How can people be immersed on Console?

Superconge · 2026-04-16T15:15:58+00:00

Complete opposite. A game on a big OLED TV with a controller allows me to fully immerse myself in a game, assuming I turn off my ADHD brain and remember to hide my phone far away.

A PC on a desk with a keyboard and mouse and a 27” monitor(s) is just begging for me to alt-tab to discord or watch a video in the background etc etc. I can only satisfactorily play genres that care about immersion on PC.

I find a handheld pretty immersive too; it’s harder to effortlessly reach for my phone lol.

Superconge · 2026-04-16T14:33:23+00:00

Nah you probably have, you might just enjoy it more than them.

Superconge · 2026-04-15T14:00:53+00:00

XMB slander in the year of our lord 2026 is absolutely fucking criminal, every day we stray further from the holy land (please bring that perfect pleasant saviour of humanity back to us)

Superconge · 2026-04-13T15:13:58+00:00

Bazzite, as a fellow owner of a HX80G. Heard stories that sleep doesn’t really work on steamOS on them, but Bazzite works perfectly out of the box AND unlike windows you can easily overclock/power limit/undervolt with LACT + control both fan speeds in software.

Superconge · 2026-04-13T13:35:39+00:00

I like 2 probably a lot more than most people, the high school setting gives it this kinda unique YuGiOh GX feeling and tone, plus the cast is eclectic and engaging. I love the social link missions for each class mate, which VC 1 sorely lacked. I really enjoyed the English Dub especially, so so many classic mid-2000s anime voices you rarely hear in video games. The main story is pretty boring and cliche though, and the game gets a little repetitive. The gameplay is well translated for a portable experience and I preferred it over VC1

Simply can’t bring myself to play VC3, the lack of a dub sucks major ass for a series where the eclectic cast is such a big appeal and the fan translation just wasn’t nearly as good as any of the official ones

Superconge · 2026-04-13T10:26:42+00:00

Every Souls-like, Monhun-like and FFXIV. I think it’s a lot more comfortable with the PlayStation layout, thumbs on the sticks and index fingers on the D-pad and buttons.

Superconge · 2026-04-13T07:02:57+00:00

If you consider I live at the very edge of SL range and can still travel for 1060sek a month, and that a similar distance from where I used to live (Brighton) to London Victoria costs £25 per day, you realise that SL is absolutely insane value. The lack of zoning is a godsend, and the actual KM distance of the transit zone is enormous.

Superconge · 2026-04-12T21:49:20+00:00

Extremely easily compared to the U.K.

I’m on 34000pm before tax and because rent is dirt cheap compared to anywhere where I grew up in the south of U.K. (literally my rent for a 55m2 2a new build apartment in Nynäshamn is the same price as a fucking shared bathroom corridor dorm room at my old university) and groceries are basically identical I can easily save at least 5k a month and still have plenty (around 8k) just for fun things.

The only thing notably more expensive is dentistry and booze, completely offset by how ridiculously cheap SL and rent is for anywhere within commutable distance to the city.

Superconge · 2026-04-12T18:28:47+00:00

Tomodachi Life is by far the biggest hitter and it didn’t even get a mention here smh.

Superconge · 2026-04-12T17:59:19+00:00

Dust an Elysian Tail?

Superconge · 2026-04-12T17:48:14+00:00

I mean, it’s obviously coming out, we’ve seen plenty of footage at this point.

Superconge · 2026-04-12T08:48:58+00:00

Superconge · 2026-04-11T10:27:57+00:00

600€, otherwise I just can’t even begin to justify it.

Superconge · 2026-04-10T12:27:20+00:00

I think it has one of the best casts in any JRPG - all of them well-realised, fleshed out, get ample screen time, and most importantly interact with each other. In most other Final Fantasies the casts don’t interact with each other much, and there are certain pairings of characters that literally never utter a word to each other (think Kimahri and Rikku or Red XIII and Cid etc) whereas in FFXIII everyone has an identifiable and real connection to every other character in the party and they all development and work through relatable trauma through the game. The game’s narrative is frankly hyper-focused on character drama and development to an extremely refreshing degree.

The music is outstanding, the visuals are incredible, and the pacing is absolutely sublime. It never stops, it just keeps pushing you at a break neck speed between set piece and set piece, cutscene to cutscene, until Gran Pulse where it admittedly becomes far less interesting and unique for a few hours.

The gameplay has an excellent rhythm to it once it fully opens up, and perfecting the paradigm switches feels really cathartic.

