Random Gaming Talk

[benji]

GameInformer is undead:
https://gameinformer.com/letter-from-the-editor/2025/03/25/game-informer-is-back

And if you make a free account (or already have one) you can now access an archive of the print issues back to May 2012.

[Polident]

Hell yeah

[benji]

In case you hadn't noticed:

[HardcoreRetro]

Seems the critics are pretty divided on that South of Midnight game.

Kind of hope the writing is as horribly on the nose as Dustborn was. At least it'll be funny to laugh at. 

 I wish it was made by a different team. Beause I do love that deep south/creole/cajun setting.

[benji]

@Boingy420
1 month ago
That's why I used to use stragedy guides as a teen a lot.  Final Fantasy had loads of these "you need a miracle or a guide to find it" secrets.

@ovlbo232
3 months ago
I found another wall in the turntable area by accident. Anywhere you see a picture of concrete like that, it's a breakable wall. People found 6 so far, now i'm wondering if there's more in the DLC...

@YorkJonhson
3 months ago
Man, the fact it took more than one shot to open it up and you kept at it was impressive. I never would have found that.

@VooXoo
4 months ago
I don't understand how someone would realize the wall can be broken

@woozydreams6561
1 month ago
you the type of dude to notice that your lamp is slightly twisted

@SpicyRikers
3 months ago
I think theres a few of these spots in the game, I found one of these somewhere else aswell and it blew my mind! Best way to spot the fake walls is to try and spot the Pickup symbols through the wall

 gamers man

[chronovore]

@Boingy420
1 month ago
That's why I used to use stragedy guides as a teen a lot.  Final Fantasy had loads of these "you need a miracle or a guide to find it" secrets.

@ovlbo232
3 months ago
I found another wall in the turntable area by accident. Anywhere you see a picture of concrete like that, it's a breakable wall. People found 6 so far, now i'm wondering if there's more in the DLC...

@YorkJonhson
3 months ago
Man, the fact it took more than one shot to open it up and you kept at it was impressive. I never would have found that.

@VooXoo
4 months ago
I don't understand how someone would realize the wall can be broken

@woozydreams6561
1 month ago
you the type of dude to notice that your lamp is slightly twisted

@SpicyRikers
3 months ago
I think theres a few of these spots in the game, I found one of these somewhere else aswell and it blew my mind! Best way to spot the fake walls is to try and spot the Pickup symbols through the wall

 gamers man

I had a friend who played 2 years of DESTINY before we played together. We'd revisit all the levels he'd already played, and I would keep asking him to backtrack a few in-game meters, and finding hidden cache and other things. He said, "How did you know that was there? I've been playing this for years. I've never seen that!" 

I didn't have an answer other than playing and making a bunch of videogames. Designers can be pretty basic about where they squirrel stuff away. 

When I finished Bioshock, I had found all but one audio-recording just by playing "normally." When I realized I had only one missing, I was pretty sure I knew where it might be, because there was a spot that had a bunch of crannies, under a grate, and I had not found anything else there. It literally took 2 minutes of searching when I went back to look for it specificallly. 

AND I NEVER WOULD HAVE FOUND THESE HIDDEN WALLS. This is some serious bullshit.

[D3RANG3D]

[D3RANG3D]

View this post on Instagram

[Nintex]

It's oddly liberating to sell off some of my old junk.

Phat DS, DS Lite, dozens of review and third party games as well as my least favorite GameCube games.
It was a really smart move to sell a gem like Metroid Prime Trilogy first. Now it's much easier to get rid of Sonic Heroes or games I have on 4 different digital platforms.

I remember thinking this shit would be worth a lot of money one day and well that'll never happen.
Most of it is worth jack shit after 15 - 20 years even.

It's going the way of CDs/DVDs, sell it while you have the chance.

I remember my grandma had a coffee machine collection. In her day those things were expensive at some point people started collecting but that fad faded.
So when she died most of it went into the trash and a few items were sold for a couple of coins.

[Potato]

It's oddly liberating to sell off some of my old junk.

