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copymyjalopy, do gaming w My primary use of portable consoles has been lounging around the house.

I use my Deck when I travel ( which is all the time). I bust that thing out on the plane, on public transit and in my hotel room. I literally do not care what people think of me by doing so.

Bob_Robertson_IX,

I travel for work quite a bit and always take my Deck with me. Not only is it great in the airport and on the the plane, but then when I get to the hotel I can often hook it up to the tv.

2 weeks ago I was in Podunk, Ky for the week and got over 50 hours of Rocket League in from my hotel bed.

Rekorse,

What a save!

ChapulinColorado,

Used to travel for work and a switch at the time with BotW was a life saver for entertainment after work for the days we didn’t have some work get together planned (those were mostly Thursdays or Fridays). I have really good memories of that game.

I remember a work contact tipped me off on when they would be arriving to the target near work (he knew one of the people working there). Thankfully they were not being scalped enough and you could still find them for retail prices on that area.

0xD,

I take my film camera with me and explore the places I’m at with nothing to do. Just gotta invest in a good, light, as small as possible tripod for night shooting already.

drmoose, do games w Skill issue

I have noticed that all of these misogynists are incredibly insecure alpha-pretending males. Can’t imagine how tiring this constant fear must be.

ShinkanTrain, do games w Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year

Meme of Giancarlo Esposito / Gus adjusting his tie with the caption “You won’t buy Assassin’s Creed Shadows because you’re racist, I won’t buy it because Ubisoft games are shit. We’re not the same”

VitoRobles,

I hate that I’m on the same side as the racists though.

Thanks a lot Ubisoft.

ShinkanTrain,

It’s Far Cry 5 all over again

lnxtx, do games w Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale?
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frunch,

Click the squares containing a motorcycle

catloaf, do games w I'm tired of every game being live service

There are dozens of other very good games for every one live service. Find some you like and play them.

dinckelman, do games w PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug

I don’t understand how giant corporations repeatedly get away with treating their customers like they’re completely fucking stupid.

Some manager purposefully ordered the engineers to put the ads there. That’s how they ended up there

SkyNTP,

Cause consumers let them.

Why do consumers let them? It’s just step one of enshittification : first, be nice to your customers until they become dependent on you and you’re the only game in town…

slaacaa,

Mostly it’s the lack of competition.

On one hand, regulators allowed big companies to become monopolies, so we don’t have a choice. Imagine if instagram and whatsapp were not part of facebook, how different social media would be? Or if bumble and hinge were competing with tinder, not just all being a part of match.com.

And on the other hand, we have examples like the console “war”, where Xbox messed up this generation so hard, that Sony now can do whatever they want.

OrionTheElder,

I don’t buy it. PC and Nintendo are more than enough competition. Sony has always been this way and they always will be. Company culture doesn’t change, Nintendo will always be letigious, Microsoft will always seek acquisitions and Sony will always be arrogant.

Defaced, do games w It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation

For what it’s worth, Robin Walker and his team are working on the next half life after Alyx. Will that ever come out? I have no idea and I’m not expecting anything. Deadlock however is a game designed by one of the grandfathers of the moba genre, and has had over 20k concurrent players at any given time, and it wasn’t even announced with it’s existence only known through word of mouth. That’s insanely impressive and shows how huge the moba genre really is and how those players are thirsty for a new game from a big company. It sucks and I wish we had more sp valve games but I’m content with the work they’ve done on proton, steamos, the steam deck, steam itself, and half life alyx. They haven’t been sitting on their hands not doing anything, they’ve been putting their focus on more technical areas versus making games and that’s ok.

BradleyUffner,

For what it’s worth, Robin Walker and his team are working on the next half life after Alyx.

Got a source for that? I’m genuinely interested in reading more, but I don’t remember seeing anything about it in my usual places.

Defaced,

eurogamer.net/more-evidence-of-fully-fledged-half…

It’s called HLX, and it’s apparently a traditional non-vr game. Robin Walker was leading the Alyx team, it’s a safe bet he’s leading this team or working with this team on the sequel.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Having HL:A Alyx be VR was super cool. The game was so immersive and for a while afterwards, I was convinced that any furure HL game had to be VR. Then the novelty wore off and the VR market basically is basically dead. Now I’m excited for another flat screen HL game.

CrabAndBroom, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

Disco Elysium is 90% off. $54.49 $4.54 (that’s in Canadian, not sure about the US price exactly.)

I honestly couldn’t even tell you what it’s about, but it’s one of my favourite games ever. You can die from reading a book that’s too sad and if you do it right, you can smell communism.

Kecessa,

Disco Elysium is always free, the devs got fucked and won’t get a cent from sales, everyone should pirate the game.

cyberpunk007,

I picked this up on gog a bit ago. I have yet to start it.

Shakes fists violently at >400 hours into elden ring

Hadriscus,

after the first few hours I just couldn’t put it down

danciestlobster,

DE is fantastically well written, equal parts emotional and hilarious depending how you play and one of my all time favorite games. Big recommend

RabbitMix,

I really wanted to like this one but I just can’t handle being as much of a fuckup as this game will inevitably make you.

