Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam 4 days ago:
No vibration is a strange choice given that Nintendo and Sony went out of their way to make that much better in recent years.
Lack of trackpad is more understandable. Sony have had that for two generations now, and I’ve never really seen it used as anything other than a big Select button. I bounced off the Steam Controller simply because games designed for controllers feel much better with thumbsticks. If I want to play a mouse controlled game like Civ, I will use a mouse. Even from my sofa.
- Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too” 2 weeks ago:
If they can’t pull this off as an ARM device and recompile all the games to run on it, then don’t bother.
There’s nothing they can really bring to this that the Steam Deck hasn’t already done better.
- Comment on It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now 4 weeks ago:
It’s worth it. Story is kind of cringe, but the co-op adds some unique gameplay.
- Comment on It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now 4 weeks ago:
Two controllers. Split screen.
- Comment on It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now 4 weeks ago:
Good news! If you find somebody else that has it, you can download and play it with them for free.
- Comment on It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now 4 weeks ago:
No. It’s two player cooperative gameplay.
One of you will be doing one thing, and the other person something to help them, and it’s always varying what you do.
It’s not like Brothers a Tale of Two Sons, or Kuri Kuri Mix.
- Comment on EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum 1 month ago:
Steam should allow you to download older versions when companies pull bullshit like this.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
I thought I did, but I just couldn’t get on with it. Fucking around with the touchpad was a very poor substitute for a right analogue stick.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Not really a PC is it? You can’t even buy an APU of the spec in a PS5/XSX and you certainly can’t run it all from one set of unified GDDR6 (and I know people say you can’t run a CPU from that, but you demonstrably can run it well enough to run modern games).
Even just buying a GPU on the level of a PS5 (and that’s somewhere on the level of a RX 6700) is going to take nearly all your budget, leaving you maybe £100 to build the rest of the PC.
I don’t think it’s an impossible problem to solve, but you can’t do it if you’re selling a couple of thousand units.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
An Xbox Series S (or even X) but not locked down and able to run Steam games would be great. But that’s the kind of price you’d be looking for. Price of a PS5 would be the absolute maximum. Any higher, and mainstream people won’t be interested because they can just buy a PS5 for that.
I think it’s achievable at scale (millions of units like the PS5), but it’d be a huge gamble.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Or indeed just buying a gaming PC already running Windows that runs 100% of Steam games with no effort at all.
What’s holding them back and killing the idea of a Steam Machine PC, is that GPUs are ludicrously expensive.
Shoehorn Steam into an Xbox Series S/X… Well that might work, but it needs MS to eat some humble pie.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
They have. It’s called the Steam Deck.
- Comment on What are some mainstream game series where you really do need to start from the first game? 2 months ago:
It’s long but worth it.
I assume you’ve got the GOTY edition if you’re playing after all this time. I recommend doing the Blood and Wine DLC last. It feels right in that order. B&W got all the attention when it came out, because of just how much content there was in it, but it’s Hearts of Stone that I still think about years later.
- Comment on What are some mainstream game series where you really do need to start from the first game? 2 months ago:
I think The Witcher sequels always feel like you’ve missed a game somewhere even if you played all of them. They introduce Yennefer in W3, and I assumed she was in W2 since I never finished it, but apparently she wasn’t.
A lot of the backstory is in the books rather than the games.
- Comment on I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways 2 months ago:
Consistency is nice for all games, but some just don’t play well at low frame rates.
I struggled to get into Dark Souls, but after installing DSfix the effect was transformative and I was able to read the game a lot better.
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
This should have put you off as well.
- Comment on Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again” 3 months ago:
Yeah, don’t waste your time with either of those. Utterly forgettable.
- Comment on Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again” 3 months ago:
The only main DC movie I’d recommend is The Flash tbh. My expectations weren’t high, but it’s better than most of the other shit from the last few years of self-indulgent superhero rubbish.
That and James Gunn movies are pretty much all that’s worth your time.
- Comment on Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again” 3 months ago:
Is it some sort of scam where they have to make the movie or they lose the rights to them? I can’t think of any other reason for shit like Morbius.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 4 months ago:
I’m not sure they have cottaging in TLOU world.
- Comment on Which James Bond movie do you consider the worst? 4 months ago:
Craig was after The Bourne Identity and it’s many sequels. I think that’s the key difference. Maybe Craig sells the brutality a little better than Dalton. Got more physicality to him. And if you don’t count Quantum of Solace, he also had much better movies.
Dalton just felt like the Andrew Garfield of Bonds. Let down by the movies not really knowing what they wanted to be, rather than his performance. He’s superb in Hot Fuzz, to the point I now think of him as a local supermarché owner than as James Bond.
- Comment on Which James Bond movie do you consider the worst? 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s a good shout. VtaK is awful from top to bottom.
Octopussy and Moonraker are in the mix too.
- Comment on Which James Bond movie do you consider the worst? 4 months ago:
I don’t think they were bad movies, and I don’t think Dalton was bad in them.
They just weren’t Bond. More a before their time Bourne clone. They were a massive tonal shift from the cheesy Moore era and people weren’t ready for it.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal 6 months ago:
That fact that it can’t even play direct from the PS+ cloud gaming service shows what a half-baked device this is.
In order for me to be interested it would have to be able to stream games in from my PS5, PS+ cloud gaming, and my PC. Maybe add Xbox GamePass streaming as well.
Realistically it’s going to have to come from a third party if it wants all that, at which point you might as well just have a controller grip for your phone.
- Comment on Save thousands 6 months ago:
We all went back inside for the food and mingling part, while they adjusted the metal bit at the top.
Eventually they came back and said it’d take longer than that as the sides of the hole would have to be altered so most of us left.
I swear we were there for about four hours in total. I don’t know if they’re all like that over there, but most UK funerals are like “welcome, hymn, eulogy, hymn, funny story, oven, drinks, home”. I find open caskets weird as well.
- Comment on Save thousands 6 months ago:
Also, tell the guy that digs the hole how big the coffin is including handles.
Because I went to a funeral last year where it didn’t fit.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Completed by 1.3 Million Players, Shadowheart is Most Popular Love Interest 6 months ago:
The best rejection is still from Asto.
“It’s not you, you understand. It’s me… I have standards.”
- Comment on Back in my day 6 months ago:
Whenever I’m subjected to terrestrial TV, the only thing I end up watching is the second half of movies I’ve seen a dozen times before.
I grew up with only having 4 channels, but holy shit having some actual agency over what you watch was a game changer.
- Comment on Why do it 6 months ago:
Now imaging crawling into a cave, and being blocked by somebody else’s shoes.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 6 months ago:
I think this gen is good for a while yet.
We’ve only just got to the point where games don’t run on PS4 any more.
Current gen has good SSDs, 16GB RAM, fast CPUs and 4K (or at least scale to 4K acceptably) graphics. Most stuff runs at 60fps (with an option to turn on the graphical wankery and drop to 30-40), and when it doesn’t there’s VRR to paper over the cracks.
The only area it’s really lacking is RT performance, and only nVidia are there right now. The pricing for cards capable of dropping old lighting paths entirely (e.g. for Cyberpunk Overdrive mode) is obscene. Frame generation is a red herring. It won’t make games feel more responsive. Only real frames can do that. We’re a long way from dropping traditional lighting.