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- Comment on Handheld consoles are the industry's next battleground | Opinion 1 week ago:
Right? The only ones who can muscle in on the deck are Microsoft and Sony, and that’s only because they have their fan base and users who purchased their games digitally from their stores. Even then, they’re way behind on the Deck.
PC gamers Deck won hands down. I’m happy to see competition, but the Deck won. Everything else right now are the android Honeycomb tablets following the iPad. I’m sure they work fine, but there’s already a winner.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 2 weeks ago:
Phew thank god. It wasn’t the insanely thin budgets or the lack of risk taking, it was all that damn wokeness! Finally we can get back to real gaming!
- Comment on Is Lutris only managed through desktop mode? 2 weeks ago:
Afaik yes, Lutris is a desktop only app. I’m not aware of any plugins. I use it both on my linux desktop, HTPC for gaming, and deck.
I would recommend setting your games up and then trying to start them a couple times from Lutris. Once you’re happy, then add the shortcut to Steam and pretend like Lutris doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED wins Best Gaming Hardware in the Golden Joystick Awards 2024 2 weeks ago:
Steam deck, satisfactory, you can tell when awards are given by the people instead of the gaming industry.
Shocking that companies that make solid products, support them and their users, who don’t lie or oversell to make cheap sales are winning right now
- Comment on How's the battery life after you've had one for a while? 2 weeks ago:
Had mine since first release. Depends on the game of course, no change since first playing to now that I’ve noticed. I can get about 2 hours of gta4 in before it shows the low battery warning
- Comment on Steam tighten up rules for games with season pass DLC: "you have to commit to completing that content on time" 2 weeks ago:
Valve doing the regulation our governments should be doing
- Comment on How Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses machine learning AI, and how much of your data it might need 3 weeks ago:
How much of your bandwidth it might need, not your data. Misleading headline is misleading
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 3 weeks ago:
Hey lol very valid! I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years!
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 3 weeks ago:
SECOND?! ALREADY?!
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 4 weeks ago:
Wow I feel so safe now. Like Sony wrapped me up in their arms and swaddled me. Thank you papa sony
- Comment on Deck to LG TV 4 weeks ago:
That is weird, so you’ve tried the exact same setup with a different TV and it worked?
I wonder if it’s the resolution, or maybe HDR settings? What is different about the other TV if it works there? 1080p only? I’m just spitballing trying to get gears moving
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't get expansions, reports say, as BioWare move to the next Mass Effect 5 weeks ago:
Conservatives have their panties in a twist because they have the gall to have lgbtq characters, apparently forgetting that we had Krem in inquisition and that we’ve had several gay and lesbian characters already. I’m having fun personally, I will say everyone’s just a bit too cheerful for my taste, but that’s my only gripe so far
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 5 weeks ago:
I am just love watching these companies seeing the downfall of it. Google did short term profits instead of quality for search and now people are looking for competitors and profits are dropping. People don’t watch new Netflix shows because they know they’ll be cancelled. So many more. It’s delicious.
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft really doesn’t understand how well teams can work together. They notoriously hire contractors to avoid needing to pay benefits, rotating them out every 18 months. For them to create team dynamic ideas like “forming storming norming performing”, they really don’t follow any of them.
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 1 month ago:
Almost like they wanted it that way, to get you to think about it. (Sarcasm to the author, not to you).
It’s like they felt guilty about it and decided to write a whole article about how they made them feel bad - and rather than taking the point that you’re supposed to feel bad doing it, and thinking on that they thought “Hey games should make me feel things like this”
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 1 month ago:
But teaching people to favour the consistency of imaginary worlds may also teach them to vilify disagreement and the entire practice of interpretation. At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry.
I mean… it’s a game. The RP in RPG is role playing. Isn’t part of the fun playing someone or something you’re not? I play the other gender in games because I’m not that gender. In Mass Effect I love playing renegade - punching reporters in the face even though I’m not like that in real life. This is the same stupid argument I’ve heard all the time. “Grand Theft Auto encourages violence”. No. It’s fun because we get to play this character who is so unlike ourselves.
In Halo I played a bioengineered soldier who was ripped away from his family to put down violent uprisings. Does that mean I think that’s okay in real life? Or was I playing a game that set that as a premise?
Do we apply the same scrutiny to movies? To theater? Just because we empathize or maybe even we admit that there is a part of us who want to speed through downtown Los Santos just for fun doesn’t mean that’s who we actually are.
