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Blackmist, do games w Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes

Genuinely struggling to remember what that could even be about.

I mean, it’s been like 25 years since I played them, but I don’t recall any obviously bad things in there. It’s not like it was filled with old Jackie Chan film levels of cartoon racism.

HerbalGamer,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think there were some “jungle tribe” type enemies somewhere but don’t quote me on that

Kolanaki,
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The voice acting has quite a range of stereotyped accents. Nothing they say is overtly racist, but the over the top accents themselves are insensitive.

Blackmist,

Oh, OK. So more George Lucas than Tintin in the Congo.

HawlSera,

In Tomb Raider 3 an antagonist faction includes black men who want to eat Laura, and not in the same way I do if you catch my meaning.

PieMePlenty,

I haven’t played it but that doesn’t sound racist to me if the context is right. There are cannibal tribes today. They are black skinned. This is fact.

KingThrillgore, do games w Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

This is perfectly fine, its how they did it for the old Looney Tunes DVDs.

MammyWhammy,

And is what they should do rather than trying to delete it.

Provide context so that future generations can enjoy what’s good about the media and acknowledge how parts of the content/media are problematic and not appropriate.

pete_the_cat,

Something I and probably everyone else forgets is that Looney Tunes was made in the 1930s and 1940s, not the 1990s.

RizzRustbolt, do games w Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’

If this dude was a real gamer, he would have called it “S-tier”.

Clav64, do gaming w Xbox boss would ‘love to find solutions’ so games aren’t lost when the 360 store closes | VGC

“I really hope we can find a way to prevent ourselves from shooting ourselves in the foot”

loads gun

“We are open to solutions…”

cocks gun

catloaf, do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

I don’t think people are playing Kirby games expecting Dolby surround sound anyway, so this seems like it’d be a pretty easy decision.

breadsmasher, do games w Starbreeze removes CEO following Payday 3's poor performance
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

Embracer Group

its always these guys

Scrof, do games w Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’

Of course he would. Screw Ubisoft.

bane_killgrind,

Quadruple A is the coke talking

Clown_Tempura, do nintendo w Nintendo reportedly showed a demo of the ‘Switch 2’ console at Gamescom which included visuals comparable to the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

I feel like I’m in the minority when I’m looking forward to Nintendo making a high-powered console for once. The last time their hardware was on par with or better than the rest of the industry was the Gamecube, which was an amazing little system.

dudewitbow,

I dont think itll be high powered, thats just the reporter adding something for clickbait.

Im one to believe in Bobby Kottick mentioning that the Switch 2 is roughly the power of a PS4 as he was in contempt of the court when his leak of its performance was discussed. the handheld likely has better cpu performance though vs ps4, as its basically in the same playing field as the steam deck is, both companies who can sit and make thir 30% cut from developer games.

Tldr, dont expect Series S perf, expect steam deck performance with better battery and DLSS support to 4k (i personally believe itll target 1080p60, and use DLSS Performamce preset to upscale to 4k, as 1440p tvs arent common)

Clown_Tempura,

Honestly a handheld PS4 equivalent of the Steam Deck sounds nice too.

darn,
@darn@lemmy.world avatar

even then, the gamecube had mini discs instead of full sized ones, so games couldn’t be as big

the n64 was behind in a similar way, using cartridges when cds were starting to become the norm

Psythik, (edited )

You’re not. I’ve been wanting this since the GameCube, the last Nintendo system that was built with performance in mind and advertised as such. The Wii was a step in the wrong direction, and it was all downhill from there as far as my head canon is concerned. I’m glad that Nintendo is finally catering to fans like us again after waiting patiently for 22 years.

Notorious_handholder, do gaming w Tencent is bringing back military FPS series Delta Force

Yoooo I loved the Delta force games as a kid. Shame it’s Tencent bringing it back :(

GlitchyDigiBun,
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The multiplayer version on the Black Hawk Down engine was so sick. Better than Battlefield, and sold at Walmart for like $10

altima_neo, do games w The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Oh good, I was worried it would be AAAA.

