@Enttropy@kbin.social
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Enttropy

@Enttropy@kbin.social

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

This is one of the many reasons as to why I've avoided buying anything on Steam for the past 5 years. Steam/Valve are a steaming pile of doodoo.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Yeah...really. The thing is that, if you like to run older games on era-accurate hardware, Steam was already a pain in the ass to run on older machines. Probably 70% of these games, I purchased on Steam, and a lot of them are old titles.

Maybe this is ludicrous to you, but le good ole Prototype runs like a nasty turd on my main W11 machine that I use for design and 4K video editing. I'm not new to modding, troubleshooting, and I've even dabbled in game development, but none of the fixes online seem to help me run the game at more than 10 FPS, with dips to the 3FPS realm.

But guess what? Prototype runs like a dream on my restored Windows XP PC with a Core Quad and GTX260. Same as with Far Cry 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Jade Empire, and so many others. And don't even get me started on games from the 90s. Even if they run OK on W11 and I get past all the text rendering issues, I still want the experience of running them on W98, with a CRT monitor, metal ball mice and bone white mechanical keyboards. I paid for them, but Valve wants to dictate how I should run 'em.

If you can't install Steam on older hardware, you can't install your Steam games that you previously could. 🥸

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Good for you. Me, on the other hand, I like living on the edge since no one should be running older OSes. B-)

I don't want Windows 10 or 11, and certainly not Linux, of all things, to run on the retro PCs that I've put together to run their respective OS, and games from their respective eras. But what do I know?

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

I might have worded that wrong. I WANT to run Windows 98 and Windows XP on these old PCs. It's part of the experience, and the reason I even bothered to put them together. If you've ever watched LGR, it's pretty much that kind of hobby.

Imagine you grew up in the 90s and at the languages school they had indigo and green G3 iMacs. Now that you're older and drunk in nostalgia, you hunt for one until, after years, you find it. It's green, beautiful, and it's all yours.

Now you want to use it to play games of the era. You purchase them on Steam, as opposed to just pirate them. Steam works on this G3 of yours, (just an example since Steam never worked on G3 iMacs, but you get the idea.) and you're able to play these old games as they were meant to be played, without issues.

Out of the blue, VALVE decides that Steam is just going to support the latest M-iMacs. The game and Steam are installed on your G3, but when you open the game, a pop-up appears reminding you that Steam isn't compatible with this iMac. You try to run the game out of the executable file but get the same results. You're effectively fucked, finding yourself crawling back to GOG, MyAbandonwaredotcom, your torrent site of choice, or your M2 iMac which have massive issues running these old games.

Niche case? Sure, but it still happens, and it's exactly what is going to happen to the current generation of game consoles in the future.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Wrong.

There are companies that have built their customer base out of taking the extra step to cater the "0.0001%" of Steam's: GOG, Humble Bundle, Kickstarter, and Itch.

1/3 of the Cyberpunk 2077's pre-orders were made on GOG. I think "0.0001%" is a bit too pessimistic, don't you think?

Enttropy, (edited )
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

And that's totally fair. I'm not demanding or even expecting for Steam to support older operating systems. I just stated that this is one of the reasons I avoid VALVE and their products nowadays.

It's my preference as a consumer, but voicing it seems to have riled up some dudes over here, like, for example, @ryanspeck who seems to be distressed and/or concerned by my consumer habits.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

As I've said, I'm a bad boy doing bad-boy activities, i.e.: using old PCs with the OS they came from. 🩸🗡️😎🔥

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

OHH!!! EMOJIS! The 200K Karma Redditor inside you is surely raging!

I commented on why I think this announcement is just another corn in the steamy pile of doo-doo... dookie... manure, if you will, that Steam is for me.

I'm not expecting Steam to change for me or people in the same scenario as mine. Steam simply doesn't fit my needs any more and I won't support them. But then again, crucify me for my sins, daddy. I might go back to purchasing games on Steam if you do it well enough. 🍆💦

Enttropy, (edited )
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Yeah... Well, although I genuinely appreciate experbia's humour, when the parody is making a joke out of a misinterpretation, the joke just doesn't land, honey.

Hint: their comment had nothing to do with what I initially expressed here, and my response had very little to do with emoji, just like the parody itself. Two failed swings from your part, let's see if you get the third strike, smartpants.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

I'd love if they could spark a revival of sports games, like the ones in the days of Activision O2 and EA Sports BIG.

Times have changed and the wackiness of the 90s, the edginess of the early 00's are long gone now, but I'm also incredibly tired of the clean, hypercorrect, "everyone can do it!" chill vibe, and braindead PG10 humor of the AAA sports titles from the past 15 years... but knowing Microsoft, that's exactly what they'd go after.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Come on SEGA. Stop the sass and show all these lame ass video game and console makers how it's done.

Return to the console industry with a goddammit Dreamcast 2!

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

Ah, Kotaku again with the shitposting.

So the author is mad that Jill isn’t the main character and she loves the actual main character, who happens to be a dude.

Enttropy,
@Enttropy@kbin.social avatar

I adored the original XBOX but when 360 and PS3 dropped, one was a literal toy with everything stripped down and sold as proprietary extras, and the other was an amazingly powerful and open entertainment system with state of the art tech from out of the box.

Then yeah, the exclusives sealed the deal for me.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • fightinggames
  • All magazines
    •