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PunkiBas, do gaming w Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios

Such a waste of talent!

I just heard a podcast from ‘better offline’ titled ‘how managers are breaking the internet’ and he calls these kinds of things ‘the rot economy’, kind of like enshitification but it happens when some completely disconnected suit takes over projects from passionate developers and brings the whole thing to the ground with their ‘line must go up’ mentality.

I’d say it’s exactly whats happening here.

Rayspekt,

Ed Zitron is on a rampage against consultants and managers breaking the industry and I’m all here for it.

yamanii, (edited )
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Definitely started following his posts after his google search piece, he is now hunting rabbits.

GlitterInfection, do gaming w I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better

Ok. So call me when it’s ready.

I am unimpressed by the nonsense articles like these coming out about early tech.

You won’t convince me that AI can’t exceed “taking an arrow to a knee” quality dialogue repeated over and over, and that shit is still the best immersion we’ve got!

zurohki,

I think we’re going to see major NPCs get their dialog hand-written and background characters get AI dialog.

You could have random shopkeepers ramble on for hours about how their kids are doing in school or trouble they’re having with a delivery company or whatever topic. Nobody’s going to write that, but we could AI generate it.

GlitterInfection,

Exactly!

People are expecting this to take people’a jobs so they’re picking apart the tech instead of paying attention.

Making an NPC be run by AI most likely will require more writing than it does now, but the end result will be worth it for games that strive for immersion.

elshandra,

All your base are belong to AIs

Immersive_Matthew,

To those who embrace and use AI.

PolandIsAStateOfMind, do gaming w Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

The function of a public company is to create growth for its shareholders…

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c3891419-028a-4612-8f72-718a66f70fc4.png

And that’s fine

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/abff5b87-083f-49f4-be45-6d9aa73a8a87.png

Dammit the duality of man

Minotaur, do games w The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement

Perplexing, but nice to see!

It’s a really great and faithful remake - but I feel like I heard so little about it that I’m so confused to see new endings and player characters come out for it now months later.

Hoping it has some second wind with the general gaming crowd. Seems like it got overshadowed by RE4 and the latest Zelda game and never hit it off with that kind of TikTok, game of the month crowd

Gullible,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightdive_Studios

The studio seems pretty cool. Seems outwardly like they care more about accessibility and quality than short-term profits.

Kolanaki,
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I’ve heard that it’s still by and large like the original game in many areas, so I could see it not hitting with that crowd. But among the old geezers like myself who never stopped playing the old stuff, it’s got nothing but praise. Personally haven’t played it (or even the original game for that matter; only ever had SS2) but both look amazing, and I want to play it.

I have a lot of other remake games and engine ports from Night Dive and almost all of them are absolutely phenomenal.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I was super-positively surprised by how faithful it was, loved replaying it.

And sure the ending fight was weird, but also, the “proper” ending fight was the room before that. So it felt complete in that regard, the last bit was just finishing off the game. Like in Crysis Warhead when you get the final gun, at that point it’s already won, just about finishing it off.

Curious to see what they’re changing.

Visstix, do games w Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers'

What a whiney playerbase then

Asafum,

They literally said they were enjoying their customers tears.

  1. you’re a business, that’s just stupid to say.
  2. if you enjoy the suffering of other people you’re an absolute shit human being.
Crashumbc,

1 yup

2 have you played Dark Souls?

JeffreyOrange,

You are taking this way to seriously

Godric,
@Godric@lemmy.world avatar

Me, seeing the tears of 30 year-old children waaaahhhing because their favorite vidder gaem gun does X% less damage:

: - D

Vrijgezelopkamers, do games w [PCGamer] Helldivers 2 is the least I've felt pressured to spend money on a game in years, so of course I'm buying everything in the store
@Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world avatar

No. This is not a “creative” way to nudge us towards the store. Definitely not. It’s just the type of monetization every gamer has been secretly yearning for, right?

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet

It’ll be gone within the next 48 hours now.

insomniac_lemon,
Mythosync, do games w I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal

With realistic expectations, the game has always been a good experience, imo of course. I did not follow any coverage of the game until after release, so I wasn’t sure of what to expect. I’m not excusing their shortcomings, but I feel like the community leaned hard into the “bad game circlejerk” as soon as it came out. I played once at release and got the worst ending. After edgerunners, I played it through three times, the last of which on very hard and with all the endings earned.

I enjoyed it! The 2.0 update is an interesting shakeup. I’m playing through a 4th time and having a good time

ensignrick,
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  • funkless_eck,

    I did get all the hype but after a lifetime of experience working in live performance marketing and software marketing, my position is that all marketing is a lie, and with limited experience in journalistic criticism, that too is as subjective as whether you prefer chocolate or strawberry ice cream.

    in the end you experience something — regardless of the overall quality, some parts are better than others. And that’s it. That’s experience. Sometimes you love it, sometimes you don’t. Your fave is someone else’s least and vice versa.

    Mythosync,

    Couldn’t agree more!

    Mythosync,

    If I’m excited for a game, I try to make a point of not looking at the hype. Seems like the mainstream coverage has three phases:

    1. Hype
    2. Bad game circlejerk
    3. Retrospective (it was actually good)

    Nice to know that other people have had similar experiences!

    Karyoplasma,

    That’s wanted by the marketing team tho. Hype creates profit, regardless how shit your product is. There is a reason why the Diablo 4 Facebook ad says “the fastest selling ARPG ever” instead of something tangently related to gameplay. It’s banking on hype sales, product comes second. They need to rake in quick profits to appease their shareholders.

