The Eldenring and Silksong communities’ collective mental health deteriorating bottomlessly up to the release date announcements will forever be one of my favourite parts of internet history.
I’ve played Lunacid! It was good, but the limited equipment slots (just your weapon and two rings) meant it didn’t have the same feeling of gradual progression that Kings Field had. Haven’t played Tears of the Moon yet.
I would definitely have preferred armor but I found the weapon and spell progression to be really good up until it kinda just stops maybe 80% through ending A. Although I think making the “use it until it upgrades” explicit was a mistake since it encourages you to stick with one. Rather than learning, 10 hours in, that the starting sword was actually OP.
And entering the catacombs from the wrong (right?) direction is the kind of bullshit From aspires to. Pitch black, invisible enemies that feel like they are respawning, all just constantly rushing you from every direction as they walk through walls. And you are just struggling to find the torches while feeling like you are getting smacked with a greatsword every step you take.
I’ve heard REALLY good things about that short game where you play as a bug in a bug kingdom but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I was in both communities at the time… Only the OGs will remember when the only thing we had to go off of Elden Ring was a random rumor that called it Great Rune.
I don’t think it will suck. It will just be “more Hollow Knight” - which is perfectly fine and what people should have been expecting. Don’t think it will live up to the irrational hype though unless it’s literally the best game ever made.
I thought him including video of a trump rally was too blunt, the audio was enough. I enjoyed the implication he was making about the game’s difference between the US and south american superweapons, which isn’t openly stated and doesn’t have to be.
Also got a MacBook Air for work because my company recently blocked Linux. Ugh…but I’m loving the MacBook more than I thought. Haven’t gone to Windows for non-work reasons in over a week now and been gaming on Linux with few issues.
I’ll never touch Mac, partly because I have issues with Apple’s business practices, and partly because I manage to break every single piece of software I touch and I’m not confident I’d be able to unbreak a mac, but if not for those factors I actually would be more likely to use it over Windows on the off chance I encounter things I can’t do on Linux.
Security did an audit of everyone’s usage into our network and determined that no one was using Linux, so no reason to keep it unblocked. Most users used Windows and some used macOS, but no Linux usage seen, so why not just block it to close off one possible vector. If you try to connect using Linux, even with the right credentials and MFA, you’ll get a block message that your device is not allowed. I had been planning on switching full time to Linux, but hadn’t yet otherwise my usage would have showed up on their report and they might not have blocked it.
The security at my job is very tight. Most things are blocked unless there is a specific need or use for it. The head of security is very strict on access and keen to block things until multiple people cry for it to be unblocked and for a reason he agrees with.
As part of the larger project of blocking access, he blocked most personal devices to access our systems. My team was excluded with some heavy deterrents to it and an agreement for us to use company managed cloud PCs for all the work we do. Myself and others don’t want company devices while we work from home and prefer to use our own devices so this was part of the compromise.
I honestly probably could have made a stink about it, and maybe not even that much effort since I have a friendlier relationship to the head of security than others, and we may have kept Linux unblocked, but I decided to just go along with it and get a Mac instead. The policy has helped in ensuring unauthorized access is kept to a minimum. We routinely get targeted by malicious parties and our users are often getting tricked by phish and malware campaigns (even with training and routine simulation tests on the users), so I can’t exactly blame him for choosing this.
“FromSoftware is based AF, Bethesda you could learn something from them” or something like that.
Um, please no. If Elder Scrolls VI is a Souls-like, I won’t play it. But with regard to IP law, yeah, that’s all fine. But Bethesda is part of Microsoft now, and they were bad enough before with Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online and the mod storefronts for Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield… so yeah, probably gonna get a lot worse.
Before the theory was just that Nintendo was actively snubbing devs with ties to tencent and the like (Digital Extremes have been pretty open that they did not have a devkit to port Warframe). Which, to be fair, would actually be a large percentage of the market because… Tencent.
But there has been increasing backdoor reports from devs that this is a broader effort and that many of the studios who DO have dev kits are under contract to not release until (if memory serves) early 2026. Jeff Gerstmann talked about this on one of his recent podcasts after a studio reached out to him and he corroborated it with his contacts (can’t imagine who they would be…).
Which makes sense when you remember how anti-consumer Nintendo is. The Switch 1 was more or less carried for the first two-ish years by “nindies”… many of which were cross platform anyway. And if their console is just the place you go to play third party games but at lower framerates and resolutions… we call that The Wii U.
Given that there is already work on Switch 2 emulators, it wouldn't surprise me that Nintendo is trying to curtail the emulation crowd until they get more of their $$. And dev kits have had people reverse engineer them a while back.
These are not random fly by night devs asking for devkits. They are pretty major players in the industry, many of which make games that make Nintendo a lot of money. Contracts and tracking (which already exist and are why game dev halted during COVID) are very much doable here.
It is also nonsense. You might as well say that they are blocking devkits because people sold too many third party controllers.
A few youtube channels over the years have gotten access to devkits. They pretty much all lock instantly the moment you go online because there is a permitlist of IPs that can connect to the servers. This is a solved problem that can be further limited by only providing them to major dev studios.
That is very much not what is happening here even if we ignore all the insider information about Nintendo delaying third parties. Again, plenty of studios are very open that they have not received devkits and these are established studios that have been around for literally decades.
This has jack all to do with emulation.
But people always need to insist Nintendo is doing their shit for the right reasons and blah blah blah.
Unemployee in a local second-hand shop that was telling another customer the reason they have loads of switch 2s in is because there is basically nothing to play on them. You get it play the limited number of games that Nintendo have made and then does nothing else to do. So people sell them.
Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.
This DevKit situation looks to me like another example of this.
The Switch 1 launch was also a shitshow. Their big launch title was literally a Wii U game and they had the same hodge podge of “what if wii sports but now”. They just had “the nindies” and… yeah.
Considering that Nintendo have actually always genuinely innovated in terms of marketing and more or less set the gold standard for the modern “just communicate direct to consumers”? I increasingly don’t believe that they have this secret vault of finished games that are ready to go whenever. They are just as fucked as everyone else. They just figured out they can tell Leakers that they actually totally have twelve games ready to release Whenever and that gets regurgitated since basically all of the remnants of games media grew up on Nintendo.
They already have comments disabled. Something tells me this will be AI slop, and that the game will be stupidly rushed. For it being an F2P game as well, the macrotransactions are going to be stupid, and knowing how Quad A works from a casual perspective, I likely suspect that it will become P2W.
Edit: I stand corrected. Since I use Invidious, the comments don’t seem to be working right now.
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