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  1. Steve Y

    Sony PS5 buyers and owners

    That's how I feel about this launch. I'll be watching with interest, but not the usual pre-order anxiety. After nearly snapping the plastic in half upgrading the M.2 SSD and downloading several TB of games, I think I'm good for a while. I'm mostly happy with the performance, and while I think...
  2. Steve Y

    PlayStation Portal. Was Sony Project Q

    Two Google engineers have managed to get the PPSSPP emulator running natively on the PS Portal
  3. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    I'm addicted to Balatro. Don't let the fact that it's been described as a "deck-building poker roguelike" dissuade you. Despite it being about playing poker hands, it's NOT poker. You can play strange joker cards (there are 150 in total) for various effects, or increase the value of hands or...
  4. Steve Y

    Sony PS5 buyers and owners

    The Kojima spy game looks intriguing, but I will be especially excited if it turns out to be a laserdisc-style FMV game like Mad Dog McCree. 😆
  5. Steve Y

    Sony PS5 buyers and owners

    Anyone catch the Sony's State of Play yesterday? Here are all the trailers. These are the games in the list I'm most excited about: Death Stranding 2 - On the Beach: More insanity from Kojima. I know this series is insufferable to some, but I love the deliberate, moody, non-combat-centered...
  6. Steve Y

    Indiana Jones and the great circle

    People bag on Baker because he's hired for everything with a budget, but I think his take on Ford's "Indy voice" is really good. His natural voice is not so far off from that, so I think it was a good choice.
  7. Steve Y

    Indiana Jones and the great circle

    I loved the three Wolfenstein games they made (The New Order / Old Blood, and The New Colossus), especially in the character and storytelling department. The writing is also really smart. I have little doubt they'll have the technical chops to create a game that feels kinetic and fun, but the...
  8. Steve Y

    Indiana Jones and the great circle

    The game's POV will be like Cyberpunk 2077: First person for most of the action, with some pull-back into third person for specific actions like climbing. Also, MachineGames has honed FPS and first-person gameplay, so I wouldn't want them to go into... let's call it "uncharted" territory. I am...
  9. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    The game broke my heart because it's doing so many things right. Mostly in the gameplay and visual space (and in some of the world-building). Admittedly I only got halfway up the icy mountain in Chapter 2. Do Valere and Zale get more compelling? Garl was the only character in whom I felt...
  10. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    I didn't like Sea of Stars, but I loved the visuals and animation. I also started Cocoon this week! It's not groundbreaking, but it's very cool. I started the game Jusant on PS5, a climbing simulator set in an apocalyptic world. It uses games like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus for inspiration...
  11. Steve Y

    E3 2018. Schedule, predictions, announcements, discussion

    Sure. As a consumer and enthusiast, I can get my game news and announcements from anywhere now. E3 isn't needed for studios or publishers to build hype for their games. But as an in-person networking event for industry folks and journalists (and not just the game side), it was unbeatable. None...
  12. Steve Y

    E3 2018. Schedule, predictions, announcements, discussion

    According to some, SGF and TGA are not viable replacements for E3 (yet), apart or together. This is much what I'm hearing from my contacts in the industry. But none of them have proposed a viable alternative.
  13. Steve Y

    E3 2018. Schedule, predictions, announcements, discussion

    This announcement feels anticlimactic because of all the times E3 was announced as "dead," especially over the past few years. It's even hard to take the official announcement seriously. There's still a demand for an event where people from across the industry can get together and connect in...
  14. Steve Y

    PlayStation Portal. Was Sony Project Q

    Interesting news about streaming in HDR from the PS5. However, it requires a Steam Deck OLED, which is around $400 more expensive than the Portal. And it also requires installation of an open source client.
  15. Steve Y

    Sony PS5 buyers and owners

    Morgan, curious to hear your take on the Portal when it arrives. I've heard rumors that it doesn't have a built-in web browser, so apparently you can't use it with Wi-Fi that requires web sign-in, which would exclude using it in hotels and cafes and such. But it's probably a device meant to be...
  16. Steve Y

