ThrowawayOnLemmy

I specifically held back getting this at launch due to early performance reviews. I still haven’t picked it up because apparently all those same performance issues still exist or have gotten worse.

Oh look. Sega taking old games down so they can sell them to you again. Never seen that before. /s

Good-bye Intel GPUs I guess.

Once the data centers run on biomass, we’ll be that much closer to the true orphan crushing machines.

My 4k tv disagrees. Even upscaling from 1440p, my 10GB is barely enough on new games

Microsoft wants you to not buy retail games so they can lock you into a game subscription and milk you for eternity.

Don’t fall for it.

Nvidia is on a roll with the shitty drivers lately.

I think I just suck but I keep playing like an hour or two and dying, making little progress.

All Ubisoft does is copy other peoples homework and change just enough to make it not look identical.

Is this just the 80/20 rule?

Sure. Let’s just pretend video games are free. And so is healthcare. Also, how much health care does he think young people use? This is a stupid argument.

Any time an exec talks, it’s to get a market reaction.

You’re best off never listening to what any of them say.

I would laugh if it wasn’t true. But also, people underestimate how realistic light and shadows can really sell a scene. It just shouldn’t require the electricity of a refrigerator to do it.

How is this any different from Overseerr?

It’ll support it at release… Until they update and break the game. Then it’ll be down till we patch that. This’ll repeat every couple of months.

Yea I’m taking vacation time to play this, for sure. Kojima always brings some crazy shit and hasn’t disappointed me yet.

Awesome. A sealed copy of Klax. I’m sure at least one guy is happy about that.

This is like the 3rd remaster of GTA5

It’s really tough to pin it down to just one thing… to me, it’s a perfect storm. This is anecdotal, of course. But companies made several bad decisions in a row. They seemed to think growth during COVID was normal and would continue annually. Some companies bought a bunch of other companies thinking this would be a new big push in gaming. Embracer group comes to mind.

Other companies decided to divert their very talented developers away from the types of games they were so good at developing, and towards what the business wanted to chase as far as revenue opportunities. Gatcha riddled live service games. Ubisoft, WB, Sony, EA, Microsoft, practically everyone chased this trend. Some put everything into it. Others dipped their toes. Some pulled back before it cost them hundreds of millions. Some spent hundreds of millions and got nothing to show for it. Some companies lost a lot of talent when the really good developers left to go work on stuff they care about. Others had no choice but to cut the business down to the bone because of all the money and time they wasted chasing a trend.

The government also started raising interest rates, which makes it more expensive to borrow money. So a lot of companies aren’t willing to spend the kinda money they used to, not without a guaranteed return. So now you will see more consolidation and less risk in the types of games being made by AAA studios.

So yea. I think there’s several factors, all could have been planned for with actual solid management, but that’s not the kind of management running these companies right now.

Can I key off of this Gen AI disclosure like a tag, and auto hide any games that mention it?