Given the mix of history and fantasy I’d say there’s upwards of a 90% chance he’ll appear in some capacity even as a throwaway sidequest. When he does I hope they portray him as an absolute giant. I feel like most of the media portrayals I’ve seen almost downplay that part of the reason he was such a terror is that he probably had a good arm and a half’s reach over whatever idiot was brave/stupid enough to challenge him.
Oh, so big companies can just patent whatever they want even illegally and you have to violate it and hope the court is reasonable and you can afford the legal fees for fighting it. Death to Amerikkka, Bioware delenda est.
Bluntly: this is pretty much how the entire legal system works. Part of why there was such a long concerted effort to defang class action suits is because the system is basically built such that its very easy to bully people individually when you have the money.
The nemesis system in those games could have been a real game changer. I heard Gotham Knights had some variation of it but it was implemented so poorly and the game was already pretty weak to start that nobody cared. I sometimes muse about something like a metal gear game with it where the big bad special forces squad you’re up against are basically generated by how you interact with the rank and file, or something like the boss characters in Halo infinite where they gain ranks based on defeating chief. So much fucking potential and all gone to waste.
Clickbait cringe video or no: this is my honest take also. Only reason I don’t own a steamdeck right now is I’m still convinced there’s going to be a Steamdeck 2 sooner rather than later. My PS4 basically just sat for the past year and a half gathering Dust while I’ve been shifting back and forth between my PC’s depending on whether or not I want to play on my TV or my desk after work is done. Only reason I ever booted the ps4 up in the past two years was to play god of war ragnarok and that just hit PC also along with the valhalla DLC i’ve been wanting to try.
Steam Deck has all the benefits of portability that the switch has combined with even more ways to play on your TV since you can use either a dock or the cloud saves features to swap back and forth almost seamlessly. Also: 3 cheers for piracy and emulation if you want nintendo content also.
Consoles are dead to me. I’m PC exclusive for the foreseeable future.
I don’t want to give this guy undo credit but I think it’s worth pointing out that the one election he got “wrong” was apparently the election of 2000. He predicted Gore would win.
…yeah.
raytracing to avoid carefully designed baked lightmaps
There’s some truth to your post but I gotta push back a bit on this one. Raytracing isn’t so much a way to avoid having to generate lightmaps or cut costs so much as it is just an objectively superior option to lightmaps in terms of quality. In fact I would argue that Raytracing is maybe the singular reason games didn’t quite look good enough 5 years ago. Polycounts aside Raytracing is basically the number one thing that’s separated graphics in engine from prerendered cinematics that always seem to have that extra oomf. Lightmaps are largely generated by the computer anyway and even with raytracing both require an artist’s labor to light the scene. The only downside and why you’d ever opt for lightmaps over raytracing is performance cause rendering real time reflections at 120fps in 4k is expensive.
I worked in game development for like a decade before I finally got burnt out and this is basically why. Overwhelming amount of the work you do is just going to be shovelware and in all the years doing it I can think of basically 3 projects that I was genuinely happy to be involved with and working on.
If you want a silver lining: concord’s failure kinda doesn’t matter to most of the people who worked on it personally or professionally. 99% of videogame work is gig/contract so most of them probably were going to be laid off one way or another after the launch and having art assets from a AAA game like concord still looks great on your demo reel irrespective of what the actual sales numbers were.
LMAO: Sephiroth is a product OF Shinra. He’s basically Frankenstein’s monster.
If it wasn’t so horrific I’d almost laugh at the way they are going on with these hypotheticals. It is dead. This is his legacy. Its over. Its DONE. Even if we did a complete bipolar about face tomorrow…in what plausible timeline going forward is a two state solution tenable? I feel like people writing these articles still aren’t grappling with the sheer scale of what has already happened.
You know I remember when Covid first dropped we kind of wondered if “mask culture” would take hold here and people would start just wearing masks more often even when the pandemic ended. Even at that time I wouldn’t have been cynical enough to think they’d actually be passing laws making wearing medical masks a crime. We are a deeply stupid country and we deserve complete annihilation.
1000% copium. If anything this will incline him to believe in his own invincibility and divine right to be god emperor.
There are times, especially at present, where I can’t really tell where my optimism ends and my cynicism begins and it really keeps me up at night a lot. We are watching an entire society do an unspeakable evil day after day while complaining the entire time about how actually they are the real victim and they blame the other party for their own actions…which is generally regarded as behavior associated with malignant narcissistic psychopaths. Common sense would tell me that the inherent psychological need most people have to see themselves as a good person would be overall a net positive for better outcomes but shit like this really makes you start to question it.
You know I think its kinda low key hilarious that on a certain level the moral of an overwhelming amount of mythology is: “If god(s) get personally involved in your affairs you’re about to have a really REALLY bad time.”
They are mocking it because simply writing it off as “Trump’s packed supreme court” is a perfect example of the failings of the democratic party and exactly why voters like Pru Carmichael feel like they do. It treats the issue as being an unassailable reality that could not have ever been avoided and completely ignores the fact that there has never been a shortage of options to address the problem both leading up to and after Trump’s appointments but at this point those options require measures like packing the court which the democratic party and Joe Biden have made clear they are not willing to entertain.
6’ or nearly just so…in a country and time where the average height was like 5’4ish. He absolutely towered over everyone around him and its one of the things to keep in mind when you consider his duels. No doubt he was a skilled fencer also but sheesh…despite what master yoda tells you size does indeed matter folks.