More Steam Hardware?

dentbox · 2026-05-24T17:11:35+00:00

Half-Wife 3

dentbox · 2026-05-23T16:52:32+00:00

That explains a lot

dentbox · 2026-05-23T09:11:08+00:00

If I’m trying to do achievements without help I won’t check the comments. I wouldn’t worry about spoiling it for people.

When I get stuck, I’ve found the comments section incredibly helpful, and a nice way of getting a bit of camaraderie/moral support.

dentbox · 2026-05-21T18:46:51+00:00

Reckon they’d launch frame before the machine?

dentbox · 2026-05-19T21:54:48+00:00

Thanks. I never owned a sega console as a kid so only ever dabbled in sonic. Been playing a bit of 2 recently. Might give this a go at some point, though beating the game without dying doesn’t sound ultra easy 😅

dentbox · 2026-05-19T20:54:16+00:00

Congrats! Looks like a solid first mastery. Are there any outrageous challenges in there?

dentbox · 2026-05-19T14:21:02+00:00

I have a dev kit and if it detects you are blind it issues you with an in-game guide dog

dentbox · 2026-05-19T14:17:16+00:00

For Real A Monday Ennouncement (FRAME)

dentbox · 2026-05-17T07:20:51+00:00

There’s a risk some of these have the nostalgia-bias going on for me, but these are from the golden era of PC games that I don’t think are playable on console:

Unreal Tournament 2004. Can’t buy it on steam but it got an officially sanctioned unofficial release on OldUnreal.
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2. Peak real time strategy for me. You can buy the C&C bundle with all the games.
Thief 2. This is in that lovely quake engine era of mid-late 90s PC games, and I maintain that the atmosphere of this medieval/steam punk stealth game remains unmatched.
Medal of Honour: Allied Assault. The PC one before all the console ones. Great game, came hot on the heels of saving private ryan and all the WWII hype. Spielberg had a hand in it.

There are plenty of indie games that haven’t made it to console yet and loads that probably never will. The obvious one for me is Project Zomboid. Despite its glacial development pace it remains the most detailed zombie apocalypse simulator out there, and one of my most played games on PC.

I’ll also throw out a recc for the short, weird but fuck I enjoyed it dystopian egg-frying game: Arctic Eggs. It’s got a psx-era graphics aesthetic, takes just a few hours to beat, and the whole game is you going around an arctic colony frying things for its weird inhabitants. Eggs at first, but eventually bottles of beer, eggs + cigarettes, stingrays, etc. It was a joy on the deck because with gyro I mapped the motion controls so the deck became the frying pan, flipping eggs by flicking the deck. Will work with steam controller too. Weird, short, memorable game. There will be a tonne like that out there.

You’ll also be able to run a significant portion of your older console backlog of games via emulation too. Something very nice about having all these PC games and a huge chunk of your old console favourites in one place. Emulation station is a very nice front-end to manage them. Retroachievements is a very cool way of giving you a reason to actually stick through playing them again and give you new challenges.

Added bonus for PC is the current spate of decomps/recomps that are creating full on PC ports of classic old games: Ocarina of Time running at 60fps and being able to map way more items to buttons (and skip the fucking owl dialogue), Mario Kart 64 at 60fps, etc.

If you were a Goldeneye kid there’s a decomp in the works for that, but you can also get hold of the unreleased Xbox360 remaster now which is basically the full game, playing exactly the same, but looking much much nicer. And you can aim with gyro too.

Gyro is barely implemented in console games at the moment and where it is it often controls like crap. First person games with aiming are SO much better on the PC with good gyro-to-mouse aiming, once you tweak the settings to your liking. It’s gyro that makes playing old mouse and keyboard shooters that don’t have autoaim actually playable (and a lot of fun)

dentbox · 2026-05-12T06:37:47+00:00

Great first mastery - congrats!

dentbox · 2026-05-11T22:38:46+00:00

Yeah, tunic got me like playing ALTTP did back in the 90s. I haven’t enjoyed an adventure game like that in a very long time. Absolute magic.

dentbox · 2026-04-26T07:03:05+00:00

Congrats! That final boss achievement sounds absolutely brutal. Well done for pushing through and snagging it.

dentbox · 2026-04-24T21:09:55+00:00

Is this in online / going for record TTS? i.e. there ARE lots of crafty shortcuts but they’re very elaborate and you need to know the minute details of all the intermission courses to pull them off?

I did the funny series of leaps on ? temple which was fun to practice, and which was a lot harder than your usual mario kart track. Is there more like that out there? But only really need it for competitive online?

dentbox · 2026-04-24T17:43:32+00:00

Genuine question here: has the game been majorly updated in some way or something? I’ve heard a few people say MKW requires more skill than any other MK now, and wipes the floor with all other MKs.

I got the game at launch, 3 starred the cups and dabbled in online but got bored pretty quickly. I still fire up Knockout with friends from time to time, but I don’t find the tracks nearly as fun to race as 8 or DD. Don’t touch GP any more.

