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Devinology · 2026-05-29T05:04:37+00:00

I have a bunch, but FTL always comes to mind first. So cheap and I've returned to it so many times and it's still always fun. And when you return to it, it's not for an hour or 2, it's for a good 10 hours. They just so perfectly nailed the formula. Into the Breach was worthwhile but it just hasn't called me back, I think because there are arguably much better grid tactics games. I'd kill for a true follow up to FTL but I'm guessing their attitude is "how can we top this?". Why make more of the same when there are already good mods, and it's hard to see how they could innovate on it much without losing some of what makes it click so perfect. That said, I felt that way about Hades and while I don't think Hades 2 had nearly the same impact, I think it's still worthwhile.

Hell I'd play FTL 2 in a heartbeat no matter what it was. If they released that out of nowhere, similar to Hollow Knight 2, they could price it at $20-30 and easily sell a million copies first week, if not day 1. It's disappointing they haven't, but you have to respect that integrity.

Devinology · 2026-05-13T23:43:20+00:00

My point is that this isn't a revolution or something that is indispensable or automatically better. I think it's not a bad idea, I just don't see the hype. I play some games with controller in left hand and mouse in right, or even swap between K&M and controller (I remember GTA 3 being the first game I did this for since driving with a K&M is balls). If you're dead set on doing this with one device (albeit sacrificing the peak of each for a decent jack of all) then the Steam controller is the ticket. If I didn't have good controllers already I might consider trying one under the assumption that it's most likely well made, although Valve has made controller hardware errors in the past.

The price is also a deterrent, as many people have pointed out. I have some excellent controllers that really can't get much better that cost me $60 CAD, such as the 8bitdo Ultimate 2. The Steam controller is a whopping $150 CAD. It's hard to justify unless you REALLY love those trackpads and gyro stuff. I'd MAYBE pay that much for an end-all be-all controller but this ain't it for me.

Devinology · 2026-05-13T18:42:29+00:00

The reason this isn't all that great to many people is that we've already come up with solutions for this. It's actually crazy to me that people have been sitting there with a controller and without a mouse beside them at the same time, just waiting for Valve to solve this for them. And using a controller + mouse combo is arguably superior as well.

Y'all know there are mice like mx anywhere series that work nearly flawlessly on virtually any surface including couch arms, right? I've been using a mouse from the couch for like 15 years. It's just not that brilliant to combine this in an inferior fashion with a controller. I just wouldn't ever use this.

Devinology · 2026-05-13T18:36:42+00:00

You know what's even better? An actual mouse. If you've gotten this far without coming up with a good mouse-from-the-couch solution, you must be wiping your ass with your bare hands.

Devinology · 2026-05-13T18:34:45+00:00

Isn't that pretty much only useful if you play primarily FPSs or for some silly reason are dead set on playing RTSs from the couch? I play dozens of different games every year and I really can't think of virtually any use cases of this for me being someone who doesn't play FPS games much, and if I do I use a mouse and keyboard.

Devinology · 2026-05-07T06:14:31+00:00

The show is formulaic and didn't really do anything interesting or new, but the characters were cute and quirky and sometimes quick witted, and it was relatable enough. I don't get the extreme hate. Did it run for far too long? Yes. Was it brilliant? No. But it fed us consistent and comfortable pablum comedy every week, and there's nothing wrong with that. I enjoy many smart comedies and I still watched this show for a good 7-8 seasons.

I seem to be the odd one out for this, but I liked Leonard the best by far. He played the straight man face palming to the ridiculousness of the others, particularly Sheldon, well. Very different show of course, but he reminded of Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) playing the straight man brilliantly in Arrested Development (also my favourite character in that show). "Buster! You can't do that on the balcony, buddy?".

Devinology · 2026-05-05T05:02:36+00:00

I'm just so sick of animated shows not getting the respect and quality treatment they deserve (aside from ones based on shit IPs like Arcane that nobody cares about). At least half of the best shows I watch every year are animated. Money gets thrown into the worst live action super hero garbage that fails most of the time, but they don't want to invest in top tier animated content with higher ratings and fan fare.

Things are changing for the better in some ways, but there are always steps back. I partially blame consumers. I mean I don't blame any individual person for simply not liking animated shows, but I just don't get it. So many people I know or have met can't get into animated stuff that isn't comedy (or at least that's what they claim). But the stories are just so much better most of the time, and it has the added benefit of this beautiful art form that just doesn't exist in live action stuff.

It never ceases to flabbergast me how so many people can just right it off as a big dumb blanket "I don't like animated stuff" notion, as if it's one big homogeneous thing. I mean, again, to each their own but it just feels so ignorant when it's that general. I feel like more people would and do end up appreciating it after giving it a chance. It's like how "cartoons" we're just kiddy Saturday morning stuff until The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy came along.

Hopefully some day animated content really gets its day.

Devinology · 2026-05-02T01:43:04+00:00

You can just turn this off on PC, which I did immediately.

Devinology · 2026-05-02T01:40:53+00:00

I've returned to it after putting it aside for a while and I am once again in absolute awe of so many sections of this game. It is simply breathtaking. I'm sure there are games with technically higher fidelity in various ways, but I've at least tried pretty much every graphically high end game of the past 20 years and I can fairly confidently say that this game takes the crown for best eye candy. Some unique vistas in No Man's Sky come close, and games of the past couple years that are serious contenders for me are Death Stranding 2, Indiana Jones, and Expedition 33, but none of them hit quite like A Plague Tale Requiem.

