I think it’s mostly done at this point but no harm in waiting.

The only harm in waiting is just seeing spoilers for anything inside your feeds.

The full LTT video outside of the WAN show is a lot better. In it he said that a company can just buy a lot of Steam Machines as their office computers giving no Steam sales to Valve and making them take the hit. He also gave a few more justifications as well as tariffs and others I think.

I remember playing a game, I think it was either Spiderman or Control with Ray Tracing on and I was like “wow, these are amazing!” Then I realized I didn’t actually turn it on. My dumb ass can’t tell the difference.

Yeah, everyone is like “I wanna call it the GabeCube”.

I dunno man, I get that Valve is letting them work on cool shit but the people working on these things should get credit too. We don’t know how big Gabe’s involvement too and I don’t want to deify a billionaire for no obvious reason.

Supposed to do the end game content for Expedition 33 but I’ll probably just be doing rounds of Megabonk.

lol, just to fit in with everyone 😂

I can’t tell the diff in FPS performance. I wish I could.

When I got my PS5 and played some games I was like, wow the future is here! Turns out I was playing PS4 games. Also I turned on and off ray-tracing for SpiderMan and couldn’t tell either.

I’d say they should include an Alien Earth level but Disney would sue them out of existence.

I self-inflicted some pain like that for me as well.

I got close to the end of Act 2 and my friend said that the difficulty was too easy and I was breezing pass everything and to switch it to Expert. Well guess what. I didn’t level, upgrade or put my Pictos in a way to deal with it. So most of my boss fights turned from a close-win into 45 minutes of me dying a lot. Like, I’d be one-shotted so often.

I then took some time and then cashed in some Lumina for stories and then actually put some strats in and went through the skill tree. I think it was worthwhile in the end but it totally changed the experience for me.

I really wanted to like the remakes.

Playing the FF7 remake felt really dated in terms of a lot of things. After playing God of War and others, the cinematics felt cheesy and less cohesive now in FF … I didn’t care for much of any of the voice acting. A lot of the side quests didn’t fit “in world” to me. The heck do I care about some lost kittens? Why am I figuring out this time-wasting crane control? … Also, not sure what’s going on with the “ghosts”. I didn’t like the combat and found it annoying. Which is strange because I enjoyed FF15: The backstreet boys edition and even Guardians.

On the positives, I felt if I could take a screenshot of any part of the game and sent it back to the younger version of me … My mind would be blown. I’d just stop the game several times to just admire the scenery and the look.

Everyone loves FF 7 remake and all that and I know I’m in minority but it put me off Rebirth. I’m happy other people enjoy it now though. I just wish I was one of them.

What do you mean by first iteration of a series? Do you mean the first entry into the franchise?

I mean we can argue about the degree you can change a go-kart game but I think Nintendo does try different things. Mario Kart 64 was 3D with 4 players, Mario Kart DS did online play, Double Dash did the two drivers in one kart. Mario Kart Wii did motion controls. Mario Kart World Tour (I haven’t tried) but it has this open world driving concept, I think?

They also do milk their IP and they do release a lot of sequels like Mario Party and such.

However, at the same time Nintendo takes risks with their console/games like no other, I feel.

I won’t back their legal strategies though, I don’t think anybody should.

Bungie did a lot of dodgy shit to screw people out of their stuff. I think it was either the president or CEO did a lot of shady shit while destroying the heart of Bungie.

No problems joining you in saying “fuck you Bungie”.

Factorio is a game where I’ll spend so much time and getting pretty far. Then I’ll “refactor” some parts for efficiency. Then I get like a new science and I’ll be like, I can’t make this work and give up.

Then I’ll start again later thinking I’ll get it right the next time!

Although, if I had my robo flying stuff set up correctly then this wouldn’t be an issue.

I mean, he’s said before that shitty code doesn’t make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have “bad” code and that it doesn’t matter and people should just make games.

Was funny when they said they needed more original games like Hi Fi rush after firing the people that made Hi Fi rush.

All very good questions. If a lot of these are software updates … I was genuinely hoping they would go back and make it easier for those with the earlier handhelds. I bought my friend’s kid a ROG Ally (not an X) and it’d be nice if they got some of these benefits too.

I’m dubious until I see benchmarks from Steve, Linus, Dave2D? I think most of the videos that have been out have been what they’ve advertised/marketing rather than independent testing.

Sorry you’re getting downvoted too much. I mean, the joke is that Lemmy is all about Linux so it gonna be bad, but I didn’t think this much :P

I’m kinda excited too? Kind of?

