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Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Sure, but pretty much nobody but Valve is using Source 2 for anything, though.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Epic joke.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

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Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

"Monsters? They look like monsters to you?"

-Silent Hill 3

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

You don't say?

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Okay, Asmongold.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

He's the one I've seen with the "if you ignore the thing

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Well, the ADL has plenty of details about how and why Pepe is used as a hate symbol, but you already said "Fuck ADL", so I guess you're probably not going to be receptive to their explanation.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

So you didn't read it, got it.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

It does not. Currently, all it does is replace the "PS Remote Play" app you can put on your phone, which is basically just remote desktop for your PS5. Without a PS5, all you have with the Portal is a screen that doesn't do anything.

This update will allow it to stream games from Sony's servers, instead of from your own PS5. But it is still limited just to Sony's platform.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Pepe was previously coopted by far-right groups. The usage has died down since the creator of the original comic began suing people, but there are still people who put Pepe in Trump hats and shit.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Warframe is a bit similar to Destiny in that it's built around multiplayer, but most of the main content can be solo'd if you wanted. But that said, the Warframe community is still thriving, so it should be pretty easy to find a group to play with if you want to avoid the in-game matchmaking.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

Not sure why you got downvoted, you're absolutely right. While Nintendo is prolific in this subject, they're far from unique.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

How many of those developers are also hardware manufacturers, though? Because that's what we're talking about.

The Big Three all do this.

Chozo, 7 miesięcy temu

They're usually put in the game's credits. The promotional material is part of the game even if it isn't on the disc, it isn't some separate project that exists in a vacuum.

The author says "think about it", but clearly he didn't.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

I wonder if it's a licensing thing. I know a few of these games had heavy use of licensed music, like Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxy. At least, the original versions did, I'm not sure if that's the case for the Steam ports.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Probably a pessimistic take, but I don't expect this to have any discernable impact on sales, or any other effects that would discourage publishers from these practices. The average user doesn't care about or understand how these things work; they'll see an anti-cheat warning on the store page and think "Okay, tell the colonel I'll be on my best behavior then" and continue to buy the game.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

I used to work with a guy who had thrown away upwards of $10,000 at this game. The last time it came up, he told me he had spent over $8,000, and that was several years ago and he didn't seem to be showing any signs of slowing down. When I asked him what he got for that money, he showed me the one ship he has. He had one ship. The rest were still in development and wouldn't even be released for years.

He spent more than some cars cost, for a handful of digital space ships, 90% of which aren't even finished. I have no idea how to reason with people who do this sort of thing.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

I'd honestly love to see them try a different take on Diablo. It won't happen since Blizzard is all about live service games these days, but I'd love to see a single-player, traditional RPG version of Diablo. Imagine if Larian got the rights to make a Diablo game.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm kinda surprised that there hasn't already been a Skyrim mod that does exactly this.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

From what I've seen, the SH2 remake looks really good. Honestly, it's a fine starting point if you want to get into the series as SH1 is pretty inconsequential to the rest of the games, so you can definitely just skip it and not really miss out on much.

I really hope that Bloober gets the greenlight to continue remaking the rest of the series. I'd love to see a modernized SH3.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

I loved Control so much, I'm glad to see that Remedy's still expanding on that universe.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

His subreddit is in full cope mode and losing its collective shit right now. People acting like Hasan set him up or something. Like... no, Hasan tried to save Asmon's racist ass and give him a way out of the controversy, and instead of taking the help he decided to double-down on his bullshit.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Nintendo has never been against emulation. They've only been against people playing without paying.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

They've just recently nuked on the Switch emulator.

Because it was being used for piracy. As in, had support in the emulator's code for unreleased games. Nintendo rarely goes after emulator devs that don't use their code.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Nintendo's been openly emulating their own games since about that time. IIRC, the SNES Virtual Console on the Wii had code from SNES9X in it.