    Steam Deck from Valve

    This OLED looks great, the kind of refresh I like. I'm OK with my LCD screen and lesser battery life for now, but I'll be looking forward to the next iteration. Seeing a LOT of posts about people who bought the outdated model just as this was announced. Guessing there are going to be a lot of...
  17. Steve Y

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Oda's tough. I went in as an edgerunner and pretty OP. Still had to rely on Cyberware Malfunction and Overheat to keep him from moving around and to better track his movements. Mostly stuck with ballistics, which slowly whittled down his health. Unfortunately, he went down on a high platform I...
  18. Steve Y

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Update 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077 was released today for PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and PC. It's a free update ahead of next week's release of the (decidedly not free) Phantom Liberty DLC. I don't think this update will win over anyone still angry about the original launch, and the versions on Xbox One...
  19. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    I love the original, but F-Zero 99 has subtle but nice graphical improvements and new features like the skyway shortcuts. I also think it controls better, and appreciate how many more vehicles they're able to fit onto the track. I'd love an F-Zero Plus! I had the opposite reaction. The quiet...
  20. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    After a promising start, I dropped Sea of Stars. After four hours, I really started to detest the combat. If you make mistakes you are taken back to your last save point, which means a lot of repeating the same very easy sections to make your way back to enemies that overwhelm you. This would be...
  21. Steve Y

    Nintendo Switch 2 (2024)

    Nintendo is weird. It's very much like them to create an enhanced BOTW demo using Switch 2 target specs (implying that they thought it was worth showing to industry people) but then not bother to build out and release the full game.
  22. Steve Y

    Starfield. More than Skyrim in space

    I'm loving Starfield. The plot and characters are typical Bethesda, but there's a metagame here: "discover game features and how they work." This is the addictive part. The game, purposefully I think, eliminates much of the tutorializing that people have come to expect from big-budget games and...
  23. Steve Y

    What is your 2023 Game of the year?

    I've played most of the big releases this year (and not a few smaller ones). It's been a great year for games. "Game of the Year" isn't an objective designation for me, but the game(s) I've personally played (and thought about) the most. Runner-up: I love Starfield, but I've only played it for...
  24. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    The boss fights are the least enjoyable part of Elden Ring for me (or any of the Souls games). I know that's a weird thing to say for a series known mostly for its boss fights. I just don't like the way hits land and the glitchy chaos of boss movements. But wandering around and exploring the...
  25. Steve Y

    Starfield. More than Skyrim in space

    I'm excited to try Starfield later today (on Xbox Series X). I like the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, but their aimless open world quest design leaves me feeling overwhelmed and lost. The reviews seem positive, with people saying that the game unfolds in unexpected ways. Curious to hear...
  26. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    I started up Elden Ring again this week too. I'm making my way through and am beginning to think I need to be more decisive about abandoning areas in the game where I haven't made progress in a while.
  27. Steve Y

    What are you playing right now?

    Yesterday I started Sea of Stars via my PS Plus subscription. It's a Chrono Trigger-inspired turn-based pixel art RPG. I like it! During battles you can choose to press a button with the right timing to increase your attacks or defense, kind of like the Mario & Luigi handheld games. It also...
  28. Steve Y

    PlayStation Portal. Was Sony Project Q

    After some of the Steam deck modifications I've seen over the past year, I'm just counting down the days until I see a YouTube video with a thumbnail of a "shocked"-looking guy and the giant yellow words: "I TURNED MY PORTAL INTO A VITA!"
  29. Steve Y

    PlayStation Portal. Was Sony Project Q

    Although I have no plans to purchase the "Portal U," I'm looking forward to watching people try to modify its guts to play PSP or Vita games instead.
  30. Steve Y

    Starfield. More than Skyrim in space

    I haven't been holding any specific expectations for Starfield. I'm looking forward to trying it out, or at least reading some short, spoiler-free critical impressions. I'm generally OK with the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series, but the thing that people love about them (their wide-openness)...
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