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  • I’ve been replaying Dragon Quest 8 (PS2) on my Steam Deck, and it just fills me with joy. Except for the absolutely bonkers choices they hardcoded for buttons and camera movement. Ah, good times.

  • How Do You Deal With Thumb Stick Drift?
  • I’ve been suspicious that newer production lines for joysticks have been cutting costs in cheaper materials for a while now. I usually replace the joysticks when they drift, but I’m also quite comfortable to taking things apart and fixing them.

    I remember my old PS2 controllers never drifted and that was back when I played hard on them every day after school. These days I hardly have time to play during the week, and they regularly go bad within a year or two.

  • NVidia Shield For Streaming Steam Games Opinions?
  • It was even better before they ditched streaming through GeForce Experience or whatever. Moonlight + Sunshine work, but I’ve never felt like there was a good Sunshine configuration tool, and adding games manually has always been too much of a pain for me to bother with.

  • How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
  • I think once I accidentally made a microblog when I meant to start a thread in a magazine? It felt super vague and I basically haven’t bothered making too-level posts since. I just lurk and post snark.

  • Unity 6 seems miles behind Unreal Engine 5 in its first tech demo
  • I don’t think a game engine needs feature parity with Unreal, it just needs to be easier to get in and make something. The learning curve with Unreal is very steep and Unity’s has historically been… well, less steep (arguably?).

    Unity has other problems to solve for though. Like undoing the damage from their ex-CEO.

  • What do YOU want for Christmas/winter holiday this year?
  • I’m considering an Asus ROG Ally. Already have a Steam Deck, but using my GoG library and EGS freebies is awkward, and Xbox GamePass as well. The Ally seems like a good way to get all that natively via Windows, plus a better looking screen than the Deck…

  • Cosy Lord Of The Rings game Tales of the Shire announced, coming 2024
  • Exactly. I’m one of these gamers. I’m tired of souls-likes and rogue-likes, boomer shooters, gritty grimdark action dramas…

    Like you said, life is hard and expects so much from me. I want games that feel like it’s okay to exist without having to try too hard or prove myself. Cozy is exactly the genre I want to be spending most of my gaming time in.

  • Steam Deck a 'stable target for a couple years' so no Steam Deck 2 for a while
  • I would love a display upgrade to mostly just get better colors, but otherwise I’m pretty happy with my Steam Deck, yeah. I can’t blame them, much a smaller form factor or better display, or longer battery life or more power… It really is in a pretty sweet spot for most of that.

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