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merde, do scifi w Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff

isn’t Star Wars an imitation of Asimov’s Foundation ?

Abucketofpuppies, do games w 14 great games to try if you loved Baldur’s Gate 3

Disappointed not to see Jade Empire on the list. Some of the best party interactions ever

Kolanaki,
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Best ending dialogue to a video game ever.

“It’s time to punch a mountain… Into space!

EvilLootbox, do games w Twitch streamer plays Palworld using only her mind
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There was a device in the 90s that claimed to let you do this, LGR did a video on it (it didn’t work shockingly)

youtu.be/3iPefnLfKlY

Davel23,

Atari tried to do this in the '80s, but it never went anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Mindlink

Kolanaki, (edited )
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I had that thing. It did “work;” just not how you’d expect and not very well. Kinda like a PowerGlove. Games that didn’t require much movement were playable; but I got it because I figured I should be able to aim way faster in Counter-Strike with my mind than with my hands on a mouse.

TwilightVulpine, do gaming w Palworld’s success is partially born from Pokémon fans’ discontent

This take reminds me of how disappointed I was when I got Pokémon Violet, excited to see what pokémon would be like in open world, and then I realized there was nothing to do in between towns and bosses. Overall, it felt less interesting than older games where you needed to solve puzzles and mazes to progress. It's not even like there is much of an incentive to do things in your own order because every challenge has fixed levels. You could play multiplayer but there was nothing to do in multiplayer but to roam around. Due to the short draw distance and low frame rates it wasn't even like admiring the creatures roaming around felt so impressive.

The real time catching mechanics in Arceus were pretty fun, I liked the stealth elements, but without them SV felt like it was only going through the motions of having an open world, without understanding how to make use of it.

50gp,

arceus (and SV) wouldbe been way better if they learned to design compelling points of interest in their open world and not do amateur work that looks like auto generated landscape

Kbin_space_program,

The best thing to do in pokemon violet is to make the jump over the cliffs when you're level 15 and can face level 30 pokemon on top of the cliffs in the first zone.

butiloveu, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

Oh no. How dares somebody to enhance his single player experience with mods. Let’s forbid them to modify a SP game they bought, this can’t backfire, right?

Grass, (edited ) do gaming w Nvidia’s AI-powered NPCs are getting better, but still sound uncanny

I haven’t read the article but this headline gave me an idea. In future tech/cyberpunk settings, humans and cyborgs should be animated convincingly like real life humans, perhaps with slight differences to accentuate the cybernetics. Robots should be as they are in real life too. Androids should be varying degrees of Bethesda npc. The variations would be based on the in game lore or the manufacturer. So high end stuff would be more like real humans, but the Bethesda like companies can only put out Bethesda like products with spooky uncanny valley bug eyed stare through your skull faces and body doing whatever in a different direction.

After watching it, basically this. Save this specific version for later and when it improves use the new and the old together and there are your androids. Combine with traditional voice and animation for the humans. Realism out of fake looking shit.

sfera, do gaming w The human cost of 2023's devastating game industry layoffs

Crunch should be forbidden. It destroys people.

evilsmurf, do games w Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million

Awesome, I didn’t know they had a kickstarter going. No such thing as bad press I guess.

Tuxman, do games w Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast

Perkins is the GOAT !

It’s when I started watching Acquisitions Inc that I realized how much I could improve as a DM 🤣

I picked up so much tricks and techniques just watching him run these games

half_built_pyramids, do games w Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast

They got the good ones

eletes, do games w 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs
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Is this why all their stuff is on sale? They’re clearing stock?

MajesticElevator, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?

If all of its games were available elsewhere, there would be a lot less switch users

zecg, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?
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Within an enthusiast bubble, PC handhelds are a big deal, but they do not exist in the same universe as Nintendo consoles.

I keep hearing this shit and it seems like stupid wishful thinking, because in a locked-down universe where Switch 2 is not a shitty proposition for way too much cash compared to getting a PC with 10k+ PC games from the get go and also emulating anything you wish because it’s your hardware and it’s just bits - in that universe, Polygon is a much needed pool of experts that people go to for advice instead of a source of stupid ragebait titles telling them a log of shit is the new snickers.

Nintendo will not have true competition in handhelds until its peers in the console space get involved.

Yeah, sure, fuck you Polygon

Rob200, do games w Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode

You’l want to adjust, brightness, contrast and gamma of your screen.

onlooker, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.
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I was kinda hoping for a smaller console, not a larger one.

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