MajorHavoc

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MajorHavoc,

The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

MajorHavoc,

constrained in order to not break the game.

While that’s true, I suspect that whoever gets there first will get a free pass in the court of public opinion, so long as it’s a single player game.

“Look how awful my Sims are” is already a recurring gag hobby, anyway.

MajorHavoc,

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

MajorHavoc,

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

MajorHavoc,

Civ6 was buggy as hell on Switch. Anyone know if it’s stable on PC?

I want the hours I played back before it corrupted my game save, so $3 is still be too much to ask, to me.

MajorHavoc,

As someone who sometimes buys these, the price, when on sale, is often cheaper than buying wood and hardware to build my own outer cabinet, control deck and screen.

There’s trade-offs - the materials used aren’t quite as nice as I would pick, but then the included, already applied, art is very nice. And there’s the convenience of not having to plan out all the details like control layout, monitor, side art, top bezel.

To me, it’s really a piece of furniture, rather an affordable way to play the included games.

The CPU cores also only last about 5 years, for me. Which isn’t good, considering that a cheap modern computer will easily last 8-15 years.

I, personally, don’t give a ton of consideration to the included games. I’m really just buying the outer shell and licensed artwork. That’s what I’ll be looking at when not playing.

I’ll replace the innards with a Raspberry Pi when it dies, if not sooner. So I’ll play whatever games I want that fit the control scheme.

I also replace all of the controls, about half the time. The included controls outlast the CPU core, but don’t feel as nice to play on as a set that’s reasonably easy to replace them with.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

So, they are just a fancy decoration?

Exactly. There’s so many better ways to play these games:

  • Pandora’s Box
  • Batocera / Emulation Station / RetroPi on a Raspberry Pi
  • Various mini systems with a jailbreak (Sega Genesis Mini and PlayStation Classic are particularly good)
  • SteamDeck or PC with Emulation Station and RetroArch

So the price is really only justifiable, to me, by thinking of the cabinet being a piece of the decorated furniture.

MajorHavoc,

Pandora’s Box is a game machine, with games pre-loaded. It tends to have thousands of arcade games pre-loaded.

It’s a popular choice for restoring actual full size arcade machines, with dead motherboards. It’s also an option to upgrade (or just revive from motherboard death) an Arcade1Up.

With some effort, a cheap PC will do the same job, but some folks like that they’re premade and ready to use.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. You’re both right.

The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).

The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it’s running inside an arcade cabinet.

MajorHavoc,

This is fantastic. Well done!

MajorHavoc,

Sunset Riders is a great run and gun.

MajorHavoc,

I’ve had my eye on Helldiver’s 2, but I’m not creating a PSN account.

I know my $40.00 is pretty important to them, so I thought I would mention it here.

MajorHavoc,

Lol. Yeah.

Sorry, I left off the /s there.

MajorHavoc,

A third party login requirement is usually a deal-breaker for me, but not in an exciting way. I just have a lot of games to catch up on that don’t require me to go make an account.

MajorHavoc,

Exactly. The last year of news full of mistreating game developers caused my to retune my news feeds and Steam wishlist to completely exclude all triple A titles.

There’s years and years worth of great gameplay I haven’t experienced yet in the Indie game market.

I suspect I’m not alone in that.

MajorHavoc,

“We can say that, during his time at Telltale, Zak was one of the most talented, balanced and inclusive game directors we have ever worked with, and that is evident in the games he has delivered.”

That statement doesn’t read as the defense they think it reads as.

It reads as “all of our other game directors are somehow actually worse.”

MajorHavoc,

It’s my username. I’m a diehard fan, but MajorHavoc still kicks my ass around level 6 or 7.

MajorHavoc,

It’s hard to understand how this happened unless Microsoft wanted to close the studio and offered them independence instead.

Could be. Microsoft closing a studio wholesale after acquiring Activision would invite anti-trust action from various governments.

MajorHavoc,

If funny now, but if we’re honest with ourselves, it still pissed us off, then.

It felt like I would always find that damn screen sitting there waiting on an answer, after leaving the installer running overnight. I would click “no thank you” and then see “your installer is starting, progress 0%”.

MajorHavoc,

and we probably learned a lesson of some kind.

From now on, I’m going to tack that to the end of every game studio announcement I read, just to see how it fits.

MajorHavoc,

My wife played it for about 15 mins.

Heck yeah!

To me, few things compare to when my life partner is briefly mildly engaged with my hobby project:

third place celebration meme

MajorHavoc,

In my case: laziness. This version is just what came up in a quick search.

I thought it was odd, but I didn’t want to let the fellow kids know that I don’t know why it changed.

MajorHavoc,

Shit like this is why I moved away from Nintendo for my gaming platform of choice.

But take heart, Nintendo, I’ll try to make time to enjoy Nintendo first party games later on a pre-loaded cheap Chinese knock-off device.

