This is long form celebrity gossip.

I think this sort of sport is called “just guys being Bros”

Streets of Rogue was a laugh, but it didn’t stick the way Gungeon did.

It took me months of play to finish my first Gungeon run. But once I beat a run, it became routine that pretty much every run got finished successfully. Although the extra bosses are really difficult, I didn’t get to grips with those.

I had written geberal detailed tips for Gungeon back in the day…but that’s all lost now since I scrubbed everything I had ever submitted to Reddit.

The potential for game breaking synergies and relative simplicity of movement/shooting in 4 cardinal directions makes for pretty fantastic gameplay.

BoI has taken a bit more of a back seat in my library since I discovered Enter the Gungeon.

I’m surprised that’s still in the most played games. Also Slay the Spire. They’re top quality games and I still play them. Just surprised there’s a long term wider audience.

Possibly. The very early part of the game is linear. Very quickly in this game you’ll find it impossible to look up a guide because it is so non-linear, and it is really difficult to judge where you are in the game because you might have done things in a completely different order. Generally, early bosses just take a bit of practice and pattern recognition, and tend not to be reliant on upgrades.

Stories like this have been posted every so often to reddit. I’ll believe this is possible when I see it available in consumer electronics (and not just lab conditions).

To be fair the game is almost 14 years old. Even with modern games no one seems to design games for touchscreens since no one is really playing PC games that way.

A lovely story. Ive had a brilliant experience myself with my 4 year old neurodiverse son who took great comfort in playing Ori and the Blind Forest, and finished the game himself and found all the secret areas I couldn’t.

Then at 5, he watched me play Super Hexagon and wanted to play that. He’s gotten to the hardest level and asks for my help, but he’s beyond my skill level.

As far as the argument against the issue you mentionrd, the logical argument was complete in the first paragraph:

the academic community has failed to produce any negative relationship between video games and real life.

It’s an amazing console, but the shortcomings you’ve mentioned are legit. When I got my Switch, I immediately ordered the Hori Split Pad. Then I threw the Joycons in a drawer and never looked at them again. A large capacity SD card is mandatory and is so cheap, I don’t consider that a big deal.

Online subscription shit is just console bullshit that I won’t pay on principle.

All the reasons you’ve mentioned have been sorted with a Steam Deck, and I haven’t ever picked up my Switch from the day my Deck arrived.

I picked up Star Wars Rogue Squadron and it has been great fun and very nostalgic to play on the Steam Deck. I was looking for a modern alternative and picked up Everspace, which I like, but am finding it incredibly difficult to get good at so far.

Hollow Knight is the greatest game of all time for me. I replayed it recently and it was such a different experience for me to move through confidently and quickly when I had a grasp of combat from the beginning. It took me months to finish it the first time because of getting lost and not knowing where to go next.

Some generic (no spoiler) tips:

• go in another direction and come back to the boss later if that’s possible. If a boss is way too difficult then there may be an upgrade you haven’t gotten yet.
• take your time. It is more important to save your health rather than rushing to get a hit in. Sometimes it’s worth going to a boss and not hitting him at all and just focus on learning movement, patterns and figuring out where the openings are.
• play around with your charms and get the best setup you need to help with the boss fight.
• try to avoid attacks by running into the gap in projectiles rather than relying on dashes all the time.
• if you’re coming to thinking of quitting the game based on difficulty, then there’s no shame in watching a boss guide video on YouTube. Or space it out with a secondary game so you can play something else and come back later.

I ordered the Deck when pre-bookings first opened and got one of the first few deliveries. Been using it daily since then. Made a gaming PC 4 months ago and only use that for Street fighter 6 and Spider-Man remastered. The Deck is used for everything else. My Daily games at the moment are Brotato, Everybody’s Golf 6 (emulated), Rock band unplugged (emulated), Everspace. Got Hades 2 lined up next. If a game isn’t good on the Deck then it’ll likely get neglected. That’s why I don’t play FTL as much as I’d like.

I’ve really liked Everybody’s golf so far. I used to play it on the PSP, but then thought I might as well get the most up to date version possible. This 6th version had plenty of recommendations online as one of the best. It has got just enough real golf (compensation for wind, ground type, ground slant, height, etc) and arcade elements (hitting curve balls or super spin, a variety of clubs and balls types to pick for added stats, etc). I’d recommend trying it out. You’ll know after the first few rounds whether you’re going to like it or not.

I’ve also really liked stick man golf on the phone. PGA golf gets plenty of recommendations online too, but I didn’t want anything that was too realistic.

Slay the Spire and card games work well with the touch interface. Gem matching games like Matchr work well too. Hardly any once can make use of a multitouch PC game. Touch games tend to be released on the phone.

Here’s a different suggestion. Try emulating Mercury Meltdown for the Wii. That can be played entirely with gyro controls.

I’ve setup up emulation and have had a blast playing Everybody’s Golf 6 for the PS3. It is such a chill game. Golf games are really underrated and everybody’s golf does a great job of cartoony arcade game mixed with just enough real golf to make it interesting. Perfect on the Deck.

Stunlock made Bloodline Champions, the best game of all time for me. Then that died.

Then they made the next best thing, Battlerite. And then that died.

I’m hesitant to pick this up in case I really like it and it doesn’t live long enough for me to get my fill. I’ll wait and see what the player base looks like in a few months.

I sold my laptop and used my Steam Deck as my main PC for a couple of months (till the parts for my new PC arrived). Worked out great. Convinced me to install Arch Linux on my new PC.

The Deck works well as an HTPC too. Works great with Plex, etc.

I’m using a R.Pi with GP2040-CE firmware. It doesn’t work with PS5, but I have a Brooke USB convertor (that’s just for local events, I only have a PC at home). I used to have the Brooke convertor embedded inside the hitbox but that gave trou le with my Linux PC at home.

Let me know if you need help with the process. If you don’t have woodworking g experience there’s still a very easy way to make this yourself (with some tools).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9wprMppFfw

You don’t churn butter anymore. You slide/tap/piano.