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.

I could have had one and didn’t get it because I never really go anywhere other than work. But boy did I regret it when I was at BLFC recently. My hotel roommates all had one and were playing Helldivers and Rocket League every night 😩

I could have brought my Quest… But I don’t have anything for the stand alone system; all my VR games are on Steam.

I hope the Frame is as cheap or cheaper than a Meta Quest 3. It’s almost identical in the specs, but goes back to monochrome external cameras instead of full color. But also has eye tracking which the Q3 does not. I want eye tracking so fucking bad… I set up cameras for it before I was like “Hold up… They can’t see my eyes with the headset on 😬” lol

Okay what the hell is up with the Frame?

It says it is a stand alone headset and doesn’t need a PC… Right before it goes on to say it’s meant to be used with a PC but wirelessly. Is it stand alone or not? If I have Beat Saber in my library, do I have to stream it from an actual dedicated PC or can it run straight off the headset like I can with a Quest?

Gimme this and the zipline tool.

I was kinda wondering if this whole thing is even real or just PR to hype up GTA6.

They have done some pretty questionable advertising by manufacturing controversies in the past for previous GTA games.

Maybe take a day or two off, Todd. The game might actually not suck if you aren’t involved.

Xcom 2 and other good games made for PC/console that have gotten Android ports.

But if you have a SteamDeck you’d be better off just getting the PC versions.

The only game specifically made for mobile I’ve ever found to be good is Pixel Dungeon and specifically the Shattered fork.

Friend of mine in high school was super into Star Wars Galaxy. Was pretty much all he did after school at the time. One day he got into an argument with his guild leader or some other member with thw power to remove him, and they kicked him from the guild. This pissed him off enough that he recruited another friend of ours to infiltrate the guild and then spent the next month or so getting to a position of power within it so they could re-add the original friend and kick everyone else out while also draining the guild coffers. Effectively destroying the entire guild.

I’m curious what you mean by this.

Netflix only went the way it did because they were liscensing shows and movies from other publishers/studios who could have, and finally did, take their shit back and start their own subscription service.

It’s not just Netflix that sucks now; it’s the whole of legit streaming video services becoming what cable was that got Netflix popular to begin with.

This is unlikely to happen with Steam, given that competitors are already trying to do what they can similarly and it has yet to actually do anything.

So I basically started using it the year it was made. I am 40 now, and I was about 10 when I originally found it. Cool.

I remember spending hours printing an entire walkthrough for Secret of Mana on my dot matrix printer back in the day. Got me all the way through to the final boss; but then the SNES itself died mid battle. 😩

The new Silent Hill 2.

The use of DLSS makes it look like a fugly, smudged mess unless you’re totally motionless. The combat is inconsistent; hit a monster, it gets stunned but then jankily cancels the stun animation to grab you or attack through your attack so it hits you but you don’t hit it.

Not sure what is better than the original other than the graphics when standing still. Even the voice acting is the same not good delivery as the OG, despite having been re-done.