I wonder how much things like drift and recursion (ai training on its own data) would have on applications like this. I assume it’s like most and it it would just produce nonsense. But since it would likely result in cuts to the animation staff, I’d think recovery from model collapse would be harder since getting new data takes time, staff resources that would be hard build up while in the middle of development.
Got it right after launch. It is fantastic. Puzzles are fun, characters and plot are entertaining, and it’s just frickin adorable. It’s really short- I’m hoping because the dev team is releasing additional cases later, but right now you just solve one case. I finished it in an evening taking it slowly. I don’t regret paying full price, but I definitely want more. Would recommend for sure.
This sounds amazing! The combination is brilliant.
Yep. Even if he was concerned he wouldn’t want to express that publicly, because his teams would all start jumping ship. Then he’d have an actual delivery problem on his hands and the chance of closure would be much higher.
That said, any studio owned by Microsoft should be worried. They demonstrated that even producing popular, highly-acclaimed games isn’t enough for them, so there doesn’t seem to be a way to keep them happy.
Excited to see more updates coming to Cult of the Lamb. I enjoyed the hell out of the main campaign and recent update.
Tried the Anger Foot demo a while back and it was okay. I may grab the full version depending on price. The aethetic is fun and interesting and the kicking mechanic is pretty satisfying.
I don’t understand why this isn’t discussed more openly by studios and publishers. Instead, they all seem to be trying to milk more money from the teets of and gen z gamers who are worried about things like buying a home or even paying for groceries. They keep driving more games to live service, or paid DLCs that 20 years ago would have been part of the base game or free updates. Why not go for a new market instead of fighting over the little money that most younger gamers have to spend?
Oh awesome. I’ll have to try it again. I have a couple hundred hours in xcom 1 and play long war from time to time. Exciting to have a ‘new’ game to play!
And then there’s XCOM… which thankfully 2 is amazing.
Really? It wouldn’t play on my machine back when it first came out so I returned it and never went back after seeing a ton of negative reviews about the timed missions. Did they update that part or was the bad feedback overblown?
Honestly it’s probably for the best. Remedy is great at rich world building and stories, but I’m not sure that a coop multi-player game is really something I’d be all that jazzed about coming from them. Just get me Alan Wake 2 on steam and Control 2 please.
Ugh.
They don’t all need to be 10-year development AAA games. Maybe we need more than another 150+ hr, $80 game. These studios were doing good stuff that checked a lot of boxes and now they’re gone or stuck with Microsoft making more starfield updates.
Looks a little like Untitled Goose Game with a cat.
I approve.
It sucks that in pretty much every case, when a company is successful enough to acquire another, they somehow immediately become cash strapped to the point that they have to lay people off.
I know business people will say it’s more complicated than that, but I don’t think it is or needs to be.
I had that game! It was so weird! Cool concept but I never had any idea what I was doing. The DNA sequence minigame (?) was neat but it was never clear how you get any specific results. I wonder if there’s just an RNG behind it and none of your actions really mattered.
I got to the gold man level (which I guess is the pique of evolution and the end stage) and the game didn’t really end. I just was able to walk around slapping animals and taking almost no damage.
I picked it up again used and threw it in my dreamcast and couldn’t get through it. I found it tedious and kind if dull. Would be interested in seeing a remake though- I bet modern engines could do a solid job with some of the ideas in it.
Void bastards was really fun and unique. Will definitely add wild bastards to my wishlist.
Agree with @haytch it’s definitely one of the better pc ports I’ve played. I have about 12 hours in and noticed no real issues. Story is an interesting continuation of the first and there’s some good improvements. Lots of new weapons, totally revamped skill tree/leveling and some new mechanics like gliding ( though I’m still finding gliding a little clunky, but that may be because I’m not used to it yet).
It’s definitely worth picking up.
I had the 7-up game on Sega Genesis even before this was a thing. I’m a little surprised that those kinds of games didn’t become more popular since companies are cramming adverts into every possible medium now.
Oh yeah this is great!
Ooh, no I haven’t yet. Will take a look at that one. Thanks!
I just saw mine. It’s pretty cool to look back through my stuff for the year.
I’m hoping they learned their lesson with 3. I liked many of the changes to game mechanics but the story and characters were awful. Plus the idea that basically every woman is a siren is just a little worn out.