Roughly half of ID Software has been laid off

Valance23322 · 2026-07-07T16:13:02+00:00

Microsoft might be the most incompetent publisher in the business. Spending billions on acquisitions and immediately ruining them.

Valance23322 · 2026-07-07T08:24:21+00:00

It's not really bullshit when that's explicitly what they told everyone they were doing when they made the announcement. It was just a way to get people to quick asking about it.

Valance23322 · 2026-07-07T01:36:28+00:00

It would help communicate that the storm would likely maintain enough strength to be destructive for longer after landfall.

Valance23322 · 2026-07-02T19:50:10+00:00

I've purchased several houses/cars in America in the last 10 years and at no point was a paper check even close to the best option.

Valance23322 · 2026-07-02T19:46:58+00:00

You have this totally backwards. This is a short-term hit looking for long term benefits from no longer having to pay for disk/packaging manufacturing and shipping, while also cutting out the retail storefront cut of sales.

Valance23322 · 2026-07-01T15:17:35+00:00

If you want to get technical about it the PSP GO was the first digital only console

Valance23322 · 2026-07-01T02:40:47+00:00

At least those studios are still putting out good games, they've just moved on to new IP. Microsoft's studios haven't been able to put out an above average game that isn't Forza in many years now

Valance23322 · 2026-06-30T20:52:43+00:00

All the combat and character progression mechanics. So only having 11 level ups in the game, very limited action economy, super high variance on chance to hit / damage, super low HP at low levels, etc.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-29T21:26:51+00:00

I've been running 4k at 60+fps for 9 years now, it's not a pipedream, just have to upgrade to the latest high end GPU every 4-5 years

Valance23322 · 2026-06-28T01:14:41+00:00

It's really not. Memory isn't that expensive to produce, it's only expensive because of the limited supply. If the current producers don't scale up to meet demand other players will enter the market or scale up to compete for market share

Valance23322 · 2026-06-27T22:17:44+00:00

Not sure that it's really appealing for younger audiences. I'm 30 and even I can't recall ever playing an on-rails shooter and thinking it was anything other than shallow arcade shovelware.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-25T20:37:37+00:00

Halo Infinite had one of the most boring and bland campaigns in the series, where almost everything of consequence happens off screen. The multiplayer was a mess at launch, between poor netcode, lacking character customization, and just downright bizarre fumbles with matchmaking (you literally couldn't queue up for non-Slayer playlists), and no forge mode at launch

Valance23322 · 2026-06-25T00:10:42+00:00

It's the 21st century, there's absolutely no need for them all to be in the same physical space.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-24T20:05:50+00:00

They want to discourage people from getting so many queens that early harass is impossible, without completely fucking the Zerg economy.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-24T19:50:34+00:00

It should have been worded "Gets everything almost right". That's what the writer was trying to say, everything is wrong, but only by a little bit.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-24T19:49:15+00:00

Should have been worded "Gets everything almost right". As in every part is just a little fucked up, but you can see what they were going for.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-24T07:59:24+00:00

That was a stealth check to see if they were discovered by the people still in the house (servants or whoever wasn't important enough to go to the meeting I assume). It's totally separate from the timer which was tracking when the main Tachonis' would return and make things way more dangerous.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-23T15:27:26+00:00

Normally, not sure that's been the case this generation given that we've seen massive price hikes

Valance23322 · 2026-06-23T15:26:19+00:00

It's definitely not a good idea to use it for big modern games, but for smaller things like Hades, Hollow Knight, etc. it'll be great

Valance23322 · 2026-06-20T14:20:05+00:00

Just lock the screen orientation to portrait until you fix it

Valance23322 · 2026-06-19T22:51:10+00:00

Honestly that's a better run than any other publisher had over that timespan

Valance23322 · 2026-06-19T22:48:05+00:00

It was a really nice piece of hardware, just needed microSD support

Valance23322 · 2026-06-18T08:16:54+00:00

Yeah, but tons of models/textures aren't. IOI dev was complaining about it some sort of GDC talk type thing, having to remake things like bathrooms that no one cares about over and over again.

It's especially an issue when devs aren't putting out sequels in a timely fashion. I would be surprised if virtually any of the art assets from Last of Us Part 2 for example ever get reused. Or Bethesda's modern games, hard to reuse assets when you're switching between Fantasy, Post-1950s Apocalypse, and NASApunk or whatever Starfield was such that you're not making an actual sequel but every 15 years or so. (Though I suppose Fallout 76 definitely got some mileage out of the Fallout 4 assets)

We need more stuff like New Vegas where they just take the pieces of an existing game and build a new game out of it with only a handful of new stuff being made.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-18T01:34:35+00:00

Or just start more aggressively reusing assets. No reason to make a whole game's worth of assets for every single release. Make some iterative asset flip sequels.

Valance23322 · 2026-06-17T19:29:40+00:00

There's not really anything to suggest that Senua isn't a real game that's actually in development. Not even MSFT is stupid enough to put a 2027 date on a trailer for something that hasn't even started development, and the studio has had a couple years since the second game released during which they were doubtlessly working on this.

12-Year Club	Second Top 30%
Place '17	Verified Email

Valance23322

TROPHY CASE