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Eventually Lichdom: Battlemage is Bioshock meets Serious Sam. It's about 10-20 hours, very linear, and has spell crafting (literally).
Can recommend!
Electric rockets are the most powerful, also necromancy and infected spores can do great. Use these three and in about 6 hours into the game it feels like absolute power even against the toughest enemies.
In the meantime, Xbox is now officially XBOX (all caps). Which was decided from the internal poll.
Funny enough, I remember 14 years ago we've had to write XBOX and NVIDIA all caps and if we didn't, their reps pinged me and asked me to fix that shit.
#Xbox@GameDEV
#Microso@GameDEV
Capcom just announced they sold 59 million COPIES of their games during the last financial year...
That would be a huge number even for Tier-1 publishing house, but Capcom are much-much smaller (less than 4000 people in all subsidiaries vs ~20 000 at Ubisoft, for example).
#Capcom@GameDEV
Users noticed that several new laptops this year arrived with huge Copilot buttons. Since yes, no one uses this spectacular technology...
#AI@GameDEV
#Microsoft@GameDEV
POV: you're playing a Sony game. It requires 500~mb of ram just to run their telemetry system. And then Sony wonders why people don't want to have a Playstation Network account.
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Back in San Andreas times, Rockstar Games were so mad about True Crime game series, that they placed an Easter egg about it...
#GTA@GameDEV
After the recent piracy war, they are now getting the idea on why...
#Piracy@GameDEV
The whole city in the game vs the real view from that spot (keeping in mind that half of the city stays behind IRL).
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Okay, why is one of them dressed and another one isn't?
#Fallout@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV
Someone wrote it, voiced it, and animated!
True Crime: Streets of LA
Good night, folks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb2pUIctcXQ
#Music@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV
Last year a YouTuber won his case against Google. They failed to prove he violated anything, despite initially claimed strong evidence on their side. Then they... ignored the court rule and still pretend it never happened.
#Google@GameDEV
#YouTube@GameDEV
A custom indie team got into 24 hours race on Nürburgring. With slightly modified Renault / Dacha Logan.
It was not any fast, compared to other cars. But it finished the race, ended up not the last, and was extremely steady while turning.
Two moments became iconic: how racing cars lose the grip while following the Logan and the moment when much more powerful Mercedes wasted over a minute unable to bypass the tiny car.
Ollis Garage Racing barely made it to the event since they've had to modify the car but keep it under tons of regulations. Technically a group of friends fulfilled their lifetime dream.
#Racing@GameDEV
#OffTopic@GameDEV
100% agreed on it: if you want better games, don't treat all games as live-service!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0cLf3EBRiR4
Bulgaria, where I live for over a decade, just won Eurovision. The contest isn't bothering me for ages but it's good to see such an achievement from our folks.
- Israel landed second
- UK is the last (LOL)
The song is absolutely not my kind of music. The last time I liked the sound of the contest was Lordi 😏
#Music@GameDEV
Apparently, I'm a fool and the "cool audio" in the game comes from audio system + windows + their basic system, not TrueAudio.
That feature was limited to a very narrow Radeon chips with additional DSP (R9 260 - 295x2, + some Kaveri and Carrizo APUs).
The basic audio still has spatial sound, reverberation, audio materials, and more. It's just accelerated in a different way. And it's still one of the best audio implementations in any game.
Back in 2014 AMD and the small but passionate studio Xaviant (The Culling) created Battlemage. The game using Cryengine 3 and one of the first true spatial sound systems (named TrueAudio)
- First: there are simply not so many Battle mage games out there, so magic combat is cool
- Second: even now good spatial audio sounds insanely good and this one is indeed very impressive!
The system was also used in Theif but generally didn't get enough attention. But the studies they made helped to make later systems (Steam Audio included).
Can be a funky one to try on sale, don't expect too much though. Except the audio — it's still awesome.
The guy ported Steam Audio to Lineage II. Sadly, not all sounds are positioned anyway but ones that are placed in 3D will have direction and proper reflectivity now.
#Modding@GameDEV
#MMO@GameDEV
Yeah, I mean, how many times my save files from 2010 or 2013 were still on Steam cloud? Ang GOG is even better with their game upgrades for modern systems.
#PCMR@GameDEV
#Steam@GameDEV
For me the biggest issue with Forza Horizon series is that it fails to deliver the cultural and architectural heart of locations it supposed to represent. Tokyo is also not Tokyo at all. The whole premise of visiting a certain place is a hoax.
Here are some of my shots from Edinburgh, which is supposed to be shown in FH4, but it's barely there. They missed the scale, they turned the city into a parody of itself... a few landmarks, placed 30 seconds away of each other, like the beach which begins right after Arthur's Seat (and it's actually divided by a half of the city).
Meanwhile, the expensive Forza Horizon 6 premium edition already gathered 177K CCU on Steam alone... which is more than FH4 and FH5 peaks COMBINED.
#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Xbox@GameDEV
Everything is perfect in this screenshot: the title, the cheap-ass template, the similar games...
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