What Microsoft has been saying about Xbox lately strongly implies that this is a Windows handheld designed to solve software and user experience problems with using current Windows handhelds. And signs are pointing toward the next Xbox console coming sooner than the next PlayStation and essentially being a PC running a console...
How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it’s just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I’m not saying it’s dead but wasn’t racing games one of the primary genres?...
Do you want themed racing games in different time periods?
If you’re using realworld(or alikes) cars, there isn’t really much more to go for, you’ve got circuit, street, rally, drift and touring cars - which really the only thing you can start to really differ is locale or time period.
F1 is F1 and F1 fans will slaughter anyone who tries to mess with F1. But also there are yearly games, since the rules change every year and the new game is the new rules.
Do you want more arcade style?
What are the indie games that have piqued your interest?
That’s what the publishers keep saying, because it distracts from the real issue. (also- 3D artists, 2D artists and graphics programmers aren’t doing gameplay systems…)
The real reason is the monetization of play, if they make things too fun, you’ll keep playing some osingle player game instead of their expensive live service titles.
They make everything bad to try and prop up those live services.
Also to be fair (and critical), while Sean lied to both Sony and us about the state of the game-
They also probably did have most of everything they promised at one point, then the Christmas Flood happened. That’s when the lies started and but those lies were likely more for Sony rather than us, as it’s entirely possible Sony would have outright cancelled the game if they’d known how much was actually lost in the flood.
Instead they released what they could in the time they had left then just kept plugging away at it post release.
You can’t really gauge its Steam reviews because there are only 13(!) total so far, reflective of a game that has launched with just a few hundred players. 224, as I’m writing this article. Sub-Concord levels. Yes. Concord is a unit of measurement now....
If Nintendo were only showcasing games developed AND published by Nintendo, that might be the argument.
They’re not though, some of the games they’re showing they didn’t develop or publish.
Nintendo says emulation is transformative, that due to the recompiler, it’s a new work. Do they have permission from all the rightsholders for third party games to make a transformative work?
Do they even have the permissions from artists who might have licensed their work to Nintendo for X game, but not for the newly emulated ‘Y’
No, it’s more like being a Rock Band, having 2 wildly successful albums then going in a another direction with a completely new, different sound for the third album, then wondering why no one bought it.
They seem to be very caught off guard by Star Wars: Outlaws’ underperformance, and after investor pressure, are trying to massively course correct. This is what happens when you vote with your dollars!
In the past an executive couldn’t really keep a pulse on the market themselves, they needed real world connections, they needed information that wasn’t just available at their fingertips and the only way to readily get it was relying on people under them to feed truthful and useful information and not just be ‘yes men’.
Information is readily available at their fingertips now though, there is no excuse for being so disconnected and out of touch.
Things that get removed by staff on nexusmods don’t show a ‘Not Found’ link or have the title renamed ‘DELETED’ - they generally show ‘removed by staff’ or ‘under moderation review since <date>’.
‘Not found’ is usually when the mod author unpublishes a mod.
This sounds like the typical mod drama, author has removed it for some reason and people are jumping to conclusions and/or the author is gaslighting people into the wrong conclusions.
That’s fair these days, unless you’re playing it on a CRT with original hardware or MiSTER, the latency will be through the roof compared to what the game was designed around.
I missed the days of Uncharted and Tomb Raider, those games don’t exist anymore, instead open world “everything games” have taken its place, AssCreed, Horizon, Fallen Order etc....
I probably missed out on a great game, but at the time I tried playing Fallen Order, I had a lot on my plate so never gave the game the time of day after a single misstep. (that’s unfair on the game)
In the first level, there is a section where you drop into a railcar and a pair of Stormtroopers are just standing there. They never shoot at you.
The only way forward is to kill them. They never shoot at you. I stopped and waited.
Cal murdered those Stormtroopers and that took my right out of the mindset of a Jedi right away.
First, try force dismissing broken companions, you’ll need to get their refid first though (so maybe load an older save, or just search for the refid with the help command - ie. help mountbatten 4 npc to search for ‘mountbatten’ in refids that are classed as ‘npc’)
For reference, since I have it written on a post-it in front of me, Mountbatten is 082c1edc (08 may be different if londonworldspace.esm is in a different slot)
After 2 INK-credible years of Splatoon 3, regular updates will come to a close. Don’t worry! Splatoween, Frosty Fest, Spring Fest, and Summer Nights will continue with some returning themes!...
Imagine something like D-Day/Operation Overlord in WW2, but you’ve got 2/3/4 teams trying to fight up a Salmonid beach, big PVE event, but whichever team takes their beachfront first/gets the furthest in within the 3min timer, wins.
