The one use case I can see being valuable is dynamically reading a custom name. In Skyrim for example, all NPCs refer to you by your title as Dragonborn. But some smart person made a mod that uses AI trained on the NPC voice lines to embed your character’s name into dialog!

As long as voice actors are appropriately compensated/protected, say with royalties for every game that uses their likeness or an ironclad contract making sure the company can’t stiff then out of future work, I feel like that could be a great thing.

Oh shit, that’s amazing! That could be a real learning opportunity for folks interested in starting game dev like me!

The gameplay loop is tremendously boring, too. I have no idea how they did that, since it’s basically the same as Minecraft.

Dwarf Fortress!

Great point. I saw an interesting video recently that touched on this exact issue:

https://youtu.be/x4_8rIUh7E8?si=-E1VWA8bZ-eVibkL

As graphics increase in quality, the desire for developers to fill spaces with clutter grows – which makes it harder to make meaningful levels with thoughtful design.

Irrelevant. This game is purportedly built using the original doom engine, while almost all other FPS games since Doom are designed with similar mechanics.

Looks like I’m in the minority, but I subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online. My wife and I enjoy the extra Mario kart courses and I personally enjoy the N64 virtual console.

every fucking mobile game ever

Hey now, there are some (very few, but some) mobile games that are quite good. Dawncaster is an excellent deck builder for example.

Don’t get me wrong, the only Libertarianism I’ve ever known is intertwined with Capitalism. But they aren’t the same thing, and I always read BioShock as being a take on Libertarianism specifically.

Capitalist utopia? Isn’t the whole point that it’s a Libertarian utopia?

There was some brief hullabaloo where some nobody on Xitter claimed M$ was considering the buying Valve for 12B$. No sources, no credibility, but some news sources started talking about it like it was news.

What about a live service Titanfall game in the same vein as Helldivers?

I would instantly buy a ticket if they got ProZD to do it.

Damn. Thanks for sharing, friend.

That sounds too absurd to be true. Source?

FYI l: That’s the CEO of Arrowhead, who made the game.

Neat!

It’s unfortunately classic Lemmy. Every post has at least one person commenting something along the lines of “Why would anyone like this?” as opposed to, y’know, actually engaging with the content.

china’s biggest crime is making close to as much money as we do.

Nah man, I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime. Not to mention their genocide of the Uighur people, their oppression of Hong Kong, their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty.

ETA: big thanks to OP for so clearly and concisely showing they’re a tankie.

They didn’t frame it as “paying valve three bucks”. They said “paying valve 3 bucks on my 10 dollar game”. The phrase “paying pennies on the dollar” comes to mind as a common idiom for saying you’re paying a small fraction of the total, and neither literally means nor implies paying actual pennies.

Awesome writeup. I had heard that some very special individuals were trying to paint this company as “pro-woke”, and therefore any game they touched should be avoided – and that’s obviously going to be nonsense, but it’s good to see the full story.

Fun fact, uptime goals are measured in nines – for example, 99.9% is three nines of uptime. If that one outage lasted an entire day, and they were never down at any other time, that would indeed be three nines of uptime.

But Palworld is being investigated.

I’ve said this elsewhere, but I think the reason is because they felt embarrassed by that one Street Fighter tournament where the hosts had a nude Chun Li mod on. They’re overreacting and putting DRM in place to stop mods from working in general so that can’t happen again.

I don’t disagree. But the inciting incident was when an official Street Fighter tournament went awry when the person hosting left on a nude Chun Li mod. I imagine they’re specifically trying to prevent that from happening ever again.

They’re not worried about pirates, they’re worried about nude mods. It’s still idiotic, but it is consistent.

COCOON and Viewfinder are a couple of not-terribly-long puzzle games with super cool mechanics.

I actually just finished playing Dredge. It was a lot of fun, though not as horrifying as I had hoped.

Graveyard Keeper is great.

And with this game, you still can’t!

I think I’m confused. Who are you suggesting be sued?

They charged a subscription with a 7 day free trial for everyone that signed up. It’s been less than 7 days, ergo no one has been charged any money.

, will you be

Cadence of Hyrule, for sure. So damn good.

https://youtu.be/SnpaNEj4aCU?si=GrBpxcq1EN96Nv9D

Do you happen to have a link? I’d be interested in reading more.

Yeah I don’t think anyone realized that everyone got the same word. Can’t blame em for babbling about it, but it’s a major bummer because now I’m obviously not going to play.

Take a look at COCOON. The mechanics are brilliant and I really wish it was longer. Might be right up your alley!

I flew into the sun on my very first launch >.> Didn’t realize the autopilot wouldn’t avoid the dang thing

It’s a first person puzzle game. You move around the world interacting with various elements, such as laser redirection, to obtain the keys needed to progress. There’s an interesting story going on at the same time, which although I didn’t find it super compelling, it was good enough to keep my attention to the end.

I’ll take a look! Thanks for the rec!