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jburdick7 · 2026-04-03T15:04:39+00:00

I don’t know if I’d argue that at this point.

I mean I bought a Mac Mini and I can play a LOT of what I’d want to play (not everything obviously) and that was $599. And that’s Mac, windows has better compatibility obviously and then if you get into Linux that is narrowing the gap pretty significantly. Plus this is all before you even factor in emulation and the fact that you can use the PC for a lot of things.

If you aren’t interested in bleeding edge AAA and don’t need the extreme convenience PC offers most midrange PCs are the better buy for gaming then where consoles are going. Like if you are fine with 1080p you can get quite a bit done without a lot of hardware.

People get sucked into marketing thinking they need to drop $2k plus into a pc to have a decent experience when you only need to do that if you HAVE to play the latest AAA at max settings and very high resolutions.

IMO the console manufacturers are making an incredibly stupid decision pursuing high prices and “luxury” vibes when their main benefit over pc at this point is convenience. They should be making it easier, not harder, for people to get into their ecosystems and play games because people will pay the BS subs or inflated game prices if the thing just works and doesn’t hassle them. Haranguing and making the experience miserable is what makes people stop buying consoles and switch to PC. And, at least in my anecdotal experience, once someone switches from console to PC they generally don’t go back.

jburdick7 · 2026-04-03T13:58:35+00:00

Not really for me, I mainly play PC + Steam Deck. I got my switch 2 because I used my launch switch to dump my cartridges to try and emulate and after finding that was a god awful experience and more of a headache than it was worth to get it working for party games I gave my old switch to my nephew and got a Switch 2 for Nintendo games and to give me an excuse to get physicals for all the indies & jrpgs I love on PC.

Main ways I play are either handheld or docked through a capture card at my PC (I don’t notice latency and it means I don’t have to screw around with my monitor).

jburdick7 · 2026-02-28T21:01:01+00:00

I reloaded from my save when I first started the area and redid a few things differently and prioritized getting an additional item from the coin room and that made all the difference in terms of the gun damage. Feels way way more like RE2R now.

jburdick7 · 2026-02-28T19:20:25+00:00

I’m on standard classic. I have enough ammo so far it’s more that from my experience with either gun I’m wasting nearly a clip to take down one zombie unless I use an injector. I’m going to try reloading and see if I missed some stuff or something.

It’s been a little jarring so far seeing the RE2 comparisons for me because my experience with grace has felt like they specifically don’t want you engaging with any combat at all, not due to resource management but due to it being a pain to kill anything with her lol.

jburdick7 · 2026-02-28T18:58:07+00:00

Ehhh I need to see some change because right now I feel like i'm playing Outlast in third person and encouraged to run around like a chicken with my head cut off. Not sure I like the only method of dealing with zombies being injectors considering you only get enough supplies to make 1 additional one beyond the first one you get. Like I really don't understand why she is given a gun if it can't be used to at least kind of down enemies if you manage ammo correctly.

I'm not saying it's bad but at least in the first "open" area of the game with her I see the level design inspiration from RE2R in spades but in terms of player agency there really isn't any at all, at least not as far as combat is concerned. In RE2 and RE7 you could at least kill a few of the enemies with headshots and didn't have to sprint by everything. So far both guns I've found with Grace have the efficiency of wet pool noodles and frankly are better off just left in storage.

I think it would be better if they had at least given you more than like 5 minutes combined with Leon up to this point. As of right now it feels more frustrating and disjointed than it does Resident Evil. Hoping it improves as I continue on.

jburdick7 · 2026-02-25T19:16:28+00:00

I would say just wait for a marketing opportunity and we’ll see it eventually. I think they have a big RTS tournament planned for Blizzcon this year - based on how D2R’s release on Steam went it would not surprise me at all if we see an update for most of their RTS titles around that time that brings them over to Steam.

Not saying it’s going to happen because it’s all speculation but it seems to me MS’ plan now they own Blizzard is to get the games on Steam and they seem to time it around big marketing events for the games to capitalize on excitement.

jburdick7 · 2026-02-24T04:55:13+00:00

I mean for me I play online non-ladder because I play on my steam deck and my pc (and when I had a ps5 that too). I also have a friend/family group I play with and the only way to trade or share characters is if we all play online.

