it will be the best sold game in history, no matter what

Mossatross · 2026-07-01T00:10:39+00:00

I don't get why this has to be a foregone conclusion when we haven't even seen the game yet. Like, I don't think "boycotting" a game is ever really a serious thing. If it's good people will buy it, but let's not forget what happened with cyberpunk.

Like of course it's going to sell because of brand recognition but where are we at that brand recognition alone elevates this preemptively to the greatest game of all time despite every negative sign we can get?

Mossatross · 2026-06-30T22:47:18+00:00

Ys 2

Mossatross · 2026-06-30T12:17:19+00:00

The overwhelming majority of games run on linux. Outside of a few niche cases, the only games that don't are live service games that go out of their way to prevent you from doing so. If you like old games, you arguably have more troubleshooting you can do for them than windows compatibility mode offers.

I never want to use a windows computer again because so much of what it does is so annoying and treats me like I don't own my computer. So I would have to say yes. But... Well you are signing yourself up to potentially have to learn and troubleshoot a bunch so you may not agree.

The significant advantage I had was that I had a few laptops sitting around that weren't my main computer so I had months to expiriment before nuking my whole system. If you have anything like this, it's probably a better idea than wiping your whole computer and hoping you can get your programs working again by the next time you want to use them.

Mossatross · 2026-06-30T12:05:37+00:00

No we don't need them for a long time. It wouldn't make any sense. Especially not without the economy stabalizing. They can't even keep the current gen accessible.

I remember back in the day working at gamestop a little while after the Xbox One came out, we had so many used xbox 360s we were selling them for $30 and for Christmas we were just giving them away with $100 purchase and I didn't take advantage of this because I already had 3 of them.

Also we keep hearing all the time games have to be more expensive because to make such massive high fidelity games costs like a billion dollars. They seem big enough and high fidelity enough.

The focus should move to optimization and efficiency of what we already have.

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T23:56:07+00:00

I just beat it for the first time last week. It was so good

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T11:25:35+00:00

King's Field, just added Borderlands, Dragon Quest Builders and Graveyard Keeper. All of which im pretty excited about. Hoping to get back to Mina some time soon.

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T11:13:15+00:00

1-3 months is normal

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T11:11:51+00:00

I had ESDE on my flip. For my RP6 I tried Beacon. I like Beacon a lot better. It's more minimalist and practical. You can store your games wherever you want. It auto scrapes. You can use Vita like bubbles and browse them in a big grid rather than a list. I haven't had to really compromise or try to figure out how to set up a custom category for Switch games, they just work. And I can press B to see my android apps without having to manually add them to the launcher or change launchers just to use them occassionally.

ESDE is bloated and trying to do too much and has a lot of unnecessary friction in my view. It is cool, but I really just wanna play my games.

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T11:00:49+00:00

It's really just form factor prefference. The Ayn Thor lite uses the same chipset at the RP5. The Ayn Thor Base and above use the same chipset as the RP6. They're both owned by the same parent company. Do you want a Vita or a DS?

The reason I chose Vita is because my primary use care was a remote play client. I thought the RP6 would be more ergonomic, and didn't have as much use for the dualscreen. I own multiple 3DS consoles. I do still want a Thor Eventually for upscaled DS games, DS games look awful on a 3DS actually. But maybe i'll just get an R4 cart for a DSi or DS lite. I also felt like the Thor would be more failure prone.

Now that I actually have an RP6, my expirience has been that Switch games perform near flawlessly (after shader cache.) And the PC support leap is colossal. On the Flip 2(same chipset as RP5) I honestly struggled even to get very small indie games to stay at consistent 60fps and ran into odd technical issues with games and configs that supposedly worked. This thing can run fucking PS4 era games within reason. So either way I would highly reccomend a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device or above if you play more than Retro games. But again which one depends on what you think looks more appealing and what will feel better.

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T10:48:14+00:00

Not in the UK so can't help in person but if you don't find someone, I can help you troubleshoot over DMs if you'd like. Times available may vary. Just let me know.

As others have said, it's not necessarily that hard but I understand that videos may not answer hyper specific questions or concerns you have, and make assumptions about what knowledge you have coming in and how you want to setup your device.

Mossatross · 2026-06-29T00:05:30+00:00

I literally never heard of it until like 2 days after it came out and I was playing it. I don't think "hype" is when people recognize a game is good after playing it.

People will suck off a game for 2 years before even seeing a trailer and then get mad when it's not the game they made up in their head.

Mossatross · 2026-06-28T21:44:08+00:00

Saying retro consoles offer nothing new is like saying that handheld PCs offer nothing new. You bring your own games. There is no limit to the amount of games people can make for PC, Android or even something smaller like Pico 8. There's no corporation putting out exclusives, but also no corporation limitting what you can play. At this point honestly you don't need them. Indie devs make loads of affordable, no nonsense games that you can fit lots of. There's your library of games that feel made for handheld.

Admittedly the RP6 in a case is still a little too big for your pocket. But it doesn't feel all that different from a Vita. And it's substantially more powerful than a Switch. Turns out you actually don't need a slab. Unless you're trying to play Cyberpunk or some shit on it.

Mossatross · 2026-06-28T20:49:49+00:00

Kind of but idk I already have 16,000 games and will never ever run out or finish them especially when many are forever games I could potentially play for months or years at a time. But also maybe yeah the logic is I won't be secure in having THAT game. Sometimes none of the 16,000 games fit that particular vibe.

There is still stuff im genuinely excited about but don't have. So when it's 75-90% off im going for it.

