Sweet Baby Inc. and the Steam Curator Group Conspiracy - The company that is responsible for the diarrheic video game writing.

[CertifiedFedBot]

Maybe you feel that way, but more often than not I see the other way. Like those YouTube channels that will find a bit of litter you normally drive past at 100mph at one stage of the game. They will stop, zoom in with a sniper rifle, and complain that the texture is low res and compressed. To prevent that, AAA devs make every texture an uncompressed 4k texture, and the result is 100gb installs.

I saw a video recently complaining about some racing game where, if you pause on a specific straight, go into photo mode, fly the camera over the crowd, you can find three hot dog stands next to each other. Cue standard YouTuber overreaction.

Well it's unacceptable! Every texture needs to be 4k, how can I feel like I'm playing a game if when I go into hacked free camera mode the glans of Nathan Drake's penis don't have a realistic texture, depth, and sheen?
I hate that we're right back to the realism craze of the mid 00s. The high fidelity hyperrealistic depiction of a person in a complete retarded setting like Mortal Kombat 1 adds nothing to the game, it doesn't fit with the world they're trying to create.
If the AAA market crashes and dies maybe we'll get games with actual art direction and unique rendering methods. Games that emulate low poly early 3D look, hand drawn animation, painted sprites like Vanillaware, just something interesting. I recently saw someone make a demo video of 3D remake of Pokemon Red/Blue in the original Sugimori watercolor style and it looked amazing, it had, dare I say, SOUL.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

isnt bethesda still using variations of their same old in-house game engine for everything?
starfield is technically a morrowind mod

Yes, and by comparison Larian uses their own in-house game engine too. Except way under the span of Skyrim (2011) to whenever the next game comes out, Larian went from a struggling dev with something like 40 employees putting out Divinity: Original Sin (2014) on Kickstarter as a Hail Mary pass to stay in business (truly; kickstarter saved Larian) to Baldur's Gate 3, updating their in-house engine drastically with each new game.

Perhaps this puts in context why the industry started attacking Larian and why they played damage control for the industry, saying players shouldn't expect this to be the new normal.

 

[Mr Processor]

The depression has definitely dried up the money companies can afford to spend on adult daycare for their spoiled manchildren.

o/~ Once I built a woke consulting firm, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a woke consulting firm, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime? o/~

I feel like we got a depression this time without having the roaring 20s.

They already did for Palworld, and are currently doing it to Steller Blade.

I remember when they tried to do it for Cuphead, that cancellation attempt sure failed miserably.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

The right always wants to complain about art instead of creating their own.

That's literally the Liberal and Tollerant Left. They can't create anything original so they have to shit on everything that's already pre-existing.

I mean I get ram is "cheap"... a brand new i9 core isn't. The deoptimization has only gotten worse with time. It's so silly. Doom can fit on a pregnancy test, but a modern sidescroller requires yesteryear supercomputer just to run.

If you want another example of this: Vanilla Doom and GZDoom.
Doom can run on neurons, atoms and whatever; GZDoom can't fucking run properly most wads. And even levels from the original Iwads will choke.

 

[CircuSphere]

isnt bethesda still using variations of their same old in-house game engine for everything?
starfield is technically a morrowind mod

Yes.

Gamebryo (/ɡeɪm.briːoʊ/; gaym-BREE-oh; formerly NetImmerse until 2003) is a game engine developed by Gamebase Co., Ltd. and Gamebase USA, that incorporates a set of tools and plugins including run-time libraries,[1] supporting video game developers for numerous cross-platform game titles in a variety of genres, and served as a basis for the Creation Engine.

NetImmerse -> Gamebryo -> Creation Engine

Parts of the codebase are literally from 1997. Git didn't even exist, hell Subversion didn't even exist until 2000. They literally did not have the tools or paradigms to build something so long lived.. and who knows how much they have refactored it but judging by the games... not nearly enough... and even if it was a perfect masterpiece they are one studio trying to maintain an engine in a marketplace where that is a terrible idea. If MS doesn't take all of their recent acquisitions and roll their own engine or buy out Unity or something they are officially retarded... Especially if they just let Bethesda carry on like this. I hope to god they didn't buy them FOR the engine (that would be unfathomably retarded) and that it was entirely an IP grab.

Ps. It also makes more sense for a studio like Larian to roll their own shit because they aren't making open world FPS games and they aren't trying to pull along 28 years worth of code linguini.

