Nintendo is doing it and no one can afford new PC graphics cards, so let’s bleed 'em like stuck pigs.

What if we took a beloved game and made it Fortnite?

Also some of the most odious DRM iirc. Not to mention their dalliance with Blockchain Bitcoin NFT whatever.

Brutal

😢

Stamets? “Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.”

I know the game is playing on nostalgia, but heck yeah old Doritos!

I’m sure the C Suite feels a great sense of Pride and Accomplishment.

While i was on my way out my friend fell on me and killed us both.

I don’t think I’d ever play this game, but this is tempting me to give it a shot.

The necktie, but I think it would look better just slightly larger.

It’s nice to see gaming covered in NYT at all. The article generally rings hollow to me. I’m not an industry expert, but:

• It’s easy to be profitable when you’re just making a sandbox and your players make the games, but at that point are you a game developer? (Roblox)
• High end graphics cards have become so expensive that people can’t afford gaming with good graphics
• AAA developers aren’t optimizing games as well as they used to, so only high end hardware would even run them
• AAA is more focused on loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes, and cinematics all wrapped up in great visuals. That’s at the expense of innovative gameplay and interesting stories. Making the graphics worse won’t get execs to greenlight better games, just uglier ones. And they’ll still be $70.
• Even when games are huge successes and profitable, studios are getting bought and shut down (EA, Microsoft, Sony?), so it’s hard to say the corps are hurting.

Some classics in there for sure. For those that haven’t played it, Oni was a quiet favorite of mine from around then. I don’t think it got a lot of attention at the time, or even today. This was Bungie near the end of its Mac-first pre-Halo era.

🙂 I’m slowly working through SC. You might like [email protected] if you aren’t there already.

The original version (or is it the first remake?) is still on Steam and runs great. I just finished it a few months ago.

Does redoing the graphics of a relatively modern-game make it worth $60? I’m interested in understanding the perspective of folks that are planning to buy.

We need a grand unified theory for describing the physics where matter goes from bouba- to kiki-scale.

Some rain feels very kiki to me.

Wow some of those mods sound very fun.

Edit: mostly the total conversions and new story mods get my attention. Bringing TIE Fighter into X-Wing Alliance? Yes, please.

I don’t know that there is anything left in borderlands if you take out the toilet humor…

I never played 3, only 1 and a little of 2. Does anyone have a good video recommendation on how severe the problem is in 3?

As the article says, since his comments were run through machine translation, it’s possible they’re meant more in jest rather than seriously. I’ll keep a charitable perspective on this until we learn more.

With how built up the apps are these days, and how much data they collect and upload back to corp HQ, it’s good to check and confirm the performance impact.