RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 day ago:
Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 “Halo Studios” keep Halo.
At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 “Halo Studios” it had no chances of being good.
Activision is a publisher, they don’t only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard’s Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn’t fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish an FPS games that feels almost nothing like Call of Duty.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 2 days ago:
My point is that Activision isn’t a studio. It’s a publisher. I read Activision said they are forming a new studio for Halo.
I mean, I didn’t bring up all of Activisions classic games like Pitfall, just the most recent games they have published since those are most relevant to the topic.
“the era 343 aas turning out good games too”
Ok but that never really happened. Ensemble made Halo Wars and Creative Assembly made the sequel which were decent IMO (the first being better IMO). Every other game with the Halo brand under 343 was garbage. Forget about Spartan Strike and Spartan Assault? 343s first game was Halo CE Anniversary, which was horrendously bad, so I suppose it is poetic in a way that Halo Studios, which only survived long enough to drop a single game, would die with yet another rehash of Halo CE.
Except for maybe Fireteam Raven, only because I never had the chance to play it, 343 never had an “era of making good games.” Halo 2A was pretty good but it launched in the very broken MCC which took them years to fix.
4,5, and Infinite were the absolute low points of Halo, with Infinite being the best of the three only because of the art direction. But they are all far below Bungie-era Halo games.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 3 days ago:
Activision doesn’t only publish Call of Duty though. They publish all kinds of games: Sekiro, the Tony Hawk games, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc.
Way more potential than what 343 had. I mean, 343 was purposefully NOT hiring former Bungie-era Halo employees. The important ones, like Marcus Lehto, Marty ODonnell, heck they only brought Joe Staten to get Infinite “back on track” and then promptly kicked him to the curb too. 343 definitely deserved this earlier, I am gonna be honest.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I mean, not thrilled Activision has it, but at this point literally anyone other than Halo Studios would be better.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 5 days ago:
I am assuming this means they are planning on adding a “free” tier to Xbox Cloud Game Streaming. Which doesn’t really bother me that much if its a free tier. But if they add this to paid tiers or full games that would probably lose them a lot of goodwill that Asha seems to be pretty keen on regaining lately.
- Comment on Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital 6 days ago:
If they haven’t announced drives being removed, then there isn’t any proof that they are planning to do it. There is no benefit of doubt, nor is there evidence to support your claim.
- Comment on Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital 1 week ago:
Is there any proof that their next console isn’t going to have an optical drive?
- Comment on Do you have a favorite Caves of Qud build? 1 week ago:
Whichever build doesn’t die in the first 10 minutes lol
- Comment on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion 1 week ago:
Metroid Prime 4 lol
- Comment on PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima’s ‘Physint’ on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines 1 week ago:
Its Kojima though, one of the biggest names in game creation. People like me buy games just because he worked on it. And its always a fire game. Sony can easily account for him while handling their other projects. He’s like Yoko Taro, except Square doesn’t let Yoko Taro make whatever he wants. But I still buy all his stuff because its always fire, even though I really don’t like Square Enix.
Sony is just burning every bridge possible. No idea why, but it seems like they are speedrunning ending their company, like every other company, but they just found new method to reduce time.
- Comment on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion 1 week ago:
The cinematic was fire, but I wasn’t getting “open world shooter” from it. Rather, I thought this was “Helldivers 2 with Starcraft window dressing,” which would be awesome I won’t lie.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I probably don’t need to tell you this, but I think you picked the wrong dialogue option there. Too bad Quick Load is currently disabled.
- Comment on The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement 2 weeks ago:
Apparently, the Tetris Company is a copyright troll / vexatious litigant.
According to Tetris Holdings LLC v Xio Interactive, the 10x20 play area and block shapes are somehow copyrighted, despite these being declared public domain previously.
Therefore all Tetris clones are somehow illegal. Absolutely insane.
- Comment on The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement 2 weeks ago:
I am curious to know what exactly the copyright infringement was? There are a vast myriad of Tetris clones, none of which the Tetris Company have taken down. Copyright isn’t something you can pick and choose when to enforce it, copyright holders are legally obligated to enforce it on every infringement, or they lose the copyright. Was the game using Tetris IP music or something?
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Probably CryzenX, who has been remaking OoT in Unreal Engine for a while now. Seems Nintendo didn’t bother to try making theirs look any better than CryzenX’s attempt, sadly.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Transitions and a minor less-than-a-second pause are one thing. That’s not what I am talking about.