 

[CertifiedFedBot]

That's literally the Liberal and Tollerant Left. They can't create anything original so they have to shit on everything that's already pre-existing.

Nah, it's literally the right wing. There are people who want to create comics, movies, tv, games, all of it, but according to the people who hold the cultural and sometimes literal purse strings think the only acceptable hobbies are chores, a second job, and suffering. Think culturally someone like Matt Walsh who has a pretty good hold on the normiecon crowd always shitting on any artistic expression that isn't a transparent and obvious political Fuck You to the left. Those kinds of spiteful creations don't create culture, they're barely profitable products to be forgotten the moment you stop watching it.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

https://archive.ph/fRbrv

As a perfect little footnote to the Valve diatribe earlier

 

[DumbDude43]

Nah, it's literally the right wing. There are people who want to create comics, movies, tv, games, all of it, but according to the people who hold the cultural and sometimes literal purse strings think the only acceptable hobbies are chores, a second job, and suffering.

in what bizarro universe do you live that you think the right wing holds the cultural and literal purse strings?

 

[Carpenter Trout]

in what bizarro universe do you live that you think the right wing holds the cultural and literal purse strings?

Libs really think that the Right Wing is some sort of evil mastermind behind everything. Sometimes I wonder what kind of meth have the smoked. Most people from the extreme left i met irl, do think unironically that every politician is Right Wing, including Venezuela and China lol. They don't say nigger, they say right winger. They're the same people that think that wikipedo (lol thanks for that wikipedia moniker, AnOminous) is a reliable and trusted source that can't be edited to fit an agenda at all.

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

in what bizarro universe do you live that you think the right wing holds the cultural and literal purse strings?

Same guy:

All the PCgamer faggots wondering why 500$ consoles that make the devs optimize for it are still popular while PC games make you spend 10k on a rig just to have to configure shit for 8 hours to be able to play a game for 30 minutes before it crashes. Keep your 180 fps, I'll remain comfy at 30.

He's just retarded, don't worry.

 

[babadook]

Musk getting involved again
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Please Elon, talk The Don into tweeting about Gamergate during your next meeting with him

 

[CertifiedFedBot]

in what bizarro universe do you live that you think the right wing holds the cultural and literal purse strings?

Are you saying there are no even nominally conservative outlets capable of cultural output? Of course there are, they just don't because they're not interested in creating cultural output, they just create content whining about what's already out there.
It doesn't even need to be a giant AAA studio set up, just publishing for games with a right-wing counterculture subtext, supporting smaller studios and offering not only marketing but resources to fight off the libellous accusations of journoscum which would be the biggest help considering the current thread we're in. The necessary larger ecosystem for this content doesn't exist because it's not being built.

Same guy:
He's just retarded, don't worry.

I will continue to plop down on the couch and enjoy my bing-bing wahoo on colourful plastic boxes and there's nothing you can do to stop me. Cope and Sneed.

 

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I will continue to plop down on the couch and enjoy my bing-bing wahoo on colourful plastic boxes and there's nothing you can do to stop me. Cope and Sneed.

The first time I ever hooked a computer up to a TV was in 1999. Couch is always an option if you aren't a complete fuckwit, and you can even use controllers with it too if you're incapable of having a keyboard on your lap and a mousepad on an armrest. Hell they even sell little table accesories for people.
I'll never forget when the Wii came out and we got the controller working with glovepie on PC and played shit like Flatout with it. Fun times.

 

[Unstable Diffusion]

I can't wait for the shitshow that this year's GDC is going to be considering that most if not all retards that have been defending SB have some kind of "SOON AT GDC" acknowledgement in their profile.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Bad code exits for so many reasons... In Bethesda's case everything is downstream from their absolutely ancient engine. It's old enough to drink and completely proprietary so the only knowledge about the thing comes from Bethesda itself. That means the spin up on new employees is horrible, the talent pool is small, failure to retain employees/institutional knowledge is absolutely crippling, all new features need to be created in house.... On top of that the kinds of code organization principals you need to maintain such a large/old code base didn't even exist when Gamebyro was written/architect-ed.

Meanwhile at an unreal studio, a third party is writing general features/security patches and releasing them constantly, they are working directly with nvidia/amd, there is a huge documentation and tutorial base to train a massive pool of new/returning devs, the whole engine is designed to modular/maintainable.... When you need a plugin to write to the steam cloud you download it, you don't pull 2 devs for a month to write it...

