News Thread XII: Xbox Humiliation Ritual - Part 12 the 12th

i thought this was just in reference to that one bakery NPC from the previous game but no this is the heroine of their upcoming game

incredible

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But of course there’s always

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Aw man… I wanna play this…

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People gotta stop messing around with these books.

Does look good. I’m hoping they might be a bit forthright about people’s concerns after Firmament.

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I saw in the patch notes to a Riven update they said that they wouldn’t be using AI tools for future updates or something.

Oh, and a pre-emptive clarification in case this comes up from some of y’all inquiring about AI tools in Unreal 5.8: the Myst and Riven remakes were not built using AI tools, and we have no intent to use AI tools in them in the future.

This seems plausibly to mean they won’t use AI tools for future projects, or that there’s not a wholesale commitment to them within Cyan or something? I’m hopeful at least

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Was there AI involvement in firmament, or is it just because it wasn’t that good?

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There was, the main voice was altered with ai, there were some wall textures that were iterated from generated images, some peripheral text was based on generated text

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Here’s the developer’s bsky, henmesh.

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one of my favorite of the games i played during Next Fest this year (talked about here: Games you’ve played today: Fourteen by Kazuo Umezz - #1830 by ellaguro) just came out today

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english translation for ps2 flower, sun & rain. I guess anything really is possible in this world

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Someone randomly asked me if I’d heard of this game at a party last weekend, truly armadillo racing is having its moment, huge for us armadillo heads

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layoffs at Doublefine. 23 people

:frowning:

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I watched a playthrough of this recently, it being the only one of the series I have engaged with, and it’s pretty great!

I am utterly mystified by this encounter and brother, trying to check the wiki did not help clarify anything (it is a sidequel to two other games?)

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i mean i would argue it is actually a direct sequel to the silver case and at least one aspect of 25th ward makes zero sense if you haven’t played fsr

also i would say im pretty sure that’s just Christina but I can’t remember why Christina would be purple temporarily. time to replay fsr!

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druid 22m ago
I can’t imagine how you’re going to make a sequel considering how the first one ended[…]

Ron Gilbert :check_mark: 20m ago
ā€œconsidering how the first one endedā€

That’s half the fun!

I liked the new Monkey Island, but thinking about Thimbleweed again I can feel the bile rising again. Maybe Gen X just can’t write metatextual jokes.

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This is what we get because Ron Gilbert couldn’t find a publisher willing to fund the Zelda-like ARPG he wanted to make.

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I’m impressed they got to make another one

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Metal Gear?!

Someone from neogaf remade the ending of MGS2 to show the part with Arsenal Gear crashing into lower Manhattan that was cut originally.

Pretty cool. Fits right in.

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they still need raiden cutting down the flag to drop down and drape over solidus body at the end

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surprising finding thanks to an itch notification this morning:

i’ve thought about this person’s weird metroidvania(?) for a long time without having ever played it, just on the basis of its graphics and reception (seems pretty rough). i think i even asked about it on here a long time ago (or maybe i just thought about it and decided no one would be able to name it based on the details i could remember).

anyway turns out i’ve been following them on itch this whole time and they just (re)released a simon’s quest fan game so i got notified of their existence after 6 years.

after some more digging i found the above trailer which was only released today! there is no mention of this game or any of their other work on their itch page. v strange. cool tho!

edit:
this person has so many games on steam:

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