Gamedev
with male being the only option for years in most games, i started choosing female characters to get a different experience nowadays it depends on the game, sometimes i like the female voice better, sometimes it’s about the romanceable characters and sometimes about the character design
nier automata on the deck, a friend gifted it to me for my birthday
with heroic launcher, it handles everything for you
Death Stranding on steam deck, the version I got for free on epic
think about all the resources currently spent on stopping people from using software
they don’t have to keep supporting, just not make it unavailable the best case would be if they made it open source, in that case other people could keep maintaining it, but would be against their profit incentives
thinking about photoshop CS2 for instance, they offered the download and some keys that would work on it
it used to be the case that when you weren’t able to enforce DRM on a piece of software anymore, you would offer it as a free download so people who bought it wouldn’t lose it
it’s gonna be someone nobody knew beforehand
technically it’s not 100% btw, i did everything that makes the completeness indicators go to 100% but didn’t get ultimate on all challenges
if you’re interested, spider-man remastered took me 27.4 hs
22.4 hours according to steam. I started friday evening and finished sunday night, leaving for a few hours in the middle.
i just finished spider-man miles morales 100% and don’t know what to play next
today I tried the olliefrog and flutter away demos, pretty cute I must say
I recommend Augmented Steam, it’s an extension for browsers that integrates itad among other things to the steam store, so you can see if there are better deals on other stores while you browse.
gog isn’t my main platform for games (mainly because there’s no good support for steamdeck) but some games I’ve played that I liked are:
I find Townscaper really relaxing, there’s no objective, just a toy to make cute looking towns. Haven’t tested it on steam deck tho.
If you like building/puzzles there’s Shapez (this one I tried on steam deck and it might take some time to get used to the controls), it’s like factorio but abstract and without resource management, you just make machines that modify and combine shapes to create new ones, it get’s progressively complicated, if it’s your thing you’ll find it quite addicting so be mindfull of that.
For sims there’s Two Point Hospital, (Two Point Campus came out recently but I haven’t tried it), Planet Coaster and Cities Skylines (if you’re into the hard stuff)
Here are some more narrative driven games that I like:
what i see today is games are super accessible and everyone owns a portable gaming device, my parents are over 60 and they both play games on their phones, although they would’t consider themselves gamers or anything close
i think the barrier to entry on core games gets higher with age so casual games on phones fit nicely within that demographic
i didn’t de-lid mine, just changed the thermal paste and pads, and it’s working fine, might considered doing it in the future
here’s a video i followed, it shows a bunch of mantainance and restoration stuff https://youtu.be/iuOlxAYLTM0
on xcode i would say it has a 50% chance of working