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- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 5 days ago:
Really want to find GBA Tribal Edition in the wild—if it actually exists.
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- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
Actually, those rear buttons are unique. They are not the same triggers and buttons. They are highly useful in FPS games for functions like crouch.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
The em dash? I always use it—love it—you’ll have to take it from cold, dead hands.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
Yep, the key is to use mouse instead of joystick-mouse.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
I admire the cut of your jib.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong that the market has changed.
I often tell people that the biggest innovations in PC gaming are not graphics but form factors and inputs.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
That’s more of a killer feature for Linux in general.
And I can’t undersell how big of a deal that is. When Windows 10 dies, I’m switching my desktop to Linux simply because Proton makes me want to use Linux.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
And yet, when I look at my library, only half of new games released within the past five years support X-input. They are still exclusively keyboard-and-mouse.
Granted, that’s way more than what was available 10 years ago, but it’s still a problem.
Or it would be if the Steam Deck didn’t make it trivially easy to adapt keyboard-and-mouse controls to a controller. Which happened because of the innovation first introduced with the Steam Controller.
It’s now at the point where keyboard-and-mouse is optional—just a preference if you want to use it.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
Okay, but I didn’t want to buy a new console. Instead, I wanted to use my PC as a console replacement.
But also, there’s a surprising amount of games that never got a console release. For example, Blood and Septerra Core—never arrived on any console. I own those games, and the Steam controller let me play them on my TV very easily.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
I feel a right stick is more useful for games deliberately designed as twin stick shooters. Geometry Wars is a good example of this. Using a trackpad for aiming is fine, but that doesn’t really feel like an arcade experience.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s the other thing: the trackpad D-pad is not as good as a button D-pad.
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- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
Actually, my kids needs are substantially different from others.
My daughter is autistic. She has trouble communicating verbally. But on Roblox, she finds it much easier to socialize.
She has never spent a cent on microtransactions but gets the opportunity to talk to other kids without being bullied.
I’m not taking that away from her just because strangers on the Internet can’t fathom different kids have different needs.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
I’m hearing you loud and clear.
Provide research with accompanying links or GTFO.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
Dismissing? No.
Recognizing groupthink with the same tired talking points – with zero research or citations to back it up? Yeah, I call it out when I see it.
The funny thing is I’ve never defended “corporate garbage”. I’ve said there’s hundreds of thousands of games on mobile, many which you can buy outright – no microtransactions. There’s more premium, fully paid mobile titles than on NES, SNES, N64, and GC combined.
I repeat, you don’t have to play a gacha game. You can enjoy the many premium titles on iOS and Android if you so like.
But everyone here ignores that very real fact in favour of jumping on the groupthink bandwagon.
And yes, I know I’m convincing few people here because they’re all too busy socially signalling they are in the Lemmy in-group to actually consider anything diverging. Which is fine. I’m saying it out loud anyway to disrupt the echo chamber.
Well, there are literally people here who insist all mobile games are gacha. When I provide statistics that show otherwise, rather than changing your views, the reactions here are that I’m a secret shill peddling for a statistics company.
That’s the calibre of conversation I’m dealing with in this thread. And you’re no different.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
I think I know my kid better than you, a random Internet stranger who’s never met her before in her life. And consequently, has no understanding of what her actual needs are.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
Ha! A “few” interactions…
- Comment on Silverfall is low-poly and low mercy 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a PS2 game, it was a Win XP game – hence why this specific screenshot was taken in 1200p. There is, though, a separate version available for PSP that looks like this, and that’s way more low-poly.
That said, yeah. There’s a huge noticeable difference between today’s high res, high refresh rate graphics and the PS2.
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- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
It’s entirely your prerogative to spend time and money on whatever you think will be likely worthwhile to you.
But without actually playing a game, it’s strict guesswork on whether a game is quality or not.
Seriously, there’s no harm in saying, “I don’t know whether this game is good – I haven’t tried it.”
- Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. 2 weeks ago:
That Robocop game has an 87% positive rating, but I got it for 93.35% – for a total of C$4.63.
As for Nickelodeon Kart Racer 3, I have the previous two games and really liked them. It’s a great couch co-op game with my kid. So I got the third one for 92.4% off the original price – for a total of C$4.32.
All in all, I did pretty well for myself.
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- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy isn’t a big place. People who populate gaming threads are an even smaller fraction of the userbase. So to see the same handful of opinions, repeated again and again, upvoted ad infinitum – that’s a pretty good sample size.
I deliberately posted this thread as a contrarian take. And what do you know, it proved to be contrarian.
I didn’t say anything outrageous or mean-spirited. Everything has been quite reasonable. But judging by the responses – you all think every mobile game is a gacha game – I can safely few of you have nearly as much experience with games as you believe you do.
By the way, this is why I generally put little stock into self-declared “gamers” opinions. Most of you are obsessed with playing things in a prescribed manner, in a particular way, regarding a specific canon. And you generally adhere to the same bland culture with little appreciation for diversity.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
You seem to think you’re taste is more exceptional than people you deem as basic.
But how exactly did you arrive at your taste? Hype? Influencers? Marketing?
You compare games to beer and say Bud is “complete swill”. Fair enough. But almost everyone drinking IPA is doing so because some hipster said this is real beer – and everyone else just went along with it.
Personally, I’ve never read a James Patterson or Danielle Steel book in my life. But I’ve met plenty of people who claim up and down that Jack Kerouac and David Foster Wallace is top tier literature. How have so many people – who oddly seem to dress the same, have the same manners, operate with similar world views – seem to all be convinced those two authors are peak?
My personal standpoint is that nobody has taste unless they do the discovering themselves. That means no relying on marketers, gatekeepers, tastemakers, or algorithms. Go and dig for themselves.
If you’re willing to do that, form an opinion all on your own, kudos. But most people – even people who swear up and down that they have taste – won’t.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
I’m skeptical that people here are as knowledgeable as they claim.
I know from several other threads that the majority of folks here stick to a few handfuls of games and sink 1,000s of hours into them. That might make them an expert at a specific MMO, but it certainly doesn’t make them experts in every game at a glance.