    Social media has conditioned people into swarm thinking and instant gratification instead of introspection and reflected decisions. Nobody gives a fuck about long-term consequences anymore. It’s sickening.

    pijon,

    I never played it but wasn’t the game still a buggy mess weeks, if not months after release?

    Mythosync,

    Going by the journalistic coverage of the game, yes. If you played on an XB1 or PS4, yes. I’m fortunate to have played it on a competent (not insane) PC and had little to no issues. It wasn’t bug-free, but the issues I encountered were minor and didn’t really bog down the experience tbh

    Xanthrax,
    @Xanthrax@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m assuming you didn’t have a Playstation.

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    I do and aside from one serious bug that made me start over I had a good time with it, I think summer 2020. I didn’t finish my first playthrough and am waiting for it to install so I can start #2.

    iHUNTcriminals, do gaming w Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous"

    There are so many successful people that make me not want to participate in this country.

    …Because I know that if they were able to make it then this country is bullshit.

    Hyperreality,
    Waker, do games w How Cyberpunk 2077 clawed its way back from disaster to complete one of the greatest redemption arcs in gaming history

    Impressive, but imo still not as good as No man’s Sky redemption.

    Afatmess,

    Or Final Fantasy XIV

    Waker, (edited )

    Great redemption but they did close the servers so I kinda feel like that’s a whole new game hahaha

    Also, FFXIV has been great for a long time now I think… NMS had more incremental updates with improvements for longer I guess. Maybe that’s why that’s the first thing on my mind when I think of any game redeemimg themselves.

    Nevertheless still an amazing improvement on FFXIV.

    Caligvla, do gaming w Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Considering Gabe is ex-microsoft and wants to distance himself as much as possible from them, I highly doubt that’d work, he’d go down fighting at the very least.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

    No need to go down fighting. Valve is a private company. They can just say no.

    50MYT,

    The problem is when he goes down.

    Gabe won’t live forever.

    Rayspekt,

    Or will he?

    We need to fund some altered carbon stuff right now

    echodot,

    If the technology likenthat is even remotely possible then it’s already being funded you can guarantee it.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

    Valve is more than Gabe.

    50MYT,

    Yes.

    But gabe owns it.

    Itty53,
    @Itty53@kbin.social avatar

    Does he want to distance himself? Gabe said he learned more in his short months-long tenure at MS than he did in the rest of his academic career. He dropped out of Harvard, mind you.

    He modeled his entire company off of MS. He even adopted their primary strategy, buy, polish and package. It's literally just embrace, extend, extinguish all over. Balmer taught him very well.

    I really don't get why people think he's all that different from any other billionaire. He got there by buying out competition, and if they wouldn't sell, theft and litigation.

    Caligvla,
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Not saying he’s different from other rich people, but Valve developing both SteamOS and Proton is a clear message they don’t want to rely on Microsoft and their software.

    Itty53,
    @Itty53@kbin.social avatar

    Microsoft doesn't want to rely on licensed software every time they install their programs either. Again, Valve taking a queue from MS. And that's fine BTW, the whole industry follows MS.

    Moreover the real issue, the difference in computing cost between running Win10 with all the unnecessary boost vs Linux is massive. Had they used Windows it would've costed more to be able to run less.

    As to being reliant on Windows, that's been their standard most of their history. Steam was Windows based. If Windows were to go ahead with making a stripped down Windows OS that was specific to gaming, such as the one demoed in a code jam earlier this year, you can bet steam would be selling that version of Windows direct from their store, and likely have a easy tool ready to use to install it to your deck. They would probably offer it as an installation option too. Why not? There's no good reason they shouldn't. The whole verified question goes out the window. That's huge. But again, MS controls that situation, not Valve. They're still reliant on MS in major ways.

    FuntyMcCraiger, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me

    It’s really weird reading an article that so precisely nails so many of my experiences with both games.

    Naz, (edited )

    Sam Coe: “Y’know, captain, I’ve been thinking, I’ve been talking about myself for a long time, but I’ve never really asked you about yourself. It seems to me that you’re a mute of some kind, and everyone just talks AT you, rather than TO you. So I’ve got to ask you, how does a Chef like yourself end up working for a mining company on Narion?”

    [Camera turns 180° degrees to face the player like in BG3]

    • My name’s FuntyMcCraiger and I used to run a restaurant before we ran into hard times.

    You know, mining is a lot like cooking. I like mining rocks.

    • That’s none of your business. After being mute for 80 hours, I’ve decided to have good dialogue and good writing because they paid their writers a living wage.

    • Shut the fuck up, Sam Coe.

    • Can you smell what the FuntyMcCraiger is cooking?

    • Show Item [Opens Inventory]

    • Flip Sam The Bird.

    Poggervania,
    @Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

    choose any option

    “Woah captain, that’s crazy. Anyways, I found another settlement - I’ll mark it here on your map.”

    Naz,

    A settlement needs our help, Captain.

    yolahermanto, do games w 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

    It's sad that a lot of devs just make their game and then slap frame-gen on it and then release it. Like who cares about optimization. Not that I blame them, people still buy those games full-priced, so...

    eatCasserole,

    Who even has time to play full price games? I have enough unplayed games piled up in my steam/epic/gog libraries to keep me busy for decades.

    PrivateNoob,

    Well a surprisingly lot of people. Just a guess but maybe this is the main or only hobby for a significant amount of buyers?

    Katana314, do games w Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza'

    What sucks on my end is that this has only been the latest in a long chain of reasons to boycott Microsoft - so I can’t exactly claim, if they take a step back from “Systematically murdering innocent people” then I’ll go back to giving them money.

    flop_leash_973, do games w Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re

    Tells you that the guy behind it is causing some folks in the halls of power to get some uncomfortable questions.

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