Hadriscus,

The ending makes it all up. It’s like a slow, painful crawl back to the surface.

paddirn, (edited )

Incredible game that can be a little jarring for people who are probably expecting something like Baldur’s Gate 1&2, Fallout 1&2, or some other kind of isometric killfest RPG. It essentially turns the dialogue into 90% of the game, but the dialogue is so damn good that it doesn’t matter.

It also takes getting used to damage, as sometimes you can “die” in seemingly random ways. I was on a rooftop, I think trying to reach for a scarf or something, and failed my roll. That caused me to apparently get so depressed that I lost the game. I can’t remember which stat/trait it was but I think there’s a morale or mental trait you have to watch out for too.

Pirate this game if you wanna give it a try, don’t ever buy it. This is what the developers have advocated for and it actually fits right in with parts of the game itself.

Blackmist,

I got a game over because I sat in an uncomfortable chair.

Lemvi, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.

Of all the shit Ubisoft does, not selling on steam is the dealbreaker? Alright.

VelveteenUnderground,

Lol right? Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Why is steam the only acceptable DRM?

Because it’s optional and if opted in, works offline.

FlorianSimon,

Ubisoft’s launcher also has an offline mode, though, does it not?

improbablypoopingrn,

You lost me at ‘ubisoft’s launcher’

msage,

I remember playing Far Cry 3 on Steam way back when… It opened up uPlay. I was not happy, but what can you do.

So I played for a bit, then… the game crashed. Nothing seemed to be wrong with the game, but the uPlay lost connection. Everything else worked just fine. Happened several times after that, never bought anything else from Ubisoft.

Even if their launcher isn’t such piece of shit anymore, I don’t care.

snooggums,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

Plus it works so smoothly I never even think of it as DRM, I just notice all the positives.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Plus it works so smoothly I never even think of it as DRM

AFAIK SteamWorks DRM is something developers have to actively implement in their games. From what I understand, by default Steam is merely a delivery system without DRM.

zecg,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

Yes. Ubisoft’s Rayman Origins works with no launcher, just copy steam’s game dir and you can run the game exe on another computer.

mhz,

As a linux gamer, a game that is not available on Steam is a game i won’t even bother checking. I can easily run non-steam game using lutris or heroic-game-launcher but I prefer to stick to my walled garden than step in their’s.

kattenluik,

It’s generally easier to install a pirated repack of a game via Steam and Proton than using their awful launchers.

technomad,

No, they should definitely be accountable for all the other shitty things too. This is just a game I was actually kind of excited for, hence why I’m upset about it.

MeanEYE, do games w What's up with Epic Games?
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

In short, Epic is anti-consumer. They claim better support for developers, but in reality consumers are the one paying for that. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but you the consumer have no choice in it. You are forced through exclusives and other limitations to use inferior service for the same price. Even free games they give are there to drag you into their ecosystem and abuse.

This is why Valve doesn’t feel threatened, I assume, and is not likely to feel the pressure from Epic anytime soon. For that to happen, Epic would have to get on par with features and customer benefits equal or better than Steam and that’s not happening anytime soon. Epic would rather throw hundreds of millions on exclusive deal with some developer and force you the consumer to buy the game on EGS than actually improve the service.

Colorcodedresistor, (edited ) do gaming w Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

As someone who used to run a louis rossman electronics repair business for a couple years before i burned out.

LG G5 was and still is my point to for perfectly fixable devices.

Motorola is trash because you have to dismantle the phone from the back layer by layer just to reach the front screen.

HTC was even worse with two tier motherboards and octopuss ribbon cables were a nightmare to navigate.

iPhone was/ is possibly the easiest fucking phone to fix, ironically…however by the iphone 8 and onwards apple found increasingly shitty ways to make 3rd party repairs nearly impossible.

windows phones, nokia, and others were hit or miss. tablets were long winded affairs but generally easy due to their inherent size.

ive been out of the game since 2019 when covid dropped. id really like to hear the inside baseball on any current operators running repair business.

i used Repair Shopr software to manage my customers. idk if thats still the go to or if another has bested it.

TheGalacticVoid,

Any opinions on Samsung or Google?

bjoern_tantau,
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When I couldn’t repair my Nokia and replace the 5 € USB-Port because there happened to be a small crack in the screen (of course you have to remove the glued on screen to accese the innards), I caved and bought a Fairphone 3.

Worst decision ever. The stupid thing refuses to break to let me even use the better repairability.

domi,
@domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

Good to hear, got a Fairpone 5 recently and I’m very happy with it so far.

Although breaking it probably won’t take more than a year for clumsy me.

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Honestly, I think I’ve never dropped a phone as much as this one. And apart from a few scratches there’s nothing. I think it’s the battery cover that usually just pops off like on the indestructible Nokia phones of decades past.

Really funny how I can use Nokia as both a positive and a negative example.

jarfil,

I think it’s the battery cover that usually just pops off like on the indestructible Nokia phones of decades past.

