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[ezodagrom]

Interview with Nagoshi

• Nagoshi explains that he chose to leave SEGA because he didn't want to keep doing the same thing over and over again
• points out that there are less overall constraints at NetEase
• he'll be closer to game dev again

As for the first title from Nagoshi Studio

• very focused on quality and making it appealing to core fans & the broader gaming audience
• want to announce it as soon as they can
• game will have a 'large' scale
• Nagoshi interested in doing things they couldn't do before

名越スタジオ設立！ NetEase Games出資の新たなゲーム開発会社について名越稔洋代表と所属クリエイターに聞く | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

2022年1月24日、名越稔洋氏が代表取締役社長を務める新たなゲーム開発スタジオの設立が発表された。スタジオはNetEase Games（ネットイースゲームズ）の出資となる。本記事では、スタジオ代表・名越氏のほか、所属クリエイターたちに今後の展望についてインタビューした模様をお届けする。

www.famitsu.com

 

[ZKenir]

 

[fantomena]

Omicron, Winter, people relaxing in their homes playing or checking their Steam profiles, it can be a lot of things, you know.

People realizing PCs can play games and have a lot of them.

Im serious, I seriously expect that the last 2 years, especially with the pandemic, people have discovered that PCs also have a ton of games, which leads them to discover Steam.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

I think it's that they have had more time to be able to look into what games their potato laptops can play.
People always knew PCs had tons of games but didn't have the time or interest to check it out or they had a bad experience in the past. Look at Era. PC Gaming threads are a minefield of technical issues for them. I've been there too and things have improved a hell of a lot over the last few years.
There's a couple of discords i'm in where people have got into gaming on their laptop because of bigger screen over the mobile phone they usually play on. Especially with so many mobile game ports coming to PC lately.
Many people also had to upgrade their home PCs so they can work from home and are looking to see what else they can do on them.
Tons of young people own laptops for college/uni work and as they are more powerful than a few years ago and integrated chipsets are much better more people can game on them.
... and the Fortnite/Roblox/Minecraft kids growing up and expanding out of their bubbles.

 

[Le Pertti]

I still think there is big growth being made from countries that before didn't have wide access to PCs, internet infrastructure and such that now wider audience can enjoy gaming on PC.

 

[Prodigy]

Hitman 3 is where it belongs, and I say this as someone who bought Hitman 2 + the season pass at launch

Yup, I'm with you on that, I had my finger ready to buy as I said in this very thread (have hitman 1 and 2 and all dlc). The regional pricing was so bad, I could get more than two God of War games. Ended up purchasing Monster hunter Rise instead which is also cheaper.

 

[Kyougar]

Many people also had to upgrade their home PCs so they can work from home and are looking to see what else they can do on them.
Tons of young people own laptops for college/uni work and as they are more powerful than a few years ago and integrated chipsets are much better more people can game on them.

Never thought about this. The massive amount of WFH workers who never had a gaming-capable PC could be partly responsible for some of the CCU count.
Sure, not all work PCs / Laptops would be "gaming capable" and not every worker would want or dare to game on the work PC, but there must be millions all over the world who have a gaming capable PC through WFH

 

[Joe Spangle]

Very fascinating the Hitman 3 bodge. Game should be on the top sellers on Steam but its nowhere to be seen. Eggs money was probably worth it for IOI though so doubt there will be any lessons learnt from them.

Ill definitely be thinking twice about any IOI future games though, other devs deserve my business first.

 

[Ascheroth]

Tomorrow is Choice billing day, don't forget to hit that pause or cancel button if you intend to.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

Some new Elden Ring gameplay bits

 

[manchego obfuscator]

finally started playing Doom Eternal last night. Only a couple levels in but so far I'm really enjoying the changes made to the Doom 2016 formula, like the switching between flame belch, chainsaw, and glory kills instead of doing glory kills all the time, and the greatly increased emphasis on verticality and traversal both in and out of combat.

game is definitely not easy, though, don't ask me what difficulty I'm playing on

 

[madjoki]

https://gleam.io/JWD3K/elementite-full-game-keys
https://gleam.io/GU0Pz/earthlock-full-game-key

probably gonna run out fast

 

[Dinjoralo]

First day at work... Is going as well as it can, without my work laptop. That didn't make it to my house in time.

 

[bobnowhere]

https://gleam.io/JWD3K/elementite-full-game-keys
https://gleam.io/GU0Pz/earthlock-full-game-key

probably gonna run out fast

Just grabbed an Elementite, pretty painless. Had to create a Lenovo account but google integrated painlessly.

 

[d00d3n]

Trailer for Momodora: Moonlit Farewell;

 

[dex3108]

Still no answer or solution for not being able to play H1 and H2 inside H3 without buying H3. It is possible on other platforms but not on Steam.

 

[Li Kao]

You wot ?
Model Builder | PC - Steam | Game Keys (greenmangaming.com)



Kinda interesting, at least worth keeping it in a corner of my mind.

 

[Aaron D.]

I tried that model-building sim during one of Steam’s demo events last year.

