The video gaming industry made great strides this year. What’s next?
Here are Mashable's predictions for 2011.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
Some food for thought:
Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?
As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.
Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online
The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.
There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.
This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.
But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
i can tell you that the government or any government has our backs on this. the glo al trend goes to digital.
wait until money is digital only. we are already on the way there.
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
Well i hope Sony and Google team up to fight Apple, if they try to enter the console market.
1. Journalism will sink lower than you ever thought it could.
2. People on N4G/Internet will keep talking sh!t.
3. There will be more articals w/ a (?) in them than you thought could be possible.
4. "Top 10 hottest girls in gaming" articals will continue to dominate the front page.
5. I`ll lose a bubble.
6. PS3 conspiracies will rise to a new level on N4G.
7. MS will try to convince/brainwash you into believe Kinect is for the Hardcore gamer.
2011 prediction: Gaming will become even more detached and distant from what it once was and what it should be about.
And why do you all care so much about Sony on this website? Is this a Sony affiliated place? I don't get why everytime someone says something negative about Sony fifty people shoot up from their chairs to tell the person who said it why they're wrong.
Why do you people care if Apple enters the industry? It might actually do some good. You ever think about the positives of Apple entering the market opposed to the negative? I know, I know it's because you probably think it gives more developers more of a chance to leave Sony and start making exclusives elsewhere, right?
Sad. The day the industry has a set standard of player is the day the industry will be put back into perspective. It is that day that the only thing that matters will be the game itself and not the hardware because the hardware will be industry standard and set. No one will get burnt on the game they buy unless the game just flat out sucks for everyone involved; not just the system they bought it for.
Kinect will be dogged even when quality hardcore games come out and sell millions. Sony will delay 5 exclusives till next year, fans will claim its about time and quality, you can't rush perfection...the games will release and score 80-85. Sony will then release SHIPPED numbers of said games and people on n4g will lap it up and claim it is all the same...Wii will continue to dominate and yet articles will continue on how it is doomed and on the decline even at 90 million sold. Microsoft will increase Live again and fans will claim you get what you pay for(my foot)...pretty much like every year
new console will be announced from someone for sure.....dammit, how i hope so!
This gen is crawling along