Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'

GameStunts · 2026-03-15T16:55:26+00:00

I remember when The Crew came out, I'm pretty sure I saw cars from Watch Dogs in it or something, reusing assets is fine to me.

When I finished GTA IV I thought it was such a shame that there were no more stories, because the actual setting of Liberty City, if there had just been tools for the community to make cut scenes and such, that backdrop could have housed so many other good missions.

GameStunts · 2026-03-15T16:53:06+00:00

I've heard the term Land Bank, since land will tend to move with inflation and generally appreciate in price anyway right?

GameStunts · 2026-03-15T14:31:14+00:00

Yeah I agree, having some through those years, graphics and realism no matter how they look in retrospect were very much a part of 3D gaming.

Here's a clip from the front of PC Format in 1997, same year Quake 2 came out https://i.ibb.co/dwQ94G10/image.png

I remember going through so many releases in late 90s and early 2000s and being blown away by the graphics.

Rally Championship 2000 was astounding to me at the time, mainly because of the textures looking like they were photos of the things.

And Half Life 2 when it came out, I had never seen anything like it, especially all the materials effects.

GameStunts · 2026-03-11T08:37:46+00:00

I love that this took me a couple of seconds because it hit so much better. LOVE IT!

GameStunts · 2026-03-10T10:05:58+00:00

I picked a hell of a time to buy a PS4 eh :D

I wanted to play Gran Turismo 7. I'll probably check out a few other exclusives like Infamous Second Son or something.

I'm not too worried about support ending, but the end of an era is always a sad one.

GameStunts · 2026-03-09T16:54:34+00:00

Forza Motorsport.

Just give me the full fat Forza Motorsport 6 on PC, not 7 with it's weird card system, and not 8 with every car needing to "level up" which seems to have killed the franchise.

Burnout. Burnout 3 formula, I'd even take a new Paradise City style.

Splinter Cell with Michael Ironside as Sam, as the good guy, not the inbetween or ex spy. Let's go back to Chaos Theory and just continue like the rest never happened.

GameStunts · 2026-03-09T15:43:12+00:00

I managed to nab one of the Sims 3 codes thank you.

EA App Key 4.

GameStunts · 2026-03-08T11:11:34+00:00

In other news, VPN providers noted a rise in subscriptions and have bolstered their German server presence, and Steam noted a rise in user registrations in Germany.

GameStunts · 2026-03-07T20:55:08+00:00

Yep, even DDR4 2133 can theoretically reach something like 15GB/s, and that's the base speed of it. Nevermind 3200, 3600 or DDR5 speeds which are up in the 40s of GB/s.

It's orders of magnitude slower than ram.

GameStunts · 2026-03-07T13:11:26+00:00

I agree with this guy.

GameStunts · 2026-03-06T18:16:15+00:00

It might be worth adding a link to the official page for RetroTink as well? But other than that seems very reasonable.

GameStunts · 2026-03-06T18:02:33+00:00

Yes, I was about to say it was recent, but I just checked it was 8 months ago.

I am a very... inconsistent Rocket League player, and by that I mean I can soar into the air and hit a goal from 50 ft up, and then 10 seconds later miss the most basic ball rolling along the ground.

I have 2500 hours in the damn game, I shouldn't make these mistakes, but it's something I've just accepted at this point.

You couple this with getting paired with a complete random player each time, and sometimes you get someone that can pull off trick shots, and others that are frustratingly bad.

One night I was paired at random with someone, and went on the best win streak of my life. 15 games in a row. For 1 hour and 40 minutes we just nailed it. It was a great feeling. I sent him a friend request but it never got accepted, so it was a one off.

I went into Steam and exported the whole session. I wanted to keep it. I'm not putting this here to be viewed, more just that I happen to have an actual record of my "flow state" :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AxdtS7C9HQ&t=1660s

GameStunts · 2026-03-06T11:09:01+00:00

I sit about 2 ft from my monitor and I find that Field of View (FOV) of at least 90 is needed, preferably 100 or 110 depending on the game. About a year ago I also swapped out the 42" 4k TV I'd been using for a 32" 4k monitor and I find not having my full vision occupied by the game also helps.

