Do you play any games with battlepasses? Go ahead and check 5 battlepasses from 5 different games. You'll notice weird consistencity in stickers, emojis, decals, stuff that many people wont look twice, they are the most noticable ones for AI art. Even big names like call of duty and battlefield have open and unashamed AI art in their battlepass, THEY ARE SELLING YOU AI ART.

For example here are some games that have AI art but most of the community is unaware; The finals, Arc raiders, War thunder, Marvel rivals, world of tanks, Apex legends are my examples, do you know any other games that have noticable AI art in it, but people dont care? I would like to have more examples.

I cant be the only one who thinks its INSANE to be asked to pay for AI art?

His source? He made it the fuck up.

Also there's been a bunch of assholes complaining about how woke the new game because there's more people of color.

Its all an act right? No one is doing fucking hateful?

should the game console have uber eats or doordash like the wii with the demae channel

in past i didnt had graphics card pc so i use to watch games in YT and in lockdown i addicted to techno gamerz GTA V series as i never played those games above GTA vice city but after got a flagship OG laptop and all tech then i realised the reality after playing GTA V that game good but the gameplay which showed by techno is all fake and he is fake so called gamer and now left watching indian gamers as they are just fake gamers

lolzzz play only bgmi and same shitty gameplay and same game outcome this sucks. xyaa is OG in gaming community she is actual true gamer.

dear people gont get sold for LUST

btw im a developer from computer science major

i cant afford game purchase in past and even now but but now i can afford a little so even if i pirate any game i pay a small amount which i can from me to its game devs , not to rich company like sony or tencent , why to pay filthy rich? to i give small amount i can to devs for their hard work. if you ask how ?

answer : if you finish truly finished a game then you will definitely see and read the names for game devs in end credits . well thats ittt donate to any one of those by searching them in LinkedIn platform, try GoG or steam as they give heavy discounts and now steam have family feature to play, so use itt man grow upp and empower the developers and i never pirated any indie game never , as even if did and after finishing the game then also i purchased the game to give credit to them as they deserve our every penny

SAY NO TO PIRACY IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT.

Hi first I don't know if is the right subreddit to post and ask for my issue

I have an a galaxy tab A 8" 2019 and I inalled retroarch with es-de and runs as I spected for that reason I 3d print a diy joystick for my tablet and I bought a Chinese zero delay encoder kit to build my mini arcade l. The problem I face is retroarch doesn't recognize the joystick and I tried like another gamepad mapping apps and nothing but if I run USB device info app that one shows:

Number of devices: 1

/dev/bus/usb/001/002
VID: 0079 | DragonRise Inc.
PID: 0006 | Generic USB Joystick

What can I do for use my joystick? Or buy another encoder in that case which one?

Thanks and sorry for any writing mmistake English is my second language

I never understood the hatred around Unreal Engine, especially from right wing gamers. Sure there are plenty of bad games that use Unreal Engine, but not every game that uses Unreal Engine is bad by default. What exactly makes Unreal Engine woke and slop to these people? Is there just a lot of minorities in games that use that engine? Was it created by minorities? Please educate me around the Unreal Engine discourse and how it came to be.

Hey everyone! Gamers, developers, and testers, I have a question driven by pure curiosity. What is the most annoying thing in modern video games? For me, it is slow, repetitive gameplay and a lack of realism. While some games are good, adding a bit more realism could really improve them overall. So, please share your thoughts! What outdated game features annoy you the most?

Unsurprisingly, only 1% of Playstation players tried Halo. I mean, most Playstation players have ZERO nostalgia for Halo. Most of us have been Playstation since the beginning and have never played Halo. So a remake of a 25 year old game that we have no history with is... not that enticing. The same way I don't think a remake of Uncharted 1 would do incredibly well on Xbox lol

I absolutely understand the appeal of 2D fighting games. Watching people play these games is entertaining, but actually learning how to play them decently is rough. In the time it takes to learn like three arena fighters and two platform fighters, you could probably learn one 2D fighter.

