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tuckerm, w EA Games will Shut these Online Servers Down in 2023

Not sure what Half Life 2 is doing on there, pretty sure Valve is fully in control of that one on PC at least. Didn't EA publish the PS3 version of the Orange Box? I'm guessing that's for a console port.

Also, Biomutant? That only just came out like two years ago. Not sure what the online features are for that game though, I thought it was singleplayer.

This is all just another reason why I don't buy games where online multiplayer is the main selling point of the game. I might not even get around to playing it much before that feature is removed.

Old PC games with dedicated servers are still (and always will be) playable online, while games from a couple years ago have their centrally-managed servers taken offline. People are still playing Doom, Quake, and Unreal Tournament while games from this console generation are already unplayable.

Blxter,
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I believe biomutant is single player…I have that game but yet to play still…

Kolanaki,
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It is singleplayer, but it does have leaderboards.

Sprite,
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I loved Biomutant. I wish you as much joy as it brought me. :)

XbSuper, w ChatGPT was used to write Gollum game apology, it’s claimed

Why is anyone even still talking about this game?

Son_of_dad,

I just saw it on the PlayStation store on sale for like $50. May as well just give it away at this point and I still won’t play it, it’s silly they’re charging that much for it still, especially since the devs shut down

MountainWizard,
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A German Youtube channel named Game Two, did a documentation about what went wrong and released it this weekend. Like the Developers they are based in Hamburg and did many interviews with former employees. It’s linked in the article but unfortunately only available in German.

birbboidaseed, w Todd Howard says Starfield was 'made to be played for a long time,' but a month after launch I'm already drifting away

This game feels more like a chore with a million fetch quests. I never made it out of new Atlantis in my play through. Bg3 is so much more nuance and a way better game.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

The one truly great thing about Skyrim is the ability to just wander and fall into trouble.

That simply doesn’t exist in a game where travelling is a loading screen.

birbboidaseed,

Yeah I don’t know why they can’t make space travel to work similar to NMS. That would have been so much better. I don’t really feel like I’m exploring anything jumping from system to system. Hell even planets to planets.

Kolanaki, (edited )
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Yeah I don’t know why they can’t make space travel to work similar to NMS

Because the Creation Engine is a pile of shit stacked on top of another pile of shit known as Gamebryo. The only way it even is able to handle high speed vehicles for the space combat is by having much smaller external cells with absolutely nothing in them.

What they could have done, though, is make the planets fully walkable. For some reason, those are also not seamless. You eventually hit invisible walls in any sector you land at. The engine is very capable of handling that, though. Especially if it’s just empty terrain.

Skwerls,

Seriously, I wish they had dropped that engine. It’s so hodge podge and lacking, they had a decade to make starfield in a new to them engine. Instead we get this shit in 2023

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Can’t believe Bethesda own id Software and at no point set them to work updating the engine to a modern standard.

thorbot, w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient

Starfield is ancient according to the developers, they’ve been working on it for 25 years

kurcatovium,

If this is work of 25 years, it’s honestly quite sad.

msage,

It’s always like this.

When you work on something for longer than 5 years, the tech and expectations from competing games will run ahead of you.

And you can’t just rewrite the story and engine and map and characters every time you get delayed.

So you should just shoot every AAA project that lags more than 5 years on the spot. It’s way too late for it at that time. And start from market analysis, not just rewriting everything in the ‘current engine and style’.

samus12345,
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Or don’t use an engine that was already over 5 years out of date when you started the project.

msage,

Hey, Bethesda is already on life support, no need to punch down

Klicnik, w NVIDIA To Launch More Powerful GeForce RTX 4080 Ti GPU In Early 2024 At Same Price As RTX 4080
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Anticorp,

But Doctor Evil, such a number doesn’t even exist!

tdawg, w Dredge smashes internal expectations after topping 1 million sales

Lots of fun! Got a little repetitive after about tens hours. Don’t regret the purchase

emmie, w A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game

I like starfield overall but it definietly is a weaker game than skyrim

The1Morrigan,

FULLY agreed.

