Unfucking a Bethesda game with day-one mods is a time-honored tradition. Toddition.

That is, in fact, how game engines work, if the game logic and renderer are decoupled. Usually they’re not too tightly coupled in the first place, but Unreal is specifically designed to be used in more than just games.

French doesn’t deserve such nice treatment. They’re not even using those letters!

Not really. The user has full control over the PC, and they could completely image and restore the whole drive. There’s no way you could detect that without an outside reference point.

Can you play online with your friends?

Probably not the only one, but there’s not very many of you, because there are plenty of engines. Unreal, Unity (rip), and Godot are the big general-purpose ones, for good reason: they’re modern, powerful, and most importantly easy to work with. But there’s also Source, CryEngine, Frostbite, id Tech, and many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

No, that would probably be Valve. Several fan mods became full games in their own right (Counter-Strike, Black Mesa). Others were mods of non-Valve games (Team Fortress, Dota 2 (sort of)).

Honestly that’s probably true. Killing them with kindness. If they all have this for free, they may not have much motivation to continue.

https://qz.com/companies-adding-tariff-surcharges-1851775290/

They don’t, and that’s not happening here.

It took me a long time to realize that dying and respawning with extra lives was part of the main game loop. In most other games, dying is to be avoided.

Once I realized that, the game was honestly too easy.

No, the demons are the system processes: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

Which I guess makes the player the DRM.

Yes, there are companies that do QA. But you don’t really play the game, and it’s very rarely done remotely.

In what way?

Still are. The Switch still takes cartridges.

That’s disappointing. So it’s going to have all the logic bugs of gamebryo plus that same annoying graphical feel of UE5

What is old is new again

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The quality of Unreal games is a product of the developer. Plenty of games have been great. Satisfactory and Talos Principle 2, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Chinatown_Wars

It was pretty good.

The only GTA game I’ve played was the one on the DS, so 🤷‍♂️

Usually they do that shortly before announcing their own, like Nintendo with AM2R. Maybe they won’t do it at all.

Considering Skyrim and Fallout 4 inherited bugs from Morrowind, I’m sure this has inherited them again. And I’m sure everything feels just as janky.

Edit: actually this is on UE5 from a third party, so I’m hopeful it won’t have that Bethesda feel.

If you invented a new and novel method of painting, like Jackson Pollock’s, you could potentially patent that. Directionally brushing has imperial buttloads of prior literal art.

The others are certainly more linear, but you could also do things like the three heart challenge. Or emulate and play a randomized game.

Why not just play Wreckfest?

What part is unclear? You want to play Mario, you buy a Nintendo console.

Yeah but just for a rerelease with some new paint?

If this means they quit changing random shit for no reason and focus on fixing bugs, I’m all for it.

That’s still clickbait. Is there no honest source?

Literally just let people host private servers. It worked fine for decades, and still does.

I hope they still have tank controls, and designed the game with those in mind. I’ve been playing the Prime games like that for so long.

Failing that, at least a twin stick control scheme would be nice.

I still don’t even know what that means

No, they’re reporting that Nintendo is saying it, and also reporting that in the past it’s hasn’t been true. Consider it a warning, and to set your expectations if you buy a Switch 2.

Bold of you to assume you’ll be able to get there and back so easily.

Given modern platforms and tooling, development should be cheaper and faster than ever. You have a huge talent pool, you can cobble together something in Unreal or other Switch-compatible engine, and run automated builds and tests before shipping right to the online store.

All their backups are on the SD card.

I haven’t felt the need for one in years, probably ever. My current 128gb phone is less than half full.

Most of my music is streamed on Spotify, and my personal library is available on Jellyfin. I could make a local copy if I really needed to, but I don’t really need to. I have one or two Spotify playlists that I regularly listen to and those are cached.

I don’t watch movies on my phone, the screen is too small. Again, Jellyfin, on my laptop, desktop, or TV.

I do take a bunch of pictures, and I use Google Photos, but even if I didn’t, I’d offload them periodically instead of letting them fill up my phone.

Stuff like backups or large file transfers I do over USB anyway.

What if the SD card dies?

Make enough of them that scalping isn’t profitable.

I don’t need it to play Smash with friends on the couch.

Really I shouldn’t need the subscription for GC ports either. What’s wrong with making them individual purchases like on the 3DS? (Answer: that’s not monthly recurring revenue.)