Stupendous
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- Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 2 days ago:
Screw consoles and high end computer gaming. Games started looking very good since the PS2 gen. They were just low res. Low end PC gaming is where it’s at. Recently I went back to replay emulated Viewtiful Joe, the old KOTOR games PC version, emulated god of war - they look great. On Steam bought the first Rage and it runs on a basic cheap computer now and I think it looks great. Steam Deck is PS4 level. Don’t need a PS5 and definitely won’t need a PS6. The future is gameplay not graphics
- Comment on Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles 5 days ago:
I actually had one. Know no one else that did. I had hoped someday there’d be a great mobile solution for PC gaming that would come from windows phones. Ended up being Linux and Android running windows games being the portal for mobile PC gaming. Happy they fumbled mobile so hard. Same with fumbling the home theater OS center. Better Android than Windows
- Comment on Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release Trailer - Hades 1 in Hades II mod 6 days ago:
Need to try this for some Hades 1 in ultra wide goodness. Hades 2 looks beautiful but I liked the relative simplicity in comparison more
- Comment on Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles 6 days ago:
There’s got to be a solid amount of internal belief that copilot doesn’t have a future. They have no popular phone - no idea why they didn’t continue making Android phones. That Android game store they announced still hasn’t happened. No popular TV presence besides a limping along Xbox series console. People on windows aren’t using copilot. Even Amazon has a better shot because of their echo and fire devices. Companies developing internal AI tools, don’t know why they wouldn’t base off a regularly updated stable of local AI models as they come out like Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi, whatever
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 1 week ago:
It’ll be in stock again soon I’m certain. They’re gamepads, not limited edition Pokemon cards or super cutting edge HBM memory chips
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
It’ll continue being relevant for EGS, GOG, and Amazon games. I’m betting Valve is working on an Android app that makes the experience way smoother out of the box. Keep in mind that there’s plenty of games that aren’t looking like Ghost of Tsushima. There’s been a bunch of CRPG releases in the last decade. ARPG games too that aren’t hard to run. Victor Vran. Grim Dawn has an upcoming update
- Comment on US hardware sales rose 69% in March 2026 following strong Switch 2 performance | US Monthly Charts 2 weeks ago:
News cycles and trends are so fast. I forgot Pokopia was last month and it was major hit
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
Do it Valve. I want a Steam machine and one more controller for my living room. I already have a couple 8bitdo controllers. With that I’ll never need another console again for some fun local multiplayer
- Comment on Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine 3 weeks ago:
Good photo. Was wondering how much space it would take. While the 9060xt is significantly better than the 7600m and FSR4, that Steam Machine is beautifully compact. No rush. Still hard to decide this or that
- Comment on Xbox is planning a summer release for Halo remake and a late 2026 launch for Gears of War E-Day according to a new report 2 months ago:
Hope it stays as pure of a remake as possible. Every now and then I’ll play Halo Inifinite multiplayer since it’s free and works on Linux. The maps are too big. I understand the game has sprint and sliding but for casual players, I don’t have great Halo movement skills. Casuals like me enjoy chaotic multiplayer. Hopefully this remake has all the old smaller maps of the OG Halo and maybe throw in some Halo 2 and 3 maps. Really should consider coming out swinging with a lot of content rather than disappointing at release again and drip feeding content to a mostly abandoned community again
- Comment on As The Division 3 development continues, Ubisoft announces layoffs at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm as part of 'a proposed organizational restructure' 3 months ago:
Too many games every year to play anything from Ubisoft
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 4 months ago:
You can Google your city and distance to closest GeForce Now data center or other video game streaming service. I’m like 300-400 km away from a data center hosting geforce now
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 4 months ago:
Depending on location. Same city 3 years ago no data cap. Current neighborhood first had a data cap that had overage fees or pay an extra $50 a month for uncapped. Now with a service provider that does throttling after a point during congestion
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 4 months ago:
Depends on how close you are to the server and your Internet connection. For me when my Internet isn’t having a bad day, the latency is good even for twitchy shooting games. I wouldn’t rely on it for a competitive game full match length, but anything single player is good. Pretty much anything that isn’t super fast paced twitchy is good. GeForce Now is how I first tried Cyberpunk path tracing. Worked great
I remember trying out games on GeForce Now, Gamepass, and Luna around the same time. GeForce Now and Luna latency wasn’t a problem for me. Gamepass was frequently really bad
I’m not subscribed to anything anymore. Just wanted to try them out
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 4 months ago:
GeForce Now performs well but it’s already seeing further limits put in place. Gamepass already saw price hikes. Amazon Luna has a terribly small library. Smaller players have to buy GPUs, memory, and processor’s too and contend with AI data center induced rising power costs. Plus data center location matters a huge amount and that’s still a work in progress for game streaming services and a lot of the world
Plus my Internet throttles after like 1.5TB a month. Fine for ~15mbps Netflix. Not so good for ~100mbps game streaming. Others have data caps or overage fees. There certainly are those with uncapped/unthrottled internet. I wish my neighborhood had that
Game streaming is going mainstream going to get worse short term too. Mostly pricing and worse usage limits
A midrange phone these days are power competitive with a PS4. Makes more sense for Steam’s future support android APKs because of the Steam Frame to make way for Steam to be an Android game store and devs target Switch-PS4 hardware on the low end and PS5 mid/high end. Don’t even entertain the idea of a PS6 level min requirements game for a game releasing this decade. Probably not even for the first half of the 2030s
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 4 months ago:
I have a PS5 that I rarely turn on. Everything ends up on PC. PC handhelds better than a PS Portal. To phone streaming everything supports. Playing PC games on Android is a thing now. Switch handles party gaming. No replacing Mario party/kart/tennis/strikers/golf. Nintendo IP party games are OP
What I’m interested in are the insights the PS5 will give into PS4 architecture. PS5 is backwards compatible and seeing what the PS5 does to accommodate any problematic games in BC. PS4 emulation over 5 because 4 is well along. PS5 is deep in the no console exclusives era. Early PS4 still had semblance of third party exclusives and Japanese games skipping PC
I unplugged the PS5 Ethernet port just in case I ever want to do something in the future. I doubt it besides possibly future of running Linux on it. It’d make a great gaming PC someday as a gift. People always talk about exclusives as a reason for consoles. I play way more games on PC that aren’t available on consoles. Too old and abandoned. Too indie so it may not show up for years if ever on consoles.
Hopefully the Xbox series X gets jail broken someday too. They’d be great values for gaming PCs
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 months ago:
After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It’s like 3 games a year now that I don’t already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let’s buy a game id never otherwise buy and try
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 months ago:
Worst physical hardware and software sales since 1995 so far. Switch 2 won’t be its first holiday next year and potential price hikes from storage and ram next year
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 months ago:
In single player games where there’s fall damage, I always mod out fall damage and carry weight limits. I don’t care about realism especially when it’s selective realism like in video games. So in that sense, in single player games I’m cheating all the time
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 5 months ago:
A 3DS emulator like Azahar or DS emulator like MelonDS both of which are on the Play store, and play a Pokemon game or anything turn based. Play it vertically. Different puzzle games
- Comment on Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats' 5 months ago:
It’s an all time great mod that’s pretty harmless with the IP