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can't say the 007 game looks like my thing, but that already sounds a bit more interesting than the Sony one

there's another forum I post on that absolutely love Kingdom Come 2, so I'm not amazed it's there. Tbf, you could see any of 3 winning it (I don't think Death Stranding will despite Keeley's infatuation), which is testament to it being a good year, even if most on that list aren't for me

I finished this the other day. There's an element of your choices mattering, I don't know how much but definitely to some extent. I ended up with someone in charge that I wouldn't have picked. I'm not sure why Phyre didn't just kill them because I killed everyone else, and while it's probably to the credit of the writing that it wasn't as binary a choice as "who should rule the city", I almost wish that I'd been more aware what choices I was making Either way I loved it, almost certainly in my top 10 for the year, which isn't a huge statement I guess, but it deserves a bit more success than it's had, especially if they ever sort the weird stuttering out (it doesn't feel smooth even at 120fps

Space Marine 2 is a decent deal tbf

I think the only game that was an Epic exclusive that still is, is Alan Wake 2. Which is annoying because it's the one I'd want to play on PC with all the fancy ray tracing turned on (not that the Steam Machine is running that with max RT). I suppose Fortnite too, but you've already got something that will run that because everyone has I don't think the Steam Machine is for everyone, and no one should feel like they have to justify not getting one. I don't think Valve are expecting it to sell tens of millions like a traditional console would, I think they probably want to normalise getting away from Windows

I'm a bit late, but to address the driver talk. The Steam Machine, like the Steam Deck, doesn't have that issue, this thing is basically a more powerful, non-portable, Steam Deck after all. It's a locked box in the sense of the hardware is the hardware, so any drivers will just come from the Proton updates, which is the same as you'd get with a PS5, Xbox or Switch On cost, I've no idea, but I can see it being around the £500 mark. It doesn't need a screen or anything like the Steam Deck, and its not really bespoke parts, Valve own the OS, so maybe it won't be crazy expensive. I'm kind of unsure, because I definitely don't need one, but I am curious, and as others have said, it could be a cool emulation box To address a couple of other things. The UI scaling, generally there's plenty of options on pc, but if for some reason there isn't Steam OS has a zoom feature built in, it's pretty handy on Steam Deck from time to time, not often. Also the mouse and keyboard thing, the controller will solve that, I don't love the track pads, gyro might actually be better, but I don't think I've plugged a m&kb in to my Steam Deck as yet

Yeah, more often than not pc games, big ones at least, set their specs to match your system, or default to something sensible. If you have to change settings in a game you're just dropping the standard down from high to medium generally. If you want to tweak other stuff you can ,but it's not as complicated as it probably seems

something I will say as Steam user, and someone who has a Steam Deck at that. The difference between a "proper" console and a Steam Machine is the library isn't solely for that. There's plenty of games that either aren't, or aren't really, playable on Steam Deck, be that because of a software issue or they just dont run well (or control well). With a console, everything on it should run on your machine for its entire life. There's the odd exception like Cyberpunk on the last generation, and obviously not everything runs well, so in that regard they're similar, but Steam isn't curated for these machines and it could catch people out. That said, Steam has a proper refund policy, so if you're worried buy your games through there rather than 3rd party I guess

eeep, hope this isn't related to me getting a free copy of Imortals

Phil might be after a job 😅 Price willing I'd be tempted. I'll likely get a controller, I don't use my original Steam controller anymore but there was a point I used it a lot, and I'm not a huge fan of the Xbox controller I currently use (I did almost buy one of those Doom ones) The Steam Machine, I've been toying with building something anyway, so this solves that and will likely be a better machine than I'd have been willing to build. It's barely going to be doing 4k, but I used to like putting my pc through the TV to play certain things and can't with my current one. It's probably unnecessary though with them both being in the same room, but I do think it'd get use The VR headset, same as the Occulus, it's not that I'm not interested, but I don't currently have the most space. Maybe one day

Oh, so I didn't imagine it 😅

Yeah, the Switch 2 has been out a while now and I'm further away from getting one than I was before the reveal

I'm still tempted by VR but I don't really have the space for it atm. I'd be tempted by a Valve one just because it's Valve, and presumably this will be specced to play Alex at least

Yeah it's a small thing, but I always thought your magic looking puny when you were effectively an unkillable god by the time you'd put 80 hours in was odd