It's Critter Time!

one of my brothers and I had a PS1 back in the day. I'm trying to remember if it was the first model that only came with the controller that didn't have analog sticks or not, but I'm pretty sure we also had a Dualshock Analog controller too.
though I'm pretty sure we barely had any of the big ...

it looks like this on my computer where I frequently use FA as well

I played two levels of the demo on the Steam Deck earlier today, and it seems pretty good so far! if they don't drop the ball further in, this is gonna be a genuinely solid 3D platformer!
I haven't played any of Bubsy's prior games, and I don't know if I ever will be, but I am definitely aware of ...

the turn-based spin-off series of the main Monster Hunter games where you get the monsters as party members!

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I decided to make a thread for specifically the Stories games, since they are pretty different in terms of gameplay and vibes compared to the ...

Anyway, I always prefer forums over faster social media because I can just kind of... luxuriate... in people's responses. No 140 character limit, no 5,000 people farming for likes and shares to boost the algorithm, just a peaceful place to be a nerd in the company of other nerds.

Social media's ...

Well on the bright side, PSTriple and PSTriple games seem to go for fairly reasonable prices. So if you do decide to take the plunge, it shouldn't break the bank too too badly?

But yeah, I'm really hoping MGS4 eventually gets released in Master Collection Vol. 2. I think that's the last PS3 game ...

my brothers and I had a PS3 back in the day, but we were *huge* Nintendo simps during that time, so we definitely didn't use it to its fullest potential back then, which I do kinda regret >_> (though I do regret being even worse during the Wii U/PS4 era, because I missed out on really cool shit ...

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Konami will make a 3D Castlevania-collection that has the two N64 and the two PS2 games in there.

I know that Castlevania 64 (aka the first one) isn't exactly well-liked, but over the years I've also heard the sentiment that the first couple of levels are ...

I'm not overwhelmingly positive on either, but honestly I don't think the first Battle Network game is much weaker than the second (having only played those two games to completion out of the series so far). BN2 has a bunch of little refinements, largely better action, and most importantly it ...

Played through Castlevania 3 a couple times. I really like it but it's ended up as one of my less-played games in the series - but it is definitely way up there in the series canon. I've always felt like the upper route with Sypha is a lot more fun than the lower route, with Alucard, but playing ...

I've beaten the first two battle networks games, and played a bit of 3 before losing interest, It just didn't really click after playing through 2, but there was also probably fatigue after marathoning two games beforehand. Absolutely loved 2, easily one of my favorite games I've played, but I ...

pog, thank you so much for checking this for me!

I was planning on setting up RetroDECK for this, does the GameCube controller adapter work with the RetroDECK user interface too? As in, can you browse your installed ROMs and ISOs with it? Or does the GC controller only work once you're actually ...

question:

can you use the official Gamecube controller adapter (as in, the one Nintendo made for the Wii U, specifically for Smash Bros only) on the Steam Deck without tinkering?

I know that on Linux itself, you can just use it out of the box. but either Google sucks, or I just can't really ...

question:

can you use the official Gamecube controller adapter (as in, the one Nintendo made for the Wii U, specifically for Smash Bros only) on the Steam Deck without tinkering?

I know that on Linux itself, you can just use it out of the box. but either Google sucks, or I just can't really find ...

I got a PSQuintuple and y'know what it's pretty great for playing PSQuadruple games

In all honestly it's definitely gotten the least amount of play out of the devices I have. Most of its exclusives eventually releasing on PC hasn't exactly helped in that regard. I'm really just seeing it as an ...

so I ended up getting a PS5 again. because I'm a dumbass. And because I ultimately prefer gaming to be more plug 'n play, which on PC isn't really the case, be it on Windows or Linux. Recently I was kinda sitting back and thinking of my experiences with playing Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and ...

so Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac is out! I've watched a bit of footage of it already, and it looks so charming! I remember playing the PC-version of the original Pac-Man World 2 a lot back in the day, and while it got *really* difficult later on (I never managed to beat it as a result), I still really ...

the X68000 game (most intricate and intense levels, feels like a real successor to the original specifically)


oh, speaking of the X68000 game, I beat Castlevania Chronicles recently, which is basically a port/remake of it!

I liked it a lot! But also, man, it does get pretty spicy later on ...

Another weird bug that I found was that whenever audio played after a short period of silence, the audio will always slowly fade in for the first 0.5s or so (as if somebody was turning the volume dial up). This was pretty annoying when playing videos and meant that I couldn't hear notification ...

question:

what controller (if you use one) do y'all prefer when playing games?
I kinda swap between the Xbox Series X controller and the Dualshock 4 controller. the Xbox controller largely because more games just come with its button labels, but I kinda feel like the Dualshock feels a bit better ...

I haven't tried out many games in Linux yet, since I simply haven't had the time, but I might just stick to Steam games for now. Most of them seem to boil down to "run it through Proton Experimental, if that doesn't work try a different version".


Yeah, that's basically how Steam games have ...

so yesterday, out of boredom, I decided to give Linux Mint a try on my small mini-computer that I still had lying around.

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and not gonna lie, I think I already kinda prefer Cinnamon over KDE Plasma (which is what I went with on my bazzite installation on my big ...

on one hand, I kinda wanna make a Monster Hunter thread, but on the other hand, I only really got into the series with MonHun Wilds and Stories 2, so I dunno if I would be the best person to start the thread.

plumpan wrote: Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:46 pm Very weird. I wonder whose installer Bazzite is using?

well, the installer looks like this, and I think it's the Fedora installer!

I reinstalled bazzite entirely, but we also had to do some advanced shenanigans with the Blivet-GUI during the OS installation, because both drives were, like, combined into one RAID1 thing.


Weird! Did it explicitly say it was doing that or just, do it?


It basically said "the selected ...