DECK DABS FTW!!!! No seriously.... if you decide to do some kind of 'rapid fire' or 'small story' bit in the vids, I LOVE the name Deck Dabs (but then in parenthesis in small text underneath you could put Steam Sips ... just for the memes lol )
Linear games have one great advantage over open-world games: PACING. Every moment can be good, the game can be shorter and just as memorable of an experience.
I've been a little burnt out on AAA games lately and find myself watching a show instead of launching a game. Finally realized that what I had been wanting and lacking was a good linear game. Something that I could just sit back and not think too much about and just enjoy the experience. Too many modern games WAY overcomplicate themselves with open worlds, looting and craft mechanics, and 1000 skill options. I don't need to "choose my own adventure" in every single game, sometimes I'd like to be told a story and not have to make my own.
Reflecting on all the most memorable gaming experiences I've had, they are pretty much all open-world, pseudo-open-world or at least highly non-linear. Those are games that got me to obsess over them for at least a year at some point in my life. I cannot think of any linear games that have gripped me that way (and sadly I can only think of a few indie games that have pulled it off). That is not to say I don't think linear games can be GOOD, or even memorable (but definitely not _as_ memorable, which is a relative term). I can think of many such games that were high-quality, impactful, meaningful and so on, but they are never the games that mean the most to me.
Linear and open world are both double-edged swords. Linearity was a critical contributing factor to Sonic Forces being one of the absolute *worst* experiences I'd had in my then-19 years of gaming and burned me out on gaming as a whole for 5 years. It's bad enough when a long game happens to be bad, but when I drop $40 and the already bad game is under 3 hours long, I feel like I've actually been scammed. Ever since Xenoblade DE and Xenoblade 2 pulled me up out of my burnout last year, I got around to Sonic Frontiers. Like Sonic Forces, Sonic Frontiers has really janky gameplay and feels nearly broken compared to the franchises' early-2010s entries. However, unlike Forces being a short & sour nothingburger that did nothing I enjoyed, Frontiers was an open world with countless collectables and overworld challenges allowed me the time to actually appreciate various elements of the game, such as the environments (and how I could exploit traversal of them), the OST (especially the overworld themes), and the story actually having a lot of meaningful dialogue in the optional character interactions. Most people could straight-shot Frontiers in 16 hours (which is what most of the people with a negative outlook of the game did), but going for a lot of the side content and finishing off at 30 hours left me surprisingly pleased with the otherwise divisive outing. But I do still love me a good linear game. Hi-Fi Rush was an absolute banger
The earliest smell I can remember from my childhood is the way the styrofoam in the NES box that I got for Christmas in 1989 smelled. Ever since that moment, I have been completely fixated on smelling new hardware. Every major console release throughout the 90s and 2000s are engrained in my memory based solely on the way the packaging smelled. The N64 and its games had a particularly fantastic smell to them. Am I just weird? I can't be the only one.
Youre deffintely not the only one , Me and to all my friends I showed steam deck naturally started sniffing the vent, its really common as playing with the damn thing :D
I actually really liked the smell of the new NES cartridge and sleeve. That's when I started liking the new hardware smell. I always smelled my video game cases. A few years later I found out how awesome a new pack of Magic the Gathering cards smelled. It's the smell of nostalgia.
That Zelda Producer quote is the same energy as "you think you want Classic WoW but you really don't"... How is it not evident with OSRS and Classic WoW that a large playerbase still enjoys older games... Some games will just always be timeless and have a charm to them that I find myself these days replaying decades old games significantly more than newer games.
Every time someone talks about smelling vent fumes I think about that scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Charlie is huffing spray paint.
Asking "Why do you want freedom taken away" would be like if they stopped making 2D Mario games and only do 3D, and when someone complained they would ask "Why do you want the freedom of the third dimension taken away"?
Yeah, linearity gives narrative control that is lost when everything is too open. There's no pressure or incentive to finish the story when nothing is imminent. Hopefully Aonuma will recognize this, he's backtracked on some questionable statements before. At one point, Aonuma believed motion controls were the future of Zelda lol. So I agree except for the example given. I don't like 2D games like Metroid Dread or Super Mario Wonder. Metroid Prime and Odyssey are so much better in my eyes. It's just a lot harder for developers to make big 3D games so that's why they put out the lower budget 2D games to keep us preoccupied. The extra dimension makes development exponentially harder, more time-consuming, and expensive
Yes they did get rid of it smh I just tried to get it and it’s not there anymore. I wish someone would have a link to there downloaded of the game please
It's by-nature law to sniff the vent once you own the Deck. You try once for the meme, and it's over for you. Still can't believe I unironically sniffed cancer lmfao
It will be a cold day in hell before I stop sniffing the steam vents 😎 The LoZ PC ports looks sick, that map zoom is honestly one of the coolest things I have seen in a while! And ahh Tim, Tim, Tim. Never fails to say the wrong thing.
