You're arguing two different points here. TOTK can only run on switch, that's why it can be optimised. Contrast that with Halo Infinite which runs on XSS, XSX, PC, X1 and X1X. It looks and plays like shit, with extensive bloat because it has to cater to so many different configurations. If it was only available on the XSX it would be a different story.
Have you considered maybe game devs are just a lot shittier today than before? Specially in western studios? I still remember how there were genesis, SNES, PSX and Saturn versions of games and yes some ports were better than others, but the games themselves were good in their "home base" and perfectly fine in most ports that didn't get outsourced to some rando. Why is it suddenly an issue now when the PS5, a PC and XBOX series NIGGER are all just computers with different specs at this rate? When you had to port something from PSX to Saturn, it was a huge fucking ask, when you have to port it from PS5 to XBOX, if you have properly set up your game, you should be playing with sliders at that point and features and not that much anyway.
How am I so sure it's people being inept? Just look at how much fucking space games suck now. Data compressions is an honest to god lost art for most studios, if they know fuck all about data compression, what makes you think they have any sort of competence when it comes to setting up a sensible basic benchmark of functionality and tweaking up from there?
I do concede that if you make a game for a single platform you will get the most out of it for sure thanks to being able to take advantage of all the nicks and knacks, but you are acting like these tricks are why the new Halo is shit. Halo isn't shit because they couldn't optimize for a home platform by reducing loading times with clever trickery or securing a higher framerate, it's shit because it's done by talentless and passionless hacks.
For example, Level 5 is currently making use of AI tools between concept design, 3D environment, voice generation (as placeholders), promotional art, etc.
Well, that's just clever.
AI is just another tool just like any other, the sole main difference is that it makes "easier" to create several artpieces by dozen copies within a rather short amount of time. In the example I presented above, AI is mainly used as a support, to brainstorm and create bases before re-drawing on them but also help them filling out blanks like some kind of Photoshop filter. It's just another shortcut among plenty others that existed beforehand in the industry, it simply takes skill and a good eye to know how to apply correctly and obtain a good end result.
Personally I rather stick to the more 'traditional' tools because it feels more convenient to extract what I have in mind into the canvas with the pen/brush, but to each their own. I don't hate the existence of AI. Talentless people with no appreciation for the craft(s) and quality already existed well before AI. Don't blame the tool, blame the artist (or developer) instead.
I'm more skeptical about the effectiveness of AI for translation of Japanese games considering machine translators already struggle in casual conversations (dropping parts of the sentence with context in mind) alongside of not picking up on idioms, dupes and certain grammar rules. As much as I want american localizers to eat shit. I don't mind being proven wrong on that regard however, though I assume someone as an editor (glorified spellchecker) should be still required to double-check in any case.
Agreed. I'm a code monkey and some day I hope to actually do a game, but I have no artistic proficiency to speak of. AI gives me a basis to generate some assets from and if I can iterate enough to get something good, yay me, and if I can't, it can at least give me a strong basis to hire an artist and tell them "something like this is what I'm looking for". It's another tool, yes, a lot of fuckers will just use it raw, call it a day and release shit that doesn't even look coherent, but the clever artist will just optimize and it's a fantastic tool to build up proofs of concept in a timely manner.
There's a rumour going around that the original God of War trilogy may be getting a remaster for PS5.
Can't wait to see how they're censored.
Will he strongly hug Medusa instead of ripping her head off on this one? Give a strong hump to the Minotaur instead of ripping the jaw off?
Among the leaked internal data, a slide presentation shows that Japan is the least engaged country for Playstation Plus subscriptions, so we can pretty much dismiss the past arguments that PS+ and free-to-play games were the key reason why Playstation software sales are so low in Japan. Even SIE realized that they need to make a lot of hard effort to win back the nippon market.
The moment they stopped using circle as the accept button in grorious Nippon they seared their fate.
But yeah, Japanese studios discovering that yes, you can release a game on PC and it will sell has been one of the unsung heroes that has killed the Sony supremacy. Sony coasted so much on phantom exclusives that were only exclusives because Japanese studios were allergic to working on PC, were sure that whatever Nintendo had out in that time would sell like shit and didn't want to touch the western piggu box. But now that going to PC is not just considered a side project but a plan from the outset and the switch is selling gangbusters (while also giving you an excuse to not need to go nuts with graphics), suddenly being Sony exclusive becomes 100% pointless.
So let me get this straight... a black, spanish, and half-n-half all said they hate the black little mermaid, and rather than take this as a lesson to just STOP doing this shit, your train of thought goes to "just change the story, bruh!!"?
It's a shit movie! The fact that they made the unnecessary changes, INCLUDING the shoe-horned race swap "diversity inclusion", is what made it shit to begin with. Are you assholes just THIS thick-headed to where doubling-down is the ONLY move in your playbook rather than just go "ah shit, that didn't work, let's just leave this IP alone"? No, let's just spray more diarrhea all over the place until it becomes all of India to where no one in their right mind will touch it while we move onto the next thing to perpetually fuck up.
Nah dog, it would all have been fine if it was called Shaniquastan of the sea. She would be a sassy tunabutt that takes shit from no nigger till a handsome and wealthy cracker looks at her sweet tuna booty and finally she can get those long as nails and eyelashes she wanted, as well as having him raise Malcom, Tyrone,. Lagiacrus, Avocado and Nigger instead of those busted ass sugar daddies that left! Ah, I can already see the cash flowing into the coffers and the accolades!
Just wait and see, Society of Magical Negroes will take the world by storm by being proper nigger Harry Potter and won't be a pathetic embarrassment that shows that pandering to a minuscule subset of retarded chimps achieves fuck all, specially when half of them are too busy being high, stealing or shooting each other.
Nah. The first part was right. I just hate niggers. I don't want to see them in games in any capacity. Nor in advertisements, sports, politics, nor my real life.
It's reached a point where just watching advertisement is insufferable. Last I checked, my patch of land hasn't been invaded by niggers, why is there one in every single fucking advert? And why is there a nigger with vitiligio or however it's fucking written in a makeup one?!
Honest question: has any change.org petition ever had any measurable, meaningful effect on anything whatsoever (besides generating meaningless clickbait articles)? It just reeks of so much hot air.
Not that I know of, and if it ever has, I'm sure it wasn't the change.org itself, it was other shit behind the scenes that actually caused it for real.
