I’m a little skeptical about Manjaro on the ZOTAC. I used it for quite some time on a PC but it was always just a matter of time until it broke due to version conflicts. Developers for AUR packagages assume that you’re using the main Arch repo. So when you use the Manjaro repo, which is always a few weeks behind the official Arch one, the AUR updates break pretty regularly. Though you probably don’t want to use the AUR on a handheld anyway.
Blue Prince! I’ve been trucking away with this for a while because it’s very possible to play using the controller while holding a baby - no quick reflexes required! I’ve hit a bit of a wall with progress in it though and have reached a point where it feels more like luck than skill/puzzle-solving is needed to tackle my current objective.
I really wish I was better with puzzle games. Even the world’s darling - Portal - is a bit beyond me. Despite having a brain that should enjoy puzzle games…they never catch on for me!
Congratulations on the baby, I hope you get a little more time to enjoy both holding and gaming soon enough :)
I feel like making that comment earlier broke my run of bad luck and I “completed” the game. (There’s obviously a tonne of additional puzzles to work out, but I think I might take a break from this for now!)
Talos Principle 2. I bought it 5 months ago but only recently I’ve been able to actually play it.
The first game was a near 10/10 experience for me, so I came in with very high expectations, and… At the moment, I’m a bit disappointed.
The main drawback is how pointlessly big everything is. You spend minutes running from puzzle to puzzle, especially if you want to 100% the game, which requires a lot of wandering around to find hidden switches and light rods to solve the Sphynx’s puzzles.
The environment is gorgeous, mind you, but it’s just… too much. Which is funny, because an NPC I talked to yesterday lamented the exact same thing: '“bigger doesn’t equal more beautiful”. I agree, Jeremy.
That being said, it’s still a fun game, and the story is interesting (although a lot more heavy-handed than the first game). There are also a lot of cats! And you can pet some of them! I also found a little fox running around. I couldn’t pet it, but it was cute regardless.
But seriously, this game is soothing for the soul. There’s just something in strolling around taking in the view with a beautiful soundtrack in the background that is just soooo relaxing. I use it as a way to cool my head after a day’s work before going to bed.
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The ZOTAC handheld looks really nice, but I'm so hanging out for the day when we get a really nice Strix Point-based handheld. That being said I'm still plenty happy with my Lenovo Legion Go.
Been way too busy at the moment to play much at all to be honest, but I've been having a bit of a tinker with Cyberpunk 2077 on Legion Go. Even though it supports FSR 3 out of the box, it seems to run better and prettier with Decky Framegen (which is a fantastic little project, btw).
Once you’ve sunk some time into Cyberpunk, you can really open it all up with the tons and tons of fun mods via Nexus!!! And when I say ‘tons’…boy do I mean it!
Cyberpunk, just like The Witcher 3 holds a special place for me, even reading the title makes me stop and wonder maybe its time I played it just one more time…
Their DLC, Phantom Liberty is just drop-dead gorgeous to play though!
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I just never got attached to CDPR games. They're fine (and 2077 even ran fantastic on launch for me, owing to having a 3090 at the time) but I never got anywhere near finishing any of them.
Yeah I’m currently playing cyberpunk for the first time and am loving it. Haven’t played Witcher 3 either, though that’s on my list. Had a twenty year break from gaming until I got a steam deck recently so have loads to catch up on!
Jak and Daxter 2 via opengoal on Steam Deck. Such a clunky game, but it runs beautifully (except I had to stop right now because it crashed in the middle of the mission, but that’s one crash in several hours). This game feels like a sequence of levels that are just hard enough to be infuriating, but without feeling impossible. And the characters make it more interesting and easier to keep trying the same mission 20 times in a row.
Thanks for doing these, this is some top quality content!
I wonder if Microsoft is making dev mode free because hackers got close to a working exploit in retail mode. There was one shared almost an year ago, but it required a specific app from the store that had been deleted since, but maybe it led to something behind the scenes.