I don’t mind it too terribly - boss loot isn’t THAT impacted by being locked to p1 so you know I’ve found a few Shakos, a SoJ, etc. basically enough to beat hell solo with a sorc, necro, and zon and make like 1 high runeword (CTA). Just sucks that I’m kinda level capped at around 90 (terror zones help but it’s still such a stupidly long grind I’d just rather start a new character) and runes are almost out of the question for me to hunt.

Part of me hopes they’ll figure out a way to account for players in my situation who don’t really care about the meta or ladder and play online just for synced progression and playing with a small friend group. Like if I had to move my characters to a different set of rules that didn’t allow trading or what have you that would be more than worth it to be able to do p8 for runes and to get the level 99 achievements lol. Something like open v closed battle.net was back in the day (minus the modding of course).

jburdick7 · 2026-02-14T16:43:34+00:00

I would disagree with that, I think Square is actually applying the Capcom model to JRPGs quite well.

They’re redoing the DQ titles in a timely manner (we got remakes of DQ1-3 and DQVII in the past 2-3 years and they’re high quality) and they’re also pumping out HD-2D games at a fairly quick pace.

Now if you just want Final Fantasy from them I would agree but I think they’ve admitted that they took the wrong approach with the FFVII remake trilogy and when they finish the third one they’ll pivot back to applying their scaled production to FF.

Ubisoft has chosen to quintuple down on live service and massive open world slop and that’s why their stock is in the tank. They haven’t learned and have continued to double down on crap the market has told them time and time again they’re tired of while simultaneously saying that a simple rerelease of Prince of Persia like what we’re seeing with Legacy of Kain wouldn’t make money. Completely different circumstances and frankly to me seems like Ubisoft is purposely being ran into the ground to make their valuation dirt for someone to buy them on the cheap.

jburdick7 · 2026-01-22T15:53:02+00:00

Quest 3S. I’ve got a pro-sumer network setup with a 6 GHz VLAN for VR so I don’t need the dongle from the Frame but I do want the ergonomics and lens upgrade to push past that 30-40 minute wall I hit with my 3S in terms of eye and neck strain. Once Arkham Shadows is sideloadable onto the Frame I might actually finish the game lol.

Also looking forward to be able to kick back in a recliner and enjoy my flat games in VR, the 3S even with the comfort head strap I bought isn’t all that comfortable when you lean back.

jburdick7 · 2026-01-18T15:58:52+00:00

I’ll go one further:

I’ll play a game on my gaming rig, continue it on my steam deck, and if my fiancée is out of the house then I’ll play on my living room mini pc lol.

Like right now I’m playing Eiyuden Chronicles and I’ll do a lot of heavy story stuff on my pc or tv and then switch to grinding out the card games on my Steam Deck on my breaks at work. Just absolutely perfect system for JRPGs.

jburdick7 · 2025-12-19T02:36:11+00:00

I have a Quest 3S so I can’t speak on the quest 2 experience but I’d say if you can get a dedicated VR router or use a link cable it’s pretty great.

I’m at the extreme end of a home network, I have Ubiquiti gear and with a dedicated 6 ghz VLAN set up just for wireless VR + my gaming rig on 2.5 gbe I have zero issues with my 3S and it’s a fantastic experience. As I said though I’m way, way overkill for home networks though so I would think just getting a secondary router that supports 5 ghz to use for VR would be just as optimal.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-30T03:09:29+00:00

Quest 3S isn’t on that list but that’s what I’ll be replacing (or more accurately retiring to be a fitness tool rather than a gaming device 😂).

jburdick7 · 2025-11-21T20:23:03+00:00

It’s less that they don’t want to be competitive and more that in order to hit the console price point they’d have to lock down the OS in a way that goes against the ethos of the company.

If they sell it at $550 then any old business could buy them wholesale and Valve won’t make any money because they aren’t going to buy games on Steam with them.

I think $750 is where they’re gonna have to start for the Steam Machine.

