Finished Xenosaga Episode I. I enjoyed it, even if the combat started to grate on me towards the end.
Started Resonance of Fate. Combat and controls are a bit confusing, but it seems interesting. Unfortunately there’s a lot of annoying visual glitches when playing on my PC.
I feel like if the boss also healed continuously it would be less annoying, like you can plan around it. What grinds my gears is when I think I’ve won, and the game just goes NOPE!
She only did that on second phase with Father Ariandel, but yes, guessing whether there’s another phase while your estus is empty is certainly more bullshit than healing 🤣
I did have a great time playing TLoU2 with all the difficulty cranked up, EXCEPT for ally aggression set to super easy. This meant that while combat was more threatening, as long as I had a partner character with me, I felt like I had support and backup, and wasn’t alone in combat segments. Like I was really traveling with someone, rather than just having someone around to spout dialogue now and then.
This also meant that any time you’re alone, you feel it. When you’re alone you feel isolated and unsafe. Meant there was at least one alone encounter that was brutal, but also made the game more immersive. Highly recommend.
The Ally Aggression being on easy was a godsend for my Grounded run of 1, because that meant if I needed too I could hide in cover and let the Allies fight while I heal/reload/etc
Completely agree on the alone encounter too. I felt it a bit with Abby’s story on Normal, specifically the segment with all the Seraphites
Yeah the seraphites part wasn’t killer for me since with a little stealth you can take it at your own pace, but not long after that
SpoilerWhen you’re escaping the seraphite camp and making friends along the way, the survival section where they ditch you and there are just several waves of increasingly threatening infected nonstop with no room to breathe
It really is, i decided to check the price on Wii U and Wii the other day just for a reference and irc it was like 20$ at max. I know they were struggling with the Wii U era, but damn. 40$ is way too big of a jump
Steam Deck 2 is very likely a long way away; they’ve said they won’t be doing minor upgrades—only major ones, and the current models still play most modern games just fine without issue. There’s no reason to wait on a Steam Deck if it’s within your budget.
And there’s the whole issue with a certain buffoon who doesn’t understand how tariffs work and is currently trying to speedrun an economic collapse, so who knows if the hardware components will be available in three years.
However, unless there’s a significant change in games that makes the current Gen unable to play games, I think it’s likely going to be a great device in three years time. I know that I have no plans to upgrade mine.
Well, it seems at least one company has admitted that only focusing on making games high-end games might have been a bit self-defeating when there’s an even bigger market with slightly older tech they could have been selling to. So there’s that.
I also remember reading somewhere that there’s just been a breakthrough in battery tech (It was probably mostly in regards to electric vehicles, but if it can be be applied to smaller devices, that’s also a good start).
Maybe there doesn’t have to be a sacrifice in battery life on the next-gen Steamdeck. It’s small stuff like this that would make me think that maybe the next gen isn’t too far in the future.
But again, what the hell do I know? I’m a PC guy. Fairly happy with my stationary setup.
Looking at how there is still no follow up to the Steam VR and controller any attempts at estimates i doubt are based on any facts. Valve works in ways that don’t follow normal business logic.
I see no reason someone shouldn’t be allowed to ask for donations. If you want to accept donations, go for it. There doesn’t need to be a special reason to do so.
Donations should come without obligations though. If someone donates, yay, but donations should never be in exchange for something (that would be a payment).
Cheaper/better value than anything else on the market
excellent customer support
trackpads for games that need them
OLED available
configurable rear buttons
no other handheld competes on power efficiency or battery life
All repair components readily available.
Runner up would be Legion Go. If you want the SteamOS experience you can easily install it on any other handheld (although I would recommend Bazzite or similar instead). Other handhelds will deliver better performance at the expense of battery life.
Cheaper/better value than anything else on the market
I just want to make this a point. As the hardware is not only cheaper, the games are too. Especially because of the sales, and the option to use other storefronts (through heroic) like epic to get free games every week or two.
I have a legion go, run steamOS and love it. But from what I understand, if you already have an Xbox and get the Xbox handheld, they should be able to share games. So unless you want to have an alternative for games, like steam, then the ally might be the safe bet.
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