Shit game engine and a shit launcher. Epic not doing well is a good thing.

Hoping those laid off find a new job…

It was a little moment of abusing an IRL exploit. Felt like victory when I finally had the box in front of me.

In Denmark, Telia got acquired by Norlys and was permanently changed to Norlys Mobile. To attract customers, they made a deal on their most expensive subscription plan, Norlys One, where you’ll get a 20% discount on a Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World.

I have a friend who works for Telenor, another ISP and phone company. He has a friend who works in Norlys, and this guy discovered a major internal fuckup with the whole Nintendo Switch discount; instead of buying a subscription and getting a 20% discount, you’d just the Switch and game for 99 DKK.

It was in the process of getting fixed the moment it was discovered, so my friend’s friend called my friend, and my friend called me, and stopped in the middle of my job to rush an order through. I didn’t expect it to work, it almost didn’t, but now I’m the proud owner of the cheapest acquired Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World bundle in history.

I bought a refurbished Steam Deck waaay back before prices got ballistic. Can emulate the Switch 1 quite fine.

Also got a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World for 99 DKK (15 USD) last year (funny story about the price), but hardly use it.

It won’t be until it gets hacked. PC handhelds still have the benefit of being an open system, especially if you install Linux on them.

And Valve has significantly more consumer friendly support than Nintendo, to the point of being tinker support.

Yeah, this is effecting everything and everyone, not just one or two companies.

I could technically sell the parts of my computer today at a higher price than I bought them at because of all this bullshit.

I mean, if any studio can make a living RPG world it would be Warhorse. All I can say is “don’t fuck it up!”

Originally Bethesda Game Studio was the one, but their last decent game was Skyrim. They seem to know that themselves too, as they keep finding reasons to re-release Skyrim.

Come on Valve. Abolish the loot box. Set an example.

Again…

That too. The initiative has stressed multiple times this isn’t something they want to have happen retroactively.

I believe this article fundamentally misunderstands the Stop Killing Games Initiative. It has repeated many times that LEGO 2K Drive will remain playable even after it’s delisted and the servers go offline, but it’s trying to paint that as some sort of blow to SKG and game preservation because the online service will be gone.

Or you could just pirate the leaked version.

As it stands right now VR is still very much in the enthusiast territory. The only ones I’ve seen really dropping money on the full VR experience, including body trackers and the like, are furries who hang out a lot on VRChat and Revolite… Or Resolite… I forgot what the other one is called.

Now the idea seems to be that Valve is going to make VR way more accessible with the Steam Gear but… Eh… We’ll see.

Thank you. Where to install the textures on my Steam Deck was exactly what I was looking for.

Honestly… To me, any controller that can connect to my PC is a PC controller.

Like yeah, I get the Steam controller; now people can play games that would usually require mouse input. But in my case I’d just… Use the mouse…

I have a controller from 8bitdo (the one that looks like a SNES married to a DS4) and I use that one for games that work best on controller.

One is the American movement started by Accursed Farms. The other is the movement here in the EU.

This game has both gameplay and style. The high amounts of positive reviews prove, definitively, that it has both gameplay and style.

What you have done is cherry picking, a logical fallacy.

Now, if you don’t like the style or the kind of first person shooter game this is, well… Those are subjective matters. But you’re not talking in subjective terms; you’re saying there is no, or a lack of, gameplay. And that is simply put objectively wrong.

All you need is a horse, and no shear cliff face shall be your obstacle.

I dunno. I used to trek up and down the GR-10 of le Canigou just to get to the library of a village. :V

See that mountain there in the distance? Yeah, you can climb that mountain.

1. It’s not the Limewire days anymore. While it’s not risk free, if you hang about piracy for even a little bit you’ll quickly pick up an idea of who the trusted sources are.
2. Why would you care?
3. The ones making the games aren’t the ones you’re paying. Only the IP holders. If you’re concerned about paying the actual developers, then sticking with indie games is your only option. Not that that’s a problem; indies have come with far better quality and interesting ideas for quite some time now.
4. Neither do I, so fair enough.

Just pirate their shit.

Funny. Just today I installed a CFW on a PSP Phat. Not for personal use, though; I’ve never liked what was available on the PSP, and I have a Steam Deck I can emulate on.

But my younger brother bought a second hand PSP.

I’m wondering what sets this apart from EmuDeck and RetroArch.

Ah fuck, more generative AI!

“No, actually, you’re completely wrong!”

OK…? Then what is it?

“It’s generative AI.”

I don’t need to. You fail to see how completely irrelevant “how games used to be” is to the discussion of ethics in AI use. If you’re going to use that as some sort of excuse to give a pass on a studio, then you’re right; I don’t care what you think, and neither should anyone else, because it makes you part of the problem.

I frankly don’t really care if in the past there was no voice acting in games.

The point is, there is voice acting now, and if they’re going to add voice acting to their games they could have the decency of hiring actual voice actors. And if using AI is a must, they better make sure it’s used in a way that justifies it.

I was born in the early 90s, so I grew up with plenty of late 90s and early 2000s videogame jank. But I don’t see how that can be used as an excuse for corner-cutting practices today.

Less tell more show.

There are loads of technical issues with Palworld that put me off from buying it.

It has very little human voice acting. The vendors you interact with, which you’ll probably interact with the most, use sound-generated voice lines. And they have the flattest, blandest line deliveries.

It’s not like there are a lot of lines they say in the first place. For a studio that wants to shove AI into everything they’re not using it in any way that would justify AI. Like, there are no characters that call you by name, or generate responses based on your actions. They just have 5 or 6 voice lines each… Something you’d expect in a regular game!

On the other hand Arc Raiders is the only UE5 game that actually runs well, due to the studio completely reengineering it’s rendering pipeline. Basically they built their own version of UE5. Though I wonder how much vibe coding was used in the process. Perhaps the cracks will start showing eventually.

Ah… I’ve always pronounced it as re-agents. I’ve also spoken with several British people who pronounce it that way.

Their best use for AI was the deep learning algorithm they used for the drone’s movement system.

Everything else is…

I do wonder how much of their games are vibe-coded. But glad they’re seeing the light when it comes to VC.

Tried to launch the demo. Didn’t launch. Figured it had something to do with the anti-cheat.

Only reason I tried because my friend wanted to try it and thought it might be fun to try together. But he played like… One match… And was already tired of it.

Nothing of value was lost.

And how well do you think that’s going to work? Sounds like a shitty service maybe five people will subscribe to, and then it dies a year later.

We’ve had subscription services like this already. I don’t hear much of them anymore… Or at all… So I presume they’re all dead.

The only reason I got a Switch 2 is because a company selling them here in Denmark made a HUGE pricing error. So I got a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World together for just 99 DKK, or 15 USD.

I do once in a blue moon.

Morrowind, if you’re using OpenMW, also has multiplayer.

No, like a legit game engine that is advertised as “console ready”.

Well, you’ll be glad to hear that Toyota, yes, that Toyota, announced a new open source game engine, with deep integration of Blender 3D.

Obviously. And it’ll be just as broken. Show it’s technical age even more.

Stoat has no voice chat and streaming.