The whole experience was carefully tuned to be fun.

Race was always a flawed idea. To be honest i think it’s not that bad in a fantasy setting but it can also lead to some weird and uncomfortable stuff and i don’t think there’s a good reason to keep it.

On the flip side, “ancestries” or backgrounds or whatever are a lot more flexible as a concept and let you do some cool stuff.

Yeah the common factor in all their games having fucked up communities is them.

Riot Games is incredibly good at generating asshole players and incredibly bad at doing anything about them. I’ve never had players on my own team intentionally try to throw the game as hard as i had in Riot’s games. It’s not only the low level players, either.

All the judges own Apple stock for some reason, so…

Looks like they’re trying to compete with AI spam.

Either that or trying to push their staff to use AI without saying it.

I mean a huge (really huge) number of game engines ultimately draw lineage from Quake. It’s either Quake or Unreal.

Nothing in any of these games has been particularly hand crafted. They were a big early user of procedural generation.

And even lossy compression is not inherently bad. AAC is completely indistinguishable from lossless for most people and hardware setups, and very close anyway when it’s not. It uses a fraction of the space, though. (Not a comment on game dev practices, more a comment on compression.)

Yeah the games are still going to be using their original graphics, etc, so you’ll have Mario 64’s Mario’s like 1000 polygons… in glorious 4k resolution.

It will look higher fidelity but it’s not gonna be a modern looking game or anything. There are some other disadvantages of using a modern system like this, but tbh unless you have a full 1990s rig (CRT and all) it’s gonna look different.

They’ll probably have a more faithful reproduction mode, too.

That is what they’re promising, yeah.

The jaggies will be a little less pronounced in 4k i guess.

It’ll almost certainly render internally at a higher resolution. The Analogue team’s past projects have been pretty technically advanced, their Super NT (SNES) does 1080p for comparison.

100%

That dude wasn’t some rogue exec, he was in charge of Unity doing stupid shit for a long time.

“If there are fewer and fewer games coming out that are more and more exclusive people will just have to buy an Xbox!” --an MBA, probably

Very good.

This is the absolute worst thing to come out of the “free to play”/“pay to win” genre of games. “Our game is full of bugs? No, it’s the children that are wrong.”

Because most people’s experience with mouse acceleration is horrific. Usually the default Windows version that’s impossible to control. Gave the whole technology a bad name.

KovaaK (legendary Quake player) wrote a tool to bring Quake Live’s mouse acceleration to the masses, for example.

They know the tech is out there, they just don’t want it and will only use as much of it as they are forced to.

There’s a reason why Tesla, a car company that was openly and explicitly set on building electric cars, was such a big deal.