chronicledmonocle

chronicledmonocle, 9 dni temu (edited 8 dni temu)

There is no “TV version”. The switch docks to a docking station to make it output to a TV. You just need a docking station and controllers to make a single Switch into a shared screen experience in the living room. Anyone’s Switch can use the dock.

Physical games are sharable, but only one device can use that game at a time, because they’re physical cartridges.

Personally, I’d go with a Steam Deck over a Switch, unless your family specifically is looking to play Switch games that are exclusive to it (which technically with emulation the Steam Deck can also play, but that’s not legal unless you own a switch and the game). The nice thing about Steam games is that Steam’s Families feature lets you share the entire game library digitally to 5 family members, so unless they want to play the same game at once, you only buy games once and they can all play them. There are also some games that let you own one copy and let multiple people play multiplayer at once on it, too.

Plus, games on Steam are cheaper than Switch games and the Steam Deck is only a bit more money upfront than a Switch is, especially on sale, which I expect it to be on sale for Black Friday coming up.

Finally, Steam games also can be played on a PC. Any PC. The Steam Deck is just an easy to use, skinned UI PC. As such, when the Steam Deck becomes obsolete, you don’t have a bunch of games that are now locked to an obsolete platform. There are PC games that are decades old that still play on PCs today (although sometimes a bit of fiddling is required for REALLY old ones).

Edit:

FYI the regular switch and OLED can dock. The switch lite cannot.

chronicledmonocle, 8 dni temu

Yes this is true. I’ll edit my original post.

chronicledmonocle, 8 dni temu

OP doesn’t say how old their kids are. Could be teens with plenty of aptitude, but if they’re younger…the switch may be the better option.

As for emulation, I was more just was saying it’s possible. For single player games it’s fine, if done legally.

chronicledmonocle, 2 miesiące temu

Yes they do.

chronicledmonocle, 2 miesiące temu

There are plenty of “kids” movies and TV that are excellent for adults, too.

Listing a few:

1. Bluey
2. Most of Pixar
3. Adventure Time (after Season 1)
4. Star Wars Rebels/Clone Wars (again, after Season 1)
5. Shrek
6. Star Trek: Prodigy

This is not an exhaustive list, but you get the point.

chronicledmonocle, 2 miesiące temu

I don’t trust any corporation. However, Valve has treated customers with respect and doesn’t try to bend us over. For that, I’ll keep buying from them.

However, I fear for the day Gabe Newell is no longer running the show.

chronicledmonocle, 2 miesiące temu

To be fair, Rocket League runs fine in Proton.

Also, to be fair…agreed. Fuck Epic.

chronicledmonocle, 3 miesiące temu

Same here. I’d love to see what Valve have been up to.

chronicledmonocle, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Is DLSS an open standard like FSR? No? Ok then it doesn’t matter if DLSS is marginally better.

chronicledmonocle, 4 miesiące temu

I mean you could say the Steam Deck is “just KDE on Arch”.

The difference is how they implement it and what it’s used for. This could be huge for “apps” on the Steam Deck, for example. Or it could be a quirky experiment or feature nobody uses. Time will tell.

chronicledmonocle, 4 miesiące temu

Game Publishers: complains about how users expect endless content

Also Game Publishers: Mostly pushes for live service games and Free-to-Play

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chronicledmonocle, 4 miesiące temu

I was speaking of the gaming industry as a whole. I know very little about this developer. Perhaps they’re one of the good ones swept up in unfortunate-ness.

chronicledmonocle, 4 miesiące temu

Most of the time it ends up shovelware, though.

chronicledmonocle, 4 miesiące temu

Not saying they are. Just the ones that are the biggest and make the most money

chronicledmonocle, 6 miesięcy temu

Sonic Team is amazing. I’ve never seen a studio fail to make a good game for as long as they have and SOMEHOW still be told to make more.

The only good Sonic game in recent memory was a game that wasn’t even made by Sonic Team: Sonic Mania.

chronicledmonocle, 6 miesięcy temu

Meanwhile the Steam Deck is selling like gangbusters.

chronicledmonocle, 6 miesięcy temu

I think it’s more important that it gives Valve a method of avoiding being shoehorned into a “Windows only world”. The Steam Deck is largely why Linux has pushed past 2% market share on the Steam Hardware Survey consistently now. Holo, which is the codename for SteamOS on the Deck, makes up over half of Steam on Linux.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not dillusional. Windows is still far and away the majority platform and will be for some time. However, there is a real, functional choice now that didn’t exist a few years ago.

chronicledmonocle, 6 miesięcy temu

Chicken and Egg. Linux is barely above 2%. When it breaks 10-20% market share, I expect companies will start making native ports more common.

The fact that proton/dxvk/vulkan/wine let’s things just work with little to no changes is already pretty incredible.

chronicledmonocle, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m a cis guy and I play primarily female characters. I will play male characters, but I find it fascinating to roleplay as a female character. It’s something I’ll never experience in real life and I find female characters are often more interesting.

IMHO if you’re going to pretend/imagine yourself as the character you’re playing, I feel you might as well do something that isn’t you for the experience. Otherwise, what’s the point of putting yourself in a characters shoes if you just make yourself in that world? I already know how I’d be in any situation…because I’m me. Hell, in RPG games I’ll even sometimes romance male characters, if thats an option(Playing Femshep in Mass Effect, I will often romance Garrus Vakarian, for example).

Then again, I’ll also sometimes explore LGBTQ+ relationships, if they’re offered, playing as either male or female characters, even though I’m not interested in that in real life.

Is it a little weird? Probably, but it also helps me understand what it might be like for other types of people and how to better understand and sympathize with their life struggles and experiences. RPG stands for Role Playing Game, after all.