yeh they are doing different things, but I can't see many people choosing stadia in the short term. then again I'm installing the new windows 10 update so I can install the xbox app so I can download the games and ... it really is a pain in the ass!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
im sure microsoft will get a similar stream to browser window thing off the ground alongside their new xbox
― ciderpress, Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Anyone here on Humble Monthly? I'll use a referral link to sign up, want to get in before the price increase.
― Nhex, Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
Yeah worth doing. Here’s mine: https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly?refc=DRomGY
― JimD, Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
(Spyro, Crash and CoD this month make it an easy sell too).
― JimD, Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
It was clever of them to offer an amazing deal right before the change in order to grandfather a ton of people in.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
TBH i'm not really interested in any of those games, probably gonna try to sell the codes
― Nhex, Sunday, 27 October 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
anyway i'm back on, cheers Jim
― Nhex, Sunday, 27 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Well yeah, I’m only interested in the sense that I’ve never actually played a spyro or a crash game so feel like I should give them a go. Won’t be playing the CoD though and yeah, hadn’t considered selling off the code, good idea.
― JimD, Sunday, 27 October 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/death-stranding-is-coming-to-pc-1839410088
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Monday, 28 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
I joined Xbox on the pc , first month $1, planning to get through as much of outer worlds as possible , not bad
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Thimbleweed Park is the free game on Epic this month. Yes please.
Next month is Slime Rancher, which I've definitely also had my eye on.
ah missed free Thimbleweed!
Did you get Slime Rancher? I did. I'd categorize it as a glorified clicker game. It's very very addictive, but once you've progressed with everything you're done with it forever (I was anyway)
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:51 (four years ago) link
I did get Slime Rancher. There's not a lot there but it's very pleasant.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Fallout: New Vegas is on sale, so any recommendations for a controller? I don't game on PC much (I usually get woefully underpowered laptops) so I'm not looking for anything high-performance (read: expensive).
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Friday, 20 December 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
you might not need one for it! Keyboard/mouse is a great combo for FPS
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 December 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
if you have a PS4 (or maybe even a PS3), you can use the controller with your computer as well - it'll recognize it
yeah the ps4 controller and xbox one controller are the best pc gamepads on the market currently, just use one of those if you don't like mouse+keyboard
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 December 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
12 days of free games on epic game store rn
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
used to be a huge gamer but only game i've loved and gotten really into the past few years has been overwatch. (to me it's basically a perfect team shooter.) but overall having some game ennui. it's like with all the capability and choice modern systems can deliver something is just missing for me.
that said, stuff i've (mostly) liked:- red dead 2- relxaing, pretty. not much of a 'game' at times- cities skylines- best city sim i've ever played- witcher 3- very cool, but the depth and detail almost takes the imagination out of an RPG experience- skyrim- liked when i played it originally, found it fairly flat and dull upon revisiting- hypnospace outlaw- funny, great concept- frostpunk- well-done city/strategy game- superhot- almost an ideal game to me, stresses a unique concept over graphics or lore or scope
medieval total war and age of empires ii were basically my life at one point... AoEII is still probably my favorite game of all time (can't play new remaster because I don't have Windows 10 sadly). a lot of recent strategy games left me really cold (tropico series- way too easy, anno 1800- too much granular logistical detail to the gameplay without the ability to view data or rationale behind it)
i dunno, i guess i gravitate towards 'easy to learn, hard to master' with a distinct aesthetic and good multiplayer. and i think i get bogged down on steam with too many options. i'm also very aware that this is all likely to my getting older and more jaded and not having the time to truly immerse myself. but i've taken so much to overwatch i know there must be something out there that can pique my interest. i love wasting an entire afternoon gaming, i kind of miss it
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
not to derail, this is a general PC gaming thread so I think my question fits here. i also have a PS4 and thinking about death stranding because from what i can tell at least it's unique if nothing else
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
im in a similar place w/r/t games, i used to play a lot and now i play like one or two games a year, lots of modern games leave me cold bc the open world/unlimited possibilities of so many games leaves me cold, probably just a function of getting older and not having huge blocks of time to get lost in the immersive world of a game.
that being said i just played the demo of superhot online and it was pretty damn fun, think i might take the plunge on it!
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
it's awesome; the VR version is a wonderful time
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
i've swapped back to playing single player games almost exclusively since online service-games just seem like a soul-sucking mess now. i was binge-gaming the past couple years but i've slowed my roll now and trying to enjoy fewer things more.
maybe its just the crowd i hang out with but definitely the general feeling that something 'flipped' circa 2017 and we're back to the late 90s/early 00s where most of the warmly received prestige-y games are coming from japan
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 December 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
i also hate the deluge of DLCs that come out for everything, makes things even more inaccessible. i guess that's just another route for monetization
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 20 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
xp to the controller thing. Just a tip, and something i discovered the other day, if you're switching from xbox to ps4 controller on steam make sure to enable the ps4 controller in the steam controller settings. (and I guess it works the other way too). I was banging my head against the wall when none of my games appeared to recognise the controller.
