Quoting: GuestThis is so stupid... Just reveal it already. Or don't talk about it at all until the games are released and we can buy them. What is the point of polluting our social media with vague stuff with no solid info?

It's called Kiting. And when it works -- "you have been kited"

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I had 4x Xbox 360 controllers.

I have 4 Xbox One S controllers
4 DualShock 4 Controllers
and 2 Steam Controllers

Steam Controllers are good in very specific niche use-cases like when you want your controller to "just work" with no configuration.
The battery is excellent.
The range is good.
I am salty about not having a 2nd thumbstick for my FPS games.

The DualShock 4 controllers have terrible bluetooth range, I don't know why.
Also the battery on them isn't very good, it discharges too easily and modding them for a larger battery causes other problems.

The Xbox One controller feels great and works great but requires a Mini USB cable to work good.
The battery is fine but It's AA and not rechargeable.
The thumbsticks are more loose than the Xbox 360 IMO.
The old version triggers were absolute trash.
I think they are on v3 now.
It doens't work on Bluetooth IIRC at all yet but there is a bounty.

The Xbox 360 Controllers I used to have were battery powered.
They were the most reliable out of all controllers and had excellent range and good battery life -- though AA.
The most anoying thing was they were not Bluetooth and had a big ackward dongle you had to plug in in addition to your other USB devices -- this lead to me buying newer controllers and encountering the problems listed above.
It was a good run, but I was done.

Anyways, hope that info helps some people in the community who are unsure about the situation.

Maybe the new DS4v2+ newest version with the vertical line light is better. Personally I like the beauty and light weight of the symetry.

Steam Controller's best feature is the 6 triggers by far.

The ABXY buttons are fucking small -- very annoying.
The D-Pad imprint is annoying -- I wish it was unimprinted in the left circle touchpad. Also I wish there was another version that had 2 joysticks or that the touchpads were physically detachable to replace with joysticks as needed.

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Quoting: HadBabitsGood stuff :) You can't stop piracy, but you can preserve history for future generations; and not just the titles the publishers deem 'worthy' of a $60 remaster.

Fuck piracy & devs who get buttshy and agressive with emulators. If I want to take my damn console disk and shove it into my computer or turn it into an ISO to play from my SSD that's my business.

The majority of people are obviously not intelligent enough to know how to pirate, not perseveranct enough to figure out how to make it work with X emulator bug, etc... and if I want to buy old used games from ebay or my local game shop -- I am buying the rights to use that product.

For games that just work on emulators, I fucking guarantee you that for N64 that games like Ocarina of Time wouldn't be nearly as big or even have had the market to create a 3DS Remaster without the pirate market considering the fans would have been LONG GONE.

In the same way that it's said that Microsoft and Adobe would prefer people to pirate their products (non business users) instead of going with a competitor, there is future financial benefit created by people who use those products even if obtained illegally.

This comment is from a Scientific Economic, Social Behavioral & Market perspectives, not the legal or moral.

Fearful devs just need to let it go and not be run by fear. That's what makes them create such shitty products like Star Wars Episodes 1-3, when the fear of doing new things will loose money the product turns to shit fast.

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This reminded me of the Nintendo Switch Emulator YUZU
https://yuzu-emu.org/ [External Link]

I was confusing Citra with another popular emulator, but one that's Windows only. I am wondering how YUZU has been coming along since it's the open source version.

Hopefully these all make their way into RetroArch someday.

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Normally I would just say no, but for $1 I could add Crazy Taxi which goes back to Sega Dreamcast to my Steam Machine for TV play, that's a pretty decent throwback.

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Looks like the audience is people who want to do LSD.

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I heard some people who buy it go in having expectations of it being like other racers. I don't think it is at all.

It's basically neon lights racing with techno music and some really awesome challenges. I might even call it a puzzle racer however the hell that is possible I odn't know.

Still, 10/10 would buy again.

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I'd be curious to see if any games decide to bootstrap DXVK or similar without wine directly into their game / engine. I am curious if it would make porting easier, or even be a functional idea to porting to Linux.

Most people on Linux are pretty BIG on maintaining as much control as possible -- programming is no different -- why license and deploy proprietary dependencies when a in-house alternative can be a better fit.

In web programming it's pretty much the same -- why include 100 different javascript libraries with conflicting dependencies written by some dude across the planet and unsupported when you can just go minimal and maintain as much project control and independence.

A good example is there used to be a WordPress plugin -- NextGEN Gallery, that got sold and bought, and come version 2.0, the JSON API completely changed thereby ruining weeks of work due to API version incompatibility.

These are the kinds of problems you get when you rely on other people's software. Being Store Agnostic is a pretty smart move.

/rant

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Gonna follow this.

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Valve has the highest profit % per employee out of any company in the US.

They should jump on this and get him in a passionate place making improvements to the whole.

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