In my home, we all have PC. My older son plays Star Rail and Genshin, my daughter plays Genshin and Roblox. My younger son plays only Roblox. I emulate games mostly on my PC and Handheld. I spent the entire night setting up Launchbox on my handheld with my games running over the network from my PC so I don't have to use any storage space on the handheld. I can also stream with steam. Works out surprisingly well.
I am a huge wheel of time fan, listening to y'all talk about the books was amusing. I will say Sanderson did as good a job as could be done considering the situation in regards to finishing the series. I will always appreciate the man for finishing the most impactful story in my life.
Yeah, my daughter loves it. I think, it's mostly because all the other kids are playing it in school so she gravitates to that more. Plus, it's free to get in and doesn't demand specific hardware to play. You can play it on anything
I was going to buy a PS5 back in the COVID days. Could not get one. Then I spent an evening pressing F5 on the Steam website to preorder a Steam Deck... I ended up with a Steam Deck in the beginning of 2022. I gave my old gaming PC to my daughter for school, Roblox, Minecraft and Sims - not necessarily in that particular order. ;) Now I am playing my PS games on my Steam Deck! Since Sony decided to put their games on the PC, I am not going to buy a PS5. I am going to build a new gaming PC in the future. In the ideal world, Nintendo would be selling their games on PC too. IMHO those games would sell really well on PC. I think they are missing huge market opportunities here.
The steam deck is awesome it got me back into games I just upgraded my pc and been playing hell divers and final fantasy and other story mode games on my deck and pc
Agree I'm an old Nintendo fan who checked out some time ago, I can't be doing with their terrible hardware and controller ergonomics. I'd be well on anything they released on modern tech.
Great episode and very timely title for me. I decided this spring to migrate mostly to PC gaming. Now buying high end pc, sold Xbox and never looked back. It feels like a new chapter for me in gaming. Still I have ps5 for some exclusives but definately times are changing.
When Russ mentioned the Burger King games, which I have no memories of (or knew they existed), it made me think of a game I do have fond memories of in a similar vein, which was "Chex Quest". Such a silly gem of a game.
My brother bought a PS5 specifically for FF16. I'm not sure if consoles are still sold at a loss, but I think Sony's idea is to sell a platform where they're not losing a cut of every sale to Valve or Microsoft. It's probably the reason why the only games that come to multiple platforms from Sony studios are the live service games.
ps5 started to sell for a profit after a year of released. console now sell at cost or around that point at Released date now. (ps3 moment was a wake up call where the console cost 800 to make while they sold it for 600. ) Nintendo always sell their shit for high margins day 1. which is why their hardware always much weaker than the competitors.
I've been PC since 1997 but I always preferred computers over consoles (ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amiga) but I have still bought consoles since the first playstation and even now having a decent PC I have the Series X and PS5 (albeit not from launch). It might be coming to a point where I don't get the FOMO and be happy just with the PC and spend my cash upgrading that.
Last console I bought was PS4 and I didn't really buy a lot of PS4 games. I'd rather just wait for pc. All the things being held hostage behind subscriptions and being shut down and removed aren't for me. I'm aware that shut downs, lock downs are on pc, too. I really have been more of a console than pc player, though I played on whatever. I guess I've been an android, pc player post AC Black Flag, The Last of Us.
35:00 precisely why I never cared about those games. Not because of miasing out, but if I want to play an old game because I like it, I can. With those games this is not the case.
In early 2019 I had bought myself a PS4 just so I could play the first Spiderman. Then I played the last of us remastered, Uncharted. Steam deck wasn't an option at that time and my PC couldn't play new games like red dead redemption 2 and I wanted to play it. When these games started going to steam I felt betrayed and thought I could have spend that money on a new laptop or PC. With the steam deck option I'll gladly buy the few games I got on PS4 on PC. The last one is finally come, Ghost of Tsushima. I loved my experience with the PS4 but I like having ease of access to my entire steam library that I have been adding onto for over a decade.
So I finally decided to install EmuDeck/Emulation Station on my Steam Deck. I was against it thinking I can play many Gen 6 games on my Galaxy Z Flip3. Glad I changed my mind because GameCube and Wii games play flawlessly on it. I didn’t need to tinker with the settings for F-Zero GX and zero audio stutter or crash. While Wii emulation is perfect on the Steam Deck thanks to the touchpads acting like a mousepad for a pointer. There is a bit of a learning curve. Installing EmuDeck/Emulation Station isn’t easy peasy like what I did on Android. I had to get used to using the Steam Deck in desktop mode and typing from it. And Linux doesn’t play nice with Windows or Mac. I couldn’t transfer my ROMs onto it that I ended up manually downloading every ROM instead and then unzipping it which takes up a lot more time. I tried taking out my microSD and putting it into an SD converter and my MacBook Air still couldn’t read the files from it. Let’s just say, emulation on Steam Deck still has quirks you will need to be prepared for. I decided that I only want to emulate 7 platforms. I can always play my Gen 3 & 4, PS1, PSP, and a few PS2 ports on my Vita. Here are the seven - Jaguar Saturn Arcade (MAME) PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube Wii I don’t need Dreamcast, PSP, or PS3. I can’t find a game I want to play on the Wii U as I already own a Switch Lite. I came to realize that the original Wii is pretty awesome and I underrated it all this time. I have as many games I want to play on it as the GameCube. And Wii is a souped up GameCube as it did play those GC games. It’s weird playing Super Mario World on a Steam Deck with a 7”/720p display and looking blown up like a digital zoom where you can see the jaggies from every sprite. I’ll leave the Super NES games and most games prior to Gen 6 on smaller devices with smaller screens and lower resolution. I can always play Dreamcast on one of my smartphones. Reason being is I prefer Redream over Flycast but I want Redream on Emulation Station but it cannot open from there. Below are all my ROMs for each system while I decided to delete all the Super NES, PS1, Dreamcast, and PSP games since they’re better played mostly on smaller Sony handhelds. *Jaguar* (3) Atari Karts NBA Jam Tournament Edition Rayman *GameCube* (10) F-Zero GX Mario Kart: Double Dash!! NBA Street Vol. 2 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Sonic Riders Star Fox Adventures Super Mario Sunshine The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Wario World *Wii* (10) Back to the Future: The Game Donkey Kong Country Returns Kirby’s Adventure Wii Klonoa Mario Kart Wii New Super Mario Bros. Wii Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Sonic Colours Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 Kirby’s Adventure Wii is also known as Kirby’s Return to Dreamland but I decided to spell the former to match the box art like spelling Sonic Colours with a “u” in colors since the box art is the PAL one. Mario Kart Wii is growing on me and it plays much better on the Deck than my Flip3, but I still prefer Double Dash more. I tried playing Skyward Sword but it plays too awkwardly for the Wii version. Probably why I stuck with the GCN version of Twilight Princess even though I originally beat the Wii one. I can always get the Wii U/Switch version of Skyward Sword. I’m not a diehard Zelda fan, so I don’t care if I never ever play Skyward Sword or Tears of the Kingdom in my life. Breath of the Wild put me to sleep. While I don’t really care about Zelda games and always find their stories and characters way too bland, I will say Nintendo remains the GOAT at making games. Think about the Wii. We keep talking about GameCube emulation but the Wii has a very underrated library. Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are superior to Mario Sunshine. And GameCube never had a great 2D platformer that Donkey Kong Country Returns and New SMB Wii are. The only reason why I prefer the GameCube even though the Wii is backwards compatible to it, is because GameCube has F-Zero GX, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and my favorite game of Gen 6 in NBA Street Vol. 2. All three of those games are also found on my Z Flip3 and all would be in my top 10 favs among all Gen 6 games. But the Wii is awesome. It’s better to emulate Wii on a Steam Deck than ROG Ally thanks to the touchpads. I love and hate Nintendo, but I have to admit that they have the most replayable libraries. I may need to reevaluate my console rankings and may put GameCube and Wii over Dreamcast and PS2. I don’t really have the urge to play PS2 games. I always found their early games looking muddy. Wasn’t bright and beautiful as DC and GC. And Sega is very arcade-y. Many DC games have very shallow gameplay which includes Sonic games. Nintendo is always the one I go back to except for their Nintendo 64. I think that’s my least favorite home console from them. I’ll play NFL Blitz and that’s it. Don’t care for Mario Kart 64. Beaten Super Mario 64 twice but never really cared for it. Technology was limited circa mid 90s and thought some levels didn’t look finished. Sunshine was prettier but had awkward F.L.U.D gameplay. Galaxy 1 and 2 is when Nintendo got 3D Mario right. I don’t emulate a lot of handheld games except Ridge Racer 2004 for PSP. You can just play them on the actual handheld it was made for. I always found handheld games as the Walmart version of a port. Remember Mortal Kombat on the Game Boy and Game Gear? Yuck. I want the bigger budgets coming from home consoles. I have no interest emulating Switch games on a Steam Deck when I have a Switch Lite to play those games. It’s weird how PlayStation is my favorite gaming brand but I don’t have the urge to replay many of their games. I love AC4: Black Flag but I will admit this style of modern gaming from Gen 7 can feel redundant and even complicated with all the different menu screens I have to look at. Nintendo uses cartoony graphics which gives them a timeless look while adding cheerful, charming, or soothing music. They act like Apple as a corporation but they still want to be like Disney by appealing to everyone of all ages. I’m 43 and my favorite genres are racing and 2D platformers and Nintendo caters to me with Mario Kart and 2D Super Mario. 1. Vita 2. Deck 3. Switch 4. PSP 5. PS1 6. GameCube 7. Wii 8. Dreamcast 9. PS2 10. Super NES 11. Genesis Time to work on my arcade, Saturn, PS2, and Xbox libraries where I need a BIOS and a couple other things for the Xbox. *Arcade* Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat II NBA Jam Street Fighter II Champion Edition Super Street Fighter II Tekken 3 Tekken Tag Tournament ^ I have over 50+ MAME ROMs everything from The Simpsons, X-Men, TMNT to every Fatal Fury, The King of the Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and Metal Slug games. But I decided to keep it minimum. Games I want to replay. I didn’t really play those Sega Model 2/3/NAOMI arcade games except the first Daytona USA. *Saturn* Astal Christmas Nights Keio Flying Squadron 2 Nights into Dreams Super Tempo Tryrush Deppy *PlayStation* *2* Final Fantasy X God of War God of War II Gran Turismo 3 Gran Turismo 4 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Tekken 4 Tekken 5 Tekken Tag Tournament *Xbox* Conker: Live & Reloaded Dead or Alive 3 Jet Set Radio Future Shenmue II
Great show again guys 👏 with regards to the car licensing, I guess as those games are sold as driving simulators it allows us mere mortals the chance to drive that Ferrari Zib-Zab that we'll never be able to in real life, and just adds to the experience. As long as those people who already bought the game can still download it I don't see an issue, although I'm not sure if that is the case
43:00, I have to interject here; I can’t say for the Just Dance or Guitar Hero players, but for sim racing games like Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport, those games has to have real cars. You can’t say the game is a sim racing game if it doesn’t have real cars on it. People play sim racing games to “drive” those real cars, this is the entire point of sim racing, it’s the “cheap” getaway into the real world racing scene (as real as it can get lol). Of course, as you’ve said, this brings in another problem into the mix, where the licenses for those cars can expire and the game has to be taken down because of that. This is a real problem and I do agree with what you said there about this, but the issue is a bit more nuanced than just “don’t put real cars in it then”, because that’s kinda like the point of sim racing. Using these cars in these games means you have to honor the car manufacturers (the people that owned the car’s design), and the license will have to be renewed no matter what, not renewing the license and still selling the game is a copyright issue.
As a pc gamer I agree with Russ I’m 22 and just got back into gaming like 8 months ago still haven’t finished remake I got god of war and other games to play PLUS I’m not paying 70 dollars imma wait for the sale on rebirth excitedly
Daily Legion Go user here! I ended up selling my Steam Deck when I got the Go. It’s my favorite tech device right now! Pros for me: 1. More performance 2. Bigger screen 3. It’s a much nicer experience using touch to navigate vs how it feels on steam deck. 4. Playing in table top mode 5. Using it with my eGPU 6. Handheld mode is comfortable for me. 7. I like how most everything “just works” without having to jump through some hoops Cons: 1. Not as comfortable as Steam deck 2. Battery life suffers at times.
Congrats on 1 year! My favorite Dad cast by far 😂. @retrogamecorps I've been playing Marble Merger on pico-8 / rgb30 and it sounds very similar. Thanks for the pico handheld recommendation over on your channel. Appreciate you guys. Keep the episodes coming, I'm here for it.
I’m more than happy to wait 1 year possibly 2 to be able to buy a game on Steam, unless it’s something like CoD with annual releases where the majority of the player base will be gone the moment the next game comes out. I waited for the Mechwarrior 5 Epic Games exclusivity to end so I could buy it on Steam and got to buy the edition with all the dlc’s for only $35 and there’s also the perks of most of the bugs being fixed and there being ample TH-cam videos out in case I want to check those out.
Remake vs Rebirth Japanese sales also represent two different economic situations in Japan. The Yen has crashed vs USD from .0097 in Jan '21 to .0068 March '24. That's a 30% drop which is completely life altering for most in Japan. Plenty of Japanese gamers simply can't afford a PS5.
I have to agree with Phawx. I built my son a PC last year so we could play games as a family (wife and daughter like to play too); however, his go to game 90 percent of the time is Roblox. I have to drag him away from it when we do our family game night. It seems the wave of the future for sure.
My girls are big into Roblox as well. I no longer call it a game, but a Metaverse. Players create identities that carry over from experience to experience, and the level of non-gaming interpersonal interactions really separate it from something like Fortnite or Minecraft.
Was always into console gaming then once I got into pc for quite some years now never went back. Years later I have a Legion go ,Steam Deck ,PC , just pre ordered the GPD win 4 so excited !
Russ saying he enjoys Brandon Sanderson put a smile on my face. I also stopped Wheel of Time after the first book, even though I started so I could get to the books he authored.
One thing about PS5 to PC ports is that they have no consistent timeline. Some come relatively soon, and others not. I wonder if that’s intentional on Sony’s part. If consumers can’t predict when a PS5 game will come to PC, are they less likely to wait for that port?
I won't lie, I havent bought it because I want to wait til it comes out on PC. I want to be able to take it with me on either a steam deck or legion go. When you have kids, it is hard to play on the ps5 because, even though my kids has minecraft on his switch, and his tablet. He still wants to play it on the ps5, especially if I turn it on. I know there is chiaki and stuff like that but it doesnt always play smoothly and I cant take it with me when i leave the home or go on vacation. When you get older with kids it becomes more about convenience. Especially to me.
I love my Steam Deck but when a game releases first on PS5 that I REALLY want to play I don’t know when it’ll release on PC, so I buy the PS5 version. You mention FF VII Intergrade which I own on PS5 so naturally I wanted to play Rebirth on the same platform. Final Fantasy XVI? That was ages ago as was Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West etc. Life’s too short to wait on a wing and a prayer. Going forward, the next games I’ll be picking up are Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade. The latter won’t come to PC according to the studio head and I don’t know when RotR is coming. I can play them on release on my living room OLED and if I want to play them on my Steam Deck I can just remote play them from the PS5.
As a 90s kid, I started gaming on PC years before console, mainly at my friends house. Command & Conquer: Red Alert was my first "grownup" game. I have the physical copy of Command & Conquer: The First Decade, which is a collection of C&C games that came out in the mid 00s, but the DVD is all scratched up and I lost the paper with all the game keys. I bought the Ultimate Collection as soon as I knew about it.
While I understand the licensing issue with racing games, car enthusiasts absolutely want real cars in the game. More realistic racing games do not sell nearly as well if they don't have licensed cars in them, it's been that way for a really long time. We want to drive our favorite cars on our favorite real tracks, that's why games like Gran Turismo and Forza have been so popular over the years. It's not just the racing, it's the cars and locations too. Fortunately car manufacturers aren't nearly as crazy about removing licenses from their old cars as the music industry is so I don't foresee it becoming a big issue anyway.
Same boat here. I bought FFVII in ps4, then again for the steamdeck, the discounted version with integrade. Guess what I'm doing for rebirth... waiting for the steam deck version.
I kind of feel like getting some emulators is going to be like finding roms. They'll still be out there, we'll just have to search a bit for them. This whole situation has made me realize it's almost always better to sideload these apps. If you have the APK and keep a backup, nobody can take it away, but if you just get it from the Play Store, they can take it down at any time.
