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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 28th (self.gaming)

submitted 9 months ago by chloyster to c/gaming

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What are you all playing! I've been playing a lot of lies of p and have been dipping my toes back into binding of Isaac!

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[–] resketreke@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'd say it's a bit of both. I have the impression that they wanted to do a better Persona 4 but for me the characters feel more artificial and the game feels bloated in comparison. By wanting to expand on everything that made P4 so good, they expanded everything a bit too much for me. And reading the game lasts some 100-120 hours reinforces this feeling and makes me uncomfortable, which shouldn't be the case with such a beloved franchise.

[–] UrLogicFails 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I can't really compare too much to P4G, since I never got very far in it (I missed the QoL improvements).

I think being able to save in safe rooms let them expand the Palaces/Dungeons, which I could see making the game drag for some. Personally, I enjoyed the safe room mechanic since it meant that I could play for short times if necessary, which let me "pick up and play" much easier.

[–] resketreke@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'm playing it on Steam Deck, the sleep function is a godsend.

[–] UrLogicFails 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The sleep function is pretty nice, but I like to swap games relatively frequently; so being able to save frequently is still critical for me. Plus at the time, I was just playing on my personal computer, so I couldn't leave it running, even if I wanted to.

For P5R, I suggest only playing for an hour or a two at a time; I think it helps keep the game from dragging. For me, it helped keep the exploration aspect fun since I didn't have to rush to the end since I was probably not getting there in this sitting anyways.

[–] resketreke@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I understand correctly, you own a Steam Deck. I haven't tried it, but this plugin could be useful for your use case.

[–] UrLogicFails 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool. Does it let you pause games indefinitely while playing other games, or does it just initiate a pause while you're on the home screen, etc?

[–] resketreke@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

From the README:

A Steam Deck plugin for the Decky Plugin Loader that makes it possible to pause and resume games even for those that don't have an immediate pause option.

Useful for when you wish to temporarily suspend an application in order to redirect the cpu and gpu ressources to another without having to close it.

Since used RAM and VRAM won't be able to be recovered from paused apps you might look into tweaking your swapfile to make things smoother: https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities

It sends the SIGSTOP signal to all the children of the reaper process to stop the execution and SIGCONT to resume them. (Signal (IPC))

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