general gaming

[thorny loom]

Thats the vibe i got from the seeing the character art. Interesting

[gaunt marten]

It's one of my favorite games of all time. Hits all the buttons just right

That being said I'm playing the steam version

[cursive tiger]

So beautiful

[novel pine]

Thank you kindly

[cursive tiger]

❤️

[visual hill]

it still has 8 GB of VRAM though, right?

[hasty patio]

Current 4070 has 12 (via NVIDs site). Only the TI Super will push to 16.

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1744390418563797080

[slim thorn]

#AW2: I love how they're handling the whole story rewriting reality thing (some actual spoilers)

[hasty patio]

Not sure which monster/killer would be added, but Wake and the other character you play as would easily fit into DbD.

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/thegameawards/status/1744423349286293590?

[fresh bane]

managed to record the intro this time
I really like how they directed this sequence in particular

the music here is fantastic

[thorny loom]

Nice that it won something.

[fresh bane]

and I also like this little montage showing you ''hey these are the nerds you'll be playing as!''

[green fulcrum]

The soundtrack for Ruined King is sheer FIRE.

That being said, I'm not sure about how good the gameplay is. I've heard there's mixed feelings about it. Please let me know if you like it, Nire!

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insidergamingig/status/1744432950811246736?

[visual hill]

oh right, I'd consider 12 good enough for a GPU of that caliber, providing you use it for 1440p and don't use it for machine learning

(a bit borderline, but it'll do)

modern machine learning apps need a lot of VRAM, you used to get by just fine with 8 GB but 16 GB is really the minimum now – and 24 GB isn't excessive at all for this use case

for this reason, it will take a looong time for consumer-grade GPUs with more than 24 GB to appear

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/nvidiageforce/status/1744430231287714217?

[river veldt]

HOLY SHIT https://fixupx.com/yachtclubgames/status/1744439584027791403?s=46

[mossy flume]

The fuck? Retailers shouldn't have a say here.

[quiet swift]

They don't, per se. But it's more a matter of "eh, we'll put less of them on the shelves, the genre is dead" and by doing so they're killing the genre by saying the genre is dead. Self-fullfiling prophecy

[hasty patio]

BioWare's former lead writer David Gaider also gave his perspective on the problem. "It wasn't just retailers," Gaider explains. "There’s an 'industry wisdom' which creeps into dev teams where some things are simply declared dead or too old-fashioned, and there's no opposing this certainty up until someone else comes along and proves it's 100% untrue."

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-developer-confirms-the-game-is-mostly-written-in-low-level-assembly-code-because-we-could-scroll-the-screen-and-fill-it-with-sprites-as-fast-or-faster-than-competitors-like-starcraft-even-though-we-had-twice-as-many-pixels/

[fresh bane]

Super loving these character portraits here

really really good

[gaunt marten]

Hades ass portraits

[river veldt]

ooh reminds me of Hades

jinx ?

[gaunt marten]

You owe me a soda

[river veldt]

nuh uh

i called jinx first

[gaunt marten]

But I said the word first

[river veldt]

that's not how jinx works !

[fresh bane]

I think I'm still not fully out of the initial tutorial-y beginning part of the game so I can't comment much just yet, but what I played so far is pretty good!
Here's some gameplay from the boss of the very first dungeon if it helps

[sour hill]

What soda would you like, Flitter?

[gaunt marten]

I don't actually know how jinx works

[gaunt marten]

I'll give you one guess

[fresh bane]

menuing around was a little intimidating at first but then you get the hang of it, district maps seems to indicate that the game is gonna be way bigger than I thought but you also get maps for areas you're in like a dungeon map of sorts

[sour hill]

Coke

[gaunt marten]

No

[fresh bane]

the more interesting gameplay mechanic I can talk about right now is the whole ''lanes'' thing, basically when you use special lane abilities you can either cast an ability normally, or cast it in the fast lane which basically casts it faster but with lesser power, or you can do it in the power lane which makes it cast slower but more powerful, which is interesting

[river veldt]

if you say the same thing at the same time as another person, you can call jinx and they owe you a soda

[gaunt marten]

It's purple blueberry flavored Pepsi from the 90s

It's discontinued

[fresh bane]

So far even though I started playing on hard mode I haven't found a huge need for much asides from regular casting and regular attacks but I've barely started so I'm guessing things will ramp up difficulty as I go on

Oh, yeah, this upgrade system is a bit odd
So you get these upgrade points to upgrade your abilities and you can switch them out at pretty much any time for no cost or anything but you can only upgrade your abilities by choosing one of two of these options and you can't seem to upgrade the one ability with both upgrades, you can only choose one of them

But that's the only weird thing I can think about so far with like an hour of playing

I do like that most interactions even these overworld ones have full voice acting and that there's a latin american spanish option, even to this day it's still not super standard to have that option let alone full latin american voice acting so that's appreciated

''She said that.... that the Black Mist has returned.''
''What?!''
''The Black Mist has returned! ''
''Thanks, Braum. ''

[fresh bane]

But yeah all that aside if I end up having mixed feelings about something or something like that I'll probably talk about it here but so far like an hour ish into it it's pretty good! Pretty standard turn based rpg'ing over here

[green fulcrum]

Sounds good

[wind stump]

Woo hoo, day off!

[grave tide]

Damn, that's amazing

Sadly we are living in the world of Unreal Engine 5

[visual hill]

modern compilers are very well-optimized, there isn't much point in handwriting assembly anymore. C used to be called a high-level language, but nowadays a lot of people consider it the lowest level you should go

not even when you target an old console – compilers have also improved on this aspect! If you use modern GCC versions to target the N64, you can get code that is easily 20% faster than it would have been back in the day, with zero code changes

it's interesting to know Definitive Edition is still software-rendered though

The Assembly code remained in use even by the time of Age of Kings: HD edition (a 32-bit game), but Pritchard "re-wrote the assembly functions into C++ for both Definitive Editions, as they are 64-bit programs and inline assembly was never supported by the 64-bit C++ compiler, and the vastly improved register sets and compiler optimizations made it unnecessary. Additionally, sprite drawing in the definitive editions is multi-threaded, and will use up to 4 cores for that task alone."

[light gate]

Assembly is hell to write too.

[grave tide]

I am about attitude

Modenr attitude is make UE5 game

Do not optimize this, don't elaborate

Release it and patch it next year(s)

[light gate]

Well what you are essentially asking is that everyone should stop using this

and instead use this

[grave tide]

I know what is assembler

You are talking like person who time travelled from 2010

[sour hill]

What

[light gate]

I guess I'm a time traveler.

[sour hill]

That's badass

[light gate]

Might be a side effect of me using the chronosphere.

[grave tide]

Cyberpunk, Jedi Survivor, The Day Before, AC Unity - publishers and developers: "We will push this game and patch it later"

Because publishers or/and developers do not care at all

While Ensemble Studios made Age of Empires 1 and 2 on fucking assembler

[light gate]

That's because there wasn't much choice.

[grave tide]

All this article about attitude that game must works well and run on most of PCs

Modern developers would prefer release bugged game and patch it later

[rotund forge]

It pains me to say this but....cough Security Breach cough

[fresh bane]

Games cost a lot more to make nowadays and take a hell of a lot more time, I know what you mean but I don't think it's fully ''lazy devs'' type of thing

[grave tide]

And every bugged/lagging release shouldn't be tolerated

[fresh bane]

It just makes sense that, considering the workload artists and game designers have, the money games cost to make and the time they have to finish a game, that they'd use more standardized tools

[sour hill]

Releasing unfinished games is when UE5

[light gate]

I'm afraid Super Mario Bros for the NES has a few bugs.

[grave tide]

That's their work!

[light gate]

Roller Coaster Tycoon was also built on assembly and that thing had bugs too, and had to release patches.

This is just silly.

[visual hill]

there are modern devs making games for old consoles, including commercial indie games

Portal 64 is probably one of the most notable/publicized examples of this right now

[grave tide]

You are exaggerating my opinion

[robust latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM - on that topic this one is pretty intresting and is pretty fun

[grave tide]

You can't escape bugs, but if you game lags on most of platforms, and your game doesn't named Crysis, you are doing something wrong, yes I am about UE5 games, about Cyberpunk and etc.

[fresh bane]

The point of 'games are borderline unfinished nowadays' kinda doesn't have much to do with what the whole age of empires thing was about I feel

[light gate]

Yeah.

[fresh bane]

That topic is a lot more complicated too because it's not as black and white as devs just don't care or are lazy, there's a lot going on behind the production of a game or in the market at large that leads to situations like that

I understand your point I just think it's a little unrelated

[grave tide]

And I don't even want to talk that most of modern games on PS5 and XBOX Series X don't run in quality mod even in native 1080p

I have questions H O W

[light gate]

uhh

I am not sure what this conversation is anymore.

[visual hill]

if I had infinite time, I would probably dabble into this 😛

[light gate]

I think I've seen this video before, its pretty cool the genius tricks they use for reusing sprites.

