Good.

Nothing against Portal 2, but Stardew Valley just offers so much more for so much longer

I honestly wish the Dualsense took AAs. I’ve really grown to appreciate how Xbox controllers have always been two AA. Making a small investment in a bunch of Eneloop batteries and chargers is SO worth it.

Thank you so much for these! Exactly what I had been curious about <3

NICE. I may have to go order one of these right now.

That just looks like you must bind the new back buttons as duplicates of other regular buttons tho, what if I want a back button to be presented to a game as a brand new, unique button

So over bluetooth or (i assume) 2.4ghz it supports more buttons than playstation/xbox, works with analog triggers, AND supports gyro?

That’s a feature set I’ve been really desperate for! And I really liked my 8bitdo Ultimate (1) Bluetooth until my puppy chewed it up. I might need this new one!

can they be unique buttons though? I thought they had to be copies of existing buttons, or macros or something.

The steam controller takes AA batteries. Doesn’t get much more “standard size” than AA.

Curtailing developer choice is rather the point, no?

Ff16 combat is fun as hell. And FF7 remake/rebirth too. I’m sure I still would have enjoyed both games if they were turn based, as I enjoyed the original FF7 and FF8 back in the day, but I really don’t get the hate for the realtime combat. It’s tight and polished and fun.

As long as they never again include the

arcade/mini game that one of the physical releases had back in the day, and ideally fucking apologize for that shit, cool and I hope it goes well. Apart from that inexcusable bullshit, I’m a huge fan of Postal 2

I don’t have a Wear OS watch. Can’t run software on a spring and gears.

Tokyo Jungle, YES!

A game so sadly lost to time. My partner’s PS3 still has it installed, but no idea if the hard drive is still functional…

you’re absolutely right about the rush when everything is on the line.

my most memorable moment was at night, pitch black out, and there’s some idiot kid screaming about Shrek running around outside. I had a pipe shotgun and a small bunch of resources, and I was hiding in my tiny 1x1 shack.

that was the scariest shit on earth. and when he came knocking on my door asking me some shit about Shrek it gave me a few seconds to line up the shot through the door, so I quickly opened it and fired. immediately the yelling about Shrek ceased and I was left with complete silence and darkness.

Monster Sanctuary was so good. I tried it when I had Game Pass, and I loved it so much I bought it outright for Xbox, and then again on Steam. Also got the hardcover monster journal.

Aethermancer, made by the same folks, is looking really good from their demo. Clearly lots of inspiration from Monster Sanctuary but very much its own sort of game

Monster Sanctuary. A superbly polished, extremely fun, and decently challenging metroidvania and monster collecting/battling game. If you played the first few Pokemon generations on gameboy and don’t find the newer games capture that same magic, check out Monster Sanctuary!

Pacific Drive. A station wagon building amd exploration game set in a STALKER-esque Pacific Northwest in the Olympic mountain range. Extremely original and unique game, and with an excellent soundtrack.

Hardspace Shipbreaker: spaceship salvage, with increasing hazards and challenges and complexity of ship systems to expertly disassemble. With a pretty cool workers’ solidarity and union struggle type of plot.

Rimworld. Hundreds of hours lost.

Stardew Valley. A literally perfect game.

Terraria. Also a literally perfect game.

Caves of Qud. Like if Dwarf Fortress adventure mode was actually polished, and also if distant future scifi with mutants and cybernetics and sentient plants and sapient gun turrets.

Dwarf Fortress. It’s Dwarf Fortress.

WolfQuest. Wolf simulator set in Yellowstone, with a focus on real world accuracy. So cool to raise a pack and manage territory and hunt and explore and howl a lot

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. A brilliantly executed spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future.

Descenders. Crazy fun downhill bicycling game.

+1 for Pacific Drive. Nothing else like it out there. And you get to form a relationship with a station wagon, which is peak passenger vehicle design.

And the soundtrack is outstanding!

I still got lost enough that I’ve never finished the base game

Half Life 2 for me

their legal action against emulators and DRM circumvention. they have the audacity of allowing people to play their games which were legally purchased on unapproved hardware.

And you’ll be sued by Nintendo into lifelong poverty if you use it wrong.

Fuck Nintendo.

yeah but people who buy this next xbox shouldn’t have to jump through those hoops to play a game they purchased (a license to) on compatible hardware

I hope Valve blocks this block

yeah seriously! if I can’t get a footjob from a dragon type what’s even the point?

Link doesn’t work, but I have an NH-D15 so I definitely know what’s up! Had to slide one of the fans outwards a little because the RAM sticks interfere with the space, but yeah it’s been rock solid for me

Same, I RMAed the same Corsair AIO twice, never bothered installing the third one, just got a Noctua instead and I’ll never bother with liquid cooling ever again.

This dude is so fucking based

And his followup video is great too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yentXt8qVvs

Probably Morrowind.

Properly distinct beast races, freedom to fuck up the world, really rewarding exploration, awesome scenery and concepts, great soundtrack, you can free slaves, and Argonians have never looked better overall.

Second place, probably Red Dead Redemption 2. Every single aspect of that game is outstanding. The pacing, the story, the characters, the combat, the exploration, the horse genitals, the music, the graphics, the massive scale of the world… Just truly a masterpiece of a game, and I think Rockstar will never surpass it.

Honorable mentions for Caves of Qud, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7 (original AND remake/rebirth) and Starflight (mostly played on C64 but Genesis/Megadrive version is far better)

Oh, fuck, and Silent Hill 2, that’s somewhere in the top three. Both original and remake. Fucking exceptional works of art.

I can’t beat Genichiro Ashina, but I think I’m going at him too early, but damnit I should still be able to!

I’m not quite that far yet

FF16 is at least advanced medieval fantasy setting

I’ve played 7, 8, 7 Remake and Rebirth, and 16. I love each and every one of them.

16 can be tough sometimes just with how much cruelty exists in the world that the game is set in. Otherwise I find it quite excellent. The combat is really fun and varied, music is really good, characters are deep and complicated, visual design and graphics are really really good.

7 Remake and Rebirth are outstanding. I just put 150 hours into Rebirth since it launched recently on PC. I played the original back in the day and loved it back then, the nostalgia that remake and rebirth give me is like a highly refined illicit drug and it’s great. Nanaki and Cosmo Canyon are some of my most beloved gaming memories ever.

I barely remember 8 but I played it a ton as a teenager, still have a bunch of music from it (great salt lake music still sends chills down my spine!)

Why? The hardware security is good

Good thing Gran Turismo 7 has nothing except a stupid car rhythm game to enjoy offline…

Not me. I think it’s insane to ship a PS5 game that performs that poorly even on non-“pro” consoles

I played it. It was enjoyable enough. It’s certainly not the best Wolfenstein, but just because it’s less good than the others doesn’t make it BAD.

Dunno what you’re referring to?

Just because it’s the least good Wolfenstein doesn’t make it BAD. It was still quite a lot of fun to me.

I loved the way that little discovery wrapped up. His body burned real good.

I hogtied him in front of everyone, put him on the back of my horse, rode up to a swamp, and threw him in right in front of a gator

Good times