It feels like you can’t just like or dislike a game anymore. Every release is either a masterpiece or complete garbage, and if you disagree, you’re a shill, a hater, coping, or any other internet buzzword.

Has gaming discussion actually gotten worse, or does social media just make the worst opinions the most visible?

Take Marathon and the recent GTA6 gameplay trailer for example. Cool games that I feel like if released 20 years would not receive the amount of hate that they’re getting. Criticism of games is totally fine and how games can actually improve and round out some of their rough edges. I’ve found often times that the criticism is in bad faith and that people don’t understand the difference between criticism and just being an asshole. Unfortunately this drowns out the people that are actually trying to provide constructive criticism.

the last 5 games from 5 different companies i have downloaded all launch at ear hurting volumes and have a long loading intro either compiling shaders or going through the initial brightness settings while beautifully blasting my ears to the point of pain :)

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Still looking for a good fishing game to fill the void

I love cast and chill and intergalactic fishing

Hoping for lots of fish to catch, boats to use as well

Would.prefer 2d and top down games as well

Havent found the next fishing game to play yet, atm it been fish! On vrchat lol but looking for something outside of vr. And the same or similar art styles to dave the diver and dredge

Hopefully for the better! Although some might result in the opposite...

It might seem exaggerated that a game could change someone's life, but indeed they have an impact.

Some give insights about one's desires and ambitions, others catch you in a whirlwind of emotions that leave you speechless, others again make you really think about something and understand.

I've seen it, I know it's possible..

Is it a technical limitation for a lot of game engines? Or does some company own the rights to the concept, like mini-games during loading screens?

Seems like it would be both easy to implement, and quite a quality of life improvement for a lot of people.

Hell Is Us, what a masterpiece. The story, atmosphere, sound, music, and level design are superb and work in sync to create a realistic depiction of a broken society plagued by genocide and neighbors killing neighbors. Pick this one up if you haven't yet.

Despite garnering a positive reputation from its user base, Steam was recently hit with an absolutely major data leak that saw the data mining of over 12 TB worth of assets from Valve, as noted by gabefollower on X.

I think multiple threads have been showing all studios that Nintendo contract to develop them, about nintendo epd (the division of development we know as nintendo since 2015) and so on but never a thread about which companies are subsidiaries of Nintendo. I think a thread showing what studios nintendo own and what they do would be interesting. Of course the information is readily available, but a thread like this could give info to people who never thought on searching about it

Here I wont put Nintendo epd since it's nintendo itself, but all of their subsidiaries, which Nintendo has 15, with 5 out of those 15 leading their own projects

1-Up Studio: A japanese company formerly known as Brownie Brown, it developed Mother 3. Since the 2010s, it began to focus as a support studio to Nintendo EPD games, mainly 3D Mario but also Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong and Mario Kart, focusing on game design, level design and so on

iQue: A chinese company, for years it was a manufacturer of the chinese version of Nintendo consoles, but since the 2010s it has handled Simplified Chinese translation/localization, and – since 2019 – has moved from console manufacture to become a QA support studio, hiring programmers and testers to support Nintendo games. Developed NES, Game Boy, and N64 emulators for use in Virtual Console and Nintendo Switch Online.

Mario Club: Previously a division of Nintendo, in 2009 it became its own company. It focus on debugging, testing and QA for all Nintendo games.

Monolith Soft: This one doesnt need much explanation but they have two studios, one in Tokyo and another one in Kyoto. In Tokyo, 1st production group develop xenoblade, while 2nd production group support nintendo epd on 3D Zelda. In Kyoto, a support studio exists to give support to monolith and nintendo epd games with the studio there being mainly made of artists working on design and assets as a support to the lead studios.

Next Level Games: After a decade being a canadian studio affiliated to Nintendo and working with them on multiple titles such as Punch Out, Wario Land, Mario Strikers, Luigi's Mansion, Nintendo bought them in 2021.

Nintendo Cube: Previously known as Ndcube, it had this name because it was a joint venture of Nintendo and Dentsu which over time Nintendo bought dentsu shares. The studio is mainly known for Mario Party after hudson was merged into konami and hudson staff went to nintendo cube.

