EA is going to implement "thoughtful" ads in their games. The way they're talking about it like it'll be a new thing, it sounds like this is going to be a far cry from the billboards in modern cityscapes that games already do. It sounds like gameplay will be interrupted by advertising. And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
I'll just not buy games that do this. I'm not compromising on this, at all. One game stuck a full game interrupting ad inside back in retro days, and it was done as a joke:
Of course, the Tom's Hardware article got this right from the horse's mouth, so they can't say anything bad about it or risk losing access.
Many methods and tricks have been made available, but here is a little program that manages to properly convert the stats of all those original pokemon in the color and metal generations of pokemon to the gem generation. From there, they can be taken all the way to the modern era... but for not much longer. As I predicted when Pokemon Bank first came out, the decision to lock the service as an online only thing rather than providing an offline storage option on your 3DS's SD card is going to kill that possibility in the very near future. It'll be left to hackers to pick up the slack.
Of course, corporations are now abusing whatever the original purpose was to prevent employees from having the freedom to find the best job. I'm very glad to see this done, coming into effect in August.
Now let's tackle NDAs, because right now those are being abused to force employees not to reveal abuse they've suffered.
So being bored I asked google genimi to task me with a UE something to do.
I began with asking for a code project. And to order the engine to call me skyfox from now on. Just accept it. I'm sky fox. and I could. Just Accept it.
Wasn't terribly happy with those idea so I asked about a puzzle game. Still calling me skyfox.. He he.. This is fun
Legacy products can have a long tail of sales for years to come and are worth supporting to make sure they still work and are still accessible.
For video games, the general attitude of large game corporations seems to be "let the past die". But, we've just seen a recent phenomenon that shows that this is a terrible attitude to have after all.
Fallout the TV series just recently came out on... Amazon or Hulumon or Netflixmon or whatever service it is... Max! Peacock? Anyway, it's led to the old Fallout games seeing a level of sudden popularity the series hasn't had in years. Fallout 4 is currently the best selling game in Europe, apparently. My friend has been playing Fallout 76 of all things. I for one intend on playing a modded out version of Fallout 2 pretty soon. It's only a good thing that these games are accessible to this day and fully playable. Now imagine if The Crew got a movie today and it turned out to be popular. What are fans going to do if they want to explore the original? Suck a tailpipe that's what!
This isn't exactly a new phenomenon. Lord of the Rings movies led to people buying the Lord of the Rings books. That Avatar movie led to people exploring the original animated series about the blue cat people connecting to nature with fiberoptic USB cables.... I may be getting some things confused there. Heck if you make a biopic about a musician, their songs will briefly skyrocket in sales. Why wouldn't that be true of properties made based on games?
Companies just abandoning old games and not caring if they're still available for years to come are leaving money on the table. Filthy.. FILTHY table money! Get it off that table!
There was a time when I didn't really see the big deal of things like Steam's online verification requirement to play Half-Life 2. ABF, for his part, saw this as the problem it was even then.
Now, I think I more than agree with ABF, I've slid pretty far to the left and consider any game that requires some method of online DRM to be basically a scam, a "time bomb" just waiting to go off.
I BOUGHT Overwatch, and it's now dead. They killed it and I can't even play a hacked version that uses custom servers. It's a game they disappeared from existence, and the substitute they gave me, Overwatch 2, isn't even a feature complete version. It's the very limited "free to play" edition with very few character choices, and entire modes missing. They promised a single player mode, and that's been cancelled.
This is real. Alright here we have a game made as a loving spiritual successor to... the two side scrolling CD-i Zelda games. Even the cut scenes are of that same infamous quality and they got the old voice actors. "Good."
Thing is, apparently it's much better designed than the CDi games and is actually fun, closer to Zelda II. Frankly I'm shocked such a thing came to exist but... here we are!
