Fachewachewa

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Making games no one asked for En/Fr

Metacritic for Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary on Xbox 360, showing a score of 82.
XCOM 2 poster, "Earth is protected... by the holy sideburn" but in french.
A small body of water reflecting the wall in its top half, then defaulting to a bright "sky" reflection in its bottom half. A pillar is in the foreground, and this creates a bright reflection halo in the water "surrounding" it in the background.
Front view of a car, a scientist is driving, Renaud (player character) is in the passenger seat, his huge sword on his back, with the hilt being so long it has to go through the window.
Discord messages from me, july 11: almost unsubscribed when he said among us invented social deduction. link to a youtube video: "Can A Game Be Objectively Bad?" by Daryl Talks Games. gamers shouldn't be allowed to talk about games if they're only playing video games.
Post by "aibodgan", a "giveaway" for "a free month of every AI tool you actually pay for", asking for follow, reposts and comments.
"non mais clairement à l'époque la vidéo de nakeyjakey a niqué jiqué la manière dont les gens parlaient du jeu" "clearly at the time nakeyjakey's video fucked* the way people talked about the game" *niqué (fucked) is close to nakey, jiqué doesn't mean anything but it sounds funny.
Here’s the statement in full: I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs. My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month. I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios. To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved. Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal. You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games. Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy? Could they have created more things for fans to buy? Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games? Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones? Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper? I really don’t know. The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.
First of all, please remember that this is just a heads-up message. You can still re-enable uBlock Origin (and other Manifest v2 extensions) in vivaldi:extensions (Menu > Tools > Extensions), and it should continue to work at least until the end of the Vivaldi 8.1 release cycle (give or take 2 months). It should give you enough time to backup/export your settings and data from the unsupported extensions and find alternatives (hopefully other extensions, and not the browser 😜).
I don't think Titanium Court wastes my time—I've chosen to play it—but I was too often annoyed that my best-laid plans, my canny strategising, was flippantly undermined by a randomness the gameplay systems are too cumbersome to counteract. *Too often I knew how to solve a problem but the problem could not be match-three'd away, and there's a harsh limit to how much forward-planning can be done to accommodate for unfavourable RNG.* So maybe this is secretly just a card game? (If so, that's me bamboozled: I don't like them either.)
Titanium Court, "The Bad End", 22/22 hearts
French big box of Grim Fandango "Collection LucasArt". Front and back of the box, two discs in plastic sleeves, and a single sheet of paper as a manual.
Instead of "this big-budget game sucks" try writing about an indie game instead If you don’t like a thing, don’t waste energy talking about it. You convinced yourself you need to "be part of the conversation" but you're just adding noise. Nobody cares. Stop chasing clicks. If you'd instead written something positive about something you liked that the reader hadn’t heard of and might like too, in a small way you’d have made the world a better place.
Discord message from yesterday: @Fachewachewa know i haven’t been on here for a while but im watching the leftovers cuz of u and oh my god this show is amazinggggg just finished season 2 episode 6, it only gets better and better
Order of the Sinking Star logo, the star made of diamonds is full in the background.
Screenshot de la démo de Order of the Sinking Star avec un sous titre automatique : "En fait on est à la fin secrète de The Witness là."
Discord post from April 2024: Okay, I feel like I'm going crazy 😅 You've probably seen this around as it's got a big positive reception because of the wow factor, but.. do you see any potential in this idea? To me it's like that plarformer everyone tried to make once where dying on spikes leave a body you can then jump on. Seems like a cool idea but then you realise there's not much you can do with it, or at least making interesting stuff with this isn't as obvious as it'd seem. With the amount of attention they got they're probably going to stick with it, but I wonder if they'll find something of interest in there that's more than a 5min demo. and then a link to IGN's video: Screenbound - New '5D' Platformer Developer Overview.
Posts from 8 days ago: Let's see if Screenbound has figured any of their gameplay yet... Okay so they gave up on platforming right away. At least if they realised it had no potential it's reassuring.
