Then I guess it ain’t such a huge deal but it’s scary for the future and game preservation.

It also makes you feel like it’s probably gonna get worse…

Do you have a source?

This would make sense and would give a better image of Sony.

I’m happy to be progressively disinvesting from the Playstation ecosystem.

As much as they’ve created so of the greatest games ever, I don’t like what they’ve been doing lately.

I won’t sell my ps5 as it’s still great for many things that I won’t be able to do on Steam Deck/Steam Machine, but it’s getting used less and less.

And I’ll only buy physical games for this console.

Had he succeded, I guess a lot of people would have happily bought the game.

I’m trying to force myself to forget about this game.

For me MGS ended with number 4. The prologue from MGSV was good but the rest of the game is just bad, without any deep and interesting story…

I fully agree! In Mass Effect 3 you really feel like a part of the crew!

In the others too but a tad less. Still walking around the ship has always been a pleasure that I haven’t really found in any other game.

The Mass Effect trilogy is so great and the Legendary Edition is perfect on Steam Deck. You can even lower the TDP to improve battery life and still get good graphics.

I rep’ayed them a few months ago and I was real’y impressed by the scale of it.

To be honnest, Mass Effect is some kind of Cyberpunk 2077 with better gameplay and story.

People don’t like the third one, but for me it was the best one.

My son is pretty lucky as I’m the only dad around with a Steam Deck and a Playstation 5.

He didn’t even have to ask for these as I’m the one gaming the most.

I guess none of his friends is gonna get a Steam Deck or a Playstation 5 soon with the prices or the availability of these things…

The only good part is that maybe people are gonna learn to enjoy what they already have and devs could learn to keep developing games for old hardware.

To be honest it looks great and at first I thought about how impressive it is.

Then you think about how it modifies what was created and how it could lack consistency with a character looking a certain way in a part of the game and differently later.

I don’t know know what to think about these technologies like FSR and DLSS…

I don’t think I mind the fake frames as it could give you more performance on something like a Steam Deck, but the rest is tricky…

Interesting article. I think it would be really stupid to not reuse stuff if your game is set in a realistic universe (would be different for a cartoonish universe).

In fact, it would even be a way to avoid using AI (even if I think we’ll end up with devs reusing stuff and using AI).

Then you can use colors or lighting to create a different feel to the game, just like different movie directors can film the same place in a totally different way.

As you can see, I care about achievements: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56525516

As others have said, it’s a great incentive to go deeper in a game. It should just not become a grind and that’s why I don’t 100% a lot of games.

It can also make you remember what branch of a story you went for in a story driven game.

If it gives data to developer about how a game is played, it ain’t something I mind as the way I play isn’t a important privacy wise as other data.

What’s stupid is when people buy a game just because it has easy achievements though…

The voice chat isn’t activated on my kids account as hés clearly too young. I didn’t have anything to do to disable it, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable if he wasn’t playing Roblox in the luving room where I can see what hés playing.

Also he loves it when I watch him play so we get to share and discuss a lot about the games he plays.

I guess Roblox is a game where you have to have good parenting behind.

My son plays a lot of Roblox (1 hour a day at my place , way more with his mom).

At first I had a really bad impression about it because I thought it was just another microtransaction hell with pedophiles lurking around.

In the end, hés not really spending money and there are some pretty good and different games on the platform.

I also appreciate the fact that Roblox made him accept that you can play graphically simple games and have fun on cheap hardware.

So, while I’d prefer if he only played single player games on Linux or Playstation like me, I think Roblox is better than what people are saying.

I’m not saying it’s good for the game industry or consumer, but it’s almost better than an Nba 2k with its constant microtransactions despite paying for the game already…

Yeah I know. What I wanted to say is that it would be an incentive to buy one (and convert it to Linux) if they were losing money on every unit.

That would feel even sweeter if they were losing money on every Helix sold.

To be honest, my Linux daily driver is a Microsoft Surface Go 1 and it has served me well for the last 6 years.

Still it’s not what I’d get if I had to choose again.

So if I have to upgrade from my Steam Deck/Playstation 5 gaming combo, it’s probably be a Steam Machine, even if it’s way less poweful than Helix.

Add Mass Effect, Dead Space and Star Wars Jedi series…

But yeah I wish all of these were DRM free, without any online connection and on GOG.

While I understand the pain of someone having no hardware right now, I think you should still be able to get an old gaming PC or an old Playstation 4 to enjoy games for cheap.

