to attend hearings.

eric5949,

It uses assets from the game so that’s a no go.

BrooklynMan,
@BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml avatar

oh, yeah, then definitely not

VieuxQueb, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch
@VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca avatar

Wow, that was ine of my favorite games ever ! And I almost forgot about it!

Too bad I don’t even have a descent enough computer to even think of trying out a remaster of it. But I might get looking for the original for the memories!

BrooklynMan, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch
@BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml avatar

there’s a couple of games that I love from the 90s (Ultima Underworld I & II) that I’ve considered doing this with, but I don’t know nearly enough about game development.

very cool, though.

ivanafterall,

I've also always wanted to understand where one even BEGINS something like this. I assume this is "reverse engineering," essentially? Or does it only really work with games that have leaked/public-in-some-way source code?

47_alpha_tango, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch
@47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip avatar

Unfortunately he’s never going to release it out of fear of Disney.

GunnarRunnar,

I guess a chill IP owner that would like some good will pr would strike a deal with the developer... Unfortunate that it's Disney.

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Disney doesn't need PR, goodwill or even a bit more money. They have all of those things that is needed for them to assert complete control. And that will bring them more power and money than anything else. It's the same strategy every company has been going for a while but it's very obvious with the internet companies now.

YT has control over online video, so it's cracking down anyone avoiding paying them. Reddit controls most text-based communities, so it's preventing the same. Google knows it's the overwhelming majority of browsers, so it's trying to inseminate the entire internet to prevent anyone from seeing anything it doesn't like, or pay them for.

mPony,

Reddit controls most text-based communities, so it's preventing the same

Beg pardon: Reddit is preventing other text-based communities... how?

samus12345,
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I think they mean that most text-based communities are on Reddit, but considering this same article is also on Reddit I don’t know what point they’re trying to make.

GunnarRunnar,

If we've seen anything, it's that companies always need more money. But this probably doesn't move the needle enough to make it at all worth it. Or it fucks with their marketing plan simply, they seem to be pretty keen on following the plan charts set for them.

Someone with more gung-ho attitude might jump at the chance though. even if it wouldn't really make a measurable impact for them either.

OrnateLuna, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch

Copyright is an amazing invention

Neato, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

I wonder what the effect would be if someone hacked him and leaked his game. You know, totally out of his control. He can't stop a malicious actor afterall...

verysoft, do gaming w Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch

Shame these companies don't support projects like these. Like they are ever going to remaster it themselves anyway and I doubt it would be that popular. Would be free PR for them.

Angry_Maple, do games w New Leak Suggests The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is Getting a Remake | Insider Gaming
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If true, I hope that they leave some of the goofy bugs and ai in the game. I think the weirdness of the interactions between NPCs is part of what made me love the game so much before.

O: “Heard any news from the other provinces?”

M: “Nothing I’d like to speak about.”

O: “Good day.”

M: “Go.”

O: " heLLO! "

M: “Hi.”

I also loved how the guards would try to attack through through space and time, with a lively “Beuaregeh!” as they hit absolutely nothing.

Other times, you’d see a guard kill someone, only for that same guard to go up to the body, gasp and shout “there’s been a murder!”.

I loved some of the messed up object physics too.

Venicon, do gaming w Keith David Is Zavala's New VA Following Lance Reddick's Death - Insider Gaming
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Was always going to be a tough act to follow Reddicks iconic voice.

I love Keith David though, he will always be Anderson from Mass Effect (aka Shepards space poppa)

claycle, (edited )
@claycle@lemm.ee avatar

Although I delight when I hear Keith David in Mass Effect or any game, I can reach farther back in time memory: Keith David will always be this wonderful man to me:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN8Z7y_QcwE (slightly spoilers)

stopthatgirl7,
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“The uploaded has not made this video available in your country.” 😔

Mrmcmisterson,

New exactly what it was before I clicked. That fight scene is iconic.

Venicon,
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Never really seen that movie but could only see a brief second of the thumbnail. In Scotland so we must be on some naughty list 🙃

csolisr, do gaming w Keith David Is Zavala's New VA Following Lance Reddick's Death - Insider Gaming

Wondering if they’ll re-record the late Reddick’s lines to have the voice sound uniform throughout the campaign, like what happened with the Ghost back in the day.

stopthatgirl7,
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It said in the article that they won’t.

Hotdogman, do games w Dreadwolf's Delays Are Impacting The Next Mass Effect - Insider Gaming

The star child already killed mass effect. Just let the series rest in peace.

ninjan, do gaming w Dreadwolf's Delays Are Impacting The Next Mass Effect - Insider Gaming

Fick Dreadwolf, I NEED Mass Effect

bob_lemon,

Why? It’s not like BioWare has delivered a good game since ME3 (or arguably even ME2).

hyorvenn,
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Andromeda really killed the hype for me. I guess the next DA and ME will also be some boring DA Inquisition-like

gonta,

I don’t even dare to hope for Dreadwolf to be, at least, as decent as Inquisition.

stopthatgirl7,
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As soon as they said they were trying to copy the combat in the new God of War games, I just had the same sinking feeling I had when they announced one world in Andromeda would be bigger than all the zones in Inquisition.

BioWare long ago lost sight of who they are. Now they’re just chasing trends and doing it badly.

stopthatgirl7,
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They just laid off 50 people. We are not getting another ME game - not one made by BioWare, at any rate.

ninjan,

I’m willing to bet a cool $100 we’re getting a Bioware ME in the coming 5 years but I’ll concede it’s far more likely to be Andromeda “quality” than ME2.

stopthatgirl7,
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I don’t think BioWare will be around in 5 years, honestly.

ninjan,

If you argue BioWare is already dead after some big names leaving and thus doesn’t really exist anymore then sure. Like a Ship of Theseus line of thinking that too much has changed already. I could accept that.

But if you honestly think EA will kill the brand of in 5 years time I think you’re delusional. Sure they haven’t delivered in some time but their legacy still gets games both hyped and sold. ME Legendary edition sold very well and SWTOR has been very profitable as well.

stopthatgirl7,
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Have you looked at the list of studios - big name ones, like Visceral - that EA has shut down in the past? EA absolutely will close BioWare down if they decide they aren’t profitable enough anymore. Look at how many of BioWare’s substudios they’ve already shut down (BioWare Montreal made the Citadel DLC. Then they made Anthem and POOF, now they’re gone), and all the layoffs they just announced at BioWare Austin and how they’re shifting SWTOR to a completely different, outside studio.

ninjan,

Visceral didn’t have even 10% of the name recognition BioWare has. As for the substudios that happens all the time when expansion plans fail due to poor releases, it’s extreme to think that spells the imminent death of BioWare. But sure, EA has that kind of track record. Westwood was a huge name way back when and they got killed. Though they didn’t manage like BioWare to get known for multiple things. They really only had Command & Conquer which still “lives on” in a Frankenstein’s Monster kind of sense.

stopthatgirl7,
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They also killed off the studio that originally created the Sims. BioWare isn’t safe.

Callie,
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It’s be so great if they all formed a new studio and just started a new franchise as the spiritual successor. After the disaster of Andromeda and the middle of the road game that inquisition was compared to its predecessors, I don’t have much hope about the fantastic writing of previous games coming back.

stopthatgirl7,
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Most of them have scattered to studios and have games coming out, so it’s not likely they’ll ever be able to get the old BioWare group back together.

The studio that David Gaider, one of the OG BioWare writers, is at now just put out a game, “Stray Gods.”

xkforce, do games w Dreadwolf's Delays Are Impacting The Next Mass Effect - Insider Gaming

Anthem all over again

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