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It’s never going to work. Not in a million years. They’ve basically killed any idea of first-party games being associated with quality.

Rivalry is good. And the game not having the truly abysmal Red Sox team this year might actually be a good thing.

Pretty perfect for a Bond game. David Arnold just knows the sound inside out by now.

I thought it was pretty good. Very cool playing it in Farsi too.

Oh dear lol. Probably the worst month yet.

I’m a huge fan of weather systems in games. Especially if they impact gameplay. Still need to get to Shadows, only the Unity and Mirage platinums left to go.

I started Spider-Man 2 today and the writing is pretty similar to the original and Miles Morales. Peak Woke 1 and therefore cringy but largely harmless.

@Bramble Those games weren’t multiplayer. Newgrounds was rife with nonces but they didn’t have ease of access like they do with Roblox.

Spoiler - Bond kills the villain at the end (probably a former mentor) with a quip following his death. He then shags the girl. The end.

Genuinely thought Exodus was a beautiful ending for the series but I would never say no to more. Exodus was a bit of a technical mess when I played it but it really resonated with me in every other way. 2033 is a classic too, only Last Light was a little bit of a disappointment for me.

Looks to me like a way to feed your browsing data into an algorithm so they can roll out dynamic pricing even further.

Not entirely unexpected. It’s probably the biggest media since maybe Avengers Endgame. It’s bound to be a massive target.

@RyPal I don’t even have to click profiles anymore to know hands down that somebody is clearly a Yank.

Not a mention of Gen AI in the article? The entire ‘creative’ process is underpinned by the slop machine.

I’d love to bring myself to care but I look at what we’re doing to the Earth and to other humans and it leaves a bad taste. This planet is literally the only place in the entirety of the basically infinite universe that is home. Until we sort out ourselves then I have no interest in colonising other planets.

It’s a complete mess. I even quite like how the game plays, there’s just nothing to do. Thankfully mods on PC keep the series alive, even if most of them are paid.

@Dogbreath Think your name should be Dogwhistle instead.

Genuinely didn’t even cross my mind that they would use the footage to train a model. Why create NPCs when they can just feed unpaid fan videos into the slop machine to generate them in perpetuity?

@get2sammyb GoldenEye Wii came with a gold Classic Controller too which was cool.

I honestly don’t think it needs the lines and the barrel. It’s a bit overdesigned. Just that gold finish and the 007 logo would be perfect.

Reminder that Quantic Dream is such a disaster to work for that they lost a libel case relating to toxic workplace conditions. Le Monde didn’t even reveal their anonymous source and they still won the case because QD were such an obviously atrocious company to work for.

This is the most 2002 thing ever.

RPCS3 has come on leaps and bounds the last couple years. It’s only little issues now like the players’ names not appearing on their shirts in the World Cup 2010 game and the like.

@LogicStrikesAgain We’ll see what comes of this class action against Sony for the lack of external marketplaces. If digital PS5 games can be sold in shops other than the PS Store then Sony will be in the same place on their own platform than they were on PC, they can’t get away with their pricing if they’re being consistently undercut by key sellers.

@KPS This move from Sony will need to be balanced out with them finding revenue from somewhere. So I’m calling it right now that PS Plus will see a major price hike before the end of the year. That’s why they’re making record profits, they’re squeezing their customers dry while lurching from calamity to calamity.

@Flaming_Kaiser You not wanting to play games on PC doesn’t mean it’s not relevant. With Sony limiting their revenue to only PS5 consoles (which they increased the price of) and PS5 software (which they increased the price of) then they are going to squeeze every single drop of money out of players in terms of MTX or jumping to £80 games sooner rather than later. PC isn’t even just desktops anymore, there’s a bunch of dedicated handhelds out there along with Steam Decks and this Steam console thing coming out. It’s a large market in which positive word of mouth can cause games to take off massively. Limiting games to the PS5 while increasing the price to actually buy a PS5 is a blatant attempt to cash in on the current economic situation and RAM crisis, by trying to FOMO their way to sell 6 year old consoles at a premium price.

@Flaming_Kaiser Those same games have leapt up to £70 if they even release at all, or are live service dreck. Consoles are generally subsidised and traditional sales of games aren’t generating the income that Sony wants to see, which is why we’re seeing price increases across the board and why they’re investing in live service games as Sony wants profits to last across a game’s lifespan instead of being one purchase. PC releases create another revenue stream that can help justify single-player games with no microtransactions and getting rid of them is a massive sign that this live-service push isn’t going away.

