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- Comment on 'Mickey 17' Faces Tall Order at Box Office After $19 Million Opening Weekend 2 weeks ago:
I saw this movie this weekend. It was ok. There were a lot of missed opportunities and unexplored plot points. The film consistently stumbles just to keep the pace up. It had enough story to be a limited TV series but it was condensed in a way that made it feel rushed. With that being said I enjoyed the acting and cringed actively as I watched on in horror at what effectively is unironically already the world we live in.
- Comment on Dino Crisis 1 & 2 just got enhanced PC re-releases, courtesy of GOG 1 month ago:
Make Parasite Eve but with the turn based gameplay of “Yakuza:Like a Dragon”
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 months ago:
These platforms seem more vulnerable to alternatives than they ever have been before but it turns out the opposite is true. The hosting infrastructure is so expensive that it prevents competitors from even starting. Datacenters are basically a cartel and getting your foot in the door is near impossible without bouncing in on the heels of someone who’s in. Making compute storage cheaper is not the name of the game when it’s easier to profit by simply limiting access and driving the price up.
On the other hand, YouTube has never been profitable.
- Comment on RIP 4 months ago:
Almost had a gd heart attack!
- Comment on Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 4 months ago:
AAA title Published by Epic Games, doesn’t use unreal engine, mega-chad move.
I can see them in the future publishing it on steam as it has no integration into epic in any technical way. Epic will want to recoup their costs though by optimizing the release window for steam so expect it (if at all) to have a steam release when control 2 lands.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 5 months ago:
I passed on this one because I always feel like there’s a real chance I’ll get screwed one way or another by Ubisoft so I just avoid them outright.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 5 months ago:
Can’t wait 'till they go to sue Valve for enabling people to perform piracy of their software on their platform.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 6 months ago:
Stay with me in my ass
- Miki Matsubara
- Comment on Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales 6 months ago:
In the modern game industry, you get hit with layoffs even if you do well so it doesn’t really matter what the quality of your product is in the end… You still get laid off.
- Comment on 5 Reasons Why Bill Skarsgard's The Crow Remake Bombed At The Box Office 6 months ago:
I was too busy seeing alien: cromulant a second time.
- Comment on The full original Marathon trilogy is now free on Steam, but Bungie are still quiet on the reboot 7 months ago:
I hope Bungie realized that if they make another free to play shooter that it will cut into the profits of their other free to play shooter.
People who still play Destiny2 are like people who drink Hennessy. “When a mfka drink Hennessy all he drink is Hennessy” - Kat Williams
Maybe they can try something smaller, more original, and riskier and see if people will buy that. Shorter development time, tighter budget, minimize the scope of the first title and see what people will buy. Leverage the fact that you have all this game tech, expertise, and capital and make three smaller projects that do not compete against the core product directly and come to market quickly.
- Comment on Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux 7 months ago:
Honestly when I think about it, this is just Mac Users have been doing for years. It’s ok to have different devices that do different things.
With that being said, I know my journey with computers was me breaking a lot of stuff and installing software I shouldn’t as a child. If they want a windows PC, make them come up with the build. That’s the best way to share your hobby.
- Comment on Feel the burn 10 months ago:
You didn’t EMPTY THE GREASE TRAAAaaaAAYY!
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 10 months ago:
Honestly, this article shouldn’t be called how to. I’m trying to make heads or tails of this documentation but I would love to see more. I just want to recompile Mystical Ninja starring Goemon as it’s my favorite N64 game from my childhood.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 10 months ago:
💯
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 10 months ago:
Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 10 months ago:
Just a thought, remakes like this tend to appeal to people in the PC crowd. We’ve all moved to PC for various different reasons. Better games, better prices, better hardware? Emulation and software preservation is the name of the game for a lot of people. Those people are working everyday to make things like the steam deck the dream game console they always wanted. That’s the kind of person who will go back and replay Final Fantasy 7 four or five times.
