echodot

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echodot,

What indie developer would deliberately sign up with take two?

A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed (kotaku.com) angielski

Not to continue beating a dead horse, this article is really about mainstream media’s relationship with video games, or the lack thereof. For the first time in my life, I pay for a subscription to news, because the same problems that crop up from getting news from reddit happen just as easily here in the fediverse. There are...

echodot,

I do find it interesting though that the finals is another game that basically has not been advertised to anyone, and that has a very strong but small community. So not advertising your game is not automatically a death sentence although it probably doesn’t help.

echodot,

I have two computers that I attempt to install Windows 11 on just out of curiosity. My old gaming rig which has a motherboard from I would think 2016 (technically the entire computer is from 2010 but other than the case I don’t think any component is that old) can install Windows 11. A laptop I got in 2019 can’t install it. How does that work?

echodot,

I had an argument with someone who kept claiming that it was all okay because it was “in alpha”, all the developers have to do is claim that the game isn’t finished yet and is still in development and then they can sell it for whatever price they want an idiot will buy it and defend it.

echodot,

At least in the EU there are rules about contracts and how they need to be understandable. Companies are not allowed to just hire a lawyer who’s going to latinize everything simply to make it as impenetrable as possible.

Of course lawyers still use 16 words where one would do but it results in documents that are more rambly than incomprehensible.

echodot,

I have played it and it spends the entire time trying to make me buy virtual ships for real money. And this isn’t microtransactions either, this is substantial quantities of cash.

If it was just a bit of a cash grab but it was otherwise an okay game I guess it would be acceptable. But there’s nothing to the game, all you do is you fly around in your basic ship because you refuse to buy a good one, and shoot pirates. It doesn’t do anything that you can’t do in Elite Dangerous or No Man’s Sky.

echodot,

The fact that you think that Peter Molyneux is a good individual to hold up, is really telling. The man hasn’t been behind a successful projects since the dawn of the century.

Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? angielski

Playing complex strategy games for many years, one of the things that irks me the most is that hard AI levels often just give the dumb AI cheats to simulate it being smarter. To me, it’s not very satisfying to go against cheating AI. Are any games today leveraging neural networks to supplant or augment hand-written decision...

echodot,

You don’t want a neural net for your game AI because it’s behavior is unpredictable and therefore cannot be tested.

All of the issues AI companies have now times by a thousand because now the AI have access to a physical presence in the game world. It would cheat and find ways to know things about the game state that it’s not supposed to know, or it would hide in a corner as far away from the player as possible because it’s parameters is to avoid death, or some other unforeseen function of its instructions.

echodot,

Neural networks have been used to play countless games before. It’s probably one of the most studied use cases simply because it is so easy to do.

Play games yes not be the enemy. It just seems like way more work than is necessary and for no really obvious outcome.

echodot,

I’m still a bit mad about the trains in grand theft auto games. The early ones had trains you could actually properly interact with rather than them just sort of mindlessly going around the map being indestructible juggernauts.

I want to be able to derail and steal it.

There are indie games that support derailing trains, so it ain’t hard

echodot,

Haven’t they said 2026 or if I just made that up

echodot,

It also slaughters your battery life for some reason.

echodot,

Just to be clear. Comcast which is a major ISP for the United States has data caps?

I will never understand why the United States insists on living about 30 years behind the rest of the planet.

echodot,

Even on mobile my data cap only counts some of the time. Streaming services are not included.

So I can watch all of the YouTube or Netflix or Disney plus that I want and my data limit never goes anywhere. Basically it’s just for general browsing. Given that the bulk of my usage is streaming my data cap essentially doesn’t exist for me.

echodot,

They literally never introduce any new concepts to their games I think the last new innovation in the pokemon game is supposed to allow you to have two vs two. That was about 10 years ago I think

echodot,

You have always been able to throw a ball at an unharmed Pokémon to capture it. Just had a very low chance of success unless it was either very low level or it was a great ball or one of the other ones they introduced later. But even back in red and blue you could always try it and it might work.

echodot,

Vicious rumor spreading will not be tolerated. The '90s were 15 years ago

echodot,

So not Pokémon and not an MMO.

Their journalism skills are spectacular

echodot,

No one at Nintendo knows how to run a successful business anymore. They’re just profiting off their forebears decisions.

