• Nima@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    on steam at the moment, Cyberpunk is 20.99.

    Switch 2 version is 69.99

    👋thanks for trying nintendo.

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      2 months ago

      If you know where to look, a certain athletic woman can give it to you for free if you’re on a Steam Deck!

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        2 months ago

        Or you could reward CDPR for maintaining support and releasing a wonderful DLC for it with a purchase on a platform that lets you own your games (and is incidentally owned by CDPR too)

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          2 months ago

          While I agree that one should support developers of games they enjoy if they are able, I recently tried another playthrough of this game and it reminded me how unpolished it is.

          Things like

          • Quest NPCs taking very robot-like paths while walking (walk straight for 10 steps, turn right 90 degrees instantly, walk straight 5 steps…) instead of something more natural
          • Needing to wait 5 minutes for an NPC to get to a specific spot and/or complete actions before being able to continue conversation. Typically on the fight missions, you’d win the fight, they’d take 30 s to get up, then saunter over (using an unnatural path) to the designated spot, which then took another 10 seconds to activate the speech option finally.
          • Pedestrians diving into the road in front of your car instead of away.

          Perhaps games like GTA spoiled us, but I just found these too annoying to continue.

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          2 months ago

          Sometimes adding the installer as a non-Steam game and running it through Proton works, otherwise I use Lutris. You can find tutorials online for setting it up to use with FitGirl’s installers.

          Although specifically for Cyberpunk 2077 I had issues with the install, so I found a no-install version, I believe from DODI.

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      2 months ago

      Or for me it would make CP2077 and hundreds of other games free to play on the Steam deck (since I already own them)

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            2 months ago

            Normally, I would agree with you. In the case of game keys, even though I have a physical cartridge now I have to make sure that servers are still up and available for me to download a game. So the massive market for retro games is kind of null and void if you’ve got a cartridge with nothing but a transferable license agreement on it and no way to actually get the game.

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        2 months ago

        At least e.g. steam can’t arbitrarily choose to brick your colputer

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        2 months ago

        Does Nintendo let you play content that you accidentally downloaded from the high seas? And do you need to worry about Nintendo killing your account for doing such a thing?

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        2 months ago

        no, they don’t. but the game has been out for 5 years at this point.

        articles like these seem quite pointless to anyone who doesn’t already own a switch 2. and possibly pointless even to people who own a switch 2, but have already played cyberpunk on better or similar hardware.

        this article is an attempt to pat a multi billion dollar company on the back so it doesn’t feel as bad that people aren’t racing out to buy their 5-year-late, overpriced attempts to dominate the handheld market again.

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          Possibly the dumbest take I’ve ever seen on this site, are you saying an article objectively comparing the performance of two handhelds is “an attempt to pat a multi billion dollar company on the back”?

          articles like these seem quite pointless to anyone who doesn’t already own a switch 2.

          “Performance comparisons are pointless if the results aren’t what I like”, I’m sure if the steam deck performed a lot better you would be in the comments singing praises for it. Digital foundry have been comparing performance for many years but suddenly now their findings are worthless.

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          They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?