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Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

Can’t wait to wait 2 years and then pirate it.

But besides that; are there any good PC kart racers?

(Emphasis on “good”, because I already know about Super Tux Kart, used to play it a lot more than 10 years ago, but today it feels very… Clunky and dated).

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

Gbatemp.net

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

There are also resources on emulation. Generally speaking, if it’s about console hacking, rom hacking, custom roms, homebrew, and general technical stuff, GBATemp is the place for it.

A lot of people that develop CFWs, emulators, or homebrew hang out on that forum.

However, be advised; the only reason why that forum is even alive after all these decades is because they’re not allowed to directly link to pirated software.

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

Hmm… I’ve heard a few things about Sonic All-Stars too. Guess I should give it a shot.

Would be cool if Crash Nitro Kart isn’t still a PlayStation exclusive…

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

Which is why CFWs and emulators are shared there. Just not the games.

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

Yup. Install either Heroic or Lutris (though Heroic is a little better). I think there’s also a plugin to allow you to access Heroic through the Steam frintend, but in Desktop Mode, when installing a game through Heroic, it’ll add it to your Steam library, which means you can access it in Game Mode too.

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

You can download and keep the installers forever in your personal storage somewhere, and install them without the need of Internet connection.

When you buy a game from GOG you’re buying without DRM and have all the installers available to download as backups. Regardless of what the fine print may say, this is effectively owning your games forever.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Maybe that’s the point. You begin the video, the host says “Hello, and welcome!”, then you immediately stop the video having just watched 15 seconds.

“That was a pretty interesting Nintendo Direct!”

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

I’m honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.

Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.

Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

That first part really resonates because I experienced the DS lite. I didn’t see many phat NDS consoles, but kids everywhere had a DS lite. Mariokart did insanely well on that console, but not just because it was Mariokart, but also because of the download play feature.

It seems like Nintendo wants to replicate something like that through it’s virtual game card sharing feature. But it also seems like it’s a feature on the original Switch, so I wonder what new things they’ve planned.

I too will be surprised if the Switch 2 does better than the Switch. The 3DS, arguably the real sequel to the NDS, as opposed to the DSi, didn’t really touch the same highs that the DS lite did.

Tattorack, 2 miesiące temu

For the past 20 years that also included fun gimmicks. They sometimes fail, as with the Wii U, or were good but… Kinda just a gimmick, like the 3DS. But Nintendo has been making their consoles pretty unique from every other console. The DS format and the Wii are still very unique consoles. The Switch 2… Not so much…

I don’t doubt the Switch 2 will see success, but how it’ll stand out from everything else like the Switch originally did is still a question.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

The only one that sounds good to me, perhaps, are the voting rights. I’d pay for that. Patreon artists and creators do this sort of thing, and if this is something GOG needs to do to get by, then fine by me.

Downloading offline installers/backups, however… That would be locking away a feature that exists now to everyone that has bought a game. That means locking away a feature from customers who have spent money on a product already… Likely for the explicit point of being able to get installers that don’t need an online connection. If they choose to do this, they’d be desfeting their own purpose.

For context; I bought most of my games on GOG. I don’t really buy games anymore, and my Steam library is low absolutely massive, however. Both of those reasons are because I’ve been subbed to Humble Monthly for a few years. But ultimately when I go looking to buy a game, my preference is to buy from GOG specifically because it’s offline and DRM free.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Joke’s on you; neither are OK. The Last Samurai is only good to those with weird exotic ideas about Samurai, Japan, and that time period.

Would be cool if there was a series about the actual French admiral that movie is based on, and all the political miandering that happened in that time.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

I thought so too in the beginning. But the English character in that series is more of a… Useful tool that gets used. He has no agency and he never realises it throughout the entire series.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Except The Last Samurai isn’t remotely historical.

Tom Cruise’s is very roughly based in a French admiral. That admiral got sent specifically to Japan to create political relations with a certain faction of Samurai to further French interests there. The French admiral was made samurai as honorary title and put into service of the household.

During the final battle (which was a castle siege, and both sides were using guns), the French admiral was released from service and sent home.

If a movie or a series were to be made of this, and if it were to be somewhat accurate, it’d be closer to a political thriller with some battles in between.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

It can be a bit of both. You can tell a good story that also stays true to the historical events. Not being being able to do that shows a lack of skill and imagination.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

It was not skillfully made or imaginative. It was a very basic toybox of exotic nonsense about Samurai wrapped around a premise similar to Dances With Wolves.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

This is… None of this is important.

Bloody hell, people in the comments getting worked over a social media altercation… On Twatter of all places…

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

You know, when you combine the term “2D monster taming RPG” with “absolute limits” literally everyone is going to think taming and fucking.

Anyway, Cloud Meadow exists so they got competition…

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

It doesn’t have to be the best game of all time. It just has to be at least as good as Hollow Knight.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

True, but some pretty good clones have come out since Hollow Knight, so it’s not impossible.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Reminds me of early 3DS hacking and CFWs. Don’t worry, we’ll get there eventually. The fact it can do this at all is a major step.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Yeah, hacking a 3DS is incredibly easy and painless today. Back when I first hacked my 3DS I had to do it through the browser, after inserting a bunch of code on an SD card, and it only had a 50/50 chance of actually working, with the risk of bricking the thing.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

But it’s not made on UE 1, now, is it?

