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edgemaster72, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

So, did they actually get ports to non-PC consoles, or did console-form-factor PCs just become more prevalent?

TonyTonyChopper,
@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

They were “ported” to the Steam Deck. A Linux laptop. Which can run essentially any Windows software.

BlackAura,

With a built in game pad. And saying a game is SteamDeck supported means it supports SteamInput which means it supports the gamepad natively.

metallic_substance, do gaming w Just kill me

If this is happening to you, you may be in need of a CPAP machine and probably some long term fitness goals

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Why do people like Mario Kart?

Are you talking about Mario Kart World or Mario Kart as a franchise?

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

The franchise.

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

Ohhh well because it’s casual fun I suppose. Why is Mario party fun? Sure it’s RNG bullshit but the fun part is playing with friends.

Mario Kart World is not a 9/10 game. It’s a 7 at best compared to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

I’m waiting for Sonic CrossWorlds to see what a Game it brings. The creative director was passively trash talking Mario Kart so let’s see if it can back up the talk

zipzoopaboop, (edited )

I do not understand how world is as highly rated as it is. The levels are awful, too big and lacking anything to make them stand out, moving between tracks is dull and just leads to extra win-moring, auto attaching to rails fucks up more often than not causing you to over compensate or just jump off of it by accident, it feels like they game just overrides your input sometimes even without auto steering, 24 players adds nothing but chaos if you aren’t leading the pack and is likely the reason levels are way too wide and featureless, and I miss custom horns per character.

World is a 7 at best and 8 is like a 9.

Edit; oh yeah free roam is worthless. The list of events in DS was better without contributing to fucking up the level design to fit the gimmick

mhague, do games w Why do people like Mario Kart?

Children can consistently win in Mario Kart. Adults shouldn’t have trouble seeing how the RNG works and acting accordingly.

Zarxrax, do games w Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up

I’m a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.

There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn’t gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don’t think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn’t until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.

I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don’t make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online… It’s not a problem with the games, it’s a problem with the players.

SolidShake, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

I’m very confused… Before the steamdeck Alienware made steam boxes. We’re they good, meh. Would they sell like hot cakes today? Absolutely.

But calling a handheld PC a console is just weird. Nothing stops anyone from building a compact PC and just plugging it in to a tv… You could also just run steam os on it if you wanted to.

atomicpoet,

To me, what makes a console a console is the console experience. As in, you should be able to navigate everything with a gamepad.

SolidShake,

Yes. You can do that on PC. You can have steam run at startup andaunch straight into that one other mode it has. Or install steam os or bazzite etc. You don’t need a mouse and keyboard for a PC

atomicpoet,

Yes, you can do all that. Hence why I refer to Steam Deck as a consolized PC.

That said, the console experience on Windows 11 is subpar. Bazzite and SteamOS are far superior in this regard.

slaneesh_is_right,

So a pc

atomicpoet,

No, not all PCs offer a consoles experience.

slaneesh_is_right,

Yeah sorry, you also have to have the brain capacity to install steam

Venus_Ziegenfalle,
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The Steamdeck is as much of a PC as a PlayStation. As in yes they’re both PCs but specifically built for gaming. If you want to use them for other stuff you can but it’s not what most people buy them for. One runs BSD and the other Linux but the OS doesn’t determine what is and isn’t a PC. Your phone is a PC too. It’s an umbrella term.

Zos_Kia, do games w What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Kind of tangential but I’ve always found the start of fallout 3 (the iconic scene where you exit the vault) to be a lesson in game design. Here’s a completely open world but I can guarantee in ten minutes you’ll be at the entrance of megaton. No direct prompting, just subtle framing and environmental clues.

prole, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

Even without the Steam Deck, Steam Input allows basically any PC game to be playable on controller (or like, literally anything else).

I feel like it’s one of the more slept-on features of Steam.

Though yeah, it’s true that they’ve probably put more work into the feature because of how well it integrates with the Deck…

Elevator7009, do games w Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up

I have definitely bonded with people over video games. Playing them together, or playing them apart but doing so physically side by side, talking about them… most social groups I’ve been, even when they were not formed around gaming at all, went and made a Minecraft server for us to play together. I think it is telling that the fastest way to get me to open a game and start playing is if my other friends are playing. I am younger than your generation, though, so I’m definitely not helping your argument for retro games specifically.

Online play has helped a lot for when I am physically separated from friends. Just hop in a game and voice chat, and play together anyways.

ivanafterall, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

I played an earlier version of Baldur’s Gate 3 and encountered a bug where I couldn’t for the life of me figure out a way to progress without killing Karlach. I stopped playing that save-file, because I didn’t want to kill her. Now I’m going to revisit it after the big update from awhile back.

Siethron,

She wasn’t recruitable in her first instance during early release

conditional_soup, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*

I just… I will never be able to recruit Minthara.

