MIB was weird. It tried to be everything, including a point and click, action game and platformer, all with fixed camera and clunky tank controls.
It sucks at everything. There’s a hint of a mediocre point and click in there, maybe if they’d remove everything else. With the action it’s unbearable.
Even a cheap toy synthetizer can make something close enough to a tuba sound to get an idea of what it sounds like. Need something better? people make sound fonts for that.
But maybe it’s better to use generative AI to potentially have something close to the real thing, just so you can have huge datacenters consuming absurd amounts of power and water too.
That’s close to how I see it too. I think Eurojank makes sense for 80s/early 90s when a lot of those weirdly clunky, rather experimental and/or make-your-fun games tended to come from UK/France/Germany.
But after that it’s not hard to find examples of stuff like that everywhere.
If your placeholder doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb, it’s a bad placeholder. There is literally no workflow in which temporary assets shat by AI would be useful.
They just want to normalize AI use until people don’t care anymore. And with the waste of resources this shit represents, I just hope this never happens.
Reasoning is woke propaganda anyway.
It was just not good enough for “We wrote a sci-fi story”.
That’s what he said originally, and he recently announced it would be a three-parter. By the time he gets there maybe it’ll become a decalogy or something.
There is absolutely no game I’d want as a key card for, but it makes even less sense for a limited edition.
The only thing a key card has over direct download is being able to give/sell it to someone. If you got a physical version of an otherwise digital-only game, specifically because you want some cool material thing to collect, you are probably not planning to sell it later.
Key card is basically the worst of both worlds.The ties to a bit of plastic to be abe to play, and the full reliance on network/servers/storage memory of a download.
I’ve never really got into FF as a series. The only ones I actually completed were just the FF3 DS remake (I barely remember anything about it) and 9 on the Switch that I got because it was the one that looked the most “fantasy” to me. It was nice, had its moments.
The rest is mostly stuff I’ve abandoned. Started XIII, got bored in the long beginning corridor, stopped playing. Never could get through FF6 either, I just can’t care about its characters and disjointed storytelling.
Everything I get from the most “Nomura” episodes by pure cultural osmosis, especially everything around FF7, tells me I won’t enjoy it.
In France, I rarely see “real world” ads for video games. Except a couple huge releases from EA or Ubisoft occasionally plastered on train station walls, but doesn’t happen a lot and it’s just like release week and nothing beyond that.
On traditional TV channels, Nintendo is still the one buying the most screen time, by far. Mostly the very mainstream stuff, lots of Mario (platformers/kart/party), Pokémon and Animal Crossing (shit, if you’d told me before 2020 that Animal Crossing would be mainstream one day, I’d have a hard time believing that, but it sure became so).
I see occasional Sony TV ads, but nowhere near as many.
They’re right, the geometry is just lying under an opaque layer of shit.
Also everyone is technically naked 100% of the time, you just can’t see it under the clothes they’re wearing.
He “fell into the trap of hallucinations”. Yeah, maybe we need to stop pretending people who ask LLM to slop their work for them are victims.
“Look, the robot found an irresistible quote, how could I not use it?!” That’s great journalism for you.
They asked copilot to slop an update for them and it tried to kill itself. Tragic, really.
Zuckerberg not caring about people’s consent is literally the core principle that lead to facebook. He must be such a proud bot daddy.
I do like all the trilogy (there’s only 3 of them right? Right).
It’s true only the first one has that classic connected world, though IMO 2 had fairly big areas with multiple paths so it felt close enough.
3’s map design was a bit weak but I liked the new gameplay around motion/pointing (though I still prefer the gamepad for 1 and 2, they were not made for pointing and the wii controls suck for those).
The game that may or may not exist made me angry. There are some decent parts, but they’re lost in an ocean of annoying shit. Especially a completely useless central area, extremely linear design, an uninteresting antagonist and cringey assholes spamming you with terrible dialogues for the full game. Fuck you, Myles MacKenzie.
Unless it’s a part of meta horizons I didn’t know about (which is very possible, I interacted about 3 minutes with it), that particular metaverse might have been some crypto/NFT bullshit rather.
This sounds like something à la “decentraland” a.k.a cryptobros trying to sell plots in a terrible empty virtual world because some day it’ll sell for bazillions dollars, trust us.
I played that on the NES long ago. I sucked at it.
Once I managed to unify England and win the game and I still have no idea how that happened and I’m sure dumb luck must have been part of it. It certainly never happened again.
I don’t live near big scaly things full of teeth, so what do I know, but making it thrash about in anger would not be my first idea.
“In a way” because to me the game’s focus is different enough that, even if they do have a lot of mechanics in common, it doesn’t feel like “Builders 3” to me.
Like, you know, The Wonderful 101 is not Okami 2.
I had few licenced games, I realized they were mostly crap early (especially back in the 80s/90s when I began playing video games).
But I had the Fifth Element tie-in game. It may not be the worst licenced game (it’s certainly not good either) but it’s very weird.
They went all alternate scenario on it, with story points diverging a lot from the movie… But they still used actual clips from the movie to introduce each level. How you ask? By doing their own wild cut of the movie, taking half of the clips out of context and reordering them to fit the new plot.
This means for example that Leeloo keeps her lab resurrection “outfit” (three bandage rolls) for half the game, just because the iconic diving scene has been repurposed and happens very late, and she’s in that outfit in the movie scene. It makes sense in the movie, she’s supposed to be running from the lab just after being resurrected and normally she gets all Jean-Paul Gaultier’d very shortly after that.
Other deviations from the plot include Korben being involved from the beginning instead of meeting Leeloo by pure chance (the taxi diving is intentional in the game), or a bomb minigame in a spaceport where Korben has to defuse a dozen of phones rigged to explode based on a movie one-off scene where Zorg executes one person this way (and Korben isn’t even there to witness it).
Also a stupid chase for the four elements through the whole game. You know you need some dirt to “open” the Earth stone in the Egyptian temple at the end? Well, that’s why you need to collect a specific flower pot from a random apartment in NY a couple levels before. Instead of, you know, a pinch of sand from that very temple. LIKE THEY ACTUALLY DO IN THE MOVIE.