You can make backup of the apk, when installing from playstore. At least until some version of android completely axes file apps for "security" reasons
Get a gaming mini keyboard like a razer Tartarus, it will make the transition so much easier. You used to be able to get keyboards like the merc (my all time favourite keyboard), it was cheap and that gaming area was just near ergonomically perfect, but since keyboard manufacturers only want to make generic slab keyboards now, its not an option sadly so the separate gaming programable keyboard is the only option. The comfort level is a real game changer alone before you even take into account the flexibility. Many overlook comfort when playing and look more at function and when you are making a change like this, that comfort level is a big help as its pretty easy to just say screw it am going back to what I used before when you have that gaming cramp, but if you are comfortable all the way through so that you are relaxed and have no uncomfortable side effects (which wear off once you get used it but they aren't nice at the start and many of us for get that, lol its like wanting another puppy but you forgot about puppy teeth and chewing everything :D), you are more likely to stick to it and enjoy it, and potentially do even better with it than you otherwise would have.
I agree with Russ on Final Fantasy. I also said screw it I'll wait for Rebirth (PC). Waiting for Spiderman 2, GOW Ragnarok, Ghost of Tsushima and GOD willing MLB the Show. I shift to just waiting for games, being from older generation I don't have the time to play. So waiting is actually ideal for me. Better price, patches and bundle.
I've played online games before. Back in the day I played _Team Fortress._ I played some _Everquest._ I played a lot more _Dark Age of Camelot._ Finally, I played really a lot of _World of Warcraft._ In the end, my brothers and I quit _WoW_ because it took up too much time, and we have a real life. I can't do that again. So a game like _Team Fortress_ I might play again, but I'm not investing in another time sink like _WoW._
Re the halo series, I played all the games and I still love the TV series. Even if they’re changing small/large story points, I still enjoy it because it’s well produced and the action is awesome (the Master Chief action sequence in the pilot was amazing). If I wanted to see the actual story, I’d play the games. I am waiting for the whole season to be released so I can binge it
I'm still waiting for Kingdom Hearts to be free'd from Epic and brought to Steam. I've almost slipped up and bought it on sale a few times now but then I remember how many other times I have purchased those games. But this is the best time to be a PC/Linux gamer for sure!
The Saboteur is the final game by the people who made the old Star Wars Battlefront games and Mercenaries 1 and 2, which are like Just Cause. It's a unique early open world noir ish game about the French resistance during WWII. Definitely pick it up.
I'm genuinely excited for the updated PC handhelds this year. I love my Steam Deck OLED but I'm ngl the lack of windows has given me a bit of buyers remorse. I tried the Legion GO at Microcenter the other day and I actually like the bigger screen and the overall feel holding it. I will admit I hope the update the button placement on the right controller because it definately feels awkward. I'm actually thinking of getting an eGPU for either whether it's an updated XG mobile for an Ally 2 or whatever enclosure I can get for the Legion GO. While I'll always have a dedicated desktop A PC handheld eGPU combo might become my primary gaming rig especially if the Legion Go 2 comes out with better controllers.
It doesn't necessarily mean ALL platforms, but it means on multiple platforms simultaneously. So if a PS5 game comes out on 4/20/23 on PS5 and PC, but not Xbox, the PC release would say "day and date" signifying that the PC release gets the game on launch, along with PS5.
As someone who has a PS5, Switch, SD OLED LE and just invested in a pretty high end gaming rig, I would rather wait however long it takes to play FF7 Rebirth on my PC because of the SD compatibility. But if I didn’t have a SD I think my max wait time would be around a year. Having the SD and it working in tandem with my PC greatly extends how long I’ll wait for a PC port!
I prefer console and controllers. I do have a decent PC but...if I can play on PS5 or Switch...they are my first choice. Something about the 65" 4K TV experience vs sitting at a computer desk.
TBH, until last generation, I've spent my entire life not having access to consoles during the current generation, and then not playing games upon release. Then once I could have access, there was little-to-no reason to play games upon release because the kinds I like (or used to like - looking at you Bethesda) are way too buggy on release. So if I want to play something on PC, I'm fine with waiting - (a) I have a massive back catalog, (b) I like gaming on Switch - so clearly I'm comfortable with waiting a generation or waiting for a sale, (c) I love retro games and lean towards those, and (d) the games I primarily play on PC are complicated strategy games. I do give props to Square Enix for finding out how to milk another $210 out of fans of a game that want to play a remake of a game that was $50 on release in 1997.
excellent show! On 7 Rebirth: 1) I assume allot of the physical sales where the pre-ordered collector-edition. 2) The digital deluxe is a money grab imo. 3) The Rebirth "devs" are the biggest fan of the game. 4) Both performance mode and graphics mode are below expectations. (Custom Unreal 4?) 5) Will Part 3 run in Unreal 5? - As expected by our demographic. 6) I bought ps5 for this, taking my time to complete, f-ing awesome game 7) U will hate the 'Kill the Mindflayer first' VR-challenge ;)
For me, no length of time is too long for an exclusive, and no length of time is too short. I only play on Steam Deck or other Linux computer. Before the Steam Deck, I only played on Linux computers for about 2 decades.
FYI I don’t know anything about final fantasy at all and I have rebirth and been playing now for 5 days now I’m having a blast still even knowing nothing anyone in the same boat don’t hesitate and worry about needing to play remake first just TH-cam the story to summarize it all up before you start rebirth cause not all of us can fork out another 100 bucks 😂
Apart from the controls which you need to really adapt to, Saboteur is great! As you liberate parts of Paris from the Nazis, it switches from black and white to colour. It's a bit like a WW2 assassins creed with really bad controls
Yeah, I said there were exceptions, I think that if FFXI went free to play and charged for cosmetics and stuff like that, it would get a much larger audience and make more money. Or if they combined subscriptions with FFXIV, and then had events in both.
The problem that they have is that because they have been doing timed exclusivity it trained us to wait and do other stuff whilst we wait for the games to come to our system. Short term it got them some console sales but long term they conditioned us to wait so now when they make things exclusive we just play other games until it releases. They realise that their plan has backfired 😂.
I waited the 2 years for the first FF7 remake to go to PC and hated waiting that long so caved and bought a PS5 for this one which is the first game I bought on Day one in probably 10-15 years (normally I wait for a game to go on sale or play it on game pass if it comes out there.) I am happy I did make the purchase as I am now able to go back and play all of the PS4/PS5 exclusive games that didn't get PC ports or that did that I have yet to buy but are included on PS plus.
I think it'll be an interesting time seeing exclusives slowly become less and less.... exclusive given that exclusive games are like one of the BIG selling points for any given console. Like not even 5 years ago I would've never imagined seeing BOTH Xbox and PlayStation exclusives on PC and yet here we are, I can play both God of War 2018 and Halo Infinite on my Steam Deck.
Ragnarok Online is that game for me. I loved that game. one of my first MMOs. Every iteration of that game fails to live up to the original as well as the private servers. I find myself thinking about it and the memories pretty often.
RDR2 was the last game I bought day of release. The benefits of a backlog is that I rarely buy a newer game and it is usually half off by the time I buy it. Added bonus, all the bugs are worked out. If I have to wait two or three years, no prob.
Quick question my ROG ally is arriving today. But yesterday you guys posted a video. Revealing that Asus is coming out with its successor soon Should I send mine back and wait for the new one? Yes right?
My only concern with the new Fallout series is that Amazon will do to it, what they did to LoTR. The moment they start putting moderndayisms into the series, will be the moment I nope out.
There's a major difference between "modernisms" in a medieval fantasy setting and "modernisms" in a post apocalyptic series ostensibly occurring in our future. It's not like they had muskets, in the Rings of Sleep Induction. Tolkien does get as recent as 2017, but I guess one can try and pigeon hole it to 1955 trilogy mindframe, if it suits their agenda. Fallout is 1997. Fallout 3 of 2008 diverged quite a bit and it's pretty damned modern. More importantly, it's going to tie in heavily with Fallout 5, which hasn't even released yet. I highly suspect you mean something different by "modernisms". To which, I wonder just how much you actually know Fallout games, Bethesda or Microsoft. I'm sure there's people of widely varying ideology, politics, etc that made the games. It's not really hard to see who made what where, to know what general direction that wind blows. If it stays more true to the game, it will show faults with all factions and not bog down with petty BS that are not relevant to survival. The larger issue was in spite of that budget Rings couldn't be bothered to take the trouble to stick within the Tolkien world and reality, nor develop a story or characters that were memorable, rootable. The show was fine as a pretty fall asleep and forget it, bedtime story, but it was very poor AU fanfic. I do how fallout is better than that. I haven't watched Bridgerton, but I guess there are audiences that don't mind something wildly implausible historically. I made it thru Dickinson, in spite of the immersion breaking modernisms, historical liberties and fantasy. I am glad there are 3 seasons of it.
