Capitalism.

That’s why.

No need to read articles.

I still have mine from launch. Played it yesterday. Get on board. This thing is amazing.

I use both very often. Especially as a custom menu for emulator settings, or in older PC games or games with a lot of Keyboard/Mouse controls, they help me make things far more comfortable with various custom popup menus, or sometimes jumping to a mouse region to select UI options while playing. They are also helpful for games with horrid controls/hotkeys that won’t fitnon a traditional amount of controller buttons. They also help with mouse precision when an analog stick won’t do.

I also use the back buttons a lot. I use the entire Steam Deck and the custom controller settings are basically a necessity.

No touchpads?

Note it says work on, not finish.

All I can think of is Nintendo trying to sue this post or something.

The Bethesda remake is supposedly using some Frankenstein of the original engine shoved into unreal. It’ll suck.

Though in their defense, it’s not being done by Bethesda at all. It’s being done by some studio who has mainly only done support work for other studios bigger games. I think called Virtuoso?

A long time ago, I read one of their developers say you require the original games since the mod is specifically designed not to re-provide you with any copyright material from either game, and in fact I think it’ll look for and use the files you have like any other mod.

This was done on purpose so they can never worry about being shut down or sued if they ensure they never wrongly re-use or provide copyrighted materials. Probably a smart move for such a massive undertaking.

“If they make me angry, I will pirate, unless I don’t.”

But why should I trust this particular pilot?

I, too, own honey. I got it locally. Should I throw it out?

Finally playing Battlefield 1 and Battlefront 1, cause $3 is a good price to wait for. Only for the single player. I don’t care about multi-player. Streamed from my PC to Steam Deck is great.

In the years since its release, and developer Ensemble Games’ closure

Because Microsoft is run by morons.

Also Sony shut Zipper Interactive around this time. Just idiotic companies shutting down some of the best game studios we had.

Okay but why fuck PayPal.

The year isn’t over. Playstation does this too. Are they stupid?

I’ve been waiting for this to ever be cheap enough. I guess good riddance.

Bring back Far Cry 2 you cowards!

You set out to accomplish something and everything goes wrong.

Also Far Cry 5 is the worst entry, overrated, and Far Cry 6 is overhated.

I still use Steam Link for that. The little physical box. They still support it.

I have played every Far Cry since the first. In my opinion FC5 is the worst. Boring setting. Far more mundane and repetitive than the others. The forced kidnappings were annoying. The ending was meh. I think FC6 was a refreshing change.

Personally Far Cry Blood Dragon is the best overall. The Vietnam DLC for FC5 is also excellent, even though short. FC4 is also great, and has a truly unique setting and was a lotnof fun with the gyro copter and Yeti. FC3 is good and fun, but it’s overrated.

FC2 I think is the best FC in a spiritual sense. For all its flaws, it truly set out to implement a unique concept the other FC’s have forgotten… that is you set out to accomplish something and everything will go wrong. You were supposed to be frustrated and overthink things. The setting was cool, the story was effed up, and the buddy system was kinda neat.

All Far Cry’s suffer from underdelivering on the story. So much potential with the villains, yet barely seen. People who brag about how cool Vaas is seem to forget you only see him like 3 times, he’s gone by like mid-game, and he wasn’t even the main villain.

I am shocked the lifespan EU4 has. I played hundreds of hours of it on my (melting) laptop in college a decade ago. I’d let it run a bit while studying in the library, and kind of make slow moves and changes between studying things.

Heh. I love Ys, and yet EVERY SINGLE TIME I am initially disappointed, and I have to stick with it, and it eventually gets insanely good.

Just how Ys games are I guess. With Ys X I went into it knowing this and really overlooked a lot and told myself to ignore my criticisms cause I’ve been through this rodeo like 6 times now. 50 hours in, yeah it’s awesome. The story especially.

I don’t hate Monstrum Nox like so many do. It’s refreshing they will always try wildly different things.

They’ll fuck it up.

Fuck Sony. It’ll be garbage and they’ll do something moronic with it like most of their decision making the last 15 years.

