afaik yes, you just have to install Steam and Enable Steam Play. There’s also Lutris which includes support for Steam and other stores.

Unless you specifically want Steam OS’s gaming mode, any Linux distro (Arch definitely) with KDE Plasma 6 will give you more or less the same experience. Not that I don’t think Valve should do so.

It’s gotta be from Final Fantasy, hard to choose just one when you got: Suteki da Ne, real Emotions, Eyes on Me, Sen no Kotoba, Otherworld, One Winged Angel, etc… there’s a reason why I love Theatrhythm. But if I had to it will probably be Melodies of Life.

Actually, I change my mind, this is the catchiest video game song.

I’m still upset about Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy & The Polar Night Liberator

Since I didn’t enjoy the handsome collection I wouldn’t buy it at any price, but even for games I do enjoy I wait until they are on sale preferably with the DLCs included

I like to look at men from behind, not ladies.

I’m the exact opposite, but nothing wrong with your preference.

I will continue to wait until games go on discount

Microsoft shouldn’t have killed Wordpad. Imagine if they updated it instead with docx compatibility.

I pretty much switched to the Steam Deck, but I still have a backlog of games on Xbox that I may end up with one or two last Xboxes if my Series S dies for any reason. Hopefully it lives long enough that I don’t have to get a new Xbox sometime in the future.

Xbox will stick around as a cheap entry point into Game Pass

Not after these price increases

Even though I stopped buying new games on Xbox for sometime now, numerous reasons to boycott Microsoft I’m sure you have yours too. There is still probably another Xbox console or two in my life due to the over 300 game digital library I have accumulated over three generations due to Xbox Live Gold and Microsoft Rewards.

Nothing beats the DS Lite’s 15 hour battery life

I never bought a console at launch, this won’t change this time either. I will wait for either the OLED or Lite models, or at least until there’s 5 games that I really want and can’t get anywhere else.

With fascists every accusation is an admission

free healthcare

does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?

I think gamers are more reactionary than average. Gamers gave us Gamergate which eventually gave us Trump.

Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.

Not if you bought it on the WiiU like I did.

If buying isn’t owning then sharing isn’t stealing…

By principle I avoid “online required” games.

My most played game in my Steam library is Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus which came out in 2013. The newest game in my library is Atelier Sophie DX a rerelease of a 2015 game.

Finally, I will get to finish my backlog

Xenogears is the best game, or at least JRPG, I ever played and I played over 40 JRPGs from the 8bit era to the modern era. There might be a better JRPG out there but I haven’t played it yet.

I have an XBox Series S that I purchased using Microsoft Rewards points, but over the past year I decided to boycott Microsoft for a myriad of reasons and stopped buying games for it and switched to Playstation, Switch and Steam as my platforms of choice for new game purchases. I still have a massive library for XBox so I will still be playing on it for years to come.

I like the UI of 11 but not the extra spyware

Yes it maybe selective and hypocritical but it also sets precedent. Other companies can be held accountable more easily now.

Good. The last thing we need is kids addicted to gambling.

I do care about finishing games but not completing them. I will play the main story and some of the side quests. I am happy with games being 20-100 hours long.

You can try Linux from DVD or USB flash drive without installing. You will get a fully usable desktop with browser, media player and so on; and you will get a feel to whether things are working for you or not without altering anything on your PC.

I’m linking to Ubuntu’s documentation on it, but many other Linux distributions support this feature https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install

Absolutely. There are iOS apps and games I bought that don’t run anymore and Apple wants us to accept this as normal.

having a monopoly isn’t illegal but abusing it is

I like Steam but come on, they are more profitable per employee than Apple. They are clearly not hurting even if I download my games over and over.

There’s Xbox, but when that’s the alternative it is clear why Steam still dominates

I had a lot of fun playing Romancing Saga 2 and Ara Fell recently. Sometimes games can be more immersive by not having high fidelity graphics.

The PS5 controller feels right at home connected to my Steam Deck

I’m impressed by how well my Steam Deck plays even unsupported games like Estival Versus.

I just wish they bundled it with a browser. Any browser even Internet Explorer would have been better than an “Install Firefox” icon that takes me to a broken store. I had to search for and enter cryptic commands to get started. I’m familiar with Debian distros and APT, what the hell is a Flatpak? Imagine coming from Windows or macOS and your first experience of Linux is the store bring broken. It was frustrating for me because even with 20 years of using and installing Linux, at least the base installation always comes with some functioning browser even if the repos are out of sync or dead.

Does this mean cheaper games on the Steam store? Might be good for indie developers, but I bet most publishers will pocket the difference.

I am glad a Suikoden 1 & 2 collection is coming. I missed out on them back in the day and 3 which I played but never finished. I finished 4 and later, including Tactics and Tierkreis.

I still play Ridge Racer Type 4, so I do appreciate well designed games that hold up decades later.

Never used it and never will, but maybe we can make Twitch become a slur?

Thanks good fellow. I never actually played it before.