Hell yeah, no excuse to back out now, ive been a PC gamer for 2-3 years now. I used to be a mobile gamer (yeah i know) I didn't come up on xbox or PlayStation so i only knew Nintendo (though never owning a switch) Now i own a steam deck oled and a High-mid range PC and run linux far more than windows. BazziteOS makes me question why people write off PC for being too complicated and not being able to just pick up a controller and play. Turning on your PC and it going straight into Steam Big picture Mode with no desktop to take you out of the console like experience, it really feels different than booting up Windows just to have steam pop up a few seconds later. And being able to use decky and all the plugins to customize the experience really sets it apart
My son also only Keyboard & mouse and me on controller with Gyro in Fortnite. Can’t deny mouse is better. But not for me anymore. I’m old and just wanna sit on couch with a handheld.
Consoles will likely remain a fixture for some time, but I believe we're on the cusp of a pervasive gaming era. This future isn't about consoles disappearing; it's about gaming becoming accessible anywhere, anytime. Cloud and PC platforms will become dominant forces, and mobile devices - both with native processing power and cloud capabilities - will transform into robust gaming machines. Get ready to game on practically any device you grab! As for controller vs. keyboard and mouse I can do both. But nowadays I tend to use controller with gyro most. Thank you Steam Input!
What they should’ve done with halo tv series is change all the names and all the places and make it at a completely different timeline and treat it like Star Wars. I like the later Star Wars stuff but it’s because it’s more separated that I can wrap my head around it easier.
I have a ps5 but I hardly ever use it once I bought a 4070 gpu and great cpu. The only game that might get me to play ps5 again is GTA6 but it takes a game like that if it doesn’t come to PC day 1 for me to care. But that’s the biggest game of all time. I don’t care enough about other games to need to play it right away and it is nice that Xbox games you can already play day 1 on PC.
Regarding the FF7 discussion... A while ago the first chapter was given for free as part of the PS Plus subscription... Maybe they expected more PS player to be hooked to the series?
The Warners Brothers delisting all Adult Swim games thing is such a big disappointment. I really pray the developers manages to break free of them and can either get a new publisher or self publish their games.
For me there isn't really a 'too long'. There are so many games I can play - an eternity's worth. But I'm also not an 'online' gamer - as in, I don't follow gaming Twitter and I don't have that many gaming friends that I would feel left out for not having something. As for too short? It's not for me to care whether some big corporation's 'line go up'. I think publishing and distribution should break off from 'the big guys' anyway. That said, would I absolutely kill for a chance to play Bloodborne on PC? YES.
How long is too long? You tell me, Im playing bioshock for the first time on steam deck, then the metro series, then styx games, then i just bought dragons dogma 1. I have new games and will play newer games, but typically on game pass. I am a very patient gamer. I really really want to play elden ring and hogwarts and bg3 and more. Ill wait until its on sale, if its never going on sale ill never buy it. Im still trying to beat rdr2 on my xbox, im working through a fable replay, then the fallout games i havent got to yet. Theres just too many games i already have and want to play, i dont even really bother with live service or mmo games. I do have some time into warframe as a free one but its always at the bottom of my list. I just don't have the time to dedicate as an adult anymore. I dont worry about missing anything, itll be there later and if its not then ill enjoy what i have right now.
Personally willing to wait like 2 years for Rebirth for PC. Honestly though, if it started becoming common practice for console timed exclusives to be able to transfer your save data to the eventual PC version, I would actually double dip in a lot of cases.
So in my opinion, keyboard and mouse can be better, but it really depends on the game. For a sidescroller like old Mario, something like an 8bit do pro 2 is just as good as keyboard and mouse. For games where aiming is important, keyboard and mouse is better. But for games that rely on analog movement, controller is better. So... Stealth games, Racing games, stuff like that.
Im probably in the minority but I can't ever imagine a game being released which would make me handover the money to buy a console. I've not had one since the PS3/360 generation, and as Cary said there are so many PC games available either free or that I could buy with that money instead. Now that PC ports are becoming more common you would think the developers would want to make it available for the most users possible as soon as possible to make the most of the marketing. I guess the only reason for the exclusivity initially must be that the developers take a larger percentage of those sales compared to when it comes to PC. I assume they then analyse the sales drop off to make a call when/if to release on PC, and likely why they don't give that 6 months or 2 year timeline, to prevent the backlash when they don't deliver.
The other problem with making people wait for multi platform is the launch buzz wears off, and the release has to be carefully timed so it doesn't get wiped out by the latest thing. I am lucky in that financially I am doing ok, but most people can afford only maybe a game a month or less with that £70 target price Sony and co want, so releasing games that are yesterdays news can be damaging. I think Sony have made a good choice on pricing though so far for PC, as I am guessing they know this, and that releasing a game that isn't full price on their consoles by the time of the PC launch, is not going to sell well at that price along with lack of buzz. Day one makes more sense, keep some cosmetics and the like for your console to get that feeling of exclusivity still, but day one releases will make more money and they get the hype and people can lie to themselves that its worth the OTT pricing as its just launched, so they get the whales they loose with much later releases. The rest of us can wait for 3rd party keys or steam sales to get them, as i have no doubt they make good money that way as well as I suspect even with the likes of a steam/epic/gog cut, the offloading of hosting and the like, will cover it.
Doesn’t really matter if FF7 didn’t sell as many copies, Sony signing that deal with them lessens their risk financially. Sony essentially helped pay for their development, and likely covered the “would be” sells from an Xbox version and then some.
I waited for Horizon: Forbidden West to come to PC. I’m eagerly waiting for God of War: Ragnarok to come too. I only hope I can play both on Steam Deck…
I always wait for the Steam or GoG version, or even an emulator when it's ready. Epic Games is hideous, I don't even get free games there. Buying a console for the sake of one or two games is also out of the question for me.
How many games can you identify on the screen behind me?
Is it Zelda 2? Also did you post that integer scaling video you mentioned anywhere yet?
It's in the description.
@NerdNest Ah yes it was indeed. Appreciate it 😁
Thanks for the shout out Bill! I was listening to the show and was very surprised to hear my name. Glad you found the vid helpful!
Hey techDweeb really enjoy you’re videos. Always good time
I read this in your voice
The Zazz Bizzler himself!
There is a space under Russ, for your arms TD. Get in on it....👍
I love this podcast because it’s basically the gamer dad podcast and I’m a dad that very much likes to game
Me too
+1
Same
Gamer dad here that loves to game!!
Same. Podcast could be longer IMO too.
In my home, we all have PC. My older son plays Star Rail and Genshin, my daughter plays Genshin and Roblox. My younger son plays only Roblox. I emulate games mostly on my PC and Handheld. I spent the entire night setting up Launchbox on my handheld with my games running over the network from my PC so I don't have to use any storage space on the handheld. I can also stream with steam. Works out surprisingly well.
I am a huge wheel of time fan, listening to y'all talk about the books was amusing. I will say Sanderson did as good a job as could be done considering the situation in regards to finishing the series. I will always appreciate the man for finishing the most impactful story in my life.
Excellent episode. It is awesome to witness this gradual liberation from the constraints of console exclusives.
Not so sure using LTT as a reputable source for tech information is the way to go.
Thanks for the episode guys.
Cary makes a great point. Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft are the new BIG 3
Yeah, my daughter loves it. I think, it's mostly because all the other kids are playing it in school so she gravitates to that more. Plus, it's free to get in and doesn't demand specific hardware to play. You can play it on anything
If Roblox mostly has versions of other games at some point wouldn't somebody say that's IP infringement
And I hate to admit it 😂
@liamconverse8950 probably not it's a platform. They don't make the modes the community dose. All those different games in roblox are made by kids.
Except Minecraft is 15 years old. Which is just insane.
The Ferrari Zib-Zab was discontinued...
You guys are the #1 podcast as always. Russ safe travels 🧳
Thank you!
I was going to buy a PS5 back in the COVID days. Could not get one. Then I spent an evening pressing F5 on the Steam website to preorder a Steam Deck... I ended up with a Steam Deck in the beginning of 2022. I gave my old gaming PC to my daughter for school, Roblox, Minecraft and Sims - not necessarily in that particular order. ;) Now I am playing my PS games on my Steam Deck!
Since Sony decided to put their games on the PC, I am not going to buy a PS5. I am going to build a new gaming PC in the future.
In the ideal world, Nintendo would be selling their games on PC too. IMHO those games would sell really well on PC. I think they are missing huge market opportunities here.
I think emulation would be less prevalent with nintendo having release games on pc . Or at least reduce the demand for it.
The steam deck is awesome it got me back into games I just upgraded my pc and been playing hell divers and final fantasy and other story mode games on my deck and pc
Agree I'm an old Nintendo fan who checked out some time ago, I can't be doing with their terrible hardware and controller ergonomics. I'd be well on anything they released on modern tech.
Just started joining this podcast about 1-2 months ago for emulation conversations but stayed for general tech conversations. Keep it up
hey gang love the show. I don’t have any friends that game so I feel like im hanging with “the guys” during your pod.
Great episode and very timely title for me. I decided this spring to migrate mostly to PC gaming. Now buying high end pc, sold Xbox and never looked back. It feels like a new chapter for me in gaming. Still I have ps5 for some exclusives but definately times are changing.
When Russ mentioned the Burger King games, which I have no memories of (or knew they existed), it made me think of a game I do have fond memories of in a similar vein, which was "Chex Quest". Such a silly gem of a game.
Great doom clone…
My brother bought a PS5 specifically for FF16. I'm not sure if consoles are still sold at a loss, but I think Sony's idea is to sell a platform where they're not losing a cut of every sale to Valve or Microsoft. It's probably the reason why the only games that come to multiple platforms from Sony studios are the live service games.
ps5 started to sell for a profit after a year of released.
console now sell at cost or around that point at Released date now. (ps3 moment was a wake up call where the console cost 800 to make while they sold it for 600. )
Nintendo always sell their shit for high margins day 1. which is why their hardware always much weaker than the competitors.
I've been PC since 1997 but I always preferred computers over consoles (ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amiga) but I have still bought consoles since the first playstation and even now having a decent PC I have the Series X and PS5 (albeit not from launch). It might be coming to a point where I don't get the FOMO and be happy just with the PC and spend my cash upgrading that.
Last console I bought was PS4 and I didn't really buy a lot of PS4 games. I'd rather just wait for pc. All the things being held hostage behind subscriptions and being shut down and removed aren't for me. I'm aware that shut downs, lock downs are on pc, too.
I really have been more of a console than pc player, though I played on whatever.
I guess I've been an android, pc player post AC Black Flag, The Last of Us.
35:00 precisely why I never cared about those games. Not because of miasing out, but if I want to play an old game because I like it, I can. With those games this is not the case.
In early 2019 I had bought myself a PS4 just so I could play the first Spiderman. Then I played the last of us remastered, Uncharted. Steam deck wasn't an option at that time and my PC couldn't play new games like red dead redemption 2 and I wanted to play it. When these games started going to steam I felt betrayed and thought I could have spend that money on a new laptop or PC. With the steam deck option I'll gladly buy the few games I got on PS4 on PC. The last one is finally come, Ghost of Tsushima. I loved my experience with the PS4 but I like having ease of access to my entire steam library that I have been adding onto for over a decade.
So I finally decided to install EmuDeck/Emulation Station on my Steam Deck. I was against it thinking I can play many Gen 6 games on my Galaxy Z Flip3. Glad I changed my mind because GameCube and Wii games play flawlessly on it. I didn’t need to tinker with the settings for F-Zero GX and zero audio stutter or crash. While Wii emulation is perfect on the Steam Deck thanks to the touchpads acting like a mousepad for a pointer.
There is a bit of a learning curve. Installing EmuDeck/Emulation Station isn’t easy peasy like what I did on Android. I had to get used to using the Steam Deck in desktop mode and typing from it. And Linux doesn’t play nice with Windows or Mac. I couldn’t transfer my ROMs onto it that I ended up manually downloading every ROM instead and then unzipping it which takes up a lot more time.
I tried taking out my microSD and putting it into an SD converter and my MacBook Air still couldn’t read the files from it. Let’s just say, emulation on Steam Deck still has quirks you will need to be prepared for. I decided that I only want to emulate 7 platforms. I can always play my Gen 3 & 4, PS1, PSP, and a few PS2 ports on my Vita.
Here are the seven -
Jaguar
Saturn
Arcade (MAME)
PlayStation 2
Xbox
GameCube
Wii
I don’t need Dreamcast, PSP, or PS3. I can’t find a game I want to play on the Wii U as I already own a Switch Lite. I came to realize that the original Wii is pretty awesome and I underrated it all this time. I have as many games I want to play on it as the GameCube. And Wii is a souped up GameCube as it did play those GC games.
It’s weird playing Super Mario World on a Steam Deck with a 7”/720p display and looking blown up like a digital zoom where you can see the jaggies from every sprite. I’ll leave the Super NES games and most games prior to Gen 6 on smaller devices with smaller screens and lower resolution.
I can always play Dreamcast on one of my smartphones. Reason being is I prefer Redream over Flycast but I want Redream on Emulation Station but it cannot open from there. Below are all my ROMs for each system while I decided to delete all the Super NES, PS1, Dreamcast, and PSP games since they’re better played mostly on smaller Sony handhelds.
*Jaguar* (3)
Atari Karts
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Rayman
*GameCube* (10)
F-Zero GX
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
NBA Street Vol. 2
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Sonic Riders
Star Fox Adventures
Super Mario Sunshine
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Wario World
*Wii* (10)
Back to the Future: The Game
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Kirby’s Adventure Wii
Klonoa
Mario Kart Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
Sonic Colours
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Kirby’s Adventure Wii is also known as Kirby’s Return to Dreamland but I decided to spell the former to match the box art like spelling Sonic Colours with a “u” in colors since the box art is the PAL one. Mario Kart Wii is growing on me and it plays much better on the Deck than my Flip3, but I still prefer Double Dash more.
I tried playing Skyward Sword but it plays too awkwardly for the Wii version. Probably why I stuck with the GCN version of Twilight Princess even though I originally beat the Wii one. I can always get the Wii U/Switch version of Skyward Sword. I’m not a diehard Zelda fan, so I don’t care if I never ever play Skyward Sword or Tears of the Kingdom in my life. Breath of the Wild put me to sleep.
While I don’t really care about Zelda games and always find their stories and characters way too bland, I will say Nintendo remains the GOAT at making games. Think about the Wii. We keep talking about GameCube emulation but the Wii has a very underrated library. Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are superior to Mario Sunshine. And GameCube never had a great 2D platformer that Donkey Kong Country Returns and New SMB Wii are.
The only reason why I prefer the GameCube even though the Wii is backwards compatible to it, is because GameCube has F-Zero GX, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and my favorite game of Gen 6 in NBA Street Vol. 2. All three of those games are also found on my Z Flip3 and all would be in my top 10 favs among all Gen 6 games. But the Wii is awesome. It’s better to emulate Wii on a Steam Deck than ROG Ally thanks to the touchpads.
I love and hate Nintendo, but I have to admit that they have the most replayable libraries. I may need to reevaluate my console rankings and may put GameCube and Wii over Dreamcast and PS2. I don’t really have the urge to play PS2 games. I always found their early games looking muddy. Wasn’t bright and beautiful as DC and GC. And Sega is very arcade-y. Many DC games have very shallow gameplay which includes Sonic games.
Nintendo is always the one I go back to except for their Nintendo 64. I think that’s my least favorite home console from them. I’ll play NFL Blitz and that’s it. Don’t care for Mario Kart 64. Beaten Super Mario 64 twice but never really cared for it. Technology was limited circa mid 90s and thought some levels didn’t look finished. Sunshine was prettier but had awkward F.L.U.D gameplay. Galaxy 1 and 2 is when Nintendo got 3D Mario right.
I don’t emulate a lot of handheld games except Ridge Racer 2004 for PSP. You can just play them on the actual handheld it was made for. I always found handheld games as the Walmart version of a port. Remember Mortal Kombat on the Game Boy and Game Gear? Yuck. I want the bigger budgets coming from home consoles. I have no interest emulating Switch games on a Steam Deck when I have a Switch Lite to play those games.
