I’ve never heard of the game designer mentioned in the article or of Katamari, just wanted to mention that it must be nice having that kind of creative freedom.

His latest game doesn’t look like it’s for me, but the concept sounds original.

Pharaoh/Cleopatra includes somewhat detailed descriptions of life in ancient Egypt in context of the gameplay. You have a beer production chain; the game has a short outline of beer in ancient Egypt.

It has great gameplay too that stands the test of time.

Any recommendation for modding guide. I played it back in the day, but to be honest I stopped in one of the earlier levels because it got a bit unnerving.

Mostly looking for HD support, better textures/assets (but ones that jive with the vibe) and balance changes to make it a bit easier.

That’s definitely true. But I would argue every additional “unit” of graphical improvement is becoming more and more expensive to the point where the relative benefits associated with a single unified platform are not as impactful as they once were.

Growing costs of hardware components and relatively mild gen-on-gen improvements in visual quality are making the classical console business model (subsidized hardware used to drive game sales via exclusiveles) obsolete.

Can’t speak for the quality of Stadia and I am not in the target audience, but I thought it was crazy that people were willing to trust Google that they wouldn’t shut down the service if they didn’t immediately get 10 quadrillion subscribers.

I vividly remember some senior Google exec. getting all defensive on twitter about the jokes about Google shutting down new projects and implying that this wouldn’t be the case with Stadia.

Sure thing, bro!

I might be mistaken, but doesn’t HL2 RTX require a high end 5000 series GPU? I guess I should just try it out on my 3080 (with a 1440 screen) and see how it goes.

Can you provide one real world example? An older Windows game that works better on Mac than on Windows?

I will also add that 2015 is a random number. Win10 easily handles anything after 2005 or so. It’s the pre 2005 games that often require some deal of research.

The piece about Mac makes no sense. That’s purely a result of Apple’s decision to drop support. In general, if you are interested in older games, MacOS is not a viable platform.

Laptops (and desktops) with no GPUs will become increasingly viable not just for older games. This was a general comment. :)

Modern high end iGPUs (e.g. AMD Strix Halo) are going to start replacing dGPUs in the entry and mid-range segments.

The piles of dead Peter Griffins are hilarious.

Treasure Planet is a pretty solid animated movie.

Do it. You might be surprised.

I do prefer Alien to Aliens, but Aliens is an excellent film as well. They are close.

Over time I’ve started to enjoy T2 somewhat less and definitely began appreciating T1 more.

My biggest issue with T2 is that in retrospective it has more of a summer blockbuster feel to it. T1 also had a lot of action, but none of the teen angst stuff.

Side-scrolling action games are not my cup of tea, but ngl that trailer looked awesome. The artwork is gorgeous and the T2 theme got me all nostalgic (even though I strongly prefer Terminator to Terminator 2; 2 is OK, I prefer the darker and horror-focused tone of the first one).

I first read that as an erotic retro space JRPG.

I am a big fan of SomaSim (even though I didn’t really connect with their last game), so really looking forward to this release.

When will they release the Among Us 1D trailer?

Hopefully we’ll have a TF2 Classic version soon without all the stupid random items and with a focus on dedicated server communities.