Everyone here seems to be assuming it would follow the same story as the game, and saying it wouldn’t work as well. Obviously it wouldn’t. That one was made for a game. That isn’t the only story you can tell with Bioshock though, as evidenced by Bioshock 2. There’s a lot of room for new stories in Rapture if they wanted to do it.
I am so excited and anxious for whatever they make next. The bar is set astronomically high. If they didn’t make the DLC and have it at the same level as the base game I wouldn’t be as excited, because I wouldn’t think anyone could repeat it. They have though, so I’m hopeful they can again. It must be stressful for them trying to live up to that.
The new one usually won’t have the same issues at first, but they’ll have the same opportunities and motivations that lead to the issues. People will see a different provider and say they’re not doing the bad things, and they’ll be correct for a few years maybe, but then it becomes a struggle to get them to switch to the next thing. This whole problem would mostly be solved with open-source alternatives instead.
I think a lot of the best games ever are niche. If you’re interested in what Talos wants to talk about, it’s amazing. But Factorio is an absolutely horrible game for a lot of people who aren’t interested in that too. It doesn’t mean it isn’t an amazing game. I would argue that “niche” should be a badge of honor, not an insult.
Yeah, they’re philosophy games with puzzle elements. They’re good puzzle games on their own, but there are so many good puzzle games that that alone doesn’t make you stand out.
It could just be the timing of it. When one came out, I was ~20, and I was much more interested in the concepts of religion.
When two came out I was much more educated. I love philosophy, and basically always have, which is part of why I like the games, but I had also gone deeper than the games would explore for the most part. It’s still fun, but the thought experiment isn’t as interesting once you’ve done it before.
But also, they cover different topics. I don’t think either is really better at this, but either one could hit harder for different people and at different times in their life.
(I also think the puzzles in two were too easy, but that’s probably because I had experience with one and the DLC. One had much more complicated things, but some were also frustrating, so I’m glad some were not continued with two. Even completing all the bonus puzzles in two felt fairly trivial. I wish the game lasted longer so they had more time to ramp up difficulty after introducing new elements.)
Absolutely! 2 was good also, but it didn’t affect me as much as the first. I wish more games, puzzle games in particular, would try to tackle philosophical concepts like it does. Some might have interesting lore in their world, but they don’t actually try to make you think about the real world.
The Outer Wilds (obviously)
The Talos Principle
Dark Souls
Factorio
Dwarf Fortress (This last one is tough and I don’t know if this is the right choice. The other four are correct.)
An honorable mention to Death Stranding. It isn’t in my top games, but I think it deserves to be more influential. It takes the boring part of most games, which is traversal, and builds the entire game around it. It’d be higher if it didn’t become so trivial by the end, but also designing your network that makes it trivial is part of the fun. More open world games should take more lessons from it and it’d solve some of the biggest issues of open world game: traversal just being a waste of time and boring.
That existing map is already probably 90+% of the population. But yeah, including those would get it to be most of the last mass too.
Most consumers are not purchasing a GPU to run an LLM. They may choose to run one if they own a GPU. This does next to nothing for their demand.
I don’t mean a subscription to Hugging Face. I mean a subscription to an LLM service. They don’t want you owning. They want you renting.
First, I have AMD hardware that runs them fine. Second, you aren’t paying a subscription. They don’t care if you already purchased their product. That doesn’t make them additional money. They want a subscription, which is recurring revenue.
Probably, but that’s not happening anytime soon.
I mean something new as in let someone else have a try. 343 has been failing constantly. Letting them keep trying probably isn’t going to solve the issue. It’s worth trying literally anything else than having them keep at it.
This is on MS not Activision.
This isn’t publishing. This is development. Halo will be an Activision developed game.
I would argue that it probably does give better odds for it at Activision. They already have CoD. They don’t need to turn Halo into CoD. They can just use Halo to do something new.
I think I remember that they made a CoD with like mech suits or something, and a lot more movement mechanics, and it wasn’t received well. That’s basically what Halo is. Now they can go fully into that without CoD players complaining that it isn’t CoD.
I don’t have much faith in this, but I do think there’s better odds for a better Halo with Activision probably. 343 didn’t get it. Activision may not, but doing something new has to be better than continuing to fuck things up over and over.
If I’m understanding it correctly, and I’m pretty sure I am, it requires a witness, like I said. That witness has to be trusted to not reveal any information. The receiver doesn’t get any information theoretically, but it requires that someone check your ID. That’s pretty obvious though because how else could it work?
Even if it’s secure (no software is ever 100% secure), it can’t be anonymous. How could they verify your ID? Maybe they theoretically don’t store the record, and the checks after the first don’t provide it, it can’t be anonymous or it’s worthless for ID verification.
Even if it were incredibly straightforward and performant, it’s still impossible to add no overhead. Is the process doing something? Ok, then something else has to not happen in that time
I’m sure they spend time on Linux in general, since it is the most common operating system (and includes Android, so even bigger). I doubt they spend much, if any, effort on the specific subset of systems that make a Linux phone different from another Linux device.