[robust latch]

i love the detail the devs went into for handling the size with level data and sprite handling

and how they were able to basicly add a hard mode by just doing Left and right shifting and doing differences only level data

[strong pebble]

I can see difference between 1080 and 1440 and 4K but I can't see difference between upscaled or native

Like RDR2 is native 4K on Xbox and i think like i dont know

[grave tide]

Okay, about modern games I said too much, releases of 2023

[strong pebble]

Can you see difference with native and upscaled

I think I cant

[grave tide]

Depends on native resolution before upscaling

[visual hill]

there is still a point in rendering at native 4K, if your viewing distance is low enough

[strong pebble]

Like Halo Infinite looks amazing and I think people say it's upscaled

[visual hill]

if you're far away from a small display, it doesn't make sense though

[grave tide]

Jedi Survivor had 648-864p in performance mod

Like you can't upscale 648p to look nice

[strong pebble]

But we are talking about quality mode

I think Jedi survivor and this Warhammer darkstorm or something they look SO bad in performance

[grave tide]

About quality I don't have sadly 2k or 4k monitor to check

But after working with Stable Diffusion my eyes can find all artefacts on image

[quiet swift]

new ones marked

[minor belfry]

Drifting is hard in BeamNG.drive, maybe because I don't really know how to

[quiet swift]

3 million eurodollars... let's see if i can afford all the remaining autofixer cars yet

I can! With 400k leftover

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/culturecrave/status/1744495527734247490?s=46

[rotund forge]

You know what will be a missed opportunity? If the Meatly don't add a Steamboat Willie reference in Bendy: The Cage I will be very dissapointed...

[thorny loom]

https://store.steampowered.com/category/capitalism_economy

[sour hill]

I love capitalism

[random steppe]

Mostly managerial games, but it's funny because when you first see it you go "This sale is slighly less veiled than usual"

"It's a tad more transparent than I am used to as to why it exists"

[gaunt marten]

Yeah I was like "A little tone-deaf today, aren't you?"

[fresh bane]

Interesting, there's rests points before a dungeon that act pretty much as Souls bonfires, respawning all enemies included!
And you also get some nice extra conversations between characters as they rest up and eat

There's a hell of a lot more exploration in this game than I initially thought there would be... even the most mundane areas meant to be places you pass by in the way to your goal are pretty huge

[quiet swift]

Uugh. Wanted the secret ending for Cyberpunk, but missed some dialogue options for it.. Still have a save but it's a good 10+ hours back

[fresh bane]

but also heyyyy finally these two decide to join the story woo

[fresh bane]

did you not save in 10 hours?

[quiet swift]

I did, but it's mostly a bunch of other missions. Admittedly I can just ignore a lot of them and go for the main missions to finish here

[fresh bane]

Ah, I'm assuming you mean you missed something crucial but that one thing is 10 hours back, not that you haven't saved in 10 hours

I'm pretty much saving every time I try to do anything in the game

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

Speaking of saves I'm also saving a lot in this game too, I surprisingly managed to die in a couple of encounters doing some exploration around town and the autosave took me back to the beginning of when I entered the area so I had to re-pick up everything and redo the fights, I'm pretty much gonna go by Cyberpunk rules and save every time I do anything just in case I end up dying and have to re-do a bunch of stuff

Probably gonna be bouncing between this and Cyberpunk in the following weeks since I'm actually enjoying this game a ton, luckily I have very few stuff left to do in Cyberpunk mostly just Phantom Liberty and main quests, the only secondary stuff left is just cyberpsycho stuff and this one secondary quest about a B.D but I looked it up and the only thing that happens in the quest is your brain gets fried and you wake up somewhere with all your gear stolen and that's that

you can get back your gear but pretty much nothing comes from that quest so I pretty much decided to skip it entirely

[green fulcrum]

This is a good sign for me at least, I love exploration in RPGs. This is giving me dungeon crawler (Diablo, Torchlight, etc.) vibes, and that's one of my favorite styles of exploration.

Mixed with a bit of isometric RPG vibes as well

[fresh bane]

That'd be because it is an isometric RPG! At least in the overworld when you're not fighting of course, then it goes into combat mode, Final Fantasy style
Here's some of me running around a tavern I found when I was making my way to the mission

[green fulcrum]

Judging by the accept and decline options in that dialogue, I'm guessing there are other side quests and missions you can complete alongside the main quest?

[fresh bane]

Surprisingly spacious and there were more activities to do inside than I thought, I thought it'd be just the one room with a seller and some npcs but it was a full area, there's some more to the exporation too with areas you can access later on, shortcuts you can unlock within each area, npcs with quests and a buncha loot

Yessir in fact in the dungeon I left off on there's a reward quest I'm doing, basically bounty hunting

So there's bounty hunting, side quests, and main quests

[green fulcrum]

Perfect!

Sounds like my kind of RPG then

[gaunt marten]

Did I tell you about Crystal Project already?

[green fulcrum]

Yup, you did

Interested in that one too

[gaunt marten]

Excellent

[strong pebble]

Is it about crystal ponies

[gaunt marten]

No

[fresh bane]

Here's a bit of a showcase for the combat, this is actually the fight that made me want to stop the session here because I knew that this would be quite a hefty dungeon and it would require full brain power and I couldn't go on for much longer the game can get quite difficult but to be fair I am on veteran (hard) mode

I do still feel like saying that this seems to still be the beginning, hell I don't even have one of the menu options unlocked yet so I don't wanna say anything too definitive just yet, all I can say is I'm having a lot of fun and so far it's been pretty good! I'm probably getting more enjoyment out of it since I am already a LoL fan so there's that extra layer of enjoyment for me

If you do feel like checking it out I got it on GOG for like 6 bucks it's currently -50% off, dunno if it's the same on Steam

[green fulcrum]

At the moment it's like 30 or 40 bucks (Canadian) on Steam. I'm waiting for a sale.

[fresh bane]

Mmmmm sale time might've ended, it's still -50% off on GOG until the 13th but if your platform of choice is Steam and you'd rather wait that's fair

I can't purchase on Steam with Paypal so I just went with GOG myself

[green fulcrum]

I'll just wait. Got plenty of other games anyway

[fresh bane]

Yeah, this is shaping up to be a pretty long experience so it might be a good idea to get any shorter length games out of the way first

[strong pebble]

Why do cartoons on youtube look great in 1080 but normal videos and games look bad?

[bronze abyss]

because normal videos are more complex and bitrate matters more cuz of complex colours that are compressed to simpler blocks

and youtube is very,very shitty with it so yea,thats why they look bad

[thorny loom]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/nvidia-ace-microservices-ubisoft-announcement/

[strong pebble]

But cartoons look great

[thorny loom]

This could be interesting for rpgs

[strong pebble]

AI generated NPCs

[bronze abyss]

cuz they are very visually simple

[mossy flume]

Highly stylized

[bronze abyss]

^

[mossy flume]

As opposed to realism

This is why stylized video games age better than video games that go for realistic appearances

[strong pebble]

Okay

Have you played Hifi Rush

[mossy flume]

Yes

[bronze abyss]

only played a couple levels of it

[strong pebble]

The ending is the BEST 🌟🌟⚡

[bronze abyss]

well i didnt get to it,the game wsnt my style in p much every aspect so i didng get far

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/HJWNJS0y42M?si=f_zOXOQLUrT56W72

Decent example of an ai voiced mod

[strong pebble]

Is it cut content or AI

[bronze abyss]

cut content interpreted with ai if thats the right word for it

[thorny loom]

that yeah

[toxic seal]

Turned on my PS5 after a long time, and after a bunch of updates I get to playing. I've logged into my PlayStation account, but after a bit I notice I've logged into an old account from when I had a PS3. So then I try to log into my current account, and the password is incorrect. I reset the password, but it still doesn't allow me to log in. I know the password is correct because I can log into PlayStation.com, but on the PS5 it doesn't work. Anyone else run into this before?

[light gate]

I had issues logging into Paypal on PS5, so I had to use the web portal to fix it.

I’d suggest to change password and try again.

Or use the QR login method.

[toxic seal]

Yeah, just reset my password again. Seeing if it works

[light gate]

Otherwise contact Sony.

[toxic seal]

Googling the same issue seems to show that this is not an isolated issue

Other people report being able to log into the website but not on their apps or consoles

Which is weird 'cause like I said I got in one account but it's not the account I want to be in lol

My phone has a VPN on and turning that off resolved the issue for the app, but that doesn't explain my PS5, which is connected directly to my router via ethernet with no VPN

But if I'm in my app now maybe the password won't matter for the console

[light gate]

Yeah it is a bit weird.

I don't know if it has anything to do with their servers not keeping up with new demand from the holidays.

I do love the PS5 OS so far though.

Its pretty responsive.

[toxic seal]

Yep, now that I was in the app I could log in on console. My guess is my current account became out of date with various security settings because I had to agree to T&C and pretty much re-establish stuff on my account. Guess that's what I get for not turning on the console for months lol.

[light gate]

Yeah, when I used Xbox Cloud thingy for Starfield. My 360 Xbox account had to migrate and took a while.

So if anything big changes in Playstation, probably had to do an account transition.

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333480/RAID_Shadow_Legends/ THE MOMENT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

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[dire gate]

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[wind stump]

pog

[quiet swift]

Uuugh. Yeah, for some reason Cyberpunk didn't quicksave for a while. So i've got 10 hour block of no saves between 3rd of jan and 8th of jan. Somehow.