The triforce animation instantly tells me that’s a 4+ second loading screen. Nobody puts those in for stylistic choice. Even Resident Evil 1 style door transition screens are significantly faster than in the original RE when they show up in modern indie games. RE1 had them because of a hardware limitation, and the creatives decided to hide them with the door animation. Modern developers aren’t usually so creative and they just shove a tiny animated sprite in the bottom corner, as seen here with the animated triforce.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 2 weeks ago:
“This will be graphics in 2013.”
Nintendo really is stuck in 2013, huh? Wonder when they’ll get to the UE5 Slop trend… 2040s maybe?
- Comment on Colonel Miller's Prototype. 2 weeks ago:
Please clarify what game you are talking about in the title of the post next time, talking about Colonel Miller had me thinking this was about Metal Gear’s Colonel Miller, the father of Kazuhira Miller.
- Comment on Guess The Game (#017) 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, Quake III At Home But With Mecha.
This one’s Axis. Good times, though I didn’t get to really play it that much.
- Comment on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. 2 weeks ago:
Good. SteamDB is completely dead being bought by NexusMods.
Who wants to bet the first thing to go will be concurrent user count? Or perhaps I will need to pay a subscription to view the numbers.
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 3 weeks ago:
This is such a Japanese thing to do. I’m not even surprised. I understand the need to protect your employees, especially when Japan has a history of whackos damaging businesses that sometimes result in deaths, but this is going a bit far IMO. I think they could comply with Japan’s new law about worker protection without needing to go this route.
In Japan, laws have pretty much always been dictated by big businesses, just look at their defamation laws. Even if what you say is true, if it harms the company in any day, you will still be arrested and are basically guaranteed to lose a case in Japan for that.
I am interested to see if they try to implement this outside Japan. I mean, Japanese businesses almost always try to apply Japanese law outside Japan (most famously, Nintendo), but still interesting to see if it happens.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Thos game has absolutely horrendous performance problems. It baffles me that people are rating this higher than games like KOTOR and Republic Commando.
- Comment on Is Old or New Call of Duty better? 3 weeks ago:
I think CoD peaked with World at War.
I stopped playing after that. I played Advanced Warfare and Infinite Warfare and thought they were cool but not what I expected from CoD. Also played CoD WW2 and that game isn’t even a shred of what WaW is.
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 4 weeks ago:
Let me guess, just like the FallOut 2 DMCA a few weeks ago, which Bethesda rescinded after learning about it, some third party that uses AI to search for DMCA violations filed yet another false takedown. Again. Most likely without Microsoft even knowing about it.
- Comment on Despite Steam's concerning domination over the market, one of the things that I love about it is... 4 weeks ago:
Steam is only a monopoly by technicality. It isnt Steam’s fault that all the other competition is literal ttrash compred to Steam. Except maybe GOG, but they don’t typically offer the kinds of games I would buy on Steam. I only buy DRM-free games on GOG, if it has DRM I just buy it on Steam.
Sandwiches would have a food monopoly by technicality if the other options were 3 week old poached eggs and dog feces. That’s not sandwiches fault, and sandwiches shouldn’t be forced to sell less so more people are coerced into eating the other two options that suck.
- Comment on Guess The Game (#015) 4 weeks ago:
Out Trigger on Dreamcast, for sure.
- Comment on Is this true? 4 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk 2077.
I like the linear missions, but just exploring the open world and discovering things naturally is fun too. I think they could have done more with that, and it definitely feels like the game was way more linear in early development, but with all the updates CDPR managed to make something pretty cool IMO.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 4 weeks ago:
In Japan, thats the whole point. The business will do this to make you quit instead of them firing you. They have whack employment laws.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 4 weeks ago:
An Asset Flip is easily definable:
The developer purchased an asset pack or multiple asset packs on a game engine asset store, made no changes or almost no changes, and uploaded it as a game.
What you have defined (a game that is the same as another game but with different art) isn’t usually called an Asset Flip, but instead a Clone. Clone games usually have much more effort put into them compared to Asset Flip games.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know anything about this particular situation so won’t comment on it either way. I just think its funny that so many people can be so confidently wrong when it comes to thinking something is AI generated.
I get when something feels suspicious, and often feel this myself, but to be so confident too say it as fact and then be totally wrong when the artist posts a timelapse or something is hilarious to me.