Dig 2 didn’t really develop things like I hoped but they’re both fun little games

It was cheap so I bought it on the basis of this thread and it’s a fun little game but the “programming” elements are vastly overstated. Compares with Noita, not with Desynced, or a Zachlike

It’s not enough to simply not purchase EA product. One should actively oppose theme. ALESSANDRO.

why? what’s the commonality?

It’s fucking my shit right up that AW apparently ran on SCUMM??? That can’t be right!!

Yes, and? That’s exactly why mods exist. The base game continues to improve and to add critical features designed and fleshed out by mod authors. Are you consarned that they haven’t all been rolled into the base game?

Good games allow thousands, tens of thousands, limitless investment in skills and mechanics. They are simple and don’t depend on plot or lore. That other stuff? That isn’t “game.” It’s literature.

Get it?? IN MIND?!?!?!

15-20 years ago was the climax of the Internet. But it still wasn’t as good as getting my first point-to-point node up.

It’s not always easy to source unadorned components, especially when you are working with a budget. People who seed aren’t power users, they are pirates. Few of them are building a machine specced specifically for most optimal seeding 24/7…

some people self host

BeBoxen had der blinkenlichten and we all thought it was so cool, but I can’t help but think we should have reflected on this obvious potential future and pulled back on it.

I don’t even have to click through to know that’s bullshit

And that’s why these AAA investorware studios delay the PC release of all their properties. Exploitative walled gardens give them the leverage needed to charge such ridiculous prices without losing customers to piracy.

Yes, especially with a big wad of RAM. Exceptions exist, however.

I parse the headline as meaning two products, “Unreal Editor 5” and “Unreal Editor for Fortnight” are being merged into “Unreal Engine 6”

Put up a wiki, it’s all you really need for everything else

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.