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I checked out Splitgate and ended up really enjoying it. There's so many movement mechanics going on that I'm not really sure I'm playing "optimally" ever. I don't love how you can't see through enemy portals, but I get it from a rendering perspective why they'd do that, and it feels amazing when you blind fire through a portal hoping to frag somebody, and actually get a kill. It's oddly satisfying in a way that Halo games haven't been. Maybe it's because I'm on PC and I'm getting matched with a lot of console players, so I'm topfragging in most of my matches. I tried to go back to CoD Warzone to play with a friend who's still playing that aimbot shitshow still for some reason, and it drove home just how little fun I was having in sweaty competitive shooters before. There's something lighthearted and fun about Splitgate that I am really into. Reminds me of older arena shooters like UT99, good ol' Blood Gulch on Halo, and Quake 3 railgun matches. For $0, it's an incredible time.

Aside from that, I bought an RG351V and installed umpteenjillion ROMs on it, have been checking out a bunch of stuff I missed over the years or got curious about from this site and others, like Devil's Crush on TurboGrafx and the Japan only release Kyuutenkai on PSX. And my man Jeffy B got me thinking about real ass pinball, to the point where I scoped out an Addams Family table on Craigslist... $6200 isn't SOOOO much money, is it? :( EDIT: A further thought occurred to me -- that it would be far cheaper to build a Tate-style MAME cabinet with an ultrawide monitor, load it up with Demon's Tilt, and Bob's my uncle. Oh lord, my basement is going to have some strange projects in 2022...

Overcast here. Great app.

Allegedly this will handle some PS3 emulation as well. Might be my time to try Persona 5! Dolphin is also definitely a go. Smash Melee + netplay anyone? Also thinking this could be a killer party console, bring a bunch of controllers, USB hub with HDMI out, some Samurai Gunn 2? Now you've got yourself a gumbo. I'm in for a 512GB Q1 2022 resy. Very pumped. I have an RG351V that I've been digging for retro stuff, but boy does it give my wrist a weird tweak when I play it for too long, like on an airplane or something.

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None of the above. I don't have a TV, rather a projector hooked up to my PC with a rather convoluted audio setup. I haven't seen any console exclusives I absolutely must have, and Game Pass on the PC has been supplying me with a ready supply of new content. No reason to buy a console when my PC already runs everything on my 1440p 165hz G-Sync monitor with RTX. Control was phenomenal, and I played it for $0 (beyond the subscription, which I bought with the XBL conversion trick)

@nethlem: must be! It’s Samsung so they already make a great deal of phone screens which is effectively what’s in these headsets.

So far I’m really enjoying mine. Even got Polybius running last night though that’s supposedly Oculus only right now. I think the only trade-off is mixed compatibility with software since WMR is still sort of an also-ran in the space. Also apparently the tracking volume and sensitivity isn’t quite up to par with the Oculus and Vive hardware, but I haven’t really noticed. The Oculus touch controllers also have basic finger tracking, so there’s that. If it was between a Rift S and a O+ for $400/$300 I would probably go Rift. But used in good condition on eBay for $200 and change? The O+ is a no brainer.

Might pick one of these up for the Nintendo exclusives. I like the idea of the Switch dock, but my personal home AV setup just doesn't seem like it would play nicely with it. I use a HD projector connected to my Mac, which is connected to some Harmon Kardon soundsticks for a sound system. So even if I were to set up the Switch dock with the projector, I'm not going to get audio beyond the shitty built in speakers of the projector. And I'm certainly not going to buy a TV. The best compromise would maybe be running the dock through another input on my 32" monitor, then using headphones via the audio out on the monitor...? It's a mess. I'd much rather just use the Switch as a handheld exclusively. I'll probably grab this.

Couldn't care less about the EGS drama (if anything, them jumping into the PC game storefront scene is a good thing in terms of encouraging customer-benefitting competition from Valve and the other players). Already purchased, along with a Samsung Odyssey+ HMD from fleabay for a cool $225. Been waiting a long time for this one to hit (honestly I thought it was coming Sept 9 for some reason -- ran the numbers on Rez Infinite PS4 -> PC and that's what I came up with).

My body is ready.