Which includes not having finished Phantom Liberty stuff

[little badger]

https://t.co/9NvYZKYlSK @mossy flume

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1744622566013116918?

Xbox showcase https://fxtwitter.com/xbox/status/1744735998385516863?

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/FNFestival/status/1744735894446428459

new songs for the rock band game every thursday hell yeah

[teal cliff]

god I'm watching a friend play through I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and it's so good
I'd be shocked if another game ever took it out of my #1 spot

[gaunt marten]

I hate when the "Consider this your formal invitation" messages fail to mention it's not in person then kick me out when I complain about the refreshment options

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdQFRzr2Qzs&list=UULFQeYz18N5ZYGETVA3ySecUA&index=8

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1744766243976929506?

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/deadbydaylight/status/1744751802942099588?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1744737122102440283?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[river veldt]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

so excitid

oh no i hope it's not xbox exclusive...

[green fulcrum]

Hopefully the gameplay will be something akin to Uncharted.

[river veldt]

gt i cant describe how excited i am rn

[green fulcrum]

Oh trust me, I know exactly how excited you are. It's the same excitement I got when the Reignited Trilogy was announced.

[fresh bane]

Champion of Liiiiiiiight

[little badger]

You played Spyro recently?

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/PatStaresAt/status/1744757003829068031

ooohhhhhhhh

ouhh.....

[green fulcrum]

Not for a while, unfortunately

[river veldt]

oooh nooo....

[little badger]

I might play it tonight

[fresh bane]

guys the Elden Ring UI thing was supposed to be a meme not a template
https://vxtwitter.com/NuovaYadingus/status/1744763378684309964

you weren't supposed to actually do that

Oh god Suicide Squad is releasing on the same day as P3R

[green fulcrum]

Do...what, exactly?

[fresh bane]

That game is so done for

[green fulcrum]

What am I looking at here?

Oh

The UI

[sour hill]

Become the true golden lord

[fresh bane]

and people that went to the press preview of the game are already also saying they didn't like it

[sour hill]

https://youtube.com/shorts/yawrFGupPaQ?feature=shared

[fresh bane]

this game is so doa

[little badger]

What game has Everypony been playing?

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project

[uneven epoch]

ff14

as i have for the past. ... 16 months

[static bluff]

I'm tired of all my games, so, nothing at the moment

[gaunt marten]

Did you ever play Eviternity, MrOnosa?

[static bluff]

The DOOM mod? I never played doom even

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

Well there's time

[astral steeple]

been playing the same game i always play lol

since like 2019

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/fnlwpn/status/1744474390778065274

Oh hey

This game was exclusive until now? Weird

Well the more people that play Hi Fi the better

[little badger]

Let me guess Fortnite

[fresh bane]

Don't know how well it's gonna perform on a Switch though

[quiet swift]

Well, if Xbox and PC can be considered exclusive

[astral steeple]

yes fort lol

mostly BR

some Festival and lego fort as well

some rocket racing too

and some gun game games and free for all games

though festival has me super excited since theyve confirmed there will be new songs every thursday going forward

with hundreds of songs releasing every year

leading to eventually having a library of thousands of songs

which will work as lobby music too

and jam track emotes

[river veldt]

honestly nothing. ive been thinking of replaying TotK or Doom 2016 but i cant decide which

[static bluff]

oh wait, I'm playing beat saber

[bronze abyss]

good shit i just got done with today's beatsaber session

[gaunt marten]

Why do you have to choose?

[bronze abyss]

-420 kcal in 20 minutes

[river veldt]

i dont like playing 2 games at once

[gaunt marten]

It's okay you can swap between them

[river veldt]

i dont like doing that

[thorny loom]

https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/hogwarts-legacy-quidditch-video-game-1235860849/

[dense crypt]

Play doom

[thorny loom]

Oh wow it Acctually beat cod

[sour hill]

[fresh bane]

I wonder how many of those numbers are legitimate players and how many are because of whatever the hell happened with Harry Potter at the time it released

I don't know anything about the game but if it really is that good then hey good for Harry Potter fans

[astral steeple]

iirc a good majority of people only ended up buying it to piss people off lol

not really that groundbreaking of a game

[static bluff]

a good majority, huh

sounds like you just made that up, lol

[sour hill]

At least 8

[astral steeple]

didnt make it up

[fresh bane]

I'm sure some people did but 22 million?

[mossy flume]

Definitely made that up.

[bronze abyss]

its just the loud twitter minority that did it,people can also just ya know enjoy the game

[mossy flume]

Hogwarts Legacy was one of Steams most played games last year.

[astral steeple]

thats why i said "iirc"

[static bluff]

you recalled bullshit, lol

[astral steeple]

was going based off of all the twitter bullshit at the time

[gaunt marten]

Surely if the claim has merit you can back it up with a source.

[mossy flume]

Twitter is very much not representative of the world.

[fresh bane]

It was revealed to me in a dream

[bronze abyss]

twitter users are mentally stable and have respectable opinions that are representitive of a majority
yea hell no

[light gate]

[mossy flume]

Hogwarts Legacy is even one of the top 20 most played games on Steam Deck, which is interesting because it kinda doesn't run suuuuper well on it, but whatever

[river veldt]

it is what it is

[sour hill]

Are you telling me that the X blue checkmarks buying HW Leg to stop the woke mind virus don't have respectable opinions?

[bronze abyss]

i would NEVER

[astral steeple]

lol

[little badger]

Have you played any new games yet?

[bronze abyss]

i kinda actually wanna play hwl it looks interesting,though ive never been into harry potter

might yargh it after i finish rdr2

[mossy flume]

It's pretty fun and is ideal if you're into Harry Potter since it's pretty much the dream game for fans. Although a valid criticism is that the big open world it has is lacking in gameplay content.

[little badger]

Have you tried Hogwarts legacy or is it not your type of game.

[mossy flume]

I've played it a bunch, yeah

[bronze abyss]

im glad that shit has calmed down about it and that its just a game finally,it was impossible to go on discord without hearing bullshit about it back when it was new

[mossy flume]

Yeah, I was deeply annoyed by the stupid hot takes.

Discussing it was outright banned here, which was ????

[little badger]

Banned where?

[mossy flume]

Here in Manechat

[bronze abyss]

for the better tbh,every other place i seen "discuss it" always turned into dogpilling on either side

[little badger]

Ah.

[sour hill]

Gee I wonder why some people in manechat might be made uncomfortable by Hogwarts Legacy

[mossy flume]

[little badger]

Midnight I might be getting Factorio soon

[mossy flume]

Oooo

[astral steeple]

yeah people have plenty of reasons to be uncomfortable with the game being mentioned

[mossy flume]

Ignoring the part where the developer disavowed those reasons.

[sour hill]

Oh that makes it comfortable again, never mind

[mossy flume]

Yeah, it's impossible to have a rational discussion about it in some cases, which is unfortunate and in some cases rather hypocritical.

[sour hill]

I will simply stop being uncomfortable, so that clearer heads may prevail and we can finally enjoy our rational Hogwarts Legacy discussion

[astral steeple]

lol

[mossy flume]

Well, Manechat does have a habit of basically telling the user to do just that.

[sour hill]

What am I, if not a user?

[quiet swift]

"A pathetic creature of meat and bone..."

[static bluff]

I'm surprised so many copies sold during the holiday season considering how long it's been out

[mossy flume]

Probably was on a lot of wishlists

[static bluff]

was it bundled with new consoles or seomthing

[mossy flume]

Nah

[static bluff]

oh yeah wishlists are a thing

[little badger]

It sold 2 million in December.

[mossy flume]

Oh wow, that is indeed a lot

[little badger]

[mossy flume]

I guess that tracks as a giftable game

[little badger]

But I wonder how many of those were physical copies.

[quiet swift]

My fiancée and I went to the Warner Bros Harry Potter studio tour when we went to Tokyo, they have one there. Was pretty nifty

[mossy flume]

Oh neat

Didn't know there was one there

[quiet swift]

S'like the one in London apparently but I think this one was bigger

Yus! It opened... June 2023?

[mossy flume]

Huh

[quiet swift]

We went end of Nov 😄

[astral steeple]

🤔

[mossy flume]

I went to the park in LA last year, first time being there. An interesting experience, but I probably won't go there again. Been spoiled by Disney, haha

[little badger]

You should come to the UK

[mossy flume]

I probably will revisit the UK again sometime in the next few years

[quiet swift]

Universal?

[mossy flume]

Yeah, Universal

[quiet swift]

My fiancée went to the Osaka one in 2018 when we first met (before I could go with her 😦 ) this is better, though

[mossy flume]

Went there to visit the Mario zone (holy FUCK it was crowded) and managed to slip in the Harry Potter area while we were at it.

Super Mario Land was a bit smaller than I expected

But they certainly have the vibe going for them

[little badger]

Where did you go the first time?

[static bluff]

We're going to Universal Studios this summer and plan on spending a lot of time at Hogwarts ourselves

[little badger]

Orlando or Hollywood?