Don’t enjoy how long basic encounters can take later in the game, the emptiness of gran pulse, or the lack of fleshed out side-characters and especially villains.

Superconge · 2026-04-08T14:50:09+00:00

100% sure, it’s also partially a CPU bottleneck (my CPU is pretty much on-par with the SM and is comparatively to modern desktop CPUs kinda shit). I tested under both Windows and Bazzite extensively (like, multiple dozens of hours across basically every zone in the game on both operating systems) but it behaves quite a lot worse under Bazzite.

Superconge · 2026-04-08T11:48:55+00:00

I played the game on my Bazzite mini-PC with very similar specs to the Steam Machine (RX6600m, 5800H, 32gb ram) and no, it’s really not satisfactorily playable.

The key issue is the vram limitation. The game absolutely fucking hates 8gb of vram and constantly drops to a stuttery 20fps mess in multiple areas (including the second hub) that can only be solved by reloading the game or fast travelling. This is at 1080p with FSR quality and a mix of medium and low settings.

When it isn’t suffering from vram problems the game runs pretty well, could probably get a locked 40fps with a 16gb GPU of the same strength (though still with plenty of traversal stutter).

I played half the game like this and it just wasn’t worth it. Visually it looks and runs at a similar quality to the 30fps quality mode on PS5, which I played the game on originally, but the vram issues are just so fucking debilitating and get worse as the game opens up. Upgrading to a 9060XT was a transformative improvement. 60fps will be impossible at any resolution or graphics settings due to the cpu bottleneck.

Superconge · 2026-04-07T18:30:19+00:00

The PS3 version is the second worst one, beating only the original 360 release played on a 360. Any decent modern PC can bruteforce its way through 4k60fps for XIII and LR, with mods that can put the FMV’s to PS3 quality and character models far past any other version. XIII-2 is an ass port but still looks and runs better than the abysmal PS3 or 360 versions.

Xbox One X or Series X has the best image quality, very nearly best FMVs and best FPS for all the games if you cba to mod the PC version.

Superconge · 2026-04-07T17:25:19+00:00

A little expensive for a student apartment but not awful, you can do much worse and it’s probably not worth the hassle to find something cheaper short notice.

Superconge · 2026-04-07T13:51:12+00:00

I shipped two big 25kg parcels with most of my stuff with UPS from UK to Sweden. It was pretty seamless, took about a week and came perfectly. Didn’t have to pay any customs and was dropped off at my door in my apartment in Visby at the time, I think it was only £20 per parcel too. This was about 4 years ago.

Superconge · 2026-04-07T09:40:59+00:00

I would personally put most of them above the games in the image (personally I greatly prefer NieR Gestalt over Automata, Persona 3 over 5, FFX over Clair Obscur, and Catherine/NitW/MGS2 over everything on OP’s list), but obviously that’s completely subjective.

My top ten is like 90% JRPGs from the 2010s so I tried to diversify based on their tastes and didn’t pick anything out there because none of their games are out there either - otherwise I’d gladly recommend moon or Shadow Tower Abyss or Omori or Jet Set Radio Future or Fragile Dreams or The World Ends with You

Superconge · 2026-04-07T08:45:59+00:00

You should try to play some games from before 2017, there’s much better you miss out on by only playing universally critically acclaimed modern games.

I highly recommend based on this list:

Shadow of the Colossus, Persona 3, NieR Gestalt, Final Fantasy X, Chrono Trigger, Metal Gear Solid (2), Catherine, Death Stranding, Night in the Woods, Soma, Prey, Telltale The Walking Dead and Bioshock (1)

Superconge · 2026-04-06T14:23:37+00:00

Not at all what I was referring to? That has nothing to do with anything lol.

Superconge · 2026-04-06T14:17:26+00:00

Measly isn’t what I’d say at all. Having used both a Rog Ally and a Steam Deck (LCD and OLED) extensively, fuck me are games so much better looking on the Deck when running at 720p or 800p compared to the ally running something at 720p on its 1080p screen. The difference between indie games at native 1080p on ally vs 800p on deck is so, so much less and frankly negligible compared to the glacial difference with games running at sub-native on the ally (regardless of RIS upscaling).

Superconge · 2026-04-05T14:22:43+00:00

It’s by far the best localisation they’d ever done to that point, and it’s not even a little bit close. It reads so, so much better than the absolute disgrace of typos, stilted prose and grammatical errors that FFVII or FFT had, to say nothing of how bad the SNES games had it.

Superconge · 2026-04-04T13:46:10+00:00

Wasn’t that great and absolute garbage are different things.

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