I mean, they did put up an official guide on how to use their cloud gaming on the Deck. But it would sure be nice if they enabled a way to play the games locally.
I used to play Doom with keyboard only. Right hand on the arrow keys, while the left hand shot with Ctrl, ran with Shift, activated with Space and toggled strafing with Alt. I even played Descent with the arrow keys. It took me hours to get the perfect keybindings for that one down. I think I flew up and down with A and Z.
Jedi Knight was the first game I played with mouselook. Not with WASD, but with the numpad. I thought I was a genius for discovering that. I put my main force powers around that and probably switched weapons with the mouse wheel.
Can’t remember when I switched to WASD. Probably around Unreal or Half Life.
Looking for a good, not too difficult, single player FPS that gets right into the action without too many story requirements, and is a lot of fun, and is not Borderlands (because I have played them all). EDIT: Forgot to mention I am looking for PS4, XBOX One X, or XBOX Series X. Thanks!
Hasn’t it been a year since the first level was released? This is going to take a long time if they intend to make the whole game. And manage to dodge Disney’s lawyers until then.
I just finished saving Duke Ravenguard and the first thing he did was complain about his son. Dude is kind of an ass. Is it too late to put him back in the prison? I kinda wish I hadn’t saved him.
Which reminds me, what did we get for the 25th anniversary of Unreal, another super important game from 1998 whose engine nowadays even powers movie production?
If you could only re-experience from new one game (like total immersion, wide-eyed wonder-at-the-majesty-of-it-all re-experience) and had yet to pick a console (Xbox versus PlayStation), what game on which console and why? (and feel free to remark on ideal controllers, add-ons, etc.)...
Well, I’d pick a Steam Deck. But luckily Baldur’s Gate 3 is also available on the PS5. I’d really like to play that game blind again. It’s so wonderful to discover all the stuff. And when you’re done you have only found about 50 % of the content this game has to offer.
I’m just done with my third playthrough in which I would still see new stuff in every play-session. I’m gearing up for my fourth by playing Baldur’s Gate 2. I want to continue playing the same character in BG3. Not officially supported, but I want to play her with the same race and class and personality. I already know of some things I want to explore that I haven’t seen before. And I wonder what new unknown details I will find.
In case this is not a joke, Steam only runs on x86 processors. The Vita has an ARM processor. But I bet someone made some Linux that runs on the Vita. Just not with Steam games.
Nice. I would actually be tempted to sell my current one and get this. At least if I had money. Looks like they addressed most of the common complaints.
Baldur's Gate 3's Japanese release is getting rid of some of Faerûn's best pastimes - excessive bonking and excessive violence. When the RPG hits the region on December 21, it will remove the ability to enable nudity, and will seemingly censor the sex scenes even further
Sure, but what about Omellum? And all the other Mindflayers? And the Nautiloid has plenty of tentacles as well. And we definitely deserve another way to subdue the Absolute.
Neil Newbon (Astarion) does as well. He once raided Devora’s Twitch just as she considered killing Astarion ::: spoiler Astarion’s backstory, although it’s already revealed in the character select screen with a stake. Instead she opted to bite everyone. :::
Especially with the “tweaked” part. I only run Linux, but that 20 % number seems to be quite high. Did they tweak Windows as well? Guess I have to read the article.
Also one of the original goals of GOG was to revive good old games and make them run on modern systems out of the box. Often using one of the open source engines mentioned above. Plus DOSBox.
How about co-op multiplayer? I’ve seen a few of those for Baldur’s Gate 3. Like Neil Newbon or Jennifer English. Neil plays with his friend Tom (whose surname I have forgotten) and Jennifer with her girlfriend Aliona Baranova. Except for Tom all of them acted in the game.
zip or 7z for compressed archives. I hate that for some reason rar has become the defacto standard for piracy. It’s just so bad.
The other day I saw a tar.gz containing a multipart-rar which contained an iso which contained a compressed bin file with an exe to decompress it. Soooo unnecessary.
Edit: And the decompressed game of course has all of its compressed assets in renamed zip files.
Let’s see how it is received. That game is not modern-gamer friendly.
But the even more important question: Did they keep the In Extremo concert in?
Edit: Read through the YouTube comments. Apparently it’s littered with bugs and the concert is gone. So I guess it’s a little bit true to the original release.
For me it was Dead Space 2 when I was 12-ish. For reference, at this point the most gruesome/gorey/violent media I was exposed to was the Halo 3 Flood levels and the original 2 Alien movies....
Thief 3’s Cradle level was formative in the way that I have never ever seen a better horror game. Overall I didn’t like the game as much as the previous two. But the Cradle is unsurpassed.
The demo for Alone in the Dark 1 also lives rent free in my head because it was one of the few games we had back then. Plus the graphics were absolutely astonishing. But I never knew how to finish it. I always died pretty quickly to some dog monster. I never played the full game.
In an email chain between Microsoft executives dated May 2022 is a list of third-party games earmarked as potential day-and-date Game Pass titles. One of the games mentioned is Red Dead Redemption 2 “D&D for gen9”, which Microsoft expected to come out during the second quarter of its 2023 financial year (October to December...
