I’ll be one of the “horde” (albeit more tame) but personally I don’t think developers should make their games easier or change their vision in order to broaden its audience. It kinda reminds me of the “rated R” debate. Certain people want movies like Oppenheimer to be rated PG-13 over being rated R so it can reach a bigger audience. But I don’t think Nolan should be changing his vision of the movie just so it sells better

Ehh I disagree with using RDR2 as an example, but I think QTEs in general are probably my least favorite game mechanic. I actually quite like walking around in RDR2 during the missions. A huge aspect of the game is just immersing yourself in the map/world and listening to the NPCs. I can see it getting old during replays but for me it’s a hell of a lot better than watching a cutscene and being prompted to hit a button. I vividly remember fishing with Dutch and Josea for at least a half hour just listening to them chat with Arthur

RDR2 has one of, if not my favorite, inventory systems. Your own ‘backpack’ that had a weight limit and could only carry smaller things. Big things you’d have to lug onto the back of your horse or find a cart. All of your equipped weapons are displayed on your person. If you want to swap weapons you have to run back to your horse and exchange weapons at your saddle bags

I don’t think enough people realize the demo is literally just the game’s prologue. It even says if you buy the game it will pick up where you left off in the demo

World of Warcraft, Undertale, Stardew Valley, Sonic Mania, Halo, Hollow Knight

Nintendo is cheating

The fact that some bonehead can make up an 8 word story about a dumb cake and get this kind of reaction from someone is just wild to me

Honestly I won’t get one but I’m fine for Elon to break into it. I kinda feel like that’s the only thing he does well. Funnels money into concepts people believe are impossible. Fail until there’s some small success and let other, more competent people learn from those failures. I think I’d rather have that than stay stagnant and/or have the Russian brain chip become the standard

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And what company would you currently trust to make brain implants?

OP is using a plugin from Decky. It’s still the Battle.net shortcut but you can modify the shortcut name and use the SteamGridDB plugin to grab the actual metadata and art for the game. Check out decky.xyz

I believe this is extremeRate’s full shell replacement. Actually pretty affordable, about $40 after tax. I’ve heard it takes 2-3 hours to do though. Personally I’d keep the black dpad and buttons

ProtonDB for Decky is a great tool to check how compatible a game is with Proton, even gives it a score

It’s a plugin for Decky which is a free 3rd party plugin manager. Goto decky.xyz from your deck and download file, make sure to run it from your desktop. Then go back to game mode and hit the “…” button to access it

This plugin is HLTB for Deck. They’re also using SteamGridDB to get the custom D4 art and the game’s metadata. Game Theme Music, vibrantDeck, and ProtonDB are all musts as well

I’d definitely pick it up during the Summer Sale. With the DLC coming out soon and rumors of it being a soft relaunch of a lot of stuff, it’s likely they’ll keep it out of deep sales for a while

Tears of the Kingdom without a doubt so far. Enjoyed every second of it.

Honorable mentions are Hi-Fi Rush, RE4 Remake, Diablo 4 - even Jedi Survivor (especially if it didn’t run like shit).

And I fully expect Starfield, Spiderman 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 to give TOTK a run for its money. Honestly a great year for gaming despite some shitty PC ports.

I just gave Cassette Beasts a shot and was instantly hooked. Fun PokeClone that is one of the best I’ve played and gets some stuff better than even Pokemon does. Also on gamepass if you’ve got that

This is the right answer. Half-Life 2 literally blew my mind when I first played it. It still holds up to a lot of similar games nearly 20 years later

Recently just played through most of it again with the HL2VR mod and it was amazing

Agreed! Totally think this is a learning experience for both sides

An…earnest mistake?

I’m sorry

Right, I wasn’t saying it shouldn’t have been a public post. Just that the public post shouldn’t have immediately jumped to accusations. FOSS or not, accusing someone of stealing code and intentionally trying to obfuscate its origin to pass it off as their own is a big deal for a developer. One that can destroy your reputation

A simple “I’ve noticed snippets in here of my work that falls under a license which is not attributed at all. Could you add the proper attributions or remove it from your project?” says the same thing and doesn’t jump to any accusations that you have no idea if are true or not

Honestly that’s my only issue with this. Ernest was totally rightfully called out for this, as he should have been. But Emma’s knee jerk reaction is just a real bad look. Don’t make any attempt to reach out and figure out why it’s in there. Immediately make a public post accusing him of stealing code, trying to hide that he stole it, and claim it as his own…on a FOSS project no less…

Surely there’s a step or 2 before that point…