The switch was a really interesting games console, that they did absolutely nothing with.

echodot,

Pretty much all modern arcades just charge you for entry. No one pays for the individual games anymore because no one would do it in this day and age as it would be seen as overly expensive.

echodot,

Which is a business.

echodot,

An art museum is. This is run by Nintendo, it’s advertising/ commercial

Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played (lemmy.world) angielski

As a long-time Stardew Valley fan, I never thought I’d find a game that could capture my heart quite the same way. Fields of Mistria has done just that. I’m honestly blown away by how good this game is...

echodot,

Well that’s definitely a pick-up line.

echodot,

Is it an issue for games with bios level anti cheat?

echodot,

I honestly thought it was just an asset flip that turned out to be kind of funny and so was tolerated I didn’t realize that it was made by the same people that made Satisfactory.

echodot,

Also it’s really expensive to do anything. The way we want is incentivized to find some way to supplement their income.

echodot,

I’m absolutely terrible at Chivalry 2 but I have to admit, I don’t mind. It’s just fun running around with so many other people.

echodot,

Merry Christmas

What, no this is not acceptable. It’s flaming October, we haven’t even had Halloween yet, you can’t be wishing people merry Christmas yet.

echodot,

The music is pretty great but I think they’re really talking about the diegetic sound effects. When you get a multiplier the pitch rises for each new mult, but no matter how many you get it never goes sky high I think it uses some version of the infinite stairs effect.

echodot,

They can claim whatever they want. But if it’s publicly available then it’s a beta regardless of what arbitrary name they give it.

If it was alpha it should be free.

echodot,

Years ago I made a space game that was basically, Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, but with spaceships. I made it way too complicated and basically only I could play it, but I’ve often thought that it was a good basis for a game if only I made it less stupid.

I cannot believe nobody has made a space game since, where being the master of your ship is the whole goal. Basically Euro truck simulator in space. One of the nice things about that game is that all the gamey stuff is just handled by menus so that you can actually get to the experience without having to wander around a supplemental environment that doesn’t really add anything to the experience.

echodot,

I’ve worked on a team of 12 at one point and I remember that being a pain to organize. Not that I was the one doing the organization mind you but it just seemed like it was a nightmare.

echodot,

It’s been in development hell for over 10 years it’s not going anywhere slowly. They barely even have a product.

echodot,

Oh well if they’ve only started four times then that’s fine. It’s only a problem if they do it 20 times right, then we worry, but 4 times, nah, that’s standard.

echodot,

There is “this game needs some more baking in the oven” and then there is “let’s stick it in the oven and forget about it, hopefully it’ll get incinerated and we can take everyone’s money”.

echodot,

Why you so hell-bent on defending fraud?

echodot,

Okay whatever you need to say to justify it to yourself.

This game came out before I went into university I’ve now graduated and could have completed a doctorate and it still wouldn’t have been in beta yet. Is the development studio near black hole or something what’s going on here.

echodot,

You are correct words do have a meaning. A weird thing for you to bring up since you’re the one incorrectly applying labels here.

Alpha products are available only for internal review, they are not available for public release they are not intended to be viewed by the general populace.

If you’re charging people money for it then it can’t be an alpha because now it’s an external product not an internal sample.

echodot,

Imagine actually working on this game. What the hell is wrong with these developers?

I’ve never seen a single game make less progress at a slower speed while also been on sale. Who out there is deluding themselves into believing this will ever be released as a finished product?

There are game studios that have come into existence, had many commercial hits, and shut down in the time it’s taken them to fail to make one game.

echodot,

Well they could actually make the game that they promised that would be a good start

echodot,

Well you did think about Mario that one time so surely they have a case.

Nintendo probably think breathing within 500 km of one of their products constitutes copyright violation.

echodot,

Realistically they weren’t going to, were they?

They’re not a big tech company, not really, there’s no reason they would have the necessary compute to develop an AI in the first place so what they’re really announcing is that something that no one expected them to do is not going to happen.

In similarly news, Crayola are not going to develop an AI.

echodot,

I didn’t really expect them to do that either, because what would it do?

The reason companies like Google are developing an AI is because they have a lot of processor capacity anyway, so they can make use of it and they have a broad enough product catalog that it fits with their current offerings.

echodot,

Or assuming people because they advertised their product for them. That one has never made sense.

echodot,

Unfortunately the one behavior negates the other. How can I have fun with their products knowing that I could face legal action simply because I share my love of their games?

No sod that, I guess their games don’t get streamed then. There are plenty of companies that are happy about the free advertising, or at least don’t care either way.

echodot,

That’s only was possible because of the invention of Fusion power.

echodot,

Are you being paid by someone to be especially stupid today, or is this your normal level of comprehension? I hope so because right now you seem like this the sort of person that would find stairs confusing.

echodot,

A stock would never drop to zero because the company would be liquidated before that happened. If the stock actually dropped to zero they would have no money they need to call bankruptcy before that point.

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