Well this sucks. This game looks awesome, but I guess it’s coming off of the wishlist.

For me it is not currently worth it. Donkey Kong looks amazing, but I’m not paying that much just to play a single game. In a couple of years when more games are available, maybe that could change.

I loved games as a kid. They were my life. As an adult, I don’t really care that much any more. I still get into some games and play a bit, but I don’t have the sense of wonder, awe, amazement, and pure fun anymore.

Well, they aren’t closing the forum until the end of the year, so that’s plenty of time for people to scrape it.

Depends if you mean from a gameplay or storyline perspective. You don’t need to know anything else to play the game and have fun. As far as storyline, I played several of these games back in the day and I still can’t tell you a damn thing about the lore or story. I think a lot of the lore probably comes from outside of the games, but I could never make heads or tails out of any of it.

Looks awesome. I remember spending like $20 on the original arcade version one summer, then later playing the heck out of it on my friends Dreamcast.

I can’t imagine paying $1000 to play my backlog of under $5 games.

Probably the Sega 32X. The messaging around it was kind of confusing, and still being fairly young when it came out, I was expecting it to be the gateway to 32 bit gaming that I would be enjoying for years to come. I ended up getting virtua racing on it, which was better than the Genesis version, but nothing spectacular really. I also got virtua fighter, which was a genuinely good game. Almost everything else was ports of mediocre games that had already come out on the Genesis. A couple of original games like knuckles chaotix just… Kinda sucked. Then when I found out that all of the support was going behind the Saturn, and that’s where all of the new and original games were going, well I just felt swindled.

Well maybe, but fsr still doesn’t include frame gen, right?

The weird thing about it, is it says you need dlss upscaling and frame gen to reach 30 fps at 1080p for the minimum requirements… But the GPU listed is a GTX 960 which doesn’t support any of that in the first place!

My personal thought on that matter is that they are probably saying that a GTX 960 can get you 1080p at 30 fps, but they recommend enabling dlss if you have a more powerful card that supports it (which would take you above 30fps). Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s the only way it makes any sense to me.

I think I am finally going to join in on this game since they are still putting so much support behind it. It looks pretty awesome.

I mean, I can understand the appeal of it. I’m probably not going to buy any of the games on here even if they were cheap, because I don’t know anything about them. But if I have an opportunity to try out 70 games for a low price, I might give it a try. Afterwards maybe I found a couple that I actually liked and I can shell out a bit more directly to the developer to buy it.

The first game that I specifically remember buying with my own money was TMNT 3 on the NES. And hell yeah it was worth it!

I played PC games since the early 90s, so I am well familiar with how things used to be before steam. And it was fine. I was hesitant to use steam at first, because like you say, I simply didn’t understand the point of it. Sometime after Valve released the orange box, that ended up being the first thing I bought on steam. And back then, some of the first things that I noticed about it was the ease of installing games, and the friends list that let me talk to and play games with my friends. I ended up getting really into team fortress 2, largely because I could play with people I knew, and we could even chat outside the game easily. It was easy to buy other games that these same friends were playing, and then enjoy a different game with them.

I got used to steam and it began to feel convenient, and at the same time, physical media started dying off. Steam let me easily install and uninstall any of my games whenever I wanted. I didn’t have to keep track of any physical media. I don’t have any of my old PC games from the 90s anymore. I have no idea where there went or how I lost them. But they are just gone. However, I still have every game I’ve ever bought on steam.

I’m not a heavy gamer anymore. If I see something I want, it’s easy to just put it on my wishlist and wait until it goes on sale at a price I think is reasonable. If I feel bored, I might open up my full list of games and browse for something to install. My game saves get backed up to the cloud. My controllers just work. Everything related to the gaming experience is integrated into one place, and I like that, it makes it easy. And for the most part, steam kind of just stays out of my way.

NPR reviews games now?

I tried out Linux a few months back, and one of the things I could never get working was my Bluetooth Xbox controller. The controller would just blink and never connect to the Bluetooth. Any idea what needs to be done to get it working? I was kind of annoyed that it didn’t just work since it’s such a popular controller.

I might pick up monster train and doom eternal. Yeah, I still haven’t played doom eternal.

That looks really interesting, but I’m just left wondering what the objective is, or what kind of gameplay is actually there.

A ship sounds a lot less exciting than a city.

It looks like I can go to a local repair shop to get the battery changed out. Anyone have experience with that option?