Can we all agree that this is a most horrific dog

Instead we get this. To watch an entire generation of talent wasted and burned out to submit to the whims of a power team-up of incompetent finance brained executives and ignorant shortsighted investors, the meager products of which are themselves swallowed by the rampage of blind tech bro avarice.

Videogames should have been thriving. We should be currently in the midst of an era defining flowering of institutional experience translating into a transformative refinement of both the design and production aspects of game making resulting in new horizons of experiences and possibilities.

Absolutely keep track of artists that decided to embrace AI cuz they're the ones that will try to pretend like nothing happened

Sonic Heroes is perfectly fine. People definitely aren't mean enough to Sonic Colors though.

you ever think about how WRPG is a borderline dead genre because microsoft consolidated all the biggest creators under their umbrella

We're gonna hit the 20th anniversary of Skyrim and 6 -still- won't have come out. Fucking Todd going "Haha yeah just pretend we never made that announcement". No Todd. I won't pretend. I won't forget that you said it was in development just to boost your stocks to look good for acquisition.

Then why the fuck did they let Jensen Huang go up on stage seething and coping like an insane fucking lunatic saying "No its not a filter its not a filter it affects the geometry its not a filter"???

used to be that major video game franchises had release schedules like this

I like the renewed appreciation for the art of sentence mixing existing voice lines in the face of AI. You can never generate something as funny as The Heavy is Dead.

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@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @patstaresat.bsky.social the tech guys

Looks like Nvidia really messed up with this whole DLSS 5 garbage. You don't ever piss off the people who make the games. Source: insider-gaming.com/dlss-5-gamer...

Art/gpose train, of which I am the final stop because I'm fairly certain every mutual on here has already done it Or I can't be bothered to tag anybody, idk I'm sleepy Anyway orange creature.

But don't forget to make sure the message is heard just as loudly as the fact it looks like shitass: It's a dangerous tech It's poisoning communities It's being used entirely unethically It's a surveillance tool It doesn't benefit us in the *slightest*

"Presenting a new team based hero shooter"

We've... kinda been in that world since well before covid my guy. Hell we've been in that world since 7th gen at least. Dragon Age 2 turning into mid-tier action combat slop was absolutely EA's decision, for instance Frankly things just kept getting worse after 2007

What's most asinine to me is that all this nvidia shit pretends like the 5090 is a thing for gaming not video production or AI shit if you have a 5090 explicitly for gaming you are part of the tiniest possible sliver

Every tech industry CEO and the dipshit yes-men who enable them on this slop bullshit both within and without the companies they run should be launched into the sun with a giant cannon.

Y'know I didn't think it was possible to make the Oblivion remaster look even more like a desaturated fugly mess but no. Thanks Todd, real glad this new tech will let you bring such high fidelity to Elder Scrolls 6 when it launches in 2035. You fucking hack fraud you.

Aaaaaaand there it is.

This is a deranged thing to say to someone wtf. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...

As sorry as I feel for the devs who wasted years working on this thing and now probably have their jobs at risk if they're not already gone... If they hadn't had the Game Awards reveal, this thing would've burnt out even sooner and NOBODY would've even blinked.

I can't believe Sarah Bond's magnum opus is dead. Other than being behind every single bad decision at Xbox in the 12 years that Phil Spencer was at a top position of leadership there, it was totally only her and Phil at all. Can't believe she tricked Phil into spending 70 billion on Activision.

I mean it'll be legendary in that it'll be the last game Bethesda made before the crazy AI natalist in charge of Xbox shut them down because ChatGPT told them to in order to make gamers have babies or some shit, yeah And also legendarily mid.

"It's time to go, Mistress Tataru. . ."

hilda #ffxiv #marchofxiv

Game trailers at conferences used to be announcements of upcoming releases. Now they're basically like a six-year-old shouting "watch me!" All you know is they're about to attempt something but there's a high likelihood it'll just end in tears.

Once you're in the crosshairs, there will be no "yield". #gpose #gposers

See what this is missing is "In affiliation with ROG" at the end because they're certainly not releasing a new console alone in this industry within the next couple years

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

The game is only like 10 hours long btw. It's okay to have AAA games be that length.

Maybe I'm out of pocket but I'm kind of shocked at the turnaround people are giving Marathon considering it's a sham reboot of a dead franchise that got caught plagiarizing an artist for their entire aesthetic to the point where the game couldn't be shown for months.

It's very difficult to be THIS in denial about a thing but boy howdy if Jez Corden doesn't succeed at sounding pathetically desperate -every- single time

Crazy shit happening at xbox rn

yeah no fucking shit maybe 7 year development cycles are fucking stupid and unnecessary and don't even produce measurably better games than shorter ones

70 dollar death price + microsoft no marketing bum ass strategy + 70 dollar death price + Avowed was really half baked

sega when a game primarily aimed at children does not do well at 70 dollars

I don't even like Morrowind that much and even I agree that this is a pretty stupid take to have for someone who worked on Fallout 4 of all games

Pulling CPUs and RAM sticks out of AI datacenters will force them to close in the same way that removing a Sigil Stone does to an Oblivion Gate. #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion

There's always gotta be something utterly horrendous that happens in January to remind you that no, this new year will most likely suck just as hard as the prior one did

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