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- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 5 days ago:
Maybe I’m blind, but I can’t see it? The target audience is PC gamers, and even though I rarely browse gaming websites anymore, this type of snark seems to be fairly standard for the last 10+ years.
Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, but it’s looked pretty much the same for the entirety of its almost 14 year run. There’s an argument to be made that it’s showing its age in places, an argument I won’t make because I don’t think so myself, but all the same, as revealed during today’s Minecraft Live, Mojang announced that the sandbox game is getting a pretty big visual overhaul update called Vibrant Visuals. Now, don’t worry, it’ll still be all blocks and squares ‘n’ that, but it will be changing up how lighting looks.
A blog post explains things in a bit more detail, with one of the big things being that there’ll now be volumetric lighting. What that translates to is things like sunlight shining more naturally across different surfaces, even shining through windows, and every individual block will cast its own shadow. Mobs and items will glow a bit more too, so it’s not just about the overworld lighting.
This update is coming to the Bedrock Edition of the game first, with the post noting that it hopes to bring this “graphics revamp (either fully or partially) to as many devices as possible”, though there’s not even a release window for it yet. There are plans to bring it to Java Edition too.
I might not have much of a horse in this race as someone that only really plays Minecraft once in a blue moon (and normally swiftly puts it down because I’m not that kind of creative and I get too stressed out from survival mode), but honestly, I’m not a fan. Minecraft is inherently not a natural looking game, and this lighting overhaul just adds a touch to much realism for my tastes. Besides, this kind of lighting already exists in countless mods, so for plenty of people it’s not even really needed.
In any case, there were a few other announcements from Minecraft Live too, like the fact you’ll soon be able to fly around on friendly versions of ghasts, which I do quite like the look of. There’s a live event taking place from March 25 to April 7 too where you get to hang out with Jack Black’s version of Steve to defend a village in some mini-games, which’ll net you a cape if you’re successful. Bit less exciting, but to each their own!
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 5 days ago:
First line in their about us:
Rock Paper Shotgun is about PC gaming.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Demo with Full Ray Tracing and Dlss 4 Announce 2 weeks ago:
Main takeaway is the HL2 still looks pretty good
- Comment on ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Trailer Is HBO’s Most-Watched Trailer Ever After Just 3 Days 2 weeks ago:
spoiler
I wonder how they’ll handle Joel, considering he was the big star of the show.
- Comment on Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm 1 month ago:
Depends on your instance’s definition. We define it as:
We once banned a few accounts for mass down voting, i.e. their (total downvotes - total upvotes) were over 6 000. One account had downvoted more than 10 000 times in a single community.
- Comment on Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm 1 month ago:
At programming.dev “vote manipulation” is against out Code of Conduct and we would send the user a warning to stop. I’m sure your instance has something similar written down.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 1 month ago:
A stable 30 fps is perfectly playable for most people, yes
- Comment on House and Scooter 2 months ago:
- Comment on The Witcher 4 Recasts Ciri 3 months ago:
Explains why her face looked so different compared to Witcher 3 Ciri, I guess it’s the cost of tying voice actors to the game models.
- Comment on Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 3 months ago:
John Linneman from digital foundry said the game reminded him of why he loves games after all the AAA slop and UE5 games they’ve been through. Up there in quality with the Mario games.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 3 months ago:
It wasn’t really a question in that sense. What I meant by that sentence is that the game is already planned to be removed (from sale), so Blizzard suing GOG wouldn’t make much sense. However that doesn’t mean that GOG/Blizzard can just take the game away from those who already purchased it.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 3 months ago:
I think you might have replied to the wrong person
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 3 months ago:
Games are constantly pulled from the Steam store, but that doesn’t result in owners losing access to the game, GOG is no different. The only thing that will happen is they stop selling the game, it’s standard practice.
GOG also offer offline installers that would be impossible for even GOG to take away from you.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 3 months ago:
A DRM free store that’s run by the CD Projekt Red guys. It focuses mainly on older games (Good Old Games) but it also got modern DRM free games such as Baldurs Gate 3.
If you’re buying an older game, it’s likely a better option than whatever steam offers as GOG will also try to fix old games that are broken on modern systems.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 3 months ago:
The game will be removed on 13. December?
However that can’t simply take away a game someone has already bought.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 has entered full-scale production, CD Projekt has confirmed 3 months ago:
They claimed that it was expensive and was part of the reason for cyberpunk’s turbulent launch.
It’s a real shame though, most UE5 runs awful it seems, and are still limited by single thread performance, unlike RED Engine which scales far better with more CPU cores.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 3 months ago:
I guess I didn’t read the problem properly.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 3 months ago:
Sounds like your typical game theory problem.
Not pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: None
Pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: Your loved ones survives
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 4 months ago:
I’m the same with 1. I’d recommend trying out Black Mesa, it might be the best game remake ever made.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 4 months ago:
Better visuals and much faster/cheaper for the developer to make.
We are still in the infancy of the technology and the vast majority of games with ray tracing doesn’t fully utilise it as they must compromise to support normal raster, leading to half baked implementations on engines not designed with ray tracing in mind.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 months ago:
She refused until I guessed… She even had the gall to act insulted when I was wrong
Guessing people’s height also isn’t something I do regularly. Might be why I suck at it.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 months ago:
My height is 192 so 190 vs 185 would be easy to tell, but once you reach ~182 and below it’s all a wash. 180 vs 175 I wouldn’t have a clue. I was off by more than 10cm in my estimation when they were sitting in front of me, and it was a person I knew well.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 months ago:
Unless you’re the same height as me, I’ll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
Height just isn’t something I register about a person, and I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 5 months ago:
Pathfinder also has fairly detailed difficulty settings panel, you can tailor the difficulty to your liking. Story mode difficulty and auto level up presets makes the game beatable for even your grandma, so you can ease into the system.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 5 months ago:
Graphics and voice acting, but only because they randomly stop speaking and go to pure text during dialogue. BG3 also doesn’t have Blackwater…
100% agree with the rest. I really hope Owlcat gets inspired by the more dynamic elements/environments from Larian’s games though.
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 5 months ago:
Which in turn reposted it from a Roman source
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 5 months ago:
And then the other half of the Internet cries about how all they do are lazy remasters.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Preview - IGN 6 months ago:
No. Different genre at this point
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 6 months ago:
I can’t remember ever having used meta critic to guide a purchase. There is so much content both from forums and YouTube/Twitch that gives you much more accurate impressions of games. Meta critic seems rather pointless nowadays.
