mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 3 days ago:
Imbalanced mechanics can be charming.
Occasional bugs, even crashes, can be tolerated.
Missing content might not even be noticed.
Poor performance just fucking sucks. The entire time you’re playing, it’s a constant nagging problem. I make games on single-digit-megahertz systems, and even I obsess over smooth interaction. You can’t just release a game that chugs on god-tier PCs, even if it looks jawdropping… which this game does not. It’s nice! It’s not “40 FPS on a 4090” nice. Mostly you forgot to do LOD models, at all, in a game with a bird’s-eye view of an entire city.
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 1 week ago:
Never give Nintendo money.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 5 weeks ago:
Video game stories being famously unique and not at all formulaic.
- Comment on Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine 5 weeks ago:
Let’s not water down the concept of lost media. Black & White was sold on physical discs with twee 2000s DRM. I guaranfuckingtee you it’s easily pirated, alongside the Fisher Price version of Windows it ran on.
- Comment on No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 1 month ago:
And a pre-emptive middle finger to anyone who can’t figure out budgets follow revenue. They cannot possibly lead it. If companies did that, they would run out of money. They’re only spending two times their last game’s budget because their last game made four times its budget. You can’t do it the other way around.
But empty suits only see ROI. They think, if some game sold one million copies, then it would necessarily have sold one point two million copies, if they’d spend twenty percent more. Their model has no concept of an additional two hundred thousand actual human beings who would give a shit, somehow, about this already-popular title. There is only the equation, and a roll of the dice.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 1 month ago:
Wild idea:
Spend less.
- Comment on New SEGA trademark “Yakuza Wars” is probably not a Total War: Like A Dragon game, but let's speculate wildly anyway 2 months ago:
If they wouldn’t split the infinitive for Total Warhammer, they’re not about to do it for Yakuza.
- Comment on AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll 2 months ago:
Right, people can claim whatever contribution they made. Redrawing a popular photo means the drawing is yours but the composition is not. Anyone else can still use or draw that photo. Same deal for cribbing off what comes out when you just type a sentence into Stable Diffusion. You could claim the sentence - except copyright doesn’t protect such minimal and trivial effort.
These systems can take art as an input. Image-to-image really ought to be commonplace, with artists blobbing out rough thumbnails, so the machine can fill in the details and fudge the anatomy. But for some reason all that gets traction are the dinguses using plain text and going ‘I made this.’
- Comment on AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll 2 months ago:
I definitely do not care enough about copyright for that to be an objection to this technology.
On the other hand if these people expect protections for what the robot spits out, they can take a flying fuck at the moon.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 may get 6v6 again as Blizzard try to bring back the "chaotic, over-the-top" variety of the first game 2 months ago:
Maybe you shouldn’t have shot it in the back and replaced it.
Assholes.
- Comment on Paramount Cancels Halo Series After Two Seasons 2 months ago:
My dad never played the games but was kinda into the show. Even he wrote it off when it ended ‘continued in 2026!’
I still don’t understand how they bodged it so thoroughly. There’s no shortage of people who played the games, and no shortage of story in the games. Even the Rooster Teeth crew did a decent job of fucking around in roughly the same universe.
All the Spartans should’ve been the tallest stage actors they could find. Big ol’ dudes who can do enough with body language that the cheap seats know what’s going on… and then get in the recording booth and project like they’re used to talking through an inch of armor. Even in the games, the story is mostly told by normal-sized people dwarfed by these walking tanks.
Actually that points to another missed opportunity: they could’ve exclusively cast normal humans from actors 5’5" and under. Shorten the legs on furniture, shrink the UNSC uniform details, let the world convey that these people are the tall and fit military types. Then it’d be dead easy to cast literal and figurative brutes who tower over them.
Better luck next time.
- Comment on Streaming’s bundling obsession ignores the real problem with subscription costs 2 months ago:
Mandatory licensing will unfuck this entire disaster. Exclusivity is anti-competitive.
- Comment on Checking Out Concord, PlayStation's Upcoming 5v5 Hero Shooter | New Gameplay Today 3 months ago:
Striking while the iron is present.
- Comment on Chrome for Android tests feature that securely verifies your ID with sites 3 months ago:
Stop using Chrome.
- Comment on The Kingdom Hearts games are now out on Steam, don't ask me to explain them 3 months ago:
Or slightly more seriously, A Good Enough Summary Of Kingdom Hearts.
… both of which came out significantly before KH3. Good luck with that one.
- Comment on No one should have to “grow a thicker skin”: Valorant studio commit to harsh penalties for harassment 4 months ago:
Reliable enforcement beats harsh punishment, when changing people’s behavior. I tell forum mods to hand out three-day bans like candy. It’s long enough to sting and short enough to shut up and take it.
And seriously - you are game designers. Modifying people’s behavior through expectations is your job. Your power is so immense that charging money inside the game should probably be illegal. Find better tools than a permanent boot in the ass.
- Comment on Open World Dress-Up Game Infinity Nikki Gets A Delightful Gameplay Trailer And Beta Test This Year 4 months ago:
- Comment on The next Doom game is apparently called The Dark Ages and will go all Army of Darkness in a medieval world 4 months ago:
Hey now. Later levels added purple.
- Comment on The next Doom game is apparently called The Dark Ages and will go all Army of Darkness in a medieval world 4 months ago:
Hecatomb!
- Comment on The next Doom game is apparently called The Dark Ages and will go all Army of Darkness in a medieval world 4 months ago:
We need more games like Quake, in the sense of making shit up as they go along. Hire some gameplay-obsessed maniac like John Romero - possibly John Romero himself - and let him fuck with movement and gunplay while a dozen level designers are given conflicting notes and zero oversight. Bodge it all together at the last minute so the only connecting thread is atmosphere.
- Comment on The next Doom game is apparently called The Dark Ages and will go all Army of Darkness in a medieval world 4 months ago:
You ever show up in a thread and find your job is already done?
- Comment on Atari acquires Intellivision brand and over 200 games 4 months ago:
It is 1995. You have bought Atari and rebranded it Hasbro Interactive. Your company dies.
It is 2001. You have bought Atari and rebranded Infogrames. Your company dies.
It is 2014. You have bought Atari and formed a new hardware studio. Your company dies.
It is 2024. You have been bought by Atari.
Pray.
- Comment on US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges 4 months ago:
You’d figure “CSAM” was clear enough. You’d really figure. But apparently we could specify “PECR” for “photographic evidence of child rape” and people would still insist “he drew PECR!” Nope. Can’t. Try again.
- Comment on US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges 4 months ago:
There was no C.
There was no SA.
The entire point of saying “CSAM” was to distinguish evidence of child rape from depictions of imaginary events.
- Comment on US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges 4 months ago:
All the lemmy.world commenters came out to insist “that painting is a pipe, though.”
Yeah? Smoke it.
- Comment on The Division Heartland Has Been Canceled 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the financially responsible decision to spend the money and then never make any revenue.
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 4 months ago:
That’s why the classic image of censorship is duct tape over your… brain.
- Comment on New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark 4 months ago:
They can’t all be as clear-cut as IDSPISPOPD.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 5 months ago:
Only banning that business model will work.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.