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mrfriki, (edited ) do games w Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2

Looking forward for the OST too since the first one was incredible (and available to purchase on FLAC format and DRM free too).

p03locke,
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In Other Waters was another great OST from Amos as well. Pretty fun game, too.

Agent_Karyo, do games w Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2
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I am so excited for this game! I went into the original Citizen Sleeper without any prior knowledge of the game, ended up finishing it in two (pretty long) sessions.

halcyoncmdr,
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Same here. Not the type of game I would normally have jumped on, but something about it was just captivating.

TheDemonBuer, do gaming w Switch 2 vs. Steam Deck: How Nintendo’s next console measures up
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I don’t really see the point in comparing them. They’re different devices for different markets.

The Switch is for people who want to play first party Nintendo titles. That’s really the only reason for its existence. Without Nintendo’s first party lineup, the Switch would be just another Arm based handheld, and a fairly unremarkable one at that.

The Switch is all about exclusivity, the Steam Deck is the exact opposite. Not only is the Steam client, and the massive library of games that it gives gamers access to, available on scores of x86 devices and hardware configurations, the Steam Deck operating system will soon be available pre-installed on multiple, third party devices, and it will be available for anymore to download and install on any device they want.

They’re not just different devices, they’re vastly different company philosophies.

scrubbles, do gaming w Switch 2 vs. Steam Deck: How Nintendo’s next console measures up
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What a horseshit article. 90% of the “comparisons” are “We don’t know yet”. “It’s up in the air on the switch”. Only concrete thing I saw is that it has 2 USB-C ports.

dinckelman,

Checks out for a polygon article. It’s not even about who’s going to deliver the news first, it’s about SEO click farming

onlooker, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

I was kinda hoping for a smaller console, not a larger one.

kittenzrulz123, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.

I personally dont get why they went with Nvidia again, they make cheap mobile processors and I doubt this one will be any different. Imo they should have gone with a low end AMD APU based on Ryzen 9000.

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Backwards compatibility

kittenzrulz123,

They could have implemented a simple compatibility layer to play Switch 1 games

Petter1,

And rewrite the whole OS from scratch instead of using a battle-tested codebase existing since GBA?

Petter1,

Who would switch from arm to x86 when the whole market is moving into arm direction?

teagrrl, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.
@teagrrl@lemmy.ml avatar

Hall Effect Sensors pls.

DebatableRaccoon,

Sadly, I don’t see any amount of effort being put into longevity. That’s far too consumer-friendly from any of the big 3

piyuv,

Credit where it’s due, switch is pretty durable except joy-cons, and they are pretty easy to repair yourself

DebatableRaccoon,

I shouldn’t have to repair their crappy self-inflicted stick drift though. This easy to repair argument is like saying “It’s okay, the giant shit on your kitchen floor hasn’t dried so it’s easy to mop up.”

onlooker,
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

What, do you think Nintendo is made of money?

Zombiepirate, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

Should have called it the Nintendo Top.

runner_g,

Nintendo Dom

TrippyFocus, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.

Not too surprising they didn’t change much. The switch was a huge hit so fixing things like the joycons, adding a stand, etc. was the way to go.

My guess (hope) is that the only new titles exclusive to the switch 2 are ones that the original switch wouldn’t have the processor strength to play and that they won’t arbitrarily wall them but we’ll see.

bdonvr,

The Nintendo switch came out in early 2017, and it really wasn’t all that powerful then. It’s 8 years later, and it really shows. I don’t think they should make new games for the Switch. If developers have to consider the original Switch, the games will suffer. It had a good run, and a good library. But it’s time for the original switch to retire.

DebatableRaccoon,

Precisely this. Consideration for the original Switch is exactly how the Series S is causing problems for games on the Series X and PS5. Yes, a cheaper entry is great for gamers who can’t afford but dragging the potential down is a recipe for hamstringing the newer hardware.

PirateKingLuffy,

Unfortunately games have been struggling on the Switch’s hardware for a couple years. There were a few parts of the newest Pokémon game that felt like a slideshow presentation.

TrippyFocus,

Oh I don’t want them to hold back new games performance just for the OG switch, that was pretty underpowered even when it came out. I’m hoping the switch 2 gets a good upgrade in the area since it’s needed.

More for indie games and things like that was what I was thinking.

PirateKingLuffy,

That would be nice! Hopefully I would be easy for devs to do both.

ltxrtquq,

Pokémon

Is that still scarlet and violet? Because if so, I don’t think that was a problem with the switch.

PirateKingLuffy,

That’s the one I am thinking of yeah! Was it just a case of dog water optimization?

ltxrtquq,

I think so, there isn’t much else that can explain the classroom scene where half the class are all playing the same goofy animation at 5 frames per second, mostly in sync. It would have looked better to have them not moving at all, so at least some of the jank was a stylistic choice on gamefreak’s part.

Petter1,

Like, hyrule warriors lagging at ulti in splitscreen mode, you mean? They already released that for switch 1 🤣

Now we can finally play it lag free 🥳well, hopefully 🤪

Or we just continue to play lag free on steam deck 😜

saigot, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.

