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[kanisatha]

19 hours ago, Wormerine said:

If AI could truly think for itself, wouldn’t it just develop its own biases and bull****?

Possibly. It's simply a question of the thing (humans) I am extremely disillusioned with versus another thing (future AI) that is still an unknown.

[uuuhhii]

On 12/20/2025 at 12:26 AM, Bartimaeus said:

Why is Europa Universalis 5 in the Steam Awards for Most Innovative Gameplay

 

vic are not popular

so it would be innovative for most player

[Malcador]

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/

RIP Vince Zampella

[Wormerine]

Time to play a game: “let’s overanalyse each word that comes from Tim’s mouth to try to figure out what he is working on at Obsidian:

5:00

Outer Worlds may very well be the last IP I ever make. I don’t know, I am not sure, in fact who knows.

1) Tim knows I am watching and is too smart to reveal he is working on a new IP

2) Tim works on existing IP

3) Tim works on a new IP, but it is not his. 

I still know nothing. 

[melkathi]

With the trends, it is Arcanum II - an online multiplayer survival crafting souls-like.

[Hurlshort]

4 hours ago, melkathi said:

With the trends, it is Arcanum II - an online multiplayer survival crafting souls-like.

Arcanum would round out their current stable of games. Space Fantasy, Fantasy Fantasy, Kids Fantasy, and Steampunk Fantasy.

[melkathi]

Though do we know who owns the rights to the IP after Troika went under?

[Sarex]

43 minutes ago, melkathi said:

Though do we know who owns the rights to the IP after Troika went under?

From what I remember Activision, which means MS, which means it's possible.

[Mamoulian War]

On GOG it is sold under Activision.

[MrBrown]

https://www.eurogamer.net/ps5-jail-break-star-wars-racer-revenge

[Sven_]

Did Obsidian predict the memory crisis? 


Case in point: TOW2 seems pretty playable with 8 GB of system RAM ("for the most part"). And as you may know, system memory is now as expensive as a graphics card.
 

I'm personally still rocking 16GB (plus a 12GB GPU), by the way. No probs in the likes of Indiana Jones or KCD2 either. Despite having a 32GB kit lying here since early Summer 2025... (ordered on a discount, when news appeared that prodcution of DDR4 would slow down/stop). Placing a bet that 16GB will only become really a "no-no-no" once the PS6 hits. This is a console generation that even has a 10GB machine -- 10GB total: the Series S. Else you're mostly still fine. Except for streaming, extreme modding, Star Citizen and multitasking, that is. There's more memory intensive tasks than gaming either way.

But as memory has been mostly dirt cheap for so long, people had stockpiled RAM sticks. In the past 20 years, I never paid more than 50-70 bucks when building a new system equipped with then "recommended" AAA gaming RAM capacity. Not minimum, recommended. So enthusiasts had basically double that -- or more. 

 

Edited Saturday at 08:42 AM by Sven_

[Mamoulian War]

8 hours ago, Sven_ said:

... Despite having a 32GB kit lying here since early Summer 2025... 

 

[Sven_]

19 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

Tbf, it's the (still) cheaper DDR4.  Bought on a big discount when the news appeared that production would slow down and eventually stop... (Who could have predicted a crisis that makes Asus re-consider AM4 motherboards?)

Edited Sunday at 11:12 AM by Sven_

[Wormerine]

On 1/3/2026 at 7:35 AM, Sven_ said:

I'm personally still rocking 16GB (plus a 12GB GPU), by the way. No probs in the likes of Indiana Jones or KCD2 either. Despite having a 32GB kit lying here since early Summer 2025... 

I did buy and install extra two 8GB sticks, adding my total RAM to 32. I am kinda glad I did it now. 

[Malcador]

640KB should be enough for anyone.

[Sven_]

16 hours ago, Wormerine said:

I did buy and install extra two 8GB sticks, adding my total RAM to 32. I am kinda glad I did it now. 

I could upgrade to 48GB now.... All I need is to stick it in. 

I'm also considering to quit AAAAAAAAAAAAA gaming entirelly -- and, should there be a title that interests me, play it ten years later, when every toaster can run it (games don't age near as much as they used to, just go back to Dishonored 1+2 to check, you'll see...) Granted, the majority of my games have been the smaller ones for years already (and I wish Obsidian would make more Pentiments too). But there's so many nice people not milking every last drop out of ya. And they have my attention.    
 

*2GB required!

Edited yesterday at 08:57 AM by Sven_

[Mamoulian War]

2 hours ago, Sven_ said:

I could upgrade to 48GB now.... All I need is to stick it in. 

I'm also considering to quit AAAAAAAAAAAAA gaming entirelly -- and, should there be a title that interests me, play it ten years later, when every toaster can run it (games don't age near as much as they used to, just go back to Dishonored 1+2 to check, you'll see...) Granted, the majority of my games have been the smaller ones for years already (and I wish Obsidian would make more Pentiments too). But there's so many nice people not milking every last drop out of ya. And they have my attention.    
 

*2GB required!

I think I went full indie with occasional Japanese AA somewhere after my disappointment with Final Fantasy 15, and I am pretty glad I did that. I bought also few AAA games as well after that period, but only after they got on GOG, which meant pretty much 85%+ discount. Saved me a lot of money to control my impulse buying that way, and I still have backlog worth at least 5 years, if I stopped purchasing stuff altogether.

[Wormerine]

On 1/5/2026 at 8:56 AM, Sven_ said:

I'm also considering to quit AAAAAAAAAAAAA gaming entirelly -- and, should there be a title that interests me, play it ten years later, when every toaster can run it (games don't age near as much as they used to, just go back to Dishonored 1+2 to check, you'll see...)

Yeah, I am happy to wait for an upgrade until a game I really want to play comes out. I did love building a new PC and having an insane backlog of quality titles to go through. Dishonored2 being one of them, and it still deserves more playthroughs then the one I gave it. Still waiting for a lot of Sony sequels to come down in price. 

[uuuhhii]

who even have the right to arcanum right now

shouldn't be expansive to buy

[kanisatha]

Picked up Avowed from the Steam winter sale. But since I'm still very far from finishing up my inaugural BG3 run, it'll be a while before I get to try it.

Also picked up the ToEE remake.

[Wormerine]

6 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

who even have the right to arcanum right now

shouldn't be expansive to buy

I think it should be Microsoft - Sierra got bought my Activision, Activision got bought by Microsoft. Unless Arcanum IP was owned by more then just Sierra. 

Do we really want Arcanum sequel though? I don't think original creators are naive enough to attempt a sequel that would do justice to Arcanum's ambitions. As much as I hate to say it, the only dev I could imagine tackling Arcanum2 is Larian, and I would rather have them stay away from the rest of my beloved IPs.