Yeah, it stinks. Another thing that makes me wish we'd got that Dreams PC port that was apparently considered at one point.
Very cool platform, powerful yet (somewhat) easy to use, and no other incentive than creating and sharing cool stuff. It's mostly dead now , but PC would have given it the critical user mass it needed.
A good deal of people making ~~games~~ experiences on Roblox are minors. They're being promised revenues, but of course they're paid with bogus money that they're encouraged to spend back on the platform, since cashing back is subject to an absolutely ridiculous rate, and to a minimum amount. Only the very few at the top can pretend to get anything back as real money. But all of the games, even the ones that never makes a cent for their creators, are the content Roblox milks indefinitely.
Roblox development is a jungle, completely unregulated and managed outside of the platform by design, since they want to deny all responsibility for any of that shit. They kill the platform forums so dev teams are being formed outside, on discords and stuff. Teams with minors working with adults. Yes, there were cases of exploitation, and worse.
That, and also possibly a mod. With procedural show descriptions like other art forms.
On the subject of entertainment, I'm always wondering who the hell makes TV programs and broadcasts them to the Rim. Are those local? I can't really imagine a distant extra-system world having an interest in an audience from the Rim.
So who? Bored Archotech with inscrutable reasons? Propaganda from the fallen Empire? Art projects from other colonies?
If so, why don't I have weirdo colonists that start filming themselves and improvise a late show?
8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8's tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).
Wii comes very close though. It's the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.
I just think of 8 as "we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better".
Guy didn't get the memo and only signed for Valhalla expecting booze and hot Valkyries.
I had to suffer through someone's wedding that had an impressive but out of tune pipe organ. Shame because the musician seemed talented, and at least while it lasted I didn't have to hear about how great the guy in the sky is.
I don't know, that little guy looks like it has guts. Maybe it earned its place in Elysium.
You may be familiar with the old management game Theme Hospital. Two Point Hospital was a modern take on that, and they extended the concept to university campus and now museum.
They present Muse as a "generative AI model of a videogame" that you'd train to "learn about older games". Which seems a very bold claim to begin with.
If this is anything like that, this is not a way to preserve the original game, it's an attempt at reproducing (parts of?) it. And since generative AI is involved, there is no reason to believe it will be a faithful recreation.
Of course this could all be marketing bullshit, and for all we know their AI is just another coding assistant AI that they might use to create remakes. And then they'll only be as faithful as the team making it can or will do it, as has always been the case with remakes.
Anyway, remaking is not preserving.
Edit : was a bit slow trying to make my point, seeing now your edit. Yep, that's exactly what I got from this too.
You've convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.
That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I'm wondering if I've seen that asset somewhere else..