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For $6.59, you can get the fast paced and stylish Magenta Horizon! Looks to be right up the alley of people looking for a fast-paced 2D action experience ala Dust : An Elysian Tail. store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/...

It's very easy: Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz. Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.

In System shock 2 its possible to block an enemies melee attack by having your own melee attack clash with it.

easy to feel demoralised seeing all these game company CEOs talking about genAI but remember a bunch of rich people will lose a lot if we don’t suddenly develop an unquenchable appetite for slop so they’re actually the ones on the back foot and have every incentive to lie about everything

Being a CRPG fan is just an endless succession of pain right now.

Other people: In Xillia If you combo a boss when it has 0cc it won't break out of it. Me: Enemies in Xillia have their own CC?

Lul

politeness politics has always been a cudgel to beat down victims for not being polite enough while people with power do active harm

I 2nd this recommendation, this game is such a great and unique take on Tales LMBS style combat and while I personally don't put it as the undisputed best combat of the series I get why some other fans do, Like there is a reason this remaster is one of my most played games this year.

Soul Calibur 2 Teen Titans Battle Blitz Smash Bros Brawl Tbh I didn't play a ton of fighting games growing up.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

The movie that tapped into what would make Star wars fans the most hyped in the moment at the cost of ruining the franchises future prospects.

Whichever one you, the person viewing this post, hates the most.

I wish the games industry was as cool as the games it makes.

Real fun being a CRPG fan when the dev teams most responsible for its modern revival are either owned by genocide enablers or are just like that.

OH OK FUCK THIS COMPANY TO HELL AND BACK.

putting aside everything else, it's once again notable to me that he mentions it hasn't made them more efficient. the fundamental limitations of this tech make it useless at nearly all its stated claims. further iteration doesn't fix this.

Oh, suddenly I have lost all interest in the new Divinity game...

Glad to hear the older titles getting the re-releases they so desperately need.

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The thing that always pops up to me whenever Hogwash Legass becomes a talking point again is how the game is so fucking boring that it's literally the only way that game can even BE relevant.

Personally, I don’t really have an issue with something winning multiple awards. I don’t recall everyone getting this bent out if shape when Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards. IMO, the critiques should be on how TGAs push reveals above all else. So celebrating nominees doesn’t really happen

"You need cinematic supers to appeal to the casuals" is one of those things that got repeated ever since SF4 and treated as a given, even though 3d games and Smash mostly ignored this while doing better than 2d games.

really I still can't believe so many of y'all watched that shit

Don't claim it, don't add to their metrics. Free or not. Just don't do it.

Look all jokes aside I think a game that retailed for $50 and had a reasonable, sustainable budget sweeping the awards is probably a good message to send to the industry, if it's even capable of listening.

I am willing to put up with the people who act like Nagoshi leaving RGG being the worst thing to happen to the Yakuza series being more obnoxious if it means we get a good game in its style that doesn't come from a studio ok with a sexual harasser as the face model and voice actor for a character.

New Divinity game and its not Dragon Commander 2 SMH. (I kid, Divinity rules)

I'm fully on board with this mega for 1 reason and 1 reason alone #Absol #MegaAbsol #PokemonLegendsZA

Honestly Sega delisting the "Legacy" versions of Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2 from steam doesn't anger me so much as I'm just confused why they separate out the new "versions" when additional languages and re-implementing the cut licensed music of the JP release feels like it could have just been a patch.

A game should not be announced unless it's slated for release within a year. Two years, max. Any longer and the discourse will smother it.

this is completely true the problem is just that the perception is accurate. so. not much we can really do for you there, guys.

This is completely horrific and I have nothing but support to the original dev, and ire for Steam cowtowing to racists. At the same time "no one asking for muslims in a cozy game" does confirm exactly the problem a lot of us have with the "cozy" trend. It was never for us.

brutal

Last day to get Yakuza 0 on Steam before delisting ($10.99) buff.ly/ISTbotI GOG version not identified for delist

I will keep praising the D-Counter from Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, its a cool system that encourages you to weigh up the costs and benefits of every action you take in the game and really consider every action you take one a much deeper level.

AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.

So in Marvel Rivals Rogue can air combo, sorry to the other Vanguards but I don't think I'll be picking you that much now.

Due to recent conversations going on here, I feel the need to repost my DMC slander meme.

Honestly the biggest issue with the companions in Metroid Prime 4 isn't how talkative or annoying they are (tbh their mostly inoffensive on that front) it's how their presence fucks over the last 2 areas level design.

AA7 will show us Gumshoe is OK, trust the plan.

Katsuhiro Harada to leave Bandai Namco at end of the year

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