missingno

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus last year, just an impulse buy because it was on sale dirt cheap. Ended up liking it so much I wish I'd bought a more expensive model with analog sticks.

Meanwhile, my Deck gathers dust because it's just too bulky too fill the void left behind by the GBC/GBA/DS I grew up on.

First manufacturer to get SteamOS running on a form factor that fits in my pocket gets my entire bank account. Doesn't have to be beefy, just needs to run all my favorite 2D indie games.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Hi. I'm the guy that wants a low-spec model that fits in my pocket. I exist. Just gimme something that can run my favorite 2D indie games and I'm happy.

I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus last year and ended up loving it far more than my Deck, which is actually just gathering dust still. And now I dream of seeing SteamOS in that size.

But nothing you're describing will fit in that kind of form factor. So if you want to enforce minimum specs, you're really telling me I can't have my dream handheld.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

What are you hoping to get from SteamOS that you aren't able to get from any other Linux distro?

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

An Android device doesn't run my Steam library.

I'm aware of Portmaster, but that's a manual process that is only possible for certain engines. Whereas SteamOS can just run all my games.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

I definitely feel like my tastes have narrowed with age. Or maybe it's just that I've found a few games to really really fall in love with, and not much else pulls my attention away from grinding those top favorites.

When I was a kid, I could only get a new game every few months or so, so I kind of had to make the most of each one. Now I've got several hundred games in my Steam library, and more than half of are unplayed, because they don't grab me enough to boot them up over playing another ranked online set of riichi mahjong today.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

It really depends on what games you play. Some of my favorite games are so niche that 'matchmaking' simply consists of Discord pings. The upside of that is that you will get a very close-knit community out of it.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Anything 2D should run on a toaster.

I'm legally obligated to shill CrossCode as the greatest RPG ever made.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Undertale, but at this point you'd have to have lived in a cave for the last decade to not know most of the spoilers by now.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

There are definitely plenty of games, especially those with harsh skill curves, that do benefit from knowing what you're getting yourself into.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Almost everything I play is just 2D indie games, practically any 2D game should run just fine on that.

There are so many great 2D games I could rattle off that I almost don't know where to start. But since you mentioned RPGs, I am legally obligated to shill CrossCode at any opportunity.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

Shame about nearly everything else Sega has done to the franchise since.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

"Nice scarf. Do zey make zem for girls?"

"Nice face. Do they... uh, shut up."

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

GameFAQs

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Puyo Puyo Champions - help me I'm relapsing

Riichi Mahjong - Been doing way too well in my IRL games all season. I think that means I'm due to lose this week. That's called like Gambler's Theorem or something, right?\

Blue Revolver: Double Action - This has been sitting in my Steam library and I saw it got a big update. Learning how to play a shmup is on my bucket list, but so far I cannot get any further than stage 4 on the lowest difficulty. Very fun though, and banger OST.

Also went down to Round 1 today, haven't been in years. Played a few rounds of Wacca, Chunithm, Arcana Heart, and Chaos Code.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Steam Forums really are a hellhole that has allowed the worst toxicity to incubate and spread. They've got to crack down.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

I think HL3's meme status is the only reason a lot of gamers today do know it. If it had come out, it would've been forgotten.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

This new edition concludes the Half-Life 2 development story, with never-before-seen concept art from Episode One and Episode Two, along with ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be.

Not that it should be a surprise to anyone, but is this the first time Valve has openly admitted that Episode 3 is officially cancelled?

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

There's an entire genre of fantastic arcade/versus puzzle games not named Tetris. And that whole genre lies forgotten in ruins now. The one game that survived the longest was Puyo Puyo, but ironically, you can blame Tetris for killing that IP in the end.

I wish any developer luck in trying to do anything at all with this genre, give me something new and I will be first in line to buy ten copies. But I don't think Pajitnov, or anyone else for that matter, will ever find even 1% of the success Tetris did. I just don't think audiences still want this genre anymore, they just want Tetris and only Tetris.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

This dumbass contacted Nintendo to taunt them about how he's gonna stream leaked pirated copies. Hard to have sympathy for this idiot for poking the bear.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Mobile very quickly turned into a race-to-the-bottom. When the market is flooded, any paid title has an incredibly difficult time standing out. So in order to get players in the door, you gotta make it f2p. And in order to maximize profits for a f2p game, you gotta employ all the worst dark patterns, because that's what all your competitors are doing too.

And this has led to a feedback loop of consumer expectations. People understand that this is just what mobile is now, so people who want anything else have given up on mobile and are instead buying games on other platforms. Releasing a premium title on mobile is basically just trying to sell to the wrong audience.

missingno, 5 miesięcy temu

Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I'm still cracked.

Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.

Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where'd I leave off again?

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Bring back versus puzzle games. Puyo Puyo is more or less the only surviving IP today, and even that is only barely on life support now that Sega has banished it to Apple Arcade exclusivity.

The whole damn genre lies in ruins now and I miss it so much. Someone, anyone, make a new game please.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Rivals has found its niche, but I don’t think even that is pulling in the kinds of numbers Warner expects for a AAA they sunk this much money into.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Some games I'm excited enough for to want to spend full price on release. Some games I'll wait for a sale on. Just depends on the game.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

What am I supposed to be looking at here?

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Unlike the Gamecube and Xbox, which used DVD-like discs but just weren't licensed as DVD players (though Xbox later sold a "DVD Playback Kit" meant to cover licensing fees), Dreamcast's GD-ROMs were closely based on standard Compact Disc technology, just with dual-layer discs.

Upgrading the hardware would've increased costs considerably, GD-ROMs were meant to be a lot cheaper than the still very new DVD technology. Tech that did get cheaper by the time the PS2 hit the market nearly two years later, but Sega wanted to be early.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Chess.

