Crazy. The benchmark for age ratings should be based in the game design, not solely aesthetics. Balatro doesn’t tell you to enter your credit card details and use psychologically manipulative tactics to maximise player spend, like other games good for ages 3+.

Of course, then PEGI would need to do some actual research into the games they’re rating.

Cool, I’ll have to fire it up.

Does factorio play well on the deck? I thought kB+m was critical

Yes

That was really interesting.

I’ve got to admit that I felt that elation/rush that they felt when finishing off that guy on the field.

Horrible that the Russian is probably just a normal guy, but they are the invading force attacking a sovereign nation.

It’s an indication to the industry about how successful their IP has been.

Companies live and die because of sales, and to know how much something has sold is usually a pretty good indication that we will see more of it, or not.

I’m under no illusion Nintendo is a good or moral company.

Fair point on their mobile games, I don’t pay attention to that space. Almost all mobile gaming monetisation is based upon sucking in whales anyway though.

I wasn’t even aware of the Nintendo branded microSD. I suppose I could say that for Nintendo you can upgrade storage with off the shelf storage, can the same be said for the other consoles? PS5 storage upgrade is a rip off too.

We’ll see about Nintendo NFT gaming. Maybe in the mobile space I’ll admit if the industry normalises that shit.

I’m not even a Nintendo fanboy (mainly PC and PS5) but just appreciate that they don’t overspend on their releases ($600 million dollar failures like Concord don’t happen for them).

I think we need smaller scale, higher quality games that don’t need to justify their ridiculous development cost by pivoting the game design into in-game spend.

Thank you. My switch collects dust btw, mostly play PC and on the steam deck.

But Nintendo definitely aren’t releasing an NFT loot box driven live service game any time soon, which almost seems to be a necessity for the other big publishers.

SkillUp alleged that apparently the devs giving Troy Baker VA direction told him to sound a little less like Ford, potentially for copyright reasons.

Maybe! There’s much bigger spaces in this one, more assets to load etc. Recommended specs are an RTX 2060 for 1080p 30fps low settings. I would say the steam deck sits around there?

Oh man I’m very impressed with it. First “console” in many years that I’ve been really really happy with.

It’s surprisingly capable hardware. Doom External was running at solid 60FPS on medium or high settings (can’t remember) for me. Sure, it’s a very well optimised game, but it’s a real looker too.

I still have windows for VR. Maybe there’s a solution, but VR is enough of a hassle. I’m glad I’ve still got the windows drive around in that sense

I don’t think it will run very well there, we can have hope though

DEI strikes again, smh /s

Why can I hear this meme

Ikr, I suppose it can be just a couple of salty people to push you into the negative

A fine specimen

Did the same thing. Finally settled on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but Nobara looks good too.

It’s hard to cold turkey jump to Linux, transitioning to Linux should be the default recommendation.

No idea, I don’t block people either. I do identify them with a tag if I read something interesting or peculiar from them.