“Battery cover”, or… “kinetic energy redirector” 😉

vaalla,

I manage to break 2 usb conectors in 1 year.

AdamHenry,

Just in case you were wondering, Motorola is still trash. I bought the G5 and I absolutely hate it.

dhtseany, do games w Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'

All of the selfish things I’m learning from the comments in this thread about what Microsoft has been doing with their console such as banning aftermarket tech like controllers or generic SSDs is why I finally quit buying consoles entirely years ago and why I stopped paying for Xbox live. Enshitification is a real thing, my dudes.

haui_lemmy,

I‘m very happy with the steam tv link app. It works great and you have a lot more games to choose from afaik.

Nibodhika,

The majority of PCs are Windows, which is only marginally better.

dhtseany,

Well luckily for me I’m running Arch Linux so no concern there

PieMePlenty, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Drama drives these things. I totally understand Ross not wanting to engage in it 10 months ago but look at what it can do.

NuXCOM_90Percent, (edited )

Yeah. It has rapidly turned an initiative that was already unnecessarily combative toward devs (fuck the publishers though) and associated it with harassment and review bombing games that are actually Doing It Right just because they worked with the wrong third party studio. Not to mention all the “Well, we don’t agree with everything asmongold says, but let’s call a truce so long as he is gonna let us play our video games”

And… honestly? I have disliked thor since LONG before all y’all realized he isn’t the world’s best WoW player or he has an opinion you don’t like because he was considering things from the perspective of the people who would be doing the work to enact these “simple requirements”.

But it feels REAL fucking everyday normal to watch people immediately go from “the harassment campaign that led to the death of Mikayla Raines was horrible” to “Let’s fucking ruin Pirate Software’s life and attack him and everything he has ever associated with because we are morally righteous”

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s be real here; arrogant twats don’t off themselves. Too much ego.

JoeKrogan, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

The outer worlds . it was just meh in my opinion. Not to be confused with the outer wilds game that I’ve yet to play

TheGreenWizard,

I was going to say outer worlds as well (outer WILDS is a fantastic game IMO) the game was entirely competent, just unimpressive in every way. Except Pavarti, she is a precocious sugar dumpling and must be protected at all costs.

ItsMrChristmas,

Actual conversation had with my wife, who was watching me play near the end:

“That chick is cute. I bet her romance is adorable!”

“She’s aromantic and asexual, you can’t romance her.”

“I bet her quest line is fun”

“Nope. It’s a really boring fetch quest where you set her up on a date with some bland woman old enough to be her mother. She is also very obviously sexually and romantically attracted to this woman.”

“…huh.”

I love Parvati but Drinking Sapphire Wine is a terrible quest.

drosophila, (edited )

I thought The Outer Worlds was violently mediocre, and yeah, its really long uninteresting fetch quest, but:

  • Parvati says she’s not interested in physical affection, but I don’t recall her ever saying she was aromantic. The closest thing I remember is that she feels like she’s better at dealing with machines than people, which definitely doesn’t mean the same thing.
  • I also don’t recall her ever saying anything sexual about Junlei?
  • how old does this woman look to you that you think she could have a 28 year old daughter?

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/c18966c8-c59d-4a83-8952-a6e0350ea12d.webp

TheGreenWizard,

The quest was nothing new sure, but the reason I’m doing the quest? I want her to have the best dam date ever. I just wanted to see her happy and help her get ready for her date. Not sure what they were talking about with her being aromatic, don’t remember that. And about the age thing? not sure what they meant by that either, she looks the same age as Pavarti to me.

Nindelofocho,

Outer Wilds is absolutely superb if/when you get it try to get the DLC too its a good value. Steam summer sale coming up soon if you’re in the states

overload,

Loll, people will never stop getting these confused

KuroiKaze,

Well, I can sort of be impressed with what outer wilds did. I didn’t actually find it all that much fun to play, whereas I completed the outer worlds.

kazerniel, do gaming w Let's hear both sides
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

Haha yea I always check out the negative reviews first - either they quickly show that I’d be wasting my time with the game, or the negatives they highlight are actually neutral or positive for me, either way I generally find them better value/time than positive reviews. (Especially when a significant portion of positive reviews are memes, award-begging copypasta, or “best game ever” with no further details.)

HollowNaught,
@HollowNaught@lemmy.world avatar

I do the same. If the negative reviews highlight a consistent issue that I have an issue with and hasn’t been fixed, then I doubt I’ll be buying the product. Doesn’t have to be distinct to steam, either

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

If Steam would let people leave positive reviews without a comment there would be fewer low value comments.

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

I think Valve severely escalated the problem when they introduced the award system. Now people are extra motivated to cash in a quick laugh, or provoke outrage for the Clown awards. What boggles my mind the most is that hundreds of people give awards to the same copypaste comments that appear under every major game. I sometimes try to report the reviews of the spammiest accounts, but Valve is really hands-off with their moderation. At the end of the day they profit from the points system, and as always, user experience takes a firm second seat to profits :/

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