RandomStickman, w EA Games will Shut these Online Servers Down in 2023
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Rip BFBC/2

I wouldn't be as mad if they'd leave private servers alone

tmcgh,

I’m going to miss 1943, I played that and BC2 a lot back in the day. Not as much anymore but when I want a fps, that’s what I play.

chemical_cutthroat, w Steam's biggest free demo showcase is about to return (Steam next fest)
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Next fest is awesome. I wish we still had demo CDs, but this is a close second.

HidingCat,

Demo CDs are just a delivery mechanism, and I consider this way better.

Now the practice of giving a demo for a game, that does need to return.

Kolanaki,
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This is one of the benefits of PS+; you can demo almost anything since it just gives you 2 hours with the full game.

Steam (and other PC fronts/games) could do this. But it would also make it quite easy to pirate those, which is probably why they don’t.

Selmafudd,

Steam used to give a free auto refund with less than 2 hours of play time, donno if they still do.

Now I just pirate a game to check it out and if I’m still playing it when the next update comes out then I buy it

charles,

They do except there’s the additional condition of 2 weeks since purchase date. So as long as you’ve played less than 2 hours and purchased within 2 weeks, you’ll get an automatic refund (unless you abuse the system, but I’ve returned many games over the years and never had issues).

HidingCat,

I've had a game refunded at 3 weeks even, but it was under 1 hour of play time.

Kolanaki,
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I’ve only taken advantage of this once. When I had VR, I got some utility program because it advertised being able to do something I was trying to do (I don’t remember what exactly), but it didn’t actually do that thing. I requested a refund after like 20 minutes of using it and it was pretty much instantly refunded.

Damn good policy, as long as you check out what you buy pretty quick to make sure it’s what you want, IMO.

mindbleach, w Atari 2600+ interview: New games and lessons learned from the VCS

It’s not often that any video game company gets to turn 50

In no sense is this company 50 years old. Atari was cleaved in half by Warner 40 years ago. One half was purchased and used for branding, right before the new parent company also went out of business… five separate times. The other half did quite well in arcades until those stopped existing. The absolute latest you could say “Atari” lasted was 2003, when Midway Games West ceased operations.

Even the modern company calling itself Atari, formerly Infogrames, has been in and out of bankruptcy, and no longer owns most of the IPs either brand was known for. This company is that shambling wreck.

This brand is such an L factory that their bold new direction is re-releasing the machine that came in third place behind the NES, basically unmodified, and pretending it’s downright archaic 1970s hardware that was brought low by the technical demands of Pac-Man.

And it’s honestly a good idea.

I’m excited to see how it goes. More companies should do it. But acting like this is a victory lap for a titan of industry is a punchline in itself.

MomoTimeToDie,

It’s even funnier when you realize that arguably their biggest competitors back in the day, Nintendo and Sega, both have far better claims to being 50+ years old, with both having continuous operations since. Bonus points to Nintendo for being over 100 years old.

Fedizen, w ChatGPT was used to write Gollum game apology, it’s claimed

lol dumpster fire energy

HidingCat, w Steam's biggest free demo showcase is about to return (Steam next fest)

Yay! Love Steam Next Fest. Just need to find some time to try the demos.

youhavechosenwisely, w Video game makers aren’t catering for gamers with disabilities, study finds

I just want removal of anticheat for single player games/coop (or a toggle option like master chief collection). Trainers are so helpful for younger children and the disabled to enjoy the game with a bit of a skill level adjustment. Subtitles are a must too.

ryannathans, w [Gamers Nexus] Counter-Strike 2 CPU Benchmarks: E-Core Challenges and X3D Benefits

Sad day for intel and ecores

rivalary, w Lies of P is confirmed to be getting DLC. Developer Neowiz confirmed it on their Korean job board.

The tragic story of a game that was infected with Denuvo after release day.

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