I can confirm having added a few of these in the past - they just work!!!

I’m unsure, but the last game on the blacklist for your country for giveaway was F1 Manager 20X (the ‘X’ means I can’t remember its year…2024? 2023?) - really recently. And then 6 days afterwards it was offered for claiming in Australia (edit AND Brazil, by memory. This was maybe 3 weeks ago?).

So…there’s a snowball chance in Hell that maybe it still will? Maybe?

And people judged me for watching YouTube with uBlock Origin, or via NewPipe for eons.

Look who’s laughing now.

He is and does!

I didn’t include it in case my post felt like it pushed people to shops, or whatever (tbh its probably a remnant of paranoia from Reddit days - having mods remove posts for a myriad of reasons!)

But here is a link to his etsy store selling exactly this!

And they won’t stop coming!!!

I think I found KCD II easier to sink into than the first. The first one I played maybe 10 hours of and kinda walked away. I told myself it was too open-ended. Maybe I need a little structure to my games to make me feel less overwhelmed?

That turned out to be obvious nonsense though, since the second is even more open-ended and I just love it. Like I said though, I really found I needed mods to make it less like ‘work’. But I know I am in the minority because it’s not as the developers wanted it to be.

I’m…waiting for more before I can really form an opinion on Perfect Dark. I adore how it kinda feels like a loose spiritual successor to Deus Ex, if that makes sense? I’m hoping it stays true to what the original was. Weirdly I feel like Selaco gave me similar feelings of ‘high-tech-corpo-espionage/action’ that Perfect Dark once did, though it’s a completely different game.

Keep on claiming those free games! Its my fav deal in gaming now - for the cost of a Prime subscription you get a whole bunch of games, each week! A lot of quality GOG games, alongside Epic and Amazon’s own.

You can’t lose by claiming them, each month suprieses me with how much I get for an add-on to a subscription I already use :)

Weirdly I did, but you’re absolutely right. I had 100% utterly forgotten that! How odd!

Thanks for reminding me!

Its a tough one! I tried twice before it made me head over heels. Just…take your time, the whole first gigantic area (to me) is like the tutorial area, just get through those cut scenes and then you’re really on your own.

Try soak in the atmosphere, but do remember it’s not for everyone!

I really, really love the game now. It actually takes my breath away. Heck it even inspired me to get Death Stranding items (I’m loathe to use the word ‘merch’) from Japan. And let me know what you think of it! I’m super interested how you find it :)

I haven’t ever been too picky with FPS when playing on the Steam Deck, so I’m not the best to ask. They have optimized it far more than the first KCD. And to me? It ran beautifully.

I had zero issues with it.

Here is the link to ProtonDB’s page for KCD II. Its a good way to see what a bunch of users have experienced, and the settings they’ve recommended!

Speaking of Gameboy on the Steam Deck, have you seen this effort of the GBOperator?

I feel like you’ll enjoy that link!

Sadly the price of Japanese consoles went up a heap over Covid, though you can still get some amazing deals with proxy bidding and buying services, if you take your time!

Thank you so much for sharing this!!!

Drat! I had users complain last time about Boost. It has to be the amount of images / GIF inclusion I have in these, but using Thunder and Jerboa, I see zero slow-down, so it has to be specific to Boost!

The Switch can be a hard one to say. If you get the last release (the ‘Early Access’) of Yuzu, and you use the GreemDev build of Ryujinx he maintains now (he was a Dev of Ryujinx proper, before it closed shop) - then you’ll be totally fine.

Even tricky games such as ToTK have dedicated mod packs [like this one known as the optimizer (which is amazing at making ToTK play really well!)] which greatly improve performance, heck I even wrote my own mods to make it play well.

I had a vast Switch collection before my Steam Deck, which I then sold because I emulated it all on the Deck so well.

Then you’ll find titles like BoTW which play far, far better through Cemu. Cemu emulates Wii U games, and Breath of The Wild on the Steam Deck is perfection - high FPS, higher resultion, mods, you can even tweak how much or how little cell shading you have, or fog on the landscape. It is the single best way to play BoTW.

In the end, I’d recommend a Steam Deck. You get:

• your Steam library
• GOG, Epic and Amazon titles through Heroic or Junk Store
• emulating every system through RetroDECK, with fun things like Retro Achievements, mods, texture packs etc

My biggest two issues I’ve found on specific Switch games has been Tears, which doesn’t run perfectly (but is playable) and Metroid Prime Remaster (there is a literally fraction split-second load time at each door)

I’d recommend the Steam Deck, because it can do so much more. If you have specific questions, you can reach me on Matrix if you’d like!

I wasn’t ever much of a fan of achievements, but the last, idk 6 months or so I have been so invested in them. Its nice to check my profile on GOG and see my play-time and achievements logged :)

Comet does all I need to, but I am also looking forward to the upcoming overlay!

You should check my previous weeks of News Posts!

I go into detail on which ones I use to play GOG games, with links and guides and videos etc!

Junk Store and Heroic are my recommendations, they both handle GOG so well :)

*I’m a ‘Miss’, not ‘bro’!

And thanks, that’s really kind of you!

I guess…well I’ve thought of it a few times, but in the end (and don’t judge me, hubris coming here) the idea that there might be one extra reason to come to Lemmy - to bring even a few extra people in to the fediverse, well that makes me happy.

Its an over estimation of my posts’ worth (I see quite regular down votes), but I like that this is where you’d find my posts.

…if that makes any sense? Anyway, I have considered it many times.

The great disappointment of the Miyoo family has been the Flips! Even the new V2 version looks to be a bit of a mess, though as always with these - YMMV!

I adore my Miyoo, every time I look at alternatives I just can’t bring myself to replace it!

Oh gosh, thank you!

Now I’ll repeat what I do whenever I post these:

I solemnly swear it will be a full week before the next of these posts

(…maybe it’ll be sooner!)

Easy fix:

Buy a fitness/smart watch - an older one is fine, why go excessive

Download GadgetBridge from F-Droid/Droidify and then use that instead of a proprietary app which is just harvesting your data and telemetry at every chance: