The game Valve used to demo the standalone capability, was Hades.

I am aware; but I am specifically meaning VR games, not just PC games in general. And especially not something like Hades which I can’t imagine performing poorly even if emulated on a cheap smartphone. How well would it run Alyx? VRChat? Beat Saber?

I’ve been curious about how the Frame will handle games on the standalone side since the announcement and the discussion about the ARM compatibility layer has me wondering if, to play standalone, I would be expected to run the Meta version of games as Android apps and not, like, the actual PC versions on Steam I own running directly from the headset.

it turns out “country” has a double meaning in English

You mean how it’s used to describe rural areas, too? It still works the way you expect it to, even under that definition. 🤷‍♂️

Or do you mean the genre of music? 🤔

Just FYI: Links to such sites are a liability for the instance operators.

The new ones are vastly different from the first 4. Closer to 4, at most, but are entirely different from everything done previously aside frim the action elements. The stories are not, necessarily, linked either. Different characters, no Umbrella Corp, does not even have zombies.

Jumping into at least 7 onward will be totally unfamiliar even if you just finished playing the OGs. But they are really good.

Everything should be controllable. Give me all the options. Every graphical feature, every UI element, even gameplay mechanics. If it is as simple as adjusting a number or selecting something from a table, give me the option to control it myself.

Tim Sweeny doesn’t understand the very people he wants to have give him money. Like, at all.

From another article posted about this earlier, the version of the game sent to Valve for review had a minor as the main protagonist.

To be fair, Valve only has around 350 employees. The other companies have thousands more.

I like playing Supermarket Simulator and it’s basically like what it was like working at Walmart. It’s oddly relaxing when you don’t have to actually move your body and lift shit while stocking shelves. 🤷‍♂️

The majority of gamers buy into the lie that kernel level anti-cheats are more effective, when they really aren’t.

No.

They haven’t released the current version of SteamOS to be installed on any machine and imaging the actual Deck’s OS won’t work on all hardware. You could do the old steam machine OS; but it is not anywhere the same as what the Deck and this new Steam Machine use other than being based on Linux.

There is Bazzite, though, which is not the same OS, but strives to offer the same experience.

• No quit button or hiding it in the settings menus

• No ability to rebind controls

• Endless, unskippable intro videos

• Taking control away to have a cutscene that is all dialogue and no action that could have just as easily been something you control as you walk and listen. Especially if it’s not even an in-engine, real-time scripted thing but a pre-rendered video that doesn’t even show your actual character as you have them dressed.

• FOMO and most MTX in general.

• No ping/latency stats for everyone on the server

Only a businessman could look at literally anything at all and call it an opportunity.

I had a similar softlock in Skyrim at release that wasn’t fixed until the toolset came out and I was able to go in and see that the script that was meant to fire was never actually added to the trigger. So a dude is supposed to come up to a door and open a little window to talk to you, but he would just stay sitting down in the room since the script telling him to go to the door and begin the dialogue that leads to the trigger that opens the door was written and available, but wasn’t tied to the trigger of activating the door. I just put the script into the trigger and Bam! finally was able to get through the MQ.

Ever since, I have been salty AF about Bethesda’s ability to build games. This was such a stupidly simple mistske and it persisted for months only to be fixed by modders with a simple 5 second change.

I am now imagining Microsoft making a new Zork game that is a graphical feast and not at all similar to the OG other than killing you outright if you spend too long in the dark.

To be fair, Zork is also just a simple text-based adventure game. I’m not even sure what could be learned by looking at its source code unless you wanted to learn that obscure, proprietary forked language itself. Text-based adventures are little more than spicy Hello World programs. 🤷‍♂️

I love both, but I also would pick KCD2 for the story just because it hits exactly the same as A Knight’s Tale.

E33 definitely is more creative and unique, though, and because of that I would expect it to win.

I suppose it is. 🤔

You have traversal tools, but also the different guns are used to solve puzzles and progression may be locked behind having the right guns. I only have 2 of the guns so far where I am in the game but I know there’s several more.

PotPlayer looks the same as any other media player for PC and it’s only for Windows. What about it makes VLC suck by comparison? 🤨

VLC already exists.

Unless you mean streaming services like Netflix?

Every single one of them is also better than Rust. Ark, Conan Exiles, that new Dune game, Palworld…

Metroid Prime. It’s the only series I know of that is fully in the genre and is also not a 2D platformer.

It’s insane to me how many Souls Likes could be 3D Metroidvanias if they used special powers to clear obstacles instead of just keys or random triggers to unlock new areas. That’s really the only thing I see that separates the genres.

Sekiro is closer than any other, but it’s mainly just 1 thing you don’t have in the prologue (the grappling hook). I would love a game that is 3D over a 2D platformer, but also has the unlockable traversal tools the way Metroid or Syphony of the Night had.

Ouya? More like Oi Vey!

There must be a reason to yoke yourself to the pay-for-skins version, but I’m really not sure.

The MTX-filled version is the only thing you have on console.

Kids my age: Remember when you could just download a skin for Quake from a website, install it, and still have other players see it? And it was free?

Totally sounds like it will only stops kids talking to adults but not adults talking to kids. The creeps already try to get their victims to communicate off-platform using unmoderated services. Unless this blocks the kids’ from seeing the adults’ messages, the adults trying to fuck with kids could just tell them to use a different messenger.

Only if your name is not Charlie Brown.

If I bring in some old Bad Dragon toys, am I gonna get more than $5? 🤔

It’s kinda up to the judges of the specific event, and they clearly aren’t interested as much in puzzle games. It never had a chance for GOTY, despite being an extremely good puzzle game.

My takeaway here is that I can get free SSDs by breaking into an AI datacenter. Side effect: this also breaks the AI. Win-win!

International Waters: No Laws. No Ethics.

Oh man. We all think Musk, who is outwardly evil, is making NueroLink to control people but he’s such a goober that shit’s never gonna work. Gabe on the other hand…

This is that research vessel he talked about a while back.

Leviathan has also been designed with scientific work in mind: Newell’s interests now include Starfish Neuroscience, a company focused on neural interfaces (popularly known as “brain chips”), and Inkfish, a marine research operation. Part of this is a “convention-defying layout” that apparently brings teams together, which makes me think about all the times I’ve read about desks with wheels at Valve.

Unlike his other yachts, this one actually has a purpose.

I wonder how things would have been like if Apple, not Microsoft, bought Bungie for exclusive rights to Halo. 🤔

The irony is that they actually have some pretty unique and creative ideas spread out in most of their open-world games despite the jokes about how they’re all the same. If they cared about making good shit and not just money, they could have a game that rivals or surpasses Grand Theft Auto.

Marathon being brought back as a live servive extraction shooter/battle royale was an immediate turn off for me, personally.

Everyone:

I’m just more committed to the bit.

I’ve been under the impression that it is very likely to be a sequel to Alyx. Possibly a launch title for the Frame.

But I don’t think any of the rumors expected a new Steam Machine. We thought it was gonna be a new Deck.

I was thinking about this in another thread where someone made this joke: With how much stuff Valve does outside of gaming, are we sure they have never done a 3rd iteration of something before? Like, they do business stuff too and are into a ton of random tech related things like BCIs. We only ever really hear about the game related stuff, tho. Or possibly when Gabe gets a new boat since they interview him on it.