They teased it yesterday and announced it today. Everything before that was leaks, which have been trickling out for months but accelerated last week.

Do you have an example that does first person melee combat well while rolling for accuracy?

The problem with combat in Morrowind is that it simultaneously measures player skill and character skill. Chance-to-hit works when the character does the aiming and gap-closing for you. When you have to handle that with poor depth perception and you have chance-to-hit on top of that, it’s always going to feel like garbage.

They didn’t make another because they were forced to make a game that was Wonder Woman and live service. How does that work? Clearly they didn’t know either since they spun their wheels for like seven years, lost all their old staff, and then got shut down.

Summary: They were seeing a disconnect between Arkham Asylum player stats and sales, indicating a large portion of the playerbase blasting through the game then selling it back to retailers. WB studios were directed to explore ways to lengthen player engagement, preferably enough to keep the game forever.

The nemesis system gives some light procedural flair to an otherwise-deaigned experience. I don’t think it did what they hoped it would, but it was still a great mechanic.

“Recently” being one Reddit post three years ago about needing to manually index the color nozzles on their third-party ink.

A YouTuber hyped it up as Brother turning to the dark side so that he could profit off clicks.

Giant: Citizen Kabuto

Deep cut. Such a strange game.

I remember playing 3-person multiplayer with no router in that game. A friend had two Ethernet ports but couldn’t bridge them, so he’d host and the other two of us would join. Some stuff worked smoothly, but other stuff was super broken.

Same question for XIII. Why emulate it?

In case you haven’t seen it, Tom7 created a delightful exploration of using an LLM to manipulate word counts.

Google removed “Don’t be evil”

Still parading that lie around? It’s easily verified as false. Their code of conduct ends with:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

The other dev/wife did QA and part of the mapping. It’s a bit hard to finish a game without your programmer/designer.

The handheld PC market is still small. Nobody else in the digital space has taken it seriously yet.

If you look at iOS, you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s effectively two products, a piece of hardware and a digital store. To beat it, you have to beat both the hardware and the store at the same time. It took the entire mobile hardware industry forming an alliance with one of the largest software companies in the world to even try to compete with it.

If SteamOS comes to dominate the handheld market, I could see them being forced to make an API so that other stores like Epic and GOG can have the same quality of integration in the non-desktop interface.

If you have two products that are both the best at their respective thing and you tightly integrate them, it makes it incredibly difficult for a competitor to match you. That is abusing a monopoly in each space to benefit the other.

Rakuten is up front about it. They force their affiliate links, then pay you part of their cut.

Honey forces their affiliate links in exchange for maybe finding you a discount code.

Excellent! I might check it out!

If I haven’t played in a year or so. Will there be any painful grind barriers to get to the 1999 content?

Super Mario 64 DS had you sitting at a poker table in a casino playing poker. New Super Mario Bros had the same poker game, but I’m not sure if that one was in a casino. PEGI rated both of them 3+.

Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros both include poker. PEGI rated them 3+.

Looks like draw-order to me. One is rendering overlapping decals front-to-back, the other back-to-front.

Microsoft now installs games in an unprotected directory because people were so annoyed they couldn’t use the mods made for other storefronts.