Quoting: suchProbably just a port of the Switch version. Expect very blurry backgrounds with extremely sharp 3D assets. Hopefully, no new models similar to FF8R, because that'd be more work.

Fun fact: the Switch version is - ultimately - a port of the notorious 1997 PC version, so expect no analog movement and 15fps menu framerate unless this isn't just a sloppy port of an existing sloppy port (of a sloppy 2013 PC port?) of a botched ancient Eidos port. Yum.

Gosh, did the Switch also get the MIDI soundtrack instead of the high-quality samples from PS1?

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I wonder if that 25% for more traditional press and bloggers is also an indication of customers' average age for said press/blogs (I'm very inclined to think so).

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Madrid isn't a city usually depicted in games, and lately Spanish studios are chucking a fair amount of point & click adventures of decent quality. It's on my wishlist 😊

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Quoting: soulsourceRed flag: The I.MX8M Plus is painfully slow...

That's the CPU used by Purism in their Librem 5... So painfully slow AND painfully old.

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Quoting: ArehandoroWhile I agree with you, in this case the person that did the estimate is the same that did the work in one day 😅

" Hey look boss the thing i said would take 8 months took one day ! ,
Am i a good boy now, do i get a promotion ? Ohh OK, then maybe just another new project i guess.
... wait , you don't need me as much for the next 8 months ... wait you don't need me as much at all now, what's going on .. " 😆

At least extend the job a few months, jeez. There's always more work to do, and a company will typical NOT value something like this as much as you would like to think in terms of employee relations. And i know this is going to sound bad to some, but it kind of puts a lot of strain on the rest of a team to do the same, making the demands on everyone much higher & leading to everyone now having to rely on Ai more than critical thinking to pump out projects as fast as the previous bar was set. Playing right into the management / CEO's hands. At some point this 'extra efficiency' leads to a nice game of roulette as to which Dev gets to tell their family there not economically viable anymore. I mean, don't shirk your responsibilities but you have to work out a good work life balance within your role.

So do your work well. Efficiently but learn how to play the game at least a little bit. Remember the management already learned how to play the game hence why they have so many 'strategic meetings' and paid for business trips to fancy hotels in foreign countries.

This is a different topic, or perhaps the consequences of said actions, but I do agree with the sentiment.

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I'd like Kickstarter to make statements of the projects that put a very low pledge goal, like this one at just 50K, so we know if the low goal is because they already have a lot of backing behind or if it's so they reach the goal and get to keep the money independently of finalising the project.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: ShadowXeldronhad been estimated in 8 or 9 months of work.

Quite common to hear same or similar lines, decade after decade, specially from corporate/proprietary software side... and some hobbyist programmer do same or better in weekend, while playing quake, scratching backside or something...
Gaming side full of that too... modders fixing crap, adding stuff without having access to source code, documentation, etc., in hours, after yet another buggy and broken releases/patch.

While I agree with you, in this case the person that did the estimate is the same that did the work in one day 😅

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

That's what I thought too, and it's probably the case generally, but I got my mouth shut yesterday. One software architect at the company I work, created a new feature in a day that had been estimated in 8 or 9 months of work. It has been quite the buzz in the office. Now, I don't know if the original estimate was way off, but the "achievement" is still rather impressive.

Quoting: ShadowXeldronI'd be fine with going back to shopping with GOG if their official client actually comes to Linux as a native package with proper wineprefix handling for non-native games. Their lack of Linux support is what made me give up on them.

100% with you on this.

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Lovely to see Godot improving. One of my 2026 resolution is to learn a bit of Godot and, at least, do a mini prototype game... Will see how that ends up 😅

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Will all Steam Deck Verified games run at 4K@60FPS? Cause they said all Steam Machine Verified games would...

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