I don’t get it when they rush to update a game that’s already looking very good. But they leave old games that could really benefit from an update by the side.
Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible (www.gamespot.com)
[Nostalgia Nerd] Why we switched to WASD (www.youtube.com)
Dread Hunger leaves Steam on December 1st and shuts down January 1st, server tools handed over to players (delistedgames.com)
FPS Recommendations
Looking for a good, not too difficult, single player FPS that gets right into the action without too many story requirements, and is a lot of fun, and is not Borderlands (because I have played them all). EDIT: Forgot to mention I am looking for PS4, XBOX One X, or XBOX Series X. Thanks!
PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games (www.pcgamer.com)
Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed (www.theverge.com)
[Fan Project] Zelda Ocarina of Time x Ghibli Fan Animation (www.youtube.com)
Saw this in my feed and just had to share it. Lots of love and effort put into this project.
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 Unreal Engine 4 Remake Version 1.02 Released (www.dsogaming.com)
Styx: Shards of Darkness free on GOG (www.gog.com)
Petroglyph patches Star Wars Empire at War bringing 64 bit support (steamcommunity.com)
Baldur's Gate 3, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum trials added to PlayStation Plus Premium (www.eurogamer.net)
Duke Ravenguard - spoilers act 3
I just finished saving Duke Ravenguard and the first thing he did was complain about his son. Dude is kind of an ass. Is it too late to put him back in the prison? I kinda wish I hadn’t saved him.
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update - Half Life Uplink, New Multiplayer Maps, Updated Graphical Settings, SteamDeck Verified and More (www.half-life.com)
One console, one game
If you could only re-experience from new one game (like total immersion, wide-eyed wonder-at-the-majesty-of-it-all re-experience) and had yet to pick a console (Xbox versus PlayStation), what game on which console and why? (and feel free to remark on ideal controllers, add-ons, etc.)...
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com)
Valve says "technology doesn't exist" yet for full Steam Deck 2.0 (www.eurogamer.net)
Steam Deck OLED review: better, not faster (www.theverge.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's Japan Release Removes Romping And Torture (www.thegamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's Japanese release is getting rid of some of Faerûn's best pastimes - excessive bonking and excessive violence. When the RPG hits the region on December 21, it will remove the ability to enable nudity, and will seemingly censor the sex scenes even further
Glowup (startrek.website)
A message of "peace" in these trying times (twitter.com)
I thought they had forgotten about doing this. Does anyone have the VOD of the comic con panel?
Baldur's Gate 3 - Patch #4 Now Live (store.steampowered.com)
18+ Larian Studios taking No Nut November too serious (youtu.be)
The sex% speedrun has become a lot harder.
Baldur's Gate 3 helps spike Hasbro digital game revenues by 133% (www.tweaktown.com)
Tweaked Garuda Linux vs Windows 11 for gaming - Linux about 20% faster (video.hardlimit.com)
After a naked Chun Li scandalised a fighting game tournament, Capcom sounds the alarm about PC game modding: 'There are a number of mods that are offensive to public order and morals' (www.pcgamer.com)
Arise before we become ghaik (startrek.website)
2023 has the best-reviewed slate of video games of the last 20 years (www.axios.com)
Game Revival Projects?
So, there are projects like these;...
Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster Launches Exactly 29 Years After The Original (www.gamespot.com)
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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Breaks Sales Records to Become Fastest-selling PlayStation Studios Game in PlayStation History (www.businesswire.com)
PS5 Slim’s Lack Of Fanfare Speaks Volumes About This Generation (www.thegamer.com)
Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?
Examples include: Scary Game Squad, Gamegrumps, Team Double Dragon, and the like....
Elon Musk streams Diablo 4 as part of his latest doomed quest to turn X into a Twitch killer (www.pcgamer.com)
if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why
if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?...
Time to go demon hunting! Wait, her? (startrek.website)
Gothic Classic Switch Port | Release Trailer (www.youtube.com)
What was the formative horror game of your childhood?
For me it was Dead Space 2 when I was 12-ish. For reference, at this point the most gruesome/gorey/violent media I was exposed to was the Halo 3 Flood levels and the original 2 Alien movies....
Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion says there's a tough to find two hour section no one has played yet (Updated: It has been found) (www.vg247.com)
According to the voice of Astarion himself, there's a whole two hour section of Baldur's Gate 3 no one has played yet....
The BG3 cast playing a D&D Oneshot (youtu.be)
And poor Amelia Tyler sitting in the corner while the cool mocap kids are having all the fun....
"Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton" (twitter.com)
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Leaked Xbox Emails Mention Red Dead Redemption 2 for Next-Gen, Fans Dare to Dream (www.ign.com)
In an email chain between Microsoft executives dated May 2022 is a list of third-party games earmarked as potential day-and-date Game Pass titles. One of the games mentioned is Red Dead Redemption 2 “D&D for gen9”, which Microsoft expected to come out during the second quarter of its 2023 financial year (October to December...