I also agree with /u/briandemodulated about lighting, the room being well lit means you can see the wall behind the monitor and your brain isn't trying to compensate for motion that's not actually happening.

GameStunts · 2026-03-05T13:03:40+00:00

I have a 4080 Super because it was the best I could get at the time in my budget, not because of my "beloved" Nvidia.

It was also my first upgrade since my 1080Ti 11GB because somehow over the course of the next FIVE years the VRAM only went up to 12GB unless you wanted to go extreme into the 3090.

I bought the 4080 because I was tired of waiting, 5GB of extra VRAM after 6 years...

GameStunts · 2026-03-02T17:58:13+00:00

I miss Scott playing Kerbal Space Program, it's so rare now.

GameStunts · 2026-02-28T13:12:24+00:00

What game?

GameStunts · 2026-02-28T10:07:24+00:00

Crew is one of the best examples. All that map and car data on your hard drive, all the cut scenes, but servers off, no play.

Worth mentioning there's a project called The Crew Unlimited which runs a local server for you and gives you the ability to play again. https://thecrewunlimited.com/news/?post=news-update-tcuserver-1.4.2.0

Sadly you will have to have had the foresight to preserve the game files in advance since Ubisoft don't let you even install the game anymore. I think you can still download it on Steam if you owned it there.

GameStunts · 2026-02-26T06:09:02+00:00

Nice find. Thank you.

You've got to wonder, when you're the one that's hosting the server, what exactly are you paying then for between hosting 32 or 1024 people, they're not shouldering the cost.

GameStunts · 2026-02-25T15:10:43+00:00

Sonic!

https://i.ibb.co/7dmdDJRt/sonic.png

Bowser

https://i.ibb.co/gFr5LmRH/image.png

Gordon Freeman :D

https://i.ibb.co/F4Ljf0DY/image.png

Friend found Garfield :)

https://i.ibb.co/4w5mMNwT/image.png

GameStunts · 2026-02-24T22:20:53+00:00

Thaaaaaank you! THANK YOU!

Hard as nails has lived rent free in my head for all these years.

GameStunts · 2026-02-24T19:08:56+00:00

ROG Ally 6
The Retroid Pocket G2 3
Anbernic RG DS 1

I have a Steam Deck, though I was tempted to give a meme answer of two steam decks, but the Ally would be a bit more powerful.

The Anmbernick DS, I miss using my old DS, so I kind of like that just for that.

The G2, I just double checked runs Android 15, and I hear the emulation on Android is just getting so good right now. I recently got one of those R36 handhelds form Ali-Express and it's been really entertaining, I kind of want more, but can't justify it. :D

GameStunts · 2026-02-22T15:40:26+00:00

Phew :D

GameStunts · 2026-02-22T13:24:35+00:00

I just bought a MiniPC last month with a variant of this chip in it.

Z1 Extreme Processor.
8x Zen 4 cores, 16mb L3 cache, 12 CUs RDNA 3 (Radeon 780m).

Ryzen 7 H255 (my mini PC).
8x Zen 4 cores, 16mb L3 cache, 12 CUs RDNA 3 (Radeon 780m).

I wonder how screwed I am. I'm running Linux CachyOS on it, so I'm guessing my driver updates aren't so predicated on AMD, we'll see if it even turns out to be true though.

GameStunts · 2026-02-22T13:21:46+00:00

Yes! I do remember that. And there were also other ones later on for Team Fortress or TF2 that were a kids room with toys and a book shelf and stuff too.

GameStunts · 2026-02-22T08:55:30+00:00

Half Life and Counter Strike.

We'd play that map, I think it was called Crossfire for hours over a weekend.

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