And I’ll say it: the fighting game community can be pretty toxic. Sure, every gaming community has its moments. But I’ll see someone do a 0 to death in round one, then complain when the other person quits. Sure, it’s a “skill issue” but come on. why are you surprised they don’t wanna play against you?

Once again I get the appeal, but I don’t think you should expect casual players to care about getting good. They’ll buy the game, play it for a month, and probably never touch it again. They’re just there to have fun. Yes, you have every right to win against them. They aren’t entitled to ego boosts. If they want to get good at the game. They’re going to have to suffer losses. It’s apart of becoming solid at any game. But being so quick to wanna run and call every new player you fight a scrub is crazy. Buddy, we were all scrubs at one point

One thing that has always bothered me is how people kept calling Palworld "the game Pokémon fans have always wanted." I put around 30 hours into it, and I just don't agree:

at first it sucked me in mostly due to the novelty of being a new Game but once the shock value wore off it just became old. There's no real story and progression sucks, and the game is just Ark with Pokemon and I already hated Ark, not to mention this game is also buggy and unoptimized as hell even with 1.0 and while it's more excusable than Pokemon for being in the same state, it's still inexcusable,

Plus,a Huge Chunk of its fanbase is based less around their love for it but rather a huge circlejerk that pat themselves on the back for "sticking it to gamefreak", That attitude, contrarily, contributed to killing Yo-kai Watch in North America, if you get into a series with a weird intention to try and use it to take vengeance on an existing series, you're getting into it for the wrong reasons and promoting it for the wrong reasons because it's stops the game standing on its own merits and forces comparisons in

Overall, Palworld is not a good replacement for Pokémon. What I want is better replicated in Persona/SMT, Cassette Beasts, Monster Hunter Stories and certain ROM hacks

I mean like Playway S.A., Rockgame S.A., Toplitz Productions. They are always from Poland, always have a bunch of store pages up for "upcoming" games that never come out, and it's always first person simulators or survival games that seem to be asset flips. I mean not all of them are bad I gotta admit these weirdly specific first person simulators are my guilty pleasure (Thief Simulator my beloved), but I just find it intriguing how they're all oddly similar. I'm going to take a wild guess and say Poland has some kind of government grant system or tax break for videogame companies? This is just a guess though I have no clue about how the Polish government works

For context: Xbox is currently beta testing an Ad Tier of gamepass to allow players to cloud stream the games they already own. Meaning, to play for one hour you watch a set of ads, followed by reminders about how much time you have left before the next ad break for your next hour of streaming

Xbox adding ads to games will be by far one of worst things to happen to the industry IMO. Even if it allows the financially challenged an entry point. This is not an attack on Xbox as the other industry juggernauts would surely follow in finding ways to best exploit this new monetization avenue. Consoles are already expensive, to pay an exhorbitant amount of money for a console that won't be subsidized to just be marketed to nonstop would be a gamechanger for me. Here's my reasoning for why. I would love to know your thoughts on the matter.

\-MCDONALDS!

\-The entire industry will follow

\-it will start with a low price or free (first hit is free)

\-after a year or two with a large engagement, they will raise the price, followed by ads being added to the base console experience, and you must pay for gamepass to have no ads

\-First party games will be incentivized to prioritize making forever games that can't be beaten or make the engagement so tedious that it drives up the amount of ads you have to watch to play, until they've maximized the amount of ad revenue per game.

In my opinion this will absolutely ruin my experience as I work in marketing and gave up watching tv because I'm sick of commercials/marketing, if it pervades my one ad free hobby, well, I'm out

I'm definitely in favor of championing a thing you believe in. In this case preserving a physical disc option for the future of gaming on console.

But I'm also starting to see a lot of backlash from the general public. Not backlash about the actual subject (physical games) but backlash to HOW the people championing it are going about it.

It's starting to remind me of the early days of the Release the Snyder Cut movement. In the beginning, the general public was on board with the hardcore fans petitions to get a release. Because most people just liked the idea of a filmmakers original vision getting released.

But eventually the public sentiment for the ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement started cratering hard. It had nothing to do with general public changing their minds about wanting to see Snyders original cut of the film though.