[mossy flume]

Oh wow

[static bluff]

Orlando

[quiet swift]

We took about 450 pictures apparently, so there's a few highlights

[mossy flume]

Dang

Universal has nothing on that

[quiet swift]

Yeah this place is gigantic

[mossy flume]

!

[river veldt]

i really wanna go to Super Nintendo World

[quiet swift]

And as far as I understand, it has the literal biggest HP merch store of any park

[little badger]

Been to that one a few times.

[mossy flume]

Uh, kinda everywhere in London and went up to Bath and Stonehenge. I've been to the UK four times now, I think.

[quiet swift]

This is just the exit. It's like a... 8th? 10th? Of the whole merch shop

[little badger]

Do the letters actually move or are they in place?

[quiet swift]

In place, sadly! But there's a ton of interactive stuff. You can get a QR code at the start of the instance and then go up to like 5-6 places

[little badger]

Oooh

[mossy flume]

Dang, clearly I need to weave that into a stop whenever I visit Japan.

[quiet swift]

Then whatever you go up to gets sent to you by email/app

[quiet swift]

I believe the original studio tour in London is close to this design/size wise, if that's closer 😛

But yeah this was a highlight of the trip

SO many people with hogwarts robes

My fiancée's favorite is beauxbatons but she does not have a costume. If you went there with any other costume than hogwarts, you'd likely get stopped by everyone to take pictures with

[mossy flume]

XD

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA57UeCKEmE Anyway i first found out about it from here, pretty good video showing it if you want to have more of a look 🙂

[rancid herald]

Interesting

[mossy flume]

Thanks for the share

[mossy flume]

Dang that is pretty big

[quiet swift]

We spent... 4 hours?

Could've spent more if we really wanted to pose/do pics with absolutely everything

Oh, you could also get that here. She says it tasted better than the one at universal. You can also keep the mug after

[mossy flume]

Oh good to know

I really hated the one at Universal, haha

[rancid herald]

Was it glass?

[quiet swift]

I think it was a plastic one

But I could be wrong

[full sedge]

holeh moleh

[river veldt]

ive decided to play Binding of Isaac

[static bluff]

It's hard. I've been trying to be productive in my free time, so I don't want to get into a game, but when I have free time, I've felt very down so I do nothing.

[rancid herald]

you should play dyson sphere program

[mossy flume]

Or Factorio

[rancid herald]

don't listen to the heretic, no factorio, only dyson sphere

[static bluff]

The thing is I'm not having fun with the new update, Oaf Loaf. I got to the point where the dark fog is being a pest and I just don't care to fight them off

[rancid herald]

have you tried killing them?

[static bluff]

yeah and it didn't work

[rancid herald]

really? what happened?

[mossy flume]

Sounds like they didn’t die

[static bluff]

I built a whole line of guns wijth ammo sent to them and a command center, then tried to creep into the base. They never stop spawning fighters, so I'd do some damage, run back to my guns, fight off the wave, then repeat. After an hour, I barely made a dent, but i was making progress. Then I got to a shielded tower. So, I'd do damage, run off, then run back only for it to be completely erased

[rancid herald]

ah

the trick is to use missiles tbh.

[static bluff]

ah

[rancid herald]

build the missile launchers at your base and a signal tower and slowly creep it into the base

[static bluff]

instead of that I quit

[rancid herald]

alternatively you can set the missile turrets to 'upper air' and they'll destroy the relay and eventually cause the base to die from a lack of power

yeah that's fine

one of the problems I find with early access games is that they're often incomplete in important ways. For Dyson sphere, it's pretty clear there's a whole lot more 'space' coming, but they had to dial the dark fog in space back because it was too strong relative to what the player could actually do

I do hope it doesn't take another whole year for more updates to roll out

[strong pebble]

This pony is ready for war

[harsh kestrel]

Another AAA game that's half baked and rushed even after release date pushbacks from a big company? Who would have seen that coming? (Talking about Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League by the way)

[rancid herald]

it's kind of weird how often that happens

[random steppe]

I think that the more relevant bit, is that it's another studio that usually puts out excellent single player experiences, made to make a multiplayer game because money, and failing at it because they don't want to make those kind of games and there is now soul there

[quiet swift]

Forced to make a game you aren't specialized in, and the game fails? Shocker!

[random steppe]

It foes to add to the esteemed list of failed GAS
Anthem, Wolfestein Young Blood, Marvel Avengers, Redfall.
And I'm sure another half dozen I'm forgetting

Oh there was the Platinum one

[river veldt]

Anthem was so funny

like it's worth $2 now

[quiet swift]

Babylon's fall?

[random steppe]

Yes

[harsh kestrel]

Some say weird, I saw typical nowadays. Most of the time, the devs get overworked, probably underpaid, sometimes treated like shit, and rushed endlessly, all because the publishers want more money. Now, that's not to say where there aren't cases where devs have partial blame deserved, like Infinity Ward for example, but a lot of the time, the publishers are the assholes and the devs are the victims of any bullshit and rushing caused by said publishers

[random steppe]

There are games that release but you see that the team wanted to make it.
Like The Finals, multiplayer, I'm sure they'll make a ton of money from MTX, but it's clearly the game that developer wanted to make.

Or even bad games, Starfield is not very good but has a ton more soul than any of the titles I mentioned

It has other problems but the team was very excited to make it, you can't take that away, the ship stuff is actually pretty inspired

[harsh kestrel]

When the developers are given the freedom to go nuts, like the guys who made Hifi Rush, then usually, whacky but fun things come from those games. Splitgate is another example with the custom games you could make, and then all the limited time modes they had. It's actually depressing that 1047 Games has gone dead silent since they stopped updating Splitgate with any more content and said they were making a new game. Meanwhile, the people making XDefiant, they not only care about their game and their fans, but it feels like they're a studio that Ubisoft gave the chance to go nuts with, and so far, especially with community feedback being accepted and actually being put in the game, or at least considered, like a classic prestige system like COD used to have, it seems to me like that game will be a success and worth the wait. The people being impatient on Twitter just annoy me lol

[random steppe]

To be fair, sometimes very commited devs deliver bad games, many things can go wrong in something complicated like making a videogame, but starting with a developer that doesn't want to make the game you are making them do is just asking for trouble.

[quiet swift]

A lot of it stemming from the c-suite folk who are chasing these trends, not knowing or understanding what these trends are and how they're developping, just see dollars and think "let's do that!", forgetting that the studios they own don't do these games AND would be delivering such a game 3-5 years later

[rancid herald]

The development time is a big problem for trend chasers

[random steppe]

Yeah the "problem" with single player games is that you can't sell skins shut up Capcom
Well at least you shouldn't sell skins, there is definitely a lower incentive to buy them because your friends wont see them, so execs want multiplayer games

[quiet swift]

short term profit chasing over long term sustainability is a plague

[mossy flume]

Anthem was unfortunate because it had a good concept, but BioWare wasn’t given the time and resources they needed to make it work. And it very nearly caused the studio to completely collapse and be shut down.

[rancid herald]

Wasn’t anthem the game that a suit had to tell them to put iron man flying in?

[mossy flume]

Yeah

[random steppe]

That was actually the best idea in that whole game

The problem is that it was the wrong genre

[quiet swift]

Kinda? They didn't actually have good creative leadership too. It wasn't until they showed off that iron man flying that one of the execs said yes, more of that please, and they tried to build around it but failed

[random steppe]

It should just have been an open world game

The one time they have to make an open world

THE ONE TIME

[river veldt]

wait it's not open world ?

[quiet swift]

I think it was at most 18 months after that point that they tried to make the rest of the game (maybe less) and they didn't have the time to build everything

[mossy flume]

It’s semi-open

But it’s not an open world title

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkUkA3kqdA

[mossy flume]

Yeah that’s about right

Andromeda, they didn’t have time after throwing out three years of work.
Anthem, even less time.

BioWare has had some leadership failures

[harsh kestrel]

Most of the time, when I've seen devs given creative freedom and control over their product by publishers, it's usually ended up whacky, but good

[mossy flume]

And EA meddling has undermined them

[rancid herald]

BioWare seems to be the kind of company that suffered from early success

[random steppe]

I think the problem with Anthem was yeah, that at the tail of it they weren't given the resource to complete it, but from the onset, the game was development hell for so long, without a real direction, that throwing away all that work and asking for more is at some point unreasonable

[quiet swift]

"If it weren't for those meddling kids executives!"

