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Cautiously optimistic. Been playing a bit of NBA Street recently and it does mostly hold up but you miss some of the more complex moves you get in the 2K games. Also @get2sammyb please say you’ve seen the insane Borderlands crossover with PGA 2K, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the trailer.

Not a good month. Stray is an odd double dip, WRC is very niche even if I enjoyed the old games. TABS just makes me think it’s the 2010s again.

Anything but remove the abuser from the next game.

#REMOVEKAGAWA

“Veteran gamers born in the 80s and 90s” is gonna make a lot of you on here clutch those dodgy knees and back 😂

I’m not sure you can call buying out your competition ‘brave’.

@CielloArc I’m shocked that you’d really need a tool like that to find syntax errors given that basically all worthwhile IDEs have a decent linter. If anything, I’d be expecting AI powered tools to introduce syntax errors that didn’t otherwise exist. Generating documentation also surely has been around a lot longer than LLMs, I’m pretty sure IntelliJ and Eclipse had ways to simplify that back when I was in uni. It’s a little simplistic to try and say that knowing the limitations of generative AI helps, if anything it would make you realise that it shouldn’t be anywhere near your project as you should be able to explain every single line of code you write. The ‘boring’ parts are crucial and if I see clearly AI generated documentation then I’m going to massively question the code.

@get2sammyb Worth adding a ban on AI generated comments to the community rules? If it gets out of hand then all engagement is dead.

14000 jobs going is mental. That level of layoffs would normally involve some sort of dialogue with governments because redundancies mean a higher toll on the welfare state. But Amazon act like their own dictatorship, they genuinely do not care about their employees or the countries in which they operate.

@CielloArc As a software engineer, similar to @FuriousMachine and @ryan_nil, the implication that it’s our fault that the LLM is outputting nonsense is insulting. The classic line is ‘garbage in, garbage out’. This does not apply to these models. You can give it something perfectly formed and tell it to barely change the slightest thing and it’ll mess things up a million times over through hallucinations or downright stupidity. It creates extra work for us, you have to go through every single line that’s been touched by the model because I trust my own mind a lot more than some LLM foisted upon us by the bosses. You spend more time double checking than you ever would have saved by utilising these models.

Utterly pathetic. I can tell you right now, with first hand experience, that these devs do not want or need AI models being forced on them for the sake of bosses attracting investors. They introduce as many problems as they solve, the rampant hallucinations are getting worse and they destroy the chain of responsibility that feeds game design.

Yeah it may be a clone but Vampire Survivors is so incredibly good that clones of it are probably at least worth playing.

Looks to me a bit like Sands of Time and Two Thrones, not a bad series to ape.

In general, I feel like having a completely different team of devs remake an old game and completely change parts of it, while disparaging the original, feels a bit gross. Like Nintendo and Grezzo worked together on the Water Temple in OOT3D, but if there were zero original devs still around and they put out a press release saying the original temple was crap, it would be a bit much.

No 1CC trophies is a win for me because those arcade titles are blatantly unfair.

Please have trophies, otherwise I’ll just stick to emulating it on PC. Been really enjoying revisiting SC2 recently, although playing the Cube version for Link.

Hmm. It was already a big thing that it launched on Extra. Seems a bit redundant.

@rjejr Think that sums up Ascension’s impact on the series!

This is a genuinely bafflingly silly idea. While I feel like we get an awful lot of remakes these days, the Greek trilogy would be perfect for it solely just to make the Norse games accessible to more people. I very much would like to get my mum to play the Norse games but I don’t think she’d enjoy the Greek games and there’s just too much plot and stuff in those that’s relevant. We don’t need a live service Greek game, we could do with just basic remakes.

@RedNanaki I have literally never owned an Xbox in my life. Ever. To the point that I’m glad I can finally emulate the original and 360 so I can play the old Forza games.

@RedNanaki I’d assume that the purchase would come with punctuation and grammar too.

Would be too big to manage effectively with these studios included. Bungie was a step far enough.

This looks great but also incredibly unfaithful to the original to the point that I probably should play that first!

I’m beginning to think there’s some sort of investment scam going on with these games, massive promise with flashy screenshots and then it all goes quiet.

@RoomWithaMoose I’m genuinely trying to think of a story that was actively made worse by including diverse characters. At worst, it can feel shoehorned, but that neither makes the story better or worse. I also think that those on the right aren’t aware that leftists hate corporate mandated diversity just as much as they do, it erodes opportunities for genuine creatives from diverse backgrounds and fuels outrage from the right that will impact the actual communities they claim to be representing. I have also taken incredibly obvious bait as a good faith comment so this has been a fun day.

@PullingaBharv It’s far too late for that. It would be basically pinkwashing. There’s been too much damage done for her to ever pull back from when even people like Stephen Fry are dumping her, who generally goes on about right to free speech and all that.