When your predecessor was Don Mattrick, it’s not like you have to perform that great to be better.
They need Peter Moore back, he’s the only leader of Xbox/Microsoft Games that’s ever been any good - he took Xbox from zero to its peak golden age, then he left and we got the dark age of Kinect.
I honestly kind of agree with this. A lot of people see metacritic/opencritic scores and take it at face value. I a lot of people that would just instantly write off a game if it isn’t higher than 80/100.
'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve
Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Bonus: it also seems that the episodes have been rolled into the base game. Full details of the anniversary update....
Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary (www.windowscentral.com) angielski
Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away (insider-gaming.com) angielski
What Microsoft has been saying about Xbox lately strongly implies that this is a Windows handheld designed to solve software and user experience problems with using current Windows handhelds. And signs are pointing toward the next Xbox console coming sooner than the next PlayStation and essentially being a PC running a console...
Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism (questalerts.com) angielski
Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM — plus 2GB DDR5 system RAM (www.tomshardware.com) angielski
Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey (www.gamingonlinux.com) angielski
Whatever happened to racing games angielski
How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it’s just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I’m not saying it’s dead but wasn’t racing games one of the primary genres?...
An Update from PlayStation Studios (Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios are closing) (sonyinteractive.com) angielski
Neon Koi was developing a mobile action game. Firewalk Studios recently launched and quickly delisted Concord.
'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? (flip.it) angielski
Honestly the Switch 2 is the only future console I have any excitement for.
Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' (wccftech.com) angielski
‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews (www.forbes.com) angielski
You can’t really gauge its Steam reviews because there are only 13(!) total so far, reflective of a game that has launched with just a few hundred players. 224, as I’m writing this article. Sub-Concord levels. Yes. Concord is a unit of measurement now....
Introducing "Enso" a stylised Foddian platformer in an Asian setting. There's a demo available to play right now as it's participating in the Steam Next Fest! (store.steampowered.com) angielski
12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development? (insider-gaming.com) angielski
[TheGamingBritShow] Remakes are Cringe and There's Nothing We Can Do (youtu.be) angielski
The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Payday 3 developer likens launch to being a rock band when "the whole stage collapses and everyone leaves" (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Alien: Isolation sequel in early development, with original director returning (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down (gbatemp.net) angielski
Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? angielski
steamcharts.com...
After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
Tony Hawk teases a new game: “there will be a future.” – WGB (wolfsgamingblog.com) angielski
Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse (www.tomshardware.com) angielski
Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles (insider-gaming.com) angielski
This is going to be one of those “Ubisoft investigates Ubisoft and found that Ubisoft did nothing wrong at Ubisoft”-situations, isn’t it?
[Opinion] Why do so many cozy games suck? (www.youtube.com) angielski
Came across this video critiquing the gameplay of some out of the sheer number of “cozy” games coming out recently....
Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to February 14, 2025, abandoning season pass strategy, Steam launch day 1, and more (staticctf.ubisoft.com) angielski
They seem to be very caught off guard by Star Wars: Outlaws’ underperformance, and after investor pressure, are trying to massively course correct. This is what happens when you vote with your dollars!
The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods (ghostarchive.org) angielski
Nexus Mods link
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PC Games (www.youtube.com) angielski
Hilarious. The original game already looked great, but hey, you can upgrade for only $10!
Zelda-Inspired Plucky Squire Shows What Happens When A Game Doesn't Trust Its Players (kotaku.com) angielski
I personally always dislike it, too....
Jedi Survivor could have been great angielski
I missed the days of Uncharted and Tomb Raider, those games don’t exist anymore, instead open world “everything games” have taken its place, AssCreed, Horizon, Fallen Order etc....
Fallout London - I just can't anymore angielski
This game…...
No 'Sims 5' Coming as EA Updates Franchise With Multiplayer (variety.com) angielski
Splatoon 3: After 2 INK-redible years, regular updates will come to a close. angielski
After 2 INK-credible years of Splatoon 3, regular updates will come to a close. Don’t worry! Splatoween, Frosty Fest, Spring Fest, and Summer Nights will continue with some returning themes!...
Microsoft Layoffs Hit Call of Duty Warzone Mobile, Which ‘Didn't Hit as Big as Hoped’ (www.ign.com) angielski
Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy (www.bbc.com) angielski
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19757663...
Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
I honestly kind of agree with this. A lot of people see metacritic/opencritic scores and take it at face value. I a lot of people that would just instantly write off a game if it isn’t higher than 80/100.
AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs: Jack Hyunh talks new strategy against Nvidia in gaming market (www.tomshardware.com) angielski