Except, I definitely won’t because Nintendo will definitely succeed in stuffing the genie back into the bottle, and preventing their games from being enjoyed on un-approved platforms in un-approved ways. /s

MajorHavoc,

Nice. I’m rooting for Survivor to succeed, from the sidelines.

I’m not going to bother while it’s single player, but I’m cautiously optimistic for a multiplayer variant of DRG:Survivor in the future, should they make one.

It strikes me that a DOTA style game, built for the DRG player base, could be a ton of fun, and Survivor might grow in that direction.

I can’t be bothered by most current DOTA clones because their communities are famously toxic. Of course, I’m sure there’s already exceptions, but I’m not so desperate for a DOTA that I’ll do the research.

In any case, bringing the DRG community to a DOTA clone sounds like a good time. So I’ll keep an ear out for how Survivor develops.

MajorHavoc,

Marvel: Midnight Suns went on sale this week, and is living up to the early positive reviews.

I’m not far enough in to say if it will rival similar games I enjoy, or will replace Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance.

But the early game is fun, and the mechanics feel like they may get better as the learning curve and progress hit full gear.

Edit: And it’s already fun, in the early game.

MajorHavoc,

It might not have been the mod, honestly.

The difficulty curve is all over the place, even unmodded.

MajorHavoc,

“Game studio apologizes for misunderstanding a widely understood aspect of what their customers want.”

I keep seeing this headline. It’s…weird.

MajorHavoc,

For a moment, reading your post, I thought this was going to be a big moment for my username.

But alas. I’m a vector games fan, but your description isn’t ringing to any bells for me.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. Thanks to Tom Holland’s performance, it is somehow still too soon for this to not hurt.

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    MajorHavoc,

    If you’re a European citizen, your instance is likely in violation of your right to be done forgotten, and you may want to point that out to an admin.

    That said, if your instance doesn’t have any motive to respect European rules (i.e. if your instance provided your account for free, and so doesn’t have any money on the line), you may still be out of luck.

    If you’re a citizen other places, you’re probably out of luck, until your home state adds better privacy laws.

    MajorHavoc,

    Ostensibly, I am paying several games, but realistically, just a lot of Deep Rock Galactic.

    MajorHavoc,

    I like to think there’s a better alternate universe somewhere, in which Square made the correct decision, and named it “Final-er Fantasy”.

    Here’s a video of Doom running on gut bacteria, proving you really can play the game on anything (www.engadget.com)

    An MIT biotech researcher has been able to run the iconic computer game Doom using actual gut bacteria. Lauren Ramlan didn’t get the game going on a digital simulation of bacteria, but turned actual bacteria into pixels to display the 30-year-old FPS, as reported by Rock Paper Shotgun....

    MajorHavoc,

    “To be blunt, the frame rate is atrocious, likely due to the fact that bacteria were never intended to display 3D video games. It takes 70 minutes for the bacteria to illuminate one frame of the game and another eight hours to return to its starting state. This translates to nearly nine hours per frame, which means it would take around 600 years to play display the game from start to finish.”

    Made me giggle, anyway.

    MajorHavoc,

    spoiler for the first Avatar movieIt’s just Fern Gully

    MajorHavoc,

    Some holographic history projectors that fell through time from 2254 only briefly mention the upcoming Avatar sing-along, so it’s getting closer.

    MajorHavoc,

    Your description is also correct, according to the transitive property of Fern Gully/Pocahontas films.

    MajorHavoc,

    True.

    MajorHavoc,

    What we want are reliable DRM-free installers, that don’t make our PC get infected and don’t spy on us.

    What we can curently get (outside of piracy), is Steam.

    Piracy is looking better every day, and specifically, every time one of these services has a huge security breach.

    MajorHavoc,

    Why the fuck should I care about the damn launcher?

    DRM-heavy launchers have a history of spying on PC user activity, and of leading to malware infections. All well-known launchers, today, are DRM-heavy. (I would love tips on exceptions to this!)

    DRM tries to control your PC remotely. There isn’t, and never will be, a safe way to do that without increasing the risks of outside malware attacks succeeding against you and your PC. In most cases, the risk increase is quite high.

    Game launchers provide a trade-off between:

    • ease of installation and networking Vs
    • risk of malware infections

    Each additional launcher brings a lot more risk, and slightly less convenience.

    If it was just about the convenience, I agree - who cares.

    Many of us have lost entire digital game catalogs, or had to rebuild our gaming rig, or both, due to a remotely hacked game installer/service/launcher. So many of us are incredibly bullish against adding one more installer/service/launcher to our gaming rig.

    MajorHavoc,

    You have:

    No tea.

    MajorHavoc,

    Yeah, the Steam Deck (and clones) will be the cover story in this chapter of gaming history.

    MajorHavoc,

    I agree, thoughts are dire, from a AAA perspective, but the Indie scene is still hopping fun on Evercade and SteamDeck.

    This is actually why I got a SteamDeck - I’ll dip into the AAA titles occasionally, but the Indie games are what I pre-order now.

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