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  • …and it’s the second time they’ve done this silly DLC which is limited (though, to be fair Godzilla wasn’t a paid one)

    Keep your eye on it, I’d say on steep-steep discount it’s a fun game, but to me the opening of the game can’t ever be matched. It tries to be too many things instead of being great at just one







  • I think I found KCD II easier to sink into than the first. The first one I played maybe 10 hours of and kinda walked away. I told myself it was too open-ended. Maybe I need a little structure to my games to make me feel less overwhelmed?

    That turned out to be obvious nonsense though, since the second is even more open-ended and I just love it. Like I said though, I really found I needed mods to make it less like ‘work’. But I know I am in the minority because it’s not as the developers wanted it to be.

    I’m…waiting for more before I can really form an opinion on Perfect Dark. I adore how it kinda feels like a loose spiritual successor to Deus Ex, if that makes sense? I’m hoping it stays true to what the original was. Weirdly I feel like Selaco gave me similar feelings of ‘high-tech-corpo-espionage/action’ that Perfect Dark once did, though it’s a completely different game.


  • Keep on claiming those free games! Its my fav deal in gaming now - for the cost of a Prime subscription you get a whole bunch of games, each week! A lot of quality GOG games, alongside Epic and Amazon’s own.

    You can’t lose by claiming them, each month suprieses me with how much I get for an add-on to a subscription I already use :)


  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPtoGames@lemmy.worldSteam Deck / Gaming News #8
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    The Switch can be a hard one to say. If you get the last release (the ‘Early Access’) of Yuzu, and you use the GreemDev build of Ryujinx he maintains now (he was a Dev of Ryujinx proper, before it closed shop) - then you’ll be totally fine.

    Even tricky games such as ToTK have dedicated mod packs like this one known as the optimizer (which is amazing at making ToTK play really well!) which greatly improve performance, heck I even wrote my own mods to make it play well.

    I had a vast Switch collection before my Steam Deck, which I then sold because I emulated it all on the Deck so well.

    Then you’ll find titles like BoTW which play far, far better through Cemu. Cemu emulates Wii U games, and Breath of The Wild on the Steam Deck is perfection - high FPS, higher resultion, mods, you can even tweak how much or how little cell shading you have, or fog on the landscape. It is the single best way to play BoTW.

    In the end, I’d recommend a Steam Deck. You get:

    • your Steam library
    • GOG, Epic and Amazon titles through Heroic or Junk Store
    • emulating every system through RetroDECK, with fun things like Retro Achievements, mods, texture packs etc

    My biggest two issues I’ve found on specific Switch games has been Tears, which doesn’t run perfectly (but is playable) and Metroid Prime Remaster (there is a literally fraction split-second load time at each door)

    I’d recommend the Steam Deck, because it can do so much more. If you have specific questions, you can reach me on Matrix if you’d like!