- Comment on [DF] Bazzite - 'SteamOS' For Windows PC Handhelds - Is It A Game-Changer? 1 month ago:
I use it on my HTPC. It’s pretty nice, but there are definitely some bugs and quirks. It’s basically the handheld steam version, but with some better support. Agree that “Game-Changer” is clickbait.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ 1 month ago:
Nope, even then, think of how much QA would go into something like this. They probably have 6-8 months of features that were built on this kernel. Upgrading the kernel before would mean needing to redo everything - all of the QA, UAT, months of prep work. Companies who hold up these big releases for us aren’t like us just clicking perform upgrade, it’s a massive process that needs signoffs and confirmations. That’s why I say they probably just drew a line in the sand and said “We can’t risk destabilizing it just to perform an upgrade” - or for all we know they did do the upgrade, realized it broke something critical, and decided against it.
We all know if they rolled out a broken release everyone would be on every forum with pitchforks calling Valve the devil. They weren’t just being idiots by not upgrading.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ 1 month ago:
At some point you have to draw the line in the sand and say this is what we’re updating to for this release, we’ll update again for the next one. I compare it to Star citizen, who kept updating to the latest and greatest and never delivered a product. I don’t care that you upgraded to the latest engine update, finish the product.
- Comment on Netflix's "Team Blue" of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name 1 month ago:
Stocking. I’m the world if short term profits Netflix didn’t want to stick it out for several years of game development
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 1 month ago:
We’re coming up on a year from launch now. For me the game is fine, but it’s lacking a lot of stuff to make it a CS1 replacement, and them having to go back and fix performance issues means they’re putting off actual feature development.
- Comment on Halo's future as an Unreal Engine game looks both handsome and boring, going by these "Project Foundry" videos 2 months ago:
So same as Halo Infinite
- Comment on GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters 2 months ago:
I mean, that’s what they did with san andreas
- Comment on CD Projekt Red Still Seeking To Win Players Back After Cyberpunk 2077 Disastrous Launch 2 months ago:
What? They already did with phantom liberty. What is this garbage article, just gotta mention it to bring in clicks?
- Comment on Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise 2 months ago:
How he’s trying to say that we’re just trying to hurt his poor innocent workers. No way, we’ve all been very clear - fuck Ubisoft. Fuck their executives, their board, their directors, everyone who has pushed for these bland, useless “games” that are missing any story elements, adverse to any risk taking, and have no soul.
I staunchly defend the low devs, artists, writers, and everyone who are just trying to get by. I feel for every dev who pitched an idea who had it cast aside by some weasel exec who thought that it would be too risky to add to the game. I feel for the hundreds laid off by the greedy execs because they need more profit.
Fuck their company. I feel for the people working, but the executives caused everything that’s happening. Not us.
- Comment on What do you prefer for audio? Earphones, headphones, speakers? 2 months ago:
Speakers at home. Nothing compared to dynamic range there.
Over the ear headphones on planes. More comfortable for longer wears, good sound quality, and they block out the crying baby if you get active noise cancelling
Ear buds for short rides on the bus/train. Pop em in and go
- Comment on Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches 2 months ago:
It’s called vertical integration, Lemon
- Comment on Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low 2 months ago:
“The game received an unusual number of user reviews with a clear negative bias (including a large percentage of “zero” reviews), despite seeing acceptable review scores from reputable review sites,” Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter, Alicia Reese and Kade Bar wrote in a note last week. “This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers,” they added.
Oh kindly fuck the hell off. Whenever people have legitimate criticisms of something like this they always downplay it as trolls, or review bombing. NO. It’s a boring game, that’s it. Ubisoft tries to make games for “everybody” and so they take zero risks, and because of that their games are boring.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to 2025 as Ubisoft try to recover from "softer than expected" Star Wars Outlaws launch 2 months ago:
This will enable the biggest entry in the franchise to fully deliver on its ambition, notably by fulfilling the promise of our dual protagonist adventure, with Naoe and Yasuke bringing two very different gameplay styles.
How many times do they have to be told? Huge open worlds are great! IF they have stuff to do in them. Odyssey had a great huge open world that was incredibly detailed - then they filled it with a mediocre story and a million fetch quests.
Cyberpunk, as an alternative, had an extremely in depth story and each side quest felt like you were making a choice or that thought went into each one. Even the gigs were detailed and had thought put into them. Yeah they started to blend together, but I never felt like I was just running over, picking something up, then finding the next thing to go pick up, and repeating for 6 hours per area with 36 areas.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA calls for a strike against League of Legends 2 months ago:
League of Legends: “That wasn’t us, that was just our contractor who worked on our game”
That’s a common cop-out in the tech industry. Too freaking bad, you wanted cheap labor, you’re on the hook for cheap labor. (And I say that as a contractor. I know they paid me just because they didn’t want to hire someone and pay them benefits). Time for them to pay the price.