I have joined 6 revolt communities and every single one of them became a graveyard within a week. I would love to see this one buck the trend I’m seeing but I’m curious what your plans are and how active yall are currently.
Please understand I’m not skeptical of you and your community. I’ve just seen a lot of dead ends on revolt unfortunately.
The game was finished, which is unfortunately not the norm. It is not AI or even procgen content. It has a focused (if meh) story, graphics and mechanics are solid, it isn’t some sprawling mass open world with a billion fetch quests.
It’s hardly an inspiring game but it certainly is a complete, focused piece that many people have enjoyed. It’s the happy B student in the class.
I don’t understand why people have such a myopic view of games these days. They’re either God’s gift to gamers or absolute dog shit that people should be executed for.
Avowed received decent, not terrible or great reviews. But for you it’s basically Too Human it sounds like. You’re just too blinded by the need to slot games as a 10 or a 1 and can’t be bothered to consider nuance.
Anyway you have failed to give any evidence for why this is “AI slop.“ You just think it’s a bad game. That’s not the same thing. You’re entitled to your opinion but to think it was generated by AI is, frankly, way too generous towards AI. You clearly think it’s way more capable than it is. Because if you think that Avowed is so bad that it falls to that level, then you just don’t have any perspective.
Hate the game all you want, I know I bounced off it after like three hours so that is totally valid. But you need to stop just making shit up/shooting from the hip.
AI tools for game development didn’t even exist in any meaningful form when production was going for this game. By the time those tools were even coming out it was entering the final steps before release. Are you capable of using a calendar?
I get it it’s fun cosplaying as an asshole on the Internet, but it means you’re just an asshole. Grow up.
Edit: disregard below. Did some more digging into how it works and they are not recompiling or using previous assets, they are in fact regenerating these games whole cloth. What a colossal waste of resources. Spencer and Microsoft are being dumb lol
Ok, I’m pretty anti-Phil at this point. But this post seems to be doing a lot of…let’s call it “uncharitable” interpretation. And I get it, he doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. But let’s look at the quotes here:
“Today, countless classic games tied to aging hardware are no longer playable by most people,” Xbox says in its announcement post. “Thanks to this breakthrough, we are exploring the potential for Muse to take older back catalog games from our studios and optimize them for any device. We believe this could radically change how we preserve and experience classic games in the future and make them accessible to more players.”
“One of the things we care a lot about at Xbox is game preservation,” Phil Spencer says in a video accompanying the announcement. “And I think about an opportunity to have models learn about older games, games that were maybe tied to unique pieces of hardware where that engine on that hardware… Time will erode the amount of hardware that’s out there that can actually play a game.”
I initially read this as “AI can take older games that were relegated to older hardware and make them compatible on modern systems so players don’t need the hardware anymore.”
Does emulation solve this? Yeah usually. Does he have some cheap money grab planned? Totally possible and wouldn’t be surprising. But frankly I don’t know. I’m not quite sure I’m buying in to the axe grinding this article is engaging in.
That being said Microsoft would definitely do better to put their efforts towards supporting emulation and public acquisition of roms. Completely agree with that sentiment. But I think they’re kind of bending the premise to shout about that (again valid and one I agree with) point here.
I’m not sure where this “facsimile” talking point is even coming from if I’m being completely honest. If I glossed over it please share a quote with me. I am perfectly comfortable going back to blaming Phil Spencer lol
Gotta go deeper lmao “Current update for insiders, proposed upcoming update for everyone that’s clearly not rolling out anymore.” Their headline is accurate but super misleading and click bait-y for sure
I recently finished Assassin’s Creed Unity and loved every minute of it. The story, the gameplay, the revolutionary Paris setting, the movement—everything was amazing. Even in 2025, Unity’s ultra settings look incredible, and I don’t think any other game has managed to handle crowds of NPCs as well as it did....
Unity was just too long and by the time he becomes and alcoholic/you’re stuck in that town for a while I just didn’t care anymore. I’m surprised I even finished it.
That being said the actual big assassination missions were super cool and I wish they had built on that formula more. It felt very rewarding to get creative and I liked how you had so many ways to play them. It was very good design.