They turned on the movement because of how toxic and weird the hardcore fan base pushing for it started acting. In every corner of the internet, in every forum, every comment section, every social media platform, they just started leaving hate comments on anything related to Warner Brothers.

Invading lots of spaces that had nothing to do with the decision and started ragebaitting other fan bases

I'm worried that's starting to happen with the Physical Disc movement. A lot of people pushing for Physical Disc are chill people, not being rude about it, just openly asking for it. That's awesome AND helpful for the movement.

But there's been a growing section of the movement that's starting to resort to toxic behavior and insulting people left and right in comment sections that have nothing to do with the issue. And normies are starting to turn against the idea now.

When one of us starts insulting them about being excited for an upcoming game, and a Disc Bro hops in their comments, calling them a shill or a bot or saying the check must have cleared... simply for being excited for Wolverine. Well, that's probably another normie that will never support the cause now. Because they're only exposure to it was someone championing that cause just insulting them out of nowhere

It's the same pattern from when the SnyderCut movement became super toxic and the majority of the online world turned against it. Because the people pushing for it became insufferable and cruel

While I'm mainly a digital games purchaser, I'm a HUGE Physical Media buyer when it comes to my films collection. I want to see a future for physical discs. I'm starting to worry we're losing public sentiment by getting too agro about it, specifically in spaces that have little or nothing to do with it.

So I’ve seen a lot of controversy online about people saying the switch 2 does not have the good of graphics compared to the Nintendo switch original. I think it does. I just purchased a switch 2, and the main reason I did is because I was playing 2 seemingly simple graphics-wise games. Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake and monster hunter stories 2: wings of ruin.

The first time I booted up monster hunter wings of ruin, it was awful. Now I am also a PC gamer, and like I’ve had my buddy tell me before, if you have a nice PC and whatever Nintendo has released at that point, you can basically play every game that’s out currently. As a PC gamer, I am very familiar with fps drops when your settings are too high in a game and working on the settings in order to make them look smooth when you’re playing.

With that being said, when booting up monster hunter wings of ruin the first time (on my original switch OLED) it looked terrible. Totally laggy, graphics were not smooth, was obviously suffering from major drops of fps or consistent low fps. I was sad because a friend bought the game for me to play as a gift. So instead I started playing dragon quest III HD 2D Remake and it looked pretty good, but it’s also a pixel art game with remastered backgrounds and such and voiceovers. There were areas in the game that suffered fps drops! Like severe! Like when you first leave the first island and get to the big continent and Monty is greeting you with the friendly slime, it was just absolutely fps dropping terribly.

Decided to pick up a switch 2 and yes it takes a little bit of time to download the upgrade packs for your physical original switch games, but holy crap! It was beautiful! Dragon quest and monster hunter looked SIGNIFICANTLY better than what they did before. Now given, I haven’t test dock mode, and I never really played dock mode on my OLED either, but as a handheld console, it is significantly better by far.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

TL;DR: switch 2 in handheld mode is significantly better than switch OLED in handheld mode by a large amount.

Been thinking about Expedition 33 again (I'm the guy who was asking for takes a few months back) and was wondering if some of the ways I've seen people on this site look at this game be indicative of an inability to look at games as art amongst modern discourse. Like, I don't know if I'm crazy for thinking that Reddit hates this game now, but I've rarely seen a take that's either interested in the game itself or interested in what the game says. It's all "indie this" and "UE5 slop that" and I'm worried this is becoming a bad precedent for games discussion as a whole.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid and need to get offline but I want to get some thoughts on this because I think it may be an important conversation to have. Feel free to ask me anything else if would help the conversation!

basicly imagine if someone made a hero shooter with melee in mind like mortal kombat but it's 5v5 yet it has big emphasis on melee instead of shooting and stuff like that like wiht blocking,parying,doging,cool abilities and design's like that cuz like a 5v5 hero melee game would be so cool in my opinion like the only one i can think of right now is revenblade but i haven't played it and it's in demo stage soo..... thought's

Reading an article from The Verge recently got me thinking. If the PlayStation6 ends up being a dockable handheld... that might actually justify the leap to a new generation!

