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Source - https://www.yahoo.com/tech/meet-catly-bizarre-ai-slop-160000234.html If you guys watched the Game Awards a few days ago, you probably saw the trailer for some new open world RPG featuring cats called Catly. I didn't pay much attention to the trailer when the game awards first aired, but after re-watching the trailer, it looks pretty suspicious. There's claim the developers were responsible for games that never saw the life of day, or didn't last long. It's also being alleged that one of the developers on the game, previously worked on a blockchain/cryptocurrency/NFT game called "Alien Meow" which looks pretty similar to Catly. Their steam page also seems suspicious, like made with AI: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2987350/Catly/. You can also read what curators are saying on the game so far here: https://store.steampowered.com/curators/curatorsreviewing/?appid=2987350 It's pretty Check out the trailer below to form your own opinion. Do you think this was all made with generative AI?

Same to you, mate.

You see, this is my problem with Microsoft. They have all these iconic IPs and they're just making them all go to waste and then they complain about people not supporting their platform.

Haven't Umbrella exhausted all their Biotech weapons already? Let's just hope it isn't another, "we've been secretly working on this new more improved BOW" scenario. That plotline has been used to death in the RE franchise and they love making improvements on the Tyrant version.

The second game was better than any of the recent RE games. Yet not one person supported it. I thought it had more to it than RE7, for sure. The game also has loads of Silent Hill vibes. You basically explore a town in a world called STEM, and the gameplay is just like RE4, really, but it definitely feels like you're in Silent Hill. I didn't notice any difference in how this plays and any other big budget horror game. So why nobody cared for it, I have no idea.

I hope everyone on VGR has a nice Christmas, followed by a great start to 2025. 👍

I've probably seen Mean Girls at least 10 times. It's one of my favorite movies of all time, and I would honestly say it's close to being a perfect comedy. I've also most likely seen the Back to The Future trilogy 10 times. It's one of my absolute favorite franchises.

I played the original back in the day. It was a decent arcade racer with impressive graphics for it's time. The game controlled OK for a game of it's time, but by modern standers it doesn't hold up well. It was slippery and floaty. It was also sevely lacking in content with only 6 tracks and I think 8 cars (Well, 16 given there was a manual and automatic of each car). I also don't recall there being any multiplayer of any kind, which is admitantly difficult on a PC game from 1995. Whare the game excelled was it's soundtrack. You could select the audio files on the game disk (CD-ROM) to play as the in game music and it sounded fantastic. This new game is certainly a very drastic change in style. The trailer implies a very similar approach to the core gameplay, and arcade style racer with drifting and so on, but it will have to be further developed and improved on.

Absolutely! Gaming together fosters teamwork and builds connections. Shared victories and losses enhance communication and strengthen friendships through shared experiences.

Yeah, this is AI generated visuals. There are subtle inconsistences with colour boundaries and shading that just don't look right. For example, no competent human artist would have so much pink and purple on both the character models (the focus for the eye) and all over the backgrounds. That happend because the "developers" specified those colours and likely negated to specify thier use or add more colours. Even the game description on Steam reads like a checkbox for an AI filter. Don't get me wrong, it looks pretty. Very pretty. I was especially impressed with the fur effects and animations, but it's also complelty shameless.

Moving this to the "video games" sub-forum as this is not a Playstation exclusive discussion. I'll say this everyone somebody posts a thread like. Why care? We're not CDPR investors, executives or employees, we're gamers. Honestly, who gives a shit about game sales? It doesn't make a game better nor worse, it doesn't make a game more or less suited you one's taste, it means nothing. Why gamers are so obsessed with this I will never understand.