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It's funny. When I saw this last night, I was in such disbelief that I was watching the real trailer that I was nitpicking all the way going "Nah, this looks bad, R* wouldn't do that. That looks too good for a GTA game" etc until I double-and-triple-checked the links and went "oh".
Now I've had a few hours to digest:
- The buildings and environments look absolutely beautiful
- It seems to be running at 60FPS? Thank goodness
- The characters look... waxy... I will say that black characters look absolutely phenomenal - much better than previous entries
- This whole game sort of feels like "GTA V+", which makes sense. Unfortunately, I've overhyped myself to a level that R* could never achieve. Not really R*'s problem, but still a bummer.
- Looking at some of the social media/news freeze frames, it seems a lot of the satire's edginess has been toned down a lot. Honestly? Thank goodness. GTA V was nauseating in how much it was trying to be a shock-jockey. However, I hope R* will still have its political leaning. Even if I don't agree with R*, it (usually) is something of substance and is usually somewhat grown up (with exception of GTA V)
- I would bet money that GTA VI will be delayed to 2026.
- It will be interesting to see how the writing will be now that Dan Houser has left. It seems OK so far.
- Everyone's faces look so expressive except for the two main characters. They just look kind of robotic
EDIT: One massive thing I forgot - the marketing for this was so stupid. R* kept saying "Upcoming Grand Theft Auto title" as if it wasn't going to be called "Grand Theft Auto VI" like they called GTA5 "Grand Theft Auto V" and the one before with roman numerals. Like, for goodness sakes guys, get over yourselves. We know it's going to be called Grand Theft Auto VI.
RMS has been a divisive figure in the FOSS community, but I don't think anyone deserves cancer.
Hope he fights through it and comes out of the other side well and healthy.
It is such a shame for Matthew Perry to pass away at 54. It's a very young age, too.
I don't think folks realise how much effort and investment Valve has put into making Linux a viable gaming alternative for modern-ish games.
Most distributors use Windows because it is easy to install and setup for gaming. Is it perfect? No. But any vendor can pay Microsoft and get a viable OS for gaming.
Linux will need a lot of custom graphics card drivers and a lot of tweaking (think power as well as graphical features, memory, CPU etc) to get the optimum performance. Most OSes out of the box have OKish performance for gaming, which is OK for any hobbyist but would be a disaster for a consumer product.
And before Valve came along, Proton wasn't even a thing. Proton is now a thing, and the way Steam utilises it makes it effortless, but it will need a fair bit of custom args to get it working well.
Each of these things separately can be quite painful in its own right, but altogether it would be a headache for any company not well versed in Linux. Not only that, but having to provide customer support for a Linux OS would put the fear in most companies.
I would imagine most vendors would just slap Windows on their machine and be like "you know what to do with this" and let them go nuts.
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It's weird. There have been folks who have been charmed endlessly by this man, and then there are folks like me who saw him for the hypersexual creep that he has always been.
Also, it's been known that Katherine Ryan has effectively called him out to his face on a panel show, and also did a documentary with Louis Theroux and talking about Russel Brand's behaviour without directly or indirectly addressing him for litigious reasons.
Just checked the guy's YouTube, and it seems he is on the anti-vax, right-wing train for some time.
Here is a reddit thread from about 9 months ago when it was just rumours:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/z2pnjz/which_famous_british_comedian_is_katherine_ryan
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I didn't really consider 2D indie games. For 3D indie games, some games are cut down while others are "good enough" to the average Switch end user.
At the end of the day, if the ability to play 3D games from about 5-10 years ago in 30-60fps sounds like a dream to you and you are willing to jump through some Launch Properties/Proton version hoops for some games in order to get that perfect gameplay (for example, I have GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas OG games, and I spent days modding the games on the SD to get it running close to flawlessly as possible) rather than settle for compromised ports - which for the average person playing video games, they wouldn't care too much about framerates or graphical fidelity as so much as the convenience to push Play and just go), then Steam Deck is for you.
Otherwise, Switch is perhaps preferrable. OR, if you care more about visual fidelity more than anything, maybe consider getting a PS5/XSX. I say this as I do love my Steam Deck for GTA5 sessions, but for RE games I often go to my XSX.
- maybe some games you don’t want to spend time tweaking the launch options, the graphics, the sliders, the mods etc and you just want to play the game as the devs intended. Switch is good for that.
- maybe there are times you don’t want to deal with all the hassles of a handled pc as a gaming system. Switch is good for that.
- maybe you want to play Nintendo games, but you don’t want to go through all the hassle of emulation (especially switch games). Switch is good for that.
- maybe there is an indie dev you want to support, and you know their game is more expensive on switch than on pc, but it’s well within your budget and you want to give them extra coin. Switch is good for that.
- while switch games are generally low fidelity and low frame rate, you know what to generally expect going in.
- maybe your group of friends mostly own switch and play switch online compared to steam.
Truth be told, once I got my steam deck, I sold my switch. Not because the switch was terrible by any means, but I realised that I missed my pc game library, I didn’t care for online multiplayer, and I didn’t care for Nintendo games. Also, I grew up with Linux and tinkering both Windows and Linux - it’s in my blood at this point, so getting a steam deck was just pure joy for me, even if I spent 90% of the time configuring the thing and 10% playing games.
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