- Comment on Nintendo Says It Will Reveal Switch Successor By March 2025, But Not At The Direct Next Month 10 months ago:
Oh no … Anyway
- Comment on Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync 10 months ago:
I’m so stoked for this! I want this in Nobara and Bazzite Asap!
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 10 months ago:
Nintendo is going to be the company that makes or breaks the legitimacy of the DMCA. If it wasn’t for the DMCA they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on as they’ve lost in court several times before.
Honestly I think they’re going to start having problems in places like Europe if Nintendo can be classified as a “gatekeeper” on their locked down hardware.
- Comment on MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead 10 months ago:
There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.
- Comment on Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK gets more enhancements 11 months ago:
Once Nvidia works with Gamescope, I think it will be high time to move the rest of my gaming PCs over to Bazzite. I hope these changes are getting us over to that reality.
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 11 months ago:
The same reason a movie theater owner why they can’t show Pee Wee’s Big Adventure every weekend. Value is derived from exclusivity. Exercising your “rights” to a work means preventing anyone from having access to the work unless you are paid when and how you want.
- Comment on A Weary Trump Appears to Doze Off in Courtroom Ahead of Criminal Trial 11 months ago:
Oh yes!
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 11 months ago:
Everybody who plays videogames has had this experience
Pay 70$ for a game:
- it’s digital only
- comes loaded with Micro transactions
- grinding mechanics that have a pay to skip function
- single player campaign: 13 hours
- buggy and unfinished glitches and freezes
- PC port locked at 30fps, runs Denuvo.
- gets removed from my library in a few years because “It’s too expensive to maintain and licensing reasons”
“I’m never getting ripped off like this again”
STUDIO executive “I wonder why no one wants to buy these games… Must be the price.”
- Comment on The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last month 11 months ago:
- Comment on Let's discuss: Resident Evil 11 months ago:
Rem4 has the energy of a movie that was made because James Cameron walked into Capcom main offices, met with the presidents, stood in front of a whiteboard and wrote “Resident Evil$” making sure the s was notably a bit red dollar sign $. Everyone applauded and then they made whatever the hell they wanted.
I and I love that about it.
(Note: this is basically how we got the move Aliens 1986)
- Comment on Homer 11 months ago:
If he wasn’t, he is now. They made a musical episode about it called “Goodbye Middle Class” where they illustrate this with him.
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 year ago:
Don’t worry, Nintendo will make a switch 2 and all the problems will be fixed!
/s
- Comment on What a feeling that was 1 year ago:
Maybe the blue ray box should have an entire SSD in them or some kind of NextGen Compact flash as long as it’s a standard format and not a proprietary format like a switch game. You can buy blank CDs, DVDs, SD cards and there are standards in place to make them readable by entire fleets of devices.
It’s harder for games but I’m coming at this from a games preservation angle.
Games keep getting bigger and require installation to drive to effectively load assets quickly. I really envy the ability to not have to perform an installation to the device. If your game was simply its own storage device again then you could have that plug and play like experience back and also have that ~4GBps read that even the cheapest NVME drives can offer.
I have DVDs, but I also have MKV files, and I have the ability to go between these formats. I suggested something like flatpak because a universal physical media image format for games would be just one more way to easily preserve content offline indefinitely and neatly keep it pretty platform agnostic.
That was my train of thought. I know the likelihood of this being done by a real company is slim to none because of DMCA and over engineering another format is pointless if they can force everything to be download only IRL but I would like to push back and I can’t easily archive all this stuff forever on an ever growing 48TB Nas on my home. I would like offline ownership and convenience please.
If it’s going to be too expensive for a company to put Alan Wake Two onto physical media then I’d like a way to do it myself so it continues to work when epic decides they want to pull a Warner Bros and rip it off the internet forever and claim it was a loss to get tax breaks. It would also be cool if it didn’t have to install and it just started.
I understand the difficulty involved with that but we’re halfway there with software running containerized on Linux.
A man can dream.