MIB was weird. It tried to be everything, including a point and click, action game and platformer, all with fixed camera and clunky tank controls.
It sucks at everything. There’s a hint of a mediocre point and click in there, maybe if they’d remove everything else. With the action it’s unbearable.
Even a cheap toy synthetizer can make something close enough to a tuba sound to get an idea of what it sounds like. Need something better? people make sound fonts for that.
But maybe it’s better to use generative AI to potentially have something close to the real thing, just so you can have huge datacenters consuming absurd amounts of power and water too.
That’s close to how I see it too. I think Eurojank makes sense for 80s/early 90s when a lot of those weirdly clunky, rather experimental and/or make-your-fun games tended to come from UK/France/Germany.
But after that it’s not hard to find examples of stuff like that everywhere.
If your placeholder doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb, it’s a bad placeholder. There is literally no workflow in which temporary assets shat by AI would be useful.
They just want to normalize AI use until people don’t care anymore. And with the waste of resources this shit represents, I just hope this never happens.
Sure. It was called Wii Sports back in 2006.
Reasoning is woke propaganda anyway.
It was just not good enough for “We wrote a sci-fi story”.
“Well, people have two hands!” - the NRA, probably.
That’s what he said originally, and he recently announced it would be a three-parter. By the time he gets there maybe it’ll become a decalogy or something.
I’d be interested in a list, most of the podcasts I listened to while commuting have ended.
And one of the still running podcasts is “372 pages we’ll never get back”, a funny book club kind of thing with books of dubious quality, and since I read along in between episodes it takes me forever to get to listen to those.
Either French or English-speaking will do.
There is absolutely no game I’d want as a key card for, but it makes even less sense for a limited edition.
The only thing a key card has over direct download is being able to give/sell it to someone. If you got a physical version of an otherwise digital-only game, specifically because you want some cool material thing to collect, you are probably not planning to sell it later.
Key card is basically the worst of both worlds.The ties to a bit of plastic to be abe to play, and the full reliance on network/servers/storage memory of a download.
I’ve never really got into FF as a series. The only ones I actually completed were just the FF3 DS remake (I barely remember anything about it) and 9 on the Switch that I got because it was the one that looked the most “fantasy” to me. It was nice, had its moments.
The rest is mostly stuff I’ve abandoned. Started XIII, got bored in the long beginning corridor, stopped playing. Never could get through FF6 either, I just can’t care about its characters and disjointed storytelling.
Everything I get from the most “Nomura” episodes by pure cultural osmosis, especially everything around FF7, tells me I won’t enjoy it.
“Dude, stop roasting the poor guy, he’s already dead!”
If he’s working under Dr Kellogg, it’d be more like “Your husband died because you masturbate too much!”
Well. the plots are NFTs, so it’s just a subset of it really.
Part of the so-called “web3” bullshit, the crypto people’s wet dream of a unified metaverse where every shitty asset is a financial investment and video games are not fun unless they’re grindy AI slop with a promised RoI.
That screen is almost certainly meant to be Smash bros. The ones that run on analog output consoles are 64, Melee and Brawl, and of these only Brawl has a green “GAME!” message.
So this guy might be playing it on a wii, which does look better on a CRT. Competitive (pre-Smash 4) smash players are also all about CRT because they play in a frame-perfect way and conversion to digital induces a small amount of lag, but they’re usually Melee players.
That said he’s also using controllers that look nothing like wii or GC controllers and are very Sony-shaped, so who knows.
In France, I rarely see “real world” ads for video games. Except a couple huge releases from EA or Ubisoft occasionally plastered on train station walls, but doesn’t happen a lot and it’s just like release week and nothing beyond that.
On traditional TV channels, Nintendo is still the one buying the most screen time, by far. Mostly the very mainstream stuff, lots of Mario (platformers/kart/party), Pokémon and Animal Crossing (shit, if you’d told me before 2020 that Animal Crossing would be mainstream one day, I’d have a hard time believing that, but it sure became so).
I see occasional Sony TV ads, but nowhere near as many.
They’re right, the geometry is just lying under an opaque layer of shit.
Also everyone is technically naked 100% of the time, you just can’t see it under the clothes they’re wearing.
I had few licenced games, I realized they were mostly crap early (especially back in the 80s/90s when I began playing video games).
But I had the Fifth Element tie-in game. It may not be the worst licenced game (it’s certainly not good either) but it’s very weird.
They went all alternate scenario on it, with story points diverging a lot from the movie… But they still used actual clips from the movie to introduce each level. How you ask? By doing their own wild cut of the movie, taking half of the clips out of context and reordering them to fit the new plot.
This means for example that Leeloo keeps her lab resurrection “outfit” (three bandage rolls) for half the game, just because the iconic diving scene has been repurposed and happens very late, and she’s in that outfit in the movie scene. It makes sense in the movie, she’s supposed to be running from the lab just after being resurrected and normally she gets all Jean-Paul Gaultier’d very shortly after that.
Other deviations from the plot include Korben being involved from the beginning instead of meeting Leeloo by pure chance (the taxi diving is intentional in the game), or a bomb minigame in a spaceport where Korben has to defuse a dozen of phones rigged to explode based on a movie one-off scene where Zorg executes one person this way (and Korben isn’t even there to witness it).
Also a stupid chase for the four elements through the whole game. You know you need some dirt to “open” the Earth stone in the Egyptian temple at the end? Well, that’s why you need to collect a specific flower pot from a random apartment in NY a couple levels before. Instead of, you know, a pinch of sand from that very temple. LIKE THEY ACTUALLY DO IN THE MOVIE.