The distinction (which seems nobody cares about) is that Nintendo's going after copyright infringers. If your emulator doesn't use any of Nintendo's code, they ain't doing shit about it; they're just gonna steal it, if anything.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Yuzu supported unreleased games. To do that required using Nintendo's code, and getting that code through unauthorized channels. Nintendo's code may not have been distributed through Yuzu, but it was used in a way that was not permitted in order to engineer a way to circumvent the copy protection of those games. That was how Nintendo was able to go after them.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Because the distinction is important. Why do you think Yuzu was shut down but PJ64 still exists?

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

PJ64 emulates a long gone platform they don't care about anymore.

No. PJ64 was around when Nintendo was still actively making money on N64 titles.

PJ64 never got shut down because they made sure to always keep their project legal. Nintendo could never do shit to them, and it's been over 20 years now.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

That, and when Nintendo's code is used in some way to develop the project. Japan has very strict laws on reverse engineering any software, which Nintendo is always set to capitalize on.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

I'm not defending Nintendo, dude. I'm explaining how they're able to shut down emulators. It's possible to make legal emulators, and Nintendo won't touch them.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Right, but Yuzu did, tho. That's how Nintendo shut them down. Yuzu overstepped and handed Nintendo their own noose. They probably would've been just fine if they hadn't given out builds with those tools built-in.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

You sure do seen to love a company that hates you.

If you saw any of what I wrote as a defense of Nintendo, then you're not reading.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

Isn't this only because it's soon to be legally required in California? I don't think they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

Chozo, 8 miesięcy temu

gg ez

-Me, with a KD of 3/13

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

It's not about the data, it's about the IP.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

Yeah, the price wasn't exactly the issue.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

It's a museum.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

Museum visitors are given 10 digital coins they can use to play the games, but be warned: it’s not possible to buy additional ones, so players will need to strategize and choose wisely.

This is so idiotic, yet somehow still 100% on brand for Nintendo.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

It's insane that this happened so quickly after Blue Scuti's kill screen.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

I don't have the expertise to check the API, myself, but I've noticed a ton of innocent comments lately all having -1. Mbin shows the upvote and downvote counts separately, so I can see that entire threads are all receiving a single downvote, presumably from a single user. Seems like somebody's being a gremlin and just downvoting everything they see.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

You should check out The Finals if you're looking for something that's a bit more OW-like. Heavy focus on objectives instead of kills, like OW. There's also lots of abilities and weapons to mix and match, so it's less of a hero shooter and more of a build-your-own-hero shooter. Made by a bunch of ex-DICE devs, so the gunplay and environment destruction are very satisfying. Completely free to play, too.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

I think it's far too late for that. Publishers have been testing the waters with $70 AAA games for a few years now, and people kept buying them. I don't expect that to change any time soon.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

Lol it's like Nintendo just wants to back itself into a corner and waste away with its IP.

This is a Switch emulator, meaning these are games that are still available for sale. It's not like taking down a SNES emulator or something Nintendo hasn't made available for 30+ years, it's involving games they're selling today. Taking down an emulator is literally Nintendo protecting its IP.

I honestly have no desire to purchase anything from them anymore.

If you were using this emulator, you weren't likely purchasing anything from them in the first place. And I'm no doctor, but... I'd have to imagine that's likely the reason Nintendo took this down to begin with.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

Because it's not quite the good-faith gesture people are making it out to be; it's a cost-saving measure for Valve. From the consumer standpoint, very little actually changes, as the average user isn't taking Valve to court in the first place. It's not as if Valve is suddenly lowering their legal funding in conjunction with this move; they'll still defend themselves harder than most consumers would be able to, and will win their cases in court instead of in arbitration, which is even more costly for the consumer when they lose.

While arbitration favors companies, so do the courts. If anything, this just makes it more cost-prohibitive on the consumer side to make Valve face the law.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

Nah, not really. Technically, this is better. But only marginally so, and unless Valve does something catastrophically, egregiously abusive with the Steam platform, then the people who will actually benefit from this are few and far between. Valve wouldn't just say "come sue us" if they weren't wholly confident that they weren't about to be losing any cases any time soon.

This isn't some huge "win" for the people; gamers aren't gonna rise up over this. For 99.999% of Steam's userbase, this is an entirely lateral move. Valve are the only ones who will see any tangible benefit from this.

Chozo, 9 miesięcy temu

What patent are you referring to?