Comment on Sony
one_old_coder@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Shitty copy pasta with AI-generated picture that forgets that software is patched all the time compared to movies and music.
I hate streaming more than anyone, but that sloppy comparison sucks.
A) If you think this is AI generated and are not just making a rage-baiting pun reference, you’re a silly billy wittle buddy who needs to be given a raspberry.
B) Games used to not need patching. Even games that were patched later had an on-disc version you could always install and play. And games were in fact better for it. A game going gold meant something, now it’s just a release day with a 0 day patch to be even slightly functional.
Remember the console days before the Internet grew up? No downloads. No Patches. The games just worked.
Until you got to the sky canyon in twilight princess and the glitch made you start over because there was no way to patch offline games
Games back then had bugs, too, they just never got fixed and everyone pretended they didn’t exist.
They were also released in a fully playable state. The game worked out of the box, or that would be the end of a game studio, or at least that game.
This has never been true. Daggerfall and Morrowind, for example, were huge successes for Bethesda despite players falling through the floor into an infinite void several times a day. There are countless other examples of horribly buggy games.
Before home internet, PC games magazine cover disks (they did 💾 type for years before CDs) were my main channel of getting very welcome patches.
And if they didn’t just work, they never got fixed.
Therefore people only played and remembered the ones that did. Not much actually changed, we just have more games and more exposure now.
I hate AI and all that shit, but I have heard a lot of horror stories from developers who worked on “retro” gaming systems (from the Megadrive/Genesis to the Jaguar). I admire them for all the work they did because it was hard to code, but there are a fuckton of bugs that were sold during the good old days, and no one noticed what was happening because those bugs were never found.
If you hate using things with massive exploitable bugs while we share a polite fiction that they work as intended, you’re gonna hate civilization.
There were lots of games that had multiple release revisions that fixed bugs. Gran Turismo 2’s original versions couldn’t be completed 100% due to a glitch, a reprint ended up fixing it.
This is also why if you go looking for ROMs, you’ll see some games have multiple versions with some differences.
Not only that, but developers back then had to be really deliberate with their decisions due to the tiny size on the media and ram.
That’s the girl from Pragmata isn’t it? Doesn’t scream AI to me
Well, I mean, technically,…
It is! I oddly enough just finished playing thru this scene just a few minutes ago, came in here and was like, huhwhat?!? Diana made a drawing for you and is showing to you for the first time in this scene in the game.
M137@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
It’s not an AI-generared picture.