Kevin Carroll in season 3, episode 1 of The Leftovers.
The Forza Horizon 6 hub on RPS, with a few articles from these last few weeks, including a review.
original post: "while people are talking about ZA/UM being taken over by capital interests, its always interesting to bring up how the distribution rights for Kentucky Route Zero are also owned by the Larry Ellison fortune, since Larry Ellison's daughter Megan Ellison bankrolls the entirety of Annapurna." response/quote by the same author: "i think some people saw my post yesterday and thought i was saying 'why aren't you getting mad about this other thing hypocrite?' when i was trying to say 'this is emblematic of a larger issue and you should be mad about all of it'".
"I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want, but of course I'll do it" - Ben Starr.
A graph titled "How hard it is to get people to play your game". It shows the thought put into getting the game depending on the price. I argue that the most "no-brainer" prices are 5 and 70 (€/$, lower than for free games) and that 30 is the prices people think the most about. I'd call it the "oh this is cool, I'll get it on sale maybe" tier. 100 goes into the negative, as a joke about GTA 6 costing 100€. All of this assumes the game is viewed as "real" (so, it's good enough and people have heard about it).
This gave me a lot of pause and put me off the game for a while. I thought about the disclosure as I played with my powers: There’s a way in which I could read my use of them as a certain kind of metaphor for AI, removing the person-power and thinking from a task but also making it far more efficient than it would be unaided. There’s certainly a middle ground here, using your powers to assist you in the manual task instead of deploying them to circumvent it altogether, as the disclosure seems to suggest the developers did with their use of AI. I doubt the developers intended this reading, but it did give me something to mull over. Ultimately I was curious enough about the game, given how well it slots into my interests (and the master’s degree I’m still paying for) and satisfied enough with the disclosure to play it anyway, but I wouldn’t fault anyone who wants nothing to do with a game that uses AI in any way.
Le moment du générique de Dexter New Blood où il y a un énorme "CROUNCH"
Video from The Game Overanalyser titled "When games are about the Journey, not the Destination". Thumbnail shows the games Journey and Celeste, and the words "strive" and "play". 17 hours ago.
A screenshot of that Rocket League Unreal Engine 6 teaser, with a very shiny car, bland realistic lighting, and an extremely unnecessarily detailed grass.
Screenshot of Hitman WoA in instinct mode. The game becomes black and white, and highlights interactive stuff. In this example, NPCs are outlines and visible through walls.
Screenshot of a Patrick Willems video on Nebula, titled "Why Is Every Streaming Blockbuster So Bad?" with a thumbnail reading "$300 MILLION SLOP".
Poster for "Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town".
“What is a roguelike anymore?” he asked. “So few people are trying to make something that is truly evocative of this experience of playing Rogue. Yesterday, a new Devolver game called Minos came out. You design a dungeon and then adventurers come in and they get attacked. I was on the Steam page and I watched a dev explanation of the game and he said (paraphrasing), ‘But don't worry, this is a roguelike, so death is not the end!’ And I'm like, that is the exact opposite of what 10 years ago somebody would've said a roguelike was!”
