Component prices have increased though.

They were going to increase the prices regardless of world conditions

All of them, at exactly the same time?

Oh come on, not even you believe that.

Trump literally put tariffs on everything. How could he not have an effect?

Are they manufactured in the US that seems like a bad idea.

The studios don’t care about any of that.

I mean obviously you can map the controls however you like but using the mouse to control the vehicle seems weird.

That’s the studio’s fault not the game engines. There’s also unity of course and godot

Because every news site will want to include an embed of the video of the release and they can’t do that if it’s on Steam servers.

The original release date was sometime around Q1 2026, obviously trump’s tariffs (illegal tax) and then AI consuming all of the RAM has messed with the timeline.

Oh and then international shipping will be more expensive due to increased fuel prices because of the Iran war.

It’s probably unlisted on YouTube somewhere. I don’t know if there’s some sleuthing technique that can be used to find these videos although I suspect that if there was they wouldn’t have uploaded it yet.

I’m mostly just use controllers for playing games which have driving mechanics. Controlling vehicles with just WASD is awful.

Isn’t that the price of a PS5 controller? Given that it’s got a lot of extra features I would expect it to probably be more expensive than that unless valve decide they want to take the hit and make it a lost leader.

The AAA industry is obsessed with using their own game engines, to the point where the AA industry can run circles around them using Unreal.

You can give the IP to a random Norwegian (they’re always Scandinavian) game studio you’ve never heard of before and get a better product.

The thing is you can do massive maps without having to use something custom. So they really have no excuse for continuing to stick with their massively out of date wonkfest of an engine

It’s a bit different though isn’t it. Missouri is a state, an internal administrative district inside a country. I feel like it’s a bit different than not knowing where a country is.

I suspect that most Americans don’t know where Europe is, what countries make it up, and couldn’t point to Ukraine on a map.

Oh what a controversial take that no one else has ever had before. Yeah I know about that and I don’t care. I don’t interact with that part of the system so it doesn’t bother me.

And it’s still nowhere close to the damage that Tim Sweeney is done or any of the other executives of any of the other gaming companies.

They’ve done considerably more for gaming than epic have ever done. It’s not sucking up to admit that. Stop being angry at people for just being successful, that’s dumb.

Be angry at them for the things they’ve actually done that harm you, not just because.

That’s my problem with this idea. As a game developer I want every aspect of my game to be defined I don’t want some rogue element doing random things that I cannot predict or account for.

Randomly generated mysteries actually doing exist (obviously it’s not actually random it’s just picking from a list of possible choices).

It’s a very small game though only a few city blocks but it can generate some interesting cases. I had one case where the cop who found the body turned out to be the actual murderer, which is honestly quite clever, I’ve also never had it do that again.

Hopefully somebody further down can tell you what the game is because I’m at work and I can’t remember its name

Like the article says it seems really weird decision for a multiplayer game.

It seems like the worst of both worlds between just letting players guide each other and having a tutorial. All the downsides of unreliable individuals giving unreliable information (in humans for the sake of amusement, and in the AIs because of hallucinations) while simultaneously lacking the limited progression path and handholding of a guided tutorial.

How Square Enix and the minds behind Gemini plan to limit and “guide” what the AI can and cannot say remains uncertain, and specific details regarding exactly how this will all work have yet to be shared.

From the article it sounds like that’s exactly what they are doing. Just having an interface in the game straight through to Gemini.

I’m not asking whether the game was successful I’m asking if it was well received. Did people enjoy the AI integration did they think it added something to the game or would they have preferred the game not to have it.

As a game developer I would be extremely uncomfortable with the idea that my characters could just say whatever.

The fact that I have no idea what you’re talking about it’s kind of my point really. There has been no successful AI game.

Has there been a single game ever released that has used AI and it been well received? I should really get into being a c-suite exec. It would be easy, I could turn up to work absolutely shitfaced and still do a more competent job.

You do realise the PS5 is just a computer chip right you can get the same graphics card that’s in the PS5 (don’t because you can get better ones now). I know all the marketing was about how amazing it was but honestly much of that came from the fact that it was finally using an SSD rather than their stupid old HDDs which were obsolete even for the PS4

It’s also what elite dangerous does when travelling between star systems. If you actually fly over to a system (it takes forever but there are a few star systems that are close enough to each other that you can actually legitimately do that within a couple of hours) it doesn’t work because you skipped the loading zone. You just end up in empty space where they should be a star. But if you then jump to it, suddenly there’s a star even though your coordinates are exactly the same.

Yeah I mean does anyone really want every game to become fallout? It is unbelievably irritating having to redo a level that has like six loading zones within 2 minutes.

There’s a video on YouTube showing a breakdown of the level streaming in The new resident evil game and it’s clever because it’s just hidden by doors and corners.

I think games use a lot more level streaming the people realise and yeah it absolutely doesn’t need to be a narrow passageway.

People are determined to be unhappy aren’t they. It’s not slop it’s just not for you and that’s fine but it doesn’t mean you get to be dismissive of other media. There’s plenty of great games that are neither slop nor firewatch style narrative games.

I know the term walking simulator is used as a bit of a pejorative but firewatch and was very interesting experience. But it was just a walking simulator and there is a limit to how much you can do with that.

If you have a compelling story you want to tell there are better mediums than video games through which to tell that story unless you have some kind of unique thing you want to do that makes interactive media more appropriate.

I can’t imagine for the sake of example that Game Of Thrones would have had anywhere near the cultural impact it did if it had been released as a video game.

They did announce it at a games event

DLSS is a consumer product.

I never understood why everyone was completely happy with one manufacturer having dominance. Everyone seem to think it was just ok for them to be no competition in the market. Here is exactly why we need that competition.

I think most people are ok with frame gen because it doesn’t touch the actual content. It just moves things around a bit with motion vectors which actually was kind of a thing even before AI although not very good. It didn’t repaint the game into some different art style.

Also there were real frames in there.

This is going to 100% replace the game graphics.

So is nvidia’s plan to just not have any market share in a few years?

When the AI bubble pops they’re going to need someone to buy their stuff again. Perhaps pissing everybody off isn’t the best long-term strategy. But what do I know I’m only their target demographic.

There’s absolutely no application for DLSS 5 for anything other than gaming

Roll under error was it?

The problem is I’ve seen people who supposedly have a brain start to use a high and over time they become increasingly confident in the AI’s abilities. Then they stop bothering to review the code.