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- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 hour ago:
There’s no reason to suspect that.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 21 hours ago:
Yeah, that’s probably because Kleiner knew the G-Man was involved in the interdimensional shit and had Gordon in stasis (or whatever), and he expected more warning when Gordon was on his way back, not just have him dropped on the doorstep, whereas the slow teleport was entirely experimental, accidental, and unexpected.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 day ago:
They don’t question it because all kinds of weird interdimensional shit is going down. But they absolutely react with surprise when you first show up.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 day ago:
The revolver’s first shot is dead center. Use your suit zoom and you can snipe a headshot.
Other than that, use the appropriate weapon. Soften them up or flush them out with grenades. Pop around a corner and hit them with both barrels of the shotgun. And don’t be afraid to use the quicksaves liberally.
HL and HL2 definitely aren’t polished AAAA game experiences, they’re experimental games from people trying to push the limits, so it’s natural that they don’t hold up to modern games. The modern games are standing on the shoulders of Half-Life (which stands on the shoulders of Quake, Doom, and Wolfenstein).
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 5 days ago:
So it’s okay to steal their work for AI and commercial profit because they posted it on the internet?
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 5 days ago:
So all the individual artists who had their work scraped are juggernauts?
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 5 days ago:
Unfortunately you are not, that’s what most people do. We should all be including ethics in our purchases.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 5 days ago:
They might have used them for fine-tuning, but there is no way that they produced enough samples to train a model from zero.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Because most games aren’t designed client-server. GoldenEye was entirely local, so it didn’t need any networking, replication, or anti-cheat.
Games these days have a lot more going on. You need to replicate a lot of stuff in the world, you need to ensure that none of the clients are telling you something impossible, and you need a way to deal with cheaters. Usually that means accounts, anti-cheat, and bans. That’s a significant amount of infrastructure and management. And then you also have a lot of legal compliance too, like GDPR, and even more problems if minors will be playing your game online.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 2 weeks ago:
Metroid’s core element of ‘increasing the amount of explorable areas by unlocking powers’ is not very compatible with the ‘freedom to go anywhere from the beginning’ of open worlds
Oh okay so they just dont understand anything about what they were trying to do then. Because BotW has plenty of places you can’t get to from the beginning, either because it’s too high, or the rain makes you slip while climbing.
They could probably have reskinned the game as something other than Metroid and it would have been fine. The gameplay itself isn’t great, but it’s not bad. As a Metroid game it was mediocre at best.
They should just stop making Metroid games entirely until they have someone who actually understands the principles.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 2 weeks ago:
Rockstar is American, based in NYC. Their subsidiary Rockstar North does most of the GTA games and is based in Scotland.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege ravaged by massive server breach that gave its players billions of paid currency for free 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Give them that amount back in game credit so they can make the purchase again.
- Comment on Emoji blobs or construction vehicles? Help me choose my game's visual identity | 😊 vs 🚜 | 3 weeks ago:
So you probably want a top-down image of a piece of equipment then? Neither a blob nor an icon.
- Comment on Emoji blobs or construction vehicles? Help me choose my game's visual identity | 😊 vs 🚜 | 3 weeks ago:
Depends. How are you defining your art style?
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t seem to be deprived of wrecks at all.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
If it’s trained on licensed material, would that be acceptable?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
Awards like these are inherently subjective. You don’t have to draw an objective line anywhere.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
They will also send alerts if a game is available at price point you choose.
- Comment on Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles 5 weeks ago:
I did that for a while. It didn’t find any. I think because there weren’t any to find.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 weeks ago:
Why not CoD2?
MW3 was the one where Russia invades the US, right? That one was good. I think the next one, BO2, was the last one I played. After that, they really fell into the rut of minor iteration.
I might get around to playing some of the others that aren’t in the “high tech” genre. Apparently there was one set during Desert Storm.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 weeks ago:
*charcuterie
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 month ago:
That’s not a spoon. This is a spoon.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 month ago:
Citizen Kane.
You watch it now, and it’s just a regular movie. But in 1941, it was incredibly unorthodox. It set the benchmark for modern movies.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 month ago:
Taking notes on those weird little puzzles
Or, because it’ll hurt more, you twit.
- Comment on As ‘Hitman’ Turns 25, IO Interactive CEO Talks Eminem-Slim Shady Collab, ‘007 First Light’ Inspiration and Future of the Video Game Franchise: ‘Of Course There’s Going to Be’ a ‘Hitman 4’ 1 month ago:
I don’t think the lead level designer is making those decisions.
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 1 month ago:
Did you use any engine or framework for this, or built it from pure code and gl libs?
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
Alt+F4 usually works for that
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
Also just plain support that. Too many games lock up or outright crash if they lose focus.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
Not a setting, but a “here’s what you did last time/here’s where you need to go now”. If it’s been a little while since I played the game, I shouldn’t be lost trying to figure out where I am or where I’m going.