Yeah. It was revealed mostly through a couple of “scrolls”, rewards in the single player mode.
There was a human fossil (somehow petrified while playing Wii U) dated 12,000 years ago, and documents from scientists warning about global warming and oceans rising.
Last scroll was a message from a scientist, “the professor”, in the middle of the big extinction event 10,000 years before Splatoon. At that point all land life would disappear very soon. The professor did the logical thing and saved his cat.
Fun fact : this was the (slightly hidden) premise for Splatoon.
Those happy, colourful descendants of squids and other marine animals are playing paintball over the ruins of our civilization, long after human extinction.
They worship an old fax machine they found, too, for some reason.
Yeah, I saw their repair part section, they offer very little.
To make it more annoying, I already repaired that very controller. I had to change the battery because the old one was becoming useless. It was not too easy, since all I could find as a generic part (following a YouTube tutorial) was a slightly bigger battery that was a pain to fit in the case.
They also make them for the new 8bitdo controllers (at least the SN/SF30 pro, those shaped like SNES controllers. One of my favourite controller designs ever).
Unfortunately it seems they don’t sell those sticks as parts, only in new controllers.
My SN30 pro’s left stick started to drift, and it means it’s basically dead. I’m a bit pissed about that.
The most baffling part of it is how it looks like zero attempt was made to attribute credibility to sources.
Using Reddit as a source was bad enough (of course, they paid for it, so now they must feel like they need to use this crap). But one of the examples in the article is just parroting stuff from The Onion.
Toddlers were missing too at launch (sims went directly from baby to kid). That and pools at least got corrected in time with updates.
It also got rid of 3’s full town simulation to have only very small neighbourhoods load at one time. Admittedly, this was a performance hog in 3 and created quite a few problems. But that also felt a lot more “alive”. It’s not like 4 is that much less broken than 3.
And then there is a huge problem with 4 compared to previous entries IMO. The game is boring. The new mood mechanic at least is an interesting evolution, but beyond that it always feels like nothing is happening if you don’t provoke it in some way.
First you play Breath of the Wild and you unintentionally drop the rock on an early one, make it “oof” in pain and making you a bit guilty. Then you meet Hestu, you see a few dozens more of the crafty little bastards, and you start enjoying dropping stuff on them.
And then Tears of the Kingdom happens, you’ve seen literal hundreds of them by now, and now you’ve got an infinity of new ways to make them scream in terror.
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom both try to get away from usual logical puzzles with set solutions for open-ended situations with lots of tools to solve them, often relying on the physics engine, environment and a weird set of powers. TotK turns it up to eleven.
It adds powers like making some stuff rewind time, combining anything you can find with your weapons and shields, and yeah, most impressive of all glueing lots of stuff together to make absurd contraptions. There are basic materials everywhere, and in particular bits of machinery like motorized wheels, rockets, hot-air balloons, fans, flamethrowers, …
You can even save your own machine blueprints to rebuild them from elements you find or have in your inventory, on the fly. It’s crazy.
À l’époque, j’avais payé ça 70€, mais aujourd’hui ça a l’air de tourner autour de 50 pour un truc du même genre je pense. J’en ai pas racheté depuis un moment, donc je ne peux pas vraiment en conseiller une.
Ils appellent ça généralement des “caméras de chasse”, mais bon, clairement chez nous c’est pas pour ça qu’on l’a mise.
J’ai offert une caméra à déclenchement auto à mes parents, pour leur terrain. Y a un blaireau qui vient souvent se faire tirer le portrait, entre autres (chevreuils, sangliers, renards…)
C’est plutôt marrant, le rituel du relevé de carte SD pour voir qui est passé par là pendant la nuit.
Pas trop mal, bien sûr c’est généralement en mode infrarouge (parce que la plupart de ces bestioles sont nocturnes). En général la caméra est plutôt en mode vidéo, ce qui fait qu’on doit avoir un peu moins de résolution je crois, mais ça reste très correct. Ça fait des prises de 4-5 secondes.
Il faut un petit temps pour que le capteur de mouvement déclenche la prise, de temps en temps le timing est un peu à côté et on voit juste un bout d’animal qui est déjà à moitié parti, mais dans l’ensemble on a quand même quelques clips sympa.
Bon après dans le cas du blaireau au moins, il est pas trop pressé.
Go to Platform B and tell them : see, I bought Game already, let me play it here too.
Platform B : “who are you and why should I care?”
Proving your digital ownership never was the problem. The problem is those platforms are different companies and have no reason to honor a purchase from somewhere else.
I remember when there was a set of creature parts in Spore that you could only get from a Dr Pepper promotion, and only in North America, of course.
Got it from good people who were redistributing them, but still, yet another way the assholes at EA tried to make that game worse than it should have been.
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
None of the game he mentions deserve that. I like HZD, but this is the product of a studio owned by a massive company. People who made the game what it is got their work’s worth, and if not, Sony would be to blame.
“Tipping” video game creators already exists. Ask the Dwarf Fortress creators, who have been offering their game for free for decades, and are funded by donations and only since a year ago, the completely optional paid version.
Oh shit, Talarico and friends are still pretending Amico will be a thing, but now they won’t even own the brand they were supposed to resurrect anymore.
Amazing they can keep that show going on. I guess they can still pretend people who left a decade ago are still working for them.
If you don’t want people revealing the stuff they find, maybe don’t include assets you’re not using yet in your compiled game. At least not what you want to keep a secret.
Are they serious, they’re going to blame people for discovering sound clips that were left there unused for 2 years? Do they just enjoy wasting people’s disk space or something?
Except they’re not just saying “we don’t like this” and moving on. They’re using dogwhistles (“woke” is only the first one) and 4-chan level type of slurs in their cries of conspiracy. It’s a thinly disguised hate club, games are only an excuse.
They tried to progressively hide it from their group’s front page, editing its language several times, but it was still there in the discussions in and around the group.
Mother Gaia and Humans (geekxgirls.com)
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Two Joy-Con drift lawsuits have been dismissed after five years (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Google’s AI Overviews are out of control (stackdiary.com)
Would you like a spicy spaghetti dish? Just use some gasoline.
The Sims 5 Pre-Release PC Build Has Been Leaked Online (www.dsogaming.com)
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From Awkward Zombie.
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N’oubliez pas de souhaiter une bonne fête a tous vos amis.
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)
Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Final Fantasy 16 and Foamstars all sold less than expected, Square Enix president says (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Final Fantasy XIV players left feeling excluded by region locked Mountain Dew promo (www.destructoid.com)
Former Blizzard President Thinks Tipping Game Creators Is Great Idea (80.lv)
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
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MultiVersus director says dataminers do ‘a disservice to the players’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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Sweet Baby Inc doesn’t even remotely do what many think it does, but on the modern internet, that doesn’t matter