CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI is coming for the Switch 2 as people make emulators and native ports of the Switch 2 exclusives for PC 8 hours ago:
They don‘t even make work related apps. This is like giving hair salon an award for not pushing AI onto your phone.
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
No, I totally agree. They should always let the user decide if they want the update or not. This was just a tip for desperate users because apparently even older patches are still available on Steam‘s servers when the game doesn‘t officially support alternate patches.
- Comment on AI is coming for the Switch 2 as people make emulators and native ports of the Switch 2 exclusives for PC 11 hours ago:
How do you know they don‘t use LLMs when coding or diffusion models for concept art when virtually every studio, even indie studio does it? I wouldn‘t be so naive.
- Comment on AI is coming for the Switch 2 as people make emulators and native ports of the Switch 2 exclusives for PC 11 hours ago:
OG Recompiled is the best way to play it IMO. It adds all the QoL changes you could ever need without messing with designs and dialogue unnecessarily. OoT never really was a hard game but I think they made it a little too beginner friendly in the Switch 2 one. Though I will say some visual aspects of the newer one are impressive like the fog on the ground but that‘s such a tiny thing it doesn‘t actually matter.
- Comment on Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate 12 hours ago:
I know personally indie devs who released successful games who again know other successful indie devs and all of them vibe code. Virtually every studio uses LLMs these days and most studios have been using it since last year. Most of them are not upfront about it either.
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
You can pretty much always downgrade games with the built-in console in Steam but it‘s a little finicky and a last resort kind if thing.
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
There is a console built into Steam that lets you downgrade games (among many other things) even when the developer doesn‘t offer older versions officially through the regular launcher. This is only for extreme cases were you really really just want to keep your mods or an update doesn‘t work on your machine because you will have to redownload the entire game. There are online tutorials that explain it and each version for each game has a unique ID that you need in order to download it. So there is always way but it‘s clear the platform doesn‘t really want you to use it or know about it.
- Comment on A new GOG Galaxy is coming in 2027 with full Linux support 5 days ago:
Heroic works fine but I appreciate the gesture.
- Comment on On the steam forums, there are over TWO THOUSAND PAGES of community questions about "disk write error". 1 week ago:
I used to have it on Windows on certain patches but never on CachyOS. Often with blue screens. I say certain patches because it would keep happening a lot until I updated Windows. One time the system wouldn‘t recognize my disc drive until I unplugged and replugged it. That stuck with me.
- Comment on First Nintendo Switch 2 emulator for PC is out, and it already boots Mario Kart World Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/114420/first-nintendo-switch-2-emulator-for-pc-is-out-and-it-already-boots-mario-kart-world/index.html 1 week ago:
I wonder how they did it. As I understand it the way this usually goes is finding a vulnerability but there‘s nothing mentioned. Of course nowadays there‘s a chance it was just vibe coded and the person who submitted it doesn‘t know it was achieved. Anyway, a first crappy build is the first step of emulating any hardware. It will only improve from here.
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 1 week ago:
That‘s completely different from seizing to exist, though. EA got murdered from the inside in the dirty Saudi deal. Microsoft is in a completely different position so comparing Bioware with Bethesda is nonsense.
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 1 week ago:
Yeah but EA is toast. Like actually done. They did not survive Saudi deal and the debt they were loaded with. Every studio of theirs will be closed and all IPs sold shortly.
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 1 week ago:
Bethesda does not belong to EA so it‘s not as likely. EA will likely go before Bethesda does.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 2 weeks ago:
Good news is that EA self-destructed in the Saudi deal so a few guys at the top could fill their pockets one more time. The debt they loaded EA with will be paid by selling everything. There is no other way. EA can no longer operate and their IPs will go to different studios. Let‘s hope one or two of them treat the franchises a tiny bit more carefully. Maybe. Or it will all be AI slop. Time will tell. But the way I see it EA is toast.
- Comment on Seth Macy, Brian Altano, and Max Scoville form X Button after being laid off from IGN 3 weeks ago:
But can they beat the Cuphead tutorial?