Emulation =/= online piracy. You need to stop equating them. I emulate games I bought all the time. They were legally acquired ROMs and emulation is legal. I’m not doing anything wrong, legally/ethically/whatever metric you want to use.
Emulation is the legal act (in the US and many countries) of running games on a virtual instance of their respective consoles. Piracy is in no way required to participate in this activity. You can download emulators from the Apple App Store, that’s how legal it is.
I also find it laughable that you want to compare Nintendo to some scrappy artist spending a decade on their game. You need data to show the harm here.
I have no issue with emulating games. But I also have no issue of a company trying to stop their games from being emulated.
This was literally your starting argument and what I was objecting to. You have talked about piracy in all follow ups. How else am I supposed to read this? You are equating them. You use them interchangeably to defend Nintendo’s behavior.
Ok? My mistake aside, this entire conversation was about how someone thought companies are right to stop people from emulating. Then you started talking about online piracy which is not the same thing.
You’re right. “A gamer news magazine” said it so that’s all there is to say.
Also I didn’t say the games haven’t had their share of major and minor issues. I just don’t understand the console gamer blame. The games sell millions of units on Steam alone.
Me and my friend finished up Halo Reach today on legendary. I really loved the ending. I think it’s probably one of my favorite endings out of all the Halo games so far. 3 might be tied though....
I’ve never understood why Reach got so much shit at launch and still sees some to this day. It’s a very good game. Ever since halo 3 wrapped The series has just been checking off boxes with their missions and making you fight pretty typical engagements. Here’s the tank level, here’s the warthog level, etc. Reach Is a very focused, dynamic experience from start to finish
It did well tbh but there was just an entire meme culture knocking it for some reason. I remember seeing it get a lot of shit on Reddit back when I browsed it. It kind of surprised me in a lot of ways.
I think a lot of it was driven by people wanting to dunk on Microsoft and halo fans in particular. People still dunk on Microsoft, but halo isn’t as fun to dunk on anymore now that the series has completely gone off the rails and has an uncertain future
So in Iran people take old PlayStation consoles, refurbish them and sell them as new stock. My favorite part of this is that they do so with this incredible custom box....
I got so tired of spending an hour with friends prepping for a hunt then 10min into actual hunt half of us getting one-shotted because we chased our quarry 50m too far into some area with enemies that can insta-gib you (this was World). And with PS4 load times too ugh
I’ve been sinking further and further into the RetroDECK time-sink of setting up my emulators just so, and having the most fun doing so. The PS2 is a largely unknown system to me, I neither had one nor spent much time before now playing through some titles....
Beyond Good & Evil. Legendary, Ubisoft firing on all cylinders. Weird and French and beautiful. HD remaster is also a fine option but I like it on PS2.
Ace Combat 4, 5, and Zero are great. The music in zero is legendary.
SSX tricky
Timesplitters
Final Fantasy X unless you want to do the HD remaster, which is a great way to play tbh.
Devil May Cry holds up incredibly well and IMO is a must-play.
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
LOTR games are good fun.
Armored Core 3 is pretty great if you’re into the series as a whole.
GTA Vice City/San Andreas. 3 is fine but VC is better.
For me it was just the writing. I could only take so many variations of “ha ha corporation bad.“ And I agree with them! I just needed a new joke after the 30th variation of the same punchline.
I’m not implying they are uninterested in hardware sales. It’s that the model is different. The handheld pc crowd is probably hoping for 1-2mill units on their first go arounds. That is not what previous generation hardware developers have targeted.
Current Nintendo does not care about an ecosystem. Each console/handheld they release has its slate of games they want to sell an average of per unit. They want to get as many units in as many households as possible and sell 6-8 years of games for that hardware with little library continuity between hardware releases. The switch 2 is the first departure from this tbh unless you count the Wii-u/wii which is valid but nuanced. This style best emulates all console/handheld releases pre-Gen 8 consoles.
Current iteration at Microsoft and Sony and valve is buy-in into an ecosystem that extends beyond singular hardware. Backwards compatibility, for instance. They want you gaming on multiple devices buying all games through their stores with your designated account that spans systems.
It’s a very different business model then what game gear et al were attempting.
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