I’m playing through Celeste again. I only finished the main story when I played it before. I intend to finish chapter 8 and go through as much of the B/C sides as I can this time.
I’ve also been playing Stardew Valley and another game called vivid/stasis. I really like the story in vivid/stasis so far because it’s Sci-Fi, one of my favorite genres. There are some things that I don’t enjoy about the game, like the puzzles and the boss songs having health bars (the songs are just too difficult for the current me to beat with a health bar). Thankfully I can just skip the puzzles with a guide and the boss songs using the autoplay accessibility option.
Ahhhh my friend, who is a dev for Decky Loader, is obsessed with Celeste, and far-far-far better than I will ever be with it AND Vivid/Stasis… AA is that you?!
I’ve put in soooo much time on Stardew over the years that I think its one of those few games I just can’t go back to…I shudder to think of just how much time :)
What I’ve learned playing rhythm games is that taking breaks is important. When I hit a wall, I just take a break from that game and come back to it later.
For local multiplayer, Rounds with mods. If you mod in new cards/powers and turn on endless rounds, the powers inevitably become game-breaking in unique and hilarious ways after 10-20 rounds of stacked card power-ups.
Ci z pałami, którzy umawiają się na ustawki, nie chodzą na mecze. “Bo tam może być policja i oni eeee prowokują”.
A zresztą jakie określenie mieli wymyślić w latach 90 na ludzi którzy zajmowali się głównie biciem ludzi uznawanych przez siebie za fanów drużyny przeciwnej (ustawki to jedno, dwa że bardzo łatwo było wtedy zarobić w papę na własnym osiedlu będąc zwykłym człowiekiem otoczonym przez bandę frajerów w nocy pytających cię “za kim jesteś”).
To ta część bez zakazów stadionowych, albo ta która zaraz je dostanie. Hardkorowe ekipy mają inną mentalność, w ogóle piłka ich nie interesuje. Kiedyś, kiedy obstawy policji były mniejsze, kręcili się po prostu pod stadionami żeby np. po meczu wyłapywać ludzi w innych szalikach. Naprawdę, jak ktoś nie pamięta lat 90. to nie ma startu do rozmowy o czymkolwiek. Nie zapomnę derbów Łodzi podczas których jechałam tramwajem, w który ekipa ŁKSu rzucała kamienie, bo byli tam jacyś kibice Widzewa. Na szczęście było daleko i nie dolatywały. Za to jeden z następnych tramwajów został przez to bydło wywrócony. Z ludźmi w środku.
Just to preface, I have bias as a person who got a steam deck day 1 and love it with no plans of getting a switch 2 .
That being said it’s definitely on a per-person basis. The big differences are how comfortable you are with small “tinkering” because things work on the steam deck but small adjustments aren’t uncommon and how okay you are with not having Nintendo games like Mario Kart.
If you’re cool with both of those then I’d say Steam Deck! Otherwise waiting for the switch 2 is probably the move!
Not the most searchable since it’s main use is through it’s api (I use it through retrodeck/ES-DE which is for ROM libraries) but screenscraper.fr contains scans of boxart, title art, videos from the games, manuals that used to come with physical copies and a lot more.
If you want retro ROMs, I can’t help you since I don’t know if I can link to those types of sites but ask on !piracy and check their wiki linked at the top of the community.
I’m a collector of physical games, but with the last couple of models of PS5 lacking a disc drive and Nintendo’s Screwball “Game Key Card” situation with Switch 2, the writing is on the wall when it comes to physical games media. I just recently got a Steam Deck LCD model (I don’t need OLED) and couldn’t be happier. I don’t see myself getting a Switch 2 unless maybe it’s years down the road, pre-owned and with at least three decent exclusives (one would have to be a “Zelda BOTW 3”.) But no, Nintendo pissed away all their goodwill they built up as the common folk’s console with the OG Switch
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