Like this isn’t for me. I’m more of a Steam Deck guy.

If this lives up to the MS Marketing BS, this would be a handheld that I’d buy for a friend or I’d recommend a friend to buy.

I think they’re supporting “suspend” and other OS/software improvements so it feels more like an xbox handheld and has optimizations for battery and performance. They’re also introducing updating the microsoft store to have a “steam deck” compatible – like system with caveats and stuff.

If you own an Xbox series X or whatever they have now, you can stream seamlessly and stuff.

I really want to root for Nintendo but they make it hard.

Opening up my steam library from a console was such a big WTF moment and then being able to suspend games was so mind-blowing.

It’s still not that beefy for triple-A but I’m considering getting GeForce Now running on it.

What’s the news on Epic? I definitely OOTL.

I don’t use their store much. Except sometimes I think through the Steam launcher?

Reminds me of the Wadsworth Constant: https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/the-wadsworth-constant/ from back in the day.

Far better than most but Valve has some controversy with gambling and CS and stuff

I dunno, I heard about the history of Bungie and what Pete Parsons did to the company. There should be no surprise. He destroyed it and Marathon is just another indicator it seems.

I feel bad for the artist and hope they get more than just “exposure” after this.

I think Playable has a bit of a wider range. Verified means it can play optimally out of the box.

Playable means that there may need to be some tweaking. Maybe performance issues, maybe text too small to read on the screen, maybe input issues that require a keyboard/mouse. It varies from game-to-game.

I’ve played quite a few games that were “Playable” that I’ve had no issues with, personally. Others which I just couldn’t be bothered to get working correctly :P Most of the time there’s more information on each game and what these issues are.

Love Steve. He’s done some really hard hitting pieces.

it seems I’ve bought it too. Not gonna lie, after reading the description… I have no idea what I’m getting into.

I will buy indie games at full price, thank you very much.

First thing I did when I bought mine was to open up my Steam Deck and put in a new hard drive.

Most difficult thing was some of the screws felt over-tightened.

That was about it to be honest. I also heard the battery glue is really strong so I’m not looking forward to that in the future for me.

The Internet is quite segregated sometimes. I have a friend who is an “influencer” and sometimes brags to me about another influencer they’ve met up with. I’m like,

“sorry I’ve never heard of them”

“but they’ve had X number of followers and were really big on YouTube!”

“…” 🤷‍♂️

I loved the video. It’s very obviously taking the piss but I think this has been a sore spot to many Lemmy users that the humour isn’t gonna hit.

More on the Liberty Phone

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4305815/why-i-wont-be-buying-purisms-librem-liberty-smartphone-even-though-i-love-the-idea

Besides the absurd cost ($1,999) for the terrible specs. It seems they’re hiding where they’re sourcing certain components like you said like the CPU, GPU,

Oh shit. Actually I completely forgot about that. I really didn’t like his takes on that …

I think he was arguing that it was going to be hugely costly to the developer to keep games running after the fact and how difficult it was going to be. I really wanted to give him a fair shake but it really did feel full of straw man stuff because the stopkillinggames stuff wasn’t really about that.

Oh I dunno, I avoid a lot of drama and just watch his takes on YouTube. Didn’t realize Lemmy really hated this guy (deserved or not).

It’s a shame he reacted that way to you, not cool just deleting the discussion.

[edit] to the downvoters *to this current comment *… on the original post it’s fine but for this specific one go fuck yourself, have a horrible day [/edit]

They tried doing something that would have fit with Windows 8 and they ROYALLY screwed that up.

I don’t know how you don’t think about how people that use Windows Server and how they have difficulties reaching the start menu. Seriously, trying to go into the top left or side with your mouse makes no sense. They have so many project managers, QA and process and somehow they screwed up that hard.

I see a lot of downvotes from people. Listen, it’s okay to disagree and we can have discussions about it. None of the comments so far are offensive or anything. Tell these people why you disagree.

I mean, I played Firewatch. It’s part suspense and mystery but I felt there was a possible romance angle there that is hard to deny. You can make it platonic and straightforward but I remember feeling quite connected to the person on the other line.

Then again, I’m twice the age of a “teen” so I don’t know if it fits.

Yeah … I mean why not keep going with other things to R&D? The game industry is apparently full of these types of shenanigans.

It’s a what-now?

I quite liked the Kinect btw.

I heard they invested a lot into Unknown 9 and it turned out to be a dud.

Me pretending to care about David Sacks claim: