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Cat dad 🐈🐈⬛, husband 🏳️🌈, PC gaymer, and IT professional. Hello!
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Interestingly (and finally), I actually catch myself wishing there was less ~*stuff*~ to reward my "What's this?" navigation and more storytelling. You do find a good # of journals, books, notes, and other flavor, and I get way more excited about those than a box of crafting mats and common gear😅
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It's weird, bc I just assume any new game like this is *not* going to cater to my particular kind of "Ooo what's this?" brand of navigating the game world, but ... I think that's what they did here? They either assumed that was the core audience or hoped to cultivate it - hard to say which. 🤷♂️ 4/
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And Avowed, despite its very visible limitations (where the budget couldn't stretch to meet the idea, to borrow an expression), Avowed seems to *assume* a "What's this?" style of movement through their game world. At least as far as how they paced combat progression and difficulty, anyway. 3/
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I'm an Exploration player. Think Skellington's "What's this!?" solo, and that's basically my primary driver in games like this. I almost never know what direction I'm facing or where the quest markers are because I'm always seeing the next landmark or climbable thing and saying "What's this?" 2/
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Rent 👏🏻 free 👏🏻
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youtu.be/5-FOeapMKPM?...
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Team Red fighting in that infinitely more interesting Performane Midrange market leggooooooo! 👏🏻
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omg you did it! :O
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She really does have a bodacious character design! Easily my favorite so far.
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This is pretty cool! Nice thing about it being SteamOS is that it benefits from all the UI work that Valve had already done for SteamOS. Neat!
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Whoa! This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. :D
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All this sounds kinda' tin-foil-hat to type it out right now, but honestly gaming as the primary reason to keep Windows has felt like a thing for a long time, and SteamOS, if successful enough on enough (and powerful enough) hardware could decouple gaming from Windows in new and cool ways. 🤔/4
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Further, this hypothetical supposes there a critical mass SteamOS that actually, meaningfully starts to erode Windows use across the board such that future game devs start writing games for...SteamOS? 3/
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The SteamOS-powered-NUC use case is interesting b/c what it essentially becomes is a console that plays (most) Windows games. If I don't need Windows to play PC games, what reasons are left to keep Windows for most people besides familiarity? MacOS or Linux for my non-gaming needs perhaps? 2/
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The thread on that post is *wild* 🤣
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Omg *company that owns Citrix
Dang you swipe keyboard! 🤡