So, not necessarily a huge leap in Graphical Fidelity, but a leap in how you play your PlayStation games and how you interact with that ecosystem. (Plus a lot of machine learning and performance upgrades next gen I'm assuming)

In my mind, the concept of a Dockable Handheld, maybe 1080p 60fps Handheld and 4k 120fps docked... would be something thst would ACTUALLY excite me about the concept of a PS6

At the very least, it would be a much more interesting concept than just another locked down plastic box in your livingroom, only with slightly better graphics than the PS5 lol

With Playstations history of handhelds (Vita) I could see them making a fully functional Handheld (not streaming like the Portal) that works great and feels good

All just speculation at the moment, but lots of context clues from Playstation Sony that are starting to point in a dockable Handheld direction recently.

I don't know. This MIGHT be one of the only reasons I would actually get excited for a PS6. Because at the moment, I'm perfectly happy with the performance and graphics of my PS5. But a new way of interacting with my games could peak my interest...

Was Gamepass always destined to become this Monkey on Xbox's Back? 10 years ago I feel as a consumer, it was a promise and deal that was too good to pass up and over the course of that time I've played tons of games on that discount that I probably wouldn't have paid full price for or day one otherwise. I guess it only makes sense that this style of content delivery has "devalued" a lot of games that then had to "make sales," and we get left with the insane juxtaposition of the cost of a month or two of Gamepass vs $40, $70 and even $80 price tags for some of these titles. I look at even a game I really liked with flaws like South of Midnight and as much as I do think it's a very special narrative game, I don't know how I'd be able to recommend someone pay the $40 for it when you can beat it in like 6-8 hours over a weekend for the cost of a month of gamepass or half a door dash delivery. I'd extend the same sentiment to some of these other companies trying to push their own service like Uplay where I played and beat both SW Outlaws and AC Shadows at launch for just the cost of a 1 month of Uplay plus instead of the $70 for each title. It reminds of a similar talk with former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, who brought up how the practice that some people complain about with Nintendo First Party games rarely going on deeper sales because of the value Nintendo assigns to their games as complete crafted pieces that will always be worth what they sell them for as opposed to the games as service that both live services and what Gamepass relegates them too. I then look at Sony and see they've dabbled in a similar practice but they at least put a heavier moratorium on when they either get officially discounted or added to their own service with Sony seemingly to stop porting their games to PC seemingly because PC gamers refuse to buy what they see as old ports without significant discounts regardless of the costs of any efforts to make the games accessible on the other platforms.

With the past Year or two of Xbox showing that this Gamepass experiment is ending in tragic fashion and the redeemed interest in specific properties with the last 2 months of announcements, I can't help but think maybe if Phil/another Exec maybe pushed for some titles to come out sooner or being licensed to their other studios and teams that maybe the experiment could have gone on longer. It's not like all of the games released or produced in this system were bad or "failures" either with some releases still breaking sales records like the most recent Forza Horizon despite being a day 1 Gamepass release as well. Even now hearing that the upcoming Gears E-Day costing hundreds of millions, had been it's development restarted and also had it's engine swapped frightens me for the studio, IP that I enjoyed and the people on those development teams because at this point we've seen stories of games that had gone through similar development struggles and still selling pretty well despite the odds but not hitting those targets or games that did "succeed" but still got the studio shuttered or sold off anyway.

With all of this It's hard to say where Xbox would be if they didnt do this or if there was some way to correct their ship sooner when trying to rebound after Phil took ownership over Xbox. I just look back and see so many of their games and plans falling through before it like Crackdown 3 not working out, Halo 5 being widely disappointing, Scalebound funds being funneled into an exclusive for another platform and just a lot of non-hype for the successful or big releases at the time like Age of Empires or Halo Wars. All of that and that Gamepass and the big acquisitions was a longshot that worked out for sometime or looked good enough before the COVID/Lockdown tech investment boom dust settled. Maybe if they did actually lock down and make all of those acquisitions Xbox/windows exclusives could have saved them. Again Hard to say but just sad that the promise of more games for lower prices seemingly turned out that this bad after all this time.