Ghostalmedia

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

IMHO, it depends on the game and the remake. The old Halo games are probably the best case study on what to do and what not to do.

Halo CE - Don’t do that. The game was old enough to warrant major texture, geometry, and animation upgrades, but the developer also completely changed the art style.

Halo 2 - Do this. It’s the old art style, but with more detail. The game looks like how you think it looked, until you toggle the old graphics on and see how it ACTUALLY looked.

Halo 3 - Do this. The game was in good enough shape to just need a few frame rate, texture, and resolution bumps. New animation and geometry wasn’t needed, and avoiding that was the right call.

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah, I wonder why they never added the option to combo new visuals and old sounds. MCC will only allow old audio with the old graphics.

That said, it’s still one of those games where I get together with my middle aged friends, and no one thinks much about the game’s in-game presentation until someone toggles the graphics, then people suddenly realize a LOT more has been updated that they realize.

IMHO, they did a better job than most at recapturing how the game felt when you played it back in the day. Not all of the creative choices were perfect, but nailed a lot of it.

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu

Been a minute since we’ve had a top-down Zelda game that you can play on the couch.

This looks like it might scratch my A Link to the Past itch.

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu

The art style is what excites me the most. This is like next-gen Link to the Past.

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu

Are we really surprised that people didn’t know CD-i Zelda games existed?

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah, good point. I wonder if this is the same engine.

Ghostalmedia, 4 miesiące temu

I don’t know about that. A lot of us didn’t even know these CD-I games existed. Hell, I was a 90’s kid that subscribed to game magazines, and my only real exposure to it was some random educational games that my school bought and then never really used.

If you go around and ask 40 somethings if they played CD-I games, you’re going to get a lot of people who say “what was that?”

Ghostalmedia, 5 miesięcy temu

Looking at the sales estimates, the numbers appear pretty modest compared to the other gaming devices. They’re probably under 5m units sold since early 2022.

Ghostalmedia, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah, just saying that most of Valve’s value is probably in their software. Their hardware installed base is pretty small compared to others.

Ghostalmedia, 6 miesięcy temu

I was a massive fan of the OG Xbox and the 360, and every generation since the 360, I’ve grabbed an Xbox with the hope of getting a taste of those glory days.

I’m over it. Microsoft is making dumb decisions up and down the org these days. Their decisions make me sad at work, then sad on the couch after work.

Ghostalmedia, 7 miesięcy temu

I believe that was called phantom liberty.

Ghostalmedia, 8 miesięcy temu

“These charges consist of approximately $50 million to $65 million associated with office space reductions, approximately $40 million to $55 million related to employee severance and employee-related costs, and $35 million to $45 million in costs associated with licensor commitments,” reads the filing.

The severance I get, but why is closing offices costing them so much. And what are “ licensor commitments?”

Ghostalmedia, 8 miesięcy temu

Yeah, that could be. No one wants office buildings because so many people are remote now. Office buildings are the cheapest they’ve been in decades.

Ghostalmedia, 8 miesięcy temu

Yeah, that would make sense. Commercial leases can be up to a decade long.

Ghostalmedia, 11 miesięcy temu

OP saved up by not buying condoms.

Ghostalmedia, 11 miesięcy temu

“Suck is forever”

That’s some Gen X Yoda shit.

Ghostalmedia, rok temu

A 5 or 6 year window between massive titles is pretty normal these days. 5 years separated GTA IV and V. Also, 5 years also separated GTA V and RDR2.

Looks like the might have a 6 year gap this time, but they also had a global pandemic mucking up development. A lot of studios struggled with that.

Ghostalmedia, rok temu

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted for asking a simple question.

Could be a number of things. Some people are begrudgingly in unions. They kind of need to be in the union to get the job, but they might not like the idea of organized labor.

Some people might be tight on cash and might also need their regular wages at the moment.

Ghostalmedia, rok temu

Since that 1.6x is pretty stable and performant, I’d be shocked if this rollout was bad.

That said, given that 1.0’s monumentally terrible launch, and the press restrictions that hid performance problems, you’d think CDPR would be trying to be transparent AF this time around.

I just thought it was a fascinatingly bad marketing decision that made this an interesting review worth posting. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Ghostalmedia, rok temu

And anything below 3 is a train wreck worth playing for the laughs.

Ghostalmedia, rok temu

I’m going to pause Starfield for to play this expansion. Now that Cyberpunk is patched and running well, it’s what I wish Starfield actually was.

Ghostalmedia, rok temu

On the Xbox, 30fps feel like 30fps to me, but after a while, my brain reverts back to 2005 and I kind of get used to it.

But it’s pretty jarring if I switch back from another game.