PonyOfWar
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- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 1 day ago:
Can’t confirm. Especially if you live directly below a roof.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
My point is that you can’t take the price out of the equation. If your standard for “potential customer” is everyone for whom a Steam Machine would be an upgrade, that’s not a useful metric in my opinion. As many of those either can’t afford to pay that much or wouldn’t want to pay it for an upgrade they don’t necessarily need. Dota plays just fine on older systems.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
If you ignore the price, sure.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
I believe it. I’m sure there are millions of people using Steam to play Dota or CS2 on stuff like old laptops. But how many of those are willing and able to spend 1000+ for an upgrade?
Ultimately, stocks may be so low that it doesn’t really matter though.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
Yeah, but Steam Deck had an extremely attractive and competitive price when it launched.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
All true. If you already have a large library of PC games, it wouldn’t make much sense to get a console. But then you probably already have a PC as well, and can ride it out until the AI bubble pops. That’s certainly what I’m doing, as now is probably the worst time in history to buy new PC hardware.
Of course, some may say it’s only the worst time in history for now…
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 days ago:
I wonder how many people there are that fall in that category but who wouldn’t just buy a much cheaper console instead.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
No idea if this game is a joke or a social experiment
It’s a grift - get one idiot to buy it and you’ll have made a profit. Not an original idea either, “I Am Rich” was pretty much the same thing back in 2008.
- Comment on Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week 1 week ago:
It has quite a refreshing setting for a fantasy RPG: A prison colony beneath a magical barrier that has been taken over by the prisoners. It has a seamless open world which instead of being large focuses on being dense and interesting to explore. You can join different factions and there’s quite a bit of variety in how to approach the game. NPCs all have realistic daily routines. It also has satisfying progression: You start out as an absolute loser who can barely hold a sword and gets killed in 2 hits by a rat and slowly work your way up to be a powerful warrior or mage.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
I was about to recommend this too. Probably the closest thing to Elder Scrolls that isn’t actually Elder Scrolls or a mod. Excellent game, and quite an impressive achievement considering they had nowhere near the budget of a Bethesda game.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
But why did you have to rebind that particular key combination, when you could have just rebound the regular “move forward” key?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
True, you can do that, but that’s an optional secondary movement style. Would be odd to drop the game over something you don’t have to use.
- Comment on Why do people say "my taxes" 2 weeks ago:
You only pay the taxes that apply to you. You don’t pay all the taxes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you remember correctly. It uses regular WASD movement and has been using that since launch.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait! Looks like Kodan will be a playable race?
- Comment on Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers 2 weeks ago:
It’s also not even correct. I am in Germany, with a German (English-language) GOG account and I received the email with those symbols. Someone should get fired over this.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT 4 weeks ago:
Did you ever try the “alternative movement” setting, which they added with one of the updates? Much faster response with that enabled.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I can still play it perfectly fine with 80+ FPS on Steam Deck.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Whether they call it Unreal Engine 5.9 or 6 doesn’t really matter in regards to fixing UE’s issues. At some point they’ll make the version jump.
That’s not to say they’ll definitely fix the issues in UE 6. I guess we’ll see.
- Comment on Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles 5 weeks ago:
Love those games. Bringing them to a larger audience is ultimately a good thing, but I think they’ll lose quite a bit of their impact without the VR-aspect.
- Comment on AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 5 weeks ago:
Nice, looking forward to this on Steam Deck.
- Comment on Sega has canceled development of its ‘super game’, as it pivots away from live service games | VGC 1 month ago:
Well, if the article is any indication…
Planned revivals of classic franchises such as Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage remain in production, Sega said.
- Comment on Sega has canceled development of its ‘super game’, as it pivots away from live service games | VGC 1 month ago:
Over 100 developers who were working on free-to-play titles have already been transferred to ‘Full Game’ development teams, “focusing on mainstay IPs”, according to the company.
Good to see them doing that instead of massive layoffs.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 1 month ago:
Always good to be patient with Civ games. By the time they’ve fixed most of the game’s flaws, there will probably also be some solid discounts on the game.
- Comment on Reddit is finally entirely dead to me 1 month ago:
Supposedly, the message currently only targets people who use the mobile site a lot.
- Comment on 37 years since Prince of Persia, Replaced is the bombastic cinematic platformer I've been waiting for 2 months ago:
The game is beautiful, but unfortunately I don’t find it fun to play. Controls feel unresponsive and it’s often hard to tell what to interact with in puzzles. Combat is okay, but repetitive.
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 2 months ago:
To me it seems like any kind of communication in multiplayer games has gotten less and less over the years. Used to be pretty common to just talk about random stuff with random people in games like CS, DayZ and even Overwatch years ago, but in recent years, I hardly remember any instances of people using voice chat at all, let alone using it to say anything positive. So if this is true and common for Arc Raiders, which I haven’t played, it seems to be a positive outlier. Also curious about other people’s experience.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Mate, the point is that they’re not talking cartoon anthropomorphic animals. You’re overthinking this to a ridiculous degree.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I meant to write sapient, not sentient.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Carnivores in Zootopia eat fish and insects, which are considered non-sentient, as well as plant protein.