Quoting: scaine

Quoting: xavi

Quoting: scaineI've just checked my list and I have around 12 of these articles currently planned out. Yep, they do take a while to do them justice, but when I find time, they're definitely getting written! Next one might be L4D2, but might be Hollow Knight... or something else. Not sure!

Thanks a lot for your article! and next one Hollow Knight, best game ever! :)

Haha - the problem with these articles, I've realised, is the format. If I do IYL... Hollow Knight, then the second section in that article is going to be "and here's a game even better!". Contentious stuff! I've just started the format for L4D2, but I might switch to Hollow Knight, given that Silksong is presumably pretty close to landing, even though it sounds like there's a delay!

You shouldn't let the format get into your way to the extend of not writing about games people (and you) love, though. If it saves the article, change the heading a bit.

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Quoting: 14What usually sells a console system to me is one main game I gotta have, and any others I want are bonuses. I wonder what that would be for the Ally? What game is the system seller? Fortnite?

Well, what game was it for millions of Steam Deck customers? In these cases it's more the form factor and that you already got many games before even owning the new "console". I guess.

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I lost overview a long time ago about all those compatibility layers, DXyonVK, VKonDXy, DXyonDXz, Zink, VkOnOGL, OGLonVK, idunno.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: TheRiddickStill cheaper to get a Steam Deck $399usd and upgrade SSD for $50-70 since NVME/SSD suitable are getting a lot cheaper now, its not so much of a expense.

Sure you miss the etched glass but honestly I don't think its worth it given basic LCD.

Quoting: EikeAs usual... Linux is just more user friendly! :D

No it's not, but that is not the issue. Linux can be much more customized and optimized for a handheld and doesn't have MS services and DRM baked in.

Valve technically own their spin of Linux via SteamOS and no other company can come along and go, hey lets insert some analytics here and a edge advertisement here, and weather app over there... lol

Linux is definitely more developer friendly. And I wouldn't say it's less or more user Friendly, all depends on the user!

But as you point out, you can customize and optimize it in a way you can't with Windows. If you watch LTT's latest review on the Ally you can tell a lot of the ways the Deck beats the Ally is definitely because it's optimized for that lower resolution and hardware of the Steam Deck, as like for like in resolution / settings, the Deck performs better.

Which video, this one?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qLVgr29NMA0 [External Link]

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Can we give the award for the most stupid abbreviation in open source of at least the century to this new "GPL"?

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Is this sort of a counterstrike(*) by Microsoft as well? ASUS cannot hand out game passes without an agreement with Microsoft, and MS could be interested in fighting that the PC handheld market is Linux dominated at the moment...

(*) Is it a global offensive already? :-D

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Quoting: KohlyKohlTouchpads are a must with these devices because they play PC games and are not setup like a console device with controller first support.

For me, playing mostly point and click, something to actually point and click feels vital. For others, this may not so much be the case.

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They do make a point that the initial experience with Windows 11 and ASUS Armoury Crate being a nuisance.

Quoting: const

The biggest negative is that the Ally lacks the Steam Deck’s (and the Switch’s) ability to suspend and resume a game at the touch of a button. This means that any time you want to stop playing for longer than a simple pause, you’ll need to save and quit out of your game entirely, and load up again fresh the next time you want to play. This is, of course, the standard way things go on desktop PCs

Damn, I'll keep my Deck for this alone :/

As usual... Linux is just more user friendly! :D

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: EikeI had one game, cannot remember which one, that had some... brown-and-black maybe? booklet that was supposed to not by copyable with the photocopy devices of the same age. I always wondered if that was really true.

Indy3?

I found SimCity...



https://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/copyprotection/simcity_large.jpg [External Link]

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Quoting: tuubiMonkey Island 1 and 2 had fancy cardboard dials or wheels. Or at least the Amiga versions did. A bunch of early Sierra adventures had stuff you needed to find in the manual. And of course plenty of C64 games had something like a colour code grid on the cassette inlay card. Things like these were pretty common throughout the eighties and early nineties.

I had one game, cannot remember which one, that had some... brown-and-black maybe? booklet that was supposed to not by copyable with the photocopy devices of the same age. I always wondered if that was really true.

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