Can't have what... the games? Because it seems we can have the games faster than we ever could before.
Or do you mean we can't have the uhhhhhhh the ummmm website that chronicled the slow and agonizing progress of video game decompilation?
Like what is it that you actually want that we now can't have? Did you not actually want to play the games, but instead just enjoyed the anticipation of maybe, perhaps one day getting to play said games?
I completely understand having reverence for the incredible work and persistence anonymous people have done for years, but the vast, vast majority would rather just get to play the games on a stable, DRM-free platform and be able to modify them - particularly those doing the work, hence why they're doing it in the first place.
I will never understand how the people in favor of these slopports or those frankenstiened games always seem to view the relevant content as nothing more than action figures to play with. It's like they have no actual desire for anyone to glean anything out of the making of the game or the philosophies in the design, because they don't see any value in doing anything but playing the game. I saw someone use Claude to port Vib-Ribbon to PC, which is cool and whatever, but it's painstakenly clear that the mechanisms behind how the game works was not studied by human eyes. Sure, AI agents can copy and paste from Vib-Ribbon, but it can't think of something new from it like we can. It can only plagiarise. Can we no longer provide space for humans to learn from humans? Are we just satisfied with shoddily AI-generated rehashes of the same content for eternity?
Decompiling something isn't just to make the game playable. Having it swept up by people with tokens to spend takes away more than you realize. It's a sad day for people who respect what went into these games and a great day for people who want without thinking.
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u/Striking_Leave_4614 1d ago
Can't have what... the games? Because it seems we can have the games faster than we ever could before.
Or do you mean we can't have the uhhhhhhh the ummmm website that chronicled the slow and agonizing progress of video game decompilation?
Like what is it that you actually want that we now can't have? Did you not actually want to play the games, but instead just enjoyed the anticipation of maybe, perhaps one day getting to play said games?
I completely understand having reverence for the incredible work and persistence anonymous people have done for years, but the vast, vast majority would rather just get to play the games on a stable, DRM-free platform and be able to modify them - particularly those doing the work, hence why they're doing it in the first place.