Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck."
That’s too bad, but perhaps it’s not a game changing amount of uplift yet.
That said, they didn’t say anything about other products, so I wonder if we’ll see it in another form factor, like a standalone VR headset.
I highly recommend not using SteamOS on your PC, unless it’s literally used as a console. Use any major distro instead.
their worlds are getting so big that Rockstar just can’t make enough content to fill them the way they used to
I really hope GTA VI is smaller than GTA V. I really don’t see the point of a bigger world if it doesn’t add to the fun. But maybe it makes sense for the online version, since players have more places to go, but surely they could have added online-exclusive areas instead (maybe they did? I never played online).
A bigger world isn’t a selling point for me, it’s more of a liability.
I felt GTA IV’s “emptiness” was totally fitting for the story though. Niko was all alone in a massive city, so it makes sense that he’d only know a handful of places to go. It felt like a big city you could easily get lost in, with a few major roads that helped you figure out where you were.
GTA V, however, had no such excuse. The MCs were all natives to the area, all involved in the criminal underworld in different ways, and yet there’s still nothing to do. I expected Franklin to do something gang or car theft related other than a handful of missions, Michael to have more heists and equipment hookups, and Trevor to have some fun drug-related minigames. But no, the side content for each was underwhelming.
Honestly, I found most of Los Santos in GTA V pretty boring. Everything interesting is super spread out, and I don’t know what these “things to do” people keep talking about are, and the minigames that exist are honestly pretty boring. GTA SA Los Santos is fantastic, with fun things around every corner. GTA IV Liberty City is the same. But GTA V just doesn’t have much to do for how big it is. I much preferred messing around in SA or IV than V.
I honestly only finished it because I was tired of coming back to it expecting a different experience due to the hype it got. Maybe the issue is that I never played online (never cared), or maybe I’m just not the target for it.
That said, I completely respect this person for going so in-depth. I don’t care enough to install the game, but I might boot it up for 15 min to find a couple of these spots if I had it installed already.
Exactly. Some games are good fits for multiplayer, like Rocket League. And even then, I still like playing offline local MP with bots.
Exactly. It’s also part of why I’m a patient gamer. If a game has a good single player experience, someone will still recommend it after the MP hype dies down. I’m here for story and gameplay, not competition and the meta.
My only concession here is TCGs, and I only play draft events. And even those are getting ruined by people developing the meta with pre-release info.
I’ve only refunded one game, and that’s because it literally went into a bundle the next week, where the bundle was half the game’s sale price. And even then, I still feel kinda bad about it.
The game becoming free is a good thing and in no way changes the value for people who already bought it.
Same, but with Rocket League.
But do you have all the DLC? Do you have it on both GOG and Steam?
rocket league
Cool. I stopped following it since Epic bought it, and it showed up as “Broken” on “are we anticheat yet.” Glad to know “broken” isn’t totally reliable.
Yes, many anti-cheat systems can work if the developer opts-in to Linux support, but the fact remains that many MP games don’t work. From this list, starting from “best”, here are the ones that don’t work (according to are we anticheat yet):
That list is a little weird, but it popped up high in search results. Here are a few more that didn’t make the list for whatever reason that have high playership (from steamdb):
There are a ton that do work, but if you play one or more of the above games, Linux isn’t going to be a good option for you. Many of those could work if the devs flipped a switch on their build, but the fact remains that they don’t.
Linux is absolutely the best platform for gaming now, not Windows.
While I agree on net, I don’t think most people would by the simple fact that many of the most popular MP games simply don’t work on Linux because they have Windows-only anti-cheat. That’s not an OS problem since the devs could in many cases easily support it, but it is a problem that needs to be considered when discussing Linux for gaming.
Exactly. Steam’s main competitors:
Except EGS, all of them sell their games on Steam, and Steam completely dominates PC gaming. They don’t have any exclusives other than the handful of Valve-developed games, they don’t bribe players with free games (and their sales are rarely the best), and the only hardware they make is open to direct competition if competitors bother to make a client for it (and users can play non-Steam games through Steam as well).
The only “bad” thing Steam does is charge a 30% fee, but they also let devs sidestep that through selling free Steam keys on other stores (or directly). Valve isn’t the villain here, and they’re arguable the least bad in their industry, except maybe GOG, but their DRM-free stance has less weight due to Steam’s good policies and superior customer support.
Exactly. The main problems are two-fold:
I don’t have a problem with paid cosmetics, I have a problem with promoting gambling.
That said, I think Valve has done more good than bad, so I like them. I don’t like everything they do though.
Honestly, I think we hit that point about 10 years ago with the XBox 1 and PS4. Yeah, XBox Series and PS5 look better, but PS4 and XBox 1 still look great IMO.
Huh, my friends played a ton of PC games. Pretty much anyone into gaming had played Age of Empires, and most had at least heard of the other great RTS games (Command and Conquer, Warcraft 2, etc). Even games like Diablo II were quite popular. And then there was RuneScape that everyone played on the school/library computers, plus the abundance of flash games.
Consoles were also quite popular, and there was a lot fewer cross platform games. Pretty much everyone had a computer in the 90s and early 00s for homework and whatnot. PC was the common denominator, so it’s more likely that two people would have played the same game on PC than console.
The only thing niche about PC gaming was dedicated GPUs, since those were an added cost, and parents would prefer the console to the GPU (and consoles were multiplayer).
Fair criticism. I try to avoid using Link mode, but boss fights are so tedious without it.
That said, I actually prefer Echoes of Wisdom to BotW because it has actual dungeons again, but it does feel a bit lazy to drop into slashing and shooting.
? How so?
Valve didn’t prove Steam Machines, didn’t really market them, and game support wasn’t there, they just launched it with a promise to fix stuff.
They did the opposite with the Steam Deck, they proved the concept with their own hardware, they marketed them heavily, and they had a ton of games ready to go at launch.
They learned from the mistakes made with the Steam Machine.