News Thread 10: Beautiful Posts

Cerium · January 31, 2025, 1:11am

The EU 360 would crash after the opening cutscene on stage 4 of Orta like clockwork, that game is the only reason I still own my S.

Cerium · January 31, 2025, 1:21am

Two things happened today

Ridge Racer 64 came out on Switch Online.
I learned there was a Ridge Racer 64.

lonelyfrontier · January 31, 2025, 7:46am

oh hell yeah motherfucker mebius should put these on pc also in a language i can read

daphaknee · January 31, 2025, 7:03pm

4 posts were split to a new topic: DIG THROUGH THIS: the VGHF digital archive thread

captainlove · January 31, 2025, 6:29pm

scratchmonkey · January 31, 2025, 6:51pm

So the Football Manager community is absolutely melting down today.

Background:

For the last couple years Sports Interactive (dev behind FM) has been talking about updating the engine. The game’s been basically the same graphically for…over a decade at this point and it’s been pretty creaky looking lately. So they were going to try and do it for FM24 and were like, man, uh, we’re not going to be able to pull this off, the new plan is FM24 is the last “old” FM, the big hurrah, and then we’ll move to Unity for FM25.

Generally there’s some beta release around the end of the summer and then the game releases shortly after the European leagues kick off. After no beta, SI announced that they were going to have to delay the release of the game to early December. Then there was a long silence followed by them announcing around the start of November that the game would not in fact release this year, and was further delayed to March.

Crucially, there has been absolutely zero footage of the match engine in any of this. Just some static UI that might be a mockup. As part of the delay, they said there would be a further release announcement with gameplay footage by the end of January.

So we’re at the end of January, as we’re outside business hours in the UK, and there’s been no announcement, no communication at all. So now there’s rampant speculation and fear-mongering about what this means. Dogs and cats, living together, etc.

Unfortunately this isn’t too surprising. Moving to a new engine on an annually-released game is incredibly tough. I don’t think anybody is going to get that one right. The issue is really that SI has a horrible PR record for basically forever, and it’s biting them in the ass right now.

vodselbt · January 31, 2025, 7:45pm

hell yes. this was actually a cool trailer, lots of little details to appreciate.

iguferon · January 31, 2025, 9:36pm

lmfao

and they didnt even do anything to sims 2 which is a bit annoying to get running, i still have my delisted ultimate collection on the ea app which is functionally the same thing and was cheaper when i bought it years ago

the sims 2 is so good though. one of the best games ever

vodselbt · January 31, 2025, 9:38pm

yeah it seems like the real attractor of this is the Sims 1. Though that has some issues, I hear, too.

iguferon · January 31, 2025, 9:39pm

Like two years go I got it off internet archive with all the xpacs and used dgvoodoo and it worked fine. maybe they should’ve done a gog release where they actually do that stuff for you!!!

vodselbt · February 1, 2025, 2:34am

you’re totally right. these days though i feel a little more confident that publishers will actually bother to update new releases like this if only because people will keep paying for them if they do. the UI is allegedly like microscopic on modern resolutions lol

Mikey · February 1, 2025, 1:48pm

Cofounder of Treyarch lol

jodeaux · February 2, 2025, 1:56am

Mikey · February 3, 2025, 4:08am

Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t remember seeing this posted here yet

Mikey · February 3, 2025, 7:46pm

This is some pretty hot shit imho

sleepysmiles · February 3, 2025, 7:52pm

its free til the 11th! (ignore the buy link saying its discounted)

ellaguro · February 4, 2025, 1:14am

Stéphane Picq (composer of Dune, MegaRace, Commander Blood, Lost Eden, etc) apparently just passed away at 59

he was one of my biggest discoveries in doing my Abyss game music mixes over the past ten years. i know a lot of people probably haven’t played a lot of the Cryo games he did music for but his stuff was universally amazing. i’m fully confident in saying he was one of the best to ever do it - up there with Tim Follin without a doubt. one of my top five favorite game composers of all time.

he still has a bandcamp page up of some stuff it seems like, and some of it is on Spotify. absolutely strongly recommended listening if you haven’t heard some of these soundtracks before.

Sleazy · February 4, 2025, 2:36am

neat

notbov · February 4, 2025, 2:37pm

see this is neat but the problem is you would be giving LRG money

isfet · February 4, 2025, 3:11pm

so they’re selling these both as Sega CDs but also in cartridge format? i can’t seem to find an explainer of how that works, so i’m assuming this means they’ve kind of stuck an iso on a cartridge and encoded it as a ROM?

would be funny if the Genesis version lacked cutscenes, though