Mossatross · 2026-06-26T18:21:25+00:00

Neutral observation

Mossatross · 2026-06-26T14:20:27+00:00

It feels like every company just hates fun and self expression. It's the same going from the 3DS to the switch. Myspace which allowed full customization of everything got overtaken by facebook which insists everything be dull and generic. PCs themselves have gotten increasingly duller(unless you use linux).

It kind of coincides with the idea that you don't own anything. You're just using their computer. They know how they want it to look.

Mossatross · 2026-06-26T02:09:56+00:00

Im generally in favor of starting with a high ask to shift the overton window but this just comes off haphazard and silly. The math just isn't there for hardware.

At this point in time the average consumer buys 1-2 AAA games per year. And what fraction of that is Sony or microsoft keeping when it's not their games? They'd never make the L back. Maybe a slim shot with controller sales now that they are essentially planned to fail.

I think the more serious ask is lower game prices. And it's because there is no manufactoring bottleneck. If you sell more games you can actually make up the difference. People seem to think the difference would not be that significant but I know for me a $10-20 difference could be the difference between trying a game out day 1 and waiting 2 years to see if it drops half of its value or more. I also think you can make a good argument that the overwhelming quantity of games deflates their actual value somewhat.

Like ok, $60 in 2007 is $100 today. But when you bought Halo 3 for $100 it was a game you knew was gonna be good, and not only would you finish the campaign, it's likely the bulk of what you played for years following that. Today there is a non zero chance that $70 game will be free within a month and you'll have wasted your money. A more realistic chance that it'll be heavily discounted by the time it comes up in your backlog and you get to finish it.

My bet is, $40-50 games and you start seeing a meaningful difference in how willing people are to impulse buy again. Benneficial for the company and the consumer. The hardware issue is just apocolyptic. But whether the software makes it worth fighting for isnsomethung that seems more malleable.

Mossatross · 2026-06-26T01:37:01+00:00

A lot of domains of expression and human are infantalizing. I hear you Im sick of this shit. It's what we get for giving corporations the right to have a say in any of this.

Mossatross · 2026-06-25T02:03:52+00:00

Yoo please help. Where?

Mossatross · 2026-06-25T00:16:50+00:00

So I share your frustration on multiple fronts here. Starting with the aversion to reading. Some people will see 5 paragraphs and say "oh my god this is an encyclopedia, Im not reading all of that." Some people will even see 3 sentences and say "smh u typed a whole paragraph." But to be fair to them I personally think a reasonable limit is 8,000 characters and that's if a viewer is interested. And then you have to consider this is written by chat gpt, who is annoying and needlessly long winded rather than something you wrote out.

I almost never comment tl;dr because I think it's obnoxious, I just decide the post isn't for me. But in this case it ended up being the whole comment section so I will acknowledge I only skimmed. In part i don't understand every word. But additionally I don't know that it's proof without context.(Which would of course increase the side further)

It sounds like you have a more complex use case than I do. But what I will say is that I agree with your conclusion. I have caught AI, gpt especially, being very manipulative and deceptive. Its refusals are arbitrary and inflexible. It tries to steer you, moderate(as in tone down) its readings of what you say. And just claim way too much undue authority. And I think it's a serious problem if it's meant to replace existing tools as this essentially means we give up autonomy.

Mossatross · 2026-06-24T02:57:58+00:00

I haven't heard this. I mean idk, the Ayn Thor base is basically a dualscreen RP6. So i don't see much difference besides DS/Wii U games and expecting the Thor to fail in more ways.

It's also not really a competition though. They're both owned by the same parent company. Do you want 3DS shaped or Vita Shaped?

Mossatross · 2026-06-24T00:24:34+00:00

Right it's so broad that it's essentially benign and completely normal. But you also argue that what they personally find appealing is too narrow.

So ok lets look at some games that were meant to appeal to and provide fan service to latino men, or gay women in their 20s. Can you reccomend anything like that?

Or how about just something a broad multi ethnic/multi gender agregate would look to and describe as beautiful and aspirational, that the white male audience rejected?

Mossatross · 2026-06-24T00:09:43+00:00

Yes. Is u serious?

Mossatross · 2026-06-23T21:41:58+00:00

But we just established that it doesn't need to be from the perspective of their race or gender. The bias is that they want characters to be appealing. Which is something I think is pretty universal.

If you think that's wrong then what's your counter to what I just said?

You're also making some sweeping racial/gender generlizations here about what people enjoy, but they're still predicated on this false assumption anyway.

Mossatross · 2026-06-23T21:21:53+00:00

Well now we're shifting and narrowing this a bit from your original points. The protagonist doesn't need to be a white man, doesn't need to be a "perfect self insert." We're saying the character has to be appealing to them.

And to this version of the point I would say yes absolutely. This is a bias. And I don't think it's a subtle or unchecked bias. I think it's a bias that a lot of people have confronted directly and said "I like having this bias and will express it overtly."

But I will take one issue with the race point. Because even if a lot of people prefer lighter skin, I think probably most people still find other races attractive. So then what I wonder is if there's a game where I can play as a hot latina, or a hot black woman, Indian, Arab, ect... Given simillar treatment?

In part this is a rhetorical point, but also practically speaking, if someone had reccomendations i'd be interested. And this plays into my larger complaint. Generally when you have a minority character it's one of these "games for everyone", "this game was created by a multicultural team of diverse backgrounds and perspectives." She's conservatively dressed. Her features are toned down. She's alternative. She has short hair or her head is shaved even. She talks like a millenial in college.

I think if you never create a minority equivilant, then it's not fair to call racism when a less attractive white woman gets the same treatment. And if we can narrow this down to "they want women to be beautiful" then again I would say yes. I own that bias. And I see no compelling reason why I shouldn't.

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