I'm almost inclined to say that Linux users are spoiled these days but... Well, you know I like being spoiled, I do not miss the days of having to compile a large portion of my software from source, and having to go on a dependency hunt or recompile any time I updated or switched my distro. Some software being such a headache to get compiled that I still keep the resulting binaries around as trophies, depite them not working on my current system for one reason or another.

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Quoting: AvikarrIn my opinion:
Dead Space Remake uses totally new tech, considering graphics. I think, we need to wait for Steam Deck 2, with newer hardware to perform at least reasonable frame rates and so on. Personally, considering Steam Deck itself, I thought to myself:
"Okay, I'll wait for Steam Deck 2, and then I'll buy this toy for grow ups!".
It is first iteration, technical demo, or something - in my opinion. Next generation of Steam Deck will definitely kick arse! And to be honest - all of us know, that Steam Deck 2 (or whatever they will name it), will be A THING!

The Steam Deck is already an iteration past technical demo in a sense, as it has roots that date back to Valve's earliest hardware releases. While the second Deck will probably be even better, this first iteration is so damn good and the improvements will probably be rather minor honestly.

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I think I'll soon be ripping my entire console game collection and repackaging them in manners similar to this. Always wanted to just convert my collection into no hassle native PC ports, and this approach would probably be the next best thing.

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I was very certain they weren't going to do this, so many companies just flippantly make e-waste without so much as a second thought. I am glad they are taking this step, but worried the motives behind doing such a thing are... Lackluster, likely PR motivated rather than an actual intention to reduce waste.

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Quoting: BotonoskiOh wow, I coincidentally bought a compatible blu-ray drive when I was replacing the dead DVD drive in my PC. Guess I'll be keeping an eye at my Value Village for games to buy and dump.

Nice!!! I just ended up putting my old Bluray drive into an external case; as not all computer cases are including a 5.25" bay these days...

A shame 5.25" bays are going out of fashion really, they are handy for more than just disk drives. I remember buying my father a bay accessory with a car cigarette lighter on it, as a bit of a joke, and he ended up using it for years until he quit smoking.

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Oh wow, I coincidentally bought a compatible blu-ray drive when I was replacing the dead DVD drive in my PC. Guess I'll be keeping an eye at my Value Village for games to buy and dump.

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Alright, gotta finally get around to the Yakuza games in that case.

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Quoting: dvdWell that's exactly what frustrates me about it. There are story missions and characters that elevate the vibe, and highlight the good things, but outside those it just doesn't have the same grab as the Witcher. Even with that the strongest one for me definetly was the Toussaint expansion, where they nailed basically everything. As for the bugs, i played the gog version on the latest patch so i dunno, doesn't seem fixed for me. It wasn't crashy to begin with, and i haven't encountered any bugs in the earlier version so i guess i just got lucky.

I haven't played the original Deus Ex, but i played the recent one and i liked that better than CP2077.

Different strokes for different folks I suppose, personally I don't like the Witcher 3, but I am also not big on fantasy.

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Quoting: dvdInteresting that Cyberpunk is still there given how buggy and frustrating game it is.

I've put 30+ hours onto that game on my Deck and have so far only encountered rather mild visual bugs.

I did a second playthrough of it on the latest patch, and ironically encountered more bugs (floating radios at main quest locations, getting lunched into the stratosphere from a motorbike, enemies fusing into cargo crates etc...) than in one of the first patches. Performance is worse too. But that is not what makes the game frustrating for me.

It's just that the cool artwork and some interesting characters are hidden in a bad game. It truly feels like you're playing just to get to the next dialouge/cinematicy moment. In the witcher 2/3 i loved those as well, but combat/free exploration was interesting in its own right.

On my second playthrough i was surprised how much less of it i remembered after 1 year gap compared to the witcher which i last played 2 years ago. I guess hype truly carries a game. I'd hope they can carry the good forward to the next and come up with something better for the rest.

It's a shame too as I think a lot of good stuff got buried in the crap game: Johnny, Judy, Panam, the the Peralez', Jackie, Goro, Misty, Viktor, Evelyn they are all interesting characters and would've been better served if they focused more on normal missions than on 'gigs' and whatever. (and they put the Johnny missions, that are some of the best at the end so so its easy to miss wtf...) I refused to do any of those in my second playthrough, simply since the gameplay is the worst part of the game. There is no difficulty, "Very hard" is a cakewalk, only "challenge" is the 1-shot snipers in maybe 2 of the late game missions. Otherwise the enemy couldn't really scratch my character, which was an anti-tank build btw.

My relationship with the game is complicated. Didn't touch it until it was obviously finished, as in I waited for the bad press to settle down and turn positive, than I bought it almost entirely to bench a rig, and kinda hated it a lot, just absolutely despised almost every aspect.
But then I tried again but with a different mindset, like I just decided to vibe with the setting rather than try to derive entertainment from it, and...the world just started to feel real and compelling, in an exact way I hadn't experienced since the playing original Dues Ex.
Certain things about the game resonate with me very strongly, enough to outshine aspects I dislike, which is much the same experience I have with all open world RPGs like this.

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Quoting: dvdInteresting that Cyberpunk is still there given how buggy and frustrating game it is.

I've put 30+ hours onto that game on my Deck and have so far only encountered rather mild visual bugs.

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