There’s been a pivot away from “classic” speedruns games over the last few years - I get that Doom or Sonic 2 or Goldeneye or other 90s games aren’t guaranteed a place every year, but it seems like the games that kicked off the speedrun scene are often overlooked these days.

I definitely always want 80s/90s games in GDQ lol, but I’m old so what do I know, I can still enjoy newer games sometimes

they started the Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8YL4HVC87UOYTcO8Bo_6YlBwLXOJ7Zc

Like the 2016 Doom onwards, the runs are technically outstanding, but there’s a lot of walking on invisible geometry with collision detection, or random tricks like railboosting in Doom that seems to break a game.

but the glitchless/etc runs of those Doom games on high difficulty are amazing, Doom Eternal is so fast it’s basically a single-player e-sport

Any runs you’re looking forward to?

Castlevania games, Resident Evil games, Titanfall 2, Doom Dark Ages, Halo Reach (4 player co-op!), Mario Maker relay race, Mario 3, and of course the Silly Games block

But usually my favorite runs are the ones I don’t expect

unfortunately there’s a nearly 0% chance that such a project would make the kind of money that EA wants from their games

I actually loved the mechanics of this game, the gunplay and flying controls were so tight

Relatively stable? I’ve seen some complaints, so I haven’t done the update yet. But Google considers it to be stable lol.

and off topic, but why the hell do the SA2 treasure hunting stages only do radar for the “next piece”?? SA1 has the radar active for all 3 pieces, so there’s way less back and forth

Sonic Adventure 1. I love the hub worlds and how the stories of the different characters intertwine in the shared areas. And I love the variety of characters and being able to freely choose which one to advance (unlike Sonic Adventure 2…)

I remember they had a blog post about this. A big source of confusion is that Uber already had this feature on their notifications so a lot of people thought this feature existed already. But it turns out Uber had to do a lot of custom work to do it in their app, and now Android has made it an easier and standardized API.

EDIT: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-live-notifications-3518375/

If this doesn’t sound like anything new to you, I don’t blame you. After all, rideshare apps like Uber have already been showing notifications like this for years now. Uber had to do a lot of custom stuff to make its notifications look like that on Android, though. Google has basically created a standardized version of what Uber’s been doing. With the new progress-centric notifications in Android 16, any app can create notifications like Uber.

I mean it’s not amazing bitrate but it’s better than IGN’s videos

in 4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POz1-EmLsTY

“complete rewrite” means the code was rewritten, not art/data assets

same thing with OpenRCT2 or GZDoom or anything like that, you need the game files

if they included everything you need to play the game for free with the original art assets, it would be illegal

!source_ports@lemmy.sdf.org

Make sure you check out Sonic Robo Blast 2, it’s a great fan game

I honestly thought the entire point of the Series S was that they would later be able to shrink it down into a portable device without any game patches

Call it the “xbox series s” without capitalization lol, Microsoft loves confusing names, right?

maybe, fabricating chips and soldering to boards doesn’t come without environmental costs either

obviously the companies won’t care about that enough to find out lol

Optical discs are extremely cheap, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cheaper than a 128MB chip of storage.

Eternal is so intense, 2016 feels slow and boring and simple in comparison. I prefer depth over simplicity. IDK about Dark Ages though, it looks slower with less mobility/verticality

legal limbo is the dumbest shit, it’s just a company who refuses to make a small amount of money and would rather make $0 lol

I love the Ori games! I haven’t played this game though so I guess I’m part of the problem lol