[harsh kestrel]

The gaming industry suffered from greed and microtransactions lol

[quiet swift]

oh, there's an entire saga of the whole 'bioware magic' thing

[random steppe]

My hope is on fucking china, if you can fucking believe it.
They are cracking down on MTX hard and maybe, just maybe, we'll get some effects of that in the west

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUG9dC_Mxuk

[quiet swift]

i think i saw something about the government possibly reconsidering given how big of a hit the companies took, but that was a brief headline i saw and i could be mistaken

[random steppe]

Let's hope they don't, or at least if they reconsider they postpone it rather than cancel it, to give companies time to transition more naturally

It's clear that they want to tho, so that's good

[rancid herald]

I don’t think there’s anything to transition to

Unfortunately

[random steppe]

I mean that stuff will get regulated to some extent eventually
We already saw lootboxes basically die after some regulation, or even just hints at it

To be clear, they didn't want to outlaw MTX in china, they were just putting some pretty good limitations on the spending and on the more predatory pratices

[static bluff]

AAA? It's made by, like, five people, lol. There's a mod that adds multiplayer support to DSP that has more devs than the core game

[feral tulip]

https://youtu.be/ixKbKjCxYhE?si=P54Usyis2SghqYQj
Gaming

[fresh bane]

I know since this is isometric it already by default kind of is fixed camera but this fixed camera establishing shot ala God of War really scratched that itch deep in my brain for these sorts of things

[green fulcrum]

Oh YES. I love it when isometric RPGs pull back the camera to reveal a gorgeous backdrop. Never fails to make me grin from ear to ear. It's why I love exploring so much in RPGs.

[fresh bane]

I thought I was done with the dungeon but then it only opened up further and kind of went even deeper undergound into another dungeon
This one was full of Zelda/RE style puzzles and item hunting/gathering style stuff

[green fulcrum]

Also, judging by the highlighted barrels and crates, the places you explore aren't empty either, but instead have lots of things to loot.

[fresh bane]

and also FISHING

[green fulcrum]

[fresh bane]

Yeah you're pretty much always scanning your surroundings when walking around because it highlights npcs you can talk with, any sort of crates, barrels or chests you can loot and any doors or interactables, kinda wish they just made all of those highlighted by default so you don't have to constantly be scanning but it's really not a problem at all

[green fulcrum]

Tbf, highlighting them by default would break immersion.

[fresh bane]

That's what I was thinking and why I'm kind of okay with it because it highlights a pretty wide radius anyways so it's not a problem

There was this cool part of the dungeon that added more to all that exploring and puzzling around where earlier you knocked down this wall and it didn't really do much at the time but after activating these things and moving the lights around you could activate one of these devices that's on the other room to access a little extra area

I got absolutely whooped by the boss in this and I was exploring around a bit more so I probably would've missed this if I didn't get curbstomped, the boss in this has a pretty unique mechanic and gimmick on how to defeat it so it's gonna require some brain power next time I attempt it
The game also weirdly has the Souls bonfire mechanic where you get the one resting point/bonfire and it resets the enemies everytime you rest up there

I don't know how common that is on these types of RPGs but it caught my attention

[random steppe]

they were referring to suicide squad

[astral steeple]

End of an era

[harsh kestrel]

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/PatStaresAt/status/1744819495712202881

[river veldt]

[fresh bane]

I guess if you're someone who doesn't particularly care about any of this there's some sort of an upside, you'll be able to hear your favourite voice actor reprise their role even 30 years after they've died

[gaunt marten]

What's wrong with fairly compensating an artist in exchange for reproducing their voice after getting their express consent?

[fresh bane]

You already know what's wrong for me you already know my stance on this

[gaunt marten]

I know your stance is about artists not being fairly compensated

In this case they are

[fresh bane]

Sure

[quiet swift]

The question is "fairly compensated". Given how any such industry works, it's highly doubtful that that'll be the case, unless it's a system implemented to give the copied actor (or their estate)... royalties, I guess? Every time the voice is used in a project

And even then, the rates would have to be 'good', not just piddling amounts

[gaunt marten]

I assume it's literally like hiring an artist

Which is why the screen actors guild agreed

So you agree with the artist to either give royalties, a cut of the profits, or a wage depending on the initial contract

And the rate is determined as with a normal contract, where if the amount is too little the artist simply refuses

[quiet swift]

From what I'm reading, the agreement/approval of this wasn't put to vote to actual members - and the details of the plan are unknown as of yet

[gaunt marten]

I see

[quiet swift]

So I certainly hope it's like you say, that would actually be pretty good if the artist has that much say in it

[gaunt marten]

Doesn't sound like an agreement if the SAG AFTRA members were not even asked

[quiet swift]

But given how the whole AI shit has been going, that's doubtful

[mossy flume]

Palworld goes live January 19th

Pokémon with guns =D

[quiet swift]

https://vxtwitter.com/akaGhostBird/status/1744794097079165141

[gaunt marten]

It was posted on the SAG AFTRA website. I wonder what sort of structure the website has

Sorry, the guild itself has

[quiet swift]

The screen actor's guild (not necessarily voice actor related, though i think there's some overlap) have... lawyers? A group of lead people who hashed out the details of the contract with the big studios, then listed the overarching points but not every single little nitty gritty piece of information in the contract, and let people vote on that without having 100% full details on it. There was plenty yes but not complete wording

Here it seems like SAGAFTRA leadership went in talks with this seemingly private company to form what seems like an exclusive contract with them to introduce what I hope your assumptions will be, but since there was no information prior to this announcement, it's doubtful

[gaunt marten]

That makes sense

[quiet swift]

This seems to be the first news people have of it, people who'd be affected by it

[gaunt marten]

I guess we'll have to see how voice actors think about it once the details are out

[fresh bane]

Not only is the problem that so many people are saying that they never agreed to this and were vehemently against it before but also the ramifications of it
Sure you'll get royalties that's great, but then what's gonna happen when VAs don't want their voices and performances to be used for AI for later projects? Guess you're not getting hired, sucks for you, we're gonna hire the other VAs who do agree to it, but hey you have the choice

[quiet swift]

Yeah they have to do so. This piece of news' has caused pushback already, if they don't clarify they're opening themselves up to a lot of shit

It does depend on the contract yes. Is this "record me once, i get royalties for any future project, and I don't have a say if I want my voice used in those projects"? Or will they actually have a say - "fine, use my voice" "fuck no, i don't want to be associated with this"

At this point we absolutely need to wait for details but this isn't a good first look

[gaunt marten]

That is absolutely true! This is one reason that I think reasonable regulations should be straight up enforced by the government, which has maximized bargaining power

[quiet swift]

(I'm actively wanting to get into the acting industry so i'm interested in all this too)

[gaunt marten]

Right now, the article says Approved by affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community, this contract marks an important step towards the ethical use of AI voices in creative projects by game developers, and sets the basis for fair and equitable employment of voice actors as they explore the new revenue opportunities provided by AI. In addition to establishing minimum terms and conditions, the agreement ensures performer consent and negotiation for uses of their digital voice double and requires that performers have the opportunity to opt out of its continued use in new works.

[quiet swift]

wordsalad not saying much of anything

[gaunt marten]

Well it says a few important things:
1- You have to both get consent from the voice actor in question and negotiate with them.
2- The contract is renegotiated for future works if the voice actor wants to back out.

It also says something vague about minimum terms and conditions, but that alone is not enough to judge if it's any good

[fresh bane]

The other problem asides from that is just a matter of principle, the voice actors don't like AI from the get go, they want to work, they want to act, they want to perform themselves
But that's not something that's up for discussion, it's something you're either for or against, people who don't care or actively endorse AI will not have their minds changed, and neither are the ones completely against it

[gaunt marten]

True

People do tend to do creative work for the creative work first and for money second, so if you just replicate their voice that means they get to act less

It's very important to ensure that people don't have to accept bad terms in order to make enough money to survive because that's just exploitation

[quiet swift]

AI Tara Strong!

[gaunt marten]

We already had AI Tara Strong thanks to 15.ai

[astral steeple]

idk why but sometimes i forget that Tara Strong had voiced pedestrians in like almost every tony hawk game lol

from pro skater 3 to proving ground

[gaunt marten]

She is highly prolific

[quiet swift]

AC valhalla on game pass as of today, apparently

[static bluff]

Very exciting news, everyone

[gaunt marten]

I know this game

Almost bought it on steam, I think

[strong pebble]

What is it

[gaunt marten]

It's weird

I don't remember what it's called

[quiet swift]

The nose, I can accept. But why that haircut.

[fresh bane]

Bub

[gaunt marten]

Wolverine ass haircut

[river veldt]

HOLY SHIT WOLVERINE

[gaunt marten]

Jinx

[river veldt]

damn

[fresh bane]

Healing factor couldn't heal that hairline

[gaunt marten]

I was born with a hairline

[river veldt]

i like how all 3 of us instantly thought of Wolverine

[flint iron]

He looks like Squilliam Fancyson

[rotund forge]

Does that man have a grenade for a nose...?

[gaunt marten]

"pull my nose."

[quiet swift]

[strong pebble]

I was practicing playing with mouse and keyboard and I got into a fight in Fortnite and then PLEASE RECONECT YOUR CONTROLLER

I press enter and it says again and I grab a controller and turn it on and I'm dead

[gaunt marten]

That sucks

[strong pebble]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why did it do that they're on a CABLE

[random steppe]

Which controller?

[strong pebble]

Xbox

[strong pebble]

And it showed that I pressed!!! So that makes no sense

[random steppe]

Micro Usb murders another one

[strong pebble]

No the mouse and keyboard are on cable, controller is not

[gaunt marten]

I literally prefer Bluetooth over micro USB

[random steppe]

Oh, nevermind

[strong pebble]

But it showed that I pressed enter so???