Cool Games with <500 Steam reviews From this year - Derelict Star One of the greatest - Mask Quest Peak of its genre - Treasures of the Aegean Because it's not on Steam (PC) - Xenosphere Because it's not on Steam (other) - Endless, Nameless (parser, close enough) If you like this... - PowerWash Simulator ...you should love this one - Wilmot's Warehouse I swear I'll play it one day - Ocnus Theory The demo was great - 30 Birds It's just very cool - Guncho Not my thing, might be yours - Asterism Good? idk. Interesting? definitely - GZLNA Does a lot with very little - The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place Extremely smart - Dog Witch Ambitious, maybe too much - Timeloop: Sink Again Beach I've heard enough about it to know - Else Heart.Break() More games should be like this - Mr Sun's Hatbox That one thing - Trash of the Titans (tetris levelling up) One for the sickos (affectionate) - Fragrance Point One for the sickos (jealous) - Ginger
Cool Games with <500 Steam reviews From this year - Derelict Star One of the greatest - Mask Quest Peak of its genre - Treasures of the Aegean Because it's not on Steam (PC) - Xenosphere Because it's not on Steam (other) - Endless, Nameless (parser, close enough) If you like this... - PowerWash Simulator ...you should love this one - Wilmot's Warehouse I swear I'll play it one day - Ocnus Theory The demo was great - 30 Birds It's just very cool - Guncho Not my thing, might be yours - Asterism Good? idk. Interesting? definitely - GZLNA Does a lot with very little - The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place Extremely smart - Dog Witch Ambitious, maybe too much - Timeloop: Sink Again Beach I've heard enough about it to know - Else Heart.Break() More games should be like this - Mr Sun's Hatbox That one thing - Trash of the Titans (tetris levelling up) One for the sickos (affectionate) - Fragrance Point One for the sickos (jealous) - Ginger
Cool Games with <500 Steam reviews From this year - One of the greatest - Peak of its genre - Because it's not on Steam (PC) - Because it's not on Steam (other) - If you like this... - ...you should love this one - I swear I'll play it one day - The demo was great - It's just very cool - Not my thing, might be yours - Good? idk. Interesting? definitely - Does a lot with very little - Extremely smart - Ambitious, maybe too much - I've heard enough about it to know - More games should be like this - That one thing - One for the sickos (affectionate) - One for the sickos (jealous) -
A Bunch of Bad Games Bad game I love - Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] (they didn't have Unchained nor Union, I obviously only played on android) Bad game I like - Prototype Bad game I hate - Tomb Raider Bad game with a part I love - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Good game with a part I hate - Block Koala (BK is the part, UFO 50 is the good game) Creators should be ashamed - Devolver Tumble Time Reviewers should be ashamed - Hitman Absolution Biggest disappointment - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes I wish I saw what you see in this one - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim I don't get how you can like this - F-Zero 99 Ruined the Series - Assassin's Creed II Ruined the Genre - Rogue Legacy Ruined the Medium - Resident Evil 4 (not the fault of the game, it's good and all) Video Games *do* melt your brain - Vampire Survivors Bigger isn't better - Elden Ring Didn't deserve any attention - The Quiet Man Even for Ubisoft this is bad - Ghost Recon: Wildlands Bad if you're a fan of the genre - Void Stranger Only fun because of your friends - Among Us Gamers should watch movies - The Last of Us Bad version of another game - Guess The.Game Worse but way more popular - Baldur's Gate III Seriously just play the other games - Metroid Dread Worst GOTY - God of War This definitely isn't the GOAT - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Reviews for a game from 2019. It had one review from 2019 and one from 2021. It has, so far, 36 reviews posted today.
Screenshot of "the big things that we're thinking about" by Stephen Totilo for Game File, a PR blog post for Microsoft. The search result on the page shows 0 result for the word "israel".
Game from this year: The Artisan of Glimmith Game from before 1990: Solstice Had the guidebook for this one: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Passes the bechdel test: Unsighted Schoovement: Neon White Chicken soup for the gamer's soul: Getting Over It Please come back...: Super Monkey Ball Would replay it, but there's that one part: Metal Gear Solid 3 No official english translation: Kururin Paradise They fucked his sandwich up 4 times: Assassin's Creed II I'll get around to it some day: Ocnus Theory Get julius caesar addicted to hentai: ??? Y'all lied, this sucks: Baldur's Gate III I see it in my dreams: Lumines Still the peak of the series: Assassin's Creed Almost perfect: Fez Listening to the OST right now: MewGenics All killer no filler: Öoo Made me cry: The Beginner's Guide OK now let's do a silly one: Astrologaster
Favorite Game: The Witness Best Story: Eliza Favorite Art Style: Arranger Biggest Personal Impact: Spelunky Best Combat: Into the Breach Overhated: Kingdom Hearts III Underrated: Prototype Overrated: inFamous Needs a Remake: The Last Of Us Part I Criminally Overlooked: Can of Wormholes Favorite Protagonist: Red Dead Redemption II Favorite Antagonist: Iconoclasts Best Soundtrack: Blue Prince Best Multiplayer: Project Winter Not Usually My Thing, But…: OutRun 2 Turn My Brain Off: Rocket League Best With Friends: Solium Infernum Best Retro Game: KuruKuru Kururin Nostalgic Childhood Game: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs Game Everyone Should Play: Outer Wilds
Screenshot of the Blue Prince, looking at the Rook in the Nook.