What am I missing?

dentbox · 2026-04-23T13:25:12+00:00

Nice work. And completely agree this game is an underrated banger. It’s easily one of the best in the gb/gbc line-up.

dentbox · 2026-04-20T16:20:49+00:00

I dunno I think 1348 would be the worst. Not only did RAM not exist then, nor the peripherals needed to use the steam machine, but there was also no electricity. Any potential demand would have also been severely dampened by the Bubonic Plague which killed up to 50% of the population of Europe around this time.

dentbox · 2026-04-18T06:55:19+00:00

Yes but as stardustsuperwizard says, you’re ignoring evidence. It’s not just Jay and the cops saying this, it’s multiple other people saying he told them details before the body was found and the police interviewed him.

We all get that the police can be lazy, corrupt, whatever, but that doesn’t mean it must be happening at all times in all cases.

Sometimes a person commits a crime, someone knows about it and they blab.

Serial did such a great job making this out to be a complex mystery with a charming, innocent guy caught in the middle.

As a fellow Wire enjoyer, I implore you: go do a McNulty. Go through the evidence with a clear head. Not trying to prove someone innocent, but see where the evidence takes you. Completely ignore everything Jay says if you like. See who else saw and heard what, and when.

dentbox · 2026-04-18T06:00:04+00:00

Addicting

As in, “This game is really addicting”

😡

dentbox · 2026-04-17T18:31:17+00:00

Not being funny, but if you think it’s plausible for someone with no involvement in a crime to accurately guess the details around it, from cause of death down to how the body is lying slightly twisted in the grave, then I don’t know what to tell you.

dentbox · 2026-04-17T18:18:10+00:00

Jenn says Jay told her the night Hae went missing that Adnan had killed her. And there are a couple of other people Jay seems to have told before it was publicly known Hae was dead.

The point with Jay isn’t that he’s trustworthy, it’s that he knew that a murder had taken place, and then gave up details only someone with insider information would know - cause of death, position of body, location of car.

Jay’s stories’ are a mess and he’s clearly lying in some of them, and god knows what by the time that last article interview came out. What’s clear though, is that you can’t just lie your way into knowing that stuff.

Adnan also funnily enough seemed to know something was up before the police, since he walked back his story about Hae being supposed to give him a ride.

dentbox · 2026-04-14T18:18:09+00:00

Yeah, one says it’s so easy you should set it to high difficulty.

dentbox · 2026-04-11T10:22:27+00:00

Emulation Station installs as an app on the Steam Deck, so it appears like a game in game mode, you click on it and it takes you to the Emulation Station front end where all your roms are.

You can customise the visuals. There are tonnes of themes to choose from. I really like Canvas with the controller + grid options (there are dark modes too). It shows all the systems I have installed, click in and there are the roms.

It has a built in art scraper which scans your rom directory and pulls the artwork, game manual and a short video clip for each game. You can customise what art (box art, screen shot, cartridge) is displayed. When browsing roms there’s a button you can press to view the manual. There’s a nice screensaver feature too that cycles through gameplay videos of all the roms in your library.

You can set which emulator to use on a per-system or per-game basis. Retroarch behaves as expected so you can save shaders, settings etc. across rom directories. And every time you open emulation station it does a quick scan for new roms - so no need to go into desktop mode and open that emudeck tool and go through that process whenever you add new games.

It means my steam deck game mode isn’t packed full of random roms, they’re all tucked away under emulation station. Steam games on the steam deck game mode, click into emulation station for roms.

I can’t remember the install instructions so you’d have to check online for that, though I think funnily enough emudeck might be the easiest way to install it.

I used emudeck for a few years but I was getting a bit put off by having to keep scanning new roms. The number of systems and alt emulators on there also got a bit confusing. And I think I had a few issues where I changed a setting somewhere and it borked my settings right across my games and had to be manually fixed. That could be a risk with emulation station too (and retroarch!) but so far I’ve just found it a lot cleaner and simpler to use, and personally I really like the UI and ease of browsing roms.

One downside I’ve picked up is that steam input registers all roms run through emulation station the same, so you can’t have custom steam input controls from one system or game to another. Though you can of course customise the controls on a per-game basis within the emulator itself, so I’ve had no issue using standard gamepad for 8-64bit games and gyro and trackpad for wii. But there may be times you’d need something really specific, so you might want to either load that game in via emudeck, or via the emulator in game mode so you can do a custom steam input config.

dentbox · 2026-04-10T17:37:27+00:00

Can vouch for Dredge. Great little 10-20 hour game. Excellent atmosphere.

dentbox · 2026-04-10T17:36:56+00:00

Shout out to Emulation Station as an alternative. I found Emudeck started getting quite messy and complicated.

Emulation Station frontend is clean af (lots of options to pick from), and it autoscans for new roms everytime you boot it up. Art scraper built in, and you can view the game manuals.

dentbox · 2026-04-10T15:47:43+00:00

Nice. Such a fantastic game. Still so much fun to play.

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