Engine performance was pretty weak. Kept cycling up my fans to the point where I just shut ‘er down.

Still love the concept though.

 

[LEANIJA]

You wot ?
Model Builder | PC - Steam | Game Keys (greenmangaming.com)
Kinda interesting, at least worth keeping it in a corner of my mind.

the concept of this is cool, wonder how that controls tho? i mean, whether it brings across the miniature building experience in any feasible way or not.

 

[manchego obfuscator]

Gears Collection would be pretty cool. I enjoyed Gears 4 and 5, but 2, 3, and Judgment were never released on PC, and Gears 1 UE has been broken on PC for a while now and still hasn't been fixed (apparently, a Windows update a few years ago had the unfortunate side effect of capping the game's GPU utilization at around 40%)

 

[Li Kao]

Just wondering. Is it possible to somehow have your own cloud ? Some remote disk space where you can backup what you want, without oversight, and where you could download things from on a whim ?
Pretty sure that's a dumb question and it has been possible for years, but I'm tired.

 

[Lashley]

Gears

 

[LEANIJA]

Just wondering. Is it possible to somehow have your own cloud ? Some remote disk space where you can backup what you want, without oversight, and where you could download things from on a whim ?
Pretty sure that's a dumb question and it has been possible for years, but I'm tired.

Nextcloud - Wikipedia comes to mind – not sure if thats what youre looking for, though

 

[Le Pertti]

Just wondering. Is it possible to somehow have your own cloud ? Some remote disk space where you can backup what you want, without oversight, and where you could download things from on a whim ?
Pretty sure that's a dumb question and it has been possible for years, but I'm tired.

You mean completely yours? Meaning not even rented sever kind of thing? Hmh might be doable with either a NAS or setting up a Pi server.

 

[Aaron D.]

Gears

Yeah but that Gears 'Mad World' trailer is GOAT.

Saw it for the first time during previews at the movie theater.

Mind. Blown.

(Helps that I'm kind of a TFF fanboy.)

 

[Li Kao]

Nextcloud - Wikipedia comes to mind – not sure if thats what youre looking for, though

I'm not even sure what I'm asking. Just trying to put some comics in a 64gb ipad and I'm tired of fighting for disk space. Tired of using itunes to transfer files too. I also don't like Goodle Drive and need a solid backup solution. Then it dawned on me, in the year of our lord 2022, why do I have to rely on service providers to handle my data.

You mean completely yours? Meaning not even rented sever kind of thing? Hmh might be doable with either a NAS or setting up a Pi server.

Yeah, my fucking corner on the Internet, with my data that I handle how I see fit.

 

[Le Pertti]

Yeah, my fucking corner on the Internet, with my data that I handle how I see fit.

Yeah in that case you need to host your own server. But many NASes have a cloud function.

 

[Sobatronix]

Gears Collection would be pretty cool. I enjoyed Gears 4 and 5, but 2, 3, and Judgment were never released on PC, and Gears 1 UE has been broken on PC for a while now and still hasn't been fixed (apparently, a Windows update a few years ago had the unfortunate side effect of capping the game's GPU utilization at around 40%)

Gears of War Collection Would be amazing, I beat GOW 2 on Xenia, but the 720p resolution made a less than ideal experience. I would love native PC ports of GOW 2, 3 and Judgement on Steam

 

[Ascheroth]

I'll leave this here, it's long and rather technical at the beginnging, just a dude sitting there talking, but he hits all the important points including cryptobros shilling for NFTs and shit. Spoiler warning: It won't make you less angry about the whole situation.

Also watch his other videos, no matter the subject.

Just got around watching it. Feels crazy that it's over 2 hours long, because it just flows by.
Really, really interesting. Also I knew that crypto and NFTs suck, but holy shit they are just magnitudes worse than I ever thought possible.

 

[low-G]

I'll leave this here, it's long and rather technical at the beginnging, just a dude sitting there talking, but he hits all the important points including cryptobros shilling for NFTs and shit. Spoiler warning: It won't make you less angry about the whole situation.

Also watch his other videos, no matter the subject.

I watched it over the weekend too, even though I knew 98% of this already. It's still actually pretty entertaining, but I do think the threat he proposes is bigger than reality. I really don't see a way that this failure isn't somewhat self-contained. It's that bad of a system, that even fascists couldn't force it on us.

Just wondering. Is it possible to somehow have your own cloud ? Some remote disk space where you can backup what you want, without oversight, and where you could download things from on a whim ?
Pretty sure that's a dumb question and it has been possible for years, but I'm tired.

To exclude oversight you're going to want to set up a VPN to connect to your own physical server in your own building. I guess you could also pre-encrypt your own files before you send them to whatever cloud service you want.

 

[Ascheroth]

I watched it over the weekend too, even though I knew 98% of this already. It's still actually pretty entertaining, but I do think the threat he proposes is bigger than reality. I really don't see a way that this failure isn't somewhat self-contained. It's that bad of a system, that even fascists couldn't force it on us.

