Yeah I liked the free form exploration, felt more like a kid on an adventure.

I my opinion this game did open world design better than most games out there. I personally put it above BOTW, but that’s probably a controversial opinion.

Really excited to hear they’re making a sequel.

If you didn’t try it, “Bowser’s Fury” was a lot of fun. It’s annoyingly packaged with “3D World”, although if you haven’t played that it’s also a good 3D Mario.

3D World + Bowser’s Fury

It’s not even about being publicly traded. I suspect they’re taking the console approach where you count on the attach rate (people buying steam games) to make you money.

I mean in a lot of ways they literally can’t compete on these things. Price/quality are difficult cause valve can sell their product at a loss (cause theyll make it back on steam sales), software is weird cause who is investing a whole OS to just sell hardware (valve can cause it’s directly tied to their marketplace).

Id give you TouchPad, but I don’t know what the patents are on those, cause I’ve only seen that design on valve products.

I suspect this is an area where we may see AI assets help speed up development for smaller studios.

I don’t understand the appeal of most of their products, but I do love their blade laptop lineup. There are few viable laptop competitors with the quality build and integrated gpu (AI/ML stuff rather than gaming for me).

Yeah but the benefit of professionals and actual users speaking up is that they can speak to more than the immediate need.

ChatGPT is always ready to provide answers, but I’ve rarely see it be aware enough to offer advice when unprompted.

Basically if you’re so wrong you don’t even know your wrong, ChatGPT isn’t likely to help, but people online can and at least did.

Steam already runs fine on Linux, you don’t need SteamOS to us the compatibility functionality, meaning anything you can play on the steamdeck already works on a Linux pc.

Same, me and a friend struggled with that game for a while, but still remains an extremely satisfying game to have beaten when you couldn’t just look things up.

But they’re the minority, most games have gatcha/pay-to-win mechanics. It’s actually hard to find some simple games where you aren’t harassed to buy things.

I thought I had a couple of counter examples, but every good game on my phone has a steam port (or originated on PC).

I really thought Miracle Sudoku would be phone only, but even that exists on steam.

I’ve been curious to hear other people’s opinions too.

I watched some gameplay and it looked like a generic action game. It seemed like a toss up so I’m waiting for a sale or to see if anyone can convince me one way or the other.

I tried “My Time at Portia” recently and felt duped by that game. It was given a lot of praise and attention when it released (and similarly a game made by a Chinese studio), but felt like a single player MMO with half baked mechanics everywhere.

I should probably caveat that the last sonic game I really enjoyed and finished is sonic adventure (played some since, but none clicked). So I may not be the best “sonic” evaluator.

But I think I get where you’re coming from. A lot of the platforming is more “automated” and when it isn’t it does get a bit janky. However it did a good job of making me feel fast and felt less janky than any other recent 3D sonic.

I think I used this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u8748j/metroid_prime_trilogy_primehack_a_steam_deck_guide/

Basically you can install emudeck (emulation package) through the desktop mode and through that install primehack. I think it automatically adds them to your steam library, but could be mistaken.

It’s a video game where you use a slot machine to pay your landlord rent. So all the “gambling” is using fake in-game currency. What makes it more of a game is that you can choose upgrades/modifiers for the slot machine to adjust the odds for certain outcomes.

I’m not sure you understand what causes world hunger.

I’ve been playing Sonic Frontiers, which has been surprisingly fun. It has a similar vibe to what “Mario Odyssey” did for mario, the mixture of 3D, camera controlled, and 2D segments was done well in my opinion.

Yeah, both are okay in my book. Wonder spent to much time on the “wonders” that the platforming is just okay. And TOTK is just a more grindy BOTW.

If you have a pc/steamdeck there is a metroid prime hack pack that gives you more standard joystick controls for all three games. I’d recommend playing that way.

Yeah in the modern age internet access should be considered a necessity. There are a lot of things you can’t do without the internet (like get a job or pay bills).