***Gamers*** What are you playing?

[gheebee]

Finished Ys X: Nordics the other week. Really love this series for the great combat and the exploration but every game seems to get talkier and talkier than the last, RPGs really need a mode that just replaces each cut/dialog scene with a single paragraph of text or something... That aside this was either the best Ys game I ever played or a close second! I like how they replaced the defend missions that the last 2 games had with invasion missions, always found the defend missions to be kind of a drag but the invasions were pretty cool and fun to play!


Also, looking forward to this in 2025:

Won't be as cool without the gamepad but I'm glad that more people will get a chance to play this great game that right now is only for Wii U! My most played Wii U game...

 

[Rodney]

Path Of Exile 2 POE2 is coming out on 6th December. I do not do a whole load of gaming but will be doing lots of this I feel.

It is an MMO so if anyone is playing it we can maybe add each other if anyone else is going to be playing it?

All it costs is your time

 

[FlyingLow]

I am finally getting a Nintendo for my kids, admittedly I cannot wait to bust their ass on MarioKart... they don't know Pops was a Rainbow Road Champion!

Looking forward to getting my hands on with some updated classics, like Mario and Zelda.

 

[gheebee]

I kind of loathe buying games, music, movies, etc… digitally but so many games I wanted cost like nothing at the Steam sales right now and the ability for Steam to run a lot of Windows games under linux is pretty awesome so I bought a bunch. Just spent about 2 hours revisiting F.E.A.R and wow, what a great game, still. The combat is tough but something about it is satisfying to a level that most games I’ve played seem like they couldn’t even dream about and then on top of that it has little things, like the in-combat enemy radio chatter and dialog, that add nicely to the intensity of it all. So many things in this game are so incredibly well done and it all comes together perfectly. It’s a horror-themed game, which I like, and the story is decent albeit somewhat generic but ironically a lot of the horror elements seem like they serve only to slow down the game. It’s $2 right now and it includes the two expansions so definitely check it out if it interests you. Back in 2005 this was a game that took a lot to run well and it’s also kind of satisfying to see it run maxed out on a modern but nowhere near high end PC with ease too! Sadly the two sequels could not run under Proton when I tried them but maybe someday...

Looking forward to getting my hands on with some updated classics, like Mario and Zelda.

All of the Mario games I’ve played have been pretty great but of the 3D Mario games Super Mario 3D World is my favorite by a lot, way better than the Switch native one, Odyssey, even though it was also quite good.

 

[florduh]

Chancellor of Germany being shown a Steam Deck in Ukraine.

Pretty sure they're using Decks to do drone strikes, but you can just tell 'ol Olaf is thinking "Red Dead would slap on this thing"

 

[Rodney]

Dam need to pay £23 to play path of exile 2 in early access but will be free on full release in 6 month. Well just paid for EA and is on in 1 minute but servers are down atm so.

 

[florduh]

jesus christ how tall is Tod Howard?

 

[FlyingLow]

Chancellor of Germany being shown a Steam Deck in Ukraine.



Pretty sure they're using Decks to do drone strikes, but you can just tell 'ol Olaf is thinking "Red Dead would slap on this thing"

decks could be used for drones but unlikely. For 10+ years, I have flown countless aircraft with more simple PS2 DualShock controllers. Cost is practically disposable at $10-15 for a wireless controller, easily programmable and less complex when paired with a simple ground station.

 

[florduh]

decks could be used for drones but unlikely. For 10+ years, I have flown countless aircraft with more simple PS2 DualShock controllers. Cost is practically disposable at $10-15 for a wireless controller, easily programmable and less complex when paired with a simple ground station.

You're right. I heard wrong. They're using them to remote control turrets.

The Steam Deck Is Shown Being Used in Ukraine's War Against Russia Prominently - Steam Deck HQ

In a recent New York Times article discussing the Russia-Ukraine war, Steam Decks were prominently featured as tools used for automating weapons.

steamdeckhq.com

Crazy because I heard these things are hard to come by outside of the US.

 

[FlyingLow]

awesome.