To be clear, fuck Nintendo, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least bit to find out that Yuzu was using proprietary information to make so much progress so quickly. In fact, I’ve long assumed that they did. Many details of these suits will never come to light, but it would easily explain how Nintendo was able to take down forks like Suyu so quickly as well, if they can prove that it wasn’t clean room reverse engineered.
Any other museum wouldn’t be a hypocrite for doing so.
It was East Coast Throwdown weekend, so I was playing a ton of Skullgirls, Street Fighter 6, and Guilty Gear Strive, as well as unwinding at the hotel room with some Marvel vs Capcom collection and Vampire Savior in the other Capcom collection. I expected to do better in all three games that I entered than I did, but I really do think the level of competition was just that high. It was nice to see iControl take Skullgirls, over Dekillsage, no less.
Other than that, it’s been Divinity: Original Sin II still. I’m at that part of that game that happens in both Divinity: Original Sin games where you’re just pigeon-holed into what combat challenges you can actually overcome at your current level, so I’m prodding at the edges until I come across a quest or combat encounter that’s level-appropriate. These are the benefits of Baldur’s Gate 3 having half as many levels, so there’s approximately twice as much content you can opt to do at any given time.
Hundreds of thousands of people do, it seems.
You’re arguing points that I haven’t made. I haven’t said that Unreal is best out of the box for every game. I haven’t said that switching engines is easy. It’s hard. They should have bitten the bullet and done the hard thing by now. It doesn’t have to be Unreal, but for the sake of the quality of their future titles, it can’t be what they’re using now. Given that they still haven’t made the switch yet, it means we’ve all got an incredibly long wait until we can expect them to put out a game that has a level of quality we’d expect from other modern games.
If that’s the overall point, it was nested in several worse points. The problem is that they’re still using the same tech, and switching to Unreal is the fastest path between two points in time that anyone can propose. Really, they should have been working on a new engine after reviews criticized them for it in Fallout 4 back in 2015.
But really what I’m asking for, as a customer, is for GOG to do this work for me before I buy. Because it’s all open source, there’s nothing stopping them. Valve pumped a bunch of money into the projects to improve things for everyone, but they’re still doing more work on their end.
They were an engine company for two decades before Fortnite, and it has tons of features that game never uses.
I have used Unreal but not Gamebryo/Creation, and I don’t think I need inside knowledge to see how far behind the best output of the latter engine is from its peers. Unreal is not the end-all, but it allows a company to switch to a new engine more quickly than building one themselves, and in this case, their sister company, Obsidian, has already built an imitation of Bethesda style RPGs in Unreal.
With any luck, REX will be that competitor. But also, quite frankly, so few companies can afford to make a game that pushes graphical boundaries and the latest technology that I’d rather champion Godot.
They don’t make the engine to make that game. They make the game to prove out that they didn’t miss something egregious in building the engine; or, “eat their own dog food”. It has gained features over a long period of time that would fit common use cases from other developers, regardless of what Epic has built.
Meanwhile, nothing will convince me that Bethesda’s tech stack is worth keeping.
Paying someone else to do it and verify that it works is exactly part of why I parted with my money in the first place. At least GOG has a very generous refund policy, but it’s a lot more work on my end.
I’ve found it to be a little busy and overwhelming at times. It’s got style though.
Man, the forums really got bad at such at a rapid pace, and I’d love to know what changed to make it that way.
If you buy through Heroic, Heroic gets a cut. So it creates a data point that they can use to see how big that market is, so they know what they have to do to get 100% of my sale in their own pocket.
Proton in Steam is absolutely easier. Lutris just automates work that some other user did, and if you’re doing it in something like Heroic launcher instead, you have to figure that out yourself. It often involves things like installing other Microsoft components that are bundled with the application on Steam, and in one case, even though the game was verified on Steam, there was no Lutris script, and I just couldn’t get it working on the GOG version.
By the definition of this California law, they seem to count as offering ownership.
$400M has been refuted by several sources at this point, but there are lots of ways to have spent more than GTA V given that it was developed in a very different era than Concord was. The first handful of Halo games, including those on 360, were some of the biggest games of their day, and they’d all be considered quite cheap by today’s standards.
I’ve been on the fighting game grind in the usual suspects: Skullgirls, Guilty Gear Strive, and Street Fighter 6. I think I somehow got worse at Skullgirls lately, but I’ve hopefully made up that lost ground, and I think I got way better at the footsies game and whiff punishing in SF6, so here’s hoping I survive long enough at my next major.
Other than that, it’s been Divinity: Original Sin II. They did do a good amount of flattening to the progression in the leveling system compared to D:OS1, which I appreciate, but I hit the second (and final?) wall when it comes to acquiring new abilities, which once again is just money to buy skill books, a part of the RPG systems in this game that I’m very much not a fan of, along with how armor works. Still, I’m really enjoying it, and I think I reached more or less the final area map, judging by tables of contents in walkthroughs.
They made good ones plenty of times, and I think I agree with the author that Halo is tapped out. We’ve seen the best it has to offer, and the best thing to do from here is something new. What they made in Infinite is definitely not what I want from Halo.
This one also got dinged in reviews for technical performance issues, and there were some changes they made to the art direction, so this isn’t strictly speaking a “better” version of that game.
There is no way to legally buy their ROMs anymore. You can only rent them in perpetuity. When they did sell them, they didn’t forward port your purchases to their next device, which is hilariously stupid, and you know they’d take you to court for dumping those same ROMs to your PC to organize, customize, and play the way you like them. If they just sold these things DRM-free on a web site for me to put in Emulation Station, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.