I think Research Indicates’ Jurassic Park: Trespasser let’s play from 2008 is still the greatest let’s play of all time. It was from the early days of high effort LPs on Something Awful, and while Trespasser is a very interesting game for multiple reasons, it’s also an unfinished mess that is better watched than played (if you could even get it to work).

Just like Call of Duty rethought the FPS genre by making it so your health was how much strawberry jam was smeared on your screen instead of a health bar.

I switched from a 144Hz 165Hz monitor that I used for years to a 240Hz monitor, and yes of course there are somewhat diminishing returns, but if I can run a game at 240 fps then I can absolutely tell the difference between the two. Not only is motion noticeably smoother but games just feel so much better to control (especially shooters) when you have faster visual feedback on your inputs, even outside of multiplayer games.

The game I’m playing most right now is Deadlock which I get between 140-170 fps on average in, and even just in that range it starts to feel comparatively sluggish when the framerate starts to dip.

Edit: I actually just remembered my last monitor was overclocked to 165Hz and it was still a significant leap.

I did this same controller search earlier this year, and I can’t really compare it to any similar controllers because it’s the only one I’ve used, but I ended up going with the Abxylute S9 and I’ve been happy with it. I really wanted usb-c power passthrough and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

It’s probably too big for what you’re considering, but I think they sacrifice too much of what makes it usable and comfortable to go much smaller.

From your deck, yes. From the pool, no.

I honestly think they made it look worse than the original.

Not having drawer folders was a dealbreaker for me, so that is awesome news. I’ll give it another shot.

Yeah, with Jeff Goldblum in it. That was my favorite game as a kid and I still have the CD-ROM for it.

A social media campaign by an American is exactly what SKG is…

The EU initiative was chosen specifically because it actually has a chance to get traction there, and the market is large enough that it can’t just be ignored by publishers.

It wouldn’t work in the US because the movement doesn’t have lobbyists, and even if it did they would be massively outspent.

He’s been making it pretty easy.

The first Rising Storm game is the last good game Tripwire made and probably ever will make, and I will die on this hill.

No, you’re losing the only thing that makes video games different from other forms of media. You don’t have to care about that, but it’s definitely taking away a key part of what was meant to be experienced.

“Donkey Kong Island doesn’t need more immigrants from Crocodile Isle! Wealthy Kremlings commit more crime than the poorest of Kongs with no golden bananas.” -Jontron as Diddy Kong

You wouldn’t get a VAC ban for porn sprays. At worst you could get a server ban if it was against their rules, and I’d say you were definitely playing on servers where that was enforced because it was rampant.

The article didn’t mention it but he’s said before Interplay called him years later hoping he did still have it because they had lost it all.

I wonder what the most popular/recognizable video game character that has never appeared on a console is. Up until a year ago I would’ve thought SHODAN but it’s probably between MOBA or WoW characters at this point.

I 100% did the same exact thing and switched back to my library to click the store page button.

It is on Steam. Maybe not available in all countries or something?

Honestly I think a Deus Ex remake would kill a lot of the charm, and it’s way more playable relative to modern games than the original System Shock.

I love JC but the game’s dialog would not hold up at all being delivered by real looking people capable of expressing any emotion.

Here a little late with some certified bangers in no particular order:

Bomberman Hero - Redial

Deus Ex - VersaLife

Monty on the Run - Main theme (Commodore 64)

Sonic CD [JP] - Quartz Quadrant (Present)

System Shock - Executive

System Shock 2 - Engineering

Jet Set Radio - Sneakman

Max Payne 3 - TEARS

Mega Man 3 - Shadow Man Theme

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wandering Ghosts

Sparkster [Genesis/MD] - Stage 1-1

Kirby 64 - Rock Star

I’m playing through Morrowind for the first time right now (past a few hours in at least), and I’ve been blown away at just how much more interesting of a plot and setting it has compared to everything Bethesda ever made after it. The miss chance, spell fail chance, and non-regenerating magicka were always enough to scare me away before, but I finally understood what a huge impact fatigue has on everything, and how much more terrible you are at low-level skills compared to their later games.

I also like the progression of my character walking around slow as shit at level 1 taking forever to get anywhere vs running around at 30mph jumping from canton to canton in Vivec like it’s nothing now.

You’re sure you wouldn’t rather switch to moonlight: vendor lock-in edition?

Yeah, I wish the PC corporation that makes all of our PCs would stop paying devs to make their games PC exclusive all the time.

Horrendous take.

The viewmodels and their animations look way better now.

I would walk around with a kishi shoved up my ass for storage before I would try playing a platformer using that d-pad.

There is no reason for this to exist. You can already just use your phone with similar controllers, except designed by someone who has actually played a video game before.

Why would it need to be “okayed”? If they’re not providing the files then they’re not infringing on any IP.

This is just a non-VR version of Bigscreen, which has been around for close to a decade (still in beta lol)

What are you expecting, a pair of glasses?

They made it frustratingly difficult and grindy to pad the game time. There’s like 2 hours of gameplay.

Isn’t this game like the textbook definition of GaaS?

The problem was that the WiiU wasn’t just a hardware upgrade, which is why the name was horrible and completely misrepresented what it was.

If you’re coming from dota the obvious hero shooter pipeline is to deadlock.

You are completely jumping to the conclusion that he has not done anything else to deal with that burnout. What do you think the solution is to burnout, never working again?

He could have also taken the time not working to deal with and recover from it before deciding he wanted to explore those themes in his next game when he did start working on one again.

Hey, thanks UK counter-terrorism unit. I hadn’t heard of this game before and it looks fun enough to justify spending $5 on it.

and even before there were IDF characters, the Galil was named the “IDF Defender” and was fittingly only available for the terrorists.

You say that like it’s a bad thing. I don’t want to play games with kernel-level anti-cheat.

It’s not versatile at all, it’s just what most games are made for so it doesn’t have to be.

Linux is more versatile because it can play games it wasn’t targeted for.

https://github.com/wa2c/cifs-documents-provider is what I’ve used for that in the past.

Edit: To elaborate, that would just mount your network storage, and you’d then need to access the files using the android file explorer or something else. I haven’t found a good FOSS file explorer, so I paid for solid explorer ages ago.