It’s weird how PlayStation is my favorite gaming brand but I don’t have the urge to replay many of their games. I love AC4: Black Flag but I will admit this style of modern gaming from Gen 7 can feel redundant and even complicated with all the different menu screens I have to look at.
Nintendo uses cartoony graphics which gives them a timeless look while adding cheerful, charming, or soothing music. They act like Apple as a corporation but they still want to be like Disney by appealing to everyone of all ages. I’m 43 and my favorite genres are racing and 2D platformers and Nintendo caters to me with Mario Kart and 2D Super Mario.
1. Vita
2. Deck
3. Switch
4. PSP
5. PS1
6. GameCube
7. Wii
8. Dreamcast
9. PS2
10. Super NES
11. Genesis
Time to work on my arcade, Saturn, PS2, and Xbox libraries where I need a BIOS and a couple other things for the Xbox.
*Arcade*
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
NBA Jam
Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Super Street Fighter II
Tekken 3
Tekken Tag Tournament
^ I have over 50+ MAME ROMs everything from The Simpsons, X-Men, TMNT to every Fatal Fury, The King of the Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and Metal Slug games. But I decided to keep it minimum. Games I want to replay. I didn’t really play those Sega Model 2/3/NAOMI arcade games except the first Daytona USA.
*Saturn*
Astal
Christmas Nights
Keio Flying Squadron 2
Nights into Dreams
Super Tempo
Tryrush Deppy
*PlayStation* *2*
Final Fantasy X
God of War
God of War II
Gran Turismo 3
Gran Turismo 4
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Tekken 4
Tekken 5
Tekken Tag Tournament
*Xbox*
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Dead or Alive 3
Jet Set Radio Future
Shenmue II
Dude Watermelon game slaps so hard 🤣🤣🤣 I usually play a couple games of that, tetris, puyo puyo, or a vampire survivors type of game to kill time
Great show again guys 👏 with regards to the car licensing, I guess as those games are sold as driving simulators it allows us mere mortals the chance to drive that Ferrari Zib-Zab that we'll never be able to in real life, and just adds to the experience. As long as those people who already bought the game can still download it I don't see an issue, although I'm not sure if that is the case
43:00, I have to interject here; I can’t say for the Just Dance or Guitar Hero players, but for sim racing games like Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport, those games has to have real cars. You can’t say the game is a sim racing game if it doesn’t have real cars on it. People play sim racing games to “drive” those real cars, this is the entire point of sim racing, it’s the “cheap” getaway into the real world racing scene (as real as it can get lol).
Of course, as you’ve said, this brings in another problem into the mix, where the licenses for those cars can expire and the game has to be taken down because of that. This is a real problem and I do agree with what you said there about this, but the issue is a bit more nuanced than just “don’t put real cars in it then”, because that’s kinda like the point of sim racing. Using these cars in these games means you have to honor the car manufacturers (the people that owned the car’s design), and the license will have to be renewed no matter what, not renewing the license and still selling the game is a copyright issue.
As a pc gamer I agree with Russ I’m 22 and just got back into gaming like 8 months ago still haven’t finished remake I got god of war and other games to play PLUS I’m not paying 70 dollars imma wait for the sale on rebirth excitedly
Daily Legion Go user here! I ended up selling my Steam Deck when I got the Go. It’s my favorite tech device right now!
Pros for me:
1. More performance
2. Bigger screen
3. It’s a much nicer experience using touch to navigate vs how it feels on steam deck.
4. Playing in table top mode
5. Using it with my eGPU
6. Handheld mode is
comfortable for me.
7. I like how most everything “just works” without having to jump through some hoops
Cons:
1. Not as comfortable as Steam deck
2. Battery life suffers at times.
Congrats on 1 year! My favorite Dad cast by far 😂. @retrogamecorps I've been playing Marble Merger on pico-8 / rgb30 and it sounds very similar. Thanks for the pico handheld recommendation over on your channel. Appreciate you guys. Keep the episodes coming, I'm here for it.
I’m more than happy to wait 1 year possibly 2 to be able to buy a game on Steam, unless it’s something like CoD with annual releases where the majority of the player base will be gone the moment the next game comes out.
I waited for the Mechwarrior 5 Epic Games exclusivity to end so I could buy it on Steam and got to buy the edition with all the dlc’s for only $35 and there’s also the perks of most of the bugs being fixed and there being ample TH-cam videos out in case I want to check those out.
My favorite dudes on TH-cam, safe travels Russ, can’t wait to hear about it
Remake vs Rebirth Japanese sales also represent two different economic situations in Japan.
The Yen has crashed vs USD from .0097 in Jan '21 to .0068 March '24. That's a 30% drop which is completely life altering for most in Japan.
Plenty of Japanese gamers simply can't afford a PS5.
Have we ever seen Carrey sit before? O_O This is new! What the phawx! 😂
Guys, keep doing this every week. Excellent job, great podcast.
I have to agree with Phawx. I built my son a PC last year so we could play games as a family (wife and daughter like to play too); however, his go to game 90 percent of the time is Roblox. I have to drag him away from it when we do our family game night. It seems the wave of the future for sure.
My money is on “trend of the moment.”
glad it's not just my house.
My girls are big into Roblox as well. I no longer call it a game, but a Metaverse. Players create identities that carry over from experience to experience, and the level of non-gaming interpersonal interactions really separate it from something like Fortnite or Minecraft.
Metaverses in Roblox and Minecraft are the 2D versions of Ready Player One of today.
Releasing a MIG Switch video while in Japan, now that’s ballsy. Hope your military training is enough to fend off the Nintendo Ninjas!
Was always into console gaming then once I got into pc for quite some years now never went back. Years later I have a Legion go ,Steam Deck ,PC , just pre ordered the GPD win 4 so excited !
I'm dying @ Phawx and the Wheel of Snarf.
Russ saying he enjoys Brandon Sanderson put a smile on my face. I also stopped Wheel of Time after the first book, even though I started so I could get to the books he authored.
I agree with the Gamer Dad podcast comment. I relate to this so much
One thing about PS5 to PC ports is that they have no consistent timeline. Some come relatively soon, and others not. I wonder if that’s intentional on Sony’s part. If consumers can’t predict when a PS5 game will come to PC, are they less likely to wait for that port?
I won't lie, I havent bought it because I want to wait til it comes out on PC. I want to be able to take it with me on either a steam deck or legion go. When you have kids, it is hard to play on the ps5 because, even though my kids has minecraft on his switch, and his tablet. He still wants to play it on the ps5, especially if I turn it on. I know there is chiaki and stuff like that but it doesnt always play smoothly and I cant take it with me when i leave the home or go on vacation. When you get older with kids it becomes more about convenience. Especially to me.
I love my Steam Deck but when a game releases first on PS5 that I REALLY want to play I don’t know when it’ll release on PC, so I buy the PS5 version. You mention FF VII Intergrade which I own on PS5 so naturally I wanted to play Rebirth on the same platform. Final Fantasy XVI? That was ages ago as was Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West etc. Life’s too short to wait on a wing and a prayer.
Going forward, the next games I’ll be picking up are Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade. The latter won’t come to PC according to the studio head and I don’t know when RotR is coming. I can play them on release on my living room OLED and if I want to play them on my Steam Deck I can just remote play them from the PS5.
As a 90s kid, I started gaming on PC years before console, mainly at my friends house. Command & Conquer: Red Alert was my first "grownup" game. I have the physical copy of Command & Conquer: The First Decade, which is a collection of C&C games that came out in the mid 00s, but the DVD is all scratched up and I lost the paper with all the game keys. I bought the Ultimate Collection as soon as I knew about it.
While I understand the licensing issue with racing games, car enthusiasts absolutely want real cars in the game. More realistic racing games do not sell nearly as well if they don't have licensed cars in them, it's been that way for a really long time. We want to drive our favorite cars on our favorite real tracks, that's why games like Gran Turismo and Forza have been so popular over the years. It's not just the racing, it's the cars and locations too. Fortunately car manufacturers aren't nearly as crazy about removing licenses from their old cars as the music industry is so I don't foresee it becoming a big issue anyway.
Same boat here. I bought FFVII in ps4, then again for the steamdeck, the discounted version with integrade.
Guess what I'm doing for rebirth... waiting for the steam deck version.
