Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

Post by **Dorigami** » July 8th, 2025, 03:27

Has anyone seen anything gay about Mafia 4?

Post by **Oyster Sauce** » July 8th, 2025, 03:46

Dorigami wrote: ↑ July 8th, 2025, 03:27
Has anyone seen anything gay about Mafia 4?

gerey · Post by **gerey** » July 8th, 2025, 13:51

Coming along nicely.

gerey · Post by **gerey** » July 8th, 2025, 18:06

Very manly sounding ******** working on the DNF 2001 restoration project just released a stream - game is also shaping up to be good.

Post by **Rand** » July 8th, 2025, 18:16

gerey wrote: ↑ July 8th, 2025, 13:51

Coming along nicely.

It's an interesting project.
But Ultima 7 is objectively a bad game with a terrible map.
It's not as bad as the subsequent games, so there's that.

Post by **Dorigami** » July 9th, 2025, 06:28

Oyster Sauce wrote: ↑ July 8th, 2025, 03:46

Dorigami wrote: ↑ July 8th, 2025, 03:27
Has anyone seen anything gay about Mafia 4?

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Post by **rusty_shackleford** » July 10th, 2025, 15:24

indie devs: "wow, what if I purposely made my game look worse????"

psychic_dream · Post by **psychic_dream** » July 10th, 2025, 17:01

How is this possible? The console still barely has any noteworthy exclusives, and GaaS has been around since the PS4 era. What’s actually driving all this? It can’t just be the VR headset and premium subscriptions right?

https://www.inspire2rise.com/sony-ps5-e ... llion.html

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » July 10th, 2025, 17:02

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 17:01
How is this possible? The console still barely has any noteworthy exclusives, and GaaS has been around since the PS4 era. What’s actually driving all this? It can’t just be the VR headset and premium subscriptions right?

https://www.inspire2rise.com/sony-ps5-e ... llion.html

nigstation, every nig has to own one to play sportsball

Post by **Val the Moofia Boss** » July 10th, 2025, 19:32

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 17:01
How is this possible? The console still barely has any noteworthy exclusives, and GaaS has been around since the PS4 era. What’s actually driving all this? It can’t just be the VR headset and premium subscriptions right?

https://www.inspire2rise.com/sony-ps5-e ... llion.html

IIRC from that Sony Playstation presentation leak a couple years ago, Genshin is responsible for one billion USD in revenue on Playstation. GTA V sales and microtransactions are also humongous. So it's probably being carried by old live service games.

KOS-MOS · Post by **KOS-MOS** » July 10th, 2025, 19:50

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 23:34

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 23:32
How much of this do you think is because most modern games suck, rather than the economy being in a bad state?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/video-gam ... t-suggests
there's no games worth buying

Last year, I bought maybe 4 games, including Steam sales. I’ve still got hundreds of old games I haven’t played or finished, I’d rather play them than waste money on some boring modern ****.

psychic_dream · Post by **psychic_dream** » July 10th, 2025, 21:58

Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 19:32

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 17:01
How is this possible? The console still barely has any noteworthy exclusives, and GaaS has been around since the PS4 era. What’s actually driving all this? It can’t just be the VR headset and premium subscriptions right?

https://www.inspire2rise.com/sony-ps5-e ... llion.html
IIRC from that Sony Playstation presentation leak a couple years ago, Genshin is responsible for one billion USD in revenue on Playstation. GTA V sales and microtransactions are also humongous. So it's probably being carried by old live service games.

The Switch 2 has sold a ton, even outperforming the first in opening weekend sales despite launching with just one exclusive. If that’s any indication, a big video game crash probably isn’t happening anytime soon. The industry is still fragile, but it's being kept afloat by revenue streams unrelated to single player content, and people keep buying overpriced hardware and peripherals regardless.

Post by **Breathe** » July 10th, 2025, 23:46

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 21:58
The Switch 2 has sold a ton, even outperforming the first in opening weekend sales despite launching with just one exclusive. If that’s any indication, a big video game crash probably isn’t happening anytime soon. The industry is still fragile, but it's being kept afloat by revenue streams unrelated to single player content, and people keep buying overpriced hardware and peripherals regardless.

Well, that's disheartening. There's virtually no reason to get the Switch 2, other than "it's a new product!"

Stack of Turtles · Post by **Stack of Turtles** » July 11th, 2025, 01:16

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 21:58

Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 19:32

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 17:01
How is this possible? The console still barely has any noteworthy exclusives, and GaaS has been around since the PS4 era. What’s actually driving all this? It can’t just be the VR headset and premium subscriptions right?

https://www.inspire2rise.com/sony-ps5-e ... llion.html
IIRC from that Sony Playstation presentation leak a couple years ago, Genshin is responsible for one billion USD in revenue on Playstation. GTA V sales and microtransactions are also humongous. So it's probably being carried by old live service games.
The Switch 2 has sold a ton, even outperforming the first in opening weekend sales despite launching with just one exclusive. If that’s any indication, a big video game crash probably isn’t happening anytime soon. The industry is still fragile, but it's being kept afloat by revenue streams unrelated to single player content, and people keep buying overpriced hardware and peripherals regardless.

