MurrayL

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MurrayL,

Microsoft is a terrible company, but at least they treat their back catalogue with some degree of respect. I just wish Sony cared more.

MurrayL,

Delisting always sucks, but it looks like they’re at least doing what they’ve done for previous Forza titles: still available to play if you bought it digitally or physically, and if you played on Game Pass but bought DLC they’ll send you a free copy of the base game itself.

MurrayL,

Hopefully it’ll be an improvement on Force Commander

MurrayL,

Can you imagine if Rembrandt had an executive committee behind him dictating what to paint a picture of

I get what you’re saying, but you realise all the great renaissance painters worked on commission, right? So yes that’s exactly what happened.

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What monopoly? Xbox holds the smallest share of the console market.

MurrayL,

I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I don’t see even a single mention of cloud gaming in the article?

This is about studio closures and a disconnect between MS’s actions and the types of games they say they want.

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Mostly agree, except I’ve never liked the dpad on the 360 controller. An XB1 or Series S|X controller is a noticeable step up IMO!

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The return on indie games (if there even is a return) is already vanishingly small for 99% of releases - printing and distributing physical copies would just be pouring even more money down the drain.

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Except for all the small studios also struggling or going out of business because getting investment right now is really, really hard.

The megacorp closures and redundancies are far from the entire story, they’re just the headline grabbers.

MurrayL,

I think BioShock just got grandfathered in through its System Shock lineage.

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Lake

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And yet that’s exactly how they operate!

Valve: How going boss-free empowered the games-maker

… But you’re right that it is often considered the cause of many of their problems: Valve’s unusual corporate structure causes its problems, report suggests

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Wow - Take Two shuttering this studio AND Roll7 (OlliOlli, Rollerdrome) just a month after they announced they’re buying Gearbox for almost half a billion. Absolutely catastrophic mismanagement. What a shitshow.

MurrayL,

But you do still need to install Steam to get the files at all. GOG lets you download installers from the website, and the desktop client is completely optional.

MurrayL,

It’s true that most (not all) old games on GOG now are also on Steam, but I do still find the GOG versions are often better configured, sometimes with custom or community patches preinstalled that Steam doesn’t include.

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True, but my point is that having to use third-party tools just to access games you bought without downloading a desktop client isn’t as consumer-friendly as the way GOG offers offline installers directly for every game.

MurrayL,

Definitely a mix for me, depending on what I want to play and how I’m feeling, but primarily PC (massive GOG and Steam libraries), Xbox (I have a series X and adore the backwards compatibility), and an Evercade handheld for portable fun and the occasional exclusive, like the Duke Nukem 1 & 2 remasters.

MurrayL,

It’s easier to rant about a boogeyman like SBI than to engage with any of the actual issues facing the industry, unfortunately

MurrayL,

I’m really not a fan of the trend for really long video essays, especially since it’s almost always padding and repeating similar points.

Anything up to 25 mins is usually fine, but 35+ is in the realm of ‘I’ll add it to Watch Later but never bother watching it’ and over an hour I’m just going to keep scrolling

MurrayL,

I bought a big box copy of Quake 2 on eBay many years ago, and was surprised to open it and find not only Q2 inside the box but also a full retail CD of the original Quake. I’d never played the non-shareware version before, so I got two great games that day!

MurrayL,

I don’t think we need an article to figure out the answer: Slay the Spire was a megahit and it’s a copycat industry.

I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way either; there’re always plenty of devs finding interesting new angles on the current hot genre and creating genuinely interesting new games in the process, but also a huge number of devs that end up just chasing the trend and releasing something uninspired/derivative.

MurrayL,

How would you say it compares to the original, since I can see you played both recently?

MurrayL,

Since people have already covered the modern games, I’ll offer two classic suggestions: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Armageddon.

MurrayL,

Xbox UI has been a bit all over the place on Series S/X (and XB1, which shares most of the same design).

It’s not terrible by any means, but it can be unintuitive at times and the updates to improve things tend to be ‘two steps forwards, one step back’.

MurrayL,

Hopefully ‘narrative adventure’ being one of the pillars means we’ll get more games like Jusant!

MurrayL,

Honestly, a bunch of indies self-labelling as ‘triple i’ feels a bit pretentious to me, but the intent seems good so I’m hoping it doesn’t come off that way in practice.

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“I talked to at least five small teams, like 35 [members] and under, during GDC, and they’re like: Cuts, cuts, cuts, funding canceled, talks that were going on for a year, canceled,” said Casey Yano, the co-founder of Slay the Spire studio Mega Crit. “It sounds like it’s shit. We’re definitely very privileged to be able to self-fund. [Otherwise] I’d be very, very, very scared right now.”

If these deals didn’t exist, lots of games simply wouldn’t get made. You can hate on the platforms all you like but the deals are one of the only sources of funding for small & solo developers.