I didn't get the impression he was framing it as a massive threat in practice, just in theory. As you said (and he also explained very well), the underlying system is just so bad at what it's trying to do that it's unlikey to actually spill out meaningfully from its "scam-ecosystem" into the wider reality.
Thankfully.

 

[Li Kao]

To exclude oversight you're going to want to set up a VPN to connect to your own physical server in your own building. I guess you could also pre-encrypt your own files before you send them to whatever cloud service you want.

Well it was a manner of speaking, I can tolerate a modicum of oversight. I’m not planning to host child porn or the plans to some terror attack. I just want to have a space on the Internet, for me to use as I see fit, without shitty solutions like GDrive or some fucker telling me I can’t upload this or that because some algorithm said so.

 

[fantomena]

Looks Steam will be having a big early 22. Ready or Not, GoW, MH Rise, Dying Light 2, Elden Ring, Yu-Gi-Oh, PUBG F2P. And who knows what else comes.

 

[Le Pertti]

Well it was a manner of speaking, I can tolerate a modicum of oversight. I’m not planning to host child porn or the plans to some terror attack. I just want to have a space on the Internet, for me to use as I see fit, without shitty solutions like GDrive or some fucker telling me I can’t upload this or that because some algorithm said so.

I'm pretty sure most cloud solutions are quite free in that way, Ive used both google drive, iCloud and even one drive to host all kinds of things and never had any issues,.

 

[fantomena]

I'm pretty sure most cloud solutions are quite free in that way, Ive used both google drive, iCloud and even one drive to host all kinds of things and never had any issues,.

I've actually read that Google is searching through people's drive's for illegal stuff as a lot of people use drive to upload illegal copies of movies, games etc. and share it around.

 

[gabbo]

Gears

For those of us who didn't own xbox360s, I'd love to see finally get 2-judgement on PC all fancied up.

 

[Le Pertti]

I've actually read that Google is searching through people's drive's for illegal stuff as a lot of people use drive to upload illegal copies of movies, games etc. and share it around.

Yeah I think any place online does that but only incase of traffic spikes, so for personal use I think it is safe, only other options is hosting a server at home.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Just wanted to chime in and +1 to the consensus that Forgotten City is really excellent

 

[Li Kao]

I'm pretty sure most cloud solutions are quite free in that way, Ive used both google drive, iCloud and even one drive to host all kinds of things and never had any issues,.

OneDrive - We don’t support the specific character that the geniuses behind the western version of Dies Irae (VN) decided to use for the folder they put in My Documents. Henceforth, we won’t backup anything.
I don’t think I can comment without becoming extremely profane.

GoogleDrive - We hope you don’t want to use your GDrive account on the two PC in your house, because we will send a notification on your desktop every time your mother delete a file from the backup. And the ‘Don’t show me again‘ checkbox is for the lulz, don’t get your hopes up.

But this goes further than that, there is an amount of freedom lacking, I don’t know how to put it into words. Like if I want to download a comic book from the cloud on my iPad, it feels like I can, using this corp or that other corp solution. But I want ‘My Solution’.

 

[Joe Spangle]

I'd be up for a Gears collection. Only played 1 and maybe 2 when they came out and more recently 5 which was pretty good.

 

[dex3108]

It looks like that Dying Light 2 will be good

 

[Stevey]

Yeah, I loved the first 3 gears games, it would be great to have them on STEAM

 

[Lashley]

 

[NarohDethan]

VaLvE jUsT SiTs oN iTs AsS

 

[low-G]

Well it was a manner of speaking, I can tolerate a modicum of oversight. I’m not planning to host child porn or the plans to some terror attack. I just want to have a space on the Internet, for me to use as I see fit, without shitty solutions like GDrive or some fucker telling me I can’t upload this or that because some algorithm said so.

So not going to host Zelda 64 for PC then? Disappointing.

 

[Li Kao]

So not going to host Zelda 64 for PC then? Disappointing.

Pretty sure N64 graphics would fall under the Geneva convention.

 

[dex3108]

VaLvE jUsT SiTs oN iTs AsS

Yeah they are, where is my 2021 in review post?

 

[Mivey]

Just got around watching it. Feels crazy that it's over 2 hours long, because it just flows by.
Really, really interesting. Also I knew that crypto and NFTs suck, but holy shit they are just magnitudes worse than I ever thought possible.

The most shocking thing to me was this "play to earn" game Axii. Literally built on pushing people in poorer countries into system where they "play games" for like 60 hours a week to earn a living, all the while this Axxi thing is making money off of dumb whales in the West. It's like a scam, on top of worker exploitation. Modern day capitalism is such a nightmare.

 

[「Echo」]

I'd love a Gears collection 1-4 need to be on Steam for sure. And hey, I even liked 5. In this day and age where third-person shooters are kinda rare... Please give me more!!
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Fanatical started the Lunar New Year sale. A bit early... I guess they wanna get ahead of the hype from other stores?

 

[fantomena]

Yeah they are, where is my 2021 in review post?

They are sitting on it.