I totally get you but my rather elderly father loves 3D games - they’ve put hundreds of hours into Skyrim at this point haha. Could never get comfortable with keyboard and mouse but took to a gamepad incredibly quickly.

Sometimes a theme like fantasy or history can be the catalyst to give something the time and patience to learn it. My old man was a huge LOTR fan back in the day (the books especially) and thus the desire to play Skyrim was enough for him to suffer through learning a gamepad and analogue sticks.

OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon)
Hedgewars (Worms)
Battle For Wesnoth (awesome turn-based game)
Shattered Pixel Dungeon (Rogue-like)
0A.D. (Age of Empires)
Frozen Bubble (Puzzle Bobble)
Pingus (Lemmings)
Mindustry (Factorio)
FreeOrion (Masters of Orion)

I’m going to guess it’s scaled so it’s basically like holding the Deck today, minus the screen. It’s a render and possibly a render of an older prototype.

Valve leaked a Steam Controller 2 thumbnail in their SteamVR drivers recently:

Grim Dawn, Factorio, Project Zomboid, FTL, Rimworld, Crusader Kings, Papers Please, Red Alert, Stacklands… the list goes on.

The Steam Deck’s trackpads (and Steam Input in general) are the most underrated and game changing aspects of the Deck and the old Steam Controller.

Playing keyboard and mouse, or mouse only games is totally doable and a joy on the Deck.

I’ve actually chosen to change some games from using gamepad to Keyboard and Mouse since the Deck is so good (for instance Factorio does do gamepad but it’s much better to just use KB&M via Steam Input).

I’d argue Grim Dawn is better on the Deck as I’ve got so many fancy radial menus etc set up, it’s actually easier to play than pressing the number row etc. And with the touch screen, you can rapidly tap different enemies without needing to touch the “mouse”.

Have you tested with specific websites? Could it be a tab has some have JavaScript running constantly that’s causing the issue?

Counter: you’re killing the ones that like the taste of a human and thus they’ll evolve to avoid humans.

I’m going to miss those concave trackpads from v1 but fuck yes, this is really happening!

Sixth and Seventh Generation video game consoles were still using scart/composite/component outputs for CRT up until their discontinuation in 2017 so I’m pretty sure a lot of kids would have had a CRT to game on as well was watch TV in their rooms.

Remember, kids typically get the hand me downs when the adults get new shiny.

Neo Scavenger is such a gem of a game. I’ve been hoping Ostranauts would get since love since the premise is awesome but the textures/tiles were too low contrast / visually noisy for me to really love the game. This gives me hope.

Totally recommend picking up Neo Scavenger even not on sale - such a blast and some totally crazy things can happen in that game that makes it really compelling to play over and over even if you die.

This is what happens when you don’t have a passionately obsessed lead developer like Chris Delay behind the helm who writes a performant, purpose-built game engine from scratch.

I really worry that PA2 won’t have the magic of the original and will be a typical Unity game engine project with slapped together code from a mixture of asset packs until it vaguely works.

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You’re right. They’re terms far older than web development. In general the front is the abstraction while the back is the logic/processing. It started as a term for old, large (room-sized) systems where there were front-end machines such as plugboards or terminals, with back-end machines being the CPUs, memory, etc.

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Found malware in the voice recorder app on one out of the box (from Amazon while in Japan). So that was fun.

And Arena. And they were pretty boring for exploration too. Fast travel was essential. It was a marvel at the time but walking over bland terrain for hours got old quick.

Back then, it was just epic to have an epic-sized game with decent combat and magic. They’re dime a dozen now.

The sad fact is that, even with vehicles, the sense of exploration and wonder just isn’t there in Starfield. Get in ship. Fast travel. Fast travel. Get out. Travel to the same POI you’ve seen before but now on a different planet. It feels like there’s no real exploration, just bumbling around in menus and experiencing déjà vu anywhere that isn’t a major settlement.

What I really really wish they’d do is just make a single planet and work their butts off making it interesting to explore. That’s what I loved about Bethesda games; walking in any direction and stumbling on something wonderful. There’s none of that in Starfield.

I’m looking forward to Light No Fire from Hello Games - hopefully they find the right balance between procedural generation and hand crafting that Bethesda sorely imbalanced in Starfield.

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