JTPorkins,

I think you can knock her out and force her to join you, but even then…

DragonTypeWyvern,

At least it’s not 3.5 rules where mere association breaks paladin oaths!

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

You can knock her out instead of killing her. You can then save her from execution in Act 2 to recruit her. She can even have a bit if a redemption arc, iirc.

conditional_soup,

Oh no way! Agh! Okay, I know what I’m trying next time.

seejur,

There are some specific steps (knock her out before the hobgoblin boss, else she does not remain temporary hostile, and after you knock her out, you need to kill the other two bosses before the long rest, else she wake up and you need to knock her out again), but it’s feasible. There are a lot of YouTube video about it. She is in all my runs (she is one of the funniest companion), and I never killed the tielflings

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Arghhh

Why hasn’t anybody told me that before

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You need a mod for this. In Vanilla, if you save the grove, she’s treated as dead. At least that what happened for me.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t need a mod. They added it in Patch 6.

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh shit, I just killed her in my current playthrough because I thought it didn’t matter anyway. Which sucks. I really love her voice, and she has a fun arc.

Blackmist,

Honestly never even realised you could until I looked it up later. Just appeared to be another boss fight to me.

TORFdot0, do games w Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up

The 80s had some great games. Donkey Kong. Pac-Man. Galaga and Galaxian. Super Mario Bros 1,2,3. Zelda 1 & 2. Contra, Castlevania, Megaman

But the 90s had Mario World and Mario Kart. Super Metroid. Link to the Past. Donkey Kong Country. Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. Crash and Spyro. Sonic. Medal of Honor. Goldeneye. Half - Life.

I’d probably take the 90s slightly over the 80s. Heck even the 00s have Half-Life 2, the GTA series, the good Call of Duty’s and Halos. And the 2010s had RDR2 and GTAV.

2020s haven’t had any super great games yet though.

Nelots, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*

Its funny because I have no issue killing or robbing NPCs no matter how good or friendly they are. But the second any multiple choice response pops up, pictured below is me any time I hover over the rude answer.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/8de5ccec-d7bf-4113-8626-dc8456e59e76.gif

yogurtwrong, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*
@yogurtwrong@lemmy.world avatar
Nelots,

Yup, this was me. I picked up Stellaris probably not even a year ago at this point. While not entirely friendly, I at least made peace with my neighbors during my first play through. And then for my second play through I pirated all the DLC because holy fucking shit that’s expensive. I ended up becoming the crisis, blew up some stars, and eventually the whole universe. Good times.

missingno, do games w Why do people like Mario Kart?
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Are you really unable to understand why other people enjoy things? Is this a serious question?

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

I can understand why, but I wanted to hear their reasons for it.

I guess you’re just upset because someone was critical of something you like. It’s okay, I see it all the time.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

If you must know, I'm actually not a Mario Kart fan, played the older ones but haven't touched the series since DS. More of a Kirby Air Ride and F-Zero GX kinda guy. But I can still understand the appeal well enough to not post this kind of thinly veiled "I'm mad that other people like something I don't" thread.

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

Now you’re projecting.

I’m just going to ignore you.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Projection is when you said "I guess you're just upset because someone was critical of something you like."

Elevator7009, (edited )

I think people are very much taking this less as an “I’m curious, why do people find this fun? I want to understand” post, and more of a condescending “I think it’s not fun because I have taste and am presuming people who think it is fun do not until proven otherwise, now prove me otherwise” post. Some people, including me until I saw these comments, were seeing your post body that tells us why you don’t like the game less as sharing your own perspective and wanting someone to show you a bright side, and more as trying to denigrate people who see it as fun. I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think you can reread your post body and see how people might interpret a far less curious, far more judgmental tone from it.

To actually answer your question: I played Mario Kart Wii mostly as kid against the computer and other people, and a few times as an adult against other people. I like to think I was good at the game, that skill mattered and it wasn’t random and unfair. I won almost every time both against the computer, and against other humans. So I just didn’t perceive the game as “mostly random and unfair.” (Although now that I think of it, when I had the option I’d usually switch all items to Strategic against the computer, eliminating a lot of the catch-up items, so perhaps I did perceive it initially and just removed it from my experience to the point I don’t remember it? Although when I played against other humans it was usually on their console at their place with their settings, which probably didn’t have it set to Strategic.) The catch-up mechanics could sink me if I made a mistake, but if I drove well the whole course I almost always came out in front. Perhaps you’re thinking of later editions that I never played and have no opinion of, or the computer plays badly and the people I played against were bad at the game?

katze,

I can understand why, but I wanted to hear their reasons for it.

You make it sound like people make a pros and cons list before deciding whether to like something or not. We don’t choose what to like. People clearly have fun playing Mario Kart, that’s it.

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

It’s okay, I see it all the time.

I’m going to block you now. Real sick of people who can’t take criticism of the things they like.

katze,

What? 🤣 Last time I played a Nintendo game was probably in 1995 on a Chinese clone of NES (or SNES, no idea).

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