I’m having a feeling that GTA 6 will be so massive in disk space requirements it’ll force plenty of consoles to be “only one game at a time”. I’m sure a lot of people will enjoy that nonetheless, much like they enjoy buying FIFA EA Football <current year> every year and spending real money on whatever bullshit microtransactions are in place to get their dream player for their team.

It all leaves me reminded that any sense of Rockstar being in any way countercultural is surely an ancient, unfunny joke by this point.

Spot on.

The weird thing is that you can find lots of RP videos using GTA on youtube and tiktok, but it’s always on a multiplayer server

Ops, good catch, I mixed them up.

Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons

Adding to zero’s post, you can see most of these things in Castlevania SotN. There are very few times you’re stopped to have some dialogue and it never lasts more than a minute. There is one key item to open one door, everything else you’re supposed to explore whenever you acquire the proper skill (high jump, bat form, mist form)

Don’t be afraid of putting most content “out of the way”, away from the main path. Be sure to leave a number of “you need this power/skill” places around the “main intended path”, so the player might have that “aha!” moment when they get a new skill. \

Speaking of skills, don’t make them useful only at super specific places or situations. Give many places for them to be used and abused. “But this is too OP” - just put some situations where it’s not as OP, rather than giving a nerf that makes nobody use it outside the mandatory places. Mist form in SotN makes you invulnerable, super OP, right? Have fun in this long ass corridor (where wolf form shines, instead)

Personally, I much prefer tutorials to be optional, like you have to manually select the “tutorial” menu option.

lol, I remember when I started playing No Man’s Sky, I made a post on reddit pointing out that more recent nvidia drivers fucked up the game’s framerate big time, like, if I was standing still and moved the mouse around, the framerate would tank. With a previous driver (416 or older), the whole game was butter smooth. I kept playing with that driver until the game had an update that forced you to have newer drivers. Performance was still shit.

Sounds interesting. Reminds me somewhat of Uncharted Waters, which is a naval RPG set around 1560. You could visit ports all over Europe, Middle East and Africa, probably over India and Japan, too, doing trade runs or living a pirate’s life.

Spam calls. Like, if you’re willing to spend, what, 50 dollars?, you can absolutely destroy people’s sanity with never ending calls from disposable numbers

I think I have that on my GOG account, I’ll have to check later. Also currently on sale there, too, super cheap

Sounds like Antichamber

I don’t even remember “where” I got, but I do remember I got to a point I had no clue how to progress. My party was around level 46, super powerful, but I just couldn’t find the right dungeon anymore

I still think about how I managed to finish it once, then tried again 1 month later only to be completely dumbfounded as to how to get the damn yellow block upgrade again

So many failed nerevarines. If only they knew they were just an exploit INTENDED FEATURE away from saving Morrowind

Blackrock Depths was fucking big, too. Later on, with the LFG tool, it was separated into 2 or 3 parts, I think. I mean, running alone back in WotLK days, where you could easily kill everything side, would still take you 2 to 3 hours to fully clear the place

Legends 1 certainly had more “exploration”, as there was nothing to point you to where you should go. Legends 2 has neat red arrows on the overworld map, so you have a decent idea of where to fuck around, though the dungeons got much more elaborate. Fuck the Nino Ruins

I think Hexen takes the cake among the “old Dooms”, since it has a hub map and you have to revisit some levels to toggle switches that became accessible after toggling another switch in another map.

… the game crashes and corrupts your save

Looks neat. No info on whether this is done in any of the idTech engines, which would be chef’s kiss

Moore’s law started failing in 2000, when single core speeds peaked, leading to multi core processors since. Memory and storage still had ways to go. Now, the current 5nm process is very close to the limits imposed by the laws of physics, both in how small a laser beam can be and how small a controlled chemical reaction can be done. Unless someone can figure a way to make the whole chip fabrication process in less steps, or with higher yield, or with cheaper machines or materials, even if at 50nm or larger, don’t expect prices to drop.

Granted, if TSMC stopped working in Taiwan, we’d be looking at roughly 70% of all production going poof, so that can be considered a monopoly (it is also their main defense against China, the “Silicon Shield”, so there’s more than just capitalistic greed at play for them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-nlRUQkbI - How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps | Branch Education

The first 4 Tomb Raider games on PC/PS1

Digimon World on PS1, made worse by the fact that it’s a tamagotchi roguelite RPG. I never played DW3, but I heard it can easily become a “where the fuck do I go now?” because of obtuse/asshole time sinking designs here and there