Ha same dude I sometimes re buy games on different consoles platforms. Now I’m mostly strictly pc
Imagine a movie you can’t watch any more because the license for the music, or the cars, or whatever they used has expired
I kind of feel like getting some emulators is going to be like finding roms. They'll still be out there, we'll just have to search a bit for them. This whole situation has made me realize it's almost always better to sideload these apps. If you have the APK and keep a backup, nobody can take it away, but if you just get it from the Play Store, they can take it down at any time.
You can make backup of the apk, when installing from playstore. At least until some version of android completely axes file apps for "security" reasons
Get a gaming mini keyboard like a razer Tartarus, it will make the transition so much easier. You used to be able to get keyboards like the merc (my all time favourite keyboard), it was cheap and that gaming area was just near ergonomically perfect, but since keyboard manufacturers only want to make generic slab keyboards now, its not an option sadly so the separate gaming programable keyboard is the only option. The comfort level is a real game changer alone before you even take into account the flexibility.
Many overlook comfort when playing and look more at function and when you are making a change like this, that comfort level is a big help as its pretty easy to just say screw it am going back to what I used before when you have that gaming cramp, but if you are comfortable all the way through so that you are relaxed and have no uncomfortable side effects (which wear off once you get used it but they aren't nice at the start and many of us for get that, lol its like wanting another puppy but you forgot about puppy teeth and chewing everything :D), you are more likely to stick to it and enjoy it, and potentially do even better with it than you otherwise would have.
I agree with Russ on Final Fantasy. I also said screw it I'll wait for Rebirth (PC). Waiting for Spiderman 2, GOW Ragnarok, Ghost of Tsushima and GOD willing MLB the Show. I shift to just waiting for games, being from older generation I don't have the time to play. So waiting is actually ideal for me. Better price, patches and bundle.
I've played online games before. Back in the day I played _Team Fortress._ I played some _Everquest._ I played a lot more _Dark Age of Camelot._ Finally, I played really a lot of _World of Warcraft._ In the end, my brothers and I quit _WoW_ because it took up too much time, and we have a real life. I can't do that again. So a game like _Team Fortress_ I might play again, but I'm not investing in another time sink like _WoW._
Steam deck oled release date probably started the golden age of pc handheld gaming.
Next up is Zen 5 handhelds, it's gonna be so awesome!
Re the halo series, I played all the games and I still love the TV series. Even if they’re changing small/large story points, I still enjoy it because it’s well produced and the action is awesome (the Master Chief action sequence in the pilot was amazing). If I wanted to see the actual story, I’d play the games.
I am waiting for the whole season to be released so I can binge it
I'm still waiting for Kingdom Hearts to be free'd from Epic and brought to Steam. I've almost slipped up and bought it on sale a few times now but then I remember how many other times I have purchased those games. But this is the best time to be a PC/Linux gamer for sure!
The Saboteur is the final game by the people who made the old Star Wars Battlefront games and Mercenaries 1 and 2, which are like Just Cause. It's a unique early open world noir ish game about the French resistance during WWII. Definitely pick it up.
I'm genuinely excited for the updated PC handhelds this year. I love my Steam Deck OLED but I'm ngl the lack of windows has given me a bit of buyers remorse. I tried the Legion GO at Microcenter the other day and I actually like the bigger screen and the overall feel holding it. I will admit I hope the update the button placement on the right controller because it definately feels awkward. I'm actually thinking of getting an eGPU for either whether it's an updated XG mobile for an Ally 2 or whatever enclosure I can get for the Legion GO. While I'll always have a dedicated desktop A PC handheld eGPU combo might become my primary gaming rig especially if the Legion Go 2 comes out with better controllers.
legit question, when did "day and date" become such a key phrase? does this just mean available on all platforms at the same time??
It doesn't necessarily mean ALL platforms, but it means on multiple platforms simultaneously.
So if a PS5 game comes out on 4/20/23 on PS5 and PC, but not Xbox, the PC release would say "day and date" signifying that the PC release gets the game on launch, along with PS5.
As someone who has a PS5, Switch, SD OLED LE and just invested in a pretty high end gaming rig, I would rather wait however long it takes to play FF7 Rebirth on my PC because of the SD compatibility.
But if I didn’t have a SD I think my max wait time would be around a year.
Having the SD and it working in tandem with my PC greatly extends how long I’ll wait for a PC port!
I prefer console and controllers. I do have a decent PC but...if I can play on PS5 or Switch...they are my first choice. Something about the 65" 4K TV experience vs sitting at a computer desk.
TBH, until last generation, I've spent my entire life not having access to consoles during the current generation, and then not playing games upon release. Then once I could have access, there was little-to-no reason to play games upon release because the kinds I like (or used to like - looking at you Bethesda) are way too buggy on release. So if I want to play something on PC, I'm fine with waiting - (a) I have a massive back catalog, (b) I like gaming on Switch - so clearly I'm comfortable with waiting a generation or waiting for a sale, (c) I love retro games and lean towards those, and (d) the games I primarily play on PC are complicated strategy games. I do give props to Square Enix for finding out how to milk another $210 out of fans of a game that want to play a remake of a game that was $50 on release in 1997.
I paid 40 for ff7 remake . Don't plan on buying ps5 and will happily wait for Rebirth on pc.@20mins u guys make a great point . I can wait.
excellent show! On 7 Rebirth:
1) I assume allot of the physical sales where the pre-ordered collector-edition.
2) The digital deluxe is a money grab imo.
3) The Rebirth "devs" are the biggest fan of the game.
4) Both performance mode and graphics mode are below expectations. (Custom Unreal 4?)
5) Will Part 3 run in Unreal 5? - As expected by our demographic.
6) I bought ps5 for this, taking my time to complete, f-ing awesome game
7) U will hate the 'Kill the Mindflayer first' VR-challenge ;)
For me, no length of time is too long for an exclusive, and no length of time is too short. I only play on Steam Deck or other Linux computer. Before the Steam Deck, I only played on Linux computers for about 2 decades.
FYI I don’t know anything about final fantasy at all and I have rebirth and been playing now for 5 days now I’m having a blast still even knowing nothing anyone in the same boat don’t hesitate and worry about needing to play remake first just TH-cam the story to summarize it all up before you start rebirth cause not all of us can fork out another 100 bucks 😂
Bill, how'd you know that the Ferrari Zim-Zam is my favorite car?!😂
I love the marble merger version of suika on pico 8! :)
not so sure "ragnarok day" in the calendar would be something to look forward to ;) (basically the end of the world...)
Apart from the controls which you need to really adapt to, Saboteur is great! As you liberate parts of Paris from the Nazis, it switches from black and white to colour. It's a bit like a WW2 assassins creed with really bad controls
35:19 depends on the MMO. FFXI is still going 22 years later.
Yeah, I said there were exceptions, I think that if FFXI went free to play and charged for cosmetics and stuff like that, it would get a much larger audience and make more money. Or if they combined subscriptions with FFXIV, and then had events in both.
The problem that they have is that because they have been doing timed exclusivity it trained us to wait and do other stuff whilst we wait for the games to come to our system.
Short term it got them some console sales but long term they conditioned us to wait so now when they make things exclusive we just play other games until it releases. They realise that their plan has backfired 😂.
I recently finished Lost Odyssey and had the exact same issue Bill mentioned where the game's music blared over the dialog in every single cutscene.
I waited the 2 years for the first FF7 remake to go to PC and hated waiting that long so caved and bought a PS5 for this one which is the first game I bought on Day one in probably 10-15 years (normally I wait for a game to go on sale or play it on game pass if it comes out there.) I am happy I did make the purchase as I am now able to go back and play all of the PS4/PS5 exclusive games that didn't get PC ports or that did that I have yet to buy but are included on PS plus.
I think it'll be an interesting time seeing exclusives slowly become less and less.... exclusive given that exclusive games are like one of the BIG selling points for any given console.
Like not even 5 years ago I would've never imagined seeing BOTH Xbox and PlayStation exclusives on PC and yet here we are, I can play both God of War 2018 and Halo Infinite on my Steam Deck.
Ragnarok Online is that game for me. I loved that game. one of my first MMOs. Every iteration of that game fails to live up to the original as well as the private servers. I find myself thinking about it and the memories pretty often.
RDR2 was the last game I bought day of release. The benefits of a backlog is that I rarely buy a newer game and it is usually half off by the time I buy it. Added bonus, all the bugs are worked out. If I have to wait two or three years, no prob.
Man... times are changing. Well, it is what it is. Time to become a "retro" gamer ha ha😅
Quick question my ROG ally is arriving today. But yesterday you guys posted a video. Revealing that Asus is coming out with its successor soon Should I send mine back and wait for the new one? Yes right?
