FUKKEN YESSSS
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Gosh I guess I forgot the casual racism in this clip
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this is much sooner and cheaper than I expected!
I wish it werenât competing with absolver but wow!!!
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but the saints row successor that no one cared about and looked surprisingly bland is apparently not great after all
this is good though because the few weeks from sonic straight through to wolfenstein are gonna be bonkers for releases
Rock of Ages is probably Ace Teamâs best game so far
agreed, their other stuff doesnât really work as well (seemingly by design and itâs kept them in business so whatever) but I adored the original and I canât wait for this
Cat rpg makes me smile
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Yeah, uh, the good life sounds like about the best thing a video game can be. Always surprised by the lack of games where the day/night cycle drastically changes PC mechanics.
Dr. Dos finally launched his Museum of ZZT yesterday. Itâs a pretty impressive compendium of ZZT games, articles, comics, and other ZZT-related/community tidbits and artifacts.
The current collection of games is borrowed from z2, the now-classic ZZT archive. However, Dr. Dos has added a lot of extra database stuff, online file viewers, links to play the games in your browser, and more. While z2 was a community hub, the Museum is clearly directed at a more general audience, who might have memories of the game from their youths or encountered it in games writing like Anna Anthropyâs book.
The Museum also is actively soliciting new games and new old games, old materials, and articles. Itâs really neat. If youâve ever been curious about ZZT or want to rediscover stuff, itâs worth a visit or twelve.
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I know precious little about the PS3âs hardware and its API but I never would have expected the PS3 to be emulated to a degree of minimal glitch (albeit only for a handful of games) this soon.
Same goes for Cemu.
Whatâs causing this dramatically different development trajectory for this generation of emulators? Is it that they are adopting more of an archival standpoint than a hobbyist standpoint? PCSX2âs code has been cleaned up and theyâre moving away from plugins but it remains a constant glitchfest in many, many games. Same for most N64 emulators, to the point that RetroArch is doing a hard-ish fork of their own of Mupen.
the PS2 and the N64 are arguably the exceptions that prove the rule, though, in terms of being really hard to emulate accurately with their RDRAM and proto-GPUs often being implemented through HLE hacks. both of them were emulated well enough relatively quickly (most games were playable in PCSX2 in 2008-2009, whereas UltraHLE was a thing in 1999 but nobody could run mario tennis until like ten years later), compared to RPCS3 only getting to a kind-of-playable state for a few titles over a decade after the original hardware shipped.
the PS3âs CPU architecture remains insane but itâs still just a CPU, thereâs only so much unexpected behaviour youâre going to encounter there once you get it working at all. the GPU is just a 7800 GT with an OpenGL-ish API
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also donât underestimate how far they have to go before getting something like the last of us or even RDR working. demonâs souls was actually a very reachable early target from what I understand.
'spose having a patreon helps a little too
also, if you look at the RPCS3 codebase, dependencies, etc., itâs all really modern â https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/tree/master/3rdparty
when the platforms are new enough to not worry about getting the timing perfect you can benefit from a lot of existing libraries
âSet in the tumultuous period of 12th century England, The Pillars of the Earth sees main characters such as Jack, Aliena and Prior Phillip fight to construct a revolutionary gothic cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge and put their town on the map economically, socially and politically. Such aspirations draw the ire of the the townâs rivals Bishop Waleran and William Hamleigh, a vengeful noble rejected by Aliena, who see the town and its rise to importance as a thorn in their flesh. They want to see Kingsbridge burn. This epic tale crosses decades and immerses readers in medieval life yet enthralls them in tales of heart-rending intimacy and humanity along the way.â
This looks real nice and pretty, but also I cannot find a way to give a shit about this game of thrones deadly political historidrama stuff.
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Apparently, this was released yesterday. I would be curious to hear impressions from anyone who tries it. I liked the hallucinatory haunted house-type experience of Layers of Fear, and it sounds as if this game also features that sort of thing.
Also, it takes place in the same year as Robotron.
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the story in the new lord of the rings is a horny manâs bizarre shelob fan fiction