Any celebration of this is absurd when you look at the recent price increases. And the fact that digital games can only be bought on the PS Store. So they’re effectively making it more difficult to play their games which is absolutely not the way to cultivate a player base. The only reason I can think for people to celebrate these games not being ported to PC is an excuse to justify their purchase of a PS5/PS5 Pro amidst overwhelming evidence that this is the lowest point Sony have been in since the PS3’s launch.

@Balaam_ 30FPS is a bit of an issue for me with racing games. I’ve been binging the NFS games for a while now and the difference between the 30FPS and 60FPS games is massive. It’s super sluggish especially at high speed.

I never did play this but this exact tweet does the rounds every so often. Your standard engagement farming.

I’ve heard it’s not even one of the better games in the series! Nice to see the Red Sox are winning tonight though, they’ve been absolutely dire.

Both are good. I think Judge had better material to work with though.

@Hyena_socks You’ve nailed it. The application of genAI in creative fields is ghoulish erosion of human creativity to drive costs down and increase revenue at the expense of quality. And honestly use of it within the mundane aspects of development is basically a sideways hop from already existing procedural generation. Those who understand genAI understand that the limits are closer than they appear and that the benefits aren’t as much of a leap as the suits think they are. The only difference is that these models were pushed onto the public to create false hype to drive share prices. And plenty of the data was falsified, the Meta smart glasses were sending telemetry data to African data centres where underpaid employees were watching footage of the users on the toilet. Genuinely.

Hmm. The first game was one of the first PS5 games I played and I remember it being a bit bland. I honestly couldn’t tell you much about it, there were caves and there were forest bits. None of the bosses are coming to mind.

@Jackthelad93 And yet there’s still enough issues that there’s apparently a patch 2 coming at some point.

@Quintumply Not worth a mention that Tomb Raider 1-3 just got completely annihilated in an update by external devs? And that anybody playing these might want to wait for fixes?

@Balaam_ Erizzlerhead

Let’s make a game about Chinese incels with small *****. It’s not a stereotype or wish fulfilment because some exist. That’s how this works right?

Just in time for TR1-3 to be completely unplayable. Well done lads.

@Supern0va At least we’d get to kill him.

@Athrum I always find that criticism of Disco Elysium completely unfounded. I think that people get an impression that it is ‘up its own arse’ because they’re not used to interesting writing in games, or any sort of message or provocation. About 99.9% of games’ stories are sh*t in the grand scheme of things. Some are merely there to facilitate the gameplay and that’s fair enough, and then you get the lesser-quality pastiches of film tropes like TLOU or Ghost of Tsushima. Even something like Red Dead Redemption 2, which I personally think is a brilliant game and story, still doesn’t stand out compared to other media from a narrative standpoint and mostly benefits from sheer length that can be almost directly compared to books like Les Miserables or War and Peace.

We’ve had essentially 50 years of games trying to catch up to movies or real life in terms of fidelity and now that we’re here, devs are struggling to use this medium to say anything interesting. The big games that stand out from a narrative standpoint, Metal Gear Solid, NieR Automata, Disco Elysium, Spec Ops The Line, Silent Hill 2 etc, all understand that games are a completely different experience from movies and TV and therefore the narrative uses interactivity as another tool. Hacks like David Cage or Neil Druckmann want to make movies while their teams build a game around it which is just fundamentally not interesting.

Gamers are so used to substandard writing that they see anything that tries something meaningful as somehow pretentious. And I suppose it is pretentious in that it’s trying to bring a more mature viewpoint into the industry when the actual consumers expect easily digestible fluff. There’s both a literary crisis and a wave of reverse snobbery out there just now, a weird attempt to boast about expecting nothing from media and ‘just enjoying things’ but that’s how we end up with incurious children that never want to be challenged. Media should raise questions and cause us to think things and Disco Elysium does that, and I could count on one hand the number of times a game has actually made me reflect on what it is saying.

This is super cool, I really liked the first game and didn’t realise there was a Japan exclusive sequel.

Silver Surfer is evil but the soundtrack slaps. X-Men arcade alone is worth this entire collection alone though. Would be super cool to see a Simpsons collection next, with the arcade game alongside the various tie-ins on console like Virtual Bart.

@McDosy Inflation doesn’t apply to components that are essentially out of date the second they hit the market. Every other generation has seen consistent price drops because the components have decreased in price naturally as the industry moves forwards. This is the complete opposite of what you are saying, it’s abnormal that these consoles are going up in price.

3 was not worth the wait so, uh, I guess this won’t be either. And at least between 2 and 3 we still had games coming out.

@Sergo The console is worth more than it was 6 years ago. That’s not normal. It’s a really really bad sign.

Well that’s insane. I played a bit of it on Vita and it was ludicrously difficult just on normal speed

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