Phat DS, DS Lite, dozens of review and third party games as well as my least favorite GameCube games.
It was a really smart move to sell a gem like Metroid Prime Trilogy first. Now it's much easier to get rid of Sonic Heroes or games I have on 4 different digital platforms.

I remember thinking this shit would be worth a lot of money one day and well that'll never happen.
Most of it is worth jack shit after 15 - 20 years even.

It's going the way of CDs/DVDs, sell it while you have the chance.

I remember my grandma had a coffee machine collection. In her day those things were expensive at some point people started collecting but that fad faded.
So when she died most of it went into the trash and a few items were sold for a couple of coins.

Have you tried to buy a DVD lately? 

Also, pretty happy I kept my CD collection (and vinyl).



Maybe you need better musical taste?

[Polident]

There’s a small museum in Tokyo dedicated to extinct media formats and hardware. It’s very interesting if you’re a dork but also depressing to see stuff that was cutting edge as worthless junk. And how an iPhone can do everything in that place combined and better.

All that to say, video games hold value and relative relevance compared to others. It’s not vinyl or film, but for digital storage, it’s an anomaly.

[chronovore]

Yeah, the prices in osaka geek shops have caught up with the internet. Locals earning depressed Japanese wages are not able to find affordable used games; the tourists have come in and scooped up the collectible items and prices have risen (it's Easter!) to match demand. It's annoying… but at the same time I don't need to buy games as my Steam, EGS, and PS+ backlogs glare at me balefully.

Saw some bullshit Tonight Show interview where Pete Davidson declared VHS are going for hundreds of dollars, and he has bought a shit-ton of them as an investment. I think he was probably serious, but he was also probably high as fuck during the interview AND when he made the purchase decision. VHS will have the collector interest of the same types of people who collect wax cylinder recordings — they're a pain in the ass to store, maintain safely, and play, as well as having absolute shit for fidelity.

[Polident]

I dealt with VHS tapes in my early youth and naturally there’s some nostalgia there. Mostly when it came to recording TV programs. But when the switch to DVD happened, it was near uniformly better. Even cassette tapes still had an advantage against CDs.

[Nintex]

Everyone needs to do what they feel is right and there is probably some difference between the EU and other regions too.

The Nintendo games and rare games I'll keep because they have value or stuff that has nostalgic value to me like my favorite games.

But my Wii collection for example, a 100-something games. 
I'm keeping about 20. The Zelda games, Sin & Puhisment 2, a whole bunch of rare RPGs and other gems. The items worth to collect.
But the Need for Speeds, Sonics, Ubisoft games? Red Steel was never good and isn't worth anything now or in the future.

I guess curating the collection is the right phrase. A co-worker is helping me sell, cleaning, checking if everything works etc. .
He wants to start a retro games business so with this he has some starting stock.

[chronovore]

I dealt with VHS tapes in my early youth and naturally there’s some nostalgia there. Mostly when it came to recording TV programs. But when the switch to DVD happened, it was near uniformly better. Even cassette tapes still had an advantage against CDs.

What advantage is there in audio cassette over CD?

[Polident]

I dealt with VHS tapes in my early youth and naturally there’s some nostalgia there. Mostly when it came to recording TV programs. But when the switch to DVD happened, it was near uniformly better. Even cassette tapes still had an advantage against CDs.

What advantage is there in audio cassette over CD?

No skipping when running. That’s about it for music. And it was easier to modulate play speed and direction to hear secret message from the devil.

Eventually the mp3 cd players with minuscule flash storage could cache songs. But I think even the first iPods with hard drive were prone to skipping.

[Potato]

I dealt with VHS tapes in my early youth and naturally there’s some nostalgia there. Mostly when it came to recording TV programs. But when the switch to DVD happened, it was near uniformly better. Even cassette tapes still had an advantage against CDs.

What advantage is there in audio cassette over CD?

None. 

Vinyl is cool because it's big and tactile and the cover art is massive and you need to be physically involved in the process of listening. 

CDs are the superior sound quality format. 

