Vampire Crawlers is pure evil.

That is all.

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Quoting: matiaslavikIt's true what they say: AI is really transforming the game industry!

... In a year or two, we'll only be playing software rendered pseudo-3D games, because nobody can afford modern hardware.

I'm imagining future generations using the last remaining cheap Chinese handhelds that don't support usb-c charging plugged via ye olde HDMI to whatever dumb TVs are left running at that point. They're telling their grandchildren fairy tales about path tracing and large bodies of water.

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GOG is "whatever works" + "whatever sells" + "whatever doesn't anger regimes with markets we can potentially tap into".

A whole different preservation ball game, not even remotely comparable.

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At this point it's a standard QOL feature for Square ports. Ideally, you flip that on to avoid excessive encounters, but leave it off otherwise. Hacky, but does the job.

Suikoden had a very elegant solution for this back in the day: if you moved in a perfectly straight line (i.e. "I know exactly where I'm going") you'd get fewer encounters along the way. I think the rate lowered further the longer you stuck to that straight line. It's basically been a solved, but widely ignored problem since the 90s.

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Great. Previous bad port is delisted, and this port... is much worse. Some Steam quotes:

The game works broken, the FPS limit has been increased from 15 to 30 doubling the speed of fights and actions but without adapting the animations so the actions desyncs with the audio. Roulettes must be extreme hardcore; it plays generally like a ATB hard-type mod.

- Bilinear filtering making the game a lot blurrier, especially pre-rendered backgrounds
- Absolutely horrendous filter applied on sprites and text
- Sounds problems, notably with sound effects that usually repeat in quick succession (i.e. navigating the menus, exp and gil, etc.)
- Can't disable boosters
- Double the file size
- FMVs lagging for some people
- Currently battles are at 3x the speed (confirmed patch to being worked on)

Called the blurriness and filtering. Somehow still underestimated Square.

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Nothing in life is guaranteed, that's pretty trite, but with Mewgenics there were clear signs the second the media picked it up for the preview cycle. It's not even that it was praised, it's about the type of praise it received, and how it was framed. It wasn't brought up as a quaint indie game by oddball creator first, it wasn't as subjected (if at all) to your typical template-driven news/preview slop. It came across as though people who played it prior to release viscerally liked it and needed to tell you about how much fun they had. At least from what I was seeing it was as much a done deal as humanly possible.

Perhaps I have a career in industry predictions, I dunno ;)

Compare to something like the late Cyberpunk 2077 previews which were all extremely politely lukewarm, but also somehow framed to maintain the ridiculous level of praise from much earlier in that marketing cycle. You could've mapped pretty much the entirety of the design, system and content issues of that game right then, from the universally positive previews, without even looking at the game. Not with certainty, obviously, but the signs were all there.

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Quoting: KillYourFM

Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

I bought 3 WD Red Plus 12TB HDDs for my NAS project two months ago. I paid $229 each. Now the cheapest I can find that model in stock is $369. TWO MONTHS LATER. It's absolute madness out there.

I had some HDD issues recently, and I've been slowly toying with the idea of setting up a NAS, but it's either been time, money and always the issue of space, so I downsized instead and kept putting it off. I guess that's it for that for a good long while.

I bought a factory recertified 16TB half a year ago. Largely out stock at this point, double the price if you can grab one, and there's no stock available anywhere that I'd consider it a good idea to buy from.

Not paying for cloud, that's for sure. They can sell me drives for my local setup, or they can stuff it.

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Odd thing to say. To me it's very obvious that a reasonably deep turn-based roguelike with some whimsy and personality, AND cats is more popular than the thematic downer that is The Binding of Isaac or the tough as nails meat grinder of a precision platformer.

I guess it's possible to spend years dedicating your life to something unaware of what it is that you're actually doing?

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Quoting: Jarmer^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

There's decades of discs sold, so once the big players exit someone who can make those numbers work can snatch up the enthusiasts, I think. Sort like what happened to music players, perhaps, so acceptable to good, and maybe even premium quality Chinese hardware. And those are arguably easier to replace since everyone has a DAP replacement in their hand or pocket right now. Another half a dozen in the drawer, not to mention the laptop, probably the smart TV and so on.

We'll see. The current market contraction is bound to leave a vacuum in any event. It'd be anomalous if literally no one tried to step in.

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HDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

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