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On 2/12/2023 at 12:09 AM, atomheartbevo said:

I listen to way more podcasts/watch more YouTube videos than I play desktop/console games, but most of it's retro videos on games from the 80s and 90s that I either never beat, or never got a chance to play at the time.  I'm fascinated by the companies/personalities from the 80s and 90s.

I watch a lot of gameplay and speedrun videos now, as a way to learn more in-depth aspects of a game and also appreciate what a truly skilled player can do. A lot of times I much prefer to watch an expert play than to play myself any more. It's like watching a performing art.

 

Particular shoutout to GDQ, Games Done Quick. They run physical events, livestreamed, a couple times year, where they get the top speedrunners for a pile of games to do speedruns in front of a live audience with livestream. The runs are commentated by other top streamers, so in one stream you quite likely have all the top experts in the world for a game, and between the gameplay and the commentary you learn SO much about a game. They add special goals to each run if certain donation targets are met (for example, they've had the player do a section blindfolded), and all donations go to charity. Sometimes the audience becomes a part of the stream, everyone sings one of the songs together, or a couple cosplayers impromptu act out a scene of the game while the player is going through it. It's just a wonderful gaming event with a wonderful community and shared single purpose. If you are searching, they do SGDQ for Summer Games Done Quick, and AGDQ for Awesome Games Done Quick.

https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

https://www.youtube.com/@gamesdonequick

 

For Faster Than Light (FTL), Twitch streamers Holoshideim and Rand118 are the top in the world. Holoshideim holds the record for longest string of wins on Hard mode, no Pausing. This game is insanely hard. New players take many tries just to beat Hard once, and that's with pausing to think about the next action and plan for enemy reactions. Holoshideim won 100+ games straight with no pausing.

For Fallout, Many a True Nerd. Just a guy who absolutely loves the games, and it shows. He explains, he demonstrates, he has hilarious screwups, it's just contagious fun watching him play. He notably did "you only live once," playing through the entire game using only one life bar. He also has done "kill everything" runs that are great fun to watch. He also streams other games, his Subnautica stream was a hilarious pile of mishaps.

 

ARS Technica has a lovely series of journalism-style articles and interviews talking about popular games and digging in to what makes them so good. For example:

https://arstechnica.com/video/watch/how-immersive-stories-deepen-the-horror-of-games-like-soma-and-amnesiac-rebirth

They've also done a series called War Stories where they go back and talk to developers of successful games and share some of the stuff that happened in development. Example:

https://arstechnica.com/video/watch/war-stories-ultima-online-the-virtual-ecology

 

On 2/12/2023 at 1:17 AM, atomheartbevo said:

like a Linux user that's never been laid.

Isn't that redundant?

 

On 6/5/2023 at 9:26 AM, Celery Man said:

Earlier this year I went back and finally beat Fallout New Vegas after getting drunk one night in 2010 or whatever, waking up with no idea what any of these quests were, and never picking it back up. Last week I heard a commercial or TV show or something with an Ink Spots song and now I’m playing through Fallout 3. These games are still so goddamn great, especially in a pitch black room with galaxy radio playing.

Watch Many a True Nerd on YT if you want to learn more about Fallout than you ever wanted. He explains game dynamics, he shows little bits of story that are super niche situations, it's just a way for even a die-hard Fallout fan to discover even more about the game. And even now he still learns new things, and he's been a Fallout "specialist" for 10+ years.

 

 

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On 6/7/2023 at 1:43 AM, SimonBolivar said:

I'm really enjoying watching people stream hardcore Classic WoW with permadeath. I have no interest in being sucked back into playing and potentially losing a character, but it's a blast to watch a level 40 something die after days of work.

Then there's this, Diablo 4 race event to lvl 100 on permadeath. Guy wins, then server disconnects so his player is killed for "disconnecting."

https://kotaku.com/diablo-iv-hardcore-level-100-race-disconnect-carn-1850514675

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Nintendo (NTDOY) shares saw gains Wednesday after the video game company announced it will release a live-action "Legend of Zelda" movie funded and distributed by Sony. This news comes on the heels of the successful release of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. movie adaptation earlier this year.
 
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On 11/8/2023 at 1:42 PM, Storm the Field said:
 
Nintendo (NTDOY) shares saw gains Wednesday after the video game company announced it will release a live-action "Legend of Zelda" movie funded and distributed by Sony. This news comes on the heels of the successful release of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. movie adaptation earlier this year.
 

The Rock as Link. Make it happen. 

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Is Madden '24 worth buying? I haven't really played a Madden since before 2010 i think. Need something new instead of always playing GTA

and i finally got a Series X, so i want something that looks good. Not really a first person shooter type of player.

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 In the late nineties I used to get so excited for E3 coverage of upcoming PC and N64 games.  I obsessively followed Goldeneye.

Went once in 2015. The two highlights - playing a Destiny 2 pvp match before Taken King came out, and an actual blood fountain promoting Dark Souls III:

 

 

 There was also a cool Dishonored 2 teaser display. Had Corvo's "real mask" on display or something.

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23 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

E3 is done.  Stunning how they fucked it up so bad, and so now we get some shitty game awards show with a bunch of trailer releases.

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At least we have the PAX stuff and GDC (although I'm still pissed it got moved out of Austin).

When you think about it though, E3 just didn't make sense. Companies could spend millions on a keynote and booth space - OR - they could just do a live stream from their office for $0 and get the same level of engagement online 

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Epic Games beat Google in court.  No idea on damages yet.

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-v-google-trial-verdict-a-win-for-all-developers?sessionInvalidated=true

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Today’s verdict is a win for all app developers and consumers around the world. It proves that Google’s app store practices are illegal and they abuse their monopoly to extract exorbitant fees, stifle competition and reduce innovation. 

Over the course of the trial we saw evidence that Google was willing to pay billions of dollars to stifle alternative app stores by paying developers to abandon their own store efforts and direct distribution plans, and offering highly lucrative agreements with device manufacturers in exchange for excluding competing app stores. 

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These deals were meant to cement Google’s dominance as the only app store in town - and it worked. More than 95% of apps are distributed through the Play Store on Android.

Google imposes a 30% tax on developers simply because they have prevented any viable competitors from emerging to offer better deals. And Google executives acknowledged in Court that their offer of a 26% rate on third party payment options is a fake choice for developers. 

 

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