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LaGG_3, do gaming w It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

Hell yeah, fancy Neverwinter Nights!

ZombiFrancis,

BG3 has a strong enough following I could see the entirety of NWN and all its expansions being remade by fans.

WadeTheWizard,
@WadeTheWizard@fedia.io avatar

Highpoly Deekin with access to vicious mockery 😳

RangerJosie, do gaming w It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns
@RangerJosie@lemmy.world avatar

Good.

KingThrillgore, do gaming w Dr Disrespect fired by the game studio he co-founded: 'It is our duty to act with dignity on behalf of all individuals involved'
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Boy there’s a strong correlation between being a streamer/YouTuber/online video creator and being a sex pest.

Laurentide,
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I don’t think streamers and video creators are more likely to be sex pests. You’re just more likely to hear about a sex pest if their career involves trying to be seen by as many people as possible.

zbyte64,

IDK, it could be like with priests, where the job attracts a certain type because of the perks…

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

There is also the fact that a lot of streamers start young, with no guidance or mental development so they act on their worse impulses

AsherahTheEnd,

Actually I just think there are far more sex pests than you would hope, and they are literally everywhere. It’s very alarming.

Carighan, do gaming w Less than 6 months after laying off 40 employees, Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour Interactive drops another 95
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

They have 1300 people? To make mtx and killers for DbD?! What?

Chozo,
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That number is not the DbD team, but the Behaviour studio as a whole. DbD is their main breadwinner, but they also have several other active games that they maintain.

Flatfire,

Also worth noting is their history as an IP mill. Dead By Daylight is a surprise hit amongst many a licensed deal to produce games that would nearly qualify as shovelware in most cases over the last 20+ years. DbD gives them some independence, but they’re still largely a “studio for hire” by anyone who needs them.

Aatube,

According to Wikipedia, they made a ton of games, including a ton of licensed IPs.

VirtualOdour, do games w Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'

I love how upset people get about things like this

Your coffee is made by enslaved children and people shrug

Your clothes were made in a sweatshop and people shrug

Your music is owned by corporate monsters who impose absurd copyright to steal culture from those that live in it and people shrug

A theoretical voice actor misses out on a small role and you go wild calling for boycotts and making unhinged tweets at the company?

Very weird priorities.

Almost like it’s totally unserious and nothing but self Important performative nonsense.

UntitledQuitting,

Almost like it’s totally unserious and nothing but self Important performative nonsense.

This should be the new tagline for social media

FiniteBanjo,

I feel like “The world sucks” is a poor argument for making it worse.

Melvin_Ferd,

It was crazy how swiftly media moved to present tons of reasons to hate AI.

It really made me realize how the people with this strongest opinions have been given those opinions by media that they don’t even realize is a form of media.

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

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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.

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