Quoting: audiopathikThe Eternal Cylinder […]
High quality voiceover, surreal, reminding of Alice in Wonderland, fun.

Funnily enough, I was playing the board game Wonderland Wars last night and one of my friends launched into a recitation of "Jabberwocky [External Link]", and the first stanza instantly made me think of The Eternal Cylinder and felt like it could be describing it:

Quoting: Lewis Carroll'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Quoting: AnzaI haven't finished the demo yet, but the world building really is something special here. Everything is just right amount of weird and alien. I guess only thing can go wrong with full game if it can't bring something fresh now and then until the end of the game.

I watched a full playthrough when it released last year on the Epic store (and I'm still interested enough to buy it myself, for what it's worth), and as I recall it generally did a good job of introducing new stuff pretty much all the way through. Eventually you run out of new mutations, but you start unlocking the ability to manifest them at will, which is pretty handy. (Well, Trebhums don't have hands, but… :grin:)

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Well, this seems neat, bio-modding colonists and all that—

• Actually useful shelves that store lots of stuff.

😳

10/10, must-buy expansion! :grin:

(For real though, the gene-editing sounds amazing, and I can't wait to see what modders do with all the new systems.)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy"Quick, get ready, another monster is coming!"
"Ack, give me a minute, I'm rewinding!"

"Be kind, rewind" takes on a whole new meaning in this world…

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After saying how short the Potionomics demo was, I would be remiss not to mention that I've already spent 2.5 hours in the demo for The Eternal Cylinder and I still haven't reached the end (though I suspect I'm getting close). I've played entire games in less time than that! :shock:

Edit: finally finished the demo after 3.9 hours. Granted I'm not playing as fast as possible and it could certainly be done a bit quicker, but still!

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Quoting: peta77Why did they add a PSU with the dock? Especially if it's the same that comes with the deck? Should be an option. I don't need another one just lying around with no use at all. Would also make it cheaper because a hundred euro is really a lot for that thing...

I'm guessing they're expecting that the Dock will sit around somewhere "permanently" with a dedicated power supply, while you might want to bring a second power supply with you if take the Deck on a trip somewhere. How useful any given person will find that depends on their tolerance of plugging and unplugging cables (I tend towards the lazy side) and where the Dock/power outlet are, I suppose. But I suspect there'd be an outcry about Valve price-gouging if it didn't come with one by default. ("They expect me to pay $75 for the Dock and an extra $14 for the charger‽")

Quoting: Purple Library GuyEveryone's talking about the dock, but I think it's pretty significant that we've reached the new stage with the deck itself, where people can just buy it instead of signing up for a waiting list. I do think that there are people who don't have that "Oooh, sign up and wait eagerly" enthusiasm who might buy now. It is also now possible to impulse-buy a Steam Deck. Or to buy one for somebody's birthday or anniversary with some confidence that it might arrive at the time you want it to.

Actually, that's a good point, can you finally buy one without needing a second Steam account to reserve it? Because, yeah, even if I were inclined to buy one as a gift before I'm not going to go out and make a second throwaway account for it. Now I can just buy one. (I probably won't. But I could.)

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For those using custom boot videos, note near the end of the update that the directory for putting them in has changed. (The beta update patch notes actually say "Sorry for changing this". :happy:)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PhiladelphusThe Eternal Cylinder [External Link]

That looks weird and interesting. Might have to get it.

It came out on the Epic store last year and I watched a playthrough then, so that's an option if you want to know a bit more about it before deciding.

Quoting: SalvatosThe demo of Potionomics was disappointingly short. It doesn’t show you much more than you would see in a 2- or 3-minute gameplay preview video.

It definitely felt short, though Steam says I spent 33 minutes playing it. That said, it did a good job of introducing the main mechanics and some of the characters and left me wanting more (which I guess is better than outstaying its welcome). I found the card-based haggling mechanic interesting, especially after getting into Slay the Spire a few months ago. Though I hope they get the optimization down a little better, while the animation is great and the artwork is nice it doesn't feel like it should need the frequent 3–4 second load screens it has between areas, and it seemed to hitch a bit early on, presumably while compiling shaders.

Quoting: Valck

Quoting: PhiladelphusServants that look like fusions of man and machine that you'd find in Bosch. It's really something.

I take it you're not talking about Bosch the appliance maker ;)
Nice, will at least have to have a look.

For a second there I was really worried I'd misspelled Hieronymus Bosch [External Link]'s name from memory. :smile: But yeah, some of the cylinder's servants would be right at home in the "Hell" panel of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (direct link not working, but you can see on his Wikipedia page linked above).

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Ooo, Potionomics [External Link]* and The Eternal Cylinder [External Link]** both have demos out before they release in the next few months! Looks like I know what I'm doing with my evenings this week!

* A shop-running sim where you make and sell potions, but the selling is done using an interesting card-based bartering system.

* A…an…uh, you kind of have to see this one for yourself, but you get to play as adorable little creatures called Trebhums which can mutate based on what they eat to get different powers. Oh, and they're outrunning an infinite cylinder squashing their world flat, with Servants that look like fusions of man and machine that you'd find in Bosch. It's really something.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNot that I've been playing any of these games on the Deck lately. Just wanted to shout out how awesome the Deck is. Some old systems, like the PSP, didn't have all that many buttons on it. So as I'm playing Untold Legends, I got frustrated enough that to block you have to hold down the right bumper and press circle... so I took the Input and made L4 press both buttons for me. It's brilliant! I did something similar with Dark Alliance, making the weapon and spell changing buttons be assigned to the four underneath so I wouldn't have to take my thumb off of the stick to switch those.

I haven't had much use for the back buttons yet due to the games I play on the Deck not really needing them (I even disabled them for Slay the Spire because I kept accidentally hitting the "end my turn" button prematurely), but I recently tried Plague Inc. and the back buttons are used very well in the default configuration. Hopefully as I get more used to the controls in general (this is the first non-keyboard-and-mouse controller I've actually owned) I'll be able to put them to use in more games. :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Philadelphusit would probably sound cacophonic. :grin:

As I recall, he played a lyre, not a trombone. :grin:

Wait, you're telling me trombones aren't just modern lyres?!? :shock:

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