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

That’s the issue with the current creation engine; it kind of is. That is what’s meant with “20 year old engine”.

The updates the creation engine has been having over the years are more like bandaids. Meanwhile unreal gets damn-near rebuilt from the ground up fir every major version release.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

You have… No idea what you’re talking about.

I don’t like Bethesda games? The amount of time I’ve spent on Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 says otherwise. Hell, I’m right now doing yet another playthrough of Skyrim.

The best way to understand what’s wrong with the creation engine, and how woefully out-dated it is, is to listen to what modders have to deal with constantly. The creation engine is hardly a serious upgrade of Gamebrio and BGE only puts in the minimal effort into actually updating it.

At its core, and the major reason why exploration is so stilted in Starfield, is that the creation engine just isn’t capable of solving the floating point problems with seamless worlds, which other engines ARE capable of. Pathfinding generation and animation sorting hasn’t been seriously updated since Oblivion, and the Papyrus script engine still has the same 200 limit it had since Morrowind, a limitation that was there because of hardware of that time, but forcing Papyrus to go over the 200 limit causes Bethesda games to become unstable.

Yes, it’s BGE and their practices that are the problem, and it’s reflected in how they maintain their engine too.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

So, EA as usual.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Well, I mean, there haven’t been microtransactions in their games yet…

So we can take his word for it, for now.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

“Aggressively cliché” huh?

So… Where are all the realistic medieval sandbox RPGs? You know, of the kind set in an actual historical period?

Or… Or… How often has capturing the freedom and complexity of D&D in a videogame been attempted so accurately?

For something to even approach becoming a cliché there’d have to be a lot of that particular something done in exactly that particular way. So please do give a nice long list of games exactly like Kingdom Come Deliverence and Baldur’s Gate 3, because clearly everyone must’ve missed them.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

They don’t want people to play their old games either. Nintendo creates an artificial scarcity by only occasionally releasing older titles to their newer consoles, despite that those older titles are quite literally running on emulators… Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

I might. Was quite a number of years ago when this was a hot topic on GBATemp when someone looked at the code of the NES mini.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

And yet there’s an incredibly high demand for playing old Nintendo games. When Nintendo occasionally sells emulated old games on newer consoles, they tend to sell pretty well. The NES and the SNES mini were much sought after and best-sellers.

So imagine if Nintendo offers the games in their entire retro library (that they are licensed to offer) with an official emulator for people to buy. That would evaporate the piracy of retro Nintendo games pretty quickly.

However, Nintendo doesn’t want that. They like completely manufactured, artificial scarcity. And so there’s piracy. A lot of piracy.

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

It does. Piracy is a service issue. The games exist. They’re easy to emulate. Company tries to pull off artificial scarcity. Players become pirates

Tattorack, 3 miesiące temu

Nintendo hates all emulators. Ryujinx is just another one on their chopping block.

Tattorack, 4 miesiące temu

Yes. I caught on to this waaaaaaaayyyy back when League just starting getting traction, esports weren’t really a thing, and I also played some Yu Gi Oh.

Both has the same sort of design, as ilæustrated nicely by this meme; the match is nearly always decided early, and for the rest of the game you’re either just styling on the opponents, or you are getting styles on.

Victories didn’t feel good, losses felt even worse, and I began to understand why people rage and break their keyboard. Games like these fuel such behaviour.

Tattorack, 4 miesiące temu

The alternative would’ve been putting actual effort into making a legacy collection run on modern systems.

Nobody complained about Star Wars Battlefront until its legacy collection came out and worked like garbage.

Nobody complained about The Sims until its legacy collection came out and… I’m sure you get the idea.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

Good riddance. Seems like Sony got the message; we’re sick of everything being a “live service”.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

So far Warframe has been the ONLY example of a good live service game. It’s the OG when it comes to the model, but it’s also the exception, and not the rule.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

“Live service” is a game that has an always online requirement. Just getting updates on the regular doesn’t make it a live service if the game works just fine without an Internet connection.

Single player Ubisoft games are all “live services”, due to some of them needing a constant connection to Ubisoft’s servers, and them having in-game shops that only work while online.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

They’re the same thing. “Live service” is how Activision-Blizzard rebranded games that required to be always online. They also solidified the outline of things publishers at the time were already doing with their always online games, such as endless content players will have to buy.

Those documents leaked many years ago, and soon after that the moniker was changed from “always online” to “Live Service”.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

I’ll try and find them, but first I heard from it was from Jim Stirling. “The Jimquisition” on YouTube, I think. Haven’t kept up with that guy in years.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

You don’t say, Nintendo. Pretty sure they’re also using open source emulators, from the developers they really hate, to run their older titles.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

Larian are good developers. BG3 is a finished game with more potential and replayability that anything else. Let these guys cook.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

Well, not Helldivers.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

A Horizon movie could work, so long as it’s not going to adapt one of the game’s stories, and works instead as an expansion of the world rather than a retread.

Helldivers… I’m not seeing it. I’m not seeing it at all. It’ll simply be off-brand Starship Troopers. Besides, what story is there to tell? The game’s direction is partially, in some small part, driven by the way players react to alerts events. You’re not going to capture that in a movie.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

Baldur’s Gate 3.

Tattorack, 5 miesięcy temu

“This mod will ONLY work on a legitimate copy!” is just a plain lie I’ve seen many times on various mods over the years. Problems and issues caused by mods have never been because of a pirated copy.