I actually had this game pre-ordered a long while back but with the huge upheaval around the developer I canceled it. I haven't played any other games by this developer but I like the concept art. Still, I remain ever apprehensive.
They’re jumping into a very crowded space, one where Valve is the first-to-market. That said, Valve is good at proving a hardware market viable and then flubbing at actually dominating it (VR, PC set-top boxes) so I could see somebody like Lenovo winning at this.
I’m kind of surprised they went for the Switch/Tablet form-factor for this instead of targeting the phone scale, but Lenovorola already cratered at trying to do this as a phone once before (Moto Z with the gamepad mod).
I’m kind of surprised they went for the Switch/Tablet form-factor for this instead of targeting the phone scale
It seems like every one of these new handhelds is trying to have the best specs in the market no matter what. The ROG Ally was sold as a more powerful steam deck, and now the Legion Go comes in with a better screen and battery. It does seem really big, though.
The Logitech G-Cloud is similarly top-specced and pricy, although iirc it’s supposedly more lightweight and comfortable than its counterparts. It’s getting very crowded in that space, I don’t envy any of these companies that jumped onto this band wagon and found everybody else doing the same thing at the same time.
I’ve tried using gamer-clips on my phone and the top-heavy weight distribution makes them uncomfortable despite the lower-mass of phone+controller, so I can see how that would be a design challenge. I still wish Lenovorola had stuck to it harder with the Moto-mods, but I suppose the death of the Atom processor line and Windows Phone means that any such device would have to be Android, and gamers want x86-64 PC-compatible devices, and that’s probably not doable in a phone form-factor.
I’m eyeing the GPD Win Mini right now. It’s not out yet and I’m waiting for reviews but it looks like a comfy small handheld with great specs. Not quite a phone form factor but it’s close enough. May be close to what you’re looking for.
Ooh, that’s neat! My only complaint looking at it is that they didn’t figure out some place to put a right-side thumbpad for a better mouse-mode. Joystick mouse emulation is a miserable solution, and the central thumbpad is too far for gaming (ask anybody who played Mario 64 or Metroid Hunters on the DS). My dream machine would be to use the old Blackberry trick of making the right-side of the keyboard able to masquerade as a touchpad (you literally run your thumb along the keyboard and it’s a pointing device), add a face-toggle-button to switch between mouse-mode and keyboard mode, and then add a scrollwheel shoulder-button.
Valve wasn’t first to market by a long shot. Valve was the first to offer a great price and a great operating system. But the general category of devices existed long before the Deck. They just were fucking expensive.
Meanwhile, the game won't even launch for me because apparently if you don't have the most recent version of Windows, it won't recognize your graphics card. And for whatever reason absolutely refuses to update to 22H2.
Oh, thanks for posting that second video! I'm sure the action video works great for some people, but it's not my style, I find those highly stylized, quick cut, action videos can be very misleading about how a game is actually played. They must be effective though because game developers always seem to release trailers like that... Anyway, the second video with the actual gameplay looks very promising, I'm excited for this game!
This isn’t the steam deck? It’s a Lenovo handheld? The comment I replied to said it was probably running windows - so I said - just install Linux? What does the steam deck running Linux have to do with this other device? I haven’t read the article - I was just telling the commenter they didn’t have to stick with windows if that was the OS.
Seriously sorry if I have offended anyone. I know the steam deck runs Linux, I just missed the connection you made.
It definitely doesn’t look like it would be fun to play; but having played PowerWash Simulator, there is something very relaxing about the gameplay loop.
It definitely isn’t for everyone, and it isn’t the most challenging game; but that doesn’t mean it can’t be relaxing and fun.
In any case, I don’t expect this to turn you around on the game, but it’s not as ridiculous a premise as you’d think.
I’m loving this game. If you want, here’s the longer version of that answer. 😀 my wife has also become hooked and is playing it on her Switch.
Apart from the DeLorean, I wonder what else they’re could be? Biff’s 1955 car, the Toyota pickup truck, the Libyans VW camper van or maybe some locations? Looking forward to it.
I love it for the most part, the only thing I wish they’d change is the cleanliness tols for smaller or larger objects. It’s not fun to try and pixel hunt the last bit of rust on the inside of a wheel, and it’s a little disappointing to get almost done with a big flat panel only for the game to decide you’re done before you can spray off that last little chunk.
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