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[–] vhj 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The one just named "Half Life" is the definitive version now, the one that got the big update yesterday.

Source is the same messy version as it was before and they haven't touched it. Though it will still be in our libraries for legacy reasons.

Valve themselves recommend you ignore Source exists.

[–] vhj 3 points 1 year ago

Even in numbers, a weakling is a weakling still!

[–] vhj 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! It's nice that it happened with a screenshot I took of one of my favorite games ever. If I remeber correctly (it's been a while) it was kinda luck to get these screenshots. Since the only way to get them is to finish a race, while you see the results a playback of your driving will be playing in the background, the moment you push "next race" the background replay will freeze and those effects will be applied to the image, while it's being used as a loading screen to load the next track. So you have one try per race to get a cool screenshot (though the game is pretty in itself too).

[–] vhj 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a nice little visual novel that takes only ~20 minutes per route and can be played for free.

Steam link

Beware tho that the devs did put the following content warnings: "Contains visuals/mentions of suicide and self-harm."

 
[–] vhj 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up!

[–] vhj 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't so sure about NSFW etiquette in here so I erred on the side of caution

[–] vhj 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does Legend play on the Deck? I've played the whole of the new trilogy and up to 3 of the old ones (all of them before I got the Deck). And I wanna get into that "middle trilogy" too, the Deck sounds like a nice fit for those games.

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[–] vhj 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Always on" and similar extreme DRM measurements I believe are more of an issue compared to physical vs digital media. DRM free digital copies for example can have way longer lifespans than a physical copy (potentially "infinite"). But as soon as you add the requirement for some company server to be up, the game has a hard expiration date. But that's an altogether different discussion.

I hadn't though much about your first point, it is true that specially the input devices can change the feel of the game drasticly. I suppose people with special interest will seek out some of the classic gamepad clones that are available nowadays, but most people will just play with the console default.

[–] vhj 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The biggest issue imho is digital-only games that have been delisted. I'm not to worried about people not being able to play them to relieve memories since pirating them will probably be easy enough. But pirating does defeat the whole point of collecting I assume. I guess people can still assemble a full collection of physical releases only. IDK how collectors of the 3DS are doing it right now after the closure of the digital store, for example.

[–] vhj 4 points 1 year ago

I'm re-reading Mistborn yet again in anticipation. Sando bless

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