Kubuntu is part of Ubuntu. I don’t see why it would need to be mentioned separately that badly.

I heard puzzle games and am legally obligated to shill Petal Crash (and it’s upcoming sequel). It’s a great accessible entry point into versus puzzles, and tbh it’s practically the only good thing to happen to the genre in a decade or so.

Can also check out Panel Attack as a FOSS clone of Panel de Pon, and FightCade for emulating all kinds of classics with netplay.

If the collectibles aren’t satisfying to obtain on their own, I don’t think putting an unlock behind them makes them retroactively better.

A good collectible is something like Strawberries in Celeste, each one requires you to take a more difficult path or do an additional screen. They’re fun to go for, and I think it actually would’ve detracted if some unlock made them feel like a required task rather than a bonus challenge.

I miss my old Motorola Droid 2. I don’t need a thinner phone, give me that slider form factor.

Miyamoto says: If the player is not locked into a succession of inescapable and slowly plodding text boxes where they’re offered neither choices nor agency, it must mean they’re not sufficiently engaged!

What Miyamoto game is this describing? If anything I’d say he’s got a reputation for being anti-text.

Did you have a modded console? Without modification, the 10NES lockout chip prevents PAL cartridges from running on NTSC or vice versa. But it is possible to disable the chip to get around this.

The real point here is that they don’t have the ability to manufacture at the scale of the big three. It literally can’t be in direct competition.

I don’t think that’s had much of an impact when Nintendo sold more Switch 2s at launch than Valve has manufactured Steam Decks over its entire lifespan. The Steam Deck is still an enthusiast product for a niche crowd, and will likely never be in direct competition with the big three.

NES and SNES were region-locked. In addition to an actual lockout chip, they even had different cartridge shapes so you couldn’t physically fit Famicom or Super Famicom games.

Handhelds were not (until DSi and 3DS), but I specifically said home consoles.

It’s early and there aren’t a lot of heavy hitters yet. But for me, Kirby Air Riders alone was well worth it, I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered.

That was always the case for Nintendo’s home consoles, not like it was a new thing that started with the Wii. Switch was the first one to be region-free.

Yes. Some models even let you have multiple profiles configured with a button to toggle between them - on my Pro 2 I have profiles for Nintendo layout and Xbox layout.

Think of him as a religious celebrity who can make headlines with everything he says. Not everyone will go along with him, there will always be a contingent complaining that this new Pope is too woke if he doesn’t tell them what they wanted to hear, but a lot of people do listen to him. Just being in the headlines all the time is a form of soft power.

There hasn’t been a major update since Jungle Inferno in 2017.

It sounds like you’re upset that a game that clearly put a lot of focus on PvP in its design, has PvP in it. I’m not sure it’s fair to blame the game because you expected something else.

8BitDo controllers have a few different controller API modes, but they’re limited by those APIs. By default they recommend using XInput with PC, but XInput is based on 360 and limited to the set of buttons a first-party 360 controller normally has. This means that the Star/Share button doesn’t exist, nor do the additional rear buttons. Instead, they can be mapped to certain functions within the controller firmware. Unfortunately you have to use the 8BitDo Ultimate Software to configure them, and that isn’t supported on Linux (doesn’t work in Wine either, I tried). There’s also an Android version of the Ultimate Software you can try, but I think it only supports some older 8BitDos. There may be some default Star+button combos already, I forget what they do.

If you set it to Switch mode, that enables the Share button to work the way it does on a Switch controller, but software might not recognize it. And the rear buttons still don’t exist as distinct buttons since Switch controllers don’t have those, they are only ever for macro remapping within the firmware. I don’t think there’s any way to make them distinct.

I think this just a sign of changing times regarding how games are made. We’ve come a long way from the days when one programmer added multiplayer into Goldeneye at the very end of development, that could never happen today. And those are the footsteps Halo 1 followed in, they didn’t even have Xbox Live until the sequel.

Today, I think trying to make a game do a little bit of everything may risk struggling to stand out against titles that focus all of their development resources on just doing one thing really really well. You do have a point that having solo content to fall back on is at least a safety net, but does the opportunity cost of implementing that solo content make it even harder to succeed as a multiplayer game in such a competitive market?

But would @yesman@lemmy.world’s statement also apply to go?

Maybe in just one specific genre, but other kinds of competitive games do exist. It’s worth noting that fighting games have never had even a single cheating scandal.

I think that’s a rather shallow way of looking at. Would you describe something like chess as ‘lazy’ then?

A good competitive game has to put a lot of thought and care into its design to make it so that two players trying to make each other miserable actually ends up coming out the other end as a fun experience.