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averyminya, do gaming w Steam Deck OLED review: better, not faster

It feels so soon! How do I justify getting this when I still have my old model?

LoamImprovement,

If you’ve kept it in decent shape, the old model would make a great Christmas gift for somebody special?

Fermion,

Why would you make more e-waste if you were still happy with your deck yesterday? This is a relatively minor refresh.

shiveyarbles,

Heretic! Neverending consumption is the way

averyminya,

I enjoy OLED quite a bit and have yet to get any console with it. If I gifted mine, it wouldn’t really be e-waste.

I guess we aren’t allowed to want or have nice things though. :(

LemmyIsFantastic, do games w Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators

Finally. Screw the UK for holding this up. 100% pissy I ended up posting for Diablo instead of having it on gp.

timception, do games w Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators
@timception@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t even get D4 yet (but planned to) and all my friends have stopped playing it already ☠️ I don’t think they have anything else up their sleeve at this point. Seems they haven’t made anything new since warcraft.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Overwatch was amazing under Jeff.

timception,
@timception@lemmy.world avatar

Oof sorry I forgot about that one.

verysoft,

You say this, but Jeff was there when they started OW2. He was the one who even announced it and their plan to forcibly replace Overwatch.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

And he also stated that he had to fight for even the most basic beneficial things.

He also left not long after.

All signs point to them not listening to him due to greed.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Get D4 (Dungeons 4) instead! It’s coming out soon!

RobertOwnageJunior,

They are still pumping money like crazy though.

nathris,

D4 was dead the moment they announced D2R. Why would I pay $80 for a game with microtransactions and battlepass when I can pay $50 for a game that comes complete in box?

They should have taken D2R kept the mechanics and just rolled new classes, maps, and items.

I don’t want a new game, I just want more content.

Chewbacca48, do games w Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says acquiring Nintendo would be ‘a career moment’

Lol, keep dreaming Microsoft :P

ILikeBoobies, do gaming w The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026

That puts it at “at least” 15 years after the last entry in the series

Hard to imagine it will have much of a fan base

d3Xt3r,

But Bethesda could very well release a Skyrim Extra Special Edition in the interim, and fans will lap it up, no doubt. Jokes aside, there are many large fan-projects in the works which fans are looking forward to, such such as OpenMW, Skyblivion and Skywind, not to mention more “normal” mods for Skyrim itself, so I doubt the interest in the franchise is going away any time soon.

millie,

To be fair, Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 came out in the 90s.

ILikeBoobies,

I would have attributed it’s success to the success of Divinity and DnD

spacecowboy, do games w Meta is shutting down three Oculus games without explanation

Meta is a cancer on society and nobody should touch anything it produces with a 10 foot pole.

garretble, do games w This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new controller
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

They saw the 2013 Mac Pro and thought: “Yes.”

MentalEdge, do games w Meta is shutting down three Oculus games without explanation
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

If Echo Arena wasn’t safe, then neither is anything else.

HawlSera, do gaming w The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026

I’m pretty sure Elder Scrolls 6 never existed and was just made up to distract people from all the overreaction to Creation Club.

citrusface, do games w The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026

Why is this news?

Did anyone think after Starfield this would be coming out any time soon at all? Youre kidding yourself if you did.

woelkchen, do games w The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

We as Microsoft are the bastion of cross-platform releases. Our games run on Xbox and Windows.

dumdum666,

I don‘t support Microsoft in any way but it is kinda funny that some PlayStation Users seem to feel personally attacked that Microsoft starts to do all the exclusivity shit that Sony has done for ages. Quit treating the whole thing as a team thing - a my team vs. that other team thing. Sony AND Microsoft are companies that will both fuck you over within the blink of an eye if it will make them money or damage the other company.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I don‘t support Microsoft in any way but it is kinda funny that some PlayStation Users seem to feel personally attacked that Microsoft starts to do all the exclusivity shit that Sony has done for ages. Quit treating the whole thing as a team thing - a my team vs. that other team thing.

I don’t even own a PlayStation so why should I quit anything? In fact, I’m a PC gamer running Windows. I can make my dumb jokes as often as I like and when I want to make fun of the fact that both Microsoft and Bethesda claimed before the acquisition that it was not about removing cross-platform support for Bethesda games and Microsoft also claims to “❤️ Linux”, you cannot stop me, even if you’d like to.

I also find it hilarious that Microsoft apologists claim that “that Sony has done the same for ages” which is factually untrue. Sony hardly ever bought cross-platform games in-house for PlayStation exclusivity (maybe the would of they had enough spare money but they don’t). Sony also releases plenty of games for Microsoft platforms, including MLB The Show, Horizon, Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, etc. Heck, the recently announced Marathon reboot is confirmed to come to Xbox and not just PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. Much of my PC gaming in recent years was spent playing Sony games on Windows.

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I bought a PS5 because my old XBone was on the fritz, and the series x wasn’t available at the time… plus hardware failure from the Xbone made me lean towards Sony anyway. Hard-core console gamers also helped push me into it as well… “who cares about Halo, you will be able to play all the good games on either console”.

I have no team, and now I kind of regret even buying a console at all, it’s only real feature for me is it has a fast boot up time lol. Every other article about a new game seems to be a kick in the nuts to console owners.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Every other article about a new game seems to be a kick in the nuts to console owners.

Get a Steam Deck and every game release is a thrill ride of will the game run fine.

(Honestly, I love my Deck and stopped playing most AAA games because they annoy the fuck out of me with padding for length and ads for DLC and such.)

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

What’s the benefit of Steam deck vs something like Ally ROG? Genuine question, I have no horse in the race. (I can’t even find as much time as I wished to game in my free time at home, I am definitely not going to spend book reading time on subpar gaming)

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Ease of use. Windows on such a small screen is not much fun. For more details, look up some of the plenty comparisons on YouTube.

cypher_greyhat, do games w The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026

I have completely lost confidence in Bethesda.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I have completely lost confidence in Bethesda.

What did you think would really happen when Microsoft bought them?

cypher_greyhat,

Even before that. With Fallout 76’s launch, they just didn’t care anymore.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 76.

MattyXarope, do games w Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down

They had absolutely 1 thing to do:

Remake Saints Row 2.

And they continued to ignore what everyone wanted.

CaptKoala,

I never played 1 or 2, but 2 is the one I wanted remastered and yeah, they couldn’t even manage to remake the one folks wanted huge facepalm

BallShapedMan, do games w Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

I hope someone picks up their IPs. I want a good current gen Saints Row.

aaronstc,

They were owned by THQ Nordic so I assume they’ll retain the rights.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Got it, thank you!

all-knight-party, do games w AMD claims there’s nothing stopping Starfield from adding Nvidia DLSS
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

Seems sort of weird. They say "when we make a deal we expect prioritization of AMD features" but that they don't explicitly say you can't add DLSS. I think that's too much grey area to say for sure, especially when the one saying it is on one side.

geosoco,

There was a recent game announcement that was Amd sponsored that has both (I think it was the avatar game?). I think it's very likely many of the games are time or budget constrained, and so when they're given money from AMD they implement that first and if they've got time or previous code add DLSS.

This feels like the old console money that Sony & Microsoft would give where developers focused some extra optimization or early engine design around one platform because of extra funding. If I recall, Sony gave a bunch of money to xplatform games.

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