How can it show that I press a button if it says it's disconnected this makes no sense

[thorny loom]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-09/amazon-s-twitch-to-cut-500-employees-about-35-of-staff

[grave tide]

Punishment for making Twitch Onlyfans 2.0 came

[quiet swift]

The folks being cut likely had 0 to do with that decision

[static bluff]

Dungeon Village but it's not really worth purchasing

[feral tulip]

https://fxtwitter.com/tobyfox/status/1744872613543805314?t=G86LGN3GQbCrgOYLvcTj0Q&s=19

What yhe hell

[gaunt marten]

Aw

[dire gate]

Kairosoft pog

[light gate]

Kairosoft is nice.

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/tobyfox/status/1744878955880968247?s=46

[feral tulip]

loll

[rotund forge]

Has anyone seen an ad for a game called palworld? It's the most blatant pokemon knockoff I've ever seen....but with machine guns!

[mossy flume]

Yeah, I've been following it for a couple years.

Comes out January 19th

It's either be hilarious or terrible, but it will surely be A Thing

I'm very curious because it mixes Pokémon, Factorio, Minecraft, and Arc into a single mashup and I really want to know how that worked out

[dire gate]

My advice would be wait for a while after it release

I saw the early version of their previous game, Craftopia, via a streamer, and it wasn't in a good shape

I heard that they improved it later?

[astral steeple]

https://fxtwitter.com/knoebelbroet/status/1744884840934060066

[feral tulip]

Hmmm

[dire gate]

Huh, they're adding TotK spirit to Smash Ultimate

[dire gate]

https://www.pcgamer.com/msi-demos-a-monitor-that-gives-you-an-ai-helping-hand-in-league-of-legends-and-it-might-stretch-the-boundaries-of-whats-considered-fair/

[rotund forge]

fnaf movie 2 is in the works now

woo

[gaunt marten]

Live-Generated: Any kind of content created with the help of AI tools while the game is running. In addition to following the same rules as Pre-Generated AI content, this comes with an additional requirement: in the Content Survey, you'll need to tell us what kind of guardrails you're putting on your AI to ensure it's not generating illegal content. ```

Second, we're releasing a new system on Steam that allows players to report illegal content inside games that contain Live-Generated AI content. Using the in-game overlay, players can easily submit a report when they encounter content that they believe should have been caught by appropriate guardrails on AI generation.

Today's changes are the result of us improving our understanding of the landscape and risks in this space, as well as talking to game developers using AI, and those building AI tools```

So they primarily care about what might get them in trouble or lose them money

[novel pine]

https://youtu.be/JqjM2TICK9E https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1022628031723999302/1194517522356109394/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._Edit_Gotye.mp4?ex=65b0a422&is=659e2f22&hm=75aee33628701ade1432bad87fb679610176f5c7e5e27f68a1d9dfe1b9aa219f&

i made a STALKER edit

[rotund forge]

I just found something out...and I'm pissed I didn't know sooner. You can get gold Nintendo points on the Switch from physical games by going to the settings on the game card window! This entire time i could have had so many more gold points then just the digital games?!

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insidergamingig/status/1744955505217245244?

[quiet swift]

https://fxtwitter.com/simplyallegra/status/1744829914342392136 SAG leadership didn't even talk to their own negotiators before announcing it

[dense crypt]

Leadership nowadays is awfully ballsy and not afraid to go behind their subordinates backs on making decisions

[quiet swift]

Even big names like Nolan North (Nathan Drake, amongst other roles) didn't know

[dense crypt]

Bastards

Nolan North is a demigod dont tarnish his good name

[dire gate]

I realized that Capitalism sale means Tycoon sale

[light gate]

Be sure to install OpenRCT2

For the best experience.

[dire gate]

Of course

That was my initial thought

[light gate]

This game keeps trolling me lmao.

[dire gate]

I saw they were selling "RCT bundle" in Steam

Quickly realized that it is 1+2+World

And I said "lol fuck you no"

[dense crypt]

Whats wrong with world

[gaunt marten]

So many things

Primarily it's just not made by Frontier

[dense crypt]

Sounds like a Postal 3 scenario

Made by a different company and lacks what makes the previous entries great

Or so my guess is

[gaunt marten]

Yep

[arctic fern]

World went through development hell
It had multiple developers and was restarted from scratch multiple times
But it's current state is pure garbage, it's an early access game with few features and lots of bugs but was officially released as a "complete" title

[quiet swift]

World went through development hell
For a moment I forgot you were talking about a game. Still accurate though

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/szaszlykos/status/1744470029897236908?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

2077 was just a warm up
It definitely felt that way at launch

[quiet swift]

[harsh kestrel]

If he's talking about Cyberpunk, that could partially be because people kept rushing the devs to the point of sending them death threats as far as I've heard. Whether or not that's true, I don't know

[harsh kestrel]

Hollywood is gonna ultimately collapse and content creation is gonna become #1 in terms of media in due time at this rate. Nothing but shit show after shit show

[graceful bridge]

So, uh, apparently Capcom is quietly adding DRM to its back catalog of games on Steam.

https://vxtwitter.com/PC_Focus_/status/1745075370250969166

[wind stump]

Fucks sake Capcom

[thorny loom]

Not surprising they hinted as much in a slide earlier last year

[gaunt marten]

AAA companies: "There's a lot of money in the PC market. How do we fix that?"

[thorny loom]

Rare instance where review bombing and cracking are morally acceptable

Lets see how long till this drm gets cracked

[arctic fern]

im guessing thursday at the latest

[green fulcrum]

Reminds me of how Overwatch 2 is proclaimed as "award-winning" on its Steam page and all the reviews are overwhelmingly negative, lol.

[gaunt marten]

It's award winning in the sense it won an award

Worst game of the year is an award

[astral steeple]

i never got into OW1 or 2 at all

the characters look somewhat cool though

[gaunt marten]

True

[random steppe]

Capcom is so hilariously anti consumer, always said that.

If they didn't make great games they'd basically have the Konami reputation, they better hope that armor holds.

[astral steeple]

oh yeah wasnt it like 60 dollars for all the turtles in SF6 lol

despite the game also costing that much as well

[random steppe]

I considered buying monster hunter rise in the recent Steam Sale but

Every time I go to buy a Capcom product I actually want to play, I am basically revolted into not buying it.

[graceful bridge]

Rumor has it, the final nail in the coffin that led Capcom to this decision was an incident at a Street Fighter tournament, where one of the hosts pulled up his client to spectate... and hadn't turned off his NSFW Chun Li mod.

[random steppe]

They nickle and dime the shit out of you

[wind stump]

PAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAaaaaaa

DUMBASS

[random steppe]

That's more the excuse than the reason

[wind stump]

this has Pyrocynical Pyro mod energy so hard

[dire gate]

Tooo be fair I'm pretty sure anything else than Sunbreak is just cosmetics and in-game items

[random steppe]

It's a good excuse to make sure only they can sell cool skins on it

[dire gate]

But it does look disgusting

Honestly the way how Steam puts everything in a single category and call it "contents" makes it look worse than it actually is

[graceful bridge]

Capcom has always had a "the game belongs to US, you have no RIGHT to mess with it" attitude.

[random steppe]

True, MHR is mostly emotes and skins and customisation, which is bad but could be worse

That said, in RE4 remake you can buy gun upgrades and charms, so it's not like they shy away from that

They just don't usually do it in multiplayer games, they sell you cheats in single player games mostly, so yeah making modding illegal means that they control how you can experience the game and have to buy their paid cheats if you want a different experience

[dire gate]

Meanwhile PC monster hunter is infamous for having a billion mods and modders
(not defending capcom)

[random steppe]

They come just shy from selling you advantages in a multiplayer setting, for now...give it a few years

[dire gate]

Interesting how I actually not have seen many complaints about these problems around me (probably the cultural difference in communities), so many actually classify Capcom as rather one of "better" companies because "hey at least they know how to make games"

[random steppe]

Yeah as I said, their only saving grace is that they make good games

[wind stump]

nothing stopping me from making the Rathalos mount in FFXIV a cute anime girl tho!

[dire gate]

I think such positivity peaked around MHW or smth

[random steppe]

So they can get away with pretty disgusting shit, but as soon as they put out a bad game I feel like we'll see a Blizzard level fall from grace, so they better hope the tide holds

[wind stump]

Squenix ninjas are rapidly approaching

[thorny loom]

Yeah that was the main reason they made that slide show that leaked online

[dire gate]

idk, we still have Konami and Square Enix around here

especially Konami

[thorny loom]

Konamis money comes mostly from gambling

[dire gate]

SE be like "we are still looking for future options that will make our company doomed as fast as possible"

[random steppe]

Yeah, I don't think they'll go bankrupt or anything, I just think their reputation will easly become as bad as other anti comsumer companies once they end up in a news cycle for bad reasons

Those things pile up fast once the news item becomes "This company is bad and here is why"

[thorny loom]

They barely were making games for their big franchies until about 3-4 years ago when REmake 2 and RE 8 blew up

[random steppe]

There was like, 6 months where the best thing you could put out for clicks, was "this is a bad thing Bethesda did"

[thorny loom]

Ah yeah the fallout 76 launch

[dire gate]

I mean

[thorny loom]

That was like a goldmine for stuff like that

[dire gate]

"Blizzard level fall" is hard to recreate ngl

That was the disaster

[random steppe]

I was actually so sick about hearing about bethesda during that period, it was the only thing every news outlet talked about

For half a year

every gaming news outlet*

[thorny loom]

Blizzard can hopefully start to recover now that the main problem makers were expunged

But yeah. Will always say fuck Konami for how bad they treated kojima for MGS 5 and PT

[astral steeple]

wait

kojima no longer owns the MGS series?

