I hate AI with a passion. A burning passion. And there is some muddied reporting and stuff with how the Clair Obscure team handled the use of AI but ultimately it does look to be an innocent use.

It does start a slippery slope argument, but I don’t see much wrong with using AI generated textures or models if they are truly truly 100% meant to be replaced by the product ship date. There are many video games that start out with stolen ripped assets as placeholders because it’s a whole lot easier to throw in completed assets that work right now so you can get to your iterative phase of game development a lot sooner.

During game development, there is a lot of wasted effort you need to try to avoid. A game is not fully complete when it is planned out. When you start video game development, you don’t know where you’re going to end. If you do not approach the iterative process of game design carefully, you will end up wasting tons of effort and artist time just for things and features and levels that will never see the final release.

Tldr; I don’t see a big problem with using AI as placeholders but you better fucking be honest about it and they better actually be placeholders

Back 4 blood missed everything that made left 4 dead great

Does he still carry the guilt from the metacritic fiasco?

Oh shit! I might actually reinstall this thing

Spoilers. It will break mods.

More “AA” games please. we don’t need the best graphics if the game is actually fun

Ramp it up. The sooner we pull out of the kernel the sooner I dump windows

He’s last on the list to be eaten though.

Dude I’ve been premium for years. First sign of betrayal that will change though

Kings quest 8. Universally panned as a “bad Kings quest game” and I agree, It’s a terrible entry to the kings quest series. But when you look at this quirky adventure game from a modern perspective you can see it was really ahead of it’s time. It has an unmatched vibe and atmosphere.

Rimworld doesn’t need a new gpu

You can’t tell me that if epic somehow wins this war that they won’t immediately enshittify the platform. Valve has my trust.

Thought I was going crazy

I was flabbergasted too but it’s real

Nah fuck that I should be able to splatter paint and call it my work as well.

No sorry, you can’t paint like that. I patented left to right brush strokes.

Another day another corporate hit piece to take down valve. They aren’t going anywhere. They’re a private company with no plans on going public ever. From what I hear, the company leadership will transfer to the lead engineer who shares the same visions as Gabe. Why would you want a personal money printer in your pocket to go public and then just get absolutely raped by some investor pieces of sshit when you have one of the highest profit to employee ratios in the entire industry. It makes absolutely no sense to strangle this Golden goose even for the greediest of people.

I swear to God the news is just fucking awful these days just paid hit pieces to spread whatever view some rich guy wants. This is all because valve won’t bend the knee and is disrupting industries and poising to dethrone Microsoft right now in the OS space and they’ve also branched into hardware. Other companies are threatened by them.

We’ve established a name already in the indie space for these. It’s a “horde survival shooter” damnit.

Not to be confused with the plain old “horde shooter” like your helldivers 2 and what not

Use none of them. Embrace funny duck

Why do you think valve is under fire from every angle lately? They are winning and winning fairly and some people don’t like that.

Occasionally we get the odd tech update but they consider it basically finished now.

But the tl:dr is

• Bugs fixed

• Optimized

• Gameplay enhanced

• Dlc is amazing

Y’know they actually did

Nah you’re right. It’s overrated. It shaked the Zelda formula up and that’s all that people see in it. It has a ton of fun details in the world sure but let’s be honest BOTW has like 8 different enemies you will fight over and over. The shrines aren’t even a challenge after the first third of the game since you know the ins and outs of your abilities. Your abilities are all gained right at the start too and there’s no cool loot other than another bow or a random melee weapon.

The open world nature kills so much of the story pacing and cinematic elements we have come to expect from the series. Then there’s the whole no real dungeons thing. a Zelda dungeon used to be an all day affair. Took you hours with a challenging unique boss fight at the end. The beasts we got and the copy pasted phantom ganons were so lame.

I honestly feel like they serious took a dramatic dip in theming and focus with BOTW. It took a dramatic leap forward in innovation for the series but it really doesn’t feel like a legend of Zelda game anymore.

Tears of the kingdom is just The Legend of Zelda Nuts and Bolts. Change my mind

Boredom is your brain urging you too change your behavior. The magic of gaming will return if you take a nice break and focus on yourself and other things. At least it works that way for me.

Yeah an AI can make clone slop sure. Enjoy your slop

To make a videogame (that’s worth being played) you need to innovate and iterate and find fun in the mechanics by testing them for “fun”

An AI doesn’t inovate. An AI doesn’t have “fun”

AI cannot make an original videogame

I dare them. Striking is the peaceful compromise.

Cyberpunk 2077. It was hated on release but it really has made a comeback after 2.0 was released.

I think cyberpunk really puts so many triple A titles to shame when it comes to the quality of the characters and quests.

Dude I’m trans and hate the acolyte. It’s cause it’s shit not “woke”

There’s plenty of “non woke” media that’s shit too

Turns out if you write nothing but shit you get nothing but shit. This is a capitalism putting restrictions on the artist not our society.

It’s happened time and time again they force trends and focus tested ideas into the writing room instead of true passion. It will happen no matter the context. Shit media will just be shit media regardless of “wokeness” that’s just a current symptom of how we create media. It’s all for profit not for the sake of art.

That’s what you actually hate dude.

Add twitch integration. Viral success overnight

Oh I thought we all agreed that the Sims 4 was trash and that we would stick with the Sims 3 forever

New sims game? This is the first I’m hearing of it. A complaint thread on Lemmy. Game’s DOA

A lead Roblox dev went to prison recently for locking up children in his basement. It’s actually crazy how far you have to dig to find this news. But he got two life sentences

Anyone remember Shedletsky? Yeah that’s him

You literally opened the thread. People are gonna talk about anything you can’t stop them. You going in here like this is just foolishness.

That dlc was cooking forever. I’m so confused as to why it has the bugs it does.

You should try a wholesome cute game called Bread and Fred!!! It’s got penguins!

Then steam will still be worth it. If valve ever goes public we jump ship collectively

You’re right. The witcher 3 never grabbed me because of these reasons. It’s got such phenomenal quests and storytelling but in between feels like a chore since im just staring at the minimap the whole time. I installed mods to remove HUD elements to help fix it but I still needed a toggle for them to show me direction occasionally since the games design relies on those HUD elements to drive the player.

It’s such lazy design in an otherwise rich experience. It boggles my mind.

Im so glad the minimap genre is dying. Fucking killed gaming there for a moment.

I can’t actually recommend Starbound. It’s a game sure. And made by an indie team. But it’s past is stained. The game is also hollow and devoid of true substance and this is clear after less than 5 hours of gameplay.

FTL is a much better space themed indie masterpiece.