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On 3/16/2025 at 4:32 AM, Lexx said:

"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."
- Disco Elysium

 

capital will start selling capitalism suck t shirt

[Gfted1]

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gets A New Trailer, But No Release Date | Nintendo Life

[Malcador]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104289/inzoi-team-patches-bug-that-allowed-players-to-run-over-and-kill-kids/index.html

Sigh, never can have anything fun these days...

[Lexx]

Bug? I thought that's a feature!

[Bartimaeus]

Wow, that game has the most hideously uncanny character visuals. Must be Korean or maybe Chinese, their attempts at more realistic character visuals seem to have a tendency to come out looking like that. I suppose it is a bit of a shame you can't run over those nasty little nightmare spawn anymore.

[majestic]

3 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Wow, that game has the most hideously uncanny character visuals. Must be Korean or maybe Chinese, their attempts at more realistic character visuals seem to have a tendency to come out looking like that. I suppose it is a bit of a shame you can't run over those nasty little nightmare spawn anymore.

Korean apparently. Anyway, dunno, what's like, your problem, man? Look at these characters, they're great.

 

[Bartimaeus]

I would like to make clear something: I know that there are real life people out there who look approximately, in terms of real features and clothing/hair style, like the character depicted above, and other characters that you can see in official screenshots from this game. Somebody who looks like the totality of this character probably wouldn't draw a second thought from me in real life - I might not personally love their style, I might not find them particularly easy on the eyes or cute or beautiful or whatever, but that's a me problem, that's fine, I obviously understand that the appearances of characters and real life people in general should not and could not ever be specifically tailored to me. The specific issue is the "approximately" bit and how damned creepy it is seeing these horrible video game renders that somehow make them look so much weirder than they should, and it's why I always try to make sure to use the word "uncanny" instead of anything more pejorative like "ugly*". I searched for "inzoi characters" before I made my previous post and looked through a few pages of results, and I do not believe basically any person would be rendered well in this game's visual style - though there were some that seemed to be a little more and a little less bad than the others. All I can really say is...kill it with fire.

*Though any game where every character looks like they have lip gloss on is always going to be an automatic no from me dawg, because there might very well be nothing on a human face I like less than big wet shiny lips, but again, that's a me problem...and it's also not even necessarily specific to just female characters: I've happened across random Korean and Chinese games on Steam Discovery game queues where this affects even male characters, and it's why I knew Inzoi was likely to be either a Korean or Chinese game.

Edited Sunday at 12:05 PM by Bartimaeus

[LadyCrimson]

Not that I feel strongly about it one way or another, but in terms of Inzoi, from what I've seen, it's one of those games that outside of the fancy chr. editor and maybe snapshot/zoom in modes, isn't that extraordinary visually. Especially if not on maxed out settings I'd guess. I mean 99% of the time you're going to be zoomed out so all sims are "top down far away", not selfie/studio-portrait views. Walking animations are ok but not great. City/homes/interiors are good but not "wow photo-realistic". Ground textures are meh. You can skip around this video to see this person running around the game a bit.

 

I've seen what I'd guess are lower setting screenshots that look quite npc terrible, even. But still beats the Sims graphically by a country mile. Edit: which is what a lot of people want now, hence its pre-release hype.

I've waffled between semi-interested to look at it and not at all interested. If it's ever out of early access and on sale, I might try it. Life/social sims aren't really my thing tho, so I'll likely forget about it again by then.

And that Himalayan/Ragdoll or whatever cat gives me more weird uncanny valley than the human "sims". 

Edited Sunday at 03:44 PM by LadyCrimson

[majestic]

9 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

All I can really say is...kill it with fire.

Have you tried watching the above video and looking at the animations? That just makes it so much worse. Killing it with fire might not be enough.  

