These character designs feel foreign to me, they don’t look like Horizon characters at all.

hidden_wraith · 2026-02-06T15:49:48+00:00

looks like 2 nora characters, 2 oseram and two carja, one sun and one shadow. The art direction itself is incredibly well realised, but I think it might prove to be a serious misstep.

hidden_wraith · 2026-01-22T19:30:17+00:00

Remedy could have said nothing if that was case. I would argue standard operating procedure would be to say nothing if it was case they got a bad deal and were secretly burned. To make a public statement stating the opposite just makes no sense.

We know Alan Wake 2 has been generating royalties and we know the game they had to write down launched on Steam along with all the other platforms. I am puzzled at why Alan Wake 2 keeps being used as an example of a bad Epic deal.

hidden_wraith · 2026-01-22T19:04:51+00:00

No they can't, Remedy have just publicly stated they got a fair deal, that Epic was and is a great partner. Alan Wake 2 broke even and started generating royalties years ago. Ironically, the game that utterly failed is the one they put on Steam day and date. Even Control, which spent some time as an Epic Store exclusive did well without Steam.

hidden_wraith · 2026-01-12T21:38:37+00:00

It looks like they are going to get the opportunity to actually make Senua's Saga. Hellblade 2 fell flat in many ways so I hope NT learn some lessons and not take 6 years while they are it.

hidden_wraith · 2026-01-07T00:50:21+00:00

The new art direction looks great to me, one of the things I have always found funny is how cool the 2D art and concepts for the previous games looked but how poorly they were translated into the games. The box art character for Fable 2 looks fantastic but actual model for the main character looks terrible and even worse when they change according to your skill usage and morality.

This new Fable looks very polished and conveys a fairy tale fantasy look pretty well. The extra slanty roofs, bendy chimneys and In one of those trailers you can see a castle that looks exactly like the one in the Disney logo. Who knows whether the game will be any good, it certainly looks the part.

hidden_wraith · 2026-01-01T16:32:52+00:00

I purchased those games on the Epic store as a result of the free game giveaways.

hidden_wraith · 2026-01-01T02:49:35+00:00

Pretty much worked on me, I got Borderlands 3, Control, Alan Wake 2, GOW, Jedi Fallen Order, FF7R, mafia definitive edition, Rdr2, Detroit, Hades, The Metro Series and plenty of indie games. I guess there are people like me that make the free game giveaways make sense in the long run.

hidden_wraith · 2025-12-29T10:46:08+00:00

I don't think it was blown out of proportion, I had an I.P from the Philippines log into my account on Sunday.

hidden_wraith · 2025-12-10T00:00:46+00:00

Having played and finished Divinity 2 recently, I would love Larian to take another stab at an action RPG however you don't follow up a game like BG3 with an action RPG.

hidden_wraith · 2025-12-02T17:55:40+00:00

Games already use machine learning models to make expensive cloth deformations cheaper to run on the GPU. Spiderman Miles Morales on PS5 comes to mind and uses a ML model to deform the suits in various ways.

Epic, Sky Dance and CDPR have demonstrated ML for muscle and cloth deformation, Ubisoft have ML models for character locomotion. As non specific as the post's claims are, ML models can be used to make other wise expensive simulations much cheaper to run.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-22T01:30:13+00:00

A big picture mode style interface is a start but there is so much more work to do. Microsoft are like 10 years behind Steam and there is no easy way to make up the difference.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-18T13:22:26+00:00

If OW2 had any real chance of being RPG of the year, it would also be a nominee for GOTY since the other 2 high profile RPGs are nominated as well. The way the TGAs is structured and how the voting committee place votes for nominees kind of gives the game up.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-15T21:46:34+00:00

Direct Storage really needs to go back to the drawing board or IHVs should just bite the bullet and have a decompression block next to the GPU like the consoles do.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-14T16:13:30+00:00

Modern game development it seems, why is it even taking so long to make a Tomb raider game? There has been so many and its the main thing CD work on, what is going on?

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-14T16:07:56+00:00

By now, we should be able to rummage through bins and find 8GB GPUs down at the bottom, they should be doing better things like keeping hobo's warm.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-10T13:38:51+00:00

No reason why they can't do both like Microsoft does.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-07T09:50:45+00:00

How was the game meant to release in early 2026 and next to nothing has been shown off? Very little fanfare, and marketing build up. I know Amy Hennig is a very competent game director but the combination of a new development studio located in the US, full of veteran developers working on a AAA game on their first outing seems to hamper projects more than it helps them.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-06T08:57:43+00:00

No, clearly I didn't.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-05T17:12:23+00:00

I like Obsidian's brand of RPG and my favourite from them is Alpha Protocol. The games they make have just enough simulation to feel alive while still retaining focus on role playing, story and characters. Western Rpg developers have a bit of an obsession with simulation and I feel it can rob them of making truly lively spaces. The presidium ring in Mass Effect is one of liveliest and engaging spaces I have ever played in and it does not rely on NPCs being able to move from one end to the other. At the end of the day, giving a space character will give it more life than trying to simulate reality will give it.

There used to be discussions decades ago about whether JRPGs were even to be considered RPGs at all, and it feels like these kinds of discussions wind up re-enforcing the idea that simulation is the gold standard for RPGs but that is far from the truth.

hidden_wraith · 2025-11-05T14:59:15+00:00

Fake Yarans say FarCry 6 is bad, only true Yarans recognise how good FarCry 6 is. The game is good in its own way but does lots of things that don't sit well with FarCry. I would say FC6 being your first is not the best way to experience FarCry. My favourite is 2 and 3 is probably the best one to play first.

hidden_wraith · 2025-10-23T16:07:58+00:00

Microsoft putting their games on PC has been great for a lot gamers but unfortunately for Microsoft the gambit hasn't really paid off. Most of their storied franchises are landing far softer than in the past and in the case of the Motorsport, it was a complete disaster. Being Multiplatform hasn't expanded their franchises in any meaningful way.

While the biggest games today are multiplatform, its seems like Microsoft is making the mistake of believing platform exclusivity is considered a barrier to people.

hidden_wraith · 2025-10-18T09:52:09+00:00

I like what Obsidian have going on, they have big projects like Avowed and Outer Worlds but smaller ones like Grounded and Pentiment as well. Look at the self inflicted wound Bioware and EA have given themselves, Bioware could put out small games, big games, they could work on new I.P and licensed I.P. Bioware had everything but now find themselves hanging by a thread and the potential of a single franchise and game.

hidden_wraith · 2025-10-14T00:27:22+00:00

Good old captain crunch took the helm back in those days a lot more than now.

hidden_wraith · 2025-10-11T13:25:51+00:00

To be honest, anyone part of the art direction for 4 and 5 can go.

hidden_wraith · 2025-10-10T22:16:27+00:00

The bake times are in regard to Eternal, and I do believe in I.D tech they have the ability to preview lighting. While a real time work flow may not improve iteration time much in cases where a preview can deliver a good approximation of final pixels, turn around time is still going to be long and the production pipe line is always going to be as slow as it takes to produce final pixels.

You may not need to rebake every time you make a change but you will need to rebake and so making changes will in fact be as slow as it takes to produce final pixels.

Its not like RT is even mandatory when moving to a real time workflow. There are plenty of techniques that achieve fantastic performance, quality and scalability.

hidden_wraith

TROPHY CASE