- Comment on Konami president Hayakawa believes AI “won’t bring a significant change” to the game market. “Humans” and “creators” are crucial for developing innovative games 3 weeks ago:
It already did by making it less affordable but what AI has definitely changed is the industry from the inside. By hollowing it out and driving young talent away from the big studios. And whatever happens next people will continue to make and play games. One way or another.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 4 weeks ago:
Consumers are willing to pay a surprisingly high amount for hardware. Just not for old ass consoles after hefty price hikes. The gaming landscape is being buried by data centers.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You‘re looking way too deep into a comment that incapsulates multiple facets of the issue just fine to diverge from your problematic „but it‘s not as bad as this worst misuse of water you‘ve ever heard of“ comparison. Your claim it‘s hard to verify is laughable as is your first semester social studies level of analyzing an argument. I guess one way of winning a debate is to just bore everyone to death so bravo.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I don‘t really care about speeders let alone cruisers. If it was all about Podracing and the maps had more variety it would be a different story.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Using the worst widely known misuse of water as a straw man argument is just weak. The water usage from AI data centers is still pretty high, especially when you consider many are doing it without a permit, which is the actual issue and reason a lake could just vanish.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah hardware got too expensive to play anything anyway. Just go play in a field. Woops! There‘s a data center now. Lets take a swim in the lake then. Woops! The data center drained it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The catch it that a data center drained half a lake processing it, loses money in the process but the „vibe modder“ gets to make revenue on Youtube with ads for the clips I guess. I bet many of these creativity vultures have a patreon too. If you‘re anything like me you chuckle at a Mario 64 in Elden Ring clip and keep moving on, though. Why would I want to play that when both games separately are much more fun?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Eh. Mashup slop may look impressive on a technical level but ultimately it‘s just made for clips and clicks. There is nothing particularly interesting about these mods so far because the only people prompting them right now are AI bros. They lack creativity and a clear vision that gos beyond „What if Skyrim but you are Steve?“. It‘s painfully unimaginative so far.
- Comment on As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business 4 weeks ago:
Their C-suites are in panic and know fuck all about games but they probably have seen one or two movies and have heard of Netflix. They probably proposed this because it‘s the only thing that makes sense to them in a foreign world that confuses them. It can only fail and will list likely churn out AI slop nobody wants to watch.
- Comment on Infinity+1 Complex 5 weeks ago:
The thing that really bothers me is the title claiming OP did something when AI did it based on stolen work.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The Switch 2 is massively more cheaper in Japan and locked down tightly from what I understand. I‘m not even sure they would ship one out of the country without asking a few questions.
- Comment on LEGO Racers returns and is playable for free on PC now 1 month ago:
Definitely one of the more unique racing games out there. Even if it looks like a Mariokart copy, it actually plays like a real time deck builder game. A lot of untapped potential there.
- Comment on For Warhorse's 15th birthday, we chatted with its co-founder about the demand for 'grown-up' RPGs, AI, why games are too cheap, and his role in the collapse of communism 1 month ago:
Apparently there are lots of studies and calculations that indeed suggest games are overall way too cheap for the industry to be sustainable. I hear it from insiders again and again. From small indie studios to industry giants.
And many point their fingers at platforms like Steam to be the culprits. Steam in particular is pretty unpopular among developers overall. Looking at how competitive the market is and how many devs are pushed into burnouts in just a single production I tend to believe them. The current model does not seem to be sustainable for studios of any size.
That said, I think a lot of studios could try scaling down their productions too because I hear about feature creep from the same insiders just as much. They really need better planning.
- Comment on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games 1 month ago:
Next watch Discord and Reddit bend over backwards to give Denuvo all chats and information about dozens of accounts that may or may not be connected to the cracker. Because that‘s something platforms seem to do these days without any backlash since „they didn‘t fuck MY privacy this time!“ Ugh.
- Comment on A new hero for Heroes of the Storm announced at Blizzcon! 1 month ago:
I thought the shut down servers years ago.