TabbsTheBat (they/them)

I think there’s a lot of factors for the lackluster performance of the OG steam controller, ranging from the build quality, to the unconventional/niche layout, and the lack of knowledge/maturity for systems like steam input

Given how many factors have changed from 2015 I think valve should have expected the sales numbers to be a lot higher than they did :3

At one point towards the end of the OG steam controller’s availability you could buy it for $5 :3

Heck. A winget comparison then?

Or I suppose if we need something on both OSes we have like… pip or something lol. I don’t actually know that many package managers that happen to be available on windows

Imagine installing Win11 for the very first time without decades of Windows experience because you are eg a Mac user.

Actually funny thing, I have a pretty minimal amount of windows experience, and basically 0 windows 11 experience (my use of windows computers was basically flash games back when I was a kid, and IT classes, which boiled down to launching office apps or codeblocks), and as the resident “computer person” of the family I usually end up having to fix various issues for them. Which ends up with me looking up very basic things for like 30 minutes that I can do in linux with 'muscle memory" in 30 seconds all the time :3

Which is all to say this is an apt comparison and a real issue

This is mostly for AAA games not so much indies… and not neccessarily just dying light

One thing about older games that tends to be better imo is the world design, even with the worse tech a lot of the time they feel more tightly designed around the mechanics, being more densely populated with content, instead of just being massive open worlds even when that doesn’t serve the gameplay loop, or having the far cry 5 “tackle zones in whatever order” thing, which just leads to them all feeling inconsequential and kinda samey, cause you don’t get zones designed for specific skills you pick up later etc. and in general newer games feel more homogenized imo, like every game is an open world first person shooter, with light RPG elements (unless it’s an online arena hero shooter), and what would’ve been the central mechanic boils down to a small part of it. so dying light for me feels like a parkour game while more of the modern games that feature those mechanics feel like games that happen to have parkour in them

Also in general older games feel less intrusive, newer games just have pop-ups and collectables and UI for every little thing all the time, it feels like it just wants you to buy a battlepass and DLC and whatever else

But where they are a lot worse is accesability. I mean dying light’s controller settings are weird, like you have 4 presets you can change, but you can’t bind the buttons individually, and some games I played don’t have options to rebind at all even if they detect the controller. I always end up just using steam input anyway tbh, but if not for that replaying those games would be a lot more painful, also I often find a lot of settings like FOV or whatever else lacking (dying light is fine in that regard :3), and there’s also things in a lot of older games where they don’t neccesarily remind you what quest you’re on, or teach you certain mechanics etc. So sometimes when I take a break from one for a while I end up needing to just run around or look up what im actually meant to be doing lol :3 maybe that’s just me

Though overall I do enjoy a lot of the older games more than modern ones in the AAA scene lol. I do still play a lot of modern indies as well :3

Im replaying the original dying light :3. Honestly the way old games are better in so many ways, and worse in others is something I find interesting

I feel like half of lemmy probably has a ridiculous ban reason on reddit lol

Windows - the best ad for linux

I’ll try it if I don’t forget it by the next time I have access to my PC lol :3

I’ve been using ctrl + R more now :3… though I definitely used to ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

Set up a new minecraft server with my boyfriend a couple of weeks back, so been playing that :3

Mm movement :3

The truth, as always, is in the middle. Plenty of programmers hate it, and plenty of programmers like it. It just so happens that these kinds of spaces attracts more or the hate crowd, and paid shill articles attract more or the like crowd ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

“Remember kids: if you’re being robbed just say “no”. They can’t do anything without your consent”

Guys I asked ChatGPT for a secure code for my website; is this correct:

if getting.hacked == true; don't

I’ve been on linux for 4ish years, and I’ve done a fair share of gaming in that time, with minimal issues

The few I can think of are mostly controller related:

• having downloaded steam as a flatpak originally I ran into some issues with missing inputs in the steam input software (getting the .deb version of steam fixed it)
• warframe crashes when switching windows with a controller connected
• running steam in big picture mode results in some keyboard keys not working in certain games (o is the one I remember but there were a few of them)

Oh and one other I had was initially getting sims 3 running, but that one was fixed at some point and now it runs fine

'tis the wheeland experience :3. At least we can have monitors with different refresh rates tho

As is we do kinda have 2 standards, both equally bad, and you just have to pick your poison

Actually! Wheel11 is really outdated, which is why im building wheeland, which is more secure and <…>

Real :3

Has there ever been a gaming article that started with microsoft where the following words weren’t closing/shutting down? Hah