If you like the old-school top-down GTA feel, American Fugitive is super cheap now and is a good-ish game. Same dev has The Precinct, which is top-down GTA but you’re playing a cop.

The story is not a strong point with either, but if you need that, go to a different genre.

And there is also Rustler, which is ridiculously fun.

I also loved Simpsons Hit and Run, but that’s a bit old and IDK how indie was it.

People don’t realise GTA is a British franchise

You can absolutely make unit and even integration tests in games, but I agree that I don’t think it’s really done because of the domain. Things are more caught in QA or more like Early Access these days.

Okay, I work as a programmer, and there is a reason projects work the opposite way. You first have to have a working product that comes back as good from whatever QA you have, then you optimise and build on it. If you have to optimise on day 1, nothing will ever get done. I should know, that’s why I have a ton of personal projects in development hell.

Why would games be different?

Yeah, but there’s the catch, they would have to compete on equal footing with indies then. Money is their only advantage.

I think it’s more that the megacorp business model is fundamentally incompatible with making good video games. Their only reliable competitive advantage is money, they can spend more on a single project. But if they spend so much, they can’t go as risky as indies go. A ton of indies publish shit games, it’s just that some are absolute gems.

Point is, AAA games can only match indies in originality if they are okay with tanking the IP and the studio just to make something original. But since they are megacorps, they will never be okay with that. The also can’t amortise the risk over a lot of small projects, because then they lose the ability to outspend indies and would have to compete with them directly.

It’s like a sort of inverse economies of scale.

Or just don’t play these games. There are enough games out there that you’ll never run out of decent ones.

Some of it does, some of it doesn’t, the critique is that kernel level stuff is way more than needed against most cheaters but not enough against the most dedicated ones, and it is invasive as hell.

The best anticheat is good netcode and server side checks. You can’t wallhack if your client doesn’t see behind the walls.

Like Japanese trains being controlled by some Flash app

I mean sure, but people on very old cards are finite.

I’m asking what makes a 9000 series a more attractive buy than a 7000?

On rereading the headline, it does not say much either, demand for GPUs manufactured by me in my garage is also outpacing supply.

What does a 9000 series have on a 7000? Why do people even buy new cards at this point? Anything can run anything almost.

After recent Microsoft releases, I’m not sure I can even be bothered to pirate this.

I’ll be playing my old games, thanks.

Which country?

A lot of European countries have direct bank transactions streamlined, you scan a QR code and fraud is owned by the bank.

It’s ecen more secure than cards, since you can’t get double charged by the vendor.

What’s the problem with it? I was thinking of trying to get it from somewhere, I kind of liked the original from way back when

Trademarks should expire quicker I guess. That said, copyright in general is broken.

Yeah but on the other hand the dumping business model where you sell stuff below cost to kill competition has been a staple of Silicon Valley.

Amd I’d rather the studio earn more money than the publisher in any case.

It might get the EU to make a law.

This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.

I think it may be less direct and it’s troll companies and shitty AI.

Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.

That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.

I guess you’re right, what I meant is that HIP is good enough for everything I’m doing, and CUDA-based libraries are happily chigging along on my AMD card without actually running CUDA.

Just got CUDA running on my 7900 XTX.

I’m checked out of Nvidia

Whole bunch of games you could select texture quality on install back in the days when games came on CDs.

The point is that they shipped an update that was mostly pointless, or even completely pointless on PC, that basically blocked the release of a huge scale very anticipated mod days before the release date.

The argument is that they like profiting off their mod creators, but they try to squeeze the community for more money every time they can, like with the paid mods nonsense, and also don’t give a shit about them.

enabled with FSR 4 technology

I’m pretty sure we’ll have a separate corpo-English by 2100 that is not intelligible by normal people.

We’re at Black Ops 6 already? They made 6 of them? Are there other Call of Duty games as well since? I think the last I played was Infinite Warfare, I think I have WWII in my library unplayed.

I kinda lost track of the AAA treadmill.

Due to the ubiquity of Internet access today, a lot of games get post-release patches, and ship in a not-entirely-polished state. You wait a few years, you get a game that’s actually finished.

And also, 60 EUR for a single game is a price at least I am not willing to pay for the average game, so in addition to getting a better game, I also get a cheaper one.

There is stuff worth paying that much out there, but it’s not Call of Duty Black Ops Eleventeen

Why are they specifically against Linux?

If it was only that but their other game was apparently leaking IPs of peers, so some troll DDOSed some streamer so hard they needed to switch ISPs.

Interestingly enough, the Chinese Lego factory is much smaller than the Vietnamese or the Hungarian or Mexican ones. And they plan to expand in Asia further with another Vietnam factory.

Fucking finally!

Outsourcing companies are already doing that to drown out real applicants and convince companies no qualified people are on the market.

The future is now, I can’t believe how fast science and innovation are progressing

Rome Total War was a groundbreaker in AI, one of the first titles to utilize genetic programming for AI on the campaign map.

I wonder how good this turns out. I’m a bit afraid though, I really don’t want core game features gated behind having an Nvidia GPU.

Warhammer Total War, the series where DLCs feed forward to the new title.

Elder Scrolls Online, there is a base game, a sub that does not include the base game or expansions, an expansion upgrade and expansion editions, and content that are not technically expansions.

I imagine they will buy some more just to fire all the people and do nothing with the IP.

Those graphs look like as if PC gaming was always a bit bigger than consoles, it was the pandemic that had new people stay at home and make a dent in it as they were heavily marketed to. Since that has passed, the dent has passed. Corps like console since it is more locked-down and corp friendly, so less piracy and less variety in target hardware, and no Steam to compete with their crappy ecosystems.

They would have liked that dent to be the start of a trend. But it wasn’t.

Both them and China try very hard not to.

Not fewer, shittier.

They will just crank the monetization up and the quality down.