It does surprise me. I assume any popular new game is full of them. Cosmetic stuff I'm not sure I really care about either way in the end. "High fantasy" or whatever you'd call it has so many games I could play in history, there's just no reason to bother with a questionable game.
Donkey Kong, Minecraft Steve.
Their definition of iconic is so off. If I were to poll even a groups like totally random gamers that play > 40 hours a week, the number that don't recognize Donkey Kong is near 0. I wouldn't be shocked if the annoying owl from Zelda games polled higher than Kiryu Kazuma.
Doom guy or no one. I'm biased but so are they.
If you'd asked me to bet on it before. I'd have put every dollar on the chick from Last of Us, so at least a bit surprised. Cool to see Agent 47 get some love.
Baldurs Gate 3, really? I haven't even tried it and probably won't. I know about beast sex already, and just based on it's age I assume it's otherwise an MTX live service fest
Area 15 by Meow Wolf is coming to Orlando.
I don't understand the cultness of this Meow Wolf thing. Leftist trend is my best guess. I went to the place in Santa Fe years ago as it was supposed to be the place you absolutely had to go. I mean, yeah it's some weird art. It's not a bad place. I'd much rather spend my time looking at a nice collection of proper fine art.
I found it, Fabien Sanglard. Definitely something I'm going to look in to.
I'd been told for years I was definitely going to be using VR, all the games would be VR, life is going to VR, etc. Still waiting. They can't even get kids interested in it for more than a novelty, and that's where the future of games comes from. I mean, the first ones they sold on spending more money on cosmetic skins for a game and everything being live service were kids. They can't sell them on VR, so it's dead.
I degoogled in 2018 I think. I do still have an Android phone, although I do my best to disable things on it. I looked at taking it to LineageOS as some software crap destroyed the battery life overnight, but not supported unfortunately. That's what I get for getting a "nicer" phone.
Lucifer in Dante's Inferno. There I found one for them.
It's almost like there's a ton of good laws that make sense in the bible, that many try to weasel out of throwing away because Jesus was nicer or something. Yeah, sure, God totally changed his mind on all this stuff one day, right...
I can't remember what exactly we used but we did have to do a bunch of different programs for it. There weren't that many op-codes it didn't have to do a ton. I took the class in the summer because I knew the professor, a white guy that could teach well. I think at one point I took every class he offered as electives. There were only like 8 of us in the class and I got paired up with a real oddity, it was a 14 year old kid that was taking random college stuff in the summer. I think the professor paired me up with him since he knew me from other classes and that I'd treat the kid okay. Kid was smart and actually wanted to learn so it was a win for me really. We finished everything in the class, and I spent way more time working on that than I'd expected. I went in wanting some easy hours.
Everything advanced so quickly around the time the PS2 came out regarding DVDs. Sure at launch it was the price of a DVD player but for a very short time. It wasn't even a year before DVDs were ubiquitous at rental places and DVD players were a fraction of the cost of a PS2. Yeah, I recall watching some movies with friends on a PS2, but that was so we could watch in their room where the game system was and not like having to be a teenager hanging out with parents. It was a nice feature to have, but yeah almost no one bought them as a DVD player primarily.
Dark Forces remaster got me to drag out my old CD and play it a bit again. That and Rebel Assault II that I need to try. Two oldest games I have and still own. Rebel Assault II is the first game I remember buying brand new in it's fancy box and not some bargain bin disks or downloads--having held on to some birthday money for over a month to get it. I'm pretty sure I "borrowed" Dark Forces from my cousin at one point and have had it for nearly 30 years now. That game holds up so well and there's a modern engine recreation for it, so I don't even need a remaster.
That's cool. I did one in college on computer architecture, we had to design a dumbed down 8-bit computer from transistors. I'd done a ton of programming in my life by then, and that was still really interesting.
The old hardware with tile-based graphics just fun to program for and fairly simple still. Even something as advanced as assembly you'd be shocked how it's not all that complicated to get some graphics in and move them around, because that's all built into the hardware.
I really need to try the Doom or Quake code out. I've had my hands in about everything except native 3D consoles and that, and Doom was far and away my favorite game as a kid. I'd made entire games worth of replacement maps that have sadly all been lost to time.