[thorny loom]

He hasn’t for years

MGS 5 was the last one he worked on before leaving/being fired by Konami

[dire gate]

You may have made a typo there but Konmai is actually a name people use when making fun of Konami

Because historically Konami themselves have made some typos and called themselves Konmai

[thorny loom]

Interesting

[random steppe]

To be clear, not saying that these companies didn't do bad things, they did, it's just that the news cycle is extremely momentum based.
When you are an industry darling you can do no bad, and when you are an industry enemy you can do no good.

[dire gate]

The nature of media

[astral steeple]

now im confused on how solid snake ended up in fort lol

cause back like half a year ago, kojima had shown up at epic's headquarters

cant figure out for the life of me what other reason he would have been there

[dire gate]

write what people will read

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1672216381641883649

was back in june

[thorny loom]

Konami owns the rights MG

[random steppe]

Why wouldn't he? He seems to go around the world and talk to a whole bunch of people.

[thorny loom]

Kojima is just a famous nice guy

[random steppe]

Especially to a big publisher like Epic, it doesn't have to be Fortnite related

His game is on the EGS after all

[astral steeple]

you'd think it would have been something collab related

[thorny loom]

His big release since being let go was death stranding

[astral steeple]

notice how he's standing in front of the fort logo lol

[random steppe]

I would argue, that was the right logo to obscure in the picture, since I think Death Stranding 2 uses metahuman technology.

That said my guess is that he just posed wherever

[astral steeple]

oh actually now that i think about it, it might have been for fall guys

it had a death stranding collab

[random steppe]

Maybe, my guess is that it would have been for a bunch of reasons.

Maybe some talk about Death Stranding 2 future release as well.
I know Death Stranding does use a propietary engine so it wasn't probably UE related

Actually nevermind, it's from an engine from Guerrilla Games

Still not UE tho

[astral steeple]

hm

[slim thorn]

I feel like I end up here every other month since I'm not interested in Bethesda games but they always become major talking points one way or the other

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/bethesda_uk/status/1745159105235268028?

[light gate]

The Elder Scrolls Online update?

[mossy flume]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/nintendo-launches-cease-desist-classic/

[light gate]

Fun for the whole family.

[bronze abyss]

Are there any specific games mention that this was done to? This could have quite a big impact on mh since modding is a decently big part of it

[river veldt]

what was the last actual Classic console we had

[gaunt marten]

Cool new avatar

I like it

[wind stump]

FINALLY

[light gate]

SNES

Sucks to not have an n64 classic one.

[river veldt]

i always thought a Gameboy Classic would be tight

[young creek]

Imagine if we had Captainmario Classic

[mossy flume]

SNES

They just did NES and SNES, then two of the Game & Watch consoles, then stopped

[light gate]

Still can’t believe how bad the Playstation Classic was.

[river veldt]

what games would it have

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/synthpotato/status/1744778780726456734?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Oh god

[bronze abyss]

Bruh mmorpg players have better hud than this the fuck is this dogshit

[mossy flume]

What the fuck is this crap

[quartz pawn]

Found this while playing Nobody Saves The World.

[bronze abyss]

Rainbow dash though give us the good stuff( )

[teal sonnet]

This is a reminder that Riot Games is not a games company

it is an animation and music company

https://youtu.be/ZHhqwBwmRkI

what a fucking masterpiece of a video

holy fuck

this was glorious

[bronze abyss]

Riot media team always cooks INSANELY hard

[wind stump]

League

[fresh bane]

Riot media team always cooks insanely hard

The 2023 season cinematic:

[teal sonnet]

we don't talk about 2023

they just redeem 2023 with this one

holy fuck

[thorny loom]

POV: he forgot to set his derpibooru filters

[quartz pawn]

Lmao

[fresh bane]

oooooohhhh

my girl made it to a cinematic?

[teal sonnet]

they cooked

kindred looks incredible

[thorny loom]

“Im still here”

[fresh bane]

she's so fluffy

that's the best Tryndamere has looked in like 14 years too

[bronze abyss]

her

[teal sonnet]

yasuo's master accepting death

kindred arrow

the trees are wolf

this is fucking amazing

[fresh bane]

Ayyyy of course she's there too if Trynda's here

I was wondering if the old man was supposed to be Yasuo's master or just a very old Yasuo, but that wouldn't make much sense

[teal sonnet]

I was going to say Ashe looks like generic video game woman #58588

but she was one of the fucking originals that look like this

and pretty much the industry copied

so fair is fair

and he clothes looks amazing

[fresh bane]

They did a good job bringing her design more in line with the sensibilities of what modern League is about, it's not really generic video game woman it's just a blatant copy of Sylvanas or an elf archer from Warcraft

You could give her a new original design with one of those updates but her charm design wise is the fact that that's what she's referencing

they also did great with Trynda I'd be super okay with them updating him to look like this

[teal sonnet]

same

and they probably will

[fresh bane]

but Riot is way too busy trying to figure out how to continue marketing new groups like KDA so they can sell even more skin lines rather than actually doing anything with their game and world and characters so for the foreseeable future champs like Trynda will remain trapped in 2009 model and animation hell

[teal sonnet]

Ngl, I feel they finally got the feedback

this season has everything to be incredible

this update seems so good

they fuck up a lot in 2023

[thorny loom]

That reminds me of those weird enemies from genshin

[teal sonnet]

and this season feels like a fix and progression

[thorny loom]

Oh no he be morbin

Oh hey sega did a thing

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-appoints-dreamcast-and-psone-veteran-shuji-utsumi-as-new-western-boss/

[green fulcrum]

What's wrong with the 2023 cinematic?

(Have not watched it.)

[fresh bane]

I've been playing since 2014 and every couple of years peope think this way, I'm way past the point of believing that until I actually see some real change from Riot, even when it's a couple steps forward it always leads to even more steps back everytime

Don't think I'd go back to playing League even if they started actually giving a damn though now that they added the same anti cheat system they have in Valorant

[green fulcrum]

Just watched it the 2023 cinematic.

...I see what's wrong with it now.

[fresh bane]

Reflects perfectly the state of the game and Riot

The only moba I'd consider going back to, funnily enough, is HotS

[gaunt marten]

Awesomenauts was nice

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/gamespot/status/1745149537017344187?

[thorny loom]

https://kotaku.com/switch-2-nintendo-selects-out-of-stock-1851155179

Nintendo we really need to have a talk

Though if rumors are to be believed your theory on it maybe right @mossy flume

https://fxtwitter.com/nintendeal/status/1744438053903749459?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[mossy flume]

Yeah, I'd bet hard cash that Nintendo is going to announce the Switch 2 in their February Direct.

[hasty patio]

Thankfully, the prices won't be different. /s

Just slightly new art and logo.

[thorny loom]

Hopefully

Inb4 nintendo goes into the $70 game

[mossy flume]

Unironically there are rumors saying that's exactly what's about to happen

Switch 2 games are reportedly $70 and the Switch 2 console might be $400

But who knows.

[green fulcrum]

RIP

[mossy flume]

It's Nintendo, they're damn good at keeping secrets and 99% of rumors are just people making shit up.

But from an economic standpoint those numbers make sense

[hasty patio]

Helps when Legal is Disney-tier in terms of execution of duties. They also have a monopoly on that market.

And if it is out in February (it won't be), you get to pick between a new console or newer GPUs.

[thorny loom]

Lmao

[mossy flume]

A spring release for Switch 2 would make sense.

[thorny loom]

Spring or summer

Though with nintendo a fall one for holiday sales wouldn’t be unheard of

Sonic heros turned 20 in NA on the 6th

[fresh bane]

Don't want to be a party pooper but I find it funny that this is the first thought people have instead of thinking maybe these games simply didn't sell well enough in physical to warrant continuing to print them

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/youtooz/status/1745195732686995685?s=46

[thorny loom]

Its shoveling time

[river veldt]

Super Mario Odyssey isn't a low selling game at all though

[thorny loom]

Well yeah it was switch close to launch title

https://www.interactive.org/awards/27th_dice_awards_finalists.asp also more game awards

[fresh bane]

I specifically said sales in regards to physical games, it's perfectly possible for a game like odyssey to simply not be selling that much now, 7 years later, in physical form

[river veldt]

i refuse to believe Mario Odyssey was 7 years ago

[static bluff]

It's happening to you

you're become aware of time passing

[sour hill]

Holy shit

That's fucked up

[mossy flume]

Pfffft

[river veldt]

i guess if it was a game like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe this would be more believable

[mossy flume]

There's actually a long list of first party games that have suddenly been pulled from print

[river veldt]

Fire Emblem Engage is strange

didn' t that just come out

[mossy flume]

Yeah

[static bluff]

#manechat message

[mossy flume]

A bunch of Switch games were only in physical print for a year or two

Including Pokemon games like the PMD1 remake

[river veldt]

just necroposted for the first time ama

[thorny loom]

Onosa showing his age

[strong pebble]

What's necroposting?

