chloyster

chloyster, 2 days ago

Absolutely devastating. Prey, high fi rush, evil within. All amazing games. Hate this shit. Love that one of the wealthiest companies in the world bought these studios and are still closing them. Fuck this shit

chloyster, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

There’s a statement on this ign article that says arkane Austin will have devs go to other studios, but nothing on the tango front. They’re just closing it.

ign.com/…/microsoft-closes-redfall-developer-arka…

chloyster, 2 days ago

Idk id argue it is surprising. Say what you want about the performance of these games financially, but these studios were bought by one of the wealthiest companies in the world. Sure maybe the games weren’t a huge hit, but like… So? You have money. One flop and they’re axed? Xbox said they want to be bigger in the Japanese market, yet they closed their only Japanese studio. A studio with a bunch of talent and training that is gone now. Xbox has a huge problem bringing studios up and getting good output. Their best exclusive (at the time) of 2023 is now without a developer. Why not eat that cost? Yes I get a lot of studios are closing right now but that shouldn’t be happening at a company like Microsoft. But line must always be going up I guess

chloyster, 2 days ago

Earthbound and the whole mother series are some of my all time faves. Mother 3 in particular is so outstanding it is a crime it hasn’t been localized! I have the osts in my regular rotation. Earthbound is probably my favorite for nostalgia reasons since I played it well before the others, and I like its format a bit more than the chapter based format of 3. However 3 is probably the more polished and better game

chloyster, 2 days ago

And the battle music for it is sooooo good

chloyster, 4 days ago

Only real reason I use fennec over mull is mull by default has a fingerprinting setting that, while being better for privacy, locks the app to 60hz and my phone supports 120hz. If 60hz doesn’t bother you then I think mull is the better choice. But they’re really similar at the end of the day

chloyster, 6 days ago

Afaik he’s always been independent. I think he ran with the democratic party for the presidency, but unless I missed something he’s always been independent with his senate position

chloyster, 8 days ago

The headline is kinda misleading. Yes it hasn’t recouped costs yet, but they sound confident it will. It’s the best performing Remedy game ever released

Edit: misleading maybe not the right word. “Doesn’t tell the full story” is probably better

chloyster, 8 days ago

It also likely wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t an epic exclusive (they funded it). I do wish they could have gotten someone else to publish it of course, but I’m thankful the game exists at all, it’s really outstanding

chloyster, 13 days ago

freedium.cfd/…/finding-the-right-javascript-front…

chloyster, 16 days ago

I agree it shouldn’t be the ESA’s responsibility. However as it says in the article:

In 2023, the Video Game History Foundation revealed 87 percent of games released pre-2010 were currently not preserved in any capacity. Attempts previously made by the Library of Congress were halted by the ESA, which said it’d rely on publishers to take care of those efforts themselves.

So the ESA have made themselves the problem by halting such attempts

chloyster, 20 days ago

Fantastic article, and I have the full book on hold at my library now :)

chloyster, 23 days ago

tied with Outer Wilds

I knew you were cool 😎

Journey is also fantastic. I didn’t get to play it until it was on PS4 but I absolutely loved it. An extremely unique experience that had my jaw on the floor with how beautiful it looked. I feel like I should try that Sky MMO kind of game the studio made that just got launched for more platforms… Doubt it can live up to journey but who knows

chloyster, 24 days ago

The saddest moment of every outer wilds fan is the realization it cannot be played again :'(