Cuphead.

I suck.

Easy. YouTube doesn’t want to deal with actual DMCA more than they have to, so they have their own system that lets big companies do whatever they want, whether the content is legal or not.

Literally for not covering their heads.

I can’t find any list of what they actually released in 2024.

But dredge and blasphemous 2 are still pretty recent that they explicitly mention as back catalogue that make sense to be doing OK.

I’ve finished chapter 4 of 10. I really like the art style. The top down 2D feels like 2D Zelda, the 2D platforming is a little slow but gives you the same moveset as the top down, and the 3D is basic, but really visually cool and again, same moves that all feel the same. The puzzles aren’t super complicated, but I have had to stop a second.

I wouldn’t have bought it (it’s included with the higher PS+ tier), and it seems too short with too little replayability for $30, but it’s a genuinely cool project.

I’m not sure there’s going to be enough gameplay for me to play the whole thing, but it’s included with PS+ (extra?) and it’s definitely a nice looking package. I really like the color palette and just the way they’re approaching the visuals early.

Edit: I’m up to chapter 3. The top down feels similar to the 2D Zeldas. There are puzzles that have been basic so far but feel like they have a lot of potential. There’s side scrolling platforming. There’s some 3D platforming. There’s some insta-fail stealth (which I’m generally not a fan of and don’t love here either).

I have massively better quality, stability, and latency with the RemotePlay app over the internet from PS5 than I do with Steam in home streaming actually in my house. It’s still not good enough for high precision games, but Steam isn’t close.

PS4 can’t stream for shit because it can’t do the encoding.

“To clarify: I had no involvement in the actual development of this official port, and neither did Flat2VR Studios,” the modder added. “They just bought all the rights to the concept and code of the unfinished mod (which tbh they didn’t really need to do), and then did it all themselves.”

I’m curious how much of his code they ended up using, but it’s really cool to reward the dude like that either way.

The regular game made me motion sick lol.

No, the OP did.

Edited for clarity.

It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They’d beat the Steam Deck’s sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn’t do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.

My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.

I love my Steam deck, and bounce between how heavily I use it vs the switch* or PS5 depending on the games I’m into at the moment. But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC (like the OP) doesn’t help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.

The PS5 is probably my smallest library (and mostly PS4 games, a lot of which were before I had a PC), but it’s definitely plenty capable and I don’t regret the purchase at all. (The controller is also the coolest non graphics addition to gaming I’ve experienced in a long time).

*The switch desperately needs a 3rd party replacement for the controllers, though, because the joycons are bad brand new.

I won’t buy a portal. I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.

But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.

PS remote play is fantastic (for what remote play is. Streaming still sucks.)

If I’m playing modern games on a TV? PS5 easy. But still the pro over the deck.

I love my deck. As the handheld it’s intended to be. It’s not powerful enough for an acceptable experience running a AAA 3D game on a TV screen. You can ignore the resolution and artifacts and just generally low visual quality and poor frame rate on a small screen, because playing the games portably at all is a huge step up. You can’t ignore any part of it on a TV. It’s fine for indie games, older games, 2D stuff, etc.

But it doesn’t have the performance for a good living room experience if you’re looking to play modern AAA games. (Ignoring all their bullshit rootkits on PC that block a lot of multiplayer games out completely, which are the games you have to pay for on PS. You just can’t play most of them on Linux at all.)

I’m optimistic about the idea that game developers will stop being allowed to install fucking malware.

I don’t trust Microsoft at all, but you shouldn’t be able to consent to that bullshit in an EULA no one has ever read.

We and our 695 partners process personal data

Nope.

I went in expecting a space-skyrim with typical Bethesda jank, and that’s exactly what we got

I won’t say I disliked it. There was a lot of stuff I liked, and the gunplay was substantially less painful than fallout. But the thing with Skyrim that makes it easy to get hooked for me is the fact that from wherever I am, I can just wander, and I’ll find cool places to go. I’ll find a cave to wander down that goes through more than one civilization before letting me out somewhere different, that I can also just pick a direction and wander.

There’s nothing really in Starfield that does that. I still really liked a lot about it, and some of the city stuff pushes into feeling immersive-sim-like. But I would have preferred less solar systems, but ones that were (or had been) more fully populated by humans and felt like you were really exploring each world instead of a small area.

It’s still worth playing, and the base is potentially there for some really cool total conversion type mods. But it doesn’t really do the open world feeling that Bethesda was one of the few who consistently did really well.

lol at “we’re automatically refunding the people we managed to rip off (in pretend money)”

I hate recasting characters, replacing narrators in the middle of an audiobook series, etc. It’s super jarring, and it feels bad even if the replacement does a really good job.

There have been cases where it’s been for the better, cases where someone died and there’s no way around it, etc, and cases where I still kind of wish they didn’t do it, but it works OK. But there should be an extremely strong preference to avoid doing so unless there’s actually no alternative.