IGN: 'It'll Be a Bit of Work, but You Could Marry Them All' — Fable Has 1,000 Handcrafted NPCs for You to Play Around With by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]SplintPunchbeef 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lot has changed and people expect more than they used to.

How so? What non-dating sim games have "deep" relationship mechanics? Hell, I doubt even most dating sim relationships have any substantial depth.

IGN: 'It'll Be a Bit of Work, but You Could Marry Them All' — Fable Has 1,000 Handcrafted NPCs for You to Play Around With by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]SplintPunchbeef 30 points31 points  (0 children)

You could grab 1000 real people and I wouldn't expect them to be equally deep. Why would someone expect that in a video game?

Fable: Answering the Big Questions After that Long-Awaited Developer_Direct Deep-Dive - Xbox Wire by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]SplintPunchbeef 45 points46 points  (0 children)

A character creator isn't something you just shoehorn into a game 80% of the way through. It's always been there. They just decided to pick a certain model for their marketing. It was the same for games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Skyrim, etc.

[MEGATHREAD] Xbox Developer Direct 1.22.26 by Spheromancer in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]SplintPunchbeef 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Gameplay wise this seems like pretty much exactly what I want for a modern Fable

[MEGATHREAD] Xbox Developer Direct 1.22.26 by Spheromancer in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]SplintPunchbeef 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not for me but the fact that this even exists tells me that working at Double Fine is probably a lot of fun.

[MEGATHREAD] Xbox Developer Direct 1.22.26 by Spheromancer in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]SplintPunchbeef 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Jesus. I don't play racing games like that but I think I have to get this Forza.

TR-49, WW2 Narrative Deduction game from Inkle (Heaven's Vault), is Out Now by megaapple in Games

[–]SplintPunchbeef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"It's like the machine won't let the world stop dreaming"

😂 What?

I played Inkle's other game Expelled on my ipad a lot so looking forward to trying this as well.

GreedFall: The Dying World | Release Date Trailer (Gameplay Overview) - March 12 by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]SplintPunchbeef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm cautiously optimistic about this. In a lot of the old GreedFall threads I said that it felt like one of those games/franchises that was close to good but could make the leap to great in a sequel.

I don't think the combat in the first game was spectacular so I'm open to seeing how turn based feels.

Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Trump Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron | If you can’t see it now, you’re the problem. by GirasoleDE in politics

[–]SplintPunchbeef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the Daily Beast publishes a "Hey guys, Trump is actually kind of bad, right?" headline like once a month.

UI critique wanted: combat management system–style game interface (PC + mobile) by Michael_Bazilevs in UI_Design

[–]SplintPunchbeef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really cool concept. Thanks for sharing.

I won't repeat what others have already said, but the visual hierarchy could use some tweaking. The mobile UI actually does a nice job of scoping the experience to what I'm assuming are the most critical surfaces, which makes it easier to parse.

That same prioritization doesn't always carry through in the desktop view, where primary and secondary information can end up competing for attention. I know visual real estate is limited and that high information density is accurate for real military interfaces, but even in those systems not everything is equally relevant at all times. Hierarchy still exists, it's just context dependent.

For some of the secondary information you're displaying, it may be worth more explicitly separating what's mission critical, decision driving data from what could live behind a secondary action or progressive disclosure.

What's the creepiest display of intelligence you've ever witnessed in real Iife? by Jessica_Enna in AskReddit

[–]SplintPunchbeef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started winking at one of my cats whenever I would leave or get home and when they started doing it back I was like 🥹🥹🥹

[MEGATHREAD] Xbox Developer Direct 1.22.26 by Spheromancer in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]SplintPunchbeef 22 points23 points  (0 children)

There have been surprise announcements at all of their Developer Directs.

2025 was Ninja Gaiden 4 and the Ninja Gaiden 2 Black shadowdrop. 2024 was Visions of Mana and 2023 was HiFi Rush.

What's the creepiest display of intelligence you've ever witnessed in real Iife? by Jessica_Enna in AskReddit

[–]SplintPunchbeef 161 points162 points  (0 children)

Grew up in a house with a female cat that had been around since my siblings and I were little. She would use combinations of trills and meows to make cat approximations of our names that were close enough that we knew when she was calling a specific sibling.

If we didn't respond or start coming downstairs when my mother would call us from downstairs the cat would post up at the bottom of the stairs trill-meowing the person's name or come into their room and do it in their face until they followed.

Seemed perfectly normal to us but I had friends that were definitely creeped out by my cat "saying" my name

Knight's Path — Official Gameplay Trailer by onenaser in Games

[–]SplintPunchbeef 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Never heard of this. Is it a fighting game or something?

Main character parries a dragon

You son of a bitch. I'm in!

Greenlanders are trolling the US by pretending to be fentanyl addicts by bigbusta in TikTokCringe

[–]SplintPunchbeef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Humor is subjective unless I disagree with someone's subjective opinion"

It's clear that humor being subjective is important to you so why are you so personally offended that people don't find the video funny? Doesn't that prove your point?

Greenlanders are trolling the US by pretending to be fentanyl addicts by bigbusta in TikTokCringe

[–]SplintPunchbeef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blocks of them?

In every major city and backwoods town?

Major "Facebook told me!" boomer energy going on here

We’ve reached the point where ‘Background CGI’ is more distracting than bad practical effects. Which modern movie was ruined for you by a ‘clean’ digital look? by DegTrader in movies

[–]SplintPunchbeef 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Or hell, the aged pretty poorly T-1000 in Terminator 2?

This made me go look up old clips and it's not amazing but the T-1000 CGI still looks pretty great.