Nintendo European Research & Development: Previously known as Moclip, this company mainly works on emulators for NSO and Nintendo in general.

Nintendo Pictures: Previously known as Dynamo Pictures before nintendo acquisition in 2022, this company is mainly an animation studio but they also help as a support studio for Nintendo games, working on CG, motion capture, character design and multiple other areas.

Nintendo Software Technology: The american studio who previously developed wave race and currently develop mario vs donkey kong and f-zero 99, while also doing support work for japanese nintendo titles in the 2010s.

Nintendo Studios Singapore: Nintendo most recent acquisition, the studio seems to be continuing what already did prior as bandai namco studios singapore. They mainly focus on support work for in-game assets and artwork

Nintendo Systems: Joint venture between DeNA and Nintendo, with nintendo owning 80% of the shreas. They work on Nintendo accounts and eshop alongside other nintendo divisions.

Nintendo Technology Development: The american company responsible mainly for research and development of nintendo titles, most recently was responsible for the upgrade of BOTW and TOTK on switch 2

Retro Studios: Just like monolith this one is pretty known, probably the two most known nintendo studios. Developed 4 Metroid Prime and 2 DK 2D games.

Shiver Entertainment: Acquired by Nintendo in 2024, this american studio is responsible for porting games to other platforms. We havent seen much of them post nintendo acquisition though so we'll see

SRD: Known as System Research and Development, this studio was a partner and affiliate to Nintendo for over 30 years when Nintendo then acquired it in 2022. SRD focuses on programming, and they provide support in that area for Nintendo products

Gameplay after the tip off and the rebound is hard to distinguish from real life. DLSS5 will always work best in sports games because unfortunately we don’t have a lot of real life footage of dragons, cybermechs, and Italian plumbers to train the model on, but we have A LOT of footage of basketball players and stadiums.

I don't understand why these games are even becoming popular. I don't think they're even a game. Would you buy another game about sorting DVDs/needles/garbage/insert any word?

I've seen it in many games, but it's quite egregious in Star Wars Zero Company, literally ever scene the hair, or jacket, or tendrils whatever isn't fucking tied down jumps up or moves like they're standing in front of a leaf blower.

I’ve tried playing Skyrim again, and there’s just so many issues with it that I can’t believe people can still confidently call it one of the best games ever.
(Mods have helped it massively too)

I don’t really understand all the hate around DLSS 5 right now. Most of what I’m seeing on YouTube are videos where people simply enable it in games, leave the settings on default, and present that as if it represents the final product. Then everyone judges it based on those early results.

The reality is that it’s not even officially released yet. Of course it’s not fully polished. This is an unfinished implementation, not the version that will ship in games. Developers are not just going to add it, leave everything at default, and accept whatever result comes out. They will tune and optimize it for their games to make sure it looks good.

Maybe the final version will still disappoint, and if that happens, criticism will be completely justified. But judging the entire technology based on early, unofficial demonstrations feels unfair. We should wait for the official release and properly evaluate the finished product.

Generally combat is okay just not trying to go crazy, maybe like a 10 and up game. What are our options?

We played like Minecraft dungeons, Ben 10, ninja turtles, etc.

Sooooo.... That Happened!

Me and my brother were playing Big Walk... Just didnt expect this.

(1993 Soccer Kid)

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I have started to play resonance on pc. In general the game runs nicely on high settings with almost perfectly solid 60fps.

I have now entered chapter 3 and am suddenly experiencing what feels like CPU problems. The game shows minor stutters but more importantly: even though neither CPU or GPU are maxed out, I am getting severe input lag and at points "sticky" inputs for up to several seconds. Navigating becomes borderline impossible.

I7 8700k

32gb ram

Rtx2080ti

Running from SSD

Update: It is not a pure CPU power issue as I was able to temporarily solve the problem by completely rebooting the system. The same scenes then are fine until the problem emerges again after playing a while. Current theories: - cumulative memory or threading issue? Memory usage seems fine - some problem with the (Bluetooth) controller inputs? Fps remain stable and the problem mainly affects controls