@Shepherd_Tallon The difference is intent. The Hogwarts boycott was a fairly standard boycott, not wanting to financially support a person like Rowling, same as you’d do with Israeli products now or South African products in the 80s. It’s not about the product itself (a lot of people, myself included, genuinely do wish that the game wasn’t tainted), it’s about disagreeing with where your money is going and what it’s being spent on. Yotei, and other boycotts that I’ve probably lost track of by now, directly involve the product, whether that’s about them having women in major roles or including ‘woke ideologies’ or whatever, it’s not actually a boycott of products, just people not buying a specific game. I mean, Hogwarts put a trans character in the game but it didn’t matter, the money is still going towards Rowling. A lot of the issue also is calling things a boycott when all we can really do is control our own purchases, I didn’t buy Hogwarts but that’s on others if they spend their money on it, they just should know that their money is being funnelled into legal cases in my country that are directly impacting others’ rights.

Neither of my adaptive triggers survived a couple years and I’m onto my second DualSense with a little drift starting to rear its head. For controllers that cost a small fortune, I need them to actually last to even start to call them ‘special’. And SSDs are great upgrades but they’re hardly a game changer.

I’m assuming that Springfield Elementary will be off limits.

I’ll stick to competitive. But they need to get rid of EOMM before they add new modes.

Yeah I’ll stick to RetroAchievements. This is the only real reason why you’d play these on a PS5 rather than just emulate them.

Isn’t Yakumo the place that does XXXXL tops for your Johnny Vegases?

@get2sammyb Joss Stone was both the Bond Girl in Blood Stone and sang the theme song. Everything or Nothing did the same thing and had Mýa do both. Nightfire’s theme is burned into my memory but I have no idea about who sang it, Esthero she’s called apparently.

@Oram77 They’re both fantastic singers but fall into a very tired genre. They play well during a BAFTA ceremony or Strictly’s results show but they’ll never be an Adele in terms of sheer cultural impact no matter how much they’re pushed, and I say that as somebody who never really cared for Adele.

@Oram77 Raye is the new Emilie Sandé in that I’m already sick to death of her being pushed by the BBC.

Pretty perfect. Certainly better than Nicole Scherzinger murdering Goldeneye!

…but there’s no international management? I assume it’ll be added at some point.

Fake concept art for these sort of things is probably way more widespread than people realise. Bit funny to have the guy openly out it though.

@Weez It’s possible there was no path to greatness for the game, only a sort of scrambling to deliver some kind of end product. As for Avellone, it’s a difficult one because this isn’t a legal system, it’s a workplace and generally in the workplace, if there’s some form of ongoing disciplinary proceedings or massive controversy then you step away from work until you’re cleared (or not). That level of scrutiny wouldn’t help the team, and you also have to think about female staff working with him who would be naturally a bit unsure after the allegations. The right thing to do is step back, fight your case and come back stronger, which is what he did. It’s just a shame he wasn’t involved with this game.

@johnedwin Uh, I think 28 Years Later is basically the only Columbia Pictures movie that’s been positively received since probably Across the Spider-Verse. I mean, since then there’s been Madame Web, Kraven, Harold and the Purple Crayon, the crap Paddington, that Garfield with Chris Pratt etc. Sony makes one good movie and then about 9 bad movies.

@Weez While Avellone should have been back on the writing team after the allegations were retracted, it was probably too late in development to put somebody that senior in place after it all got cleared up. Although knowing this game it was probably completely rebooted about 6 times in development.

I cannot think of pretty much anything I’d rather watch less. This video game adaptation trend is abysmal enough at the best of times, never mind with games that were aping Hollywood in the first place. I think I’d rather watch a Kevin Sorbo Christian movie than this.

Gutted but it was coming for a while, what a disaster of a development cycle. The property’s just cursed, I love the original but modern games just aren’t janky in a fun way, they lack the genuine heart and fun of the 00s games.

Various circumstances sounds like the sort of vague reasoning you hear before something really truly horrible comes out about a celebrity.

Is this not just an excuse for David Cage to call gay people f***ots over the mic rather than in public?

For me it goes beyond just inspiration. It’s blatant and the fact it was pitched to Sony as a Horizon game says it all. I’m not looking forward to every game getting 5 different AI slop versions.

This guy was nuts but it’s sad to see him go so young. The industry needs big personalities.

It really needs it. Especially with the legends coming and going, we need a good custom roster. I’m still on MVP 2004 for classic teams.

@Jammer I’ve read this like 5 times and I still have absolutely no idea what you mean.

This sounds insane and I need it immediately.

I usually stick to first person in something like this. Mass Effect’s camera always did my head in.