Well, none of the winners are the sorts of games that I would ever enjoy playing, but good on them for the wins.

I do feel that it's a shame that Vampire Survivors didn't win Best Game On The Go, though!

Quoting: Philadelphusbut hopefully it winning might make game developers realize that, actually, people are capable of empathizing with a non-human protagonist, and you can make games without a human protagonist and they'll still sell well. I'm already a human 24/7, give me more games (of Stray's quality or better) where I get to play cool animals, or robots, or aliens, or something else that's different.

This was the norm in gaming back when I was growing up - pity that we don't see more of it now!

I recently saw a description for this - "video games as video games", describing the medium when it's used for fantastical things, rather than for emulating things that exist in real-life in some form. Space Invaders is considered to be the first game of that kind.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderStray is the feline version of Ecco The Dolphin.......

Ecco was one of my childhood games, but unfortunately I never found it to be very much fun - I ended up concluding that people were bigging it up because they felt that someone making a game with a dolphin in it was automatically artistic and that this would somehow legitimise the medium, as if they somehow felt self-conscious about it.

Still, on the bright side, at least developers are now making "more Eccos" - there was a time about 20 or so years ago where everything had to get turned into a Vexx, a Haven: Call of the King, or a Bomberman: Act Zero, and it felt like nothing optimistic, bright, or different was allowed at all.

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I'm just waiting for the day when I log onto GOL and see a report that Super Bomberman R 2 has been Steam Deck Verified ahead of launch.

Quoting: WorMzy(and when I do have time, to not deliberate what to play for so long that I end up not playing anything)

You should join in on the weekly Weekend Players' Club threads on the forums - it's a really good motivator for this sort of thing.

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Quoting: assassin9527Hi, new to this forum and know nothing about Linux and looking for solutions to the problem caused by the latest update.

Hey assassin9527! I don't have a Steam Deck myself, but you may want to post about this issue over on the forums, as it might get buried in a news-comments section.

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Quoting: arleas(except there are other small form-factor windows machines like the GPD Win so it's still not an exclusive).

And these can run Linux fine, too. (My main gaming PC is a GPD Win Max 2021, running Xubuntu, and Steam Deck Verified stuff tends to fit it like a glove. It doesn't share the Deck's form-factor, though.)

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You need the obligatory Blinkenlights sign, Liam! (Embiggened version here

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Quoting: BrokattWhen Valve eventually does a wide release of SteamOS 3.X it will lower the bar of entry to DIY PC's and HTPC's. It could lead to a renewed interest in a hobby that's dying out. Or maybe that's just an old fools wishes and it's smart phones, games streaming tablets and predatory pay2win crap that are the future.

Well, if you're an old fool, then so am I! One would hope that something like the Steam Deck/SteamOS, and the value it offers, would have a chance against the anti-consumer nature of predatory mobile-game money-sinks!

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe Steam Deck increases the value of your Steam library by giving you more places and ways to play the games in it. And it increases the value to developers of putting their games on Steam (yeah, sure, because the Deck is open you can play games from other platforms on it, but that takes a bit of work and at the very least, an active choice--where the Steam library is Just There).

So it's basically like the Action GameMaster, except done right, and it actually got manufactured.

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I favour portables and am a Nintendo ex-pat (they were the only console manufacturer still making games that I enjoyed - then they stopped and/or went off in strange directions with the ones I liked, so I bailed ). The reason I returned to the PC-gaming space for the first time since 4GB HDDs were huge and you could still buy big-box games from Toys 'R' Us and Electronics Boutique UK is precisely because, regardless of your preferred OS, it offers more choice. Much more.

Like many my age (approaching my 40s now), I fondly remember the 16-bit era because it was highly competitive, but also interesting - "exclusives" back then only existed in the form of which manufacturer's in-house titles you preferred, and most major third-party games were on most platforms and sometimes differed in interesting ways; The YouTube series Console Wars is a good look at how this applied to the SNES and Mega Drive, though sadly it never touches on the UK market, which was much broader thanks to also including various 8-bit and 16-bit home micros.

I'm not a fan of the modern definition of "exclusives", which is just moneyhatting in order to prevent content from appearing on all platforms, and I wouldn't like to see it mar the Steam Deck or the broader Linux-gaming landscape.

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It's interesting that they mentioned New Super Lucky's Tale, since the developer, Playful Corp., self-published it on all platforms except for the Xbox line. Still, it's a superb game and absolutely deserves to be highlighted.

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Quoting: AnzaI don't have controller vs keyboard and mouse section. I wonder if it's because Steam Input mostly doesn't work for me, so I have disabled it in every game that I play or have tried to play with a controller.

I also have a problem with Steam Input and also have it disabled (it happens consistently on all of my Xubuntu boxes - games see a phantom Player 1 controller, so the actual physical one that exists either appears as Player 2 or won't work at all), but I do have the controller vs. keyboard-and-mouse section!

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This is clearly my only statistic that matters.

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