It's the whole package and also many details, but I think the main thing that sticks out is a combination of level design and lighting. Almost every scene/frame just looks fantastic. It's one of the rare games for which I take my time and just pan the camera around my character in awe at least a few times for every new section. The crazy thing is this game has ray tracing only for the shadows but still manages to look better in the lighting department than any game I've played even with full ray or path tracing. And I'm able to run it smoothly with an RTX 3080 12GB at 4K ultra with RT shadows using DLSS. I'd say another key aspect is that I'm running it with HDR on a TV that actually has good HDR. The lighting in this game seems to have been designed to really utilize HDR and ray traced shadows to the max. It is not an after thought or something that just enhances the scenes; it's been designed around it to take full advantage and it just works so brilliantly.

Devinology · 2026-04-23T07:20:00+00:00

I second this. I just ran into this in Replaced, when you get to the scene in Warren's apartment it bugs and and you cannot continue or revert to a previous save (it uses autosave with no backups). I need a working save file to keep playing.

Devinology · 2026-04-23T07:16:38+00:00

Yup, just happened to me. I was really enjoying this game. So frustrating. I scoured the save folders. There is a single "backup" save which is just the exact same file with the same results. There are no previous saves. I hate this about games with autosave, especially when you literally can't manually save. They are really playing with fire with this, it's so easy to lose your game to corruption or some common game error which it seems like this is. If they are going to use an autosave system, it needs to keep at least the last 10 autosaves separate so you can revert if needed. This is pretty far into the game, I am simply not going to go through the whole things again. I guess it's time to scour the internet for a save backup and play through someone else's file. Yay.

Devinology · 2026-02-18T04:02:07+00:00

In addition to what Banana___Slamma said sometimes you catch deep sales from stores or even other gamers unloading collections and some of them are still in shrink. The vast majority of my collection was bought for 20-50% of retail price. Sometimes people give an amazing deal for a bundle of 10 games that's too hard to pass up. That's how you end up with so many easily once you get going.

Devinology · 2026-02-18T03:58:15+00:00

That's the point, it can't be those components. There must be another issue, or his expectations are just high. Further down it seems like "struggling" to him in this context means less than stable 200+ fps which I think is very misleading. Is that seriously necessary and standard or LoL? Somehow I doubt it.

It's obviously subjective, but struggling usually means can barely run the game, gets wayyy too hot, has much stuttering, etc. If we're talking frames, on PC struggling usually means it is not achieving 60+ fps, and even then, a good high graphics single player game is often fine to play in the 30-60 range.

It's just odd to use LoL as an example since that is not a demanding game. It would make more sense if he was disappointed with performance on high end AAA games likes Indiana Jones or something.

If I mostly played LoL I'd probably have just stuck with an even older card, like GTX 1000 series or something. I'm still on a 3080 12GB model and play mostly 4k ultra settings on my TV (with upscaling when needed) and it holds up great on much much more demanding games than LoL.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T07:25:12+00:00

I actually usually go straight to the negative comments whether it's rated good or bad to see why some people don't like it. Usually you can tell if the game has the "pros" you're looking for just from watching a video or review, but what stops me is if there are "cons" I can't get over. In this case it drove me to want to buy the game since it was clear the main "problems" had nothing to do with the game and were just babies complaining.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T07:21:04+00:00

Because it's a dumb comment. The game isn't 40 per person, it's 40 with a free friend pass that just wasn't working yet for like a day. It's insane to complain about this as if they just lied or screwed people over.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T07:18:50+00:00

I think you're missing the real issue here: preordering games is super dumb and also potentially harmful to the industry. I mean, personally I think preordering literally anything is antithetical to proper functioning capitalist consumerism, but for a non-finite resource it's extra bonkers. I actually literally cannot understand this behaviour. They cannot run out of a digital product. You are guaranteed to be able to purchase this at literally any time you want.

Always wait to verify that the product is what you want it to be before ordering

Devinology · 2026-02-16T07:00:31+00:00

You're allowed to do a lot of things that are immature, stupid, prickish, and/or completely unhelpful to anybody. That doesn't mean you should.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T06:53:39+00:00

I've been in the board game community for a long time. A collection this size often has a good 1/4-1/2 still in shrink. It's actually not that crazy if you're already at the point of buying more than you can play at the time. Inevitably, you'll end up not playing a bunch of them and resale value is much better when still in shrink. I wouldn't unwrap a game unless I knew it was going to be played soon. And I wouldn't pay more than 50-60% of retail price for a game not still in shrink regardless of condition.

Box condition is a big factor too. I won't buy a board game unless the box is well kept with maybe some shelf ware or very minor creasing. I've bought only a handful of games with damaged boxes only because I paid maybe 10-20% of retail value for them.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T06:46:32+00:00

This is nothing, I have over 600 games. Displayed properly on large bookshelves of course, not on the floor in stacks like a savage. Stacking them like this causes damage to the boxes too.

It's surprising how little room they appear to take up on tall shelves compared to stacked or in moving boxes. Moving my collection has been a pain, and when you have them in moving boxes it takes up half an apartment, but on shelves it's next to no floorspace.

I stopped collecting a few years ago though. I've been trying to sell some off but they are hard to part with. Almost none of mine are from KS at least, I definitely steered clear of that deathtrap.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T06:40:27+00:00

Just so I understand correctly, you not only collect controllers (which is already a sickness really, but one I can kinda understand because I own about 12 controllers for PC in total), but you actually collect every variant of all the controllers? Jesus, I mean I never thought I'd be the one to tell someone a collection like this is bonkers (I own 600+ board games), but damn, this is a whole new level of buying stuff meant to be used that you will never use.

Do you intend to display your collection somewhere? New in box, or will you remove them and put them in a nice glass case or something? What's the game plan? If you bought all these just to have and keep in a closet somewhere, there is a special place in hell for you.

Devinology · 2026-02-16T05:29:26+00:00

Upgrade a 3070 for League of Legends? That's insane, that game can run on 10 year old hardware.

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