Steamymoomilk,

Quad A is to good

9715698,

It’s too bad. Uni have is a sweet treat of AAAA having. We can’t go back now

approxamatrix,

Yeah, it better be AAAAA

AceTKen, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide
@AceTKen@lemmy.ca avatar

Never got into Harry Potter since I was too old. This game was really fun to just explore and I constantly felt a forward momentum. Some of the stories were good, and some were awful.

I would absolutely play a sequel just based on the well done sense of discovery alone. I just wish more of what you found was impactful instead of cosmetic.

Silentiea,

On the one hand, I agree about wishing there was more to find than a new color cloak, but on the other hand I think it’s a neat way to keep the game approachable to more casual gamers (and to try and get as many Harry Potter fans to get it as possible). That being said, I would have liked if there were more challenge, and something other than just flat stat improvements could have been a way to keep that interesting if they had higher difficulties.

AceTKen,
@AceTKen@lemmy.ca avatar

I get it, but it doesn’t have to be just pure stats. Could have been mild ability improvements or something or maybe changed some of the effects or visual things that occurred around you. Hell, even walking speed improvement or something like a tone to help you locate hidden items.

There’s a lot they could have done considering we’re dealing with magical items! Still had a pretty good time with it overall though.

Carighan, do games w Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I wish they’d aggressively apply it to replacing middle-top management. The jobs that don’t add anything except a lot of money being siphoned off, anyways.

Quetzalcutlass,

I welcome our robot middle-lords.

JagFel, do games w Max Payne voice actor James McCaffrey has passed away

This hits hard, the Max Payne 1 was my introduction to Film Noir storytelling and I can still remember how I felt when I finished it in that first play thru.

Keep on driving into the night Mr. McCaffery, it’s a late good bye, such a late a good bye.

blunderworld, do gaming w Ubisoft says Prince of Persia Remake has ‘passed an important milestone’

Sounds like Ubisoft finally figured out how to include micro transactions

jmcs,

Do you need to Rewind? Pay $4.99. Don’t want to? Well, enjoy the beginning of the game again.

Swedneck, do gaming w Todd Howard wants Elder Scrolls 6 to be ‘the ultimate fantasy-world simulator’
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i genuinely cannot imagine that it’ll be anything other than a continuation of the bethesda model: simplify and just add more environments to keep the players inside the basic gameplay loop of “go here, do thing, return, reward, go here, do thing”

Lols,

76 has actually made me pretty hopeful for the direction of bethesdas games- it includes a return to older style dialogue, introduced more skill checks and the like, featured a more cohesive world and generally seemed like it went back on the simplification a fair bit

starfield similarly seems to be more of a return to form for them, focusing more on character builds, an expansive trait system etc

it is also being worked on heavily by the lead quest designer for far harbor iirc, which is absolutely a good sign and is setting my hopes high for a deeper, more complex and more forked main questline than Bethesda usually goes for

XTornado,

Yeah… 76, seems a case study.

Gordon_Freeman,
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hyorvenn,
@hyorvenn@jlai.lu avatar

Skyrim but no skill tree, too complicated. Player can buy every weapon and spells and skills level are just damage boost. Bethesda adds a 3rd person view during conversation and a weird standard male voice so that any chance of roleplay is dead. All cool spells are removed and players can only use destructions spells. No more illusion or alteration funny spells. Only fireballs and bolts exist now. All guilds quests have been removed in favour of radiant quests. Everything is randomly generated and sold as replayability and “every playthrough is unique”. Main quest is 3 quests long because people didn’t finish skyrim main quest. Everything is level scaled. They learned from skyrim and oblivion mistake so now every enemy is scaled but 10lvl below you so you never struggle against anything (no more oblivion sponges!). Every location can be fast traveled to from the beginning of the game because the world is too big. Spears have been added to the game but it’s an official creation club mod only. The stamina bar has been removed for “faster paced” combats.

Anyway that’s my prediction for TES 6

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