PonyOfWar
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- Comment on Should I buy a Switch 2 despite owning an OLED? 19 hours ago:
The main issues of Switch 2’s display are an extremely slow response time as well as prominent ghosting/blur. You can see some measurements here for example. It’s not too bad when it comes to color reproduction and of course it’s higher resolution, so I guess it depends on how much you care about motion clarity and response time compared to that.
- Comment on Should I buy a Switch 2 despite owning an OLED? 22 hours ago:
Do you mostly play in TV-mode or portable? In the latter case, I’d wait for an OLED version of the Switch 2 personally, as the current model has a screen that’s pretty mid and which will definitely feel like a downgrade from Switch OLED.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 6 days ago:
The entire games industry, and software development in general, is unstable right now. The few companies that are still stable aren’t hiring. If you have a job, you try to keep it. Because trying to get a new job will be an absolute nightmare. I’m in that situation myself right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah, I think I know what happened here, as I just searched “Steam TOS” and this site came up, simply titled “Terms of Service”, which includes that passage. But that’s actually the TOS for the game “Rec Room”.
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 1 week ago:
Best possible outcome for those studios at least. Whether all the other changes have any positive impact, I guess we’ll see. I’m not too hopeful though.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
If you ignore the price, sure.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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" 5 weeks ago:
You only pay the taxes that apply to you. You don’t pay all the taxes.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think you remember correctly. It uses regular WASD movement and has been using that since launch.
- Comment on 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I can still play it perfectly fine with 80+ FPS on Steam Deck.
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Supposedly, the message currently only targets people who use the mobile site a lot.