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Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) (www.tomshardware.com)

Yesterday, Google announced Project Genie, a new generative AI tool that can apparently create entire games from just prompts. It leverages the Genie 3 and Gemini models to generate a 60-second interactive world rather than a fully playable one. Despite this, many investors were scared out of their wits, imagining this as the...

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killedbygoogle.com’s already polishing the new tombstone

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Step 3: market remains irrational, loops back to step 3

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Tools like Project Genie could genuinely help here, saving developers time they’d otherwise spend in the early stages of the game, before level design is locked in.

But in that way, AI is the solution to an artificial problem that should’ve been solved without it; for all that matters, devs could still find a way to balloon productions out of control even with Project Genie and a hundred other generative AI models at the helm.

The more likely end result is that devs will find it so easy to start something that they’ll start 100 projects, or try 100 different ideas, but be completely unable to lock on and focus on any one, because there’s always a greener grass a single prompt away.

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Same reason nobody, not even Sony, sued M$ for buying Activision-King and Bethesda.

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I last played it to completion in 2021 I think? Via OpenMW, too, so with a lot less bugs and glitches. Yes, I want to play it again

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You can even have full 3D movement without dual analogs! Not ideal, but it works

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But how will Jiub become Saint Jiub the Eradicator if nobody is hassled by Cliff Racers with infrared vision locking onto them from the other side of the island?

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A time honored tradition of getting lost because of misreading the journal. I don’t remember which quest it was, but it was one that asked me to find something heading south. The first time I went south I got pretty much to the end of Vvanderfell. Next time I tried doing the walk, I kept to the road. It didn’t take more than 1 minute from the city (Balmora? Can’t remember) to where I was supposed to go.

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JRPGs have their charm and, depending on your age, will feel a lot more relatable and “easy to get started” than most western RPGs. I don’t remember when I started caring more about WRPG over JRPG, but I think it happened when I was 17, I suspect Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft played a significant role in that.

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I stopped being a graphics whore around the mid PS2 era, mostly because my computer couldn’t run the more realistic games like GTA Vice City 😁

I unironically love seeing newer indies with PS1/N64 style 3D graphics

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Nooooooooo, you’re just envious because you don’t have a RTX 5090 that only costs 15k dollars and needs to generate fake frames at 400*300 to maintain a stable 60FPS

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A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad (www.polygon.com)

AI in video games is a caustic enough subject that Valve requires developer disclosure if a title utilizes the generative technology. This way, people who have qualms about AI or its impact can opt out of purchasing anything that uses the genAI. One developer, however, is saving everyone from the moral quandary in the first...

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Rakuel’s post on steam is very interesting

I made this game during the summer in couple months and thought to use AI because in university there is so much brainwashing on students and all the tools are given for free, so I could generate unlimited images for free and so.

Emphasis mine. Universities playing a role in this annoys me a lot.

Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people.

I think this part alone is incredibly important and the real eye-opener for him.

As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at all (bsky.app)

The name is CyricZ, and he is the reason the west can get platinum in this series. Over the years, he wrote the best guides on gamefaqs one can ask for. His appearance on reddit has been seen as a second coming of Christ lol....

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Sega relies entirely on Sonic fans’ goodwill to remain “reputable”, everything else they’re absolute assholes. Good time to remember that Sammy, a pachinko business, saved Sega with a merger back in 2004. Execs knew damn well that it was much better for their PR to be called Sega, despite Sammy calling the shots.

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I’m willing to bet the fault lies with Epic and their shitty store app

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Does the game still have denuvo nowadays?

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4k textures that crash the game

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I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Whether they bothered to load them is a different matter.

A site listing delisted games (delistedgames.com)

When going through the list by platforms, it will also list games that got relisted, though some lack the [RELISTED] tag but are being sold as packages with other similar games (Doom 1+2, Heretic+Hexen), as remasters only (Soul Reaver 1 and 2, Metal Gear Solid 2) or as a “final edition” with all updates and DLC as if it was...

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Huh, turns out I posted this link 11 months ago

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Indeed. <absurdly long wall of expository text>, that’s why you must press on with the mission!

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Hentai games are my guilty pleasures in that regard

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There are a few that are actually fun as games, Tifa Tanx2 being the only example that comes to mind, it’s a fun Kung Fu (NES) like beat’em up with easy combos. There are even some work-safe gameplay videos of it on YT

A lot of the games are visual novels, this is where you find a decent variety of styles, though a lot of them use daz3d models, which I don’t like. I’d wager that hentai games are like 60% VNs, 30% RPG Maker, 10% everything else

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If it would be available in stores like nintendo, I doubt people there would be much issue regarding high price.

