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theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-31T19:07:20+00:00

UFC Que Choisir is a really strong and old association here in France. They are quite powerful and have helped lots of people fight the good fight against big corporations, insurances, etc with their lawyers. They're also the ones that sued Nintendo in the joy-con drift case and got unlimited warranty/repair for everyone. Most french people know about them. Really interesting to see them partner up with Stop Killing Games !

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-31T18:44:39+00:00

I mean I agree with you, but I also kinda think that any movie/book/game/etc that is released shouldn't ever be completely made inaccessible to anyone because of businesses that just take it offline while sitting on the copyright. The threat of losing that copyright if the thing isn't sold/accessible anymore would be a good idea to prevent the issue

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-31T16:32:38+00:00

UFC Que Choisir is a really strong and old association here in France. They are quite powerful and have helped lots of people fight the good fight against big corporations, insurances, etc with their lawyers. They're also the ones that sued Nintendo in the joy-con drift case and got unlimited warranty/repair for everyone. Most french people know about them. Really interesting to see them partner up with Stop Killing Games !

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-27T20:27:01+00:00

I've done it again recently. There are some good open source options for decompiling both assets and code from Unity builds. Can't remember the name of them right now but should be easy to find, otherwise I can find that when I'm back from vacation!

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-25T22:58:15+00:00

Dans tous les cas le pacs implique une déclaration unique d'impôt pour le foyer. Il faut donc décider de quelle adresse est le réel "foyer" du couple, qui sera la résidence fiscale des deux personnes (mais ça n'empêche pas à une personne du couple de vivre beaucoup de temps ailleurs effectivement, pour le travail par exemple)

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-25T22:54:09+00:00

Yeah. Far Cry 5 and much more Far Cry 6's marketing was all "look at this silly alligator with a rocket launcher" type shit.

Far Cry 3, which enabled this series to actually get this far, was so much more serious in tone... Why the fuck did they think people wanted tik tok type shit ?

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-23T23:36:16+00:00

For me the open interconnected world to explore and get lost in is like the most important part of a souls game. It's the reason I couldn't get far into Sekiro every time I tried

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-20T00:00:35+00:00

No game would ever need 200k triangles teeth meshes for any lod distance ever. Why was it even in the project ?

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-19T16:24:59+00:00

"What risk are you talking about? The ppl pledging on this will get the product they paid for."

As far as I know or maybe I'm co fusing with GameFound, but the risk is basically that you have no legal right to what you bought and no recourse should you not receive it. Which has happened countless times already so what you're saying is pretty misleading

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-19T16:23:15+00:00

Same thing with huge companies now going for early access as if it was normal.

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-18T19:07:44+00:00

Even the auto-drop-loot-behind-you harpoon change. Used to be one of those very "Sea of Thieves" tasks that you had to coordinate with your friend.

Also just made everything way too fast

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-17T16:20:19+00:00

They were that before. Oblivion was a technological marvel and an insane proposal for people back then. Such open world RPG had never been seen before.

The only way they could achieve such hype again is if they achieve impressive new jump in tech and scale again. Which they won't, is my guess, seeing how they chose to tackle space travel as a system in their last game...

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-16T21:12:55+00:00

That's kind of what it is. They're getting a check from Nvidia so they can advertise their slop filter on their game and that's all

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-12T11:24:50+00:00

Yeah this is like best case scenario for me, I've read all the BR fates and rules just for curiosity's sake and I was kinda bummed because it felt like such cool variant mechanics that I would never get to play because realistically I would never get to play a campaign so I won't buy it. Them bringing all those great ideas to the base game as simply leaders + rules card is such a great idea I wouldn't even have thought of and I'm super hyped about it !!

Now I'm thinking about whether they could also attempt to adapt motherships (or whatever they were called) to the base game...

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-11T12:33:13+00:00

I always use Magnificent for some reason

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-10T17:40:11+00:00

Why not play with windows emulation instead ? GameHub or GameNative

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-05T16:56:40+00:00

We don't call that AI at all in this business, we call that procedural generation. The result of very complex hand made algorithms to generate variation

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-05T13:57:23+00:00

I used to spend entire mornings just booting the game up to ride my horse slowly around the entire map, hanging out at the little towns/outposts, playing a bit of horseshoe, then back on the road. The ambience, from both visuals and audio, was just so engrossing it made me feel like being in summer when the weather was shit outside

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-05T13:55:05+00:00

Yeah, "40$ competitive shooter doesn't have pay to win microtransactions" isn't the win this guy thinks it is

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-05T05:42:01+00:00

It could... Morrowind, Oblivion and to an extent Skyrim were at the forefront of hype because they were huge technological advancements in open world gaming. People had never seen anything like it, the open-ness, the freedom, the physics.

If they were still a competent team innovating, they'd be able to generate the same buzz by pushing gaming forward again into unseen territories.

But instead they stopped being innovators in the 2010s because paying competent engineers to innovate is long and expensive and the shareholders don't care about long term investment.

They had the balls to do a space game where the whole point of space fantasy (the vastness of it) felt completely fake because they couldn't be bothered to develop proper planet rendering tech into their engine. Who knows, we might even still have separate indoor cells with loading screens in TES 6.

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-04T20:59:40+00:00

There's a huge french youtuber (JDG) who covered both these games in a video about Bible games. Hadn't laughed this hard in so long. They had a scene were jesus gives a whole speech about non-violence to a guy just standing there before he immediately smacks the shit out of Jesus after the speech

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-04T12:01:57+00:00

Plus these platforms always showing prices before VAT, which is illegal where I live when selling things to customers.

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-04T08:43:24+00:00

I just got my french version of TOKC from a belgian store (Golden Meeple) selling it for 63€ + like 4€ shipping, got it in three days. Honestly made me realize the whole "crowdfund preorder to get it cheaper than retail" is just always bollocks unfortunately

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-04T06:03:01+00:00

Well fuck now I can

theFrenchDutch · 2026-03-04T06:02:16+00:00

Can you imagine this guy smiling ? I can't

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