Sounds like an interesting idea. I don't think I would be down for spearheading it, but I would be interesting if something ever comes out of this.
It's not perfect, but it is the one I tolerate the most out of the different platforms. Anyone feel free to add me, and I'd be down for any kind of book club, challenges, buddy reads... https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/vhj
Have you personally tried Boxtron or Roberta on the Deck? I briefly messed around with them a while back, but at least at that point it wasn't as simple as just installing them via protonUp-qt or WineCellar.
If anyone wants to play Doom with GZDoom and easy mod access, I've been doing that for a while via Luxtorpeda.
Add it to your compatibility layer list like you would ProtonGE, then choose the Luxtorpeda compatibility layer for DOOM. Once you launch it you can choose either straight up GZDoom or qZDL+GZDoom for easy mod management.
I didn't think of that, TIL
Uh, not like I can think of any use case for having the UI show up, but if some people want it a toggle is perfect. I am happy and everyone is happy.
"Fixed screenshots not including Steam user interface elements." WTF? I thought that was a feature, not a bug. One of the things that really bugged me about screenshots on the Deck was Steam interface appearing on screenshots. I don't wanna have message notifications or whatnot appearing in my screenshots.
And here I thought they had finally fixed that.
If you ask me, the Source version didn't include any QoL improvements or anything that might make the game more modern feeling.
The "upgrades" are mostly new textures and effects that bugged out half the time. Plus all the gameplay bugs that it introduced.
Even before the update most people were recommending the OG above the Source version, so it makes sense that they would update that one.
The one just named "Half Life" is the definitive version now, the one that got the big update yesterday.
Source is the same messy version as it was before and they haven't touched it. Though it will still be in our libraries for legacy reasons.
Valve themselves recommend you ignore Source exists.
Thanks! It's nice that it happened with a screenshot I took of one of my favorite games ever. If I remeber correctly (it's been a while) it was kinda luck to get these screenshots. Since the only way to get them is to finish a race, while you see the results a playback of your driving will be playing in the background, the moment you push "next race" the background replay will freeze and those effects will be applied to the image, while it's being used as a loading screen to load the next track. So you have one try per race to get a cool screenshot (though the game is pretty in itself too).
It's a nice little visual novel that takes only ~20 minutes per route and can be played for free.
Beware tho that the devs did put the following content warnings: "Contains visuals/mentions of suicide and self-harm."
I wasn't so sure about NSFW etiquette in here so I erred on the side of caution
How does Legend play on the Deck? I've played the whole of the new trilogy and up to 3 of the old ones (all of them before I got the Deck). And I wanna get into that "middle trilogy" too, the Deck sounds like a nice fit for those games.
"Always on" and similar extreme DRM measurements I believe are more of an issue compared to physical vs digital media. DRM free digital copies for example can have way longer lifespans than a physical copy (potentially "infinite"). But as soon as you add the requirement for some company server to be up, the game has a hard expiration date. But that's an altogether different discussion.
I hadn't though much about your first point, it is true that specially the input devices can change the feel of the game drasticly. I suppose people with special interest will seek out some of the classic gamepad clones that are available nowadays, but most people will just play with the console default.
The biggest issue imho is digital-only games that have been delisted. I'm not to worried about people not being able to play them to relieve memories since pirating them will probably be easy enough. But pirating does defeat the whole point of collecting I assume. I guess people can still assemble a full collection of physical releases only. IDK how collectors of the 3DS are doing it right now after the closure of the digital store, for example.
I'm re-reading Mistborn yet again in anticipation. Sando bless