Cross out “of PC gaming” and you got it.
Anon owns nothing and is unhappy
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SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The future of PC gaming is the community support of vintage games that you loved.
The future of consoles is amatuer AI taxidermy remakes of your childhood memories. A distorted uncanny-valley resemblence of a game you once held dear, stuffed to the brim with synthetic fluff and hung on a generic skeleton twisted and bent to roughly resemble a once vibrant and living thing.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
SO RIGH%
Also with microtransactions
redsand@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
The console wars are over. Xbox is being spun down.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Xbox is going to be a subscription game console service, like stadia was.
Microsoft is going to use the “free” compute cycles when their AI slopcenters aren’t at full utilization to run Xbox games.
ninth_plane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wish I had more than one upvote for this.
glibg@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
At least we’ll always have the classics. Download, play, and seed emulated games folks.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
not when your computer goes to the cloud.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
When’s the last time you tried to emulate something? The Wii and PSP can handle up to N64 decently, and that hardware is going on 20 years old.
Depending on your phone you can emulate PS2 and even Switch games.
Just hold on to whatever you have, even phones, and emulator devs will figure out the rest. Accuracy has been king for a long time while we’ve had strong hardware availability, but there’s no reason we can’t do per game speed hacks again like old SNES emulators when hardware gets scarce.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where did it all go wrong?
When we stopped publicly executing politicians and millionaires (there were no billionaires yet at the time).
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Elon Musk is on the path to become a trillionaire.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
For Americans the answer to ‘where did we go wrong’ is normally Reagan.
More in general, our biggest problem is that we let billionaires buy our politicians and didn’t riot. (Eat the rich, when?)
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
same people that got reagan elected got nixon elected
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Regan was so bad John Carpenter made a movie about it
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When you blamed the SJWs and Anita Sarkeesian.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Did I miss the part where Anita demanded for Bezos to hang?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
She did not say that, but I saw things being said like this during gamergate:
I’m bet microtransactions are due to Anita, she probably said something like “difficult games are sexist, unlocks should be paid”, then developers followed suit.
Others think horny gachaslop with decent-ish gameplay at first invalidates the argument, that microtransactions are bad.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
Seeing shit get worse and worse every year has thr goblinest mask of all callin’ like:
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
OP is wrong about one thing: They’re not happy.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In my mind, the current timeline always starts with 2013 and the death of Aaron Swartz. You could argue it was his prosecution that started it, but his death was the moment it began to become clear. Maybe he saw where we were heading. He was being over-prosecuted. Almost everyone who wasn’t part of the establishment came to that conclusion.
He represented everything that the new digital age could be: self-educated, a lover of learning, a humanist, an activist. A common man fighting for the common people. Everything he did was to spread information and protect our ability to learn, grow, and fight against injustice.
Maybe he had a Howard Beale moment with someone when his plea deal was rejected. Maybe he saw where we were heading and knew that he would never be able to fight it again. They had done everything to make an example of him…to make it impossible for him to enact change. All he really did was find ways to use the system to share information and help people.
I know, this was about PC gaming, but everything in this current dystopia ties back to this loss for me.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Such a tragic story.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No, we are not.
We can go back to the basics, focus on not graphical realism, and/or, invent new rendering paradigms that lead to new art styles, and compute with less overhead.
There has literally never been a better time to become an indie dev, make a small team.
Just don’t overpromise, and don’t take people’s money untill you actually have a minimum viable product.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Unreal 5 alone is responsible for a lot of A-AA games looking like utter shit, both standing still (dithering every-fucking-where) and in motion (enough ghosting to fill a cemetery)
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Godot is fairly unkind to old hardware, unfortunately. Much preferable for people to just use SDL or something.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard anyone say Godot is fairly unkind to older hardware before.
Sure, yeah, if somebody is futzing around in 3D, in the Forward+ renderer, and has no idea what they are doing, yeah.
But… broadly?
How… old of hardware are you talking about?
Like, 15+ years old?
Also, SDL isn’t … a game engine.
Its… a rendering/input/output layer/library.
Sure, if you want to write your own game engine, you could use SDL… but… that’s a bit much to ask of a novice indie dev, who wants to complete a 3D game that’s maybe roughly as or more graphically advanced than say, Fallout New Vegas, in under what, 3, 4, 5 years?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Offline games will stay existing, even if the AAA studios won’t create those.
But fuck em.
fishy@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
There’s already more amazing games than you or I could possibly play in a lifetime. If they only make shitty games, I’ll just play old games. I’ve been gaming on a retro handheld and honestly there’s so many amazing games I missed.
Indy devs are also killing it in the multiplayer space with silly and charming co-op experiences. I played a lot of Peak and Motor Town with friends lately and both are just so fun.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Mines more like 15 years or more lol
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Well hold on there, son. You just need to take up a hobby. Have you ever considered working with your hands, sawing up wood, drilling screw holes, learning to balance chains and then build a guillotine? Work proactively - damnit.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m making a lo-fi, offline, singleplayer card game designed to be completely moddable in every way so people can add custom characters, enemies, features just by putting JSON into the userdata folder.
Some of us are trying!
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Magic the Fappering?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Well that’s the joy, I’ll build it so you can just draw tits and penises in.
Gorillazrule@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sounds interesting. Any way I can wishlist or sign up for a news letter to be notified about development and release date?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m a ways off from that I think. About 11 months in (mostly the odd day at weekends) and I have a working card system and the AI can play a card that beats you if it can but it’s very simplistic and all the art is either drawn in paint, a text or untextured placeholder, or royalty free avatars I downloaded from itchio
I’ll plug it in a few game-making communities when I have a demo It’s (very early) working title is “Cartoquaria” (as in a place where one stores cards, in Latin) and it uses a deck of tarot cards you imbue with mystical powers - but I’m easily a year or two out.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think that gaming is headed fast into some kind of deep economic divide.
