iazu

@iazu

Memphis, TN NES Max apologist

4,639 Following415 Followers1,052 Posts

YouTube Bluesky

Is this your profile?Claim it and iazu.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

iazu@iazu· 6d

They really pulled off the "How you remember the models looked" thing for the remaster. Same thing for the Quake 2 remaster. Even System Shock 2 got that treatment though it's not mentioned as often. *Really* curious how the Thief remaster's models are gonna turn out.

Model comparison for the System Shock 2 protagonist. Original vs 2025 remaster.

iazu@iazu· 18d

I also really like the look of those orange dev textures.

iazu@iazu· Jul 16

iazu@iazu· Jun 17

100 percent misread her name as "Large Mammers"

iazu@iazu· Jun 12

Developers/creators of any sort get a special third response. The unrelated demand for something.

iazu@iazu· Jun 5

iazu@iazu· May 16

Reading @kayin.moe‬ 's post on Thief: Deadly Shadows and "these games compromised themselves for a market that didn't care about them, at the expense of the market that did." is the best description for what happened with Deus Ex: IW and Thief: DS I've ever heard. kayin.moe/thief-deadly...

"Mixed with other edicts from Eidos like 'FPSs don't sell' (lol), these games compromised themselves for a market that didn't care about them, at the expense of the market that did. The engine was so broken due to the lead programmer leaving that they couldn't even get underwater visuals to work. As such, both games simply removed swimming. Levels had to be trimmed down and split into parts just to fit into 64mb of system ram on a system that sold awfully. Consoles messed up a lot of gaming in the early 2000s, but Thief and Deus Ex 2 seem to get the worst of it."

iazu@iazu· May 8

Just looked at the achievement list for Pragmata and saw this. From everything I've heard about percentages of people who get even halfway through games, much less complete them, 30.7% seem like a *really* high completion rate. Which is great tbh.

iazu@iazu· Mar 8

Screens!

iazu@iazu· Mar 8

I hope that someday there's some way to accomplish shader compilation in a better or way or something. Twice in the past day I've played demos that had several minutes of it on the first startup. Cronos: The New Dawn and Pragamata (which was almost 10 minutes!).