Brave Little Hitachi Wand

It’s weird to me how the conversation is all how “NVIDIA is better” but the OP is about how a mainstream NVIDIA feature cuts your performance in half?

Elder Scrolls games have always been peopled entirely by uggos, and by Jiub it always will be.

I really don’t need Nintendo as much as they seem to think I do.

Haven’t spent much time on any RTS since… Gosh, I guess since C&C Generals. I tried to get into Total War: Warhammer but there’s just so much rigamarole with that one. I’ll definitely check out the demo, I’ve been waiting for a good reentry into this genre.

Okay, that’s worth knowing. It sounds ambitious, but for me a large game-as-simulation usually makes me think of Bethesda’s house style. Which is to say, treating everything as a toy rather than writing you into a story, in a way.

It’ll be interesting to see how GTA VI avoids the (what I see as) pitfalls of Bethesda’s way of thinking. Can a sufficiently advanced simulation take the place of a writing staff? Caveat - I know GTA VI will have some amount of a script in place, I just tend to notice that simulation style game design seems to prefer to create gameplay experiences dynamically through the environment, rather than through pre written story supported by gameplay elements. Games like this want your experience to be defined by interactivity, which necessarily deemphasizes the scripted aspects of a game.

It’s equally interesting to hear that there’s still a value proposition in creating your own proprietary game engine, rather than modifying the existing offerings. I’m a little against it as I’d prefer see more work done on open source like Godot, but I won’t dig in my heels about it because I know not every project is suitable for that sort of thing. It would be great if they could license out their engine to other developers at some point.

That makes sense from other things I’m hearing, yeah. Thanks!

It does, I think! I’ve only played this series a little, and very distantly. Let me know if I’m close: So we’re talking about more than just satire but in a sense hyperbole, getting immersed in a setting with the vibes cranked up and slightly distorted. It’s a funhouse where all the mirrors are hilariously America-shaped, and the cartoon version of yourself it portrays becomes the satire.

Makes sense then that the more multiplayer experience of GTA V would have less time for the craft of that atmosphere, instead prioritising the delightfully crass verbs of GTA in the context of online gaming. Even a server dedicated to RP will tend to put a mirror up to the player, which probably detracts from the humour and vibe; self awareness takes you out of things, after all.

I wish I knew an intelligent hardcore fan of the series so they could articulate what they see in it. I doubt Noah Gervais is going to cover it anytime soon.

The industry is too moneyed, my plan is to buy no big name titles until indies are leading the pack and there’s no money for lobbying. Then every government will be happy to pass customer protection stuff.

Exactly. This CEO is not talking about art, or humanity, or even mere entertainment. He is talking about what would need to be true for his business model to stay relevant.

It’s rhetorical appeasement. And to be clear, I’m drawing a parallel with Chamberlain.

Same, it’s lit

I’m noticing a bit too much circularity in this dialogue tree. We both know how each other feel, why keep banging on about it?

Either you genuinely think it’s realistic to expect any better from the average person, or you don’t care about the average person. Either way I don’t think we’re working from the same notes

In this specific case, that’s not apples to apples since most of the games on GOG are very small.

It’s kind of hilarious to imagine, but I can imagine doing a “BYO thumb drive” sale for physical media. They could even mail it back in the big box

Ideally we’d get to keep both around. I can see a world where we’re trading digital media around on discs deep into the next century, but I can also see how currently there’s also room for more transient media to serve less preservation-conscious people who don’t go out of their way to own a disc drive.

Do they need to?

I think the priority for the business is what people will buy. PCs don’t have disc readers as standard anymore. Now the barrier to entry for physical media is either pay more for a thumb drive or pay a lot more for a disc reader.

What if they adopted the C02 canister model. Slightly joking here, but why not treat the thumb drives as a recoverable container you can get a rebate for reusing?

Why not just sell it in a cheap little thumb drive? Most games like this are very modest in size, would save people the cost of a disc reader.

Okay now I’m interested, I gotta see this for myself. Brb