Quoting: CorbenShort conclusion: it's a nice piece of hardware, and I guess the user experience would have benefited much from a SteamOS install. Too bad ASUS probably took a deal with Microsoft. So I'm looking forward to try ChimeraOS on it!

All of that sounds absolutely brutal and reminds me of everything I hated about Windows when I used it for gaming over ten years ago. Never again!

And one hour of gaming. Oof. Isn't this suppose to be a hand held console?

The unit looks pretty though so there's that...

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Argh! I'm about a third of the way through the IYL article on horde-survival and it feels like every week I wait there's another one to consider! :grin:

It'll be ready for the end of July though. Just have to hold out until then!

Picking this one up for sure though.

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Quoting: HJ

Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: HJThat isn't Prey though, it's Prey (2017)

I honestly think this idiotic naming convention is one of the big reasons it had mediocre sales. It was an AMAZING game (still my all time fav from Arkane) but I think a ton of people just thought it was a remake of the 2006 game. The former game was average at best, but when people saw the same name and looked at a screenshot and saw it was an fps, they just passed on it.

ho ho, that might have been the reason but for me it was quite the opposite - i thought it was a remake/reboot/continuation of 2006 game but turns out it has nothing to do with it which just makes me angry because i liked original game, so I just ignore it entirely. At least Doom 4 and Tomb Raider remake have something to do with original, Prey and Prey (2017) have about as much in common as Quake and Quake 2, it's just developer/publisher reusing their trademarks/copyrights.

Yeah, I ignored this one for years after discovering it wasn't a remake. The original game was superb, particularly for its time - the opening scene, being lifted into the air along with your house, the sprit walking, the portal system and the shrinking/enlarging effects, it was all just incredibly fresh and original back then.

Prey 2017 was... okay when they finally removed Denuvo and I got to play it. It held my interest enough to complete the game, but it's certainly no Dishonored.

On another note - don't forget to pick up Roguebook, also in the Prime freebies this week. I love it so much.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: slaapliedjeAs far as hating on removal of racist imagery making you a racist? What if it is important to the story line that you are taking out a band of racists, but some sensitivity editor decides that shouldn't be in the game, and now you're just killing a bunch of random people? :P

a good example of that is the series "everybody hate criss" wich have a bunch of racist jokes that are intended to show how absurd racism is, it make fun, mock how ridiculuous racism is all the time, yet it feature racism to show that.
should it be censored too?

Blazing Saddles is a perfect example of this.

Blazing Saddles is a funny example indeed, too many people have always told Mel Brooks that "one could not make this movie today" so he answered "one could not make this movie back then either" :)

Pretty sure Brooks is deluding himself on that point. As someone who grew up in the 70's, the casual but prevalent racism back then took the edge off a lot of the purposefully un-casual racism in Blazing Saddles. You might still be able to make such a movie today, but it would be derided and buried under a sea of angry one-star reviews, much like toning down the panty-line in an underage female fighter in Skullgirls has had the same result.

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Quoting: lejimsterI don't know anything about this game, but I believe the last Mortal Kombat game they decided they wanted to make the female characters less sexualized, cover them up. Made zero sense to me. The series has always been "mature" with its finishing moves etc, why are they getting upset over a bit of extra flesh.

At least in that case they told us ahead of time and you can choose not to buy the game. If a game that you enjoy gets a "woke update" that significantly alters the game you purchased in a way you hate, then we have a problem.

Man, it would be great to see Scorpion baring his chest, right? Maybe tone down those long, baggy trousers and get those rippling thighs into shot? Get some crotch physics on display?

Or, wait. Is it only the women we're allowed to sexualise because gaming remains a male dominant industry? And why is it male dominant?

Oh.

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Quoting: toojays

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: toojaysFinally finished Days Gone. Now moving on to Death Stranding.

I had to give up on Days Gone. I'd spec my entire character around Focus, and when you get to the horde level, focus is useless - you need stamina. After about 20 attempts, it was time to un-install and move on, which is a shame, cos it was a great game otherwise, once you get over the fact that a fully tanked Harley can seemingly only travel about 2 kilometres before needing re-fueled! :grin:

I didn't defeat a single horde! After three attempts at each horde in the main storyline, the game offered to just let me skip it. I decided that hordes were not at all enjoyable for me, so I unashamedly took the offer. I really enjoyed the rest of the game. I finished the main story but not all of the side quests. My favourite bits were taking out ambush camps silently. Ninja St John!

That's interesting. I wonder why I was never offered that option?

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Quoting: chickenb00've been playing The Outer Wilds, I deeply regret sleeping on this in my backlog for such a long time, it's been a breath of fresh air to play after all the samey stuff and usual suspects.

Couldn't agree more - an absolute masterpiece. Multiple endings too, and some of the puzzles are genius - in that they feel complex and impossible and then suddenly when you get it, it's a "duh" moment and it's all so simple.

Amazing game.

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Anti-cheat is generally so ineffective that I just don't play competitive games any more. You still occasionally see cheating in co-op games, but it's quite rare, at least compared to competitive. Cheating is so prevalent on every competitive game I've played that I've completely lost interest in it.

PvE all the way for me now.

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Quoting: toojaysFinally finished Days Gone. Now moving on to Death Stranding.

I had to give up on Days Gone. I'd spec my entire character around Focus, and when you get to the horde level, focus is useless - you need stamina. After about 20 attempts, it was time to un-install and move on, which is a shame, cos it was a great game otherwise, once you get over the fact that a fully tanked Harley can seemingly only travel about 2 kilometres before needing re-fueled! :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: CGullWhen it does release, I'll buy it.

I'm just glad nobody has yet yelled that I should just run it in Proton.

Up until January 2021, you could play it natively for free [External Link]. But they've been Windows-only since, presumably focussing on their Steam release and graphics upgrade. I'm amazed that they've landed $7M. Superb.

I mean, it's also Platinum in Proton, so I don't really get the reticence, but whatever - I used to be the same, but since the Steam Deck, I don't have the energy for "no tux" anymore.

They haven't been Windows-only since. You can literally 'apt install dwarf-fortress' to play it. Pretty sure the only reason they brought it to Steam was to get some funding so they could develop it full time, make it easier to include a bunch of stuff out of the box, and to get more of the 'normies' to play it. I did find it kind of odd they didn't include Linux support initially in the Steam release, not sure of the story behind that. But you can totally still install it (at least under Debian, I haven't checked other distros yet).

The version in the Debian repos at least is 0.47 - which is the last version before they went Windows-only.

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