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I think you could, but I get the feeling most video game players will like a story purely based on hype and branding rather than the contents of the story.

Doubtful. I enjoyed 2077 at launch on PC, the city and art design is incredible, but almost everything else is rather forgettable. I still think they could've greatly reduced the open world, focused on a semi-open world like TLOU2 or Deus Ex, then really work on the missions and gameplay/story choices. I'm still not motivated to return to night city because I think I'd experience déjà vu, and waiting will only improve things (assuming larger content updates are on the way). Right now, 2077 is kind of a mesh of Borderlands, Deus Ex, and GTA, but it doesn't really do anything unique in-itself (besides maybe the art design).

Having said that, when I go back, I plan to do the Nomad life path and use several mods to really change how I play.

I found this on gog's forums. Could be a Win7 issue, GPU driver issue, I saw mention of a Nexus mod that might fix the issue (not sure the specific mod). GL!

..Not really. 99% of the time I'm glad to complete a game, and if I'm replaying a game then the nostalgias worn off by the end. I do get this with books, though, like "damn, what the hell am I going to read now?" With games, I'm usually glad to move on to the next one. With books, it's like a chunk of my brain has been transplanted into a fictitious person's head, and I lost a bit of it after the final page.

As others have mentioned, consoles are super simplistic and easy to use. On a series console, I can go from cold start to playing in about 3 seconds (with quick resume). On a pc, just launching Mass Effect legendary edition requires that I launch both steam and origin, and half the time I need to launch origin by itself just to sign in again (not sure why). And getting mods to run was another hour minimum. But overall, I would much rather play Mass Effect on a pc than series console.

So it's 2 different extremes, both of which appeal to different types of people. I know people who would get frustrated if they had to sit in a queue time for over a minute, yet I'm the person who would gladly sit in matchmaking screen if it meant a quality match. Not exactly comparing apples to apples, but you get the idea.

I never really liked fb, at one point I was agitated by how facebook infiltrated nearly every aspect of my life. In high school, everyone formed groups (school work, student orgs, parties, literally endless) via. facebook. In college, everyone socialized (dorm groups, parties, etc.) via. facebook. At work, we clocked in and out via. whatsapp every single day.

On twitter, iirc 99% of engagement goes to celebrities. How many cumulative hours has humanity spent looking into a one-way mirror?

Facebook is probably ok for older people because they already established deep connections with their fb friends, and fb supplements that connection. For younger people, most just end up comparing their lives to everyone else's. x got a new car and a new house, is married and makes 6 figures? Marvelous! /s

Tangent aside, yeah, don't really use social media anymore, except for the occasional IG post. I use IG because I only spend 60 seconds max on it each day.

RDR2 - this game is tantalizing. The best parts are the action packed sequences. But doing chores in a video game or traveling 15+ minutes to get somewhere virtually... just no. Let people choose how they want to fast travel, if they want transition animations, and whether they should be slowed down at points. To me, being forced to interact with a game in a very specific way is the opposite of immersive.

Many games I just completely stopped playing - Neir: Automata, HZD, Fallout 4, Mirror's Edge, etc.

Edit: As the person above mentioned, 2013 Tomb Raider for me too. I completed it and that was the first game where I said... that's it? What?

@lego_my_eggo: Ah yeah, I've heard that phrase before lol. Good to know you can probably mod non-steam games, I guess I'm just unfamiliar with linux gaming as a whole then. But I'm glad I'm after Q2 because then I can learn a bit more before actually using it.

I'm still excited, but not sure if I'll go through with buying it (after Q2). I recently made a pros/cons lists of owning an xbox vs. a steam deck, and there's a lot of cons for the steam deck. Like, I'm still not even sure if you can mod non-steam games, and that would be kind of a deal breaker for me.

Plus, I still have gamepass for another 2 years, and the only way to use that would be to dual boot. I highly doubt windows on this device will be a painless experience.