[Bartimaeus]

I did watch LadyCrimson's video, yes, and it was pretty awful...for a number of reasons. Beyond even just the character visuals, I think the game in general is extremely displeasing to view in real time, especially with the constant stutter and pop-in on what I think are already unpleasant visuals. But I confess that I'm totally unconcerned with stuff like lighting, shadow, model, and texture fidelity relative to general visual style/cohesion and animation quality, and while I'm no fan of The Sims (despite growing up with three sisters that played several entries of the series and who tried to have me play it despite the fact that I could never figure out exactly what I was supposed to be doing in the game to make it fun), I'd take its art direction a hundred times over Inzoi's. Different strokes for different folks, though - maybe a competitor would at least move EA to try to make meaningful improvement to the series.

Edited Monday at 09:52 AM by Bartimaeus

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another april 1st galgame

these dev are playing with force they didn't fully understand

[Gfted1]

6 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

(despite growing up with three sisters that played several entries of the series and who tried to have me play it despite the fact that I could never figure out exactly what I was supposed to be doing in the game to make it fun)

Ctrl + Shift + C

motherlode

[LadyCrimson]

I think he says "uncanny" at least several times. 

 

But I'd agree with his main point - it's not ready/very early access. I mean, it looks dead/not lively, there's not much to do yet (I've heard), etc.
In that other video what caught my attention is how often the sim seemed to get stuck on an object and the player had to move it widely to keep moving. And yeah, the pop in was pretty bad.

Edit: the only Sims I played was the 1st one at release, when you could drown them in their own swimming pool by removing the ladders.

Edited Monday at 05:47 PM by LadyCrimson

[Bartimaeus]

2 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

Ctrl + Shift + C

motherlode

My sisters loved to cheat so that they could build houses...I, on the other hand, have always hated base-building or anything even remotely adjacent to it, so I was more the type to start with whatever is the default options they give you and never move a single thing ever. So instead I would spend a couple of hours customizing and playing dress-up with my character, and then I'd try to play the character, and then I would quickly realize that I really must be missing something because The Sims seems to have no gameplay, no interesting stories, and no characters that aren't just walking RNG dice roll people that don't matter. I don't understand The Sims, there seems to be a chunk of brain matter missing from my head that makes the game work for other people but not me.

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giant king dlc for aow4 

[melkathi]

Incidentally, the pillar of gaming journalism, PC Gamer, listed Age of Wonders 4: Giant Kings as an April Fool's joke, because they couldn't be bothered to actually check releases and simply decided everything today is a lie.

They have since corrected their article.

[Hurlshort]

Xenonauts 2 just released a stable build of Milestone 5, which means the game is now able to be completed. This is the last milestone before release, so now it is just about balancing and fixing bugs. I started a new campaign. It is fantastic!

[Lexx]

28 minutes ago, melkathi said:

Incidentally, the pillar of gaming journalism, PC Gamer, listed Age of Wonders 4: Giant Kings as an April Fool's joke, because they couldn't be bothered to actually check releases and simply decided everything today is a lie.

They have since corrected their article.

Good advertisement for the game. I would never have heard about it without this.

[MrBrown]

1 minute ago, Lexx said:

Good advertisement for the game. I would never have heard about it without this.

That's why you announce everything on April 1st. You just get news coverage from speculation if stuff is real.

[Zoraptor]

I rather liked this article from TechPowerup. Just the right amount of vaguely plausible. All those missing ROPs from the 5000 series must have gone somewhere, surely, so why not onto other cards?

(Obviously in the real world Jensen would have flogged them off as 5090Ti and at a premium, so not all that plausible)

[melkathi]

The price tag on the Age of Wonders DLC did look like a bad April Fools joke. 25 euros for one new leader type.

[Gfted1]

'Mario Kart World' Goes Open World With Free Roam for Nintendo Switch 2

[Lexx]

So apparently Silksong is supposed to come out in 2025. I believe it when I see it.

[Wormerine]

35 minutes ago, Lexx said:

So apparently Silksong is supposed to come out in 2025. I believe it when I see it.

Yeah, hopefully Nintendo will do better then Microsoft with it's "coming to Gamepass on day one within a year!" back in 2022.

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incase anyone still remember this franchise exist

trailer for nobunaga no yabo