Another 'solution' to the audio buzzing with the headphone jack is using a small usb-dac. I have a cable usb-c to jack with integrated dac that works perfectly fine. Add a hub or splitter if you want to charge at the same time. If like me, you don't want to go through the hassle of returning your deck (mine has a upgraded ssd in it already) for what to me is a minor issue.
I'm sad that the Chaki4Deck update for HDR came out, and worked great, then immediately got broken by the latest Main/Beta SteamOS/FW update. :/ I'm sure it will get fixed shortly, but that was kind of a bummer timing.
That smell, went away like after a month of my usage, I made a huge mistake by playing Deck near the hotpot, I tried sniffing the vent and it had the exact same smell as that hotpot😂 it sticked in my Deck for like 2 days before turning back to the same smell, but eventually It smell nothing over the course of a month.
I read a comment saying you can just use Proton Experimental with Link's Awakening and it works. I haven't tested it yet, but I would try that first before installing GE.
Some high end IEMs have completely non-standard impedances. If you plug them into something designed as a portable, they'll have a high level of noise. The solution is to use a headphone amp designed to output the bizarre impedance the IEMs want. Steamdeck can't fix this without making the headphone impedance not work well with most portable headphones.
Valve is right. While there should not be any safety risks it’s always possible for things like thermal paste or other chemicals used in manufacturing to have trace amounts remain inside which can off gas as the machine heats up.
Those RFID Blocking wallets are nice just wish they would ditch the idea that they actually work against skimmers. I've seen someone test those with skimmers and none of them work.
The Nintendo Guy saying "Why do you want to go back?" apparently didn't watch Blizzard telling people that they actually don't want a WoW Classic, even though people really did. Why are these higher ups at game companies so removed from their player base?
Yeah, i would say it has a distinct smell too it. Ive done it several times, it has a very pleasing smell. Either im a psyho or its just a electronic goodness. *Boots up steamdeck to get my fix on*
ok i've been on the fence about whether or not to get a steam deck and i sat on the "no" side for all this time, deprived of those wonderful fumes. NO MORE, I SAY! i'm gonna place my order and sniff away. you villains shan't have all those amazing exhaust fumes and leave me out to dry on the fence, suffering the fresh breeze. NO MORE! i'm sure i'll even find other uses for the amazing deck. who knows, maybe even playing games!
I want to be able to fix the buzzing issue myself with valve’s fix. Let’s hope valve will release the fix, or that someone who sent their deck to valve will share it
I've got a support ticket open with Valve regarding the issue. If the allow me to send it in for a repair I'll post something on what they changed. For now I've just put kapton tape on the bottom
@@SamCampbell Very interested in what you find, it'd be funny if they end up just doing the same tape fix. In my case I've got the same issue but I solved it with a "ground loop/hum isolator" designed for use with car radios.
I feel like the tim sweeny quote means "A few more programmers" in the way that programmers use linux, not that they need more staff? Definitely poor wording at the least
I love how Tim Sweeney accuses every company that doesn’t bend over backwards for them of being a monopoly, yet I’d argue Epic Games is the worst thing to happen to PC gaming since Games for Windows Live and is closer to a monopoly than most with how dependent devs are on Unreal Engine.
Wtf I just got my steam deck and found myself sniffing the fumes out of the vent. (Don't know why but I just did it and enjoyed it). This I my 1st time finding out that it's actually a thing. Lmao (glade I'm not the only one).
How about the terrible performances of the steamdeck for games that are low tier indie/ 2d games. Thee steamdeck is promoted as being able too play the latest AAA games,but that simply is a lie. 15-27 average fps for AA or AAA games eith FSR & on thr lowest settings ahould be a struggle too reach a solid 30fps. The Rog Alley & LegionGo and many orher alternatives can handle. That yet the steamdeck runing on the Linux can't handle that.
time splitters was crap , still have a pre release beta disk of it on ps2... Sony wasn't happy with me when i trashed it in beta play tests. but i dont like fantasy shooters , socom was the bomb though
