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I Guess I'm Done Playing Vidya Games (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/microthoughts@lemmy.world
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I liked playing games on my gameboy, but long gone are the simple days of "insert cartridge, turn on, play". Even the 3DS is kinda bloaty and games dont really feel luke they were designed for the medium.

I liked playing games on my N64 and xbox, but now that I know about modding games it's hard to live with the QoL issues that I know could be fixed.

I liked playing games on my PC, but windows gets worse each generation and finally I had to switch to Linux, where even minor changes take hours. Some people love when their computer has a problem because it gives them something to do -- they get to fix it. I have enough to do, I'm just trying to play games.

I feel like I've been elbowed out of the past time. The user experience is so poor that I end up unhappier for trying. I guess I'll buy a dart board?

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago*

Finally bought a couple of controllers to play vidya games with my partner. I was a bit afraid of being very limited in the games we would be able to play due to Linux (I remember the times when you kinda just had the choice between rogue, supertuxkart and valve's source-based games), but actually wine + dxvk3 (and other tech like libinput, wayland etc) have gotten so good that everything just works with minimum fuss. export WINEPREFIX=~/Games/$GAME; wine ./install.exe; ~/Games/install_dxvk.sh; wine ./run.exe and off you go.

We binged It Takes Two over the weekend with only very minor issues - one particular particle effect was way bigger and brighter than intended, and the game itself was meh.

We also jumped between a bunch of NES & N64 classics, because emulators are great now as well, with plug-and-play controller support etc.

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