Screenshot of a Super Meat Boy 3D time result screen. My time is 16:65, and the "A+" time to beat is 25:00.
Sluggerfly and Team Meat smartly added a new air dash ability to Meat Boy’s limited repertoire of techniques that allows him to instantly halt his momentum and dash in a direction, which is great because it’s much harder to judge distance in 3D than it is in 2D, and having the ability to instantly correct yourself if you overshot a jump, or quickly latch on to a wall after leaping around a corner is a godsend. Not to mention it makes for great high risk movement tech since you can do a short hop into an airdash for a quick boost of speed that’s faster than just straight up running, which is especially fun when trying to find ways to shave off an extra second or two of your fastest times while going for A+ ranks.
Spelunky daily, 7-24.
Screenshot of an old NL video of him testing his new webcam or something by telling an offensive joke.
Screenshot of https://glyph.today The goal is to reproduce a glyph by stacking letters on top of each other, finding the code word hidden in the glyph. Today, I reproduce the glyph by writing THWOMP, like the Mario enemy, but the game says the word isn't in the dictionary.
Retro Achievement unlocked "Advanced Ace". It reads: "Clear Advanced and Advanced Extra without using a warp goal or a continue." This was hard!!!
System Requirements for Monster Hunter Wilds. What matters here is the additional notes. For minimum specs: "This game is expected to run at 1080p (upscaled from 720 native resolution) / 30 fps." For recommended specs: "This game is expected to run at 1080p / 60 fps (with Frame Generation enabled)." No matter how you play, you *have* to use AI features to get normal performances, even though those features were supposed to make higher performances possible.
Comparison between Snake from MGS3 and MGS Delta.
Spelunky 2 daily result screen, I died in 7-26 after 46 minutes.
Joel from The Last of Us Remastered vs Joel from TLOU Part 1, except DLSS OFF / ON is badly written in red over the name of the games.
Jesse from Control, with and without ray tracing effects, but the text is cut off. This obviously isn't DLSS 5.
Comparison of Jesse's face in Control with and without ray tracing effects.
Playstation 1 box art for Astérix: The Gallic War (though it doesn't include the subtitle on the box)
Regency Solitaire II, released in 2024 with 300 followers (but really, 200 before release)
Meme of an astronaut looking at Earth, which is covered by the Sandfall logo, saying "Wait, it's all Ubisoft?". The astronaut behind them says "Always has been". They normally points a gun at the first astronaut, but here it's crudely replaced by the hidden blade from Assassin's Creed.
"this sucks. no patience for the people laughing at it, calling it concord 2.0, etc. if 2 million people pick up a game, and you have to shutter it and lay everyone off, it doesn't matter if the game is good or bad. it's a symptom of a much bigger and deeper problem."
Screenshot de Boyard, assurément l'un des meilleurs jeux vidéo jamais créé.
MewGenics family tree screenshot. Birthday Boy and Acakuma had QTPnkGrl together.
MewGenics gameplay.
Screenshot of the green herb from the RE9 trailer. The green herb is so aliased it looks like a PNG that's been cut out with a badly setup magic wand and that's it.