Apparently according to this video it was approved by a vote of 98%, will really only effect AAA studios and means all their stuff gets delayed, at least if it requires voice actors.
Maybe AAA will focus on patches then for their buggy games since they can't make overpriced DLCs.
I'm still hoping the writer's deal falls through, I want it ALL to burn down, get replaced by AI and these guys have to learn to mine since we still need coal not overhyped drama queens. Golden time for indies and foreign non-American dependent studios though.
The Last of Us was good for one playthrough. I could never go through that again, when I look back and realize how much of the "story" was "ball-and-chain dialogue gameplay." Shit needs more skippable scenes if you want people to play over and over again.
Note: I never played the DLC that turned a well written character into a sexual token, and TLoU2 can rot in hell.
Those games got so much praise, and were sold for a buck a few years later. I have so many like that.
XBox360/PS3 era was when we hit diminishing returns in gaming. Graphics are comparable to today, and there was enough memory for modern large level design.
I wish instead the past decades' focus had been on making games faster. There's no reason why with modern RAM and NVME drives games can't load instantly the way a cartridge-based system could back in the day, and it's an absolute crime that they don't.
512 MB was anemic at PSX360 launch. But I do hate when entryists genuinely bitch about awkward animations, no VA, low poly models instead of linear gameplay and level design, stagnant NPC ai, and other things core to video games. Displeasure for the emotive cartoony art style aside, BC/Wrath WoW was visually enough for freeform games.
When we went from cartridges to discs for capacity, I expected eventually tech would catch up to make discs as fast as cartridges were so there'd be no trade-off. It was nice to be able to switch a console "on" and have it instantly boot up into the game.
That didn't happen. What seems to have happened is we get Indian programmers at 1% of the cost using 100x the computing hardware to produce the same game as we could have gotten a decade ago with "anemic" hardware.
The same thing happened to websites. Every website that keeps up to date with modern technology loads much slower than regular ass old HTML pages from 15 years ago.
I do think the Unreal Engine actually has good programming (not that I have looked at the source code or am an expert on code efficiency), so that is one good thing about studios moving towards using it over in-house engines.
It happened before with varying success. Long before Last of Us you had Heavenly Sword which was ok, visually great and gameplay was good once you got used to it but they did go nuts with the over acting at times.
Sony could save itself if it removed all those restrictions they placed on Japanese devs and made it easier to sell globally. They won't as their management are idiots, still haven't realised how much money they'd make if they integrated Crunchyroll with PS+.
You’re a big fan of High Guardian Spice, huh?
As an actual anime enjoyer and because you didn't put /s, I'll have to do this for my honor for the disrespect:
Slaps you in the face with a glove
I challenge you to a duel, 50 cals at dawn!
Shit. I had a smiley at first and then took it off. Now I’m gonna’ hafta kill a mutha fucka. Let this be a lesson to everyone out there.
Oh no. We won't get the bug eyed black lady in our AAA games for a while! What a travesty.
I’d like to think this would be disastrous for the strikers. Guess what? Unless we’re talking about a walking sim where the point is to experience characters’ melodrama (and lesbianism) voice acting means almost nothing to games. Call of Duty will do just as well if they stopped hiring big name actors for their stories, because the multiplayer-obsessed dude bros don’t give a shit about the single player experience. (Actually, didn’t they ditch campaigns recently?) Do I really value having “my face is tired” or “I don’t even have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain” acted out? No! Shitty writing deserves to be scrolled past quickly because all it’s doing is getting in the way of me playing the actual game. If I wanted a movie, I’d watch a movie. If I wanted to suffer through loads of shit writing, I’d go through a visual novel. When I play a game I want to play the game. So if voice actors and writers or whatever stop getting in the way and go away, I’ll be glad.
You're right it is a golden time for indies, what have I been posting about to you guys this whole time? ;)
Yeah, can’t wait for the ANOTHER card-based, roguelite metroidvania starring a black woman! All those super BASED indie games that are even more woke than the AAA games!
Or I could get strategy games that push the envelope of what was done before and cover topics that have never been done before, like the Czechoslovakian Legion doing their run the long way across Russia.
The beauty of Indie is that there are just as many instances of "better than AAA quality" games with excellent stories and great characters, just as much as there are the woke ones.
To be fair, I understand his frustration, I've basically found maybe two games that could be called worth it so far from the indie sphere and really No Man's Sky I'm not that into even though I appreciate what the devs have done.
Perhaps because my taste is 'niche' these days by the normie standards, but I'm not exactly swimming in alternatives and he's right there really is a sea of platformers you have to swim through to find any good shit. Partly because woke platformers especially on modern engines are very easy to put together compared to other genres.
Maybe I just lucked out. I have had no shortage of games in the last few years, many of which are (like I said) superior quality to anything AAA and almost all of them without even the inkling Woke to them.
It is the main reason I scoff whenever I hear people saying that gaming is in some sort of gutter right now.
lmao
It's like a hydra. One strike falls, two more sprout up in its place.
Will anyone notice? 🤔
Wait, stop, I can only get so erect.
I already have all the celebrity voice acting I need. Namely Patrick Stewart in Oblivion and Leonard Nimoy in Civ4.
TBH I'm far more interested in W. Morgan Shepard's voice from Civ V, someone many sci-fi fans will recognise in the wider genre as well as knowing as the father of Mark Shepard/Badger from Firefly/Crowley from Supernatural. He even played the older version of the character Mark played in Doctor Who one time in the Matt Smith era.
With AI we can clone 100 Picards and Spocks for any conceivable game role.
Fuck! I just realized I can use AI to mod Spock in to the expansions. The new tech lines were read by Sid Meier. I need to discover how.
Does AAA include Total War? I guess that's sega so ... yes?
Okay. I'll just keep playing Classics, Nintendo, and Indie.
'You guys still use voice actors?" - Nintendo
Patching bugs? Lol no, this will just be an excuse used to not release any content for a while, so they can build up some spare content and go on more vacations.