people are going through that much effort to build a steam controller? maybe i should auction mine instead of having it gather dust… 😅

on windows its pretty much required by most software every time it does an update…

on linux people login as root all the time because they’re too lazy to sudo… or because they messed up file permissions somewhere once…

it’s called half life alyx…

It was included in both, but it was in 95 first 😅

that pinball game from Windows 7

I think you mean from Windows 95…

to be fair, GTAV has the worst story, the main appeal of the game is not the story at all. I think I skipped most of the cutscenes when I played it.

you seem to spend a long time playing games you don’t like 😅

for an explanation of why people love botw: https://youtu.be/CZzcVs8tNfE

I completely agree about rdr2, but I didn’t play it that long before I just installed mods to let me duck around more and explore the beautiful world.

games i don’t like that everyone seems to love: games that waste my time with levelling systems that draw the game out way longer than it’s fun, which is most modern AAA games. I hate how people say things like “you get your moneys worth playing WoW because you’ll spend hours playing it” and “i liked portal but it was too short”, portal was good partly because it was short…

Probably helps that it’s a mod: so it’s not making them any money anyway 😅

I don’t know what’s so impressive about the water, looks the same as water in every other 3D game from 1998?

I think Wave Race 64 had the best water on N64 iirc.

I also think MGS on PS1 had more impressive water.

Also Redline Racer on PC had quite impressive water for the time, but yeah, was PC, so not really a fair comparison 😅

Same is true of any software these days, not just cracks…

One problem with that idea is Konami stock price is way more than I’d consider paying for the game 😅

If you’re gonna stretch the definition of parry that far you may as well count Pong.

They should release a dedicated server for people to run themselves…

Nah im pretty sure my pc cooling fans are a bit louder than my ps5 ones, and they’re not that high pitched.

I think I probably have a similar average on my 18 yr old account, except the only microtransactions on my account are credits from selling any hats, skins and duplicate weapons I unlocked for free in TF2 and CS 😅

I don’t get why they test it with half life 2. Almost all those examples look better with what they’re demonstrating turned off, and it already had really good lighting for the most part, so the difference that RTX adds is very subtle.

They should focus on building support for more games that had simpler real-time lighting instead of leaving of leaving it to the community. I tried using thier tools with Far Cry 1 and it was far too complicated and janky to get working.

The “huntsman” bow and arrow for the sniper in TF2.

Sorry I accidently insulted your mother or something 😅

Probably just a case of the corporate lawyers haven’t noticed those ones yet.

Also this is just source code, not the assets (at least as far as I understand it).

Could probably just require the official game to be installed too and load the assets from that directory, or might even be able to use the shared folder, but not sure if tf2 uses that, i remember l4d and css and hl2 used to.

I’ve not played harvest moon, but I found stardew valley and animal crossing a bit tedious… I guess people mean games that have a lot of small low stress tasks that don’t require much risk taking?

Loosely: Games that make you feel cozy.

I’ve never noticed a game having that effect personally 😅

I always thought of the word cozy as describing your physical comfort level as opposed to mental 🤔

Can someone explain what is a “cozy” game?

Lack of load times? Were you fooled by the controller flying through a portal animation? I guess it might be slightly shorter than the Mario Odyssey load times? I don’t remember, I haven’t played Odyssey again since it was released.

Depending on the game, not necessarily a good thing… I’d imagine it would be bad in fighting games, although probably better than what some of them currently have, and would probably be good in games where players behave a bit more consistently such as FPS or racing games.

I haven’t seen every studio ghibli movie, but I thought the boy and the heron was pretty good: I liked it a lot more than whisper of the heart for example, but not as much as princess monoko, spirited away, my neighbour totoro, or howls moving castle.

I thought it was about on par with Ponyo.

Are there any you’d recommend that are better apart from those?

That’s what I was implying with the elipses, I just couldn’t be bothered writing all that 😅

They tried to make the handheld experience better in windows 8… 🤣

They’ll make that into a tv show 10 years later.

That’s pretty much just any FPS from before 2010ish, with a few exceptions where it wasn’t purely an FPS and made sense for the games design such as bioshock and deus ex.

It’s the diminishing returns on additional processing power enabling them to look better, e.g. instead of unlocking entirely new effects that were obviously missing from games before, they’re just getting slightly more accurate. Also gpu prices inflated by crypto and AI mean top of the line gpus are less available in both PC and consoles, so it’s not worth it to develop a game that mainly targets top end hardware.

Thier games are pretty good.

https://leminal.space/comment/12539110

I used to have about 4000 hours logged in tf2 and counter strike source, but they dropped thier playtime database at some point since then 😅 so now my top one is rocket league at around 600 hours

Oni still had better hand to hand combat gameplay than all of those games though 😅

I think living in a place or situation that’s more difficult plays a role, it’s a lot easier to be kind when everyone around you is kind too.

To be clear I did meet some nice people when I visited Russia briefly, there are horrible people everywhere, not just in Russia 😅

Streamers kinda brings that connection back

In a parasocial kinda way…?

One of the devs stream ids from the decompiled code:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/55846295727582/

Why am I not surprised that they’re Russian 😅

The competition might not be real right now, but they’re smart enough to know it’ll eventually catch up if they don’t stay one step ahead.