On the one hand, we have high-end gaming that chases seasonal updates, massive multiplayer experiences, requiring high-end system specs to even start. It’s all practically a subscription model one way or another: keep buying new games, DLC, hardware, just to keep playing with your friends. Alternately, sign up for a subscription to play all this stuff in the cloud, dodging the need to maintain your own hardware, but never really owning anything in exchange.
On the other, there’s the other way.
Right now, we’re sitting on top of nearly 50 years of video games going back to the primordial sludge of Pong. Modern system specs a far cry from what’s required in almost all cases so it’s practically all there for the taking. I promise you, there are grand single and multiplayer experiences to be had by dipping into that monstrous catalog. At the same time, some of the very best of those are getting new life with modern updates, fan-edits, fan-made content packs, and so on. Finally, there’s the hobby indie-scene, where new things are being made all the time in various game-jams, early access on Steam, and so much more. You have to dig for all of that of course; the people pushing you to pay a high price for entertainment will never make this easy.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You forget about Indie games too though, STS2 is a great recent example.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I made a small edit to reflect this! You are correct: that’s a huge part of what’s driving innovation and fresh ideas in this space. Plus, it’s usually for a bargain.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It is the grim dark far future of all gaming. Forget the promise of freedom to upgrade and superior graphical fidelity. There is no peace among the Discord servers, only an eternity of monetization, and micro transactions.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Where did it all go wrong?
See that part where millionaries became billionaires while everyone else got, at best, just enough raise to be stagnated with inflation? Yeah, that’s a good starting point
quafeinum@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
remind me, what do we need billionaires for again?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Food
arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I’m not happy. Are you?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I am when I refuse to buy their slop.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When companies stopped being able to actually make anything new, they then choose to find new ways to extract profit from the customer. Far cheaper than expending money on R&D, retooling, etc. They all decided to become landlords of the worst kind, squatting on their tech and extracting rent while ensuring the rest of us own nothing.
t0fr@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I recently pulled out my old PSP from way back when. If I don’t have an options to buy anything to own, guess there’s less incentive to buy anything new. Give me options pls
jagermo@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
There are tons of great games you can play with old hardware. Relax and start half life 2
Appleseuss@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is capitalism at work
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But anon isn’t happy, why would he say that if he didn’t think he would be happy? Is Anon retarded?
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reject modernity.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
August will mark 10 years of playing Rimworld for me.
Obv its not the only thing I play, but I come back to it every 3-4 months after little breaks. Was the same for Mount and Blade till the sequel came out. The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade it made it hard to keep interest. It’s been probably 2 years since I booted that up. Maybe I should give it another try.
PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade
How is the sequel a downgrade? (I don’t know basically anything except playing one of the games for half an hour-ish)
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Downgrade? I’m curious what you didn’t like about the sequel. Was it the family/diplomacy/story being too in your face? I think that was my only real gripe, but not a big one because it was interesting and easily removed if I wanted with mods.
toad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s way better than "you will have a big car, a big house, an fat wife and a dog "
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
oh no, not home ownership and pets
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
and food security
toad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lmao you think that’s happiness? Owning stuff?
I pity you
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Hell, Kristi, did you get so bored after being fired that you found the fediverse?
toad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
?
StopTech@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Where it all went wrong was the industrial revolution
mo_lave@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Capitalism. Yay!
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
its funny they say you’ll own nothing and be happy but they keep taking the things away from us that have been keeping us content with their systems for so long. they do realize this right?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
“They” do not say “you will own nothing and be happy”. That is a term we have made to show us the true nature of them.
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
To be fair some of them adopted the slogan.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I think the “patient gamer” model could be the way through don’t buy new shit and encourage your friends to play older games too. Hardware can be not great and the games are cheap.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
How long is that going to work though? Today’s slop is not going to unslop in 5 years, and it seems like every big name game publisher is exclusively doing slop now. Especially the optimization issue won’t go away, and it looks like the times where you could just wait for a generation or two of more powerful hardware are over, too - hardware might be getting more powerful, but the performance per dollar isn’t improving because the performance is only improving incrementally and the prices are getting higher and higher.
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still plenty of indie devs making good games. Really, you could just work through all the good games made up to this point and be fine for the rest of your life.
Otoh, if what you really care about is the social connection you get from playing games and talking about them with other people, you can just take up gardening or community service or pole dancing to get that.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I have enough unplayed games for years. And I haven’t even bought all games that interest me on my wishlist.
So to answer your question: I think it will work long enough till AI either implodes or is big enough that the state forces you to connect your brain implant to it.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Theoretically, we could see the PC gaming market come to resemble that of eastern Europe in the past, where everybody has very minimal or outdated hardware and the indie scene builds games with this in mind.
That’s pretty dire, but I prefer it over cloud subscriptions becoming the norm for gaming and other compute heavy tasks.
toad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We’ll just mod the old games.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
There are options that don’t involve buying. Open source games exist.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Which games are slop nowadays?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That only works if you already own the hardware and/or the majority does NOT do that model. The moment most people jump on board, the cost of old hardware will skyrocket too.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except even if the majority DOES adopt this model:
Warehouse@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
If you buy them off Steam you don’t actually own the game. You own a license to play the game, and that license is non-transferable and can be revoked. Doesn’t matter if it’s on your hard drive.