Sony has always been pretty anti consumer. I’m addition to the root kit thing, they have a history of pushing their own propietary crap as open standards. Sometimes successfully (blu ray) and sometimes not (memory stick). They also removed the “other OS” (Linux) option from the PS3 midway through the console’s life cycle.

I’m sure there’s more examples, but they’ve been a bottom tier brand for a long time due to this for me.

I think it would have taken less time to learn than learning how to disable it. But meh

It’s been a long time since I saw a dcss morgue post

It’s way too complicated for tech illiterate people.

They essentially removed games that I owned and made it so I could no longer play them by drippy Linux support.

It’s worth giving the dev his $5 though. Great game and open source

I’ve seen humans generate code with syntax errors, try to run it, then fix it. I’ve seen llms do the same stuff - it does that faster than the human though

The impression I got was more meh than hate?

There’s a lot they promised that isn’t even in the game now, and frankly is not really possible. They’ve also added a lot that they never promised.

Also some things like coop are still jank

It sounds like the bigger issue was that the game was bad.

At this rate we won’t be seeing another GTA game after 6 until 2040 anyways

Conde Nast bought them in like 2008. Not to say that it’s not their fault, but they’ve owned Ars longer than you’ve been reading it.

Boy, you really seem to hate Ars. I consider them one of the better tech publications, though gaming is generally not their wheelhouse.

How do you think a human decides what to sketch? They talk about the requirements.

Whole new game

I think magic is pretty fun in the game. It has a novel magic system

A lot of the story only kind of makes sense because it’s deliberately about things that are beyond human understanding. You get the story mostly through the eyes of humans who understand most (but not all) of the “what is happening” but almost none of the “how” or “why”.

More than 30 seconds of actual gameplay footage would have been nice too.

Interesting, I thought it seemed like it failed to make an impact and overall didn’t jive with people. Perhaps I’m just not the target audience for these anymore.

Meh, does anyone really care after The Witness? Braid was very much in the right place at the right time, but I’m skeptical of his ability to impress today.

The voice acting from the trailer was surprisingly good though - so much that it clashed with the video they were showing.

I’m immensely skeptical of CAs ability to pull off anything modern or futuristic

Basically the only negative things I can say about NV is that they’re really heavy handed with forcing you to go through the map in certain direction/order. Though it still opens up in the second half of the game.

Valve pays Codeweavers (developers of Wine and Crossover directly), so it’s not like using Proton takes money away from them.

At the risk of pissing some people off, Kenshi has a special kind of jank

The press release isn’t really the important part here.

Just because that’s all you’ve done doesn’t mean that’s all you can do.

Even Warcraft 3 was basically a giant retcon of the first 2 games (even as plot light as they were). The series has constantly pulled new stuff out of it’s butt.

The level design was crazy repetitive and the run animation (which, being a 3rd person game you watch a my) was laughable.

The combat was pretty solid and the story and cutscenes tied in directly with the movies which was cool.

I thought they were treating that as non-canon, and did that because Lawrence is old and fat now.

That’s like 10 development years worth of additional content. There’s not many games that get that much post release dev time without a valid monetization strategy.

I’m still hoping Alan Wake 2 will end up on Steam some day.

It seems to have gotten a pretty mediocre reception in a crowded market space prone to “winner takes all”, so flopped pretty hard

Bilewater boss isn’t that hard once you realize you can stand in the water and spam ranged attacks at him. The arena fight preceding him is harder.

I installed one that gives me 1000 rosaries when I press f3. I came to the conclusion that being able to buy things was more about grinding than anything else, and I didn’t enjoy it.

Technically cheating I guess but I don’t think it really makes the game any easier.

Maybe they’ll remove the gambling. Probably not but it would be good if they did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing

Apparently it’s more common than I realized. Most games doing it apparently don’t tell you it’s happening. For example I played RE4 when it was new and had no idea it had dynamic difficulty.

Why does anyone care about him in the first place? I really don’t understand why anyone gives this dude any attention, he seems like a loser that’s never accomplished anything.

It’s been interesting to see this agenda switch from D to R over the least 30 years in the US.

Wow, not being developed by Relic huh?

I tried the demo, couldn’t figure out how to do anything, gave up. Bit too alpha for me at the moment, I’ll try again when it’s further along. The demo is very rough