Vita owners will complain about memory cards, but they overblow that issue. It was a bit of an issue. THE issue was Sony forgot they had a handheld. They quit really giving a shit about it after only a year or two. They barely pushed it or pushed for games on it.

The memory card complaints are just lemmings. The issue was bigger than that.

Every company everywhere is doing that. There are ways to limit things and be okay with it.

If companies using your data and pushing gambling bothers you, go live off the grid.

As a long time Steam user, while I still really like Steam and think it’s the more consumer friendly platform, it has devolved greatly. Especially discussion forums are nearly no different than reddit toxicity where people exhibit their worst behaviors. I miss the legitimate discussions and love for specific games. Now it’s mostly complaining and complete disregard for developers being humans.

The flood of garbage games has also been fairly obvious over the last decade. Some filters on your account handle a lot of this at least for the adult ones, but not all of it. It reminds me of the Wii shovelware era, but far worse.

BUT I would remind the Senator they STILL don’t even have a fucking budget passed for this fiscal year we are already a month and a half into and they oughta stay in their lane and do their first basic god damn job before pointing at the supposed failures of others.

Elder Scrolls Online, as long as you find a good group of friends.

I also nearly have 1000 hours in MGSV Phantom Pain.

Who’s a good game? Yes you are! Yes you are!

Saw a bunch in the store. Seems plenty available. Interesting.

Mine play the heck out of the Wii U and the DS. I still am occasionally acquiring and playing a new Vita game almost yearly.

I now play my Steam Deck most of the time and the PS5 hardly gets touched.

I 100% the PS3 one plus DLC. I then 100% the remake plus the new DLC on PS4. I love the game. It’s just fun. It has flaws, but I like the flaws.

I’ll probably do it a 3rd time eventually on Steam Deck.

A lot of Ys games. Certain Metal Gear games in a way have NG+ with carryover stuff.

More games need a solid NG+ that feels fun and rewarding.

An expense or purchase is not an investment.

It’s nice to see, but just some initial fooling around leaves more to be desired. There’s basic ease of use things that other recording systems have had for years that it seems to lack. Such as a quick and easy way to just say “save the last x minutes.”

No, you can either record far more than necessary and drop pins for later, or you can specify when to start and stop (as if you know when somethings coming up), or apparently grab only the last 10 seconds in a quick clip.

I prefer to save recent funny things, but sometimes they are varying time lengths. So it’s a tad disappointing, but it’s pretty cool for a start.

Also it’s already crashed my Steam Deck once within like 10 minutes of fooling around with it.

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

At some point, you need to let your art be what it is.

They redid her face, tons of lighting across the gameworld, and re-recorded tons of voice acting. I think maybe they also redid some motion capture. The original faces and animations were memorably pretty awkward. I read a bit from a developer suggesting they learned lots about what they would have done differently, so they did that.

As a huge fan of the original though, I’m hesitant to ever touch this since they changed so much. It’ll feel like some ripoff or something. I find the original a gem, with flaws and all. Every game has flaws, and that’s okay.

It feels like those creators who can’t just leave their music or movies as it was and keep fucking with it.

You still have Forza, Forza Horizon, Gran Turismo, Wreckfest, F1, WRC, Need for Speed, Assetto Corsa, iRacing, MotoGP, Monster Energy Supercross, Hot Wheels Unleashed, NASCAR, and Lego 2k Drive just to name a few that have current or recent releases and are great and fill a wide variety of needs for racing.

Even Project Cars, The Crew, and Dirt had recent solid entries in the last decade that are still good today, and some obscure Saturday night local track style racing games like World of Outlaws, SRX, and various Tony Stewart dirt racing games have been released in the last 5-10 years.

There’s also remakes like Burnout happening.

There’s tons of racing games.

The Last of Us was released for the PS3 in June 2013.

The Last of Us Remastered was released for the PS4 in July 2014.

This game worked naturally on Steam Deck at launch. One of the first patches broke it. I don’t want to go into beta mode or other tinkering to make it work. Disappointing.