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Do you use ratings and favorites?
  • I see! What I'm trying to wrap my head around is the need for a playlist that I can just throw on the car or the home hifi when I have guests that will output a strong selection, meaning stuff I either very much like or absolutely love. My server has every CD I have in the house copied onto it; and while I am sure that nobody minds Bob Dylan, my dad's collection of over 30cd gets a little invasive after I hit random shuffle of all songs.

  • The Sega Dreamcast
  • Sounds pretty similar to what happened to the PSVita. Sony tought that there was no reason to support a portable console anymore. Pretty funny, now that we have seen the absolute boom of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck.

  • do you guys think this game needs a remake?
  • To be fair:

    • it got a remaster; a remake is usually something that recreates the game from scratch.
    • DMC1 did not age that well in terms of gameplay, imo, as much as DMC3 did; it's a little stiffy! But it is true that it still plays much better than many PS2 games.
  • Do you use ratings and favorites?

    Hello! After discovering that navidrome implements smart playlists, I've been seriously thinking about using faves or ratings.

    What about you? Do you use ratings and faves, and if yes, for what reason? Do you use track or album ratings? I'm curious, since I'm sure one can get pretty creative with it.

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    Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, with Android Auto support and synchronized lyrics and it's available on F-Droid
  • I've been using Tempo for my daily commute. Substreamer's UI makes a tad more sense and is more helpful in certain instances (eg. randomizing albums is a bit of a pain on tempo) but I prefer Tempo because it doesn't crash as much!

  • Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
  • GTA games are the epitome of shallowness, for me. The story is always so vague and not interesting, you never get attached to characters. Gameplay is a boring loop, but its strength has always been being some sort of theme park. But it's 2024 and "hop onto a game just to go fast on car and shoot a couple of civilians"

    Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Like Pokémon, nintendo developers know fans will buy new games regardless of how much new content there is to it. There is no legitimate reason for the game to be so close mechanically to its Gamecube entry, and I find it an insult to long time fans.

  • Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
  • It makes sense, but I highly suggest to try and see visual novels as reading material with mixed media (e.g. music). Many are very mid, but some do excel: Higurashi and Umineko are a great example of that.

  • Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
  • Do you have anything to suggest? Me and a friend would like to re-dive into minecraft as a cozy co-op experience but we both have some experience with it from 2010-2018 and the new stuff that came out the last few years just don't look that convincing.

    I've seen modpacks mentioned, but there's so many I don't know where to start

  • NVidia Shield For Streaming Steam Games Opinions?
  • I second this. A second hand 64gb deck is probably under 300€ if you are a bit patient and search local online used markets, while a new nvidia shield pro is around 220€.

    Pretty much supports most controllers OOB, is literally a console that you can play less demanding games on, has a high resell value if you don't dig it!

  • Fuck Ubisoft.
  • Most PC games nowadays do not have physical releases.

  • Best ergonomic/vertical mouse for FPS gaming?
  • I actually just bought a second hand Lift, waiting for it to arrive. My hands are medium sized and I always used a modest size mouse, the Logitech G305, with ease.

  • Best ergonomic/vertical mouse for FPS gaming?
  • Check official specs on the Logitech website, not Amazon: that sometimes weights the whole package, sometimes it doesn't. The Lift is supposed to be lighter and smaller than the MX!

  • The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
  • It's absurdtpo me how basically no racing game company realizes that one of the key points to have your game be fun is to have some kind of progress. Contemporary racing games literally just throw cars at you in hope to make it fun by constantly giving you new toys.

    I get that this is a thing that sells to the masses who /want/ those shiny new toys, but man. Imagine if a big studio actually took the time to improve on the vintage NFS progression formula :(

  • How about starting a challenge #VoiceLikeAGirl to put on the other shoe in gaming?
  • aaah sorry my bad, I guess I misunderstood

  • How about starting a challenge #VoiceLikeAGirl to put on the other shoe in gaming?
  • I'm sorry but it is definitely nowhere as close as the kind of harassment women receive. They have to deal with insults based on their gender, sexual harassment, digital stalking outside of games, etc

  • Asus TUF fx506l Linux recommendations for gaming?
  • to be fair you can run on fresh kernel on linux mint through easy gui steps on the update manager!

  • Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer
  • Persona's combat system, if tweaked correctly can be a tremendous strength: there's a chance to have a great turn-based system in which elements play the role of the main "puzzle" to strategize over with both your demons and your party cast. I agree that Persona 5 had very little strategy in it, let's hope for future entries to be better.

    I wonder what kind of battle system the new Atlus JRPG will have

  • Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer
  • fyi: SMT and Persona based their combat system on weak points way earlier than P5. I'm not saying it is immune to criticism, but it's a series standard by now

  • Games that force you to make hard choices
  • A good chunk of comments have spoilers, so if you read this first beware. I guess people like to brag about game knowledge more than they like having other people experiencing stuff.

  • Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer
  • The Final Fantasy series has many loved entries in which recurring characters, archetypes and items make a looping comeback. It is very fun to see how different those elements are handled in different entries. They just need to step back and realize not every FF needs to be a game that pushes its platform to its hardware limit. That may have worked well for them up to the PS2 era, but it's not a thing anymore. You don't need extreme ultra realistic eye twitching for your game to be grandiose.

  • Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales?
  • To be fair, emulation and patching is even improving on late 90s to early 10s console games. Sure, you can't evade hardware limitations, but having, for example, ps2 games not slowing down on a CRT with weird motion blur and giving you a big headache makes for an already much more compelling experience.

  • Protective case or not?
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    Steam Deck - Thin Fit Pro

    I've never really put a protective case on my handheld consoles (NDS, Vita, 3DS). However, the Steam Deck is more expensive and weighs much more, meaning that even a small height fall could more easily damage it.

    I was thinking about the Spigen "Thin Fit Pro", which seems to be a tad more premium than what is usually on the market. It seems to be cut out to fit in an official dock, but I have my doubts.

    What's your take on this?

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    Scraping naming conventions for PSP backups?

    Hello all! I hope someone checks the community here on lemmy. Yesterday I copied some backups to my retrodeck's installation on the Steam Deck, togheter with a psx backup. The latter got recognized fine by the in-built scraper using screenscraper.fr with an account, however the PSP ones did not.

    I tried various names and I also tried to toggle on interactive mode. Any suggestions?

    Edit: aaaand of course I fix it in around ten minutes after posting this, even if I tried for hours yesterday. The solution was to TURN OFF interactive mode (found it suggested in a patch by EmulationStation-DE) and change the name of the ACTUAL FILES (not the ES-DE scraper search) to the ones found on screenscraper.fr for the game you like.

    Of course this is only a solution for small libraries with few selected titles, but it does work for me.

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    Adult casts in (J)RPGs, a list

    Hi! I've been working on a list of RPGs (mostly japanese or j-influenced somewhat) in which the cast is mostly adults. The list is hosted on backloggd.

    Leaving it here both in case it may be useful to anyone, but also in case you spot any missing titles that you believe should be added :) cheers!

    P.S: the only reason for not taking western RPGs into consideration is because.. well, most of them already feature adult casts. Think series such as Divinity, Shadowrun, Baldur's Gate, etc. However, those usually play dramatically different when compared to the JRPG-style turn-based combat.

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    Which linux-ready gaming titles have you snatched from the steam winter sales?

    Which titles are you ready to play on your linux-powered machine, be it pc or steam deck?

    I'm having a blast with Death Stranding (albeit performance can be a little groggy on my dated i5-7500); I then plan on playing DOOM (2016) and Hades.

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