The Deck’s controls. The Steam Controller was a bit too drastic of a change for me. It’s great for games not designed for a controller but having no D-pad and only a single analog stick is a deal breaker for most people who get a controller to play games designed for controllers.

Because there were still plenty of good games that came out after that?

I think the New 3DS had the best implementation. The swappable backplate were cool and provided easy but child safe access to the batteries behind 2 normal Phillips screws.

They added mod support to MS Store/Game Pass games ages ago. If locking it down like that was their intention they would’ve never even done that to begin with.

They’re also much better for local party games. That’s essentially what my Switch has become.

Compatibility for one. Also unpopular opinion here, but I actually like Windows and use it on my main desktop. So having everything run the same thing does add some conveniences. The only thing I really like about SteamOS right now is really just the battery life and the quick resume from sleep. If Windows gets those through this initiative, then I don’t really have any reason to stick with SteamOS.

I’m not sure if the price matters that much to the demographic. Their main target audience isn’t gonna consider a handheld gaming PC to begin with.

I think Black Ops 6 did a lot of really cool things for the story with a few open ended levels and a really cool segment in the middle won’t spoil. Story wise I think it is actually one of their better ones, it had the potential to be almost as good as Blops 1 if the ending wasn’t so rushed and failed to tie up the plot lines properly. I have a feeling it’s so that they could reuse the characters in Warzone which is a huge shame.

I would be interested if it also supported quick resume from sleep like the Deck does. Imo that’s the killer SteamOS feature that’s keeping Windows alternatives from being even a consideration.

Downloads are distributed via Discord.

Who the heck thought this was a good idea?

Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.

Like they did so the past few times which still led to this happening again?

Contrary to what Lemmy would like you to believe, some of us actually like using Windows. Is it annoying sometimes? Yes but Linux can also be really annoying and a pain. I’ve wasted days trying to get a GPU to show up properly among other smaller issues for work purposes. I’m not gonna even try to bother with it when I just want to get home and relax.

I’m willing to bet that the majority of people don’t really care about this. If they did, you’d see GoG do wildly better than Steam does. People like DRM and the convenience with having your library digitally available with the ease of installation, they just don’t like badly implemented DRM.

Yea I get that, just wanted to say that EA has the same issue too.

EA’s games that released on Steam after Origin was a thing still launch a mini EA launcher when you press Play on Steam, much like how Ubisoft’s does on Steam. That’s at least how it seems the last time I tried it with Fallen Order.

I’m still playing it and it’s still pretty fun. Seems to be a controversial take but I do like that they’re constantly changing mechanics since I don’t really take the game seriously.

Ubisoft always had such a team for AC at least. AC Origins had a pretty good story and AC Odyssey was alright. Haven’t finished or played the newer ones yet so I can’t judge those yet but if there’s one thing Ubisoft does right, it’s that.

Not nearly enough of them. Too many frameworks or libraries have their QnAs on Discord instead of a dedicated forum.

If Discord is going to be abandoned by people, I wish we’d go back to proper forums that’s much more accessible and searchable. Continuing down this road is just going to lead to the continued burying of useful information behind these services.

It’s god awful for any development discussion too. Used to be you could at least find someone taking about something on Stack Overflow even if it wasn’t solved, now it’s buried in Discord and you have no way of even searching it out to see if anyone has even had that problem before.

I’d take that any day over the unhinged AI focus from all these companies now or Google’s awful documentation from the past few years.

Unpopular opinion but I’m just using 11. I deal with enough problems with Linux at work and as hard as it is to believe, Windows just work and fits my workflow too well. Linux works great on my Steam Deck but the occasional weird quirks it has with certain games/launchers means I can’t use it as my main gaming platform, it’s only fine on the Deck because it has advantages for the form factor.

It’s so that’ it’s easier to perform directional actions. I personally like it from a usability standpoint.

Or get it second hand for cheap lol, it’s not a big deal to me at least.

You don’t have to use it. I for one am glad for this feature.

I can’t say I buy this fully. From a marketkng standpoint, it seems like a huge win: “Subscribe to game pass ultimate and you get thousands of games old and new, up by thousands from last year”. From a financial standpoint, running those emulators should be a lot less compute heavy than current games so it should be cheaper.

The only real issue I see here is legal. Licensing the rights to distribute the games via streaming for their entire back catalogue can’t be easy.

Bringing a ton of their games to PC and the PC game pass has been pretty great. Guess it’s not so nice if you’re on the consoles or Linux I guess.

I’m surprised you disliked Syndicate story yet adored Unity’s. Sure Syndicate’s story isn’t anything to write home about but I found it at least consistent and coherent. It’s a typical, evil mastermind needs to be taken down story. Is it amazing? Not really but it’s serviceable. Unity on the other hand, is… To be honest, I can’t even remember any parts of it other than Arno being a miserable prick for most of it.

Unity definitely had the much better gameplay though. Parkour, co-op, assassination missions and the beautiful rendition of Paris were all great.

There’s been reports of Valve looking at ARM for Proton actually but x86 chips keep getting better and more efficient. Not to mention Mali and Adreno are laughably bad compared to Radeon and Arc.

Have you played any games outside of those genres? There’s plenty of great modern games that are side scrollers. The idea that side scrollers are antiquated is frankly absurd. All that aside, Armoured Core, Yakuza, Street Fighter, Tekken and MH Wilds all look pretty good.

Also considering the power of a Switch, it seems like a no brainer that it would look like a PS3? It’s chipset is almost a decade old and operates at a fraction of the power of other platforms.

Depending on your luck, it’s not as bad as it seems. I was able to play fine on an 6950 XT except for one location that I only ever was in for 3 minutes or so. Didn’t even had to use any upscaling settings, played it native at 1440p and it was consistently above 90 FPS iirc.

It was way more fun than Fallen Order and I already thought Fallen Order was hella fun.

The Switch is a lot smaller and pocketable than those you described and is far better as a party game machine. It’s also much more widely available. I don’t think it’s so clear cut especially if people are getting it for their exclusives. Yea, you can emulate it but there’s a bit of work to get the ROMs and BIOS that the average lay person isn’t really comfortable with doing.

Are delays not good? It’s preferable to being broken on launch, not to say that it couldn’t be, but it’s likely that it would be more broken if not delayed.

Same, the Deck and all the other alternatives are way too big. There’s the Chinese companies but I can’t say that I trust them and certainly not their support if anything breaks.

You missed the part where Microsoft had better apps on Android and iOS during the W10M period. Satya never cared for Windows Phone once he became CEO.

Depends, I played Yakuza 8 with no issues ok launch and the newer stuff like the Ally haven’t had a significant jump in performance.

Seems like an unpopular opinion but I actually like the Far Cry formula. It’s the same gameplay loop with different maps and weapons and that’s all I really ask for because I know what I’m getting is something that I know I enjoyed and will enjoy. I don’t play Far Cry to experience some innovative gameplay, there’s other games I look to for that.

I already wasn’t a fan of the changes to Far Cry 6 and these changes don’t seem like a Far Cry game anymore so I’m a bit disappointed if these are true.

It’s really helpful as someone trying to learn a language since I can just use it to select words I don’t know and immediately translate them or look them up in a dictionary.

Bokura. This is a bit hard though since the Steam store page kind of spoils it but just get it and think of it as a cool short co-op puzzle platformer.