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- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
Yeah… I’m going to shut up now. I wasn’t trying to have any argument. I was only saying that putting a specially crafted media into hardware designed to play that specific media has always been nice.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
surely you see the irony in suggesting a person wanting to play a PC title use a PS1 emulator. An emulator only possible because it targets a very specific set of hardware.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
Nah, I’ve hit stuff that can’t run in it. No amount of futzing with the IRQ settings would restore audio, that kind of stuff.
Regardless, the issues you describe is not necessarily the way things have to be. I mentioned the Evercade in another post elsewhere. It’s a console made with cartridges. You put the cartridge in. You play the game. You don’t need to subscribe to anything. You don’t need to upgrade to another version. You don’t need to purchase the missing chapter.
If I made a game today for the Evercade, yes it would need to go through certification, but in 20 years, if I put that Evercade cartridge in my Evercade… It’ll play. No ongoing maintenance patches. No workarounds. No troubleshooting by the end-user.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
perfectly tuned for it… for how long though?
That’s why GoG introduced the preservation program. So they can continue maintaining that software. But it’s a strict list.
How many indie titles on PC aged out of the platform and have no maintainer?
You get what I’m saying? Even the older console titles can still play on the console they were designed for… but PC is so nebulous that both software and hardware can age out of use.
A person who purchased Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for PC would be unable to launch the game in any modern OS. But if they have it on PS1, it still works.
A person who purchased Minecraft in 2011 can no longer play that game on the same computer they purchased it from. But if they purchased Minecraft on PS3… it still works today the same as the day it was purchased.
And once again, I must insist, I am not saying PC is a bad platform. I’m saying PC is a moving platform. Having a set target is a good thing for development and playability. We here are all a-okay with workarounds and emulation layers. But sometimes it’s a good thing to just have the person sit down and start playing without troubleshooting.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
I run exactly what was designed for PS5 on a PS5.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
There is definitely a benefit to having a set platform for game developers to target.
I don’t mean that PC is a bad platform… I just mean it’s a moving target. An ever-evolving target. The further back you go in the PC library the worse the game compatibility gets. We completely lost 16-bit games years ago without much fuss.
Consoles, though, serve as checkpoints almost. Place GTA IV into an Xbox 360 and it’ll act exactly the same as when you bought it.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 days ago:
I feel like I’m going to summon somebody from c/latestagecapitalism but it really seems like we’ve gotten to the point where companies are so big, so invested in everything, that the “scrappy can-do company” can no longer challenge the ingrained supremacy.
So we just kinda… wish for less abuse from whoever is still in the market.
I asked all the gamers I know who they think could turn around that Playstation news and enter the market by promoting physical media. All I really got was shrugs. Nobody really can. Sega is out. Gamestop probably would benefit most, but they don’t design hardware. Evercade has hardware and production lines, but fills a niche at best. You’ve got giants like Google who failed with Stadia, so Amazon and Samsung probably wouldn’t dare try.
It’s uhh… not good.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent 1 week ago:
Very informative! Thank you!
I have confirmed that neither startup, nor System folders on the old Win11 install have LDA. Very strange how I was spared, despite using the G203 and K120 to type this post.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent 1 week ago:
Is auto-install something Windows debloat tools disable? I’ve been using the G203 mouse and it’s predecessors for years without any “download assistant” getting installed.
I even had to go to Logitech’s website to manually download the software suite so the LEDs would stop flashing and changing colors.
- Comment on PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC 2 weeks ago:
They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do.
Noooo… that’s not right at all. If we are talking unmodified hardware. The original models did have something like 99% compatibility, but as the generation moved on, the fat models removed more components to make it cheaper and made PS2 backward compatibility more software driven… until the slim models removed PS2 disc reading completely.
We used to look at the hard drive size to gauge. 20GB & 60GB was full hardware, 80GB was partial software, anything above was a slim and had no PS2 abilities.
PS1 muddies the water because all PS3s can play PS1 game discs.
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got another one for you:
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 3 weeks ago:
Yup.
With the crazy number of layoffs from the AI frenzy… for those people, some money is better than no money. Even if the job won’t be there in 6 months.
- Comment on Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox, the Information reports 1 month ago:
If ASUS is building the hardware, why couldn’t Xbox as a company handle everything then?
Xbox is already a brand. Xbox is already a publisher. The move to make it independent would mean it has to promote Xbox instead of everything Microsoft.
- Comment on purpose 1 month ago:
Since COVID, I lost my own assigned desk and now have to find and log a ticket to get a workspace in the office.
- Comment on Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox, the Information reports 1 month ago:
Microsoft doesn’t seem to be interested in making the hardware though. Microsoft wants further integrate of Game Pass and Xbox cloud streaming into the Windows Microsoft Store.
