This definitely gets into political stuff and I know better than to go there but it's always amazed me how people who should be retired are not only public servants but they're still deciding laws for an entire country.

A hauntingly familiar issue:
This happened before most of us held a controller or used a computer but Mortal Kombat had to deal with their highly "realistic and violent" game in the mid 90s which lead to the creation of the ESRB--you know those silly labels: E for everyone, etc. The funny thing was that the arguments congress made involved a plastic gun which was never used in the game.

Now the MK issue wasn't a patent battle in court but my point is policymakers don't understand how the technology works at all. Having a legal system which promotes looking for and exploiting loopholes is what results in problems such as the one in this article. I'm sure Japan's courtrooms are frequented by Nintendo's lawyers but at least in the U.S. most lawyers look for loopholes. This issue evolving into a legal battle is simply the byproduct of decisions made by uniformed policymakers.

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I like Blasphemous and 9 Sols both *way* more than I like either of the HK games.

I'm still stuck on the last fight on 9 Sols but the game is very smooth and satisfying to move around. For silksong I'll just wait until all patches balance things out or until I remember it exists and decide to buy it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI just finally broke down and got one with an NVME drive. Anyone aware of a controller one can use to 'wake it up' and/or go into the boot menu remotely? Would be awesome as a thing to dock into the TV for the dual boot to Batocera.

So far we can't do this with the old model. This may not be accurate but based on what I know using a controller to wake up the device seems to work only for wired interfaces or with dongles. The issue here is that when a device goes to sleep, so does the antenna/radio that communicates with controllers. I could be totally wrong but that's likely the reason. Another cause could be hardware limitations, which may be the case instead.

Looking back at some saved posts, wake up feature seems to have been implemented on the OLED [External Link] version but no luck for us...earlier adopters.

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Quoting: tfkI've never played it. Is it good?

Others have already answered the question. I always like to have a basis to track changes in the game. At its core, the game hasn't changed that much but the content they've been adding has definitely helped with keeping the game refreshing. I like to go back to this video explaining the main issues with game; keep in mind this review came out around release but some of these points are what I referred to as "core game architecture."

NMS - Review [External Link]

There's definitely been a ton of new content and there's a lot of more interactions with the game itself but this only just briefly expanded on some of the activities that you can do, or as others already commented, the game is now wider. Some improvements have fixed the issues mentioned but in my mind you will get most of what the game offers within a couple weeks.

Quoting: JarmerI've never been able to shake the filth off this game in my mind since release, which is just really bad on my part I know, but I just can't seem to do it. I know I should absolutely give it another try and see what it's like after dozens of massive free updates, but .............. I think it's just a lost cause.

You aren't alone in this line of thinking; most people just moved on after their initial response. I have gone back to the game even after a decent amount of updates were out but the feeling of "just clicking textboxes" is still there. This isn't to discredit all the hard work they've put into the updates but all these activities still feel empty. It's almost as if every interaction was isolated from itself and interactions (even being chased by sentinels) are self-contained.

I'd say their next step could be to allow modding to some scale similar to that new Fallout mod. Imagine a story along the lines of "humans evolved into the 4 distinct alien races...blah blah..." but then again, that's a different type of game and this is a sandbox.

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We'll see what they do with this title. I liked the idea of NMS on paper but the game just feels dead to me, even with all those additions they've made. Every update feels like a re-skin of previous features (i.e. shops were added for multi-tools: --> just go talk to alien a, figure out what they want for it and compare to your current one) and I just can't get into it past a couple hours.

Through time they addressed the main complaints that people had, which was not enough customization and lack of content when exploring. All those cool looking ships we saw on trailer, the "pre-made" planet that wasn't procedural, the excessive amount of running around with no vehicles, these were some of the few problems that made the game stale and initially helped with gameplay but the core functionality is already there.

I don't think anything they add will change the core component of the game: go there, read text, get reward (new word, new recipe, new item, etc.) and move on with your exploration. Something is just missing; to me it seems that they wanted to both give the experience of loneliness in outer space while at the same time fill that void with "content" to have something to work towards.

Anyways I still wish them the best and still love my space ship I got from the pre-order. I hope this one succeeds.

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...inspired...

that, in my mind, is a strange way to describe this title.

I'm all in for the game getting released smoothly. Still, I can't help but think the two are identical. Apart from being faster, as Pangaea already mentioned, both games look very the same. Again, this doesn't bother me but I'd also like to see some things unique to the game as well.

ps: I also hope that the entire game won't feel like a speedrun.

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Interesting. I may play around with my RG351 but would rather wait for testing first. I'm sure an editor will review this (not from this site) and post their findings.

There's also ArkOS (ubuntu based) which I'm currently using and it looks very similar to this, which makes sense. Hopefully there are tweaks to optimize running on multiple handhelds as this seems much closer to the "setup once" nature of an operating system; firmware takes a few more steps to do things like updating.

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...and here I am, the outlier, opting for steam due to its built-in controller support...lol. I may look into those GOG clients to see if they offer the feature but don't think it is. Guess that still counts as convenience since you just click a checkbox.

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Quoting: GuestI hope they don’t.

The only upside of GOG.com is the DRM-free installers, and they already started to hide these in favour of their Galaxy malware. The lack of a Linux build of Galaxy is the only thing preventing them to add DRM-gated features to the Linux games they sell.

Agreed. I wish they did not create Galaxy at all. It is what it is.

I wonder if this is what stopped GOG dead on their tracks. DRM is the last thing any Linux consumer wants. Still, with so many clients already offering library management, I don't get why people are upset for not having a first party client; I predict the complains will then be "feature x works on steam, why is it not on galaxy," etc. In my mind, GOG is the lesser of two evils. Not to discredit steam's efforts either tho.

ps: might not be the popular choice but my long term goal is throwing win in a VM, pass it a GPU, game on it and chill. I'd buy from any store at that point. This would obviously be for windows titles only.

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Nice. I'm split on the possibility of this being about Chromebook support but don't forget that Sony still has their "cloud" gaming for old titles (I think Last of Us 1 is there). So if their plan is to Have all PC space (Win/Mac/Linux) supported for their streaming service, then this move makes sense.

I think the driver makes sense overall since Stadia might allow the use of other gamepads.

I agree with @slaapliedje. It's unlikely that Sony based their PS5 software on Linux and not BSD. They've been using BSD for some time now (this includes the psvita) but it's possible to have switched. All I know is that BSD's licensing is easier to work with than Linux.

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Sadly I haven't seen a unit with good build quality and smooth emulation (up to n64). There are plenty of arm chips capable of emulating old-gen consoles but these companies prefer to use lower end parts. I know part of the problem are the obstacles with the current "tech war" going on; exhibit A: Huawei. I hope they have decent casing/buttons; after all, that's the product's function.

Quoting: SslaxxPowerful enough to run OpenMW maybe? There was a video of the Retroid Pocket 2 (an Android device) running it, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmzlQtdl64k [External Link]

It would be interesting to see what limits this handheld has on the software side. I considered the Retroid but it runs on an ancient Android build (6 or 7...I forgot). Their claim is that you can also run apps but I'd be more interested in having these apps run in a sandbox (similar to LineageOS) rather than expecting apps/games to support an Android build half a decade old. I know they plan to upgrade to 8.0 but the upgrade is a hassle on end-users and fiddling with software to make the handheld functional is difficult to justify when the RG350 does this out of the box. The retroid has a decent build quality but the RG350 has better software.

Personally I'm waiting for the next RG351 or whatever comes next.

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