Spore was neat, and maybe that’s what they were trying to do. But it was more of sandbox creature creator versus the sortof “tech tree for creature parts” of E.V.O. and its ilk.

Law doesn’t prevent piracy. I meant it’s sufficient from a legal perspective. You can add DRM to your software without a law stating it’s illegal to circumvent, and it would be an equally effective deterrent.

VR has advanced a fair bit since its initial modern push. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, in particular, is quite good.

No, I didn’t mean “otherwise,” because the way DRM works is as a gate in front of something legal. The legal thing is still legal, it’s just illegal to pass the gate. It’s utter bullshit, because copyright infringement is still illegal, as it should be, and that’s really all you need to protect digital software.

The Supreme Court just ruled in Google’s favor in the Oracle case. That case says that software APIs cannot be copyrighted. In other words: Writing your own software with the same externals but different internals is 100% legal. Ergo, if you write your own code to mimic the code of another game, it should fall under…

This isn’t fully accurate. DMCA only protects reverse engineering when some kind of “software lock” is in place. Why? Because years of existing laws make it unambgious that reverse-engineering is 100% legal, so instead of trying to rewrite all those laws, they simply added a new one that basically says “well, yeah, it’…

Can you imagine a game like this, except with the depth and complexity of today’s systems? I can. It’s amazing.

Humans are the way we are because it’s a fairly optimized form for generic specialization (we can run decently well, swim decently well, and use tools extremely well. Something no other species on this planet can attest to).

Not sure on the lore, but you could still have both. For example, Leon could be immune to the T-Virus, but not immune to Las Plagas. Similarly, the G-Virus is intended to be a more powerful variant, so Sherry could be immune to the T variant but not the G.

While this would be neat, it’s definitely been baked into the universe since RE:7. The Baker son cuts off his own hand early in that game. Later on, he has two again. So he either grew a new one or re-attached it like Ethan keeps doing.

Yep, I was like “wait, why didn’t he just scream out in pain!? This scene must have been written before they decided to chop half his hand.”

Some of this is just me trying to parse the journals, but I think she named the three girls after her three real daughters (that died somehow?)

Right, you need rights to publish for Sony’s console. But you still own the IP and the code for your game. This is similar to many other industries. You need rights to add an HDMI port to your device. That doesn’t mean HDMI LLC now controls the market on your device.

Wait, but when games were first coming out and Series X games were ~10% faster than PS5 ones instead of the presumed 30%, wasn’t the argument that it was harder to develop on Series X and you’d see it do better against PS5 once developers learned how to use it? Now you’re saying it’s the opposite?

I would like to point out that the wording on this video is similar to the obscure wording seen before. Sony released a video featuring a number of “exclusives.” All the small print was slightly different, presumably because some were coming to other consoles and some were only coming to PC.

How dare you! Yuffie is queen!

I thought the FFVIIR exclusivity was supposed to be 1 year from release? At least that’s what everyone was saying up and down the block based on some twitter source, who also said that FFXVI’s exclusivity is timed (and not the full console-exclusive it appeared).

Why stop there? Why not just live as though you’re 10 years in the past? Tons of great Xbox 360 games for dirt cheap!

Thing is, the game needs to be downloaded through PSN because Sony has dictated it — if they wanted to support encrypted installations downloaded onto an SSD from a third party, they could. They want more control, so they’re enforcing it. You’re attempting to argue that anti-competitive business choices somehow…

This would be ten times more tantalizing if it instead said they decided to license Naughty Dog’s engine. Say what you will about TLoU2, but their engine is first class!