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Big difference, humble, like other stores, is a key seller. There are plenty of legit ways to get e.g. Steam keys from stores that have a partnership with Steam. Humble, Gog, and lots of others sell completely legit keys.
Sometimes indie even include a Steam key themselves if you purchase their game from elsewhere, like their own site (like Rimworld) or itch.io (like Dwarf Fortress).
The shady part with G2A etc, the resellers, is that they get their keys from… anywhere really. They buy and resell “second-hand” keys and don’t care where they may come from, which is why some end up cancelled when the publisher discovers they were acquired illegally.
And especially among small publishers and indie, the resellers are a huge pain in the ass because in the end cancelling the keys is their decision, and they know it won’t be popular. Most of the time the end user believes the game is being unjustly removed from their library because they have paid for it. Many don’t even realize that it matters who is being paid.
It did happen with Witcher 3 : https://www.pcgamer.com/green-man-gaming-hits-back-over-witcher-3-key-row/
I am not aware of something like that for Fallout 4 though, can’t tell about that one.
There was a mess around green man gaming, which is supposed to be a legit key seller and is in that list.
Around Witcher 3 release they started selling keys for it, however CDPR warned that they were not official partners and as such those keys were grey market. They told people not to buy from there.
Turns out CDPR had selected only a few stores to supplying them with keys officially (which is their right, obviously) and gmg wasn’t one.
Gmg made a rather… unconvincing answer in which they said all they wanted was to provide “Gamers” with the games they wanted and were disappointed with CDPR not letting them. They said they got their keys from legit stores themselves, but it cast a serious doubt about how reliable they were.
Maybe, not sure about that because of the level of detail in justifying the random stuff they added.
The spaceport thing in particular makes me think they had the clip with the exploding phone already, and tried to shoehorn more gameplay from it. It’s not a key scene at all in the movie, it lasts literally a few seconds and has absolutely no consequence. (Yeah, an explosion in an airport is basically filler content and is never mentioned again. It’s that kind of movie).
In the same vein, they have a whole level in that airport where Korben has to blast piles of garbage to progress. Technically there are piles of garbage in the movie because of a strike. It’s barely mentioned and has absolutely no incidence on the plot.
If you want a game that uses movie clips and proceeds to butcher the original movie plot and atmosphere, try the old Fifth Element game. It’s amazing, they took bits of the movie and used them to make a weird new cut that completely changes character motivations, adds huge plot holes and mess with the order of events.
For example : the game starts as Korben (at that point just a taxi driver) saves the lab where Leeloo is being revived (also random mutants freeing themselves from capsules).
In turn, Leeloo then saves Korben that’s been arrested by the police (you know that “meat popsicle” bit? They’ve recut it so it looks like Korben got arrested).
Leeloo then spends about half the game in her strap suit from the lab, instead of like 3 minutes. Just because they took the iconic plunge into Korben’s taxi scene to use it way later, in a random subplot they added, and she needed to be dressed like that because that’s how she is in the movie clip.
Which also means that in the game’s plot, her falling right on Korben’s taxi was somehow intended, and not how they met.
Many other examples of scenes that were reinterpreted like that to create new subplots, like that one time Zorg blows up a phone booth to kill an incompetent henchman becomes a terrorist attack on the spaceport with a dozen of exploding booths.
Honestly, I would almost agree with that, if the damn thing was not so crappily made.
I’ve replaced way too many drifting sticks and broken joycon rails. Also needed to replace the backplate that broke around the corners because it’s made of that crappy brittle plastic, and had to replace the internal fan that was dying and started make helicopter noises.
Also its wireless is shit, getting the poorest WiFi signal of any device I have, and having joycon Bluetooth fail when I’m three meters away if I’m not in the right position.
Love the games, like the concept, hate the execution.
And I have a feeling that some of the investors were totally aware and totally fine with it being a ponzy scheme only if they were not the ones holding the bag…
At that point I believe you’ve described the vast majority of what’s left of cryptobros. Most of the naive people are gone and now they’re all in it to con a greater fool.
I just hope they happen to be the greatest fools and can’t find anyone to pass the bullshit down to.
You mean Ruins of Myth Drannor from 2001, not the older one by SSI?
I remember I really tried to give that game a chance back then, but after a while I just gave up.
The first part with those mindless dungeon levels bore me to hell. The worst part about them were the dozens of zombies, that visually moved ultra-slow but somehow could cross the whole screen in one turn, making every fight take ages. And then when I finally got to the town after hours, finally met a few NPCs, it seemed like things might become slightly interesting… And then a cutscene makes the game crash. Absolutely no way to go farther than that.
Rarely have I been more frustrated by a game.
I think you’re underestimating how huge a dataset has to be to get a somehow decent AI output.
The effort to create those custom in-house datasets would never be worth the prospect of not needing artists anymore. There is a reason current AI is mostly trained with sources of dubious legitimity. They just need as much data as they can gather.
AI generation is only profitable if you conveniently ignore where your source material comes from.
If any of this is to be believed, that’s not unreasonable for a handheld device that’s supposed to be in the $300-350 range.
And no, it’s not reasonable to think Nintendo will be going for much more expensive stuff to cater to a minority of gamers. Everyone and their grandma are not going to buy a $800 device to play Mario Kart.
I started to use the Japanese term “search action” rather than Metroidvania unironically, sue me.
Yeah, it sounds silly, but it’s descriptive and feels less limiting to me than “a game that looks like Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night”. I love those two, but lots of games do the big interconnected map with ability gates, and they’re not that close to them.
Some of those even don’t have a map made of blue rectangles! Only like 90% of them.
Really, if we can do with genre names that are not built like that in general, all the better. I’m not going to the library to read a FrankenDracula or a DuneFoundation or whatever.
It really is. I like no man’s sky, but most of it starts looking very familiar fast.
Only exception, I still get good surprises with random creatures. Sure, they’re all based on the same few structures, but once in awhile I get some perfect combination of funny, dorky and/or cool that I just can’t refuse as my new pet.
They may have issues with, you know, E3 and the ESA organising it, not the idea of having a rough period when people expect big announcements.
E3 is not some abstract concept of having a big game show in June. It was a specific event, that started as a trade show for the industry and investors and became entertainment/advertisement when the organizers realized there was a lot more money to be made that way.
Until publishers just all realized they didn’t need it to be heard anymore, and doing their thing was a lot easier and less expensive. Making your own conference is quitting E3.
Ōkami.
Well, she’s a wolf, but she’s the Sun Goddess too.