Depends. I still remember when the PS4 price was unveiled in Brazil. Back then, it cost the equivalent of ~1700 dollars

https://s2.glbimg.com/mlaoliH7udV_I-vLT71_uu-teYU=/s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/f/original/2013/11/29/playstation.jpg

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Obligatory tutorials. Make it a choice.

QTE “final bosses”. Seemed to be a much bigger problem in the PS3/360 era.

“Open world” or “Sandbox” games that don’t care about your progress, where it’s painfully obvious that your actions don’t matter at all. Yes, this is mostly about Starfield

Games where you can win by a landslide but the computer/story goes “Hah, you were just lucky!”

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Pretty sure Club Penguin only let you choose from a predetermined list of ready phrases, it worked well afaik. Roblox could do that, but something something engagement

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  • is free to play
  • runs on potato computers
  • runs on potato phones
  • easy to play with friends
  • has new games experiences every day

I think the 2 last points are what really end up making it such a success with kids - low attrition to start and lots of different games in one place. It takes 2 clicks to go from a parkour race to a pet care sim.

When you’re targeting kids, your graphics should be easy to understand. Bright colors, simple shapes, it’s enough. If you think about it, those graphics wouldn’t be too different from what a kid can usually draw.

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As much as I love SMB3’s powerups (hammer bro 4 life), I’d go with World because you can replay levels and even castles with L+R. Fuck Tubular, tho

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Wow, it sure is a unique game experience! I’m ordering a deluxe account right now!!

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NotToddHoward has entered the chat
NTH: Hello everyone, I just found out this old game, Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, it looks super cool!

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Printers worked better back then. Also the cartridges came with more ink lol

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RIP Kolanaki’s SNES

I loved Secret of Mana and on several playthroughs, the hardest boss, for me, has always been that damn tiger in the witch’s castle. When it zig-zagged like a spike ball, the chances of getting wiped were huge. One hit = unconscious.

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Firestorm if you want to play the most recent version, or close enough to it, for free. Last I played there it was on BfA

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Capcom is 100% betting on their Japanese viewers, the west is just a “sad casualty”, so to speak. If this ends up working in their favor, expect this shit to expand to other companies and tournaments, just like pay2win did.

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That’d be funny as hell

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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/4c/33/494c33fd1de50598f4a382e8d7891f12.jpg

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Considering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them

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Does it have a HDMI port to connect to a TV? Since it’s Android, I suppose pairing a new controller would be easy, so stuff you emulate from home consoles can be played with 2-4 people

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Copilot on PS5, somehow

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Yes. Kinda. Some games from the X1 era aren’t available on PC, like Halo 5. X360 games that are backwards compatible but weren’t actually released for PC, like Red Dead Redemption, won’t be available either.

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PCs are becoming consoles

The Amiga dream is finally coming true

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It can’t be worse than whatever the fuck UE5 does by default

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Important to note, the current chip fabrication process of 5nm is very close to limits imposed by the laws of physics. Unless a wholly different chip making process is invented that can go even smaller, we might be looking at the actual limit of the tech.

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Marcin Paczynski told The Game Business he could “write a book”

Please do

He didn’t even know that he owned the rights because this was just a package with his inheritance … we have a lot of stories like that.

Wow, no wonder the dude wasn’t aware. “Oh, just a box with papers. Meh”

stories like developers whose physical documentation of IP ownership was torched in a fire

It’s always interesting to know which games’ rights might seem “completely lost”, just so we can 🏴‍☠️ in peace. Say, wasn’t this strategy something GOG did originally? Just sell and see if the current rights-holder shows up?

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It’s a game that, as you build up money, it becomes less about flying around and more about managing fleets and your little economic empire. Still, one of the few that actually let you pilot fighters AND huge stuff like the carriers

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Unless they did a proper rework of space combat, it’ll get old fast, just like ground combat. I also remember you could pile up dozens of “Kill space pirate Whoever” from several systems, travel super far away so that you could reset the quests, reset said quests, then manage to complete ALL of them by killing only one target

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You might want to check out Chorus, it’s on sale super cheap on GOG right now. It’s an action game with some levels on foot and others in space.

An honorable mention is Star Wars Battlefront 2 (classic) - maybe not exactly what you want, but it has space combat where most of the action is with ship dogfights, where you can also attack the opposing capital ship and disable its core systems to win the match. The whole single player game ensures you’ll get one hell of a power fantasy as the ace/hero, even on harder difficulties.

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A cherry on top would be if the announcement was “Now your PC can run Crysis”

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Fable 1 was a game I had lots of fun with. Being Brazilian, I was more or less immune to the hype buildup around the game, so I had no clue what was promised vs. what was delivered until years later

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