Damn missed it. For those curious, the giveaway ended at 5pm CET, Dec 27th. As of this posting, Hot Wheels Unleashed is the current game available to get.
Wow, breaking news! Developer aiming for excellent quality!
I guess unpopular opinion but the Star Wars universe is set in the late 70s sci-fi era and the haircut looks great to me. As for actor's face, given that it's probably digitally scanned, it's probably dead-on. It does look better in pre-rendered cut-scenes. I think the problem in realtime is more the topology as well as possibly number of tris used on her face. Any character modeler will also tell you it's much harder to make women faces. I've encountered many who've s...
If Switch 2 ~Steam Deck plus gimmick, that sucks. Yes, big N's art style demands less, chosen 'cause it's cheap. They live and die on their ace devs (who could do so much more with more power). I was hoping we'd get at least something like PS4 Pro specs with a good upscaler and good framegen. Not ideal, especially considering we are mid-gen of this generation so Switch 2 will be with us for many, many years to come. We are lucky to have companies like Sony (and MS, except seri...
You can't argue with _subjective_ taste. Some people are going to like games you find crappy. I'm happy not everyone has the same taste.
Wow, everything can be blamed on diversity hiring... "the problem with the world today"
"The Yokai's Wrath bundle was released despite previous guarantees by Activision that A.I. would not be used for final assets, per the report."
We're talking concept art? Because as of right now there's no way to generate a final 3D model with final textures. So the final assets don't use AI. That's not to say that it sucks for 2D artist that it's easier to generate visual ideas and build from them leading to less 2D artists needed (really ...
There are stances. Quite a while ago they released a demo to the press, and it showed exploration, smaller enemies (though most seem to take at least a bit of a beating before going down), and the stances. I don't remember if it showed all the stances but it will have at the very least two.
I'm looking forward to it, but we'll see how it turns out on release day. I do think it's a victory in itself that it's not vaporware that so many people claimed it ...
@fr0sty I agree with you, on the console side especially, but Cyberpunk 2077 with full path tracing is very, very playable on a 40 series GPU. That was also a game that wasn't built with full path tracing in mind for gameplay and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to imagine what gameplay possibilities full raytracing (path tracing if you will), or even just raytraced reflections, will bring us. We just haven't seen an example of it yet because consoles set the standard and they...
F* what an odd headline (what's new). All good games deserve attention and they generally get it if they are good, if not by marketing then eventually by word of mouth.
Why would it only be a big deal for women? I wouldn't want to be required to sauna naked, wouldn't work at a place like that. Really strange that owner is defending this. Since the owner is involved in those communications, that's enough to write an article about. That's not to say they shouldn't reach out to them and any employees willing to talk but this is freakin' weird.
I agree with both of you and there have been some seemingly unnecessary layoffs fueled by corporate greed but when you have From Software money, it's a bit easier to say basically "we are not going to lay people off, look how awesome and good we are to our developers". Not saying that's not true, but when you're raking in that dough then... yeah.
I don't really disagree with anything you said but a few points.
* I think people _are_ enjoying indie titles. Sales prove that.
* Tools are getting better all the time so smaller developers are able to create bigger experiences and allow larger studios to have smaller teams. UE's PCG, Houdini, mocap etc. are more accessible than ever and they're just going to get better allowing us devs to become more efficient.
* We're finally starting to...
Not saying this looks fun to play but there's no way to say how this game would have actually turned out. Just looking at leaked GTA6 dev footage is a good indicator of that if you don't believe me. Pretty much all games that I've been a part of that have turned out well took shape in the last 12 months but that's also overgeneralizing things a bit.
Having said that, there might have been a good reason the game was cancelled.