dukemirage
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- 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" 12 hours ago:
RDR was made by Rockstar San Diego.
- 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" 1 day ago:
If your game relies heavily on cultural details, you probably shouldn’t make something outside of the culture you know.
- Comment on The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System 4 days ago:
Half-assed approach. If you truly mean it then don’t consume their products at all, this gives them cultural legitimacy.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 week ago:
You‘ll need some AI so NPCs don’t just idle around.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 week ago:
what the hell is skong
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
no need you didn’t, just slightly annoyed. merry Christmas
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
Sorry in before hand if i offended somebody.
I‘m 100% with you, but if you say something like this you don’t really mean it and consequently shouldn’t say it.
- Comment on Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game 1 week ago:
Project constraints are not laziness.
- Comment on Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game 1 week ago:
As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes.
- Comment on Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game 1 week ago:
Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
Phew, good thing Druckman supressed that union! Imagine a pesky strike interfering with the mandated crunch.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
Often it is ordered by folks who are pathological workaholics who don’t understand that healthy people usually burn out when crunching away 12h a day.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually more than I thought. I thought about 80% fall into complete oblivion.
- Comment on The Free Shepherd | World Premiere | The Game Awards 2025 2 weeks ago:
not really a dog person but that looks fantastic
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 2 weeks ago:
Thanks I’ll will try it eventually. It’s not the difficulty I’m worried about, it’s the sheer amount of combat.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 2 weeks ago:
I really want to experience the narrative but I really don’t want a JRPG. They burn me out.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 3 weeks ago:
Let’s not push the myth here that over dependence on LLMs is the only source of bad code. In the past it’s almost always been management constraints, probably the case here, too.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Except the cake will be good. It‘s more like making the entire cake out of fondant.
- Comment on ROUTINE – Launch Trailer 4 weeks ago:
All the positive Steam reviews are from people who can’t believe the game has been finally released and say nothing about the actual game.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 4 weeks ago:
its clearly pr
Yes, as I said, plan B. Do you expect the studio to say “ok fuck it, let’s close up” when they projected a huge loss of sales after Steam denied their release?
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 4 weeks ago:
It would be an extremely risky strategy. The studio’s whole portfolio are offbeat shortforms (indeed one of the higher profile indie devs) and I don’t think getting banned from Steam and losing sales there was something they anticipated. Using this for publicity is plan B for damage control.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 4 weeks ago:
please share your theory. also, why popularity matters.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 weeks ago:
It already is a unique art form. This is not defined by the commercial availability, and this game wouldn’t be the first art piece that understands controversy as part of its essence.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 weeks ago:
What’s CSAM?
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 4 weeks ago:
Stardew Valley totally would have taken staff and money if you can’t live in your parent’s house forever.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes if a game is available on GOG and Steam I choose Steam simply because I will play the game exclusively on the SteamDeck and there Steam’s eco system and UX is obviously better.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to discredit Steam’s features like compatibility layers, but the software itself is a mess. It is an unnessecary RAM-heavy chromium instance, to be fair, just like most other launchers. I replaced it with Playnite which is streamlined, responsive and more feature rich for managing a library (Steam still needs to be installed of course because they don’t offer offline installer like GOG). And I’d argue that console user saren’t free of launcher, they are locked into a very specific one.
But as someone who’s neither been to Costco nor Walmart, what is the difference?
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 4 weeks ago:
With the second paragraph I agree, it’s a bad fit for a sequel and this is consensus (probably, I didn’t enjoy Bloodlines much), even TCR thinks so. But is this a scale? Is Bloodlines 1 a lesser game with subpar gameplay because it’s systems weren’t as complex as other CRPGs? “Game” is just the term we stuck with, it doesn’t mean that the fidelity of the gameplay, the mechanics and dynamics is paramount. If I value narrative, and it is, has become, a narrative medium, I very well might think that A Machine For Pigs did a better job.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 4 weeks ago:
SOMA isn’t a walking sim and I don’t remember such situations in Still Wakes the Deep. The gameplay never stood in the way for me.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, too