In fact, almost everyone has something like this lying around…

While it means running old AAA or lower demanding current games, it’s still great gaming time.

You haven’t read my comment I guess.

I have a lot of games that I bought (mostly for max CHF 20.-, so max 25$), but they are only playing free live service games.

I have kids and I have a huge library of games on Playstation and PC. What are they playing?

Fortnite and Roblox instead, which they could play for free if they didn’t want to get cool skins. So, no, games aren’t as expensive for kids as they used to be, except if they waste a lot of money in predatory schemes in games where they could play for free and just 1-2 things to support the devs.

The price of new games isn’t a problem for me as they are still cheaper than what they were when I was a kid. In my country Switzerland, an expensive new game is stll less than CHF100.- when some Nes games were CHF120.- thirty years ago. Back in the Playstation 1 era games were around CHF89.- and now most Playstation 5 games are around CHF79.-.

And that’s not taking inflation into account!

Gaming is one of the few things which has become cheaper in my lifetime, especially now that I get a lot of old games on my Steam Deck and only racing sims on my Playstation 5.

For me the problem is that you can pay such an amount and still be subject to many popups begging for your money (microtransactions) or DRM’s (always online or others).

Or that, thanks to digital games, you’ll soon not be able to resell an expensive game that you didn’t enjoy enough to keep.

And also the fact that games aren’t really prettier than 10 years ago but that you still need better hardware to play them.

I think game companies really need to have a look at why their games are becoming so expensive, because I don’t think it’s because they are treating their employees better.

That was an interesting read, thanks!

Oh, thanks for the deep analyse.

I guess I might play these games one day then🤞

I played all of them until Double Agent.

I remember really enjoying the part where you were doing spy missions in your QG in double agent and the way you had an objective with your organisation and another one with your agency.

I don’t know why I never played the following ones, but now I don’t think I could enjoy certain political aspects of the story where the americans (the government, not the people) are the good guys…

I’m hoping the game will be released on GOG as I wouldn’t buy a game I’ve already owned on console on Steam since it wouldn’t be DRM free.

I guess the old one might feel really old if it’s your first Final Fantasy.

Even the remakes feel a bit dated in a way (not graphically).

As long you can still play the old version with your old save, I don’t see the problem.

Although I wonder what the new version introduces…

I might replay FFVII at one point after getting the third episode of the remake. It’d be a nice way to spot the differences in the story…

Apparently a lot of games don’t have DRMs on Steam. The only thing missing is a badge indicating this.

So at least you own these…

Yeah the two last games are really great and I enjoyed them so much on Steam Deck.

Oh yes you’re right, but then let’s say that a lot of great games were published by EA.

Oh yeah I forgot this one. I enjoyed it too.

Having one launcher isn’t a problem for me. Steam’s OS’s launcher even allows me to launch GOG games through Heroic without even really launching Heroic.

Where it starts being a problem is when individual games need their own launcher…

I see the launcher as the system menu in a console…

Well they are based in my city and they’ve been around for 30 years.

They use their datacenters to heat buildings and seem to have good ethos.

I’ve been using kdrive for 5 years and I can only complain about the lack of Flatpak (Appimage for Linux) and the fact that they don’t have an alternative to something like Google Photos.

Of course I can’t guarantee they’ll stay like this, but they’re really not a startup

Infomaniak is even cheaper with kdrive https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite/kdrive/tarifs

So what? How much bigger is it than the other one?

If it allows me to not change too many things on the Deck to install, I’m okay with wasting some space compared to other solutions.

Also it can emulate not just one console.

RetroDeck has the advantage of being a Flatpak and not needing Deckyloader plugin if you’re using a Steam Deck.

I’ve had a great experience with it👍

Exactly! The good part of such a shortage is that old tech can stay relevant for far longer and devs will have to optimize more.

Sometimes, therés a lot of good in a bad situation.

I want great games, not necessarly more demanding ones. The Last of Us 2 is still the most beautiful game I’ve played and I don’t really need more if it means getting new hardware.

I’d also love to have a normal PS5 partition and a Linux one. This would be the best of both worlds, but I think I’m dreaming too much😇

Oh yeah I fully agree that no game can satisfy everyone.

It’s just that, before playing it myself, I never heard a bad thing about it so I might have expected too much out of it.

Still I enjoyed it, even if it’s not a game I’ll recommend to everyone.

It’s a great game, but not the masterpiece everyone told me.

I’m starting the Metro series instead of you then. Enjoying 2033 even if characters and storytelling is a bit stereotypical for now.