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@janman the wrong zool game is linked in "In this episode", should be Zool Redimensioned (and the "Tag this video" feature hasn't worked since the weeks after it was introduced, so I can't correct it myself).

That hasn't been the experience for me, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, The Master Chief Collection, the old Age Empires 2 HD (not the recent Enhanced Edition) and Train Simulator did not install all the content by default, forcing me to go to that Manage my DLC screen in order to do that, but also that screen installs each DLC directly when you click the checkmark (with severe load times for each click), instead of - as the checkmarks imply by standard Windows behavior (or as Steam handles it at the purchase confirmation screen) - letting you pick all the items you want do download and then apply/queue them. I think it's a needlessly slow and clumsy process, which they have already handled better in other parts of the UI. I'd like it to be handled similar to the screen you get when you complete a purchase, where you get the list of items with a confirmation button.

Damn, it's been 5 years of No Man's Sky

I wonder if this'll push them to improve their DLC management system into something more akin to the Smart Delivery stuff on Xbox (or how 90s PC games used to give you three levels of installations where the lowest level would skip high res assets and such). Steam's current system for handling DLC/addons is pretty messy and slow, and is very inconsistent about what it defaults too - sometimes it installs all the DLC you own for a game, sometimes it doesn't. Wonder if we'll get more games with a minimal installation option, 720p optimized assets and options for compressed or uncompressed audio etc.

Oh, I wonder how it'll handle something like Battlefield 3. Not that it's a demanding game these days, being close to 10 years old, but since it requires you running a browser and the game at the same time in order to get into matches.

Oh, and no Atari Lynx size comparison? Seems similarly sized given that the Steam Deck's relative size to the Game Gear seems approximately the same to this:

I'm intrigued. Hoping for an episode on Billy Idol's Cyberpunk, a pretty much universally reviled album which happens to be one of my all time favorites.

Ooh, Huntdown really nails 80s music in a way that's pretty refreshing after the last 10 years' Synthwave/Retrowave pastiche. Tetsuo: The Iron Man vibes all over the place. Not sold at all on the writing though.

I think it mostly comes down to Tallarico's delusional rants about their competitors, doesn't exactly inspire confidence in his product, also seems like some of the developers he namedrops aren't aware that they're supposedly involved in the project.

I second Silpheed, but no, the Sega CD version wasn't just a remake with improved graphics. It's kind of a sequel, and the graphics are absolutely mindblowing for the platform, and flows seamlessly from cutscenes to gameplay, with a whole narrative going on in the background while you play.

Yeah, there's also the modal stuff (are traversal, combat and shopping on separate screens/interfaces, or taking place in the same environment with the same interactions?) and whether players and mobs adhere to the same rules as well, something Spelunky does according to the "traditional" Roguelike definition as well (enemies can fall into the same traps the player can), unlike a lot of roguelites that can have specific shopping or upgrade interfaces in which you're safe from attack (or can't attack the shopkeepers), or have separate exploration and combat modes.