I’ve played the first two Discworld point and click games. Let me tell you, I might have believed you if you told me that was a true hint for the first one.

Even knowing the books it got its inspiration from won’t help you with some of its “puzzles”.

About 3DS IR and pokémon, partly :

https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Infrared

Apparently it could be used to initiate communication, in gen 6 and 7.

Some Pokémon DS cartridges had their own IR port. Madness.

What do you mean? Everyone knows humans have evolved a second thumb on their palm to play NES correctly in the 80s.

It’s like the panda’s thumb.

Very different from an IR controller though. The wiimote has an IR camera and the console looks for two static light points to triangulate a position, it doesn’t transmit anything to the console through IR. And it’s only for pointing.

If you’ve used an IR TV remote, you can imagine how bad an actual IR-connected controller would be. Needs a perfectly unobstructed line of sight to wherever the sensor is, can’t turn your controller too much or you’ll miss the sensor, might occasionally be subject to wrong input/light interferences…

One of the weirdest use of video game IR I know though : the 3DS had a IR port. It was used for almost nothing.

BUT. At some point Nintendo released the Circle pad pro. It’s a thing you clip on your 3DS to add a right stick and a pair of triggers.

It was not plugged into the console at all. It was just using the IR port which it was touching. Of course it didn’t have the reliability problems from remote IR, since it was basically shining an IR LED directly at its sensor with nothing in between. I guess they didn’t have a lot of options for communication ports, but still, using IR for communication between two devices that are in direct contact is weird.

That wrong “commando” kinda looks like the logo from the tactical series “Commandos” instead. A bit, not exactly. Wonder if the AI has mixed in some of this in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandos:_Behind_Enemy_Lines

Yeah, I am sure that’s what happened too. That’s part of what I called executives justifying their paycheck, because it’s a direct consequence. Make sure everyone below gets in on the program, or get rid of them.

Fantastic, then maybe it has the potential to be very confidently wrong about everything!

Oh. So it’s an unintended quirk in Steam’s interface and basically nobody knew about it.

I guess they wanted that free version hidden and only accessible for people they knew had purchased the game before.

Who asked for this? Beyond Microsoft executives who want to justify their paycheck, I mean.

Though really there might be good entertainment value for a few streamers out there. Use it on a niche game or a fairly complex one and laugh at the inevitable hallucinated bullshit as the assistant pretends to know about it.

Edit : just read it was on a “list of supported games”. Booo. Cowards.

Not sure I want that after the reviews, which is a shame because a good fantasy city builder is something I’d pay for. But I wouldn’t want to invest time in an unfinished game that’s turning to a mobile idle thing model.

But I am a bit curious about how they are doing this. I don’t think Steam allows different pricing from the wishlist, do they?

Did they just hide the free base game purchase leaving only paid options on the store page? It’s looking like that, technically you can’t buy “Leviathan’s fantasy” alone from the store, only paid bundles (with the new version? and weirdly, this makes Leviathan’s fantasy cost money inside that bundle making it more expensive? so confusing).

In two months Skyrim will be 14.

And don’t get me started on F-Zero.

Really? Was that a long time ago?

Seems to me he and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)

And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.

It’s a bit fun to imagine that. People of the future playing a game that would be sci-fi to us, but really to them it’s like Oregon Trail.

Joke?

By the time they launch, they’ll have a game with 8k textures and everyone else will be releasing games for Star Trek’s holodeck.

Konami is more about ruining everything they have the rights to, but I guess that makes them kind of complementary, yeah.

Because of the nature of generative AI, anyone selling it is in the mindset of making money out of stuff they had no rights to.

In case someone is wondering. Charizard already had a smash amiibo long before the others, because Smash Bros 4 (3DS/Wii U) replaced the pokémon trainer, who had the three of them in the previous game, with only Charizard. Part of the compromises they made for 3DS was removing characters with multiple forms. Since Smash amiibo were created for Smash 4 originally, it had a Charizard amiibo.

In Smash Ultimate, “everyone is here” so they released the other two. And they released Snake too, since he was not in 4 either.

By that definition, it’s a massive crossover whenever McDonald’s does a pokémon happy meal. These may be popular IPs, but that’s not like there aren’t stuff like that all the time.

That’s a massive crossover?