BG3? Not sure I am seeing the influence here.

If anything Firaxis’s take on XCOM has made turn based tactics somewhat mainstream again, and Ubisoft has already tried to surf on this trend once with Mario+Rabbids.

Early millennial, saw that movie a dozen times growing up. Some TV broadcasts, and an overused, quite damaged home-recorded VHS.

To keep up with the worst reasons for which people can hunt fossils, on top of selling them in auctions for rich assholes, now you’ll be able to grind them into a powder and sell them as medicinal remedies.

I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it’s absolutely certain it has the character’s name.

And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.

That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I’m wondering if I’ve seen that asset somewhere else…

8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8’s tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).

Wii comes very close though. It’s the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.

I just think of 8 as “we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better”.

Guy didn’t get the memo and only signed for Valhalla expecting booze and hot Valkyries.

I don’t know, that little guy looks like it has guts. Maybe it earned its place in Elysium.

You may be familiar with the old management game Theme Hospital. Two Point Hospital was a modern take on that, and they extended the concept to university campus and now museum.

They present Muse as a “generative AI model of a videogame” that you’d train to “learn about older games”. Which seems a very bold claim to begin with.

If this is anything like that, this is not a way to preserve the original game, it’s an attempt at reproducing (parts of?) it. And since generative AI is involved, there is no reason to believe it will be a faithful recreation.

Of course this could all be marketing bullshit, and for all we know their AI is just another coding assistant AI that they might use to create remakes. And then they’ll only be as faithful as the team making it can or will do it, as has always been the case with remakes.

Anyway, remaking is not preserving.

Edit : was a bit slow trying to make my point, seeing now your edit. Yep, that’s exactly what I got from this too.

You’ve convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.

Guys, it’s okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they’re bound to stumble upon that old stuff eventually.

Edit : love that one guy who found a couple people critical of one of the most ridiculous claim about generative AI yet and decided to downvote everyone without a word.

Yeah. Once I went to a natural cave with prehistoric paintings that has an installation so you can visit it without damaging it. You go through it on an mine cart-like train of sort, in small groups. There’s a guide explaining stuff about the cave and its history.

First thing when we board the train, he tells us not to touch anything because the cave is made of soft clay and we need to preserve it as it is. Obviously some complete idiot immediately extends his arm toward the cave wall and poke through it with his finger.

Got firmly scolded by the guide and just smiled through it like he’s done the funniest shit ever.

Saw my switch version update out of nowhere yesterday, and I was wondering what it was about.

A bunch of cool QoL, fixes and visual stuff. Doesn’t look like there’s anything revolutionary in there, but it’s great they pushed those improvements on all versions.

All that for a new haircut? Doesn’t even look like that out of place of a style change to me.

I mean, look at what Castlevania Judgment did to its characters back then if you want terrible redesign. Most of them were unrecognizable. Simon, Maria and Death became Death Note cosplayers, others like Grant and Carmilla went full SoulCalibur knock-off.

Along with bad anime trope personality graft for half of them.

Completely fair. That was mostly for the joke, but I do have a lot of digital media, at some point you don’t have much choice in the matter. Most of mine is games though.

Got my first e-reader because someone was getting rid of theirs… And well, that’s a kindle, a very old one. I never bought any digital book from amazon, only used it with calibre and stuff found elsewhere. Some public domain, some bought through bundles and stuff, some… “found” elsewhere. i’ve not had amazon wipe it yet as some say it happened to them, not even sure it could happen on mine, they haven’t even supported it forever. But it’s a tiny minority of my books anyway.

I’ve got a pet peeve of spotting French ads using English language songs that they would never think of using if most people listened to and/or understood the lyrics.

Some examples :

A car manufacturer using the same song for decades, Johnny and Mary. Hard to tell who the song is really about, but it’s clearly about a broken, quite unhappy and mentally unstable couple.

A big mart chain using Prayer in C in its happy, “let’s be optimistic” clips.

And see the children are starving / And their houses were destroyed / Don’t think they could forgive you

Hey, when seas will cover lands / And when men will be no more / Don’t think you can forgive you

A perfume ad with Sia’s Chandelier blaring out. Yeah, suicide by booze, definitely what I want to feel classy.

I have DRM-free versions of How To and What If?.

They’re made of trees.

Kinda, Balatro is still largely a more traditional card game which couldve come out just as easily 30 years ago at least from a mechanical perspective

Yeah, that part feels irrelevant to me. Sid Meier’s Civilization VII just launched.

And really, Balatro has as much to do with Slay the Spire and other deckbuilders as traditional card games.

I don’t understand separating puzzle games from gaming, either. Tetris was a huge part of why the Gameboy became a thing, and it keeps being more or less reinvented today. Back then, someone playing Tetris or even just chess on a computer was playing video games, period. And that was almost enough to call them nerds. That was “only” 40 years ago, compare that with any other medium.

What I am saying, is that this separation is blurry. Also look at the vast majority of games on any current platform, including Steam, and tell me it’s not full of poorly made barely interactive piece of shit on the level of the worst phone “games”.

Where do you draw the line?

I passed the Balatro virus to my mother, she plays on a tablet. Is Balatro casual?