Probably because it used to be good and this is peoples way of mourning something they love. I wouldn’t necessarily want to invalidate that.

I do also love indie games so I want to add this. This is 5 years old but I’ve been digging Dark Diety. It’s a fire emblem clone that scratches an itch. It has its problems but it’s still a lot of fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Deity

Wishlisted.

Wow. I’m sad this happens at more than one place.

Yes because everyone who got laid off is seeing once in a lifetime opportunities and not a lot of automated rejections based off of crappy LLM setups.

Amazon? This was a running joke employees would say all the time.

8 is a hard one for me. I WANT to like it because you can make some crazy combos and there’s so much side content to chew through. And I find the setting fascinating.

But the main story is a fucking mess. And I hate treating magic like items. Drawing for necessary stuff sucks and put me off of it until I realized you can smelt items for magic. But there’s still a handful of spells (like triple) that are such a pain to get 99 of. Also switching junction setups is clunky for the amount of times they force you to character swap.

So keeping copilot / Claude but not using generated art assets.

Do you “tune” it just like you tune agents now? Where you feed them a prompt and hope the stupid thing listens?

If a human is reviewing the code they submit and owning the changes I don’t care if they use an LLM or not. It’s when you just throw shit at the wall and hope it sticks that’s the problem.

I’m more concerned with the admitted OpenClaw usage. That’s a hydrogen bomb heading straight for a fireworks factory.

Reddit communities around games in general are awful. I swear no one in those subreddits actually enjoys the game they supposedly dump thousands of hours into.

Saw the logo and thought “Maxxximum” collection and thought this was gonna be something entirely different.

In all seriousness…ehhhh. The arcade games are cool but you can’t pay me enough to try Arcades Revenge again. I still have nightmares about the Juggernaut boss.

Lmao hard pass.

I’m all for buying current games and remasters but $20 for a 20 year old game (that they’re releasing the editions separately) is absurd.

None of the games I’ve played have required it.

You’ll get control legends with loot boxes and micro transactions.

Dude xFire was my jam.

I remember leaving xFire handles in my forum signatures with a random anime picture. Those were the days…

Hell even 3 months ago.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

Activision does that with all their games now.

It’s the reason I won’t buy a new COD game.

I feel that.

Even in my current job they’re pushing us to use chatbots and LLMs even when it doesn’t make sense. There’s a lot of people hoping for the mythical productivity boosts that snake oil salesmen are shoveling. Going to the point where they see a future where “you check in prompts to source control because LLMs will be so good at translating those”. Which is batshit but you gotta let c level people learn this the hard way and fire everyone else for their mistakes.

As a full time software engineer you’ll get a lot more out of learning how things work, even in the short term, if you properly learn the craft.

Otherwise when something deals you won’t have the tools to debug it. When the work LLMs are great but if things go haywire you wanna be able to stop and triage yourself.

So people are idiots. Got it.

I dunno man working on a video game as a side hobby they’re the worst things I’d use for gen ai. There’s too many things from pathing to physics and collision that require human input to make work.

Anytime I’ve tried it’s given some absolute shit results.

Their focus is purely on getting whales to buy more and nothing else.

It’s kind of the new loyalty test you have to pass for companies nowadays to get a dev job.

“Oh yeah I love AI and want to be replaced by robots. Spank me harder daddy”.

Which is really funny as Games Workshop typically bleeds users dry on game expansions.

Glad they aren’t here though. I haven’t played SM2 but may pick up on a sale as I’m a whore for anything Ad Mech.

This is like designing a Game of Thrones fighting game.

You can throw all the clever nods you want into the product. You can read the source material to high heaven and spend all the time in the world perfecting it. You can hire the best and brightest fighting game devs to come in and design the best game ever.

Fundamentally it will never work. Game of Thrones’ charm is in its politics, feeling of isolation, and world building. There’s no way to bring anything out of that in a fighting game. As soon as you put Renly against Joeffry in a match to the death anyone that’s a fan will just look at the product befuddled.

For this reality show you’re taking a franchise that’s known for its single player experience and tight top notch writing for both the games (at least 1 and 2) and tv show and stripping that away in favor of a format that encourages none of that. All it’s going to be is some weird challenge with loser kids going “OMG I WASNT EXPECTING THAT!!” and “What. The. Fuck. “ for 30 minutes. It’s not going to be good. And it’s gonna be a shit stain on the franchise.

The only “charitable” take I can give this is that he’s been fighting Apple and Google over store fees and the like and that he feels like if he says that Apple/Google can do this then they should be able to restrict EGS as well.

I don’t know why CSAM AI material is the hill you’d make this point with though.

Was the game out grazing? Where did they spot it?

The Clair Obscur race sounds fascinating. I’m a sucker for speed run races.

I’m sad Howard’s legacy sold so well.

Also Cyberpunk sold better than I expected given the launch.

I’m assuming they didn’t bundle Nightreign sales in this?

Yeah the choice of using Wylder here was sloppy

I’ve been learning a lot of Godot myself. Don’t know if that’s still popular but it was gaining traction after the Unity license fiasco.

Is there a good review on it? I heard it was a gen ai fest but wasn’t sure if there was other stuff.

How is the argument null?

The major rub of Gen AI art is profiting off of others work. If you’re never displaying it and don’t ever want it shown then who cares?

I don’t know the red tape around them purchasing packs. They also may not have wanted to do that if they wanted to check for a specific aesthetic. I don’t know and quite frankly I don’t think this is the hill to die on for Gen AI usage.

I’d rather fight the slop or production use of it vs stuff that will never see the light of day.

But, why for placeholders that aren’t meant for anything? No one will ever see these (intentionally).

I’m very anti AI in games for art but this feels like an arbitrary line in the sand for “support artists”. This feels like the stupid busywork that AI can alleviate. If there’s a large market for placeholder stuff maybe but most of the stuff in stores you’re paying to ship in production normally.

Why purchase stock things that may not be the dimensions you need or need tweaking to make work when you can just have something craft a placeholder?

But these aren’t textures that are intended for use. They’re filler for development purposes.

It’s like putting a gray box in and fixing it later or putting a TODO in code.

That one is dumb. I love E33 so much but you can tell this had a budget behind it.

They need a “small team” game award or something like that or enforce requirements on indie categories.

Sonic 06.

If you try to play it casually it’s absolutely awful because there’s no guidance on what to do and some of the tasks are awful if you don’t know how to skip them.

But if you watch enough speed runs and LPs of the game you start to figure out why the game breaks, how to do the bad parts, and how to intentionally mess with it. And it’s hilarious to do so. It’s like an unintentional broken sandbox. And the best part is even when you’re not trying to it breaks anyway.

Also the physics in the game are absolutely WILD. It’s one of the few games on earth that’s so bad it’s hilarious.

ROTN is one of my favorites. I can’t wait for the sequel.

I also love that it has built in randomizer support.

I remember at the time it was getting all these awards. When I still had game pass I booted it up to see what it was all about. Dear god was it dull. All I remember is some dude comes out and is like “you had a space vision! Take my ship!” And I thought that was the most absurd way to start a game.

Don’t play it?

For a while I never made the switch because of gaming. I did 3 years ago and never looked back. Proton is a game changer