There was never any serious chance of a crash and anyone who told you to expect a crash is a grifter.

Irenaeus · Post by **Irenaeus** » July 11th, 2025, 01:47

I wish someone made a game with this aesthetics

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » July 11th, 2025, 04:03

The closest I know of is Imperialism

https://www.gog.com/en/game/imperialism

Irenaeus · Post by **Irenaeus** » July 11th, 2025, 04:20

Acrux wrote: ↑ July 11th, 2025, 04:03
The closest I know of is Imperialism

https://www.gog.com/en/game/imperialism

Imperialism II is amazing. Played hundreds of hours of it.

There are some railroad games with that aesthetic and of course civil war games.

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » July 11th, 2025, 04:26

Irenaeus wrote: ↑ July 11th, 2025, 04:20
Imperialism II is amazing. Played hundreds of hours of it.

Yes! I like the 19th century theme of 1 just a little bit better since there are so few other games set in that time period. But 2 does improve on basically every system (no more WW1 pile-ups by all of the AIs against you!).

KnightoftheWind · Post by **KnightoftheWind** » July 11th, 2025, 05:30

Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 19:32

psychic_dream wrote: ↑ July 10th, 2025, 17:01
How is this possible? The console still barely has any noteworthy exclusives, and GaaS has been around since the PS4 era. What’s actually driving all this? It can’t just be the VR headset and premium subscriptions right?

https://www.inspire2rise.com/sony-ps5-e ... llion.html
IIRC from that Sony Playstation presentation leak a couple years ago, Genshin is responsible for one billion USD in revenue on Playstation. GTA V sales and microtransactions are also humongous. So it's probably being carried by old live service games.

Video games are no longer creative endeavors, just products designed to be maximally addicting. All it takes is one Genshin or one GTA V to justify millions buying your console. It's why Sony bet the farm on live service, and It's only through sheer incompetence that 99% of those projects failed. TLOU Factions would've probably made them billions of dollars in easy money.

gerey · Post by **gerey** » July 11th, 2025, 06:26

KnightoftheWind wrote: ↑ July 11th, 2025, 05:30
It's why Sony bet the farm on live service, and It's only through sheer incompetence that 99% of those projects failed.

Not simply incompetence, but also the fact the market is already massively oversaturated with such games and is starting to collapse in on itself.

KnightoftheWind wrote: ↑ July 11th, 2025, 05:30
TLOU Factions would've probably made them billions of dollars in easy money.

I sincerely doubt it, especially after TLOU2 came out and killed the franchise.

Post by **Val the Moofia Boss** » July 13th, 2025, 00:22

Roguey · Post by **Roguey** » July 13th, 2025, 17:53

Devs are absolutely fuming that an xbox guy used AI slop in his job listing, loving it. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/ur ... 866344449/

Post by **Tangerine** » July 13th, 2025, 17:58

Roguey wrote: ↑ July 13th, 2025, 17:53
Devs are absolutely fuming that an xbox guy used AI slop in his job listing, loving it. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/ur ... 866344449/

You know, that'd be a great way to create a list of "never hires." Anyone that gives that much of a **** about AI slop is probably insufferable to be around.

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » July 13th, 2025, 20:23

It also shows that they aren't even pay attention to what the job is actually for. It's an engineering team that works on graphics drivers and GPU architecture. All of these morons criticizing the AI slop as if they are hiring a graphics designer are braindead.

Post by **Oyster Sauce** » July 14th, 2025, 14:54

Post by **Segata** » July 14th, 2025, 15:29

That will be $80 on top of the $500 you've already paid for the Soytch 2 + Bing Bing Wahoo World btw. No refunds.

Trickster · Post by **Trickster** » July 14th, 2025, 15:45

Switch 2 is a scam.

LemonDemonGirl · Post by **LemonDemonGirl** » July 14th, 2025, 22:01

Trickster wrote: ↑ July 14th, 2025, 15:45
Switch 2 is a scam.

Agreed. I'd rather spend money on buying a new pc than a bing bing wahoo console

psychic_dream · Post by **psychic_dream** » July 15th, 2025, 23:04

It looks like people were already complaining about the state of playstation back when the PS3 was still early in its lifecycle, not just something that started with the PS4.

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » July 16th, 2025, 01:42

So, who played the new enhanced edition that came out today that had a lot of controversial new changes, didn't fix existing bugs from the original, and although it boasts of new controls they are actually not any better than the old ones?

Oh, I'm talking of course about Stronghold Crusader Definitive Edition. What other game would I have meant?

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