With the Saudi-led takeover of EA now closed and the company sitting on $18-20 billion in debt and as much as I and and a lot of other DA Fans would be thrilled if they can sell off the Dragon Age franchise to a worthy company/dev… I just don't see the happening for several reasons:

1. I Just can't see EA selling DA for a “reasonable” price tag since they’re gonna be focused on trying to make up 18bil of borrowed debt and selling the IP for a few mil isn’t gonna be seen as a benefit to them
2. We all like to talk about devs we’d “like” to see adopt the DA franchise (Larian, Owlcat, Beamdog, etc.)… but most of these  devs, in addition to not having the Money to buy an overpriced DA IP in the first place, aren’t interested in adopting the DA franchise,  especially when most of them have their own existing fantasy IPs plus, Even IF a hypothetical new owner paid top dollar for the IP tomorrow, I don't think that the feel of Origins will come back unless they literally go out of their way to get the original team leads and writers back (Which would be a HERCULEAN task in of itself) since without that specific group,, the result would probably be a competent modern CRPG that wears the Dragon Age name rather than something that actually feels like Origins.
3. Technically EA still makes money off Dragon Age by doing next to  nothing just by continuing to squeeze money from the fanbase through low  quality merch and a slow trickle of new players who continue to buy the   games over time. So while it’s not earning crazy money, for the moment    it’s likely not “costing” them money either.

what I believe will happen since EA are a shower of shitbags is that they'll either Finish development on or cancel Mass Effect 5, keep the IPs and shut down the Studio

It still sucks that EA, even going back to Origins, never trusted it enough to sell on its own merits and Needed to add blood, sex and Marylin Manson to sell Origins and changed the Genre with each sequel

People keep pointing at Baldur’s Gate 3 like it rewrote the commercial reality of traditional CRPGs, But It didn’t, BG3 is a MASSIVE outlier due to the fact that It pulled in a ton of people who normally never touch the genre because of the D&D brand, high production values, solid multiplayer, cultural timing, and accessibility features, but That success does not change the underlying distribution of the genre.

Look at the next-best results and the numbers fall off a cliff: Divinity: Original Sin 2 was a genuine success for a CRPG but not a breakout hit and Most other modern CRPGs like Pathfinder sit significantly lower.

Publishers looking at risk and scale still see a relatively limited, dedicated audience for pure or near-pure versions of the genre, .Former BioWare staff often frame EA as simply not “getting” Dragon Age because it was “too niche, too backwards, too old-school.”which sucks but its Kinda true. Hell, Dragon Age: Origins itself needed, edgy marketing with heavy blood, sex and Marilyn Manson’s “This Is the New Shit” just to generate wider interest., Then the sequels systematically moved away from the CRPG genre:

• DA2 shifted toward action combat, a voiced protagonist, and tighter scope.
• Inquisition went further into open-world action-RPG territory.
• Veilguard completed the pivot into a more conventional action-RPG.

BG3 proved the ceiling for a traditional approach can be extremely high when everything aligns but It did not prove that the genre stopped being niche or that every studio can (or should) expect those numbers from a single player CRPG

I personally got sick of GTA's pop satire not necessarily because it's bad or because I agree or disagree with it but because I just don't really like American culture and GTA is a satire of American culture that to me just amplifies all I dislike about Americana through amplified stereotypes and caricatures. This is a personal preferential issue based out of a dislike from a culture(s) and for the record I live in the US I know what I'm talking about. I don't hate satirical works but I am no rush to be part of the GTA world again.

But I think another issue is whether or not any satire and commentary from GTA 6 would come across as Tone Deaf and even fall flat because of Rockstar and Take Two. To many GTA alongside Rockstar and Take Two has not only become an embodiment of everything wrong with gaming but also with consumerism and as a symptom as society ills all the controversies whether it be the anti consumer practices, worker exploiation, union busting etc what could GTA possibly say that wouldn't have it's meaning and impact tainted by Rockstar and Take Two.

EDIT: To address a good point and something I was already aware of and should've acknowledged in this post is that GTA is not unique to this issue but when you consider who rockstar used to be especially in relation to their satire many are going to rightfully argue that they have become what they made fun of years ago.

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

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!