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Misleading post - the tweet clearly says they’re adding EA Anticheat. This has absolutely nothing to do with Easy AntiCheat.

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It’s literally just a 20-minute rant about Xbox Live. Doesn’t even mention security until 15 minutes in, and that part is about players being able to get your IP address if you join a party chat.

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True, but if Nightdive get a deal to do it, I guarantee they’ll use KEX like they have for all their other ports.

What games do you recommend for my girlfriend?

My girlfriend has never really gamed. But she’s now forced to move less than she would like to (health problem) and she’s getting bored. I was thinking of introducing her to a game or two that we could play together. She’s not the real action game type, and seeing as she has no experience with controller/mouse and keyboard...

MurrayL,

There’s a game called A Little to the Left that’s a whole bunch of lovely organisational + sorting puzzles

What adventure games do you recommend?

pretty much the title. i have played most of sierra, lucasarts and telltale catalogues so if you are suggesting one of their games i’ve probably already played it. it doesn’t have to be a copycat, homage or in the same style as these companies’ games either, just that it must satisfy the vague definition of being an...

MurrayL,

Basically the entire Wadjet Eye catalogue, and the first two games in the Broken Sword series (then stop - the 3D ones are crap)

MurrayL,

At this point, are there any corporations left that haven’t owned jagex at some point?

MurrayL,

Usually because the studios and publishers go out of their way to avoid promoting individual developers - it’s seen as bad for business (encourages poaching, among other things).

MurrayL,

On the other hand, preserving old games by making sure they’re playable on modern hardware is something I wish more companies cared about.

MurrayL,

It’s not a euphemism; redundancy is legally different from being fired, with different protections, compensation, etc.

MurrayL,

Can only hope Microsoft has stepped in and freed Toys For Bob - they did great work on Reignited and it was so sad when Activision responded by locking them in the Call of Duty content mines.

MurrayL,

I’d say it still holds some truth - Activision started out as a private company and didn’t go public until 14 years later.

Once a company goes public, it suddenly has to answer to shareholders instead of just its owners, and that’s how any creative vision gets diluted and, eventually, lost completely.

MurrayL,

This. There’s a legal distinction between redundancy and other forms of termination that creates some important practical differences.

You can’t just fire people without cause (e.g. gross misconduct) in the UK; it has to go through a redundancy process, and those affected get a compensation package from the company.

MurrayL,

Depends at what stage of development you get the recordings done (although for larger projects it’s likely to be across several sessions).

The later you start the process, the fewer lines you’ll have to toss out. But big studios don’t mind throwing money at recording sessions, so losing 50%+ isn’t that big of a deal as long as there were still some usable results.

MurrayL,

As mentioned in the article, these are all union VAs and their new agreement explicitly protects them from AI being used without their permission.

If it turns out they really did use AI to rework some of the voice lines, there could be a major lawsuit coming…

Bethesda Game Studios: We've been hard at work on @StarfieldGame updates and will be putting our next one into Steam Beta next week. (twitter.com)

This update will feature Nvidia DLSS support with frame generation, display and HDR controls for supported systems, and other optimizations and improvements. You’ll be able to opt-in to try it via the Steam Beta options. We’d love your feedback before it goes live for all PC and Xbox players after that....

MurrayL,

Modders don’t have to run functionality and regression testing, fully localise any new text, pass platform certification, or any of the other hundreds of things that prevent AAA devs from dropping patches whenever they feel like it.

Not saying they couldn’t have had this stuff ready sooner, but comparing it to how quickly modders can release is apples to oranges.

MurrayL,

As a dev who has worked on mobile games:

  1. The stores have a serious problem with discovery which makes it unreasonably difficult to find the good original games in the sea of shovelware, but the good stuff IS out there.
  2. People say they hate free-to-play and that they’d happily pay once for access like a normal game, but the stats say otherwise. Almost no one pays for premium mobile games, and that’s why no one bothers making them.
  3. People who use ‘mobile game’ as an insult are usually wilfully ignorant about the platform and just have an axe to grind.
MurrayL,

If you don’t finish Y6 (or at least watch the cutscenes on YouTube or read a story summary) then the setup for MWEHN won’t make sense. Judgment and Ishin are standalone spin-offs so they can be played at any point.

MurrayL,

You’re being downvoted because it’s a stupid question. It’s not happening currently in NA; they’re making a comparison to the historical colonization that happened there.

MurrayL,

Hard to say for sure without any gameplay screenshots, but:

“allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120FPS. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster’s upgraded gameplay, high-resolution textures, enhanced lighting and rendering, and support for gamepads”

So I would expect something that’s definitely an upgrade over the vanilla version in terms of compatibility and basic visual fidelity, but nothing much beyond that. (And, for the record, I think that’s fine?)

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Personally, I’m not® sure™ if this: TITLE* has enough* special characters* in it

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More experience? Remedy have been making games since the 90s

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