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[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

it made more sense when custom hardware for games could deliver more consistent results than what was possible from PCs. but that stopped being true in the 2010s so they just started buying the parts from the usual vendors. that's also one of the reasons consoles got so much more expensive -- they're literally just PCs now and cost at least as much as.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I've noticed that, that console are now PC price. Which is why I'd rather just stick with PC but the steam deck looks pretty cool.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I want one too but I play so few games that I think it's just pursuit-of-shiny-toy. if it weren't linux, I'd already have talked myself out of it. but more linux games means I might actually play something other than Disco Elysium for the Nth time.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I kind of want one as a shiny toy too. I was chatting with someone who plays Final Fantasy XI on it via a private server and I thought it was such a cool idea. But it's honestly nothing I can't already do on PC.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

isn't that an MMO? trying to imagine playing WoW on a steam deck and losing my mind lmao

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yup it is lol. Wow might not work the same, but FFXI was originally on console and has console like controls. It's actually easier to play it with a pad than m&k.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

ohh interesting. that makes more sense than WoW where even a keyboard doesn't have enough buttons.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah XI also had a neat system where the game would auto translate between Japanese and English since the servers were merged between JP and USA so you could use a soft keyboard and type in keywords like "combat" or "magic" and it would auto complete and translate, to make up for the lack of a keyboard a lot of ps2 users faced.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

that seems... exploitable... hahaha. how long did it take before people were using it to send banned words around?

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Curses are censored iirc but yeah there was ways around it.

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