Looks to be really interesting, similar to the Everquest or WoW private servers with bots, or FFXIV's NPC dungeons, but actually designed from the ground up to be a single player experience where the bots actually play with you. Sounds neat.

I just watched an excellent 2 hour (just needed to edit title, as I noticed it was 2 hours and not 1, wow time really flew away!) long documentary. The build up in stages and showing the evolution of the best players achievements, is intense and very well edited, narrated and written documentary!

I know 1 hour is long and I wasn't planning to watch everything, but time flew away. If you have any slight interest into this topic, I highly recommend you to take some time to watch. The video itself is broken up in 5 or so sections. So you could just watch a section at a time, if 2 hour is too long. There is a specific reveal that I do not want spoil, which was epic. Just insanity!

BTW have fun. Edit: Here some timestamps:

1. 2:32 Chapter 1
2. 11:39 Chapter 2
3. 16:28 Chapter 3: ENEOOGEZ
4. 25:48 Chapter 4: Hypertapping
5. 31:45 Chapter 5: The Next Generation
6. 49:00 Chapter 6: Rolling
7. 1:00:27 Chapter 7: Vaulting & Scaling
8. 1:15:25 Chapter 8: Colors
9. 1:25:00 Chapter 9: Crash

For anyone who don't want to watch it on YouTube, here is a link to an Invidious instance:

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=mOJlg8g8_yw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWwUuWRgsM

From this lemmy world post:

https://sopuli.xyz/post/12556136

about this Tom's Hardware article:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nearly-all-nintendo-64-games-can-now-be-recompiled-into-native-pc-ports-to-add-proper-ray-tracing-ultrawide-high-fps-and-more

I love my switch OLED and I choose it over the steam deck and Rog Ally.

I’ve been noticing the Nitro deck and been wondering if it will make my switch better. I like playing handheld.

Anyone have one?

FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

If you're a developer working for Xbox, what can you do to secure your job?

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12488692

Zelda 64: Recompiled for PC - Majora's Mask Release Trailer

[Wiseguy's notes, copied from the video description]

Play Majora's Mask natively on PC! Download here for Windows or Linux: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/Zelda64Recomp/releases
Project does not include game assets. Original game is required to play.

For more details about this project, check out the full explanation at https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/Zelda64Recomp
For more details about the main tool that was used to make this project, check out https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

The platform holder has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.

It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower salaries.

So, what's holding back gamedevs from banding together to either unionize or start their own companies with better conditions that the purely money-driven studios? Why aren't they trying to be better? Nobody willing to invest in them? Does starting a company together mean they will now be the bosses who have to answer to the investors, ensure returns, and fire employees? Is the world just an entire shit-cake?

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/921635

Does Arkham Knight get better?

I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time.

Granted, I am much dumber now than five or so years ago when I played the first two. But as far as I recall they were relatively straight forward. But as soon as I reached the first tank segment in the beginning of AK I remembered when I gave up originally.

But this time I decided to soldier through. Until I got to a segment where I had to complete five or six boring ass tutorials which all showed me different unrelated things of which I needed exactly one to progress and which all could have been integrated into the normal gameplay. Three I already forgot and with one I didn't even know what I was supposed to be doing but somehow I completed it.

Is it worth it to go on playing? Do I have to know everything it's trying to teach me? I remember that it was pretty much needed to learn everything in Doom Eternal (as opposed to 2016). But at least all the controls were pretty consistent there.

Anyways. Should I keep playing? Or is Arkham Origins better? Maybe I should just replay Asylum and City instead.

Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative

The format of these posts is simple: let's discuss a specific game or series!

Let's discuss the Mother series. What is your favorite game in the series? What aspects do you like about it? What doesn't work for you? Are there other games that gave you similar feelings? Feel free to share any thoughts that come up, or react to other peoples comments. Let's get the conversation going!

If you have any recommendations for games or series for the next post(s), please feel free to DM me or add it in a comment here (no guarantees of course).

Previous entries: Mass Effect, Metroid, Journey, Resident Evil, Polybius, Tetris, Telltale Games, Kirby, LEGO Games, DOOM, Ori, Metal Gear, Slay the Spire

Less DRM, smaller filesizes, no stupid anticheat, and no always online bs. Anyone agree with me?

New week new games! Whatcha all been playing? I decided to finally finish paper Mario ttyd (emulated on dolphin). Almost done with it! Trying to beat bone tail on the 100 level dungeon rn...

Which do you prefer? Why?

I'll be honest, I prefer dpads, they are more compact, more tactile and more precise. If I could I'd not use an analog stick in smash bros and just use dpad.

It's nice to see the continued balancing and optimization work that they're doing, and more modding capabilities is always great.

Developing interactivity is effort and an investment. Most developers put up a simple loading screen, maybe some text like rotating tips, and a loading indicator. Until 2015 a patent on interactive loading screens may have made developers and publishers cautious and decide against developing interactivity.

High Hell, released in 2017, features fast gameplay, short levels, and interactive loading screens. (Linked Clip) (High Hell Steam page)

What's the best kind of loading screen? Do you have examples of good or bad interactive loading screens?

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