I mean, didnt they make a PS5 without any means to use physical media?

I dont know that it is too hard, but it definitely has a high difficulty spike compared to the original Hollow Knight.

I think the biggest descriptor I can say about Silksong is that the game is incredibly mean. There are a lot of traps, fights, etc, that you just will not see or know about until your second time going through that area. And that is not to mention the long run back when you die, it is very easy to see why people would be frustrated, especially in comparison to the original Hollow Knight.

I do sometimes in a third person game.

Also, this article states that Super Mario 64 used a free camera system, which is wrong. The game had a limited camera system which was locked to specific rotational angles that the player could cycle through. The game also had a limited first person view that allowed free angular movement, but it is not a free camera because it cannot move nor rotate beyond pre-specified angles.

The 2007 Peugeot Flux concept car actually had an Xbox 360 built into the dashboard:

The past really had such high hopes for the future…

Sure they were. The transaction was slow because there was more money spent on physical carts.

Thats okay. My transactions with Ubisoft are so fast, they don’t even happen. Not that I was buying games on a Nintendo platform anyway.

Interested to see a citation on how it can reduce impact on the environment. I mean like, yes technically it is a reduction but is it really a meaningful reduction? I would imagine the impact is probably pretty negligible for the average person.

The cloth and thread are manufactured in the same facilities as clothes, and transported along the same methods. Needles, spools, and other sewing related products would have their own footprint that is factored into the footprint of regular clothes at a reduced fraction. If one uses a sewing machine, the same would be said for the electricity generated to operate it. The only thing you are really cutting out is the time that the cloth spent being assembled into an article of clothing in a factory and potentially pad prints/silk screening. Which is fine, except this is brought up as a hobby and not as a skill for repairing existing clothing to last longer and reduce amount of clothes sold. Not that it really matters because clothes are wastefully over-produced and unsold units are sent to a landfill in another country.

As a hobby, one will often be more wasteful as they are less skilled, leading to higher initial volume of cloth purchased. Also, a lot of “practice pancakes” likely to end up directly in the local landfill.

Not that learning how to sew is bad, even as a hobby or anything. I am just skeptical on the environmental claim. I don’t see it really making that much of a difference for the average person, personally.

Plus, and this is probably just because I live in California, but fabric is morbidly expensive here. Even the cheap stuff. Its been getting more expensive since at least 2014. This has led to multiple fabric selling stores closing in my area. Cant buy what you cant afford. Even thrift shops are charging a lot. A worn-out t-shirt is like $9 USD. Which is almost the price of some brand new shirts online.

Ocelot meows in HD, but at the cost of bad framepacing and an inconsistent framerate.

I haven’t played the IJ game or seen any details about its DLC, but DLC can sometimes be accessed before the main game is completed.

It could potentially be like the Dark Souls 1 DLC, where you can enter the area at any time after a certain point in your playthrough. You can enter Oolacile after you defeat the Hyrda in the Basin and the Crystal Golem in the Duke’s Archives. This can be completed at various points in the game before you finish the game.

They are overpriced if you dont only consider the number value but also consider how much disposable income people have. Disposable income these days is in the negatives.

I am curious to know how many went to scalpers and influencers/YouTubers. I am also interested in seeing how fast it drops off.

I don’t personally know anyone that has one, and I am not seeing them out in the wild like I saw the Switch 1 just 2 months after it launched. So either all of them went to people who dont live in my area (high population West USA county) or all the people that have them never take them outside. Which is strange since I see Switch 1 consoles fairly often. Mostly Switch Lites.

Yeah, and then the results are three men and a pigeon.

Games should absolutely not be taking longer to develop. Studios are working on games for 5-6 years and the game releases as a buggy, broken mess that isnt even enjoyable. By comparison, games in the 2000s were made in less than 3 years on average, and some are still widely regarded as masterpieces, even if they have bugs.

Games should not ever be taking so long. The industry has a problem that they need to resolve. Whether its too many chefs in the kitchen, too big game scope, too much time spent on R&D instead of sticking with something known to be viable, they have to solve it themselves.

Hm. Well maybe something new can be derived from the original Doom engine. But that seems like a lot of work for little payoff when compared to other, newer engines. The performance would be way better though.

Well many game engines including Source and Call of Duty are derivative of the Quake engine, and Doom 3 used a modified Quake 3 engine. So probably the Quake 3 engine could be used, especially since it is open source.

Well well well, what do you know? Yet another Unreal 5 game with performance problems. Please, game developers for the love of all that is good, stop using Unreal and switch to something with better performance.

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Small dev team and feature creep.

I bet prices will not go back down even if the global economy gets better or tariffs go away.

The results of a functional monopolistic control of the market in action right here.

I meant continent, it was a mistake.

I meant continent. My bad.

it’s a pretty common talking point.

Not common enough, apparently.

I have never in my life ever heard anyone equate the size of a country on a map to its importance to global politics and economics. And I am old enough to remember when you had to hang up the phone before you could use the internet.