fartsparkles
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- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 4 hours ago:
Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite were by Irrational Games (2K Boston). Bioshock 2 was by 2K Marin.
Ken Levine shut down the studio after Infinite as they disliked the stress and scale of development - missing the days of small development teams.
That was back in 2014. Levine’s studio he set up immediately after the closure has yet to release a game but supposedly their first project, Judas, is not too far from completion (it was meant to be out this year in March but, so far, there’s no news).
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 days ago:
I worry it will just split the Labour vote and result in easier wins for competing parties.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My partner and I both came to our own conclusion that we didn’t want kids and felt the same way through multiple different relationships. But when we got together, things were different.
We’re still not 100% but we both agree that we want to talk about it more as, together, we found we actually have the desire growing within us now.
I cannot speak for you OP - you are your own person. I can only share my personal perspective which is that 22 year old me and today me are very very different people. I wouldn’t forgive my past self if I’d taken away my future self’s agency.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 week ago:
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
Also what’s the game in the screenshot?
- Comment on Sea Stranded Alien 1 week ago:
I need to play Subnautica again.
- Comment on yep that's me 2 weeks ago:
Show off
- Comment on yep that's me 2 weeks ago:
No they’re the bird’s nipples.
- Comment on Smart option 2 weeks ago:
When humans become less stupiderer.
- Comment on Anon isn't a Microsoft fan 3 weeks ago:
The why is really simple. The regular cuts are to keep salaries low by keeping the job market flush with candidates so salaries are suppressed across MS’s competitors too.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 5 weeks ago:
Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.
- Comment on MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off 5 weeks ago:
Turns out Leslie wasn’t the biggest reason GTA was such a huge success and they’re not taking it well…
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 5 weeks ago:
OpenMW and TES3MP is a great way to enjoy Morrowind in a modern engine and with friends.
There’s plenty of mods available for OpenMW so you can make it look stunning and add loads of new functionality.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 5 weeks ago:
They’ve sold between 5 and 8 million copies of that game to date.
I think they’re doing fine without needing a sale and devaluing their product.
- Comment on A story old as time 1 month ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update 1 month ago:
I’ve been on the Profiling branch for a couple of years and these changes are awesome. Tanoa was unplayable for me until I switched.
Kudos for Bohemia’s continued support for A3 while we wait for A4 (Reforger has also been a fantastic glimpse of the future of their engine).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m passing on the Switch 2 for similar reasons.
I can either fund Nintendo to sue open source developers or I can fund Valve who are payrolling open source developers.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
NCSA Mosaic is how old I am…
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
MS-DOS
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition 2 months ago:
Sadly not
- Comment on What does “rule” mean on Lemmy 2 months ago:
My hero!
- Comment on What does “rule” mean on Lemmy 2 months ago:
Why 196? And what’s with “post before you leave”? As in, before you die?
I am oh so very confused.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 months ago:
The side effect of SteamOS is that Arch Linux totally rocks for gaming.
- Comment on I'm genuinely sad about the Marathon situation 2 months ago:
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 months ago:
I’d say treaties are indeed a technology; they’re frameworks / systems that arose around the time commerce was invented. Since technology is purely the application of knowledge to achieve goals, while they may be somewhat intangible, so is software which I think most would agree is technology.
- Comment on I Captained a £4,000,000 Starship Filled with Actors | People Make Games [43:20] 2 months ago:
You can play the bridge simulator at home; they’re running Empty Epsilon - a FOSS project.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version 3 months ago:
Yikes that was written poorly. Author flips back and forth between Deadlock and Deathlock.
- Comment on Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions? 3 months ago:
Bang for buck.
Morrowind was made by a team of about 35 people. Sure they could have put the effort in but then you’ve got all those animations to make and test. How do they tie into stats? Do they look dumb at higher stat levels? Also they’ll use up a little more resources on console which was a big struggle (Morrowind literally had to reboot the Xbox mid game to free up memory).
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 3 months ago:
Personally, these mandates have been a positive. We’ve been hoovering up incredible talent to join our team since we’re a remote-first org (we have offices and co-working spaces for those that want or need it; some don’t have space in their homes to work or want the in-person socialisation).
The stupidity of these orgs with these mandates - their best and critically important talent are the first to leave. Not to mention how some of the best talent have long left the major urban areas and will never be moving back.
I feel incredibly bad for the juniors though, who will be left picking up the pieces of these terrible management decisions.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 3 months ago:
