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[–] DefiantBidet@lemmy.world 323 points 1 year ago (66 children)

User experience over marketing.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's an example of the Dolby logo from another GameCube game that offered surround.

https://youtu.be/cE4KVPJYLCo

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[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 218 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Based. Unskippable logo screens are a nuisance.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're so pointless too. What are they even expecting forcing them in our faces to accomplish? You either care about audio or you don't. Seeing your logo isn't going to change that

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Marketing. If people think Dolby is good, they will prefer products with Dolby compatibility, and Dolby makes money from that licensing.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Yup. The game company intros are the first thing I edit out of a game's config files. Especially if they're unskippable.

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[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago

What a chad move

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Things like these make might heart warm. They remind me of a time when video most games where about making a good experience for the users, not about endless MTX and soulless always online games that all try to be the same thing. Good to see that there are still some people in the industry, who carry own these principles.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

well I guess it was because the person who spearheaded the game project was also someone who liked and knew what games were about. Now that it has become a lucrative industry, the whole dynamics has shifted to something else.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 year ago

Fucking based

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (22 children)

It's especially weird to have all that time dedicated to something nobody cares about. Who goes looking to see if a game or movie was made using Dolby?

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[–] don@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago

Pro gamer move

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The only thing worse than unskipable ads are the waiting screens (press a button to continue) in front of the loading screens.

I mean, the machine is capable of billions of operations per second. Why is it waiting for ME to push a button?

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Dunno if you want a serious answer, but 'press start' titlescreens that start up an animation if you leave it unpressed too long are a throwback to when if a screen showed the same image for too long, it would fry the image on to the screen and leave a little ghost image, so screensavers were a screen saver. This allowed one to demo software and just leave it running without worrying about damaging the product hardware.
These days however it is totally unnecessary.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that if you leave the room to make yourself a tea or something while the game is loading, your won't miss the cut scene / beginning of the action / lose the game because it started without you present.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what integrity looks like

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

I am so glad when a PC game just has the intro videos as separate file, always go there to delete them, I do it with every game.

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kirby sucks and blows anyway

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lots of people ITT complaining that Lemmy is blanket anti-business, meanwhile I’m just surprised that something involving Nintendo isn’t being downvoted into oblivion

This place is getting more diverse, I like it

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I definitely wish there was more negotiation with tech library companies about this. It makes sense for movies - it's a one-time experience, you only see the supporting studios' logos one time, and it's just building anticipation for the opening moments of the movie. But games are things people play twenty times a week. Someone might see the logos more if they play in shorter sessions, and maybe even avoid playing for a night because they're familiar with the two minutes of setup to get to "actually playing".

I even wish there was more effort to put gaming menus before the launch. A long time ago, Steam standardized a server picker for their own games, so you could skip "launching the game, hitting Server Browser", instead just open the server list, double click one, and then that's your "launching" task taking you to the thing you want to play. Even consoles could do this, even for games using matchmaking. I remember this being something the PS5 promoted in its menus but, not having a PS5, I'm curious if many games followed though.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Sakurai is the goat.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can't you add surround without dolby?

[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I think the issue is they would have to work out how to encode the audio for surround themselves, and then it would be up to all of the different AV receivers out there to decode it properly. Using Dolby just standardizes it to where if your receiver supports that format you know it'll decode it properly.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

I don't think people are playing Kirby games expecting Dolby surround sound anyway, so this seems like it'd be a pretty easy decision.

[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hero we didn’t deserve.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck I forgot about Kirby Air Ride. That game was amazing. My mom and I would get insanely competitive over it.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wise man. I don’t care about Dolby but I do care about loading

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