Cassettes are shit, don't display the cover correctly and they're small. They warp in heat and wear out quicker than a spinster's vibrator on Valentine's Day. Their only advantage was that they were relatively cheap and you could dub your demo/mix tape easily.

Idiotic format to bring back.

[Polident]

Oblivion Remaster seems interesting insofar as it’s Skyrim-ified. 

The market presents it as a prequel setting up the events of Skyrim. Skyrim is Elder Scrolls 5! Skyrim subsumed Elder Scrolls after a decade of consistent re-releases.

That’s true for GTA, I imagine. A generation has only known GTAV.

[benji]

Notably, Oblivision Remastered does not have official mod support, though fans have already been cooking up an array of unofficial mods for the game within hours of its release. Additionally, both versions of Oblivion have unique aspects: Skyblivion, for instance, isn't available on console at all. Oblivision Remastered, on the other hand, does not include the new and refurbished content that Skyblivion has promised, but does have horse armor DLC at launch for Deluxe Edition buyers. Both versions have different looks and feels, with different interpretations on how much Skyrim-ness should be incorporated into a retread of Oblivion. And of course, you can play Oblivision Remastered today, but those looking forward to Skyblivion will have to wait just a little bit longer.

[chronovore]

I dealt with VHS tapes in my early youth and naturally there’s some nostalgia there. Mostly when it came to recording TV programs. But when the switch to DVD happened, it was near uniformly better. Even cassette tapes still had an advantage against CDs.

What advantage is there in audio cassette over CD?

No skipping when running. That’s about it for music. And it was easier to modulate play speed and direction to hear secret message from the devil.

Eventually the mp3 cd players with minuscule flash storage could cache songs. But I think even the first iPods with hard drive were prone to skipping.

The iPods didn't skip, unless you're really talking about first-generation, about which I know nothing. There was some portion of buffered memory for playback, it would have prevented that. A hard drive skipping is going to have much bigger problems. 

Maybe you're thinking about early portable CD players, which did not have buffering memory?

[Polident]

Is there a reason why Amazon isn’t carrying Switch 2? I’m looking at other Nintendo listings and it’s all third party sellers. Was there some beef between them?

[bork]

Is there a reason why Amazon isn’t carrying Switch 2? I’m looking at other Nintendo listings and it’s all third party sellers. Was there some beef between them?

Looks like it, yeah.  They had some kind of dispute in 2023 and as a result Amazon hasn't stocked all the switch games and has canceled pre-orders.

Still doesn't mean that the Switch 2 won't pop up on there, though.

[benji]

 why would they make this image? 

[killamajig]

[Polident]

Gap from GTA5 to GTA6 will be as big as GTA2 to GTA5.

[Potato]

Someone needs to explain to Danielle what "blow" means. 

Absolutely nothing of value was lost here.

[Eric Cartman]

its the thing they figuratively do to publishers for access

[Potato]

its the thing they figuratively do to publishers for access

Figuratively? 

Wasn't that Kotaku bitch EiC a hooker on the side?

[who is ted danson?]

who needs this?

really?

[Potato]

Video game journalist maths: 

The same goes for game production, where those mid-sized developers now talk of a fight for budget, as publishers move from, say, one £10m punt to hedging their risk with 10 separate £1m ones (a million quid is less than you think in development: that's barely 10 people on £30,000 a year for three years). And again for triple-A games' ongoing malaise, where the likes of Ubisoft, splitting its business in a scrabble for investment, are already feeling the strain.

Ok so 30,000 X 10 X 3 is £900,000, right? 

Well, no.

That's just wages. 

What about admin costs, rent, software licences, hardware, marketing costs, etc? 

Another example of how out of touch gaming "journalists" are with everything around them.

This problem could have been solved if he had bothered speaking to a source to find out what the overhead costs are in developing a game. But why bother doing that when you can just make shit up?

When was the last time you read anything from one of these clowns where they actually spoke to a real source? 

Everything is either regurgitated press release or unsourced opinion. 

Burn gaming journalism to the ground and salt the earth.