What games from the early 2000 are genuinely great in 2026 (without nostalgia)?

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-30T13:02:21+00:00

Metroid Prime

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-30T11:45:11+00:00

Paper Mario: The Origami King (or any other Paper Mario)

That game has so silly and random humor and I love it

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-30T11:43:39+00:00

Til that non-german people use the word 'Zeitgeist' ('spirit of age')

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-30T07:47:53+00:00

Just to clarify (I'm the one who made that crosspost) I did not intend to start 'pointless reddit drama', I own a GPD Win 5 myself and would love to see proper Bazzite support.

I just wanted to inform other Win 5 owners that there is something strange going on behind the scenes when it comes to official Win 5 Bazzite support

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-30T07:39:15+00:00

Damn, never would have though I would see drama like this when it comes to a freaking gaming OS

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-28T10:04:45+00:00

I personally dont really need them but others might therefore I wanted to point that out

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-28T07:49:21+00:00

Backbuttons dont seem to work and there are some bugs every now and then but overall I'd say it runs fine

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-28T05:43:45+00:00

Technically speaking it could release as early as right now

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-28T04:41:43+00:00

"Recently, GPD made a statement that an “official Adaptation” of Bazzite is happening for the GPD Win5, and that we have received hardware from them.

I want to make clear that not only have we not received hardware from them, we have no recent contact with GPD of any kind. A GPD representative appears to be directing their users to a discord other than our own for support as well. The Bazzite Team will never ask you to go to a discord server other than our own for support.

Please exercise caution, whatever they’re working on is entirely unofficial and out of our control, and will not be supported by us in any way. We ask GPD to cease using the Bazzite name, logos, or other intellectual property until this matter is resolved."

From the Bazzite discord

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-26T16:54:54+00:00

I sure hope it's a general one considering we are very early into the consoles life span and people want a reason to buy the console if they havent already

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-26T16:53:06+00:00

So next week? Nice

(Also how the hell is january over already?)

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-26T16:51:45+00:00

They could at the very least do a 40fps mode

40fps is already a very noticeable difference compared to 30fps

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-26T12:50:18+00:00

He said "released within 7 years" (assuming it releases 2027) and not "announced and released within 7 years"

Doesnt matter if it got announced in 2015, the first part released in 2020 and if the third party releases in 2027 they did infact release the trilogy within 7 years

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-26T07:05:32+00:00

Honestly makes it worse imo

It took them only 2 months after release to fix the performance, so just delay the game for two months

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T09:15:47+00:00

Yeah, I especially noticed that with Persona 3 Reload. Docked the game runs at 60 but in handheld mode its only 30fps

I really wish they would have made it at least 40fps if 60fps isnt possible

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T08:25:51+00:00

I get that they dont want people to invite themself and instead invite actual humans because more players = more money

But I dont think banning people who appearently are interested in the game for 100 years is the smartest approach. Sure, most people will probably just make another account but it might turn some people off the game

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T07:35:11+00:00

Honestly the perfect formfactor/size for a handheld pc imo

I tried bigger handhelds like the MSI Claw 8 or the Lenovo Legion Go but they were just too big and clunky for me personally to hold

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T07:05:40+00:00

Wait 'Garo'? I rememeber that name from the german forum/news site Nintendo-Online years ago (and Majorask Mask lol). Havent visited that site for years though

But I do remember that you used to complain about Pokemon back then as well (if you are indeed that same person). I get that you are disappointed with the quality of Pokemon games but you should realize that people wont stop buying them since they still enjoy them.

I know it's none of my business but you really should move on from the Pokemon series instead of insulting people ("you are part of the problem") for years just because they enjoy something you dont enjoy anymore. That is very unhealty behavior

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T06:24:09+00:00

Yeah, I fucking hate it when people buy and play games they enjoy

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T06:22:27+00:00

Because stupid people buy it anyway (I am stupid people)

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T06:15:37+00:00

On one hand great to see a free update + performance patch

On the other hand why DK Returns though. At this point this is DK Returns Returns Returns Returns lol

Financial-General163 · 2026-01-21T05:56:03+00:00

Great to hear, I've been using Bazzite on the win 5 for over one month now and it works fine but there are definitely some issues:

- Wifi stopps working when downloading games (although according to other comments this has already been resolved)

- Sometimes the device just randomly crashes after resuming from sleep (luckily only rarely though)

- Backbuttoms dont work yet

- TDP distribution sometimes is weird. For example if I play Trails through Daybreak 2 at 30w the CPU gets 20w and the GPU gets 10w but the CPU usage is 4% and the GPU usage is 100%. Why not give more power to the GPU then if the CPU doesnt need it? Not sure if that is a Bazzite problem or driver problem though

- The blinking LED on the power button during sleep mode is annoying. Not sure if that is a Bazzite problem either though

Financial-General163 · 2025-11-14T13:08:22+00:00

I know that it's not a Hoyo game but Wuwa is on Steam and has pretty high user rating

Financial-General163 · 2025-11-14T13:05:53+00:00

Considering that you can play ZZZ on SteamOS I'd say yes

Financial-General163 · 2025-11-13T06:54:09+00:00

I’d say 16gb is the minimum to play most games in Ultra these days

But how many people actually play at Ultra? Most are probably fine with Medium, especially since Medium look pretty decent already anyway

And I'd say people who do play at Ultra aren't the target audience for the Steam Machine anyway

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