Ah la vache, en plus l’angle d’attaque de la pub est bien craignos. Un post à la AITA en porte-parole de reddit.
Entre ça, le farming de donnée et de contenu pour l’IA, l’invasion de bots, l’interface emmerdifiée à mort et verrouilée par blocage de l’API,… Reddit est en train de devenir plus Facebook que Facebook.
I’ve been too nice playing through Overlord. A game about a Sauron-like evil overlord.
There’s a special ending cinematic when you do so, the game’s disrespecting you quite a bit.
… What about the Namco part?
Ridge Racer? Soulcalibur? Tekken? Tales of Whatever? Freaking PAC-MAN?
“Elden Ring publisher”. This is a weird way to describe Bandai Namco.
Especially in relation to Sony that already owns 14% of From Software and 10% of Kadokawa (who owns most of From Software).
I am pretty sure the “every game doesn’t need something new” era had already started in the mid-80s. And new mechanics, and new takes on old ones, still happen.
The guy is in old man mode.
That’s the guy Julianos got his name from right? IIRC divines are aliases of the old Bethesda team.
I’ve been replaying Dragon Quest Builders 2. The game isn’t voiced, most of dialogues are classic RPG text boxes that you can speed up and skip, BUT. There are special lines of dialogue that are “voices” in a character’s head.
They are unskippable, and they’re like a dozen words each that stay on screen for about 20 seconds or more. Some of those dialogues have about 6-7 of those. It’s unbearable, and it’s genuinely the worst part of starting a game again. Hell, it was the worst part of doing it the first time, too.
Somehow English localisation created this, in Japanese the messages go a lot faster. Though even those couldn’t be skipped, because… fuck you that’s why.
Bayonetta games do. Opens a specific pause menu with skipping option.
If we’re complaining about bad UX, and speaking about Soul Reaver, games with no subtitle option. Or bad, unreadable subtitles that spoil 2 minutes of dialogue at once (and that one’s for you, Bioshock).
The availability of old stuff is not and has never been their problem. Not any more than for books or music or whatever. Lost media happens, but by accident and/or lack of interest, not by design.
Beyond some video game companies I can’t think of any that would dare claim that old works should expire.
You mean like how the blockbuster movie industry is in a crisis because most people prefer watching VHS of movies from the 1980s rather than watching the latest Marvel movie?
That doesn’t happen, that’s not how any cultural medium works. Enthusiasts keeping old stuff running are a minority. Also they are likely to consume a lot, give them a new take on what they like and they’ll gladly try it… If it’s good enough.
Of course, that’s the real problem. Some companies dream of wiping out everything that came before so their newest enshittified predatory crap doesn’t suffer from the comparison.
I can think of one, the one where they announced they were so proud of that new studio they had just created.
But they just closed that very studio and it couldn’t deliver even one game in between, so… Yeah.
That’s the “Quadruple A” studio right? The one that was supposed to have “unlimited budget” so it could create “groundbreaking video game experiences”?
And they ended up not releasing anything before they’re shut down. A+ management there, Microsoft.
I mean, it’s true. Killing game services in a way which ensures people have absolutely no way to use the games they bought is… a choice.
And now a million Europeans have just officially expressed that they don’t agree with “developers” (really, publisher higher-ups) being free to choose that.
Yeah, it’s absurd. Lots of games just warn in their licence agreement that they don’t control the experience you get from user-created content and online interactions. It’s all it takes for them, especially if they don’t even host that content on their own servers.
One line of EULA is probably enough to state the right holder is not responsible for what happens in private servers.
« Elle est dévastée », réagit son avocat
Ooh, la pauvre. On n’a même plus le droit d’insulter les gens gratuitement sur leur physique, leurs origines et leur orientation sexuelle. Ni de maltraiter ses collègues.
“Tradition”. La corrida en France, c’est arrivé en 1853, juste pour faire plaisir à la meuf de Napoléon III. On parle pas d’un truc ancré dans la culture locale, malgré ce que certains voudraient faire croire.
Ça me fait presque penser aux baleiniers japonais. La chasse industrielle date de la fin du XIXe, presque plus personne n’y est favorable à part l’infime minorité qui la pratique, mais ils ont des potes aux bons endroits, donc ils maquillent ça en “recherche scientifique” et ils continuent. Même pas d’intérêt financier, plus personne ne bouffe de baleine.
Ça me ferait chier d’habiter une ville qui accorde des aides à la corrida, si “modestes” soient-elles.
Si ça se casse la gueule, c’est peut-être parce que ça n’intéresse que la douzaine de tordus qui la pratique.
Not a problem, dragons are extinct. or invisible. Or flying so high you can’t see them.
I won’t say where I saw one. Maybe I did not.
Pour moi c’était encore les débuts de la JAPD mais j’ai pas eu ça. Juste un test de lecture ultra-basique et toute une journée de blabla autour de “pourquoi l’armée c’est cool alors engagez-vous”.