Wait, does it? Oh, man, it does! I actively remember the praise, where did I get so much Mandela effect from this? I didn’t even think to look it up, I was so certain.
In any case, here’s to being actively wrong and still having made your point. Eternal is the lesser game in general, and I have played it much less, but it’s still telling I straight up forgot and invented an alternate scenario about it.
I don’t think the setup for Doom 16 would be particularly doable over LAN without rebuilding the game or giving you the server code. Servers are doing a LOT of work in this.
Nobody did. It was one of this weird wave of interesting multiplayer setups that just didn’t have the competitive cleanness of the established stuff and nobody ended up caring about.
It was midly interesting to try out once, but let’s say there’s a reason they didn’t do a MP mode in the sequel and every reviewer praised that choice.
I don’t know how this happened, but I am glad that it happened and yes, I just bought Doom 2016 again.
They actually lampshade this further down the article, at the point where clickbaiting has fulfilled its goal.
It’s almost nostalgic being mildly annoyed at some slightly sub-par journalistic ethics displayed by Gizmodo and company. Feels quaint and nostalgic now. I honestly didn’t know Gizmodo was still running, if I’m perfectly honest. It’s been quite the decade.
Honestly that’s because speeding up localizations by having the first pass be machine-made is not something that waited for GenAI to happen. It’s been going on for a while using good old machine translators.
Now, Google Translate and similar tools have been reliant on machine learning for ages, people just weren’t freaking out about it because “AI” hadn’t gone viral. It’s been weird to watch this sort of thing play out.
FWIW, if they are using the same loc workflow and genAI works better than good old machine translations for a first pass go ahead and do GenAI. From what I’ve seen casually it’s not necessarily faster or more reliable, but I’m not working on loc professionally. Maybe that’s what he means when he talks about using it in “backend processes”?
I mean… too late? Face recognition has been part of biometric passport security for years now.
If anything my first flag for this is that about 50% of the time I try it I end up having to call over a security person because it tends to flake out a bunch. I’ve had better luck recently, so maybe it’s ready now?
This becoming an app may be the logical next step, but I do think there’s some value to carrying a physical copy of the biometric data with you. If we’re not losing the paper passport I don’t see why I’d need to double up on recognition software. If you’re already matching my face to my passport and my boarding pass is also matched to my passport it sure seems like we already have all the pieces in place for this without wasting more money on more contractors and giving them more of our data to store.
Well, I don’t know that Larian is the problem. They don’t own the D&D or the BG license and they´re moving on from both, apparently. That said, I don’t know how willing they are to license their engine. I’m guessing not particularly, since they haven’t done it so far, to my knowledge.
Sure.
Again, people seem to be reading this as saying “don’t mod, develop full games”. Not what it says. I’m saying “if your mod is bloating so much you have a full team of developers working at speed it may be worth considering making a standalone game instead”.
In some cases you only get there a long while into working on a mod and it’s worth releasing that, getting some visibility and then moving on to standalone stuff instead, but mods that could have been a full-on release are relatively frequent, and I don’t like it when artists get paid in exposure by speculatively making games for someone else.
“One or few programmers” is the key part of that, though. I’m not saying every modder should get into game development out of the gate. Modding is a great way to dip your toes into gamedev without having to do all the teambuilding and groundwork of putting together every piece of a game.
But some mods get so big they do have a full-on dev team. Nothing wrong with spending some time getting proof of concept that the team can do the job, but if you’re spending years with a full team completely overhauling a game… I mean, get paid, man. You’re doing a whole ass job at that point.
It didn’t, technically, but it WAS originally build on the Neverwinter Nights toolset/engine. A licenced version, then modified. Which is sort of my point. Why mod if you have a big group of devs and you’re working at speed? Just pay to license the toolset you’re using and ship a game.
I like these, but they’ve been superseded by Windows handhelds for me. Granted, that’s because I have so many devices I use for retro stuff that being able to easily mount a shared folder instead of keeping a million SD cards with the same games is a big bonus and there is just no convenient way to do that on Android (and it strongly depends on your definition of “convenient” on Linux). If you just need the one thing to play a single bundle of old games I’d take the convenience, lower price, small size and long battery life of the 'droid devices.
Yeah, well, that’s why game engines are a thing. I didn’t pick The Witcher at random, that was built on top of Neverwinter Nights tech.
Maybe I’m too stuck in the 90s, but I never quite got the point of doing all those total conversions for Quake games when you could just as well use the exact same tools by licensing the engine and just ship the thing as a game.
Well, no, I’m lying. The point of those total conversions was very often that people wanted to use a bunch of licensed characters they didn’t own, which I guess is the point here as well, so maybe I’ve answered my own question.
I don’t get ballooning mod teams. I mean, at that point why not ship a standalone game? Last time this happened it was called The Witcher and I hear that did alright.
I’m gonna say there are a whole bunch of valid ways to engage with games, new and old. Go build your sources from whoever fits your use case best, if that’s what you need.
I have about as many gripes with the emulation-driven modern zeitgeist as I do with the “it belongs in a museum” artifact collectors, but I don’t begrudge eiter. At most I will forcefully but respectfully remind both and everybody else that neither of those assessments map in any way to how the games were perceived at the time, that nobody knew what Final Fantasy V was, the N64 bombed horribly and most of the games you think are popular now weren’t then.
Hah. Hey, I walked right into that one. That one gets to be a meme.
I’m just gonna say it.
Not everything needs to be a meme.
And yet the anger is new. Again, it’s about perception, not reality.
Not gonna lie, that one led to some introspection and I thank you for the opportunity.
Sure! I mean, why not? Hell, release the game DRM free in the first place on all platforms, huh? Why did we have to wait a decade and buy it twice before we could get the DRM version of any part of it, after all?
But you weren’t complaining about it yesterday and you’re way closer to the right outcome today. I would much rather have a DRM free version of some part of that game than not.