Bethesda is getting around the problem of no one knowing how to use their ancient Gambryo shit engine by hiring Skyrim and Fallout modders who have experience with the Creation Kit, the dumbed down dev tools they let modders use, to make their games. All of the clutter in Starfield was made by Elianora who's claim to fame was making player home mods, the most basic skyrim mods, and banging the CEO of Nexus Mods. The dialogue options for Starfield were made by the guy who made the Interesting NPC mod for Skyrim that includes a guy in Windhelm who's banging his daughter because she looks like his dead wife and another NPC that implies he likes fucking animals. Skyrim and Fallout modders are all trannies and woketards which explains why Bethesda didn't need to pay Sweet Baby, Inc. to wokeify their shit games.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Are you saying there are no even nominally conservative outlets capable of cultural output? Of course there are, they just don't because they're not interested in creating cultural output, they just create content whining about what's already out there.
It doesn't even need to be a giant AAA studio set up, just publishing for games with a right-wing counterculture subtext, supporting smaller studios and offering not only marketing but resources to fight off the libellous accusations of journoscum which would be the biggest help considering the current thread we're in. The necessary larger ecosystem for this content doesn't exist because it's not being built.

I will continue to plop down on the couch and enjoy my bing-bing wahoo on colourful plastic boxes and there's nothing you can do to stop me. Cope and Sneed.

It's like an evil wizard gathered the disembodied essence of retardation and condensed it into a human being. What are you smoking, dude? They even fucking cancelled the guy who did the sound for Subnautica because he was a Trump supporter.

Please Elon, talk The Don into tweeting about Gamergate during your next meeting with him

That would make Sargon too happy. Don't do this.

 

[WULULULULU]

isnt bethesda still using variations of their same old in-house game engine for everything?
starfield is technically a morrowind mod

Reminder that the Source engine of old Valve games still uses code from fucking Quake. Game engines using other game engine to make ultra spaghetti is not new, but it should fucking stop though.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Reminder that the Source engine of old Valve games still uses code from fucking Quake. Game engines using other game engine to make ultra spaghetti is not new, but it should fucking stop though.

That's actually another relevant good point. Bethesda clings to an ancient engine with only superficial changes, many of the old bugs carrying over from one game to the next, while Valve will actually update the engine and their old games to support it.

Bethesda is one of the laziest, most garbage devs in existence, and honestly they've been shit since Morrowind. Even Ubisoft smokes them. Skyrim was massively overrated but found success because it was the first game of that kind on consoles, but they never deserved the acclaim they received.

 

[CertifiedFedBot]

I think you guys aren't just razzing me, you're actually angry. Read through the PC gaming bits again, slowly, with care. It's obviously an exaggerated facetious argument on "console supremacy". There are some hints in the verbiage used.

accesories

Ps. Minor spelling mistake, I win.

It's like an evil wizard gathered the disembodied essence of retardation and condensed it into a human being. What are you smoking, dude?

Et Tu, Kali!? Are you talking about the actual point or the bottom text?
The reason why the libshits have such a complete stranglehold on culture is not because they're just that good at it, it's because it's not valued on the right. Narrative creation and normalization of heterodox ideas is something lefties have been doing for 80 years and the right-wing is only now catching on and when pushed they shrink away because it's not "productive".

 

[Xebi]

Like characters out of Watch_Dogs2, probably other stuff but I barely game. I liked Watch_Dogs2 because you can go on killing sprees in San Francisco.

For the most part they are. They're fine sparingly, and I have a weird respect for speedrunning, but most dudes spend way too much time on video games.

I actually agree with Hitler's assessment of himself that he's not really truly right or left. Historians put him on the right since Marxism has swept through the field since WW2.

Oh yeah, me mentioning his more leftist ideals is certainly not an attempt to box things. I'd like to think very few people in reality can be neatly catagorized in either left or right.
Well unless you got swept into the cult and got your 'morals' corrected. Which, even with those people I hold hope that with enough time, care and patience we might be able to deprogram the cult out of them. Big hopes, I know..
I still remember a quote from a supposed alien abductee that interview that, whilst I remain sceptic until I see evidence.. his quote still feels true to this day.

"It does not matter that they are at war, or that mankind is it's price. All that matters is that we learn to love. And love to learn."