That’s what got them where they are now. Dilution of the Xbox brand and an aimless hardware strategy.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
Coming in at a 45 rating on Metacritic: Hyperdimension Neptunia.
Is it a bad game? Yes. It’s really bad. It’s an ugly game for PS3 standards, and the battle mechanics are borderline insane. It’s a JRPG where you can’t manually heal, but instead set a % chance to heal automatically in battles… which means sometimes you game over because RNG wasn’t going to let you heal. But regardless it’s one of my favorites. I’m a sucker for the core concept of the schoolyard console wars, with little gaming references everywhere and silly humor. I also love the theme songs for each console nation. It really drives home how different the console cultures are supposed to be as you are traveling around solving their problems.
And I mean, come on… When you first start the game and you are in the tutorial dungeon it plays this song during exploration and this song during battles. Games today would never do something that silly.
The later games polished the gameplay, expanded the character rosters, gave more depth to the story, and dealt with some very dark topics (Gehaburn trauma)… but to me none of them captured the lightning that the first one had.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 2 months ago:
All-New IP PRAGMATA Surpasses One Million Units Sold in Two Days!
Every single executive on hearing the news:
- Comment on Embracer Intends to 'Activate' Deus Ex, Saints Row, TimeSplitters, and Red Faction 2 months ago:
so some terrible mobile adaptations with energy meters and diamond currencies, with everything ever so slightly out of reach… unless you pay an extra $5 right now.
- Comment on Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most 2 months ago:
back in the day, it meant that the game would actually be developed and optimized for the platform. Not necessarily just so it would be hard to purchase.
With all the platforms being nearly identical in power, there is no real optimizing to do… unless you are going to somehow get HD rumble or center touchpad as your core gameplay.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 2 months ago:
But see, that’s an almost naive take. A convention is not a professional environment. The social contract isn’t set, so it is two strangers meeting each other for the first time. The dev watched me flail about for five minutes before finally giving me the answer, so if I turn around and state the obvious “I was confused and didn’t realize the water wasn’t hazardous” it could easily be taken as a condescending statement. A belief that I think the dev is so stupid that he can’t figure out why I was having trouble.
So I had just a mere moment to figure out whether the dev understood where the problem was, and break it to him if he didn’t. Hence the question. Not a rhetorical question, mind you… a question hiding my information with a get out of jail free card. We were both there watching me humiliate myself, so how do I say most people are taught not to launch others into water without confirming they can swim, with this dev possibly being thin-skinned and unprofessional?
Ask a question. Why not make the cliff a gradual beach into the water to indicate it’s not a hazard?
The dev could have easily answered with:
I reused the cliff from elsewhere to save memory
or
I wanted to give people a chance to familiarize themselves with the controls before moving on
or even
I didn’t have enough colors
and that would have been the end of the exchange. The information was passed, we both knew I struggled, and now we both know why.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 2 months ago:
Am I an unsolicited advice dude? I was at a convention playing an indie demo. The game had an island on a 2D field, with an invisible wall on the left, and a very clear cliffside and water on the right.
I spent a good 5 minutes looking like an idiot trying to figure out where to go, testing the borders, picking up the only item, putting down the only item, before giving up. The dev said to just go into the water. I asked “Why not make that cliff a gradual beach into the water to indicate it’s not a hazard?” and I got a brutal “the game already shipped and I’m not here for feedback” which immediately soured the whole experience. It’s like… why are you here then? Just set up the demo on steam and skip the fan interaction completely.
- Comment on Steam refund 2 months ago:
the refund part wasn’t planned
- Comment on PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you 3 months ago:
I wonder if they think RPCS3 is currently too volatile a project to deliver a static database with the download.
I know a few people who are always “latest is greatest” but it is nice to have a matching config to what is being installed.
- Comment on Ex-Overwatch Director Says Tracer's Butt Was Never "Nerfed" 3 months ago:
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 months ago:
I’m still salty about The Cutting Room Floor requiring you to log into their Discord to create an account for their website.
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 5 months ago:
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 5 months ago:
OpenRCT2 is 100% the definitive way to play Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2.
But I would never recommend a new player try OpenRA. The game has stellar multiplayer support but they just can’t figure out the campaign scripting at all. Go with the remaster collection instead.
- Comment on How GOG fixed Cold Fear | GOG Tech Talk 5 months ago:
gog has a bunch of tweaks for the stuff they host. I’m guessing it’s either a clause in the contract for their storefront, or this is a volunteer for the game preservation program.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 7 months ago:
I buy mainly physical games.
Will I preorder a AAA game that will have 18,000,000 copies sitting around after 6 months? Hell no.
Will I preorder a physical title from a small-medium dev/publisher that I will never see again? If they have a track record of making stuff I like.
