Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[Rand]

Dear leftist wackos: you're never going to make black women a thing.
You're fighting against nature as while you can make fake black women all you want, the world makes real ones, and your carefully crafted portrayal as decent, competent, and reasonable will be continually sabotaged by their actual demeanor and behavior.
There's simultaneously too few of them to be actually important, and too many of them to tolerate. They too often can't act right. And people are disgusted by them.

[KnightoftheWind]

glad they put the really important person front and center, nobody knows who the other people are

Negro Potter and de Flyin' Brooms n Shiet

[Rand]

Just played this and enjoyed it very much.

[rusty_shackleford]

schizocore game

[KnightoftheWind]

I wish every PC game had a "render scale" option, especially older ones. It's nice being able to decrease or increase the internal resolution of a game without my display freaking out.

[UltraFan123]

GTA VI supposedly delayed...again.



Apparently, they're blaming "gamers rejecting Concord, Dustborn, and Outlaws".

If this does actually mean that the woke slop will be genuinely removed, then this is a good thing.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

GTA VI supposedly delayed...again.



Apparently, they're blaming "gamers rejecting Concord, Dustborn, and Outlaws".

If this does actually mean that the woke slop will be genuinely removed, then this is a good thing.

If GTA 6 is delayed for over a year something is catastrophically wrong with the game development. Then again when you’re spending 1 billion dollars In production you going to try to make sure it’s a guarantee hit as much as possible.

[Vergil]

Astrobot is the first succesful game Sony has had in a long time.

Here's the picture of the development team:



It's that thing about race and ethnicity I keep talking about all the time.

Looks like an AIDS support group

[Daxa]

Apparently, they're blaming "gamers rejecting Concord, Dustborn, and Outlaws".

If this does actually mean that the woke slop will be genuinely removed, then this is a good thing.

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(also this quote is fake, it was never said by miyamoto)

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

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(also this quote is fake, it was never said by miyamoto)

I dislike that quote with a passion.

[Rand]

GTA VI supposedly delayed...again.



Apparently, they're blaming "gamers rejecting Concord, Dustborn, and Outlaws".

If this does actually mean that the woke slop will be genuinely removed, then this is a good thing.

Yeah, last thing the company was doing was moaning about "review bombing".
*******, your game isn't even coming out soon, why would you be worried about... oh. Telling on yourselves, were you?

And now the delay for years. What happened? Someone finally allowed to ask "What do you think the gamer market, our target market, will think about all this: lists items."
Senior management, seeing it in totality for the first time: "Oh, ****, it's worse than we thought. What the **** was going on down there? We have to get all this DEI ESG woke garbage out of the game or we'll lose millions!"

Anyway, I can't come up with a better theory.

[Vergil]

That quote is such pure cope and based on nothing. The longer a project takes the more likely there's some weird ****** up behind the scenes problems with development that greatly lowers the chance of what eventually gets pushed out of the door over budget and behind schedule being good.

[Daxa]

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(also this quote is fake, it was never said by miyamoto)

I dislike that quote with a passion.

Could you elaborate on why?

I do agree that this quote is pretty bad. A game with MANY delays generally means it will turn out poorly.
But one or two delays could be justified as then trying to polish the game right?

[UltraFan123]

Also, if it's indeed true that the reason of this rumored delay is the negative reception of Concord, Dustborn, and Outlaws, then I can already see them trying to delay it another decade after Assassin Creed: ******* and Dragay Age flop too. lmfao

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

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(also this quote is fake, it was never said by miyamoto)

I dislike that quote with a passion.

Could you elaborate on why?

I do agree that this quote is pretty bad. A game with MANY delays generally means it will turn out poorly.
But one or two delays could be justified as then trying to polish the game right?

It’s general good rule of thumb but I seen way to many people use that quote regardless on the circumstances of the behind scenes development around games.

Sometimes a delay games is needed to polish a game and sometimes no matter how many delays it has the game is
****** game beyond repair.

[gerey]

there's some weird ****** up behind the scenes problems with development that greatly lowers the chance of what eventually gets pushed out of the door over budget and behind schedule being good

I would imagine there's a lot of riding on GTA VI not just being successful, but being the single most successful game in the history of gaming. The budget for the game is gargantuan, $2 billion, which is insane. The game needs to sell as many copies as possible.

A lot of senior Rockstar figures responsible for the success of previous games have either left or have been ousted from the company (likely because they were straight, white men), so whatever secret sauce made Rockstar titles popular likely disappeared with them.

Rockstar already delayed the game so it could be released exclusively on the newest consoles, but said consoles haven't being doing too well, to the point 50% of Playstation costumers haven't upgraded to a PS5 and the XBox is dead in the water, while the most popular console, the Switch, lacks the hardware to run it (and the Switch 2 will too), so that's already a hit on Rockstar's bottom line. They can't double dip and have people buy the game on the PS3, and then again on the PS4.

Then there's the fact it's an election year in the US, and it's shaping up to be even more bitter and divisive than the last election. Whatever side Rockstar decides to pander to will lose them half the consumer base, and not just in the US, but also in Europe where right-wing, populist parties have been gaining momentum.