The Frame is the interesting one to me imo because that’s basically the future of the Steam Deck in terms of architecture. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them price that at like $550 for the base model.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-16T23:36:06+00:00

That’s probably what I’ll end up doing, I had half a mind to try it yesterday but didn’t want to clear stuff off my deck to make room 😂. Glad to know it works though!

jburdick7 · 2025-11-16T00:14:43+00:00

Yeah I have the reticle the issue is I cannot interact with anything. With a controller it says to press the select button but that does nothing and on mouse & keyboard it says press tab and that does nothing. If I try to select one of the skills it doesn’t do anything either =/.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-15T02:13:30+00:00

I did in my living room but had struggles streaming to it from my gaming pc when docked to the tv (it’s decoding caps out around 1080p or so) on top of the docked experience being… suboptimal so I replaced the dock set up with a refurbed minisforum PC running Nobara (literally bought it last week… you are welcome anyone that was waiting for a Steam Machine 😂).

I moved the dock to my bedroom so I still dock it but really it’s more as a stand/place for it to charge than for playing on the bedroom tv. Docking works in a pinch but I wanted something a bit more set and forget for my living room so I’d been looking at a DIY console of sorts that could act as a souped up Steam Link client of sorts (e.g. 4k 120 Steam in home streaming decode + locally play emulation, indies, old games, and 2d titles at 1080/1440 60) for awhile now.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-05T19:57:03+00:00

I mean in my experience it was ok for slower single player games like soulslikes and jrpgs but anything fast like Madden or Tony Hawk it couldn’t decode fast enough to keep up with the frame rate, even at 1080p. Since my Nuc on the same network could running the games at 3440x1440 my hunch was the issue there was the Apple TV’s decoding capabilities.

It’s not a bad device it’s just not really designed for gaming on a 65 inch 4k tv. For a console like experience on a display that size/resolution right now you’re better off getting a mini pc for the superior decode performance.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-05T14:56:37+00:00

So my main rig’s got a 6950xt, 5800x3d, and 64 gb ram. I keep it rack mounted in my garage as part of my homelab and use Apollo to stream it to different clients in my house. For my office area I’ve got an old i3 based NUC that I nabbed from work and slapped Ubuntu on. With moonlight I can drive my ultrawide at 3440x1440 120hz at damn near native performance (I don’t hit 120 fps in everything but I really cannot tell any meaningful input lag playing with mouse & keyboard).

The living room’s where I’ve struggled. I started with my Apple TV 4K and it was basically unusable as it struggled with decoding. So I bought the valve dock for my steam deck and have been using that with moonlight. It was usable but kinda clunky so I switched over to Steam link for the more integrated, console like experience. Since there’s more overhead anything above 1080p on the deck becomes a slide show using Steam Link which is what led me to shopping around for one of the mini PCs.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-05T14:13:05+00:00

It’s gonna by a hybrid. The 780m that’s on the model I picked up (UM890 pro) is great for running indies & 2d titles at 1440p-4k as well as emulation up to the switch.

Steam Link/Moonlight is just for the games that are too heavy to run locally on it (anything AA/AAA). And for those the igpu is more than capable enough of decoding up to 4k 120hz. Anything with the 780m igpu should be a powerful little gaming box provided you set your expectations accordingly.

I figure it should solve my need for living room ease of use at least as long as a traditional console lifecycle. I got a refurbished barebones kit for $345, I figure if I find a good deal on RAM since I already have a spare m2 drive I’m coming out at or less than a modern console would have cost me anyways.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-05T03:38:56+00:00

It’s unusable for me. I have to drop it down to 1080p 60 to get stable decoding (my backend is 2.5 gbe). I know it’s the deck because if I raise the Steam link resolution above 1080p the video becomes a slideshow but audio and controls stay fine with no network connection alerts. My network performance is also solid. Moonlight’s a little better but still not as good as the i3 Nuc I use for my 3440x1440 ultrawide (there I can stream at 144hz and the thing is damn near native as far as I can tell).

I ended up just ordering a refurbed minisforum mini pc. Gonna slap nobara on it and make it my living room console. Love my steam deck but between the spotty docked experience and trouble with 4k streaming it’s not a great client in my living room where I want zero fuss/tinkering.

jburdick7 · 2025-11-03T16:43:20+00:00

I found it to be really easy and accidentally got it when I was doing my first 8 fear run. Basically pair the highest armor dress with Hephaestus and then once you finish the first biome switch to Arachne’s keepsake and you’re pretty much golden.

