misk

misk, 3 days ago

This place loses its function when people vote on posts based on whether they like companies mentioned rather than content value or newsworthiness.

misk, 3 days ago

Turning all communities into auxiliary c/piracy circlejerk is proving detrimental to experience of everyone else though. I usually ignore posts that don’t interest me and downvote offtopic stuff only.

misk, 2 days ago

It’s hard to dispute that Nintendo is the only big player with a healthy business model. Their games are mostly fun, original and free of in-app purchases. They keep churning those games out at the time when everyone else is in a slump. Their litigious behavior is shameful but in other areas they are that idyllic model.

misk, 2 days ago

Nintendo business model, like any other, is a product of trade-offs. They sell hardware without subsidies. That hardware is outdated so it’s vulnerable to emulation and piracy which is why they are so intent on fighting it. Since they don’t need to make up for selling hardware at loss and don’t get into expensive development they have to compete on quality and fun. They seem to be doing very well on that front - you’re so sour about about how Nintendo is making it hard to get their old games but that’s because those games are still worth playing.

As to Pokémon, it’s not a very good example. Pokémon Company is 32% owned by Nintendo which could be argued is the reason that their games are so bad. Nintendo very rarely does sequels that don’t offer anything of considerable novelty. They’d probably be openly pissed at Pokémon Company for damaging Nintendo brand if it didn’t rake in so much money.

While it annoys us, they have always primarily served Japanese market and those guys seem to be enjoying limited drops and stuff like that. We need better laws on game preservation because public companies exist to maximize value and can’t be expected to do charity.

misk, 12 days ago

I mean they have to make CoD multiplat, that was the deal with the regulators.

misk, 14 days ago

There won’t be crossplay due to tweaked gameplay so it’s not going to affect existing players.

misk, 18 days ago

What circle or development hell is it in now?

misk, 19 days ago

Nope

github.com/MrHuu/fallout1-ce-3ds

misk, 19 days ago

That Eurogamer article and github Readme are very light on anything useful but instructions are here: gbatemp.net/…/poc-fallout-1-for-3ds.638703/

misk, 19 days ago

github.com/MrHuu/fallout1-ce-3ds/releases

misk, 19 days ago

Need to composite this on top

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/905ff24a-0a09-4d98-8ec9-81bd54d429e2.webp

misk, 19 days ago

“Oh, darling”

misk, 19 days ago

Every piece of hardware in a given budget is ultimately a product of compromise. 3D capabilities of N64 are way beyond what PS can offer - texture filtering and Z buffer just put Playstation to shame. No CD is equally embarrassing to N64. The controller… well, it was a weird time.

misk, 20 days ago

Interesting that Battlemage is launching in a mobile device first. Alchemist was quite power efficient but mired by high power draw at idle. Intel might be confident?

misk, 20 days ago

I have mixed feelings about this.

By mixed I mean I puked a little.

misk, 20 days ago

There is so much games that even for the fans of the subgenre it might not be good enough. I’m enjoying it so far though.

misk, 22 days ago

It’s almost forgotten that back in the day there were controllers made specifically for games like Descent.

misk, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Things are getting back to normal in a way. People rented games for 8/16-bit consoles from video rental stores commonly. These days it’s common for people playing on consoles to buy, play through and sell games because there are no such stores anymore.