I personally would wait, but I also will say I don't think the upgrades in V2 would be that big of a deal
Russ, give Eric Nylund's Halo books a read. I remember loving them when they came out
“I wait” - Tom Hanks (The Terminal)
What days are you guys going to Pax? Would love to meet you guys.
You could stream games from your PS5 to your Steam Deck as well.. that's what I'm gonna do when I get it set up..
My only concern with the new Fallout series is that Amazon will do to it, what they did to LoTR.
The moment they start putting moderndayisms into the series, will be the moment I nope out.
There's a major difference between "modernisms" in a medieval fantasy setting and "modernisms" in a post apocalyptic series ostensibly occurring in our future.
It's not like they had muskets, in the Rings of Sleep Induction.
Tolkien does get as recent as 2017, but I guess one can try and pigeon hole it to 1955 trilogy mindframe, if it suits their agenda.
Fallout is 1997. Fallout 3 of 2008 diverged quite a bit and it's pretty damned modern. More importantly, it's going to tie in heavily with Fallout 5, which hasn't even released yet.
I highly suspect you mean something different by "modernisms". To which, I wonder just how much you actually know Fallout games, Bethesda or Microsoft. I'm sure there's people of widely varying ideology, politics, etc that made the games. It's not really hard to see who made what where, to know what general direction that wind blows. If it stays more true to the game, it will show faults with all factions and not bog down with petty BS that are not relevant to survival.
The larger issue was in spite of that budget Rings couldn't be bothered to take the trouble to stick within the Tolkien world and reality, nor develop a story or characters that were memorable, rootable. The show was fine as a pretty fall asleep and forget it, bedtime story, but it was very poor AU fanfic. I do how fallout is better than that.
I haven't watched Bridgerton, but I guess there are audiences that don't mind something wildly implausible historically.
I made it thru Dickinson, in spite of the immersion breaking modernisms, historical liberties and fantasy. I am glad there are 3 seasons of it.
Hell yeah, no excuse to back out now, ive been a PC gamer for 2-3 years now. I used to be a mobile gamer (yeah i know) I didn't come up on xbox or PlayStation so i only knew Nintendo (though never owning a switch)
Now i own a steam deck oled and a High-mid range PC and run linux far more than windows. BazziteOS makes me question why people write off PC for being too complicated and not being able to just pick up a controller and play. Turning on your PC and it going straight into Steam Big picture Mode with no desktop to take you out of the console like experience, it really feels different than booting up Windows just to have steam pop up a few seconds later. And being able to use decky and all the plugins to customize the experience really sets it apart
My son also only Keyboard & mouse and me on controller with Gyro in Fortnite. Can’t deny mouse is better. But not for me anymore. I’m old and just wanna sit on couch with a handheld.
Consoles will likely remain a fixture for some time, but I believe we're on the cusp of a pervasive gaming era. This future isn't about consoles disappearing; it's about gaming becoming accessible anywhere, anytime. Cloud and PC platforms will become dominant forces, and mobile devices - both with native processing power and cloud capabilities - will transform into robust gaming machines. Get ready to game on practically any device you grab!
As for controller vs. keyboard and mouse I can do both. But nowadays I tend to use controller with gyro most. Thank you Steam Input!
What they should’ve done with halo tv series is change all the names and all the places and make it at a completely different timeline and treat it like Star Wars. I like the later Star Wars stuff but it’s because it’s more separated that I can wrap my head around it easier.
I have a ps5 but I hardly ever use it once I bought a 4070 gpu and great cpu. The only game that might get me to play ps5 again is GTA6 but it takes a game like that if it doesn’t come to PC day 1 for me to care. But that’s the biggest game of all time. I don’t care enough about other games to need to play it right away and it is nice that Xbox games you can already play day 1 on PC.
Regarding the FF7 discussion... A while ago the first chapter was given for free as part of the PS Plus subscription... Maybe they expected more PS player to be hooked to the series?
Can confirm, I’m from Malaysia, we all use PC to game lmao
The Warners Brothers delisting all Adult Swim games thing is such a big disappointment.
I really pray the developers manages to break free of them and can either get a new publisher or self publish their games.
The Phawx, the most technical guy on TH-cam, on a 30 bucks 720p webcam 😂😂😂
For me there isn't really a 'too long'. There are so many games I can play - an eternity's worth. But I'm also not an 'online' gamer - as in, I don't follow gaming Twitter and I don't have that many gaming friends that I would feel left out for not having something.
As for too short? It's not for me to care whether some big corporation's 'line go up'. I think publishing and distribution should break off from 'the big guys' anyway.
That said, would I absolutely kill for a chance to play Bloodborne on PC? YES.
How long is too long? You tell me, Im playing bioshock for the first time on steam deck, then the metro series, then styx games, then i just bought dragons dogma 1. I have new games and will play newer games, but typically on game pass. I am a very patient gamer. I really really want to play elden ring and hogwarts and bg3 and more. Ill wait until its on sale, if its never going on sale ill never buy it. Im still trying to beat rdr2 on my xbox, im working through a fable replay, then the fallout games i havent got to yet. Theres just too many games i already have and want to play, i dont even really bother with live service or mmo games. I do have some time into warframe as a free one but its always at the bottom of my list. I just don't have the time to dedicate as an adult anymore. I dont worry about missing anything, itll be there later and if its not then ill enjoy what i have right now.
my son is 12 and the Roblox thing is so accurate. he plays everything but always goes back to roblox.
reminds me of me except it was old school minecraft
My son is 11 and gets grounded without devices if I catch him playing that roblox crap.
@@UmVtCg lots of creeps on there for sure
Personally willing to wait like 2 years for Rebirth for PC. Honestly though, if it started becoming common practice for console timed exclusives to be able to transfer your save data to the eventual PC version, I would actually double dip in a lot of cases.
So in my opinion, keyboard and mouse can be better, but it really depends on the game. For a sidescroller like old Mario, something like an 8bit do pro 2 is just as good as keyboard and mouse. For games where aiming is important, keyboard and mouse is better. But for games that rely on analog movement, controller is better. So... Stealth games, Racing games, stuff like that.
Im probably in the minority but I can't ever imagine a game being released which would make me handover the money to buy a console. I've not had one since the PS3/360 generation, and as Cary said there are so many PC games available either free or that I could buy with that money instead. Now that PC ports are becoming more common you would think the developers would want to make it available for the most users possible as soon as possible to make the most of the marketing. I guess the only reason for the exclusivity initially must be that the developers take a larger percentage of those sales compared to when it comes to PC. I assume they then analyse the sales drop off to make a call when/if to release on PC, and likely why they don't give that 6 months or 2 year timeline, to prevent the backlash when they don't deliver.
The other problem with making people wait for multi platform is the launch buzz wears off, and the release has to be carefully timed so it doesn't get wiped out by the latest thing. I am lucky in that financially I am doing ok, but most people can afford only maybe a game a month or less with that £70 target price Sony and co want, so releasing games that are yesterdays news can be damaging. I think Sony have made a good choice on pricing though so far for PC, as I am guessing they know this, and that releasing a game that isn't full price on their consoles by the time of the PC launch, is not going to sell well at that price along with lack of buzz.
Day one makes more sense, keep some cosmetics and the like for your console to get that feeling of exclusivity still, but day one releases will make more money and they get the hype and people can lie to themselves that its worth the OTT pricing as its just launched, so they get the whales they loose with much later releases. The rest of us can wait for 3rd party keys or steam sales to get them, as i have no doubt they make good money that way as well as I suspect even with the likes of a steam/epic/gog cut, the offloading of hosting and the like, will cover it.
Doesn’t really matter if FF7 didn’t sell as many copies, Sony signing that deal with them lessens their risk financially. Sony essentially helped pay for their development, and likely covered the “would be” sells from an Xbox version and then some.
I have a PS5, but I mainly game on PC (RTX4090). I think 6 months is a good time, or day and date. Later than a year or so, I'm going to 'double dip'
I waited for Horizon: Forbidden West to come to PC. I’m eagerly waiting for God of War: Ragnarok to come too. I only hope I can play both on Steam Deck…
Always, not just now.
I always wait for the Steam or GoG version, or even an emulator when it's ready. Epic Games is hideous, I don't even get free games there. Buying a console for the sake of one or two games is also out of the question for me.