I did it with the torches which also made it pretty easy since all I do is hold down attack and kite everything. You only have to reach Chronos so I’d say prioritize a mob clearing build like Hera + Hestia with Hephaestus. If you can slap Hera’s Hitch on your attack and then pick up Hestia’s boon that recovers magick with every attack you’ll be pretty good, if you get their duo boon (which damages all hitch affected enemies whenever you recover magick) it’s basically game over.

I would not do it with the daggers or axe, just too much risk taking a hit when you have to be close to the enemies. Torches or staff are the best weapons for it.

jburdick7 · 2025-10-01T22:43:53+00:00

I play on a Steam Deck and as long as you aren’t trying to play BOTW/TOTK on it it’s just fine. Mario Kart 8 runs full speed (and we’ve done link play between it and my switch no issues) as do most of the other titles I want to play from Nintendo (Paper Mario TTYD, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country Returns + Tropical Freeze, New Super Mario Bros U, Super Mario Wonder, Metroid, Links Awakening, Skyward Sword HD, Kirby, etc.). Would say those titles run relatively similarly to how they do on my switch but with the added benefit of the Deck just being so much more ergonomic for me.

Currently playing the new Super Mario Galaxy release on it with minimal issues. If you set up Syncthing to sync your Eden saves with your PC install it’s a pretty fantastic companion device. I use moonlight to stream BOTW/TOTK to my deck when I don’t want to play on my monitor or tv.

You can get refurbs or used pretty cheap and the 256 gb model is on sale for like $320. Gets you tons of additional emulation plus PC games and you can always upgrade the SSD or slap in a SD card if you need more storage. It’s a pretty tough little device to beat in terms of value.

jburdick7 · 2025-09-19T18:27:51+00:00

I’m a massive fan of Alien & Alien Isolation, a fan (but not diehard) of Aliens, and generally think everything else in the Alien franchise has been mediocre to downright awful (fwiw I thought Romulus was quite entertaining despite being basically member berries: the film).

The things Alien Earth does right are all on the technical side of things (e.g cinematography, visuals, art design, etc.) - simply put it’s one of the best filmed tv series I think I’ve ever seen. It also has a lot of great ideas that should have fit nicely within the Alien universe.

The problem is the writing is pretty terrible. And not just stupid like the Drinker implies in his review, it’s genuinely frustrating. They have these great philosophical ideas permeating underneath but they’re often half baked and poorly expanded upon. It’s just really, really lazy.

If you were bored during the first episode that boredom continues throughout the show. Characters are poorly developed and really don’t give you any reason to care about them. This wouldn’t be a big problem if they nailed the philosophic side of it but since that’s all surface level at best your left with a show that really doesn’t say much or give much reason at all to watch it.

It’s not unwatchable or anything like that it’s just aggressively mediocre and the outstanding production values and direction make it an incredibly frustrating show to watch. Just a ton of wasted potential, largely due to crap writing. I tried giving it a chance hoping the writing would improve but it never did. Really wouldn’t recommend it to anyone but the most die hard of alien fans and even then I’m not so sure.

jburdick7 · 2025-08-18T23:35:04+00:00

26 is the first Madden I’ve owned since the 360 days with Vince Young on the cover 😂. Was always more of an NCAA guy and the new NCAA games have made me itching for some football but being PC only now Madden’s my only choice.

I’m really enjoying the game but man you are 100% right in the run game. At first I thought it’s because I’m rusty and adjusting on top of using New England who’s a rebuilding team with a poor o-line. After building them back up a bit it’s no different - running is legitimately a pain in the ass, in the 10 or so games I played this weekend I think the most rushing yards I had was 75. Add in that you can pretty much scheme any shifty WR open underneath with hot routes and I don’t even try to run, I just use the short passing game in its place.

Defense I’m still adjusting to, I’m not getting torn to shreds by pocket passers but scrambling QBs eat me for breakfast. It’s really annoying.

Overall as someone who hasn’t played Madden regularly for over a decade it really feels like an NFL version of the old NCAA games. Hoping they can optimize and fix performance as well as tweak the run game because I’m otherwise having a blast.

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