jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC 1 week ago:
There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.
I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.
Let me explain:
It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.
It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.
The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.
The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!
Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 weeks ago:
They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 weeks ago:
Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.
I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉
But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.
Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 weeks ago:
It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.
But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 weeks ago:
Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 weeks ago:
I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.
“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”
Took about a minute.
But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.
- Comment on sorting of Roman numerals 3 weeks ago:
The files are sorted by the numeric year first, up to 1950.
The two files for 1950 are together, as they should be.
But the letters are sorted alphabetically, so XI comes before XV. It doesn’t see that they are numbers, it’s reading them as letters.
If they want it sorted correctly, they should rename the files:
“1950 - 018
1950 - 019”That would work. Interestingly enough, so would:
“1950 - Eighteen
1950 - Nineteen” - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There was a quickplay where someone figured out how to beat the game in something crazy like 10 or 12 minutes.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 weeks ago:
I tend to agree with this. I had given up on PC gaming by 2004 so did not play HL2 until the Orange Box on Xbox in 2007 and my reaction was “Jesus this is boring!”
I’ve tried to replay it a couple of times since then, most recently on Steam Deck, but it just doesn’t click with me and I give up around the Canals.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 5 weeks ago:
After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 month ago:
Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 month ago:
Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 month ago:
Yeah, but you don’t give pirated goods as gifts. 😉
I still have the OG Advance Wars carts for my GBA.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 month ago:
I picked up Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for my kid for Christmas. $60 still after coming out in 2023.
nintendo.com/…/advance-wars-1-plus-2-re-boot-camp…
(* “My kid” - He’s 29, he should br buying his own games! LOL.)
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 month ago:
The Switch 2 is the first console I’ve just outright skipped in… well… years now. I guess since the Wii U?
Just every piece of news about it as it was coming out made it sound less and less appealing…
$70 games (that never get discounted because Nintendo.)
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Special SD cards that are more expensive.
Microphone support requires a subscription after 1 year.
Charging $10 for a hardware demo that should be included, like Desk Job on the Steam Deck.
And, like you say, the remote detonation option, which is burning legitimate players:
gadgetmatch.com/nintendo-switch-2-lawsuit-bricked…
Generally with new hardware it’s “Hey, what’s not to like?”
With the Switch 2 it’s more “What is there to like?”
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 1 month ago:
Like “O” and “0” in some fonts. The O is slightly fatter.
In the case of Il, the l is slightly taller. Don’t get me started on |.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 1 month ago:
The mere presence of griefers eliminates this from PVE:
ign.com/…/we-just-started-i-have-nothing-retired-…
Until they come up with servers where PvP is prohibited, PvE isn’t worth discussing.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
With current pricing, it’s going to be tough and that’s no joke.
Even the new Steam Machine is being predicted to be around $1,000.
indy100.com/…/steam-machine-price-cost-release-da…
The era of $600 gaming PCs is 1-3 years ago now.
(NGL - I still want a Steam Machine. :)
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
I’ve consistently refused to buy in to Game Pass. I still buy physical games where available. If it’s only digital, I’ll get the Steam version for my Steam Deck.
- Comment on New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls 1 month ago:
CNN is not a broadcast network.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 1 month ago:
Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 1 month ago:
It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 month ago:
Rebadge them with a fancy name and sell them for $20 to the gullible. 😉 “Toroid Choke Core”.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
This was actually a thing in Hogwart’s Legacy, you had the option of capturing and breeding animals.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 month ago:
My favorite story along these lines…
Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.
gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-…
“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 months ago:
And more significantly, the Switch 2 is for kids. There’s no sizable youth market for the Steam Deck.
But out of all the handheld PCs, the Steam Deck is #1, so that should give you some idea about the sales on the others. 😉
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 months ago:
I was looking at getting a Switch 2 MicroSD card for a gift and shit’s bonkers, yo.
I get they changed the standard for the Switch 2, but $300 for 1TB?
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 months ago:
I say this as someone who loves their Steam Deck… Steam Deck sales are insignificant compared to consoles.
6 million in 3 years:
birchtree.me/…/steam-deck-sales-numbers-are-in-an…
The Switch 2 has sold over 10 million, June to September. 3 months. There has been another 3 months since then.