[river veldt]

when you revive a thread that's long been dead. in this use it means that i replied to a message from 7 years ago

[static bluff]

Generally frowned upon but this is an exception

it was smiled upon

[rotund forge]

I'd pay for a 48 hour long mario game if it looks good lol

[visual hill]

Analogue is doing that… at a cost

[mossy flume]

Yep, Analogue is working on their N64 FPGA implementation

It’ll be expensive

But it’ll also sell out instantaneously

[light gate]

I don’t even bother with Analogue.

Selling out, expensive…

[mossy flume]

They’re very worth it though

But yeah, very expensive

But they seem to have managed to get enough supplies of the Pocket to keep them in stock these days

Just the limited edition versions sell out immediately

Which is sad, the colors are nice

Black and white are always in stock now though

[sour hill]

hell yeah pony pinball

[strong pebble]

Sometimes I play it every day 🌟🌟🌟

[rotund forge]

Just by looking at this gameplay, I guarantee Mario Maker 3 will be a thing on the Switch 2 and this will be a theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyIOYFvsdZo

[river veldt]

IM SO EXCITED

[strong pebble]

He looks like Lego

[light gate]

https://www.ign.com/articles/team-fortress-source-2-fan-project-officially-dead-after-valve-dmca-takedown

[sour hill]

damn what

[light gate]

Company does company things.

[sour hill]

Why was Black Mesa okay then?

[light gate]

Valve approved the project.

Meanwhile Portal 64 was using Nintendo proprietary sdk modules, which made Valve nervous.

Also Black Mesa licensed the engine, and therefore made things easier.

[river veldt]

NEW RENDERS
https://fixupx.com/pownicmania5000/status/1745260492338135527?s=46

[craggy vine]

Watching a video comparing back4blood with left4dead and all I am realizing is just how censored left4dead is in australia

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1745259899431608806

hell yeah

[river veldt]

GGGGG

excited

[rotund forge]

I played an Indiana Jones game for the DS almost 14 yeara ago or so. It was fun but I got stuck on a battle section and then lost the game somewhere, never to be seen again.

[river veldt]

i hope this comes to Switch

[river veldt]

this one ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Staff_of_Kings

[rotund forge]

I'm not sure, hold on

[river veldt]

haha

On the console versions, Big Head mode, Henry Jones Sr., Tuxedo Indy, and Han Solo from Star Wars are unlockable

[rotund forge]

No it wasn't that one...

I remember being able to use my whip while on top of a train in the section I couldn't beat, plus the graphics looked slightly better than this one...

[rotund forge]

Unless I'm missing something...Because that seems to be the only game for the ds that ISN'T lego. I know for a fact it wasn't lego

[river veldt]

damn

i remember in Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga you could unlock Indiana Jones as a playable character but you cant in Skywalker Saga 😔

oh well

at least Klaud is in it

[rotund forge]

It doesn't look familiar at all but it's literally the only ds game that was made so....yeah

[river veldt]

yeah

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRAIShgdbg FSR frame generation is so amazing

Fuck nvidia for locking their frame generation to the 40 series. Here's frame geneation on a handheld.

[mossy flume]

To be fair to Nvidia, their solution requires hardware features that aren't present on older cards and it gives better results than FSR. FSR is hardware-agnostic by design and isn't as good as a trade-off, but still pretty good.

They're different approaches to the problem under the hood.

[craggy vine]

Fair. But it's just that like, the 40 series is literally the last series of cards that could need the feature

It's just for gamers to max out a game at 8k and go 'wow look pretty'

[mossy flume]

I mean, I have a 4090 and frame generation is still super beneficial for plenty of games at 4K.

[craggy vine]

I don't need graphics. I just want more good games with good frame rates.

[mossy flume]

Usually you can get away with leaving it off, but there are a handful of games which are sufficiently demanding that frame generation is required for a decent framerate.

I only have a 4090 for the computer that's attached to a 75" OLED TV

For the rest of the computers the 4090 is overkill, they're just using 1440p ultrawide displays, so 3080s work just fine

[craggy vine]

Thus why I love FSR 3

Bring 30 fps up to 60 fps on a handheld

I am curious how much you really need the power of a graphics card like that though. It would be cool to have sure, but a lot of modern games look amazing on just low graphics. Why would I go up to ultra when I can get the same experience on low and have it be smoother.

[mossy flume]

In the context it makes sense.

We regularly saturate the 4090.

[mossy flume]

Or run it at ultra in 4K HDR running at a solid 120 FPS VRR.

[craggy vine]

I use 120 hz VRR

Some more demanding games I run at 60 fps, others I run at 120 fps

Or if it's l4d2 I run it at 300 fps

Otherwise I am honestly fine with 720p low settings and handheld gaming. I haven't even opened a single game on my desktop since getting my handheld.

I have a 2070 super and yet I don't feel a desire to use it

[river veldt]

holy shit this is so cool

they added Luke Starkiller to Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga

[craggy vine]

I used to care for graphics now but now I just don't care. Just give me cool games.

[river veldt]

based off this old Ralph McQuarrie concept art

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/w-yQxc62O1M?si=8Alo6z2q824ba1uR

This series keeps surprising me with all the bafflingly obscure, convoluted and borderline useless mechanics in DS1

I'll give them one thing though, they were very creative when coming up with these

[sour hill]

Like the vagrants

[fresh bane]

Vagrants are #1 on the list of that

I want to say before people started documenting them more like this guy with this dark souls dissected mini series, Vagrants were a complete myth entirely

[thorny loom]

Oh wow

Unheard of by valve

https://fxtwitter.com/joeycheerio/status/1745143832881098845?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

They also dmcaed portal 64

[sour hill]

yeah someone posted about it earlier

sad

[minor plover]

omg Try Lightning on PINWHEEL???

[harsh kestrel]

The whole thing where now they're pushing for AI in games to replace humans really has me concerned for gaming as a whole along with other rumors I've heard. It honestly scares me. It makes me think there's a chance we could have a repeat of a videogame crash, but because of something completely different. The ultimate worry is it just ultimately dying out

[craggy vine]

Perhaps there could be a crash in terms of new games, but we will always have the games we currently have

[thorny loom]

If anything crashes it will be the triple a industry’s due to out of control budgets and profit expectations

Indie games will be fine

https://imgur.com/a/dZnBw3E

Bunch of blops 2 and 3 zombies concept art was released

[craggy vine]

That's cool

[mossy flume]

Valve killed the Portal 64 demake.

https://vxtwitter.com/SteamDB/status/1745190618781962662/photo/1

Also this https://vxtwitter.com/SteamDB/status/1745190258809991461

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/daily_swgames/status/1745204116467724750?

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmGxqZ8-2D0

[quiet swift]

Oh boy. So as reported yesterday, Enigma DRM being added to capcom's older catalogue of games. Someone goes to Enigma forum to report game performance issues

Enigma's response is.... yeah.

And the second post. Not exactly wrong from a moderation standpoint but jesust christ hire a PR person

[hushed onyx]

I don't think there's any chance of videogames "just dying out". That would be like movies or books or audio recordings "dying out". Ultimately videogames are a medium, and there will always be people who want to tell stories in that medium.

[little badger]

New version of the controller which has better battery life https://fxtwitter.com/gamespot/status/1745435807241166939?

[quiet swift]

The one with a cable~

[slim thorn]

all of video gaming dying out was a believable possibility way back when the medium was brand new and the '77 and '83 crashes very nearly did kill it, but somewhere in I wanna say the 90s it became a ridiculous statement, certainly is now

unless of course the people saying that actually mean big budget AAA gaming, not all video games; we've known a lot of AAA practices are unsustainable for a while and it's unclear if this has hit an inflection point

[river veldt]

why would anyone want to play this

[unreal idol]

AAA gaming is likely going to crash and implode at some point

Crazy people with passion and prescription medication locked in their rooms will keep making games regardless of what happens

So gaming as a whole won't ever go away

[hushed onyx]

Most likely what will happen is that AAA gaming will shrink a lot, but rebound later.

It's the same kind of pattern you see in the movie industry, for a while big-budget blockbusters rule...then they start failing for whatever reasons...so producers retrench into small-budget fare...but after a while they start wanting to chase big box offices again and the memories of the last cycle have faded.

[slim thorn]

mm-hmm, the situation is so different from company to company that I can't see all of them going under in sync no matter what happens

I wonder what Alan Wake 2's budget was, that's easily the most AAA thing I've played in a while

[hushed onyx]

The sources I find say 50-70 million euros, depending on whether you count the marketing budget (this would be the higher figure)

[gaunt marten]

The Budget for the game reportedly stands at €70 million, with €50 million in development and an additional €20 million spent on marketing. This is considered to make the game one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland.

[river veldt]

wait is Alan Wake literally this guy

[gaunt marten]

No.

Alan Wake is bad at imagining anything and he struggles to do it

[river veldt]

i thought whatever he writes becomes real

oh