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What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness? (reddthat.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Telorand@reddthat.com to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people's experiences were like!

Is your favorite still around? Are they still the same, or did they "change directions under new management?"

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[–] gk99@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Valve.

Not new management, but they definitely changed direction. From Portal 2 to Half-Life Alyx was a dark age of live service titles and hardware. Fortunately, it seems like they're finally getting back to their old selves?

Alyx was supposedly their re-entry into releasing games (hopeful that HLX is good), the Steam Deck caused them to go back and fix several of their titles (plus do the huge Half-Life update we just got), and while they're not exactly making their games as open as they used to, they're letting the community handle things like TF2 events and L4D2 patches.

So, I dunno, cautiously optimistic for their future. At least as long as Gabe is running the company.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yep, buying a Steam Deck this Christmas. Not played one, myself, but I have been a Steam Controller user for years, and they seem to have nailed their latest offerings.

There was definitely a period in there when they felt very anticompetitive (apathy-competitive?), though.

[–] baconicsynergy@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

I just bought the Steam Deck. Its amazing. More and more games keep becoming Deck Compatible and the community has uploaded so many controller configurations.

Linux is a gaming OS now and its wild

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love the Deck and Controller, just a heads up that the Deck "feels" slightly different from the Steam Controller. I've had a hard time adjusting to the trackpad on Deck and still haven't quite gotten it figured out. It may just be a practice thing. Basically the way I'd describe it is it's like the rotation setting for the Steam Controller is never quite right and the slightly smaller trackpad and different positioning maybe affects whatever muscle memory I'm trying to use or something.

As an example, I made the top community config for Monster Hunter Rise, but on Steam Deck it just isn't quite the same and I needed to pretty heavily adjust the settings for the mouse input, even still I can't quite get it right.

However that said, it doesn't actually matter too much, the Steam Deck overall is awesome and I'd take it any day of the week. Luckily, Bluetooth w/ the Steam Controller feels exactly the same as it did on PC w/ dongle and it's sooo nice.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up! I'm going to be getting a dock, because I will be playing it with family, and my only Bluetooth controller is the SC. 😅

When I eventually pick up MH:R, I'll be sure to check out your config, too!

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Sounds like you're all set to go then!

And if you do I hope you enjoy it! I've spent a long time in the MH series and so to finally have mouse input alongside the control input... Phenomenal...