For most games, it's not difficult to make AI that can absolutely destroy humans. But it turns out to be very difficult to make AI that feels like a fun and engaging challenge to a human. Hardest of all is making AI that realistically plays like a human does.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

The slowdown problems you experienced may be relegated to the Switch version, because...it's the Switch.

It's a 2D puzzle game. It's not doing anything the Switch shouldn't be able to handle. Champions never had any problems. Even the Wii was perfectly capable of running 20th, and not much has actually changed since then.

Like, I know the Switch is not the beefiest system ever, but this is not a game that should need a PS5 Pro or whatever.

You may not like playing against bots, but you'd also hate playing against absolutely no one.

That's the current state of every platform but Switch.

I'm well aware that crossplay isn't trivial, but it's too important to not be a priority. If you're making a multiplayer game and you want it to have a playerbase, crossplay is vital to keep your game alive. A publisher the size of Sega has the resources to get it done.

I don't know that some new game is going to solve the player acquisition problem without a new gimmick.

Does simply being content-complete count as a gimmick? It's something we still haven't seen yet in the west. I think 20th and Chronicle had a ton of great things to offer new players. Chronicle's JRPG story mode might be the most innovative onboarding experience any puzzle game has ever seen.

Too bad the west never saw it.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Aside from live service games that are dependent on the devs' servers, and anything that uses more intrusive DRM (note that while Steamworks DRM is a thing, quite a lot of games don't use it anymore and ones that do are very easily cracked), they can't actually take the bits off my computer.

DRM-free games are still considered a license too, at least as far as the law is concerned. Even physical games are. But I'm not worried about anything that can't be enforced.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

This is a totally unsatisfying answer, but your only actual recourse, if you want to keep using steam, is to reach out to them and express your displeasure at their updated TOS and its implications.

Valve's TOS hasn't actually changed. The new law just requires them to more clearly disclose that a license is not ownership, but that was always the case.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Good showcase, but feels a bit strange not to use an actual handheld game for the LCD comparisons.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

This is an excellent article that covers how and why the VC died.

People say they want it back, but most titles never sold all that well back then.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah, I stopped buying from the VC when the Wii U asked me to pay to "upgrade" my games.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

• Celeste
• Most Kirby games. Skip Amazing Mirror I guess, and for Super Star you can play every mode except Great Cave Offensive.
• Metroid Fusion (I do feel somewhat bad putting it on this list though)
• OneShot
• Persona series
• Punch-Out!! series
• Rhythm Doctor
• Rhythm Heaven series
• The World Ends With You
• Any stage-based arcade(-style) game. I'll name Puyo Puyo (Tsu, 20th, Chronicle specifically), Panel de Pon, Puzzle Bobble 3, Twinkle Star Sprites just for a few.
• Any visual novel

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Strongly recommend playing Earthbound before Mother 3. Mother 1 is entirely skippable, I've tried to play it multiple times and never could get through it.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

I've been holding onto a pet conspiracy theory that BW2 was a last-minute change from Gray, loose ends and plot holes felt too rushed. Curious if the leaked source code will corroborate this.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

• 1 - ...I respect the historical importance of this game.
• 2 - Actually, dual-wielding shields and attacking yourself to grind evasion is peak game design.
• 3 - Beta for FF5. Shame about that final dungeon.
• 4 - First game that actually holds up.
• 5 - Peak.
• 6 - I liked this game up until I found out that I was supposed to be grinding three distinct parties the whole time.
• 7 - I went into this expecting the first 3D installment to be another example of historically important but poorly aged. Was pleasantly surprised by how well it holds up.
• 8 - I went into this knowing it's the weird one. I was the sicko that liked 2, but I still couldn't get through it.
• 9 - Bought it alongside 8, when I dropped 8 I never got around to this. I will eventually... maybe...
• 10 - Perfects the classic formula while still feeling sufficiently modernized. Uh, for some definition of modern...
• 12 - Hated hated hated the combat. Painfully tedious to take manual control, automation is too primitive. And I don't want to automate the game away, I want to play it!

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

I have heard a lot of good things. I'll probably start on it whenever I finally finish Persona 4 Golden.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Percentage-based damage doesn't make you struggle more with more health, it just means a few attacks take the same number of hits to kill. You're never any worse for it, and you're still better against every other attack in the game.

Also, I said evasion anyway, not health.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Even DRM-free, all digital purchases are still just a license, legally speaking.

Pragmatically speaking, they can't forcibly take the bits off my hard drive. But it also bears pointing out that these days most games on Steam don't bother enabling Steamworks DRM either.

missingno, 6 miesięcy temu

Splatoon singleplayer maybe? Side Order is built for casually grinding out runs.

missingno, 7 miesięcy temu

I recognize the importance of Proton to bridge the gap and bring users over who would never switch if they can't play all their Windows games.

But I won't ever agree that Proton should just replace proper native support.

missingno, 7 miesięcy temu

It was a great game that I enjoyed start to end, but ending on a "this will only make sense when the 3rd game releases in X years!" note leaves a really sour taste in my mouth.

Well, one problem with ZTD is that it completely ignored the teaser in VLR's epilogue. Actively contradicted it even.

I don't think the teaser made VLR feel incomplete though, since it was also completely disconnected from VLR's otherwise self-contained story.

missingno, 7 miesięcy temu

Patient gaming is a budgeting technique, not a strict law you must always adhere to.

I separate upcoming releases into two categories: games I'm so excited for that I would gladly pay full price at launch, and games I'm willing to wait on. Which games go in which category depend entirely on you and your budget.

missingno, 7 miesięcy temu

Ryujinx was released as open source under the MIT license. They can't retroactively rescind that license.