You can run it in Dosbox still. Modern equivalent has gotta be Python for ease of use and learning. I’ve used quite a bit for data parsing and things, but i have no idea what kinds of things kids could do in it that’s interesting. Godot has its own scripting that’s pretty easy to use, so there’s that.
This is a really cool project I’ve messed with before: https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK It’s a C-based SDK for Sega Genesis. It’s slightly beyond “Hello, world” level beginner, but you’d be surprised how simple it can be to load in some graphics and move them around. There’s a lot of tools and support resources for it too.
If they get to something like Assembly, do it with a simpler setup like a Gameboy, NES, Genesis, etc. Z80, 68k, or 6502. It's all super well documented, simple, and you can do most of it with an emulator so you can get live access to the contents of the address space and registers and such. It's really useful to learn how the computer actually works, how putting things on the screen is really just a memory location, etc.
It's still an awful place to start though. I'd do QBasic just for ease of playing around and debugging. That's what I started on years and years ago I was probably 6 or 7. It's also got a nice help file for syntax. Then see what they are interested in. I personally love low-level programming and optimization, which is kinda a useless skill anymore. Everyone likes engines and high-level stuff now.
Hahaha hahaha. That is all
Yeah I only had a Genesis and I shared it with my brother and we had TWO whole games for it and the occasional rental. I don't remember what they cost back then, but I do remember that games cost more than what I could really get as a birthday present. I didn't buy a console myself until the Xbox came out and I was older by then.
I was very lucky though, my Dad worked for an old school (like guys in a pile of junk in an old house programming) company. His boss liked me and used to give me dumb little projects in trade for discarded computer parts. Sure, none of it was good, but to play the shareware stuff I'd download off BBS or cheap stuff I'd get at Radio Shack it was way more than enough.
That's not really new. I wonder if he's been suicided yet.
Why I stopped being a framerate snob
This needs to become a thing. One guy I used to play with, I'm pretty sure you could have made a game called frame rate simulator built just piss him off when the numbers were like 0.000000000000001% lower than his expectation. Yeah, I don't understand playing games to sit for hours and optimize settings then stare at a fps meter the entire time so you can go into a rage when the number changes for any reason whatsoever.
How Sweet Baby Inc ruined a game called Flintlock
How do these small companies get infiltrated so easily? Is it just cuckery of the owners/founders? I mean this company is tiny and has made one game. Why are they hiring an outside COO at all, then they can't just tell her to piss off when it's clear she's destroying the game? My best guess is they are selling their company out to investors that then demand DEI and shit. You know what, if you want to make a game, just self fund it and make what you can. If it's fun it doesn't have to look or feel AAA and be big budget and require a ton of outside money.
Maybe AAA deserves to die.
Yes.
Dead Space 2 Remake
No.
I'm the oddity that actually liked Inquisition. I think partly because it did a decent job of allowing you to be a spellcaster without being an FPS game with your hands or a wand or something. Lots of games are great at letting you be "melee with spells" or something, but you want to a cloth draped wizard? Yeah sure it's here good luck. I don't remember the story at all though, chosen one something or other. Definitely no good. They also did a horrible job making it too easy to get stuck in the awful early zone that's just green grass and boring side quests, so that's what most people played. The other zones are all much better.
Still, though, I think that might have been my last Bioware game. Depending on timeline. Nothing like KOTOR or DA:O. I've actually got Jade Empire I've been meaning to play too.
We already have this with signs for "Men" and "Women". They are the ones who redefined those words to be something else.
Exactly, it sure seems like Counter Strike still does well after however many years.
There's nothing wrong with more of the same.
Empire of the Ants looks cool. I'll have to check it out later, but I never end up giving strategy games their due. They are usually designed for autistic obsession and I move on to something else. Still looks cool.
Felix the Cat
Well, that's something I forgot about. I remember when I was in elementary school playing some sort of Felix the Cat DOS game at a friends house that I never did play again. I think it was a CD and at the time those were not something we could copy so I couldn't take it home. Yeah, I haven't remembered that in 30 years. That's not these games though.
Their attendance is outpaced by a few colleges even. I wouldn't even let them play in California the next three years. That city and state made their choice with the policies they support.