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wizzim, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Thanks for the news!

Since I am in holidays, away from my gaming computer, I’ve only played Bloons TD6 and a bit of Vampire Survivors…

On the other hand, my daughter took my new Steam Deck and played:

PerfectDark,
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I’m so happy to see your daughter stealing your Steam Deck (even if you’re not!) and enjoying some fun games. Have you tried Cassette Beasts? She might enjoy that, it’s my fav of the Pokemon clones!

wizzim,

:⁠-⁠)

Well she is having fun now, but soon it’ll be my turn enjoying the life, tinkering the Steam Deck to configure the emulators. Bliss!

Thanks for the Cassette Beasts recommendation. It was already on my wishlist but I’ll bump it up.

peculiar_goat, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Nice post!

Fan-made big box with a Civvie quote on the back… that’s the dream as an aspiring boomer shooter dev!

I’ve been playing Nine Sols on Steam Deck this week… getting my arse kicked and it’s making me kinda sad. I used to love difficult reflex challenge games like the From Software games, etc. But last year I was destroyed by a mystery virus and it did something to my brain. I’ve been feeling a lot better for the last few months and thought maybe I’ve finally recovered enough to play some hard games so I grabbed Nine Sols and yeah, I’m not quite there. But it seems like a really cool game! Urgh!

I’ve also been playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault which I grabbed in the GOG sale. Playing through on hard has been a blast (except the snipers, fuck those guys), and the early 2000s aesthetics are really nice… didn’t realise how much I missed this style as I usually go for 90s games when I’m feeling retro.

alehel, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Shame about Nightdive not getting permission to do Goldeneye. They’ve done great work in the past, and a remaster of Goldeneye would have been awesome to see.

Don’t be nervous, I love your posts, and I’m sure others do to 🙌.

peculiar_goat,

Yeah Goldeneye has a legit good campaign… would love to play it on PC with some modern convenience. The Perfect Dark decomp/port project is fantastic so maybe there’s hope for a Goldeneye port too regardless of what Nintendo says!

PerfectDark,
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Add to this you’d have to (maybe?) factor in what Amazon would say, because they now own the James Bond I.P.?

Its tricky, but its a shame we never got a ‘pure’ Nightdive version!

peculiar_goat,
sga, do astronomy w [Meta] Comm Clarification
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don’t think much about it, just post where ever you want

mesamunefire, (edited ) do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Just fyi, other companies like miyoo are thinking of stopping the US shipments as well. At least according to annon discord convos with support. But with the situation changing by the hour who knows.

PerfectDark,
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I’d say it’s inevitable. With Anbernic (arguably the bigger name of them all) saying no more, I’d say they’ll all halt them sooner rather than later.

No problem for those of us in Europe or…anywhere else in the world, but I’m sad for those stuck in America (well, those who voted for a different leader anyway) who have to suffer.

kiku, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Thanks so much for writing this. They are always so good and make me nostalgic for the old gaming magazines.

Noerknhar, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Thanks! I understand I can follow your Mastodon via Lemmy as well, right? Gotta find out how.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11
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I have fond memories of being the only one I knew with a Virtual Boy. My mom got it on clearance along with games like Teleroboxing and Galactic Pinball.

I’m currently in the last few hours of the DLC of Borderlands 2, trying to wrap it up before moving on to the Pre-Sequel.

My wife and I finished up Split Fiction and have moved on to Blue Prince, which we’re 3 in-game days into. We love a good puzzle game, and we’re told this one will fit the bill.

And besides those, I’ve still been replaying Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance for the first time. I made it to the titular city in the former and I’m still probably in early hours in the latter, probably about to get an introduction to a major character in the story (“The Prey” is the name of the quest that I’m on right now, if you’re curious).

Acamon, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Thanks! Intresting read, and I like the style.

Weebdeluxe, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Wow, thank you so much for this write-up! That Selaco box looks perfect!

PerfectDark, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11
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Okay, okay, there’s some iffy formatting on this one. Sorry!

threelonmusketeers, do astronomy w [Meta] Comm Clarification

I think that !space is the most general community, and communities like “!astronomy” and “!spaceflight” are subsets.

  • Interesting data from a telescope? Astronomy and space, but not spaceflight.
  • A new GPS satellite is launched? Spaceflight and space, but not astronomy.
  • The Perseverance rover drills into a neat rock on Mars? Space, but not really astronomy or spaceflight.
  • A new space telescope is launched? Definitely all three.

These are just my thoughts though, and I’d love to hear what others think.

@Bee, @otter, @Bitswap Thoughts on changing the display name of !space from “Space & Astronomy” to just “Space”? Not that astronomy posts wouldn’t be welcome, but it could help reduce confusion with this community.

Bitswap,

Yeah. Actually confused me for a minute and I had to go dig into all the different communities on mander.

I think it makes sense to change the display name.

otter,

I’m good with that too. A pinned post and sidebar list should help people know where to share content.

threelonmusketeers,

Friendly reminder regarding changing the display name of !space :)

otter,

Thanks! I’ve changed it now.

It looks like the icon and banner are broken, even on mander.xyz. @Bitswap, were you in the process of updating those? It could be a cross instance moderation issue. Otherwise how are these:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9e462620-bdd3-425f-a5dc-3415f1b95bab.png

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/5227d57a-a076-43cc-abff-23e7fe29d137.png

threelonmusketeers,

Thanks!

The new banner and icon look great! I like how the icon is partially transparent.

Ephera, do games w Every. Single. Game. Ever.

Also kind of breaks immersion when there’s tons of different enemies, but they never fight between themselves. Only when the player character shows up, they’re like, imma ruin this woman’s life.

audaxdreik, do games w Every. Single. Game. Ever.

Being kinda serious for a second here, I think this is a byproduct of chasing ever higher production values in service of “realism”. The more they try to spackle over all the cracks, the more the ones they can’t/don’t become obvious to the player. Just like movies, videogames often require a bit of temporary suspension of disbelief.

I’m not gonna write a whole essay about chasing some perfect, mythical balance here, but it’s a design aspect that I feel a lot of developers just don’t consider at all. Maintaining a high level of illusion is extremely difficult and not even always all that worth it. Sometimes it’s just nice to admit you don’t know why that enemy dropped a glowing hamburger that restored 25% health, but those are the rules you’re playing by and you don’t have to question it.

iAmTheTot, do games w need help finding a racing game
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