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Agent_Karyo, do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'
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I remember them announcing that SQ404 was entering a “polishing” phase in late 2023.

At that point and to this day, they failed to finalise a flight model, develop an armour/shield system and implement engineering gameplay.

Arguably these are critical elements for a release with space sim gameplay. Although if SQ404 does release, I think it will be 30 hours of Wing Commander The Movie level cut scenes (space bulldozer) and script, with bored sounding Hollywood actors counting the seconds till they can leave Chris Roberts’ mocap studio.

Inside Chris Roberts’ Mocap Studio:

Roberts: Hehehe. Hey, Mark! You know how I came up with the Vanduul? Hehe.

Hamil: No, how?

Roberts: Ehehe. Vandals to Vanduul! Get it? Hehehe. Pretty smart, right? Hehehe.

Hamil: Very original.

Roberts: Did you know the Vandals were a Germanic tribal grouping that raided the Roman Empire? Bet you didn’t know that! Hehehe.

Hamil: I am in awe of your creativy!

Roberts: I know, right! Hehehe.

Ok Mark, enough farting around. Pretend you are riding a space bulldozer!

Tar_alcaran,

I think it will be 30 hours of Wing Commander The Movie level cut scenes

It never existed!

Hond, do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'

Since i saw that gameplay footage which was released like somewhere in the last 5 years its all i can think about when Sq42 is in the news again. Until that point i just hoped that maybe somehow someday an unpolished but interesting game will come out. But that footage looked so unfun and ass after ~10 years of development i lost all hope.

muhyb, do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'

We’ll see Shenmue 9 before Star Citizen’s release.

Tattorack, do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'
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What an insane and unprecedented surprise.

Xed, do games w Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they

Nintendo got the big money for those lawyers

squaresinger, do games w Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they

Now only someone has to dare to stand up to Nintendos lawyers. Not an easy feat.

zrst,

Eh, we shouldn’t rely on the system to fix the system.

The only way to fight back is to fight back, either civilly or uncivilly.

Also, this is why games cost what they cost. So the useful idiots spending money can have their money used against them.

squaresinger,

You want to start a violent revolution over Nintendo filing bogus patent claims?

zrst,

You’re a special kind of ignorant if you think that’s the only reason.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Nintendo’s patent lawyers should be reported to the bar association over this. These most recent patents are atrociously bad and could probably get the lawyers sanctioned

squaresinger,

And the patent office too.

There really should be more oversight with the patent process.

tekato, do games w 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

Capcom should start their patent for 2D fighting games and see what happens to Super Smash Bros

mx_smith, do games w 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

“They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system. “ seems like a trend these days

But_my_mom_says_im_cool, do games w Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they

I blame lawmakers, corporations are gonna do what they do and sue everyone for everything. The courts have taken the sides of corporations over people and it’s clear. We can’t change how capitalist corporations work but we can start making noise to lawmakers about changing laws to favour smaller devs

normalexit, do games w 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

I’m fully stopped. Now what?

pipe01,

Hammer time

addie,
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The time for “collaborate and listen” has passed. Now, the time for Nintendo to bring down hammer go hammer mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play has arrived.

billwashere, do games w 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

The USPTO is notorious for granting insane patents knowing they are invalid or too vague and expect the court system to be the final arbiter. It’s almost as if they like stirring shit up for there own amusement.

zrst, (edited )

I’d wager these video game illiterates look at 1 thing: do they recognize the name of the company?

If the answer to that is ‘yes,’ then they will give that company whatever they want. If the answer is ‘no,’ then you’re fucked.

SaharaMaleikuhm, do games w 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

An embarrassing failure describes the US quite well actually. Also fuck Nintendo. Don’t give them your money.

FerretyFever0, do games w 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

This is why I can't support Nintendo.

Chozo, do gaming w Deus Ex's influence on Elon Musk 'may be its longest, worst legacy,' says its writer
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Elon tried to get CDPR to add him as a character in Cyberpunk 2077, not realizing that he's literally Saburo Arasaka.

sp3ctr4l,

He actually is in Cyberpunk, if you fuck with the ini files and model directories / file paths / name references a bit and do some reverse engineering… at least as of v2.0.

They may have cleaned it up by now, I’ve not fucked with it much in a while.

Elons’s face would only ever populate onto NCPD officers, and he has a balding, thinning hair style, similar to how he did prior to joining Tesla, before he presumably started get hair plugs or transplants of some kind.

I never did find any voice lines from Elon though, ElonCop would just have generic male cop voice as with the rest of the NCPD.

I think what happened is he did get a proper facescan done… around or right before when Nvidia barged in and told CD Projekt: You need our money, we will give it to you if you act as game dev guinea pigs for our newfangled AI rendering and lighting tech which utterly obliterates the design principles of 20+ years of 3D game engine design.

At that point, they had to rearchitect… everything, and the library of models/faces that they were going with up till that point ended up having to be more or less tossed, they made a new one, and only a few references to the older ‘library’ remain as basically legacy bits of the game.

Thats my uh, ‘game theory’.

theangriestbird,

All ElonCops are bastards.

sp3ctr4l,

I figured this out roughly around the same time he was buying Twitter, not too long after CP77 fixed up their wanted/cop response system to… actually work, and exist… and I just kept shooting Elon, and hordes of other ElonCops, like Smith in the fucking Matrix.

Bastard turned me into a goddamned cyber psycho.

Midnitte, do gaming w Deus Ex's influence on Elon Musk 'may be its longest, worst legacy,' says its writer

I wouldn’t consider Elon literally ignoring the reality of Deus Ex (i.e. Elon is the villain) to be its legacy.

Elon being a dumbass is his legacy.

Not like we consider killing John Lennon to be Catcher in the Rye’s legacy

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