Forza Motorsport being a flop was most upsetting to me. Probably the best funded simcade game next to Gran Turismo with a long development time and they fall flat and it still doesn’t even work on Linux. Forza Motorsport should be low hanging fruit with their experience and budget and they still managed to drop the ball

Just tried. Free version, no sub. Works well. I use GeForce Now like twice a year. Not something to sub to all the time. Something to sub like one month a year to when it’s the best option you got

Sure most publishers suck but indie devs also have to be honest with themselves and their ability to market. Like even writing out their Steam page and selecting screenshots. Video games and music have the lowest barriers for widely popular monetized distribution but marketing/localization/testing/etc are all valuable professions that a publisher could provide better service than what an indie can manage on their own. Especially when they’re new devs.

Indie filmmakers pretty much always sign up with publishers/distributors around the world. Established ones can manage multiple publisher deals before their movies are in full production for funding the creation. Do what you can. If you can successfully self distribute, do so. I’d bet most would do better retaining ownership of their creation but still licensing their work to a publisher for distribution/whatever else they offer. Just got to find a good publisher if you go that route

An Xbox controller. Probably not that hard to replace the batteries in 8bitdo controllers. 4 screws on the Ultimate 2C. I’m waiting for the new Steam Controller though pictures of it look like it may not have AA battery slots like the first one

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-launches-criminal-investigation-fed-chair-jerome-powell/story?id=129114228

Saw this in the news. They’re trying really hard to stack the federal reserve board and send interest rates back down to financial crisis/pandemic levels. AI bubble can have some leg room if interest rates tank

I get a feeling EGS lack of feature development is a Tim thing. Like he decided what the minimum viable product was to beat Valve and there’s no way they’d fund copying feature after feature that Steam has. That’d be admitting he was wrong

Also that talk where he was talking about Unreal Engine 6 being way more tied into Fortnite. Like make a game that’s standalone or make one that’s in Fortnite. Or both. Players in Fortnite can pay for your game. Fortnite metaverse is the primary future of EGS. Not copying Valve. Doing something only Epic can do. Somehow get people who don’t like Fortnite to open Fortnite to play games that aren’t Fortnite in Fortnite

Stopped buying Ubisoft games for years. Don’t even play the ones I already have. It’s been a crappy company since at least Assassin’s Creed 2 single player always online pioneering

Intel Pentium D era sucked compared to the Athlon 64 II x2 from what I remember. I had an Athlon 64 3000+ just before the dual core era. Athlon 64 era was great

Windows won’t turn around and go back to a simpler advertisement-free offline account model this decade. Core Windows developers may know that they’re making things worse. Leadership won’t care as long as they get temporary boosts in numbers for office, copilot, and OneDrive subscriptions

Amazing thing for open platform operating systems when Windows Phone failed (MS managed that like trash. It didn’t have a chance)

Good for me. It’s almost like how all the Switch Pro rumors became Switch 2 rumors and people being in denial it could be 2 because that’d be too weak in the year of release. Switch 2 is fine. Designs at this point are advanced. No sudden switching to 2030 GPU/CPU designs. You’ll get AMD 2027 designs in 2030 and budget gaming PCs in 2030+ will feast because of that

Me having spent zero dollars on this. Only interaction ever was installing that hangar thing back when it was the only thing. Maybe there was some demo when the space station first became available and some fps gameplay test.

Still looking forward to it. If the story is good, works on Linux, I’ll buy it. I remember a decade ago being worried the Haswell and Maxwell PC I was putting together wouldn’t be good enough when Star Citizen would drop. Not very concerned anymore

That is one of the first things I noticed when I’ve switched between ATI/AMD and Nvidia early in my Linux usage time. Now I’ve swapped between Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with problems in the past few years

I’d consider at top $100. One should come with the Steam Machine right? It can’t be too expensive to manufacture if it’s coming with what should be a competitively priced PC

After the Witcher 3 successful, felt like GoG became a sideshow for CD Project. This could be really good if this in any way helps them operate without being a part of a game dev first studio. I don’t think it’ll ever be as popular as Steam for new releases without DRM but it can be way more popular. They need a big picture/gamepad interface and a streamlined Proton-type solution. I think mobile/handhelds are where they can compete well with steam for more buyers

I also remember GoG being a really low profit/barely breaking even store. Not a great situation being a part of a public company

I’m pretty sure I saw that they are real time with pause. I like those more than turn based crpgs because once you get used to the gameplay systems, turn based becomes a chore to me compared to rtwp. Especially on a replay. Happy to buy a rtwp game when they seem out of fashion for crpgs these days in favor of turn based

Low power gaming is better than ever. AAA graphics games are uncommon and unremarkable. It doesn’t take great hardware to play like 99% of great games of the 2020s. Same with pretty much everything before 2020. Steam Deck is a non high end laptop

Bought both pathfinder games. Cheap enough. Going to play through both

Time to finally try this. Also bought Pathfinder since it’s been talked about a lot

I wouldn’t be surprised if the combat evolved remake does worse than the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake. Halo CE fans are a well served fanbase. It’s just that they have flubbed every mainline game in some way after Reach. I don’t see the Halo appetite around the internet. Not at all in my old friends from the OG Xbox and PC Halo lan party days

I have a terra master f4-425 plus. 3 NVME slots and 4 HDD slots. N150 CPU 16GB memory out the box

https://www.terra-master.com/products/f4-425-plus

F2-425 Plus has 2 HDD slots. 8GB memory out the box

https://www.terra-master.com/products/f2-425-plus

You could also go for the cheaper options like the non plus versions. Run whatever OS on it. I’m satisfied with the companies TOS