I'd imagine the ***** over at Take Two are more than a little hesitant to pull the trigger on the game, which probably is very woke, and is built around the ugly **** protagonist (the male protagonist is obviously an afterthought). Also, if Rockstar is anything like other Western AAA studios, then they have also been hit by the competency crisis, and hit hard, on top of outsourcing massive quantities of work to *****.

[Brother Michael]

Apparently, they're blaming "gamers rejecting Concord, Dustborn, and Outlaws".

If this does actually mean that the woke slop will be genuinely removed, then this is a good thing.

► Show Spoiler

(also this quote is fake, it was never said by miyamoto)

Very ironic considering what happened with Majora’s Mask afaik. Also, excluding one man autism projects like Dwarf Fortress, consider how many great games have been rushed out in under two years against how many great games have spent over five in development. Squadron 42 by next year, goys.

[UltraFan123]

The budget for the game is gargantuan, $2 billion, which is insane. The game needs to sell as many copies as possible.

Excuse me wtf, last time I heard it was only 1B that was poured into GTA VI, and even then I thought that was way too much!

I bet the ones at the top of Rockstar are smashing their skulls against a wall after seeing the sell numbers of Wukong and similar apolitical games that sold well. lol

[gerey]

Very ironic

Delaying a game can be beneficial. As an example, Cyberpunk 2077 really could have used another 2 years of development. On the other hand, Concord spent so long in development that by the time it released it had become stale both in terms of gameplay, and an object of mockery in terms of presentation and pandering.

You have to release a game eventually, but if your company is full of incompetent diversity hires, no amount of delays will save the product.

Excuse me wtf, last time I heard it was only 1B that was poured into GTA VI, and even then I thought that was way too much!

From the leak a while ago. Apparently $2 billion were allocated to the game. Granted, this doesn't mean Rockstar will spend it all, but on the other hand, why wouldn't they?

Pity the leaker didn't upload all he stole onto the net, that would have done such massive damage to the company.

[Rand]

Also, excluding one man autism projects like Dwarf Fortress, ...

That one's actually two-man severe autism.
Rare to see.

[Rand]

From the leak a while ago. Apparently $2 billion were allocated to the game. Granted, this doesn't mean Rockstar will spend it all, but on the other hand, why wouldn't they?

Some of that will be earmarked for marketing.

I know. Why? It literally doesn't need any.
Because corporate people are morons.

So there will be hundreds of millions spent on every type of advertising available, most of which will be ******** and all of it an utter waste of time, but the corporate MBA fucktards can't tell this.
It's "standard business practice" and (like all rituals) it's stupid and thoughtless, but they feel wrong if they don't do it.

The corporate side benefit is that if the game fails, some of the incompetent senior suits can shift some of the blame onto the marketing team for mismanagement of money and poor marketing not driving sales (ignoring the fact that they directed them to waste their time and money on marketing a product needing none).

[Oyster Sauce]

GTA 6 can break even just by having a functional online experience. 5 Online makes all of their money and it's the worst designed online game I've ever played. It's genuinely so ******* bad in nearly every way you can think of.

[Oyster Sauce]

@aweigh they're making Demon Turflikes now

[rusty_shackleford]

@aweigh they're making Demon Turflikes now

bro…

[KnightoftheWind]

I must say the Silent Hill 2 Remake looks better than I gave it credit for. I'm not one of those fans who were obsessed with the original to begin with, and I can appreciate the changes and additions they seem to be making here. The only real sore spot I can give it would be the designs for Angela and Eddie, but I'm positive they will be modded at some point anyway.

I just think gamers are turning into **** and start kvetching whenever white devs are involved.

[Finarfin]

I must say the Silent Hill 2 Remake looks better than I gave it credit for. I'm not one of those fans who were obsessed with the original to begin with, and I can appreciate the changes and additions they seem to be making here. The only real sore spot I can give it would be the designs for Angela and Eddie, but I'm positive they will be modded at some point anyway.

I just think gamers are turning into **** and start kvetching whenever white devs are involved.

It's not because of "white" devs, they are notoriously bad devs.

[KnightoftheWind]

There was a reason to doubt at first, but if the game is shaping up this well I'm fairly optimistic. It could've turned out a lot worse.

[rusty_shackleford]

I just think gamers are turning into **** and start kvetching whenever white devs are involved.

The way things are going, every developer is just going to pretend to be japanese because you aren't allowed to criticize them for the exact same thing western devs do.

[DagothGeas5]

How accurate are dice rolls and other such chance based things in videogames compared to real-life? Icewind Dale's and other older games feel normal, for example, with both fails and successes scattered randomly as it should be, but for games like Baldur's Gate 3 it started to feel quite odd to, for example, it being very hard get a roll higher than 10 whenever the roll was for something that might "conflict with the narrative" or what have you (for example, skipping a fight through a dialogue or insight check with the DC of 18, with me rolling consecutive NAT 1 or 3s at times while I was testing it out), it doesn't feel as randomized as it used to be, is it just luck or is there something with the systems beneath it?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Imagine charging a $700 console with no games.