― Ste, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Shadow Tactics is really neat to begin with. I haven’t played a Commandos-type isometric stealth game in like 15 years
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/07/07/frog-fractions-will-become-the-game-of-the-decade-this-august/
Sadly doesn't look like there will be a Mac port, but maybe I'll get it. I don't think I got even close to the end.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link
And it's uphttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1194840/Frog_Fractions_Game_of_the_Decade_Edition/
― Nhex, Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
going to sell my ps4, which means I'll have no controller on the pc. So my question is to fellow pc gamers, what controller do yall use. Anyone recommend a cheap one that won't break within a week and doens't have dodgy analogue sticks?
Not really eager to fork out 60 quid on an official xbox one unless I have to.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 25 September 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
haha, i use a PS4 controller, and i was going to recommend an xbox one otherwise :)
do you have to sell your controller with the PS4? i guess you do, unless you want to ruin some kid's christmas
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 September 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
yeah the ps4 and xbox one controllers are the best pc controllers too right now
― ciderpress, Friday, 25 September 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
don't know of anything significantly cheaper than the ps4 one thats not dodgy
― ciderpress, Friday, 25 September 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
okay i'm trying ps3 controller instead, after having installed the driver from third party. so far so good.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 25 September 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
(but only tried 1 game, when i finish with work i'll give it a thoroough test with gta5 or something)(of course if it doesn't work with farming sim then all bets are offf)
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 25 September 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
I use an Xbox one controller. Previously I used a Logitech F710 controller but Logitech stopped supporting it when Windows 10 came out.
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 25 September 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
xbox 360 controllers can be had for very cheap now and work great with a pc so long as you don't use the d-pad too much
― closed beta (NotEnough), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
Sable, with Moebius style artwork, out later this year. Probably just going to be short exploration type thing, but I'm in.
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Friday, 11 June 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
Steamboy is finally here
Introducing Steam Deck: powerful, portable PC gaming starting at $399. Designed by Valve, powered by Steam. Shipping December 2021.Learn more at https://t.co/ZOTx3KUCVK and reserve yours tomorrow. #SteamDeck pic.twitter.com/jcgbaKfT9c— Steam (@Steam) July 15, 2021
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
haha, L4, L5, R4, and R5
looks like the kind of button i would accidentally press one trillion times
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jiLPDj6.png
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
it also seems like something that would be really useful for games like guitar hero. which is sad, because i can imagine some little kid absolutely mastering guitar hero on the steam controller, doing these crazy metal riffs down all five of the Ls and all five of the Rs like a lil van halen. but then picking up a guitar and being like "scrrkrkoonk. fllooom."
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
oh they do have SD card slots, makes the cheapest one more usablelooks like it's running on Steam's Linux OS, how is Linux game support these days?they way the dpad and ABXY buttons seem to be trying to escape off the edge is pretty lol
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
i was starting to get myself psyched up to buy this, because most of my gaming is done on steam these days anyway, and i'd love to be able to play PC games as well as mac. but the $399 price point is for the lowest storage model (64 GB), which isn't even large enough to cover a lot of AAA games, let alone multiple.
Three storage optionsThere is no in-game difference in frame rates or graphics quality between the three models.$399 64GB64GB eMMC internal storageCarrying case$529 256GB256GB NVMe SSD internal storageFaster storageCarrying caseExclusive Steam Community profile bundle$649 512GB512GB NVMe SSD internal storageFastest storagePremium anti-glare etched glassExclusive carrying caseExclusive Steam Community profile bundleExclusive virtual keyboard theme
$399 64GB64GB eMMC internal storageCarrying case
$529 256GB256GB NVMe SSD internal storageFaster storageCarrying caseExclusive Steam Community profile bundle
$649 512GB512GB NVMe SSD internal storageFastest storagePremium anti-glare etched glassExclusive carrying caseExclusive Steam Community profile bundleExclusive virtual keyboard theme
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
oops xp
oh they do have SD card slots, makes the cheapest one more usable
nice! ok, thinking about getting re-psyched for this
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
major "cups too close to the edge of the table" vibes from those buttons
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
wait apparently you can wipe the Steam OS and install windows on this?my dream of a portable PS2/GC emulation beast may be closer than I thought
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
(which I will spend hours and hours dicking around to make the perfect library of games run perfectly, then put it aside to gather dust lol)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
heh, yes.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
oh interesting. i thought Windows games were relying on the Proton layer. hmm... i think the $399 version is a tough sell with only 64GB. yes you can put in SD cards, but I imagine the performance would be much worse vs. the SSD.if i got one i'd get the top tier... though at that point it might be tempted to get a laptop instead? not sure(not to mention Switch OLED pre-orders opened today...)
― Nhex, Thursday, 15 July 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
this... seems good? as long as it's not just streaming from your real computer. if it's really a powerful gaming pc, i'm interested.
there's a patent troll suing any controller maker that puts buttons on the back. wonder if they paid that company off.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, 15 July 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link