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Over 120 titles are now Steam Deck Verified
4 February 2022 at 5:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Guestisn't hitman one of those games that run better with proton even on windows? lol
Yep the game has a long-standing bug where it crashes on windows thanks to nvidia driver shenanigans but playing with DXVK fixes it. Someone even made a nice GUI to install DXVK easily

Death Stranding absolutely sold me and you should play it
22 December 2021 at 9:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheSHEEEP
Quoting: Mar2ckthe act of traversing the world is fun and challenging in and of itself
This has to be a joke.
It is practically impossible to fail in this game. You don't die (unless you count that one scene). You just respawn a bit back with all of your stuff.
Except if human enemies kill you - in which case you lose some packages, but can just go look for them again.
But dying to human enemies is likewise basically impossible, given the inane state of enemy AI - unless you have two left hands and your eyes at the back of your head.
And even then, sorry, but that's not a fail state. A challenge requires the realistic possibility to fail at it and some kind of stake.

So only the terrain and the "challenge" of traversing it remains.
In my 7-9 hours of trying to get from cutscene to cutscene, as the "gameplay" itself certainly was no motivation, I did not manage to fall even once (after the tutorial).

At some point, I gave up on the repetitive and entirely-devoid-of-challenge gameplay and instead just watched the story unfold on YouTube.
Which is cool - felt a bit like watching an overpriced arthouse movie.

Other than that, this game is the very best example of The Emperor's New Clothes in game form.
I read a review once that pretty much goes like this and I found it very fitting:
"It feels like some vernissage, famous people, expensive food, ... - and nobody really understands what’s the point of the paintings but you are semi-intimidated into praising the masterpieces, while no one wants to admit they are bored."

I can really only assume some people enter a kind of zen-like trance when meandering through the nothingness of the game, which then counts as "fun" for them.
Somewhat similar to people who waste their time away play Animal Crossing and somehow find enjoyment in that.

Beats me how that works, but more power to them, I guess!
Believe me, I wish I could be entertained in that manner. I'd spend a lot less money on games.

PS: Yes, yes, I know. "Players work together to achieve a goal!" "Inspires altruism!" "Such a brave premise!" yadda yadda, bla bla,... all fine and dandy, but none of that makes the gameplay better.
You can choose to play by always walking and keeping both straps held at all times if you want, I'm sure that has it's own appeal. But I agree with what Liam said in the article, it's way more fun to try and min/max your strap usage to go as fast as you can across the map while keeping yourself from falling.

Also choosing to carry a large amount of baggage makes Sam overencombered which adds a dimension where when you turn you have to lean into it while holding the appropriate strap to not fall over from centripetal force. It doesn't slow you down, it just makes staying upright more challenging and it rewards you by allowing you to complete more objectives at once. Also Sam's turning speed gets limited so I ended up running across the map slowly steering Sam around while planning ahead how to deal with sharp bends and obstacles. I think that's why the game didn't click for me until the second area, IMO the overencomberment made the game way more challenging and fun.

It just has niche appeal, I'm also the kind of person that finds Animal Crossing fun so go figure.

Death Stranding absolutely sold me and you should play it
22 December 2021 at 3:06 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: Whitewolfe80For me I refunded this it's DHL the simulator your a courier in a fucked Kojima world. It's basically a real life job as you amble from place to place in real time. I got so bored I actually complied a kernel on laptop to pass the time. But am not the biggest fan of kojima work

Interesting. You could not have seen much of the game in the <2 hours you must have played. And about the game being a courier game where you walk a lot - you would have known this already before purchasing.

Yes but youre a courier in New Vegas the difference is that game is interesting.

In New Vegas being a courier is a an excuse to go on a journey, you don't actually do any couriering. The experiance of walking from point A to B is basically just holding W the whole time while following a waypoint. Death Stranding is explicitly about doing deliveries in a gameplay sense and the act of traversing the world is fun and challenging in and of itself. It's way closer to Euro Truck Simulator in that sense then a game like Fallout.

My favourite 2021 games played on Linux
21 December 2021 at 5:28 pm UTC Likes: 6

FYI: The demo for Loop Hero was hidden from Steam but it's still accessable via this page

Trouble is brewing over on GOG due to the HITMAN release needing online for some features
26 September 2021 at 10:08 am UTC Likes: 5

I think that even if they had been transparent from the start they would still be deserving of criticism since they are a "DRM FREE" store not a "Technically DRM free because you can play the game without a ton of core features that shouldn't require internet" store

Couch gaming Linux distribution ChimeraOS has a new release
16 September 2021 at 12:29 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PhlebiacIt does make me wonder what they will do if Steam drops Big Picture Mode in favor of some other UI for Steam Deck. They have let it languish for a while...

It's already been confirmed that the UI we see on the Steam Deck is the next version of Big Picture. Source

AMD reveals Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution and more
1 June 2021 at 3:40 pm UTC

Quoting: subNvidia has two game changers for gaming platforms on their side.
ARM (see Apple's M1 performance and efficiency) and DLSS.

DLSS sure but I don't see how ARM is going to help them with PC gaming performance

Hints appear of Valve making a handheld Steam "SteamPal" Neptune console
25 May 2021 at 9:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

The only way shipping the device with ARM would make sense is if it came bundled with an Apple Rosetta-like emulator so that x86 games could still be played on the device. If it ships and any effort at all is required from game developers to make their games work then Valve will have thrown away the selling point of having the PC's enormous catalogue available.
Something similar to this already happened to the Steam Machines with the Windows vs Linux games situation but Valve have since remedied this with Proton. Going with ARM but not having backwards compatibility with x86 games would be reliving that situation all over again

Valve expand Steam Input to support more of the PS5 DualSense Controller
22 November 2020 at 2:23 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CyrilHow about its support outside Steam?
It comes up as a /dev/js* controller and all the buttons work as you'd expect. No gyro or touchpad though https://boilingsteam.com/dualsense-controller-on-linux-works-good-with-some-limitations/

Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11
28 October 2020 at 4:49 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: 0aTTThe PC is replaced by tablets and phones.
Definitly not for gaming. The mobile market is full of shallow cash grabs and most people know that console/pc are where quality games are released