The Steam Deck is the device I wish I could go back in time and give my younger self, back when I was a kid and had to endure (literal) days of flying or driving when visiting relatives. I never had any sort of console or handheld device growing up, so being able to play the computer games I already had on the go would've been incredible.

As an adult, I'm still glad I have mine, but with less forced abstinence from my desktop I don't tend to use it all that much; like sonic2kk, I found I'd rather game on my desktop with mouse, keyboard, and large monitors than awkwardly through joysticks on a small screen (most of the kinds of games I like, perhaps unsurprisingly, work better with M+KB). I'm definitely keeping my Deck for long airplane flights, though*, and it's nice to take in to the office to play on my lunch break sometimes**.

*I used it just last week, in fact.

**Which actually led to one of my co-workers who hadn't heard about Steam getting one.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe intro makes me think--is it something specific to American as opposed to other sorts of frontiersman that they seem to spend half their time yacking about how awesome they are?

I'm curious, were you talking about the trailer? I rewatched it out of curiosity wondering if I'd missed something (since I didn't remember anything like that from watching it yesterday), and the only thing I could see that might be seen as boasting was the line "People here are a hardy bunch – have to be, to survive here," which, for real frontier communities, was less a boast than a simple statement of fact. But maybe being American (and growing up on a small farm) I don't have the right perspective to see what you're describing.

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And, like so many other promising Stardew Valley-likes…it's singleplayer only. Yes, I know SV itself didn't have multiplayer at launch, but I only got it after it was added and I've had so many fun hours playing it with friends that a similar game without multiplayer is a tough sell. Still, the trailer was interesting enough to get it on my Wishlist, I'll keep an eye on it when it releases.

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Quoting: dziadulewicz

QuoteNoita mods no longer fail to update.

This the most important!

As a Noita modder, that is a very strange and specific regression. Glad it's fixed.

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Oooh, nice! The game Noita comes with a built-in clip capturing ability (as GIFs), and I've used that many a time to capture its chaotic hilarity. I'd love to have that ability easily available in any game (I know other solutions exist, but I'm lazy ).

Also, Valve, this shows you know how to record video with sound on Linux, so you have no excuse for Steam's game streaming feature only working on Windows anymore!

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Wow, I haven't been reminded of LEGO's Galidor line of limb-swapping action figures in over twenty years. (I never actually had any…or saw the show…but I was getting the LEGO magazine at the time and it came with a tie-in comic, plus there was browser game that do I have vague memories of playing on dial-up.)

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I've never played any Sims games, but I was keeping half an eye on this to see how it came out, so it's a bit sad to hear it's canceled. I know screenshots and a trailer do not a full-featured game make, but it seemed from the ones they had that there was a decent-looking product, so it must've been pretty bad behind the scenes if they didn't think it was worth continuing.

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#1 would be somewhat scummy if there was actual evidence of it. I retain an open mind.

#2…how do they expect this to work? I buy a game on Steam, then buy the expansion on EGS? That seems like a major technological hurdle, so I can see why Valve wouldn't be incentivized to design systems to allow it when it would only lose them money. It also sounds like an incredibly good way to generate hard-to-track bugs if I'm getting my base game updates from Platform A, my expansion updates from Platform B, and then my extra bonus DLC from Platform C and they've all got slightly different versions of the game.

#3: I love this repeated assertion that 30% is "excessive" with no attempt to define the term or what wouldn't be considered excessive (29%? 1%?). It's completely subjective. 30 seconds of Googling suggests that, when released on physical media, stores take about…30%. How horrible. We'd better go after anyone who sells physical copies of games. 🙄

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QuoteThose gloriously tasty bananas. People are going, well — ape over them.

I'm grinning, but boo!

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Reminds me of Defense Grid (1 & 2), where you could (usually) build towers in areas where the enemy units would walk, allowing you design long winding passages to maximize their traversal time.

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