My switch 1 is gathering dust, mostly because of the awful controllers. Looks like they made the controllers bigger, and the magnetic slide looks much better than the switch1. I hope they significantly reduced the stick drift problem. I hope they allow 3rd party controllers to turn on the device.

jacksilver,

I’ve had every Nintendo console since the gbc and suspect I’ll eventually get this too, but they’ve got an uphill battle vs the steamdeck for me. Really going to depend on the first party games.

Petter1,

I always play with pro controller or powerA gamrcube wireless

Willie, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.

It’s basically the same. And it makes sense, it seems that’s what people want. But also, can Nintendo ever go back to the old ways? If ever they make something that isn’t a Switch, they’d have to develop two pieces of hardware, since they’re likely going to want both a home console and a handheld device. I think things might be like this forever.

mrfriki,

Being Nintendo the fact that it is basically the same is the actual surprise.

jacksilver,

I feel like the nes->snes, gb->gbc->GBA, ds->3ds, and wii->WiiU were all pretty similar advancements.

In all of those except nes->snes you had backwards compatability, and the wii->WiiU had hardware backwards compatibility (which the switch 2 doesn’t, at least for controllers).

Exec,
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Most of those “sequels” had something new and innovative and not just a spec bump. The Switch 2 does not really have anything so far

jacksilver,

You are right that it is more of just a spec bump, but given the warning that not all switch games may be compatible, I think the controllers are going to have different sensors (some have speculated a more mouse-like feature).

thejml,

I was going down the same path, but don’t forget about LABO requiring not just the same sensors, but also the same physical size screen and controllers. So even if everything else was backwards compatible, they’d have to include that text for that game series alone.

jacksilver,

That’s a good catch!

Guttural,

It does, according to the rumors

ICastFist, do games w Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online
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Reportedly found on a Wii test kit discovered at an e-waste recycling center

Man, talk about a find.

The reason for it being canned so late seems to be mostly on internal higher up conflict within Lucasarts, whose leadership became bean counters. www.eurogamer.net/free-radical-vs-the-monsters

And then we went from talking to people who were passionate about making games to talking to psychopaths who insisted on having an unpleasant lawyer in the room." (David Doak on the change within Lucasarts after Jim Ward left)

“LucasArts hadn’t paid us for six months,” says Norgate “and were refusing to pass a milestone so we would limp along until the money finally ran out. They knew what they were doing, and six months of free work to pass on to Rebellion wasn’t to be sniffed at.”

Squizzy,

A scientist in Goldeneye was called Doak. The scientists were named after the creative team, I wonder if it ks the same guy.

Now I dont know where I got te factoid though

b34k,

I thought the same thing as I read this. Makes me think it’s gotta be him

smeg,

Yep, David Doak gave us GoldenEye, TimeSplitters, and apparently this lost relic too!

MutilationWave,

Who did Perfect Dark?

Odo,

Martin Hollis, but Doak was co-designer. www.mobygames.com/game/4034/perfect-dark/…/n64/

(Also it’s crazy how short credits were back then. I left a Ubisoft credit scroll going a few years ago and I swear it took 45 minutes.)

smeg,

Look at the link at the top of this comment thread, great read and tells you how small the teams were back then

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

15 for Timesplitters 1, around 30 for Timesplitters 2, according to Steve Ellis and Lee Ray on that Eurogamer piece.

Sylvartas,

Tbf, the early games industry was notoriously bad at crediting people

tdawg, do games w Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online
@tdawg@lemmy.world avatar

What’s with all the faces and being downvoted lol

Harvey656,

They are bots

PoolloverNathan, do games w Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online

:Y

ComicalMayhem, do games w Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online

holy shit no fucking shot. fully playable battlefront 3???

simple,

Fully playable build, but it’s probably not a complete or finished game

icecreamtaco,
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From the article:

“It was pretty much done, it was in final [quality assurance testing],” Free Radical founder and former studio director Steve Ellis told GamesIndustry.biz in 2012. “It had been in final QA for half of 2008, it was just being fixed for release. LucasArts’ opinion is that when you launch a game you have to spend big on the marketing, and they’re right. But at that time they were, for whatever reason, unable to commit to spending big. They effectively canned a game that was finished.”

naught,

They also say the controller mapping is a challenge in the emulation software, but doable. It’s the wii version so I bet the aiming and whatnot is going to be wonky when using a controller or kbm vs the other releases.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Worth noting that the wiimote just uses Bluetooth, so it doesn’t take any specialized equipment to connect to your computer. And Dolphin has built in support for it. The sensor bar was also just a pair of infrared LEDs; All of the actual “sensing” happened at the wiimote directly. So you can just throw a wireless sensor bar (like $15 on amazon) underneath your computer monitor, and it will work fine.

TomAwsm,

Would it be possible to play this on an actual Wii or Wii U?

naught, (edited )

I would guess it’s possible. I had a friend with a hacked Wii and it could run like anything. Probably easier today than it was then to sideload

edit: I’m probably wrong! See below

Persi,

No, it’s a dev build and a real wii doesn’t have enough memory to run it.

It’d work on a dev kit, if you had one.

TomAwsm,

Thanks for the info!

pachrist,

Still better than the new EA ones which aren’t finished and aren’t playable.

mbinn,
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I despise how long EA BF2 takes to load a simple coop mode (any mode really).

The intro cut scenes that are not skippable. Many more complaints but that stood out the most for me since I liked playing solo with bots.

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