I love Sync and use it daily, but it’s probably a bad time to recommend it to new users. Unless ljdawson miraculously returns after his longest ever absence (over a year I think?) the app will stop working once Lemmy 1.0 rolls out, which is slated to be soon.

Did the discussion involve dangling MBS upside down off the roof of the Burj Khalifa until he walked back the rules and personally reimbursed Adrien Fourmaux out of pocket? No? Then we should try that next time.

Some explosive growth in a couple of hitherto small communities, great to see!

I really hope they come back eventually and do a full remake for the sequel as well. But maybe the SS1 remake didn’t sell enough that another similar effort would be profitable?

I’ve been shopping around for another app for when the day comes. It sucks because Sync is so good, but I’m pretty certain it’s living on borrowed time.

I’m in the minority that says the newest games don’t need to get 60fps 4k ultra on the newest GPUs

This is a great take tbh and I agree. Future proofing is a thing and we’ve seen old benchmark games hold up remarkably well thanks to it - hell, look at Crysis! I also think a lot of people underestimate just how demanding 4k is. We’re still not at the point where 4k is the new 1080p imo.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with recommending Boost - it used to be a very well known and popular Reddit client before the API clampdown. I would wager mentioning it probably gets more traction and recognition than saying “look at all these FOSS apps we’ve got that you’ve never heard of” so in that sense it’s probably preferable. People on here are just really passionate about FOSS.

Love it! Don’t have a contribution off the top of my head but I’ll keep this in mind!

Were you not a fan of what they did with the SS1 remake? I thought it was well received even by fans of the originals? It’s still on my backlog list but it looks amazing and I’d love to experience SS2 with the same treatment applied to it. Maybe SS2 is a rare exception but I personally tend to think early 3D games are pretty much ideal candidates for remakes as they tend to age poorly in both engine, visuals and gameplay. Not to mention controls and QoL.

I’m kind of in the same boat. SS2 will always be there if I wanted to play it, and a remaster isn’t really making me more or less likely to. But a full remake would be very interesting especially since the studio was so successful with the SS1 remake and it turned out so well.

Reminiscent of the Bill Hicks prankster god bit. The God of Christianity - at least the old testament - is kind of unhinged, it needs to be said.

That’s what I’m saying. I wonder why they decided to only remaster the sequel and not fully remake it when the SS1 Remake turned out so good.

It looks… fine I guess. For me at least it’s just a little disappointing as I missed out on System Shock 1&2 back in the day, and I heard such good things about the SS1 remake. So I was really looking forward to the SS2 being remade with similar quality, since that is the one out of the two people tend to wax lyrical about.

Tardigrades are just about the coolest little things.

Love that, great to see! I only wish there were more photos in the article.

I’m following it as well! Still waiting on some features for it to be my daily driver, but I love how responsive and active the dev seems to be.

I’ll keep an eye on it, thanks! I was looking at Thunder the other day actually since Sync is probably going to stop working eventually. Sadly I found it a little buggy and lacking some features, but I’ll follow its development for sure.

The real problem is that it’s an extensive trend going back years, not a one-off incident. And - I guess - that Yuki pretty much lost out on a 5th place finish this time, not a point or two.

But with Laurent Mekies Ferrari pedigree this is to be expected I guess. He was the one who appointed and frequently backed Inaki Rueda, after all.

Piefed keeps leading the charge eh? With every new feature added I wish even more that there was a mobile app for it. Well, that or Lemmy devs taking some inspiration and implementing something similar, I guess.

VR has its appeal, and I can definitely see use cases for certain games where it would up the immersion by a lot and really make a positive difference. I’ve banged on about Pacific Drive being a perfect VR candidate before.

In the end though, its just both too expensive for the average consumer and too niche - for most games the delta in terms of how the experience is with/without VR is just not big enough for it to be worth developing for VR most of the time. Particularly since the target audience will be so small due to costs.