Yeah, I also remember some games allowing you to choose compressed or uncompressed textures when they first started to be supported by new cards

Mumble is so good!

I mean we had that

I jumped ship like five years ago. Their intentions have been clear for some time.

What “optimization”? It’s obviously not 120GB of code. It’s all texture data, which is certainly already compressed.

I’m pretty sure the main point was getting another million or ten sales for relatively little development cost.

The Dungeon already sort of gave up on the original design. Philip Price wrote The City and the extension mechanism that things were supposed to plug into, but The Dungeon didn’t use any of it. So it was a one-way trip… Except you couldn’t actually transfer characters, it was broken. :-/

The cancelled suite of Alternate Reality games.

Oblivion was the last time Bethesda got any of my money, and I’m not about to pay them again.

“Middle class” IS working class. It’s a false distinction that only serves to undermine our only tool against the ruling class, class solidarity. (I think we’re kind of saying the same thing.)

“Middle class” contrasts with “upper class” and “lower class”, not with “ruling class” and “working class”; it’s the wrong perspective.

I mean, yeah, if you play shitty big studio games.

Shocking how they have managed to slowly turn a two dollar component that burns out every couple of years into what I’m going to assume is a hundred dollar component that burns out every couple of years and makes you look like a child.

This question fills me with sorrow.

This is the first I’ve heard of it outside the steam store, but it’s already on my wishlist.

I really enjoyed like ten years ago, but I couldn’t stand all the Sony bullshit. I have to pay a monthly fee to keep playing peer to peer multiplayer on a game I already have?? Fuck that noise. Big studio games aren’t for me anymore. I’ve just tuned LOU out since then.

As if Mitchell can BE defamed.

But it’s still really good!!

I’ve been playing battlebit remastered quite a bit recently and all of you have buggered off. There’s often only one active server these days.

I know it is considered best practice to use the verbatim title, but I will always edit in relevant details that are omitted for clickbait purposes. Such as the title of the game instead of, “This city builder.”

What is this, 2005? No one should be losing sleep over GTA6. Just more iterating over the same thing that surely was awesome more than 20 years ago, but today? They are such a victim of their own success, they can no longer afford to take the risks required to continue to innovate.

Interesting choice of words; “jailbreaking” is something the user does to advantageously overcome limitations placed on a device by its manufacturer. What does jailbreaking my CPU allow me to do? Turn it into a brick if I’m not careful. Potentially turn it into a different CPU? (Shades of Crusoe.) Change its identification numbers?

Fuck Ubisoft. For every hour of Ubisoft you play, I’m going to play two hours of indie games.

I genuinely think that money is no longer the goal of the top economic echelon. Techniques for controlling how people spend money can be generalized into controlling all their behaviour; total power.

Did romantic feelings have any place in Max Payne 2?

Money is the old economy. Teens have something that adults don’t have that is infinitely more valuable than money: attention. This is how, despite having no money, teen taste and culture is so over-represented today.

I love his old 16-bit game, Chaos. I have the new remake on Steam, but it stopped working a few years ago and hasn’t fixed itself yet. :-(

Not even considering current politics. Most of the games they are promoting may well have been developed in Canada, but by foreign corporations.

Quebec also has a pretty big gaming presence

Yes, but it’s not like it’s something that any sizeable portion of consumers seek out. The non-indie games have no recognizable Quebec culture, they could have been made anywhere on the planet.

It’s not an accident that Quebec has an outsized presence in gaming. The Quebec government went out and made that happen through policy, taxes, subsidies, etc. They have a budget to promote the industry, and I strongly suspect that some money changed hands for Valve to present this angle to consumers when it is all but meaningless to the consumer experience. It’s really hard to come up with another explanation and I’m not sure you’re trying to offer an alternative or just add colour.

It IS legal to download stuff if you don’t seed where I live. But it’s still not legal to create derived works and then claim copyright on those works.

I wonder if the province pulled some strings / spent some money / offered a deal to get this to happen, or if Valve just thinks its a good marketing angle.

“most users” have gigabit pipes to the internet?

Indie games are a lot more interesting and innovative, but it’s the boot stamping on a human face forever that makes me avoid big publicly traded studios and publishers.

I quite enjoyed Endgame: Singularity and I’ve been hoping for more in the genre

Not with everything. That’s you trying to muddy the waters. They just have to agree that hatred has no place in our shared culture.

Young men have an absurd amount of cultural attention right now. It’s mainly that cohort swinging hard to the right. Some others are even swinging left.

Promises not to include any social or political agendas. Continues to promote carnism.

Paging Amphibian; Ambiguous Amphibian please report.

Rip.

Why do people do this. I don’t think it accomplishes what they intend.

Just use Mumble!!

I really liked Homeworld back in the day. Haven’t tried any of the newer ones.