A lot of people have the hallway complaint, and honestly I think it mostly came down to visuals and sound design. So many games people love have exactly the same level design, including FFX, but there is normally enough to look at, and you don’t have the “high heels on tile” footsteps exacerbating it. I’m also pretty sure a large part of it was a YouTube video pointing it out and people jumping on the bandwagon.
I’ve never played dragon quest, but as a long time final fantasy enjoyer, final fantasy 15 sucked so much I put it down and I never went out of my way to play 16 because of that.
FF7Remake was amazing. FF7Rebirth was good in many ways but also had way too much garbage and goofy shit so I have very mixed feelings about it. Also like the post said it’s a very long wait for a complete story. It also is not really an entry point because FF7 is a huge franchise in itself.
If you take those out of the equation, the last FF games were 13 lightning returns in 2013 which I think is probably good but very different (I didn’t end up finishing but not because I didn’t like it) and 13-2 which in my opinion is one of the best in the series but gets slept on because it’s gated by 13 (2009) which I like but I wouldn’t call amazing or transformative.
I think FF12 might would qualify as a worthy childhood formative game, which means (excluding 16 since I just don’t know) the last good FF that is also an entry point came out in 2006. 20 years ago.
Tldr; I don’t know if FF16 is a worthy childhood formative experience, but if it’s not, the last candidate is TWENTY years ago, so ofc young people aren’t getting attached to the franchise. They’re probably playing jrpgs that are actually good instead.
No website is certainly a choice
I don’t dislike that art style in other games but nothing about that trailer gave me castlevania vibes
Animation and sound design reminds me of blasphemous and moonscars, which are games I like, but I wouldn’t say feel very castlevania-y
Ehhh I don’t think I’ve used bash outside of random stuff on my machine in years except in CI pipelines and wanting them to stop and fail the pipeline the second anything goes wrong is exactly what I want.
If I thought it was against the rules I’d report it instead of complaining. I complain because posting “I’m sad because everything is different now and also I’m all in in the hype actually” blogs 2 days in a row after agreeing not to post AI hype sure seems like you desperately want to post AI hype.
This seems like a dev grappling, not sneaky AI booster bullshit.
I could agree with you if this poster hadn’t posted a very similar article the previous day, or if the writer wasn’t saying “I’m now an architect for a fleet of agents” which is definitely AI booster bullshit.
You made a very considered decision that you could argue it’s not technically AI booster bullshit, you mean.
Not knowing what cpu instructions your code compiles to and not understanding the code you are compiling are completely different things. This is yet another article talking up the (not real) capability of LLM coding assistants, though in a more round about way. In fact, this garbage blogspam should go on the AI coding community that was made specifically because the subscribers of the programming community didn’t want it here, yet we keep getting these trying to skirt the line.
LLMs don’t add an abstraction layer. You can’t competently produce software without understanding what they’re outputting.
I say that knowing how often those words have been wrong throughout history.
Yup
Previous technology shifts were “learn the new thing, apply existing skills.” AI isn’t that. It’s not a new platform or a new language or a new paradigm. It’s a shift in what it means to be good at this.
A swing and a miss
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has Cristiano Ronaldo and Salvatore Ganacci in it. Having a goofy soccer character as a character is out of place in that game, I don’t want real people in fighting games at all, and to top it off, Rinaldo is a piece of shit anyway.
Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.
Yeah I’m not playing a game when I’ll have to see a real life rapist in the character select screen
With music “sounds good” is a sufficient judgment for completeness. With generated code, someone that is an expert has to review it to make sure it does what it’s supposed to, covers edge cases, doesn’t have any security flaws etc. Only an expert is capable, and it is generally faster and produces better quality for the expert to just write the code instead of fixing up what the slot machine dispensed. It’s a cute analogy but all it does is make it obvious that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
I always wonder this as well… I will use tools to help me write some repetitive stuff periodically. Most often I’ll use a regex replace but occasionally I’ll write a little perl or sed or awk. I suspect the boilerplate these people talk about are either this it setting up projects, which I think there are also better tools for
Then you’re just wrong. Clean Code directly tells you to make the mistakes the author of the article points out. The absurdity of the examples in the book should be evident enough.
I do think there was a lot to like in the bones but the execution was just so bad :(. The combination of 90% of the content of the game being doing ubisoft map slop and the story being broken up across media made